What are Emancipatory Sciences?
Emancipatory sciences aim to advance knowledge and the realization of dignity, access, equity, healing, and social justice through individual and collective agency and social institutions.
Theory, research, and practice demand attention to inequality, power, and action. An imperative is accessible public knowing of the individual and social consequences of major policy and institutional forces in relation to health, aging, and generations across the life course. Scholarship and practice from the perspective of public goods alters the way we think, examine, and work.
Our shared commitment is to foster a critical imagination and advance praxis that promotes healing and the reality of a just society.
What is the Emancipatory Sciences Lab?
The Emancipatory Sciences Lab aims to highlight the work of scholars and practitioners who advance the rights of marginalized people and subjugated discourses by interrogating power structures, building knowledges of anti-oppression, and encouraging activist-scholar approaches to research, policy, and practice.
Emancipatory sciences benefit from the work of scholars and practitioners who join critique, conflict, and crisis debates with focus on social struggles as sources of emancipatory and non-emancipatory responses.
Our Research
Our research, advocacy, and activism span across disciplines and is rooted in fields and frameworks such as:
Aging and Society
Class
Clinical Practices
Gender and Sexualities
Political Economy
Psychoanalysis
Race and Ethnicity
Social Movements and Resistance
Sociology
Our Story
Through research, teaching, and public service, professor emerita Dr. Carroll L. Estes has devoted her career to improving the health and economic security of vulnerable and underserved populations, giving special attention to women, older persons, and communities of color.
Her story highlights the importance of and need for emancipatory sciences.
