Brown Bag Biography with Cameron Rasmussen

February 13, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Mānoa Campus, Kuykendall 410

鈥淕enealogies of Accountability鈥/ Cameron Rasmussen, Assistant Professor, Thompson School of Social Work and Public Health / How one makes sense of, derives meaning from and ultimately practices accountability is informed by the paradigms and genealogies from which this concept emerges. Of the many sources and uses of accountability, this talk will explore how restorative and transformative justice, as well as prison abolition, shapes our understanding of accountability. The centering of accountability by these three interrelated paradigms invites an analysis and interrogation of how we might advance efforts for justice beyond criminalization, punishment and incarceration. In addition to tracing the history and key elements of RJ, TJ and abolition, this talk will explore what it means to approach accountability through the lens of genealogy and how such a perspective might influence approaches to interpersonal and structural harm. Finally, this talk will clarify the distinction between the pathways to accountability for interpersonal harm and violence as opposed to those for structural harm and state violence. / Cameron W. Rasmussen is an educator, researcher, social worker, and facilitator. Cameron is an Assistant Professor in the Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health at the University of Hawai'i at 惭腻苍辞补. His research is focused on issuhes of accountability, restorative and transformative justice, and the intersections of social work and abolition. Previously he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Social Intervention Group at Columbia School of Social Work and was an Associate Director at the Center for Justice at Columbia University. Cameron is a Co-Editor of Abolition and Social Work: Possibilities, Paradoxes and the Practice of Community Care and is a Collaborator with the Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work (NAASW). He completed his PhD in the Social Welfare program at the CUNY Graduate Center. / Cosponsored by Conflict and Peace Specialist, Hui 驶膧ina Pilipili: Native Hawaiian Initiative, the School of Communication & Information, the School of Cinematic Arts, and the Departments of American Studies, History, Anthropology, English, Ethnic Studies, Political Science / February 13th / Kuykendall 410 / 12PM to 1:15PM HST


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Center for Biographical Research, Mānoa Campus

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Keoni Rodriguez, 8582753177, jjkq@hawaii.edu

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