Sheeva Sabati
Biographic Data
| ID | 192444 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sheeva Sabati |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sheeva |
| FAMILY NAME | Sabati |
| SIGNATURE | SABATI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Sacramento |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2565-760X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Against settler sustainability: California's groundwater as a vertical frontier
California has been heralded as a beacon of agricultural production and productivity, yet its groundwater crisis is a warning of its impending collapse. In this paper, we argue that policies like California's Sustainable Groundwater Management Act reinscribe the settler state, even as they aim toward environmental sustainability. Drawing from Indigenous feminist scholarship on water and frontier processes, our methodology traces settler coloniali…
Toward Pedagogical Justice: Teaching Worlds that we can Collectively Build
How can educators create space for students to practice making the worlds we are trying to collectively build? Inspired by genealogies that are grounded in and emerge from social movements, this paper uplifts the possibilities, tensions, and new questions that emerge when we take seriously the role of our classroom pedagogies. The authors offer a reflexive, methodological approach that pushes against the theory/practice divide and that stays with…
Dismantle, Change, Build: Lessons for Growing Abolition in Teacher Education
Background/Context: Although the uprisings in the summer of 2020 amplified existing abolitionist organizing, including abolitionist struggles for justice within K–12 schools, it is unclear if the field of teacher education has been informed by these movements. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study: Given this gap, as well as the ongoing urgency to dismantle the interconnected structures of White supremacy, settler colonialism, anti-B…
Beyond Inclusion: Cultivating a Critical Sense of Belonging through Community-Engaged Research
A broad body of literature outlines the interventions to support underrepresented and minoritized students’ inclusion and sense of belonging into university contexts. In this paper, we explore how two first-generation students of color articulate a critical sense of belonging through their reflections as student researchers in the Apprenticeship in Community-Engaged Research or (H)ACER program at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). (…
Distilling pedagogies of critical water studies
Writing as both instructors and students who worked together in the undergraduate course Water Justice, we reflect on the limits and possibilities of engaging in anticolonial teaching-learning practices within the ongoing contexts of settler colonialism and racial violence that shapes universities. We describe how we designed Water Justice as a place-based, anticolonial research collaboration, and focus on how students grappled with the substanti…
Upholding "Colonial Unknowing" Through the IRB: Reframing Institutional Research Ethics
This article considers the institutionalization of research ethics as a site of "colonial unknowing" in which the racial colonial entanglements of academic research and institutions are obscured. I examine the origin stories situating Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) as a response to cases of exceptional violence, most notably the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, within an otherwise neutral history of research. I then consider how the 2018 revisio…
The Ethical Stakes of Collaborative Community-Based Social Science Research
This multivocal essay engages complex ethical issues raised in collaborative community-based research (CCBR). It critiques the fraught history and limiting conditions of current ethics codes and review processes, and engages persistent troubling questions about the ethicality of research practices and universities themselves. It cautions against positioning CCBR as a corrective that fully escapes these issues. The authors draw from a range of phi…
Upholding "Colonial Unknowing" Through the IRB: Reframing Institutional Research Ethics
This article considers the institutionalization of research ethics as a site of "colonial unknowing" in which the racial colonial entanglements of academic research and institutions are obscured. I examine the origin stories situating Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) as a response to cases of exceptional violence, most notably the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, within an otherwise neutral history of research. I then consider how the 2018 revisio…
Against settler sustainability: California's groundwater as a vertical frontier
California has been heralded as a beacon of agricultural production and productivity, yet its groundwater crisis is a warning of its impending collapse. In this paper, we argue that policies like California's Sustainable Groundwater Management Act reinscribe the settler state, even as they aim toward environmental sustainability. Drawing from Indigenous feminist scholarship on water and frontier processes, our methodology traces settler coloniali…
Beyond Inclusion: Cultivating a Critical Sense of Belonging through Community-Engaged Research
A broad body of literature outlines the interventions to support underrepresented and minoritized students’ inclusion and sense of belonging into university contexts. In this paper, we explore how two first-generation students of color articulate a critical sense of belonging through their reflections as student researchers in the Apprenticeship in Community-Engaged Research or (H)ACER program at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). (…
The Ethical Stakes of Collaborative Community-Based Social Science Research
This multivocal essay engages complex ethical issues raised in collaborative community-based research (CCBR). It critiques the fraught history and limiting conditions of current ethics codes and review processes, and engages persistent troubling questions about the ethicality of research practices and universities themselves. It cautions against positioning CCBR as a corrective that fully escapes these issues. The authors draw from a range of phi…
The Ethical Stakes of Collaborative Community-Based Social Science Research
This multivocal essay engages complex ethical issues raised in collaborative community-based research (CCBR). It critiques the fraught history and limiting conditions of current ethics codes and review processes, and engages persistent troubling questions about the ethicality of research practices and universities themselves. It cautions against positioning CCBR as a corrective that fully escapes these issues. The authors draw from a range of phi…
Upholding "Colonial Unknowing" Through the IRB: Reframing Institutional Research Ethics
This article considers the institutionalization of research ethics as a site of "colonial unknowing" in which the racial colonial entanglements of academic research and institutions are obscured. I examine the origin stories situating Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) as a response to cases of exceptional violence, most notably the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, within an otherwise neutral history of research. I then consider how the 2018 revisio…
Distilling pedagogies of critical water studies
Writing as both instructors and students who worked together in the undergraduate course Water Justice, we reflect on the limits and possibilities of engaging in anticolonial teaching-learning practices within the ongoing contexts of settler colonialism and racial violence that shapes universities. We describe how we designed Water Justice as a place-based, anticolonial research collaboration, and focus on how students grappled with the substanti…
Dismantle, Change, Build: Lessons for Growing Abolition in Teacher Education
Background/Context: Although the uprisings in the summer of 2020 amplified existing abolitionist organizing, including abolitionist struggles for justice within K–12 schools, it is unclear if the field of teacher education has been informed by these movements. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study: Given this gap, as well as the ongoing urgency to dismantle the interconnected structures of White supremacy, settler colonialism, anti-B…
Beyond Inclusion: Cultivating a Critical Sense of Belonging through Community-Engaged Research
A broad body of literature outlines the interventions to support underrepresented and minoritized students’ inclusion and sense of belonging into university contexts. In this paper, we explore how two first-generation students of color articulate a critical sense of belonging through their reflections as student researchers in the Apprenticeship in Community-Engaged Research or (H)ACER program at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). (…
Toward Pedagogical Justice: Teaching Worlds that we can Collectively Build
How can educators create space for students to practice making the worlds we are trying to collectively build? Inspired by genealogies that are grounded in and emerge from social movements, this paper uplifts the possibilities, tensions, and new questions that emerge when we take seriously the role of our classroom pedagogies. The authors offer a reflexive, methodological approach that pushes against the theory/practice divide and that stays with…
Against settler sustainability: California's groundwater as a vertical frontier
California has been heralded as a beacon of agricultural production and productivity, yet its groundwater crisis is a warning of its impending collapse. In this paper, we argue that policies like California's Sustainable Groundwater Management Act reinscribe the settler state, even as they aim toward environmental sustainability. Drawing from Indigenous feminist scholarship on water and frontier processes, our methodology traces settler coloniali…
Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Social science (5 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Engineering ethics (3 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works)