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Personal Narratives as Representative of the Experience of Poverty and Power in the US
Date: September 24th
Time: 2-4PM
Location: Metropolitan Building room: 5183
Speaker: Jason Reader, PhD Candidate
The focus of Jason Reader's roundtable will be a discussion of his dissertation research on personal narratives representative of the experience of poverty and the dynamics of power between master and counter narratives in the U.S. context which help shape the social spaces (political, economic, and cultural landscape) in which the experiences of poverty can take place. The discussion will seek to shed light upon how master narratives exercise power over a person's experiences about life and death and all that happens in between. The discussion will also seek to explore ways in which social spaces can be reformed or created as settings in which poverty will no longer be experienced. As a disclaimer, the discussion will only posit hypothetical situations in accordance with protecting the privacy and confidentiality of the Subjects in Jason's dissertation research.
Bio: Before joining the Master's program at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution in 2007, Jason Reader served as a Senior Officer with the Virginia Department of Corrections. Prior to his service, Jason graduated from Longwood University with a Bachelor's degree in Political Science. In 2009 after successfully completing the requirements for his Master's degree from ICAR, Jason entered its Ph.D program. In 2011, Jason successfully advanced to Doctoral Candidacy. Jason is 30 years old and presently splits his residence between Hampton Roads and Manassas/ Northern Virginia.
His main academic interests center on existentialist concerns on the "Human Condition," theories of the person, Foucauldian power relationships, and narrative theory.