Blank | Page Title | Page Title | Page Title | Page Title | Page Title | Page Title Blank In This Issue: Message from the Division Chair 2013 SSSP Conference: CSA&C Division Sessions, Receptions, and Special Events Division Meeting Information CSA&C Division’s 2013 Student Paper Competition Division Member News, Publications, and Call for Papers Newsletter Editor: Maralee Mayberry Professor of Sociology University of South Florida mayberry@usf.edu Message from the Division Chair: Maralee Mayberry Maralee Mayberry University of South Florida SAVE THE DATE! SSSP 2013 Annual Meeting 63rd Annual Meeting Friday, August 9th—Sunday, August 11th The Westin New York at Times Square The SSSP 2013 meetings will be held in New York City and organized around an ambitious theme: “Re-imagining Social Problems: Moving Beyond Social Constructionism.” SSSP president Richard Dello Buono guarantees us a fabulous time, complete with live entertainment and other exciting additions to the program. This newsletter provides you with detailed information about the Division’s thematic and co-sponsored sessions to help you begin planning for August. Please note the Conflict, Social Action, and Change Division’s Critical Dialogue, “Uniting Theory and Practice in the 21st Century: Consciousness, Vision and Strategy for Social Transformation,” which will be organized and moderated by Walda Katz Fishman. We hope you put this exciting session on your calendar! Also, make plans to attend the division’s business meeting as it is your opportunity to present your ideas for sessions you might like to organize or would like to see organized for the 2014 meetings. Join me in welcoming Crystal Jackson, who was recently elected as the Division’s new chairperson. Crystal studies how inequalities related to gender and sexuality are reproduced and challenged within the law, politics, and the economy. Her academic life and activist life are closely linked and she advocates for sex workers’ rights. LGBTQIA rights, immigrant and migrant rights, and gender equality. Crystal believes scholarship is a path toward social change. I’m excited about working with Crystal to ensure a smooth and productive transition. As I finish my term as division chair, I want to thank all our division members who are organizing and presiding over our 2013 sessions. I also want to express my gratitude to this years graduate student paper competition committee—Doni Loseke, Lyndi Hewitt, and Matthew Wilkinson—who selected the division winner from twenty-four submissions. SSSP ? Conflict, Social Action, and Change Division ? Summer 2013? Page # Page Title Page Title Janet Lorenzen Department of Sociology Rutgers University Convincing People to Go Green: Managing Strategic Action by Minimizing Political Talk.” Aware of the public’s aversion to discussing volatile issues like climate change, environmentalists distance themselves from their in-group discourses and instead focus on changing practices while downplaying political ideas and engagements. In this way informants manipulate the lack of public political talk to their advantage in order to reach a wider audience. Avoiding politics, in this case, is not only active, but strategic. To Be Presented at the 2013 SSSP Meetings check the final schedule for more information And CONGRATULATIONS to our 1st runner up: Ethan Schoolman, University of Michigan, for his paper, “Be a Good Shopper, or Shop for Good? Non-Monetary Costs of Socially Responsible Purchasing Page Title Division’s Critical Dialogue Session 175: Critical Dialogue, “Uniting Theory and Practice in the 21st Century: Consciousness, Vision, and Strategy for Social Transformation.” Moderator: Walda Katz Fishman, Howard University. Sunday, August 11, 4:30-6:10, Room: Pearl Division’s Thematic Sessions Session 21: “Media and Social Change.” Organizer: Lynn Letukas, University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse. Friday, August 9, 10:30-12:10, Room: Ambassador III Session 103: “Barriers to Social Activism: Gender Race, and Class.” Organizer: Andy Plotkin, Palm Beach State College. Saturday, August 10, 4:30-6:10, Room: Booth Division Co-Sponsored Sessions Session 1: “Transformative Environmental Education.” Organizer: Matt Wilkinson, Coastal Carolina University. Friday, August 9, 8:30-10:10, Room Minskoff. Co-Sponsor: Environment and Technology Session 11: “Community-Based Social Justice Activism, Education, and Social Change.” Organizer: Debbie Perkins, Coastal Carolina University. Friday, August 9, 8:30-10:10, Room: Ambassador III. Co-Sponsors: Teaching Social Problems and Community Research Session 31: “Community Embedded Research: The Challenges and Opportunities of Collaboration Between Academics and Community-Based Organizations.” Organizer: Linda Houser, Widener University. Friday, August 9, 12:30-2:10, Room: Ambassador III. Co-Sponsor: Sociology and Social Welfare [Continued next page] Page Title The CSA&C Division Meeting is Your Opportunity To: Meet other division members. Discuss your ideas for sessions you might like to organizae or would like to see organized for the 2014 meetings in San Francisco, CA (It is at this meeting that we will develop a tentative schedule of thematic sessions, regular sessions, roundtable sessions, and co-sponsored sessions to be offered by the Division in 2014. Bring us your ideas and get them on our schedule. Offer to organize and/or preside over a session at the 2014 meetings. Find out how you can become more involved in CSA&C. Suggest your ideas about how the division can become more visible. When? Friday, 4:30- Where? Gershwin II HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE! Summer 2013 Conflict, Social Action, and Change 2013 Division Sessions and Special Events CSA&C Student Paper Competition Winner Division Member News and Notes Recent Publications,Member News, and Call For Papers: Florida State University has awarded division member, Deana Rohlinger, with its prestigious Seminole Award for her work with FSU graduate students. Congratulations, Deana! Coley, Jonathan S. 2013. “Theorizing Issue Selection in Advocacy Organizations: An Analysis of Human Rights Activism Around Darfur and the Congo, 1998-2010.” Sociological Perspectives 56(2): 191-212. Issac, Larry W., Daniel B. Cornfield, Dennis C. Dickerson, James M. Lawson, and Jonathan S. Coley. 2012. “Movement Schools’ and Dialogical Diffusion of Nonviolent Praxis: Nashville Workshops in the Southern Civil Rights Movement.” Research in Social Movements, Conflicts, and Change 34(1): 155-184. Klocke, Brian. 2013. “Neoliberal Media’s commodification of Occupy Wall Street and Radical Social Movements,” in Tony Kashani and Ben frymer (Eds.) Lost in Media: The Ethics of Everyday Life, NY: Peter Lang Publishing. Mayberry, Maralee. 2013. “Gay-Straight Alliances: Youth Empowerment and working Toward Reducing Stigma of LGBT Youth. Humanity and Society, 37(1): 35-54. Call for Papers On April 10-12, 2014, the University of Pittsburgh will host the 38th Conference of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Political Economy of the World-System (PEWS), which will focus on the theme of “Social Movements and Global transformation.” Organizers invite submissions on this theme under the following sub-themes: Roles of States and Movements in World-Systemic Transformation, Knowledge and Paradigms in Contestation, The Role of Peripheries in contesting World-Systemic Hierarchies, and Collective Identities and Democratic Transformation. We encourage submissions from all relevant disciplines in the humanities, law, and social sciences. The Call for Papers is available at: http://www.sociology.pitt.edu/ Proposal deadline is January 21, 2014. Meals and lodging for authors of accepted papers will be provided. Conflict, Social Action, and Change 2013 Division Meeting Page Title Session 37: “Re-Framing Sex Work: Women, Labor, and Social Policy.” Organizer: Andrea Mayo, Arizona State University. Friday, August 9, 2:30-4:10, Room: Minetta. Co-Sponsor: Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities. Session 47: “Re-Imagining War: Social Creation of Disability.” Organizer, Alexis Bender, Army Institute of Public Health. Saturday, August 10, 10:30-12:10, Room: Nederlander. Disabilities Session 88: “Re-Imagining Social Constructionism: Moving Beyond Western Capitalist, Individualist Bias.” Organizer: Donileen Loseke, University of South Florida. Saturday, August 10, 2:30-4:10, Room: Booth. Co-Sponsor: Social Problems Theory Session 139: “IE as Activism.” Organizer: Ian Hussey, York University. Sunday, August 11, 10:30-12:10, Room: Ambassador 11. Co-Sponsor: Institutional Ethnography Receptions and Special Events Welcoming Reception: Thursday, August 8, 6:30 pm. Room: Ambassador II New Member Breakfast: Friday, August 9, 7:15-8:15 am. Room: Broadway Ballroom Division Sponsored Reception: Friday, August 9, 6:30-7:30. Room: Broadway Foyer/Ballroom Awards Reception: Saturday, August 10, 6:30. Room: Gershwin Foyer Division Meeting: Friday, August 9, 4:30, Gershwin II Conflict, Social Action, and Change 2013 Division Sessions and Special Events Page Title Call for Papers The Journal of World-Systems Research invites submissions of original articles, datasets, and special issue proposals to the study of world-systems and global political economy. Founded in 1994, JWSR is the official journal of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Political Economy of the World-System. It is an online, open source (free) journal that seeks to make research available to readers around the world regardless of their access to university libraries and other resources. We especially want to include works that proceed from several different theoretical stances and disciplines, including, but are not limited to, political science, history, sociology, archaeology, cultural anthropology, economics and geography. We also encourage the application of comparative, quantitative, and network-analytic methods to world-systems research, though publish many pieces that do not use these methods. Any empirical study deemed relevant to world-systems analysis may be published even if it uses a very different conceptual framework. In addition, we consider discussions of future trajectories and options for the modern world-system and considerations of what can be done to create a more humane, peaceful, and just world society. To submit your work, please email a manuscript of 10,000 words or less to jwsr@pitt.edu. See the journal’s website at http://www.jwsr.org to view past issues, a list of Editorial Board members, and further submission guidelines. The Editorial team includes Editor, Jackie Smith (University of Pittsburgh), Production Editor, Scott Byrd (Murray State University), Book Reivew Editor, Jenn Bair (University of Colorado-Boulder), and Managing Editor Brittany Duncan (University of Pittsburgh). Division Member News and Notes