Date: Sunday, August 9

Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM

Council of Division Chairpersons and Program Co-Chairs, 2026-27
Room: Minetta

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Date: Sunday, August 9

Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM

White Anti-Racist Sociologists - Meeting
Room: Palace

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Date: Sunday, August 9

Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM

THEMATIC

Session 088: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Mapping Colonization of Lifeworlds: "How Institutions Invade Daily Life"
Room: Melville

Sponsors: Global
Institutional Ethnography

Organizers: Lauren Eastwood, State University of New York, Plattsburgh
Brenda Solomon, University of Vermont

Presider/Discussant: Brenda Solomon, University of Vermont

Description: 

This session examines how powerful institutions shape and colonize everyday life across the globe. By tracing how rules, policies, and systems embed themselves into daily routines, the session explores how these “invasions” influence personal experiences, limit choices, and transform the ways people live, work, and relate to one another.

Papers:

“‘We Work for the Elderly, Not the Form!’: Institutional Ethnography as a Decolonizing Practice for Indigenous Care,” Frank Ty Wang, National Chengchi University

“Institutional Ethnography of the Promotion and Tenure Processes in Higher Education,” Laura J. Parson, North Dakota State University

“Mapping Policy Lifeworlds: Sexual Citizenship in Transnational Feminist Perspective,” Nancy Naples, University of Connecticut

“Mapping Policy Lifeworlds: The Daily Life of ‘the Environment’ Subsumed under UN Discourses,” Lauren Eastwood, State University of New York, Plattsburgh

“Reflections on Institutional Capture: Intentional and Unintentional,” Paul Luken, University of West Georgia

“The Ship and Her Captain: Discursive Formations of Global White Space(s),” Samantha M. Frisk, University of Connecticut

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Date: Sunday, August 9

Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM

Session 089: Gender and Violence: Institutional Perspectives
Room: Plymouth

Sponsors: Crime and Justice
Gender, Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities
Law and Society

Organizer &

Presider: Lloyd Klein, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY

Description: 

This session examines gender and violence across a range of institutional settings, focusing on social and policy issues related to the military, the January 6 insurrection, human trafficking, immigration, prisons, and the legal system. Presentations analyze how institutions structure gendered power, shape public narratives, and produce or contest forms of violence within political, legal, and carceral contexts.

Papers:

“Gender as a Determinant of Views toward Violence among U.S. Capitol Riots Participants,” Stephen J. Morewitz, San Jose State University; Forensic Social Sciences Association

“The Grip of Instability: How Political Repression Fuels Human Trafficking—An Empirical Analysis and Call to Action,” Tarekegn Tamiru Woldesenbet, GAGE University College

“Making an American Martyr: Anti-Immigration Co-option of White Women’s Death,” Emma-Claire LaSaine, University of Wisconsin-Madison

“‘Thank You for Your Cervix’: Online Reactions to Women in the Military,” Hannah M. Galicia, Texas Woman's University

“Shelter from the Storm: Sexual Violence against Women and the Impact of the Legal System,” Lloyd Klein, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY

“The Coercive and Transformative Potential of Gendered Care Work among Incarcerated People,” Lauren Hagani, The University of Chicago

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