#PJSA2021 panel - "Use and Abuse of Anger in Social Change"
Channel: Peace and Justice Studies Association
Date: 2021-10-19

- Amanda Smith Byron, Portland State University
- Shayla Betts, Saybrook University
- Joy Meeker, Saybrook University

The panelists will each explore the political use of anger as a mobilizing force toward change. Shayla Betts’s contribution, entitled “When pain turns to anger,” builds off her dissertation research which examines racial experiences and anti-racist programming as a potential pathway toward racial justice and equity. Amanda Smith Byron will focus on the essential role anger plays in inspiring voice and agency, motivating activism toward change, and Joy Meeker will share feminist insights into both the liberating and problematic aspects anger as a force for change.