SSSP CRD Division Newsletter

Spring 2024

SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIAL PROBLEMS COMMUNITY RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT DIVISION 

Table of Contents 

Page 
Number

Reminders for the 2024 Annual Meeting

1

Community Research and Development Sessions

2

Divisional Meeting Schedule

3

Community Partner Paper Award

4

Remember to Renew and Register!

Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), 74th Annual Meeting 

August 9-11, 2023

Montréal, Canada

Preliminary Program

Newsletter Editor, Lillian Wynne Platten, Loyola University Chicago Sociology Graduate Student


Reminders for the Annual Meeting 

Early Bird Registration is valid until June 1. Pre-registration is valid June 2 – July 18. Online registration 
will close at 11:59 p.m. (Eastern Time) on Thursday, July 18. Those who miss this deadline may register 
on-site at the conference hotel. On-site registration will be open at the following times:

Thursday, August 8: 2:00pm–6:00pmFriday, August 9: 8:00am–6:00pmSaturday, August 10: 7:00am–6:00pmSunday, August 11: 8:00am–5:00pm

Please see website (sssp1.org) for more information on available workshops and walking tours. 

For graduate students, there is a web page set up for students: Welcome to Montréal - Student Edition. 

Please keep in mind that SSSP offers a roommate matching service and a mentorship program; all 
requests must be submitted by June 30th. 


Community Research and Development Sessions

Session 
Number

Session Title

Session Day

Session Time

Session Location

003

Empowered People: Local 
Regeneration

Friday

8:30 AM - 
10:10 AM

Hemon

023

Alternatives to Policing

Friday

2:30 PM - 
4:10 PM

Hemon

032

Who Speaks for the 
Community? Complicating 
Power, Representation and 
Decision Making

Friday

4:30 PM - 
6:10 PM

Hemon

040

Who Speaks for the 
Community? Complicating 
Power, Representation and 
Decision Making II

Saturday

8:30 AM - 
10:10 AM

Drummond West

060

CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Anti-
Violence and Violence: 
Counter-hegemony from 
Subversive to Revolutionary

Saturday

12:30 PM - 
2:10 PM

Drummond East

071

CRITICAL DIALOGUE: 
Decolonizing the Academy 
using Institutional 
Ethnography and Other 
Approaches: From Theory to 
Praxis

Saturday

2:30 PM - 
4:10 PM

Drummond East

088

PAR and Organizing in Social 
Movement Spaces

Sunday

8:30 AM - 
10:10 AM

Musset

098

Accessible Cities

Sunday

10:30 AM - 
12:10 PM

Musset

107

CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Critical 
Race and Rural Studies

Sunday

2:30 PM - 
4:10 PM

Salon 5


Divisional Meeting Schedule

DIVISIONAL 
MEETINGS

DAY

TIME

LOCATION

Community Research 
and Development

Friday

12:30 PM - 2:10 PM

Ballroom West

Community Partner Paper Award 

Community Partner Paper Award Winner: Dutta, U., Azad, A. K., Mullah, M., Hussain, K. S., & Parveez, W. (2022). 
From Rhetorical “Inclusion” toward Decolonial Futures: Building Communities of Resistance against Structural Violence. 
American Journal of Community Psychology, 69, 355–368. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12561

Abstract: In this paper, we name and uplift the ways in which Miya community workers are building communities of 
resistance as ways to address the manifold colonial, structural (including state-sponsored), and epistemic violence in 
their lives. These active spaces of refusal and resistance constitute the grounds of our theorizing. Centering this theory 
in the flesh, we offer critical implications for decolonial liberatory praxis, specifically community-engaged praxis in 
solidarity with people's struggles. In doing so, we speak to questions such as: What are the range of ways in which 
Global South communities are coming together to tackle various forms of political, social, epistemic, and racial 
injustice? What are ways of doing, being, and knowing that are produced at the borders and liminal zones? What 
are the varied ways in which people understand and name solidarities, alliances, and relationalities in pursuit of 
justice? We engage with these questions from our radically rooted places in Miya people's struggles via storytelling 
that not only confronts the historical and ongoing oppression, but also upholds desire—Interweaving and honoring 
rage, grief, pain, creativity, love, and communality.

Community Partner Paper Award Honorable Mention: “Queering College Sports: LGBTQ+-inclusive Athletic 
Department Policies at U.S. Colleges and Universities,” Jonathan S. Coley and Gabby Gomez, Oklahoma State 
University, AJ Kurtz, and Anna Baeth, Athlete Ally

Community Partner Paper Award Honorable Mention: Roll, M., Almansi, F., Hardoy, J., Gatti, S., Samios, A., Turmena, 
L., Campos, M., & Zubicaray, G. (2024). Urban Labs beyond Europe: The Formation and Contextualization of 
Experimental Climate Governance in Five Latin American Cities. Environment and Urbanization, 36(1), 173-194. 
https://doi.org/10.1177/09562478241230462