SSSP 2024 Annual Meeting
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 7:15 AM - 8:15 AM
New Member Breakfast
Room: Ballroom West
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Anti-Harassment Committee, 2023-24 & 2024-25
Room: Kafka
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
SPECIAL
Session 038: Beyond Outrage, What Do We Do Now? Peace, Reconciliation, and Global Conflict
Room: Salon 1
Sponsor: Program Committee
Organizer: Joachim Savelsberg, University of Minnesota
Presider: Mary Bernstein, University of Connecticut
Description: What can social science tell us about a way out of violent conflict? This panel presents data on mass violence and post-conflict situations in Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, and other contexts. Based on research on responses in the fields of law, education, and journalism, this panel draws broader lessons for a world, in which mass violence is increasingly common.
Panelists:
Jillian P. LaBranche, University of Minnesota
Chana Teeger, London School of Economics
Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira, The Ohio State University
j. Siguru Wahutu, New York University
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
SPECIAL
Session 039: How to Get Published: Learning the Language of Academic Writing
Room: Salon 5
Sponsors: Board of Directors Student Representatives
Program Committee
Organizer &
Presider: Foroogh Mohammadi, Acadia University
Description: Academic publishing requires certain knowledge and understanding of the process that is not often crystal clear to graduate students and junior scholars. This panel’s discussion addresses the principles, challenges, and creative ways of academic writing and publishing. The session will guide you through the process of converting a draft seminar paper into a submission-ready journal article. The panelists include academics who are involved in academic journals and will reflect on their experiences on the other side of editorship and peer-review processes. This panel provides essential knowledge for graduate students and junior scholars who plan to publish in academic journals.
Panelists:
Lisa-Jo van den Scott, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Annulla Linders, University of Cincinnati
Japonica Brown-Saracino, Boston University
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Session 040: Who Speaks for the Community? Complicating Power, Representation and Decision Making II
Room: Drummond West
Sponsor: Community, Research, and Practice
Organizer, Presider &
Discussant: Susan Halverson, Portland State University
Description: Social science researchers likely all engage with communities in some way. But what does "community" actually mean? Who is included and excluded, and who participates? Who is considered a valid representative of the community? How is power distributed and used in communities? The papers in this session explore and complicate community power, representation, and decision-making in spatial/geographic, identity, and interest communities.
Papers:
“Restoring Dignity to Language Translations of the Jicarilla Apache: The Retranslation of Goddard Texts: A Restorative Justice-informed Research Collaboration,” Mariann Skahan, The University of New Mexico
“Unequal Participation: A Comparative Analysis of Urban Planning Processes in Two Rust Belt Cities,” Athena Nicole Last, Jobs to Move America
“Bureaucratic Violence in Community Engagement: A ‘For Us, by Us’ Approach to Mitigating Harm in Community-university Partnerships,” Sarah E. Stanlick, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
“The Person in Socially-engaged Scholarship: Social Change, Human Dignity, and Radical Personalist Analysis,” Allison S. Reed, Washington University in St. Louis
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Session 041: New Directions in Institutional Ethnography
Room: Drummond Centre
Sponsor: Institutional Ethnography
Organizer: Katherine E. Koralesky, University of British Columbia
Presider &
Discussant: Katherine Hardin, McGill University
Description: This session features IE research with a focus on using IE in novel ways.
Papers:
“Institutional Ethnography and the Problem of Orthodoxy,” Eric Mykhalovskiy, York University
“New Journeys in Learning Institutional Ethnography: Building an International Community of Peer Mentorship,” Katerina Melino, University of Alberta, Benjamin Carroll, Queen's University, Alexa Ferdinands, Athabasca University and Jeffrey Sabo, University of Ottawa
“Smartphone Apps and the Social Organization of ‘Going Out’ amidst Crises,” Colin Hastings, University of Waterloo
“Social Workers as Willful Subjects,” Hagit Sinai-Glazer, Tel Aviv University
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Session 042: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Work Policies and the Family
Room: Drummond East
Sponsors: Family, Aging, and Youth
Labor Studies
Organizer &
Presider/Discussant: Monnica Gavin, Clark State College
Description: The impact of societal policies on family dynamics is significant, and work policies can either aid or worsen issues within the family structure. Policies that are rooted in patriarchal systems can hinder the complete participation of women in the workforce. Furthermore, policies that do not provide adequate support for employees' families can lead to stress and subpar work performance. This session delves into the effects of work policies on the family dynamic, taking into account topics such as parental leave policies, telecommuting, parenthood in STEM fields, caregiving in higher education, artificial intelligence, and indigenous workers.
Papers:
“Artificial Intelligence and the New Divide: Perceptions, Preparedness, and the Future of Labor Market Inequality,” Dujin Park, Chungnam National University and June Jeon, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology
“Exploring the Work of Women Faculty through the Lens of Caregiving: An Institutional Ethnography of Caregiving and Carereceiving in Higher Education,” Emily C. Schubert, Laura Parson and Fredricka R. Saunders, North Dakota State University
“Pima Cotton and the Gendered and Racialized Experiences of Indigenous Workers,” Allison R. Madia, University of California, Los Angeles
“STEM Work Hour Disparity Based on Sexual Orientation: Heterogeneity across Gender, Relationship Status, and Parenthood,” Jisu Park, The Pennsylvania State University
“Teleworking, Stress, and Work Conditions before the COVID-19 Pandemic,” Taylor D. Sumpter, University of Miami
“Tenure-track Confidential: An IE of Pre-tenure Women Faculty,” Laura Parson, North Dakota State University
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
SPECIAL
Session 043: Making the Most of Mentoring Opportunities
Room: Salon 7
Sponsors: Committee on Mentorship
Program Committee
Organizer: Ebonie L. Cunningham Stringer, Penn State Berks
Presider: Sandra Lynn Barnes, Brown University
Description: Mentoring is a powerful practice that facilitates learning, development and growth in individuals and professions. Moreover, effective mentoring creates safe spaces to ask hard questions, acquire new knowledge and share experiences. Whether launching or advancing one’s career, seeking personal development opportunities, or nurturing the desire to make meaningful connections with others, mentoring helps to foster belonging and creates more inclusive pathways to opportunity and success. This session features a panel of mentors and their mentees who will share their challenges and successes with mentoring, as well as their tips for how to make the most of mentoring opportunities. Panelists will discuss how both formal mentoring programs and informal mentoring relationships can serve as pathways to long-term collaboration and mutual support.
Panelists:
Glenn Muschert, Khalifa University
Michael O. Johnston, William Penn University
Faryal Razzaq, Karachi School of Business & Leadership
Sandra Lynn Barnes, Brown University
Shaonta’ E. Allen, Dartmouth College
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
THEMATIC
Session 044: Health Justice: Addressing Discrimination in Health and Health Care
Room: Hemon
Sponsor: Program Committee
Organizer, Presider &
Discussant: Raja Staggers-Hakim, University of Connecticut
Description: Health justice issues are historical and political in nature. Health outcomes for communities of color and other marginalized groups require further attention by the general public and sociologists to fully achieve health equity. The current session considers longstanding and ongoing health and healthcare concerns that specifically affect people of color or groups that experience intersecting oppressions of race, gender, class, ability, sexuality, and religion. Specifically, panelists will address reproductive health and technology, discrimination in health care, Black maternal health outcomes, and the implications of gender in the conception of the sick role.
Papers:
“Beyond Motherhood: Exploring the Unmet Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare Needs in the Medicaid Landscape,” Elizabeth M. Anderson, Indiana University Bloomington, Winner of the Health, Health Policy, and Health Services Division’s Student Paper Competition
“Gendered Legitimacy in the Sick Role: A Survey Experiment of Gender-Typed Head Pain,” Caroline V. Brooks and Emily A. Ekl, Indiana University
“Healthcare Discrimination, Healthcare Avoidance, and Self-rated Health in a Sample of American Indians with Type 2 Diabetes,” Gabby Gomez and Kelley Sittner, Oklahoma State University
“Intersectional Dynamics in Black Maternal Health: A Qualitative Study of Gendered Racial Disparities in Maternal Care,” Carla Devonn Brailey and Brittany C. Slatton, Texas Southern University
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
THEMATIC
Session 045: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Critical Perspectives on Law and Violence
Room: Jarry
Sponsors: Law and Society
Social Problems Theory
Organizers: Keith R. Johnson, Retired Scholar
Michael Branch, Hartwick College
Presider/Discussant: Michael Branch, Hartwick College
Description: This thematic session on Law and Violence presents new work on the boundaries of problematic social systems with a focus on the law. The presenters ask these questions: When does “stop and frisk” become “stop and sexually harass?” When does a prison become a nursing home for elderly prisoners? When do immigration laws interrupt family ties? When does human trafficking law make sex trafficking the priority? When does politics become violent?
Papers:
“Aging and Dying behind Bars: Prison Nursing Homes in the Era of U.S. Mass Incarceration,” Hannah Schwendemen, University of Minnesota
“Extended Parental Separation: Examining the Harms of Immigration Policy on Mexican Immigrants,” Natalie J. Cholula, Portland State University
“Right-wing Extremist Violence and Government Impunity in Comparative Perspective,” Pamela Irving Jackson, Rhode Island College
“Stop and Sexual Assault?: How Terry Stops become Legally Authorized Sexual Violence,” Brandon Alston, The Ohio State University, Honorable Mention in the Law and Society Division’s Student Paper Competition
“What’s in a Frame? State Policymakers’ Conceptualization of Human Trafficking,” Alexis P. Tsoukalas, Florida Policy Institute, University of Central Florida
“‘I Still Can Feel the Sickness’: Withdrawal Experiences of People on Methadone Maintenance Treatment,” David Frank, Alexander S. Bennett and Luther Elliott, New York University
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
THEMATIC
Session 046: Unraveling the Complex Relationship between Poverty, Class, Inequality and Violence
Room: Joyce
Sponsor: Poverty, Class, and Inequality
Organizer: Sara Maani, University of Milan-Bicocca
Presider &
Discussant: Felicia Arriaga, Baruch College, CUNY
Description: In this session, we invite papers that explore the intricate structures and dynamics of the systemic inequalities and injustices that perpetuate violence, particularly against marginalized communities. We particularly welcome a critical sociological lens that discusses the underpinnings of poverty, class stratification, and inequality, highlighting how these elements foster violence against the most vulnerable populations. Discussions that uncover the ways in which exploitation and oppression reproduce poverty and social inequalities, reinforcing multiple stigmas and heightened exposure to violence, are encouraged. We welcome a diverse array of perspectives and methodologies, ranging from empirical studies and theoretical frameworks to detailed case analyses.
Papers:
“Exploring the Relationship between Decision-making Method, Violence, and Inequality; Collective Decides against Social H.I.V.,” Shayan Morshedi, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador
“Unveiling Intersectional Narratives of Minority Stress among Chicano Women via a Flexible Diary Study,” Felicia O. Casanova, University of Miami, Esme Ramirez, The University of Texas, Melanie McKenna, University of Miami, Kapriskie Seide, Davidson College, Alice Cepeda, University of Southern California and Kathryn Nowotny, University of Miami
“Sheriffs Driving Policy: Associations and Influence,” Stephanie Avalos and Felicia Arriaga, Baruch College, CUNY
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Session 047: Environmental Activism: Local to Global
Room: Lamartine
Sponsors: Conflict, Social Action, and Change
Environment and Technology
Organizer &
Presider: Kat Fuller, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Description: This session focuses on topics relating to the social research on environmental activism in this current age of dynamics, such as local community organizing, globalization, extractivism, and litigation, to name just a few. How are communities coalescing to respond to environmental injustices? How are activists responding to the increasing criminalization of protests? Not exclusive to research related to these questions, this session focuses on international perspectives that broadly address environmental activism and inform our understanding of the crucial issues pertaining to activism around environmental problems.
Papers:
“Humanist and Atheist Movements and Environmental Activism: International Discourses and Local Experiences,” Morena Tartari, Northumbria University and Hamide Elif Üzümcü, University of Padua
“Fighting at the Meso-level? Environmental Justice Narratives within a Leading Environmental Movement Organization, 1950s to Present,” Sam Castonguay, Washington State University
“Organizing Corporate Environmental Activism: The Green Growth Elite Countermovement in Canada’s Atlantic Provinces,” J. P. Sapinski, Université de Moncton
“Indigenous Knowing Traditions for Environmental Futures: Indigenous Relationality, Intimacy of Ecologies, and Collective Reciprocity,” Doreen E. Martinez, Colorado State University
“Environmental Justice and Indigenous Feminisms in Oaxaca, Mexico: Linking Territory and Gender,” Alessandro Morosin, University of La Verne
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Annual Review Committee of the Executive Officer, 2023-24 CANCELLED
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Membership and Outreach Committee, 2023-24 & 2024-25
Room: Kafka
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Conflict, Social Action, and Change
Room: Ballroom West
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Family
Room: Ballroom West
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities
Room: Ballroom West
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
THEMATIC
Session 048: Critical Perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Room: Salon 1
Sponsor: Critical Race and Ethnic Study
Organizer, Presider &
Discussant: Amani M. Awwad, SUNY Canton
Description: The discussion will focus on the contested realities of the Arab-Palestinian-Israeli conflict. How mainstream media covers the October 7th act of terrorism involving Hamas and the Israeli government. Further, the continued genocide in Gaza will be explored, specifically, how the world responded to these atrocities. The action of the settlers and the IDF soldiers in the occupied territories will be examined.
Papers:
“‘It’s Our Way to Tell the World That Nothing Can Stop Us’: Palestinian Parkour in Gaza as Decolonial Praxis and Embodied Freedom under Occupation,” Raiya Taha Thomure and Zeana Hamdonah, University of Toronto
“Birthright and Support for Israeli Violence among American Jews,” Emily Schneider and Lillian Selznick, Northern Arizona University
“Feeling Bad about Genocide: How Liberal Anti-Racism Enables State Violence,” Emily Schneider, Northern Arizona University
“Portrayal of Palestine in US Media: An Analysis through the Lens of Third World Narratives during the Israel-Hamas Conflict,” Srijana Karki, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and Juan Du, Huizhou University
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
THEMATIC
Session 049: Disability Embodiment: The Way Out of a System of Violence
Room: Drummond West
Sponsor: Disability, Mental Wellness, and Social Justice
Organizers: Ben R. Sher, New York University Silver School of Social Work
Alan Santinele Martino, University of Calgary
Presider &
Discussant: Alan Santinele Martino, University of Calgary
Description: This session delves into the interplay between disability, identity, and systemic violence, offering perspectives that challenge conventional narratives and advocate for radical inclusivity and justice. Through a diverse array of papers, we explore the lived experiences and systemic barriers faced by marginalized communities across various contexts, illuminating paths towards empowerment and equity. Together, these papers underscore the necessity of dismantling systemic barriers and reimagining systems of care and justice to truly embody disability in a way that moves us out of a cycle of violence and towards a future of inclusivity and equity. This session calls for a collective reevaluation of our approaches to disability, urging participants to consider how intersectional identities shape experiences of violence and advocacy for change.
Papers:
“A Crip Perspective on Sexual Education for 2SLGBTQIA+ Individuals with Intellectual and/or Developmental Disabilities in Alberta, Canada,” Alan Santinele Martino and Thomas Tri, University of Calgary
“Beyond Accommodations and Institutional Barriers: ‘Cripping’ Possibilities in Higher Education,” Alan Santinele Martino, University of Calgary
“Mandatory Supporting as a Radical Ethic of Care: Supporting, Not Reporting, Black Disabled Mothers,” Siobhan Marie Pokorney, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Session 050: New Directions in Institutional Ethnography II
Room: Drummond Centre
Sponsor: Institutional Ethnography
Organizer: Katherine E. Koralesky, University of British Columbia
Presider &
Discussant: Katerina Melino, University of Alberta
Description: This session features IE research with a focus on using IE in novel ways.
Papers:
“Gendered Organizations: Higher Education Practices Support Metaphorical Barriers,” Wendy Laminack Cash, Auburn University and Laura Parson, North Dakota State University
“Rise through the Cracks: Institutional Ethnography as Praxis for Adult Educators,” Katherine Hardin, McGill University
“Understanding the Gendered Experiences and Power Dynamics that Impact Work-life Balance for Women Faculty,” Fredricka R. Saunders, Laura Parson and Emily C. Schubert, North Dakota State University
“Using Archival Materials to Conduct an Institutional Ethnography of Prison: Analytic and Methodological Observations,” Helen Hudson, University of Ottawa, Winner of the Institutional Ethnography Division’s Student Paper Competition
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
THEMATIC
Session 051: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Guns and Gun Violence
Room: Drummond East
Sponsor: Crime and Justice
Organizers: Christopher Dum, Kent State University
Matthew DelSesto, Emerson College
Presider/Discussant: Matthew DelSesto, Emerson College
Description: This critical dialogue addresses the uniquely American social problem of gun violence. The seven papers in this session draw on a variety of methodologies in their examination of guns and gun violence. During this session, 5 minutes will be focused on presenting each paper and the remainder of session will consist of a facilitated dialogue between authors and audience members. Through this format, all attendees will have the opportunity to engage with the topic of guns and gun violence, and partake in a joint effort to forge a path forward that addresses this important social problem.
Papers:
“Twenty-five Years Since the Columbine High School Shooting: How Race, Gender, and Individualistic Ideologies Contribute to the Normalization of School Shootings in American Culture,” Linda M. Waldron, Christopher Newport University
“QuantCrit Descriptive Analysis of School Shooting Events,” Natalia Brand and James E. Connell, Drexel University
“Aversion to Gun-owning Neighbors,” Justin L. Sola, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“The Effects of Youth Indirect Exposure to Community Firearm Violence by Neighborhood,” Rachel Elizabeth Colello, University of California, Irvine
“Pathways to Voluntary Gun Abandonment and Decreased Gun Desirability,” Mary Lee, University of California, Irvine
“Transforming Narratives of Gun Violence: Lessons from Research on a Community-engaged Learning Initiative,” Matthew DelSesto, Emerson College
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Session 052: PAPERS IN THE ROUND: Experiential Learning as a Way to Teach about Social Problems
Room: Ballroom West
Sponsors: Sociology, Social Work, and Social Welfare
Teaching Social Problems
Organizers: William Cabin, New York University Silver School of Social Work
Laurie J. Linhart, Des Moines Area Community College
Description: The session will focus on innovative ways to use experiential learning to teach about social problems.
Roundtable #1 Title: Experiential Learning as a Way to Teach about Social Problems
Presider:
Jessica Lucero, Utah State University
Papers:
“Bringing Mutuality and Reciprocity into Focus: A Case Study on Sustaining University-community Partnerships,” Jessica Lucero, Utah State University
“Experiential Learning Using Grant Proposals: A Reflection on Two Pilot Studies,” Janelle M. Pham, Oglethorpe University
“Geographic Interviews as an Experiential Method for Engaging Students in Place-based Assessment and Learning,” Danielle Littman and Denae J. Cook, University of Utah
“Towards More Part Time Doctorate Degrees in Sociology,” Barbara Katz Rothman, The Graduate Center, CUNY
“Discovering Hidden Paradigms in Our Syllabi,” Andy Plotkin, Behavioral-Scientists
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Session 053: Global Health, Climate, Inequality and Environment II CANCELLED
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Session 054: Social Problems in the Digital Age
Room: Jarry
Sponsor: Social Problems Theory
Organizer, Presider &
Discussant: David C. Lane, Illinois State University
Description: This session is centered on the intersection of changing technology and social problems activity.
Papers:
“Now Trending #Violence and #Truecrime: A Literature Review of Violence, Crime, and Social Media Discourse,” Kemi Johnson Pratt, Texas Woman's University
“Engaging an Engaged Audience: From Classroom Content to Critical Conversations in the Digital Age,” Wade P. Smith, Eastern Illinois University
“#Politics: Understanding Young People’s Political Engagement on Facebook Using Ordered Logistic Regression,” Clara Mey, University of Delaware
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
THEMATIC
Session 055: Youth, Violence, and Inequality
Room: Joyce
Sponsor:
Organizer, Presider &
Discussant: Brittney Miles, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Description: This panel explores the relationship between youth, violence, and inequality across the institutional contexts of education and family. Specifically, this panel includes critical perspectives from LGBTQ+ youth, young women of color refugees, and parents of children with disabilities, as well as consider the impact of the father-child relationship and family violence. Together, these papers contribute to our understanding of violence while centering youth and inequality.
Papers:
“Exploring Adolescent Affect Regulation with Family Violence-Exposed Youth: The Phenomenology of Feeling Like You Are Going to ‘Lose It’,” Katherine Maurer, McGill University
“How Dads Matter: Paternal-adolescent Relationships and Juvenile Delinquency,” Hope E. Ousey and Andrew Wilczak, Wilkes University
“Rethinking Refugee Education: Animating War and Violence as Storywork by Newcomer Youth of Color,” Santanu Dutta, Pallavi Banerjee and Chetna Khandelwal, University of Calgary
“Rural Texas LGBTQ+ Youth Experiences in Schools, Churches, and Community,” Nicole M. Butkovich Kraus and Shanna Peeples, West Texas A&M University
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Session 056: Gender and Work
Room: Lamartine
Sponsors:
Labor Studies
Organizer: Tracy L. Vargas, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Presider &
Discussant: Abigail M. Malick, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Description: This regular paper session is dedicated to the debate and analysis of gender relations, the organization of gender, and the gendering of organizations within the broad context of work. To examine the relationship between gender and labor, this session will cover a range of topics that examine gendered power relations, identities, and issues of inclusion and exclusion around the world.
Papers:
“Challenging Shea as Women’s Gold: Myth or Reality?” Idowu Alabi, Wayne State University
“The Benefits of Intergenerational Co-residence: Reconsidering the Effects of Women’s Education on Their Housework Hours in Urban China,” Shuyin Liu, University of Massachusetts Amherst
“Undoing the STEM/Non-STEM Dichotomy: Exploring Women’s STEM Experiences and Binary Definitions of STEM Involvement,” Zora Haque and Manning Zhang, Brandeis University
“‘In Our Brothel, Pimps are Not Allowed’: Market Facilitation and the Realities of Brothel-based Sex Work,” Popy Begum, Saint Louis University
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
THEMATIC
Session 057: Feminist Abolitionism and Collective Resistance to State Control and Violence
Room: Musset
Sponsor: Program Committee
Organizer: Claire M. Renzetti, University of Kentucky
Presider: Alesha Durfee, Saint Louis University
Description: In this session, presenters, using a Feminist Abolitionist framework, will discuss how the neoliberal call for individual responsibility and accountability for criminal offenses magnifies harm through the ripple effects of state control and violence, especially in racially and economically marginalized communities. In doing so, presenters will implicitly or explicitly critique Carceral Feminism.
Papers:
“Abolitionist Origins: Radical Histories in Anti-violence Organizing,” Melinda Chen, The University of Oklahoma
“Abolition Feminism, Advocacy, and Anti-violence Activism: Imagining and Creating a Lifeworld to Resist the System,” Sarah Jane Brubaker, Virginia Commonwealth University
“When Protection is Unsafe: An Intersectional Analysis of Civil Protection Orders and the Carceral State,” Alesha Durfee, Saint Louis University
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Budget, Finance, and Audit Committee, 2024-25
Room: Kafka
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Committee on Social Action, 2023-24 CANCELLED
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
SPECIAL
Session 021: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Sociology on the Ropes: Recent Attacks on the Discipline
Room: Salon 1
Sponsor: Program Committee
Organizer &
Presider/Discussant: R.A. Dello Buono, Manhattan University
Description: The threat to sociology as a discipline is growing. Recent moves to dilute or remove course requirements for sociology seem intent on undoing the discipline’s capacity for encouraging critical thinking. Increasingly conservative-minded administrations in higher education are bending in the face of state and/or donor mandates to ideologically muzzle, downsize, merge or eliminate sociology departments and their faculty. The American Sociological Association (ASA) among other professional associations have cautiously weighed in on these attacks in various missives. What can associations like the SSSP do in the face of these attacks? How can scholar-activism be defended in the face of right-wing hostility? This dialogue seeks to explore these issues confronting sociology and other academic programs based in critical analysis and advocacy.
Papers:
“Same Old Song, Much Larger Band: The New White Nationalist Attacks on Higher Education,” Woody Doane, University of Hartford
“Fight the Power: Stopping State Attacks against Sociology,” Rose M. Brewer, University of Minnesota
“The Death of Sociology? Don’t Mourn, Organize!,” Corey Dolgon, Stonehill College
“‘It’s Trump’s Fault!,’ and Other Ways to Avoid Responsibility,” Louis Edgar Esparza, California State University, Los Angeles
“Our Fight for Sociology is Part of Today’s Revolutionary Struggle,” Walda Katz-Fishman, League of Revolutionaries for a New America and Howard University
“Countering Attacks on Sociology: The Precarious Nature of Building Scholar-Activists, Professional Associations and Universities Coalitions,” Mary Romero, Professor Emerita, Arizona State University
“Sociology as Complicit in Chronic Mediocrity: The Fight to Maintain the Status Quo,” David G. Embrick, University of Connecticut and Johnny Eric Williams, Trinity College
“What’s Old is New Again: Academia and the Postliberal State,” Nancy A. Naples, University of Connecticut
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
SPECIAL
Session 058: Publishing Tips from the Editors of Social Problems
Room: Salon 5
Sponsor: Program Committee
Organizers: Michael A. Long, Oklahoma State University
Kelley Sittner, Oklahoma State University
Andrew S. Fullerton, Oklahoma State University
Rachel M. Schmitz, Oklahoma State University
Presider: Andrew S. Fullerton, Oklahoma State University
Description: The publishing process can be confusing at times even for the seasoned scholar. In this session, the co-editors of Social Problems share their experiences as editors, authors, and reviewers and discuss the process of publishing in the journal.
Panelists:
Kelley Sittner, Oklahoma State University
Andrew S. Fullerton, Oklahoma State University
Michael A. Long, Oklahoma State University
Rachel M. Schmitz, Oklahoma State University
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
THEMATIC
Session 059: Criminalizing Vulnerable Populations
Room: Drummond West
Sponsors: Crime and Justice
Environment and Technology
Law and Society
Poverty, Class, and Inequality
Organizers: Marko Salvaggio, Tulane University
Miltonette Olivia Craig, Sam Houston State University
Presider: Marko Salvaggio, Tulane University
Description: This session addresses the nexus between criminalization and marginalized people, and/or criminalization as it serves to produce marginality. For example, papers submitted to the session could pertain to the criminalization of unhoused people, the criminalization of reproductive choices, or the intersections between race, criminalization, and the incidence of environmental hazards. These are only a few of the possible angles that could be taken up in this session. We welcome submissions that analyze dynamics pertaining to vulnerability and criminalization in multiple ways.
Papers:
“Criminalizing Trauma: Trauma-informed Practices and Community-based Juvenile Justice Reforms,” Kayla M. Martensen, University of New Mexico
“Examining Policing Homelessness in a Redeveloping City,” Stephanie Southworth and Sara Brallier, Coastal Carolina University
“Judicial System and Social Reproduction: A Panel Analysis of 22 Years of Penal Practice in Canadian Provinces,” Mohamed Imoussaïne, National Institute of Scientific Research
“Navigating the Invisibility/Hyper-visibility Paradox: Redemptive Generativity as a Means of Resisting Racial-criminal Stigma,” Jamie J. Fader, Temple University
“Punitive Inertia: Anti-blackness and the Policing of Motion,” Korey Tillman, Northeastern University
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
THEMATIC
Session 060: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Anti-Violence and Violence: Counter-hegemony from Subversive to Revolutionary
Room: Drummond East
Sponsors: Community, Research, and Practice
Conflict, Social Action, and Change
Critical Race and Ethnic Study
Organizers: C. Michael Awsumb, Northwest Missouri State University
Watoii Rabii, Oakland University
Presider/Discussant: Watoii Rabii, Oakland University
Description: This session looks broadly at questions around the types of political praxis persons and groups use and/or may theoretically be necessary in response to forms of violence, like racism, war, genocide, structural violence, etc. The session concept is engaging with question of "who gets to determine the “right” or “acceptable” way to resist your oppressor?"
Papers:
“Broken Bond or Resilient Threads: Understanding Social Cohesion in Black American Streets,” Abass Muhammed, University of Delaware, Winner of the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Division’s Student Paper Competition
“Dystopian Dreams: Narratives of Social Control and the Techno-future,” Katarina M. McGuire, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
“Exploring the Effect of Video Literacy Program in Enhancing Emotional Intelligence Capabilities in Primary Schoolchildren to Develop Resilience to Extremism,” Faryal Razzaq, Karachi School of Business & Leadership and Glenn Muschert, Khalifa University
“Rediscovering Citta: Vignettes on Violence and Healing in Life and Commercial Yoga Spaces,” ,
“Resistance to Sexual Violence as Statecraft,” Melanie Brazzell, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University
“The Reproduction of Colonial Violence in Humanizing and Peacebuilding Initiatives,” Emily Schneider, Northern Arizona University
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
THEMATIC
Session 061: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Womxn's Bodies as Sites of Statist Violence: A Critique of Imperialist, Heteropatriarchal Politics
Room: Salon 7
Sponsor:
Organizers: Pallavi Banerjee, University of Calgary
Meghna Bhat, Independent Scholar and Consultant
Presider/Discussant: Pallavi Banerjee, University of Calgary
Description: The critical dialogue session invites researchers and practitioners to submit papers that discuss the mechanism through which state and institutions of the state seek to control and oppress bodies that are perceived feminine. The panel particularly invites dialogue that is anti-racist, anti-hetero-cis-patriarchal, intersectional, decolonial and orients the field of gender away from normative ways of knowing.
Papers:
“From Violence to Victory: How Young Black People with Diverse Sexual Identities Experience Religion and Spirituality,” Sandra Lynn Barnes, Brown University
“Intersecting Liminalities: Controlling Pregnant Immigrant Bodies,” Zoë Chaetana Miller-Vedam, University of California, Irvine
“One Life: The Impact of China’s One Child Policy on Girls and Women in Society Today,” Jenny Athena Wong, Mothers Lead
“Resisting Across Borders: Iranian Diaspora Activists’ Struggles in Transnational Contexts,” Fateme Ejaredar, University of Calgary
“The Problem of Mononormativity: Disrupting Colonial and Imperial Conceptions of Family in the Canadian Government’s Pursuit of Gender Justice,” Pedrom Nasiri, University of Calgary
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Session 062: PAPERS IN THE ROUND: Bodily Autonomy and Health
Room: Ballroom West
Sponsor: Health, Health Policy, and Health Services
Organizer: Virginia Kuulei Berndt, McDaniel College
Description: Bodily autonomy in the realm of health and healthcare has inspired scholarly and activist work across a broad range of disciplinary and methodological approaches. As such, this interdisciplinary session includes intersectional research drawing from diverse methodological approaches including in-depth interviews, policy briefs, content analyses, and literature reviews. Topics in this section include abortion policy, technology and inequalities, eating disorder treatment and research, autonomy in long-term residential care, and prenatal care.
Roundtable #1 Title: Bodily Autonomy and Health
Presider:
Yuying Shen, Norfolk State University
Papers:
“Bodily Autonomy and Abortion Policy in U.S. States,” Kelsey Johnson, Middle Tennessee State University
“Coercion in Care: Examining the Acceptability of the Use of Force in Long-term Residential Care,” MacGregor Goodman, University of Manitoba
“Not by Accident: The Technological Production of Embodied Health Inequalities,” Manning Zhang, Brandeis University
“Parallel Experiences of the Panopticon in the World of Eating Disorder Treatment and Research,” Heather C. Pizzanello, Salve Regina University
“Prenatal Care at SEPs,” Leticia Morales, Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Session 063: New Work in Social Problems Theory
Room: Jarry
Sponsor: Social Problems Theory
Organizer &
Presider: Clara Mey, University of Delaware
Description: This session explores new trends and developments in social problems theory.
Papers:
“Big White Elephant at the Ballot Box: Reckoning with the Suggestive Power of Trumpism,” Stephen Pfohl, Boston College
“Hurt People Hurt People: Theorizing Liminal Complicity in the Reproduction of Inequality,” Andrew J. Shapiro, The Graduate Center, CUNY, Honorable Mention in the Social Problems Theory Division’s Student Paper Competition
“The Process of Managing Stigma for Those Bereaved by a Drug-related Death,” Timothy Chesnik, University of Delaware, Joshua H. Stout, Illinois State University and Benjamin Fleury-Steiner, University of Delaware
“Toward a Sociology of Facts,” Joel Best, University of Delaware
“Understanding Motivation for Service Learning with Identity Theory,” Anne Statham, University of Southern Indiana and Helen Rosenberg, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Session 064: Student Mental Health on Campus: Who Isn't F*cking Crazy?
Room: Joyce
Sponsor: Disability, Mental Wellness, and Social Justice
Organizers: Douglas J. Engelman, University of North Carolina Wilmington
,
Discussant: Douglas J. Engelman, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Description: An examination of the propensity of mental health issues on today's college and university campuses.
Papers:
“Family Relations and Mental Health: How Do Divorce, Single Parenthood, and Disconnected Extended Family Impact Mental Health?” Abigail Kozak, University of North Carolina Wilmington
“The Consideration of Race in the Organization of Campus Mental Health Services,” Hana Gebremariam, Temple University
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Session 065: Teaching Sexualities in the Classroom and Community
Room: Lamartine
Sponsor: Gender, Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities
Organizer, Presider &
Discussant: Janelle M. Pham, Oglethorpe University
Description: Papers in this session explore the possibilities for community engagement and learning around issues and topics of sexuality, both within the classroom and beyond.
Papers:
“‘I Do Like Sex A Lot’: The Missing Discourse of Sexual Pleasure in Canadian Sex Education Programs and Curriculum for People Labelled/with Developmental Disability,” Melissa L. Miller, University of Calgary
“Gen Z and Teaching Sexualities: Strategies for Education Students that ‘Already Know’,” Hannah R. Regan, Flora Stone Mather Center for Women and Case Western Reserve University
“Punishing or Healing? The Paradox of Title IX,” Anna K. Wood, University of Michigan
“Sexual Violence Resource Centers as Allies in Primary Sexual Violence Prevention in Schools and Communities,” Linnea Hjelm, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Session 066: Doing Fieldwork in the Global South
Room: Musset
Sponsors: Program Committee
Transnational Initiatives Committee
Organizer, Presider &
Discussant: Debadatta Chakraborty, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Description: This session includes critical reflections on doing ethnography in and from the global south. The five papers in this session address a range of key methodological, theoretical, ethical, and existential questions for ethnographers around positionality, risk, serendipity, affect, embodiment, subjective locations, power, violence, and their relationship to ethnographic witnessing, writing and knowledge production. The papers draw on a range of multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork experience of scholars in India, South Africa, Jamaica, Bangladesh, and Hong Kong. Overall, the session contributes to deeper questions on negotiation of intersectional identities for and by the ethnographers themselves in relation to the communities they are embedded in and the generative possibilities of such negotiations in exacerbating and mitigating colonial and gendered-racialized harms, risks, and violence.
Papers:
“Gender, Race, and Class as Resources in Global South Ethnography,” Annie Hikido, Colby College
“Serendipity or Structure? Reflections on Power, Privilege, and Pleasure during Fieldwork in Hyderabad, India,” Sneha Annavarapu, National University of Singapore
“‘Belly Pain’: Violence, Method, and Ethnographic Witnessing,” Sadiyah Malcolm, University of Michigan
“Gender, Caste, Class, and Positionality: Reflections on Intersectional Power and Its Interstices from Fieldwork in Bangladesh and India,” Debadatta Chakraborty, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 067: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Living Wage and the Challenges of the Working and Nonworking Poor across Various Ethnic, Racial, and Migratory Profiles
Room: Jarry
Sponsor: Poverty, Class, and Inequality
Organizer &
Presider/Discussant: Tracy L. Vargas, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Description: Work is typically heralded as a solution to poverty. Yet, for many workers, this is far from the truth. This Critical Dialogue highlights the struggles faced by workers in a global economy characterized by rising financial insecurity, precarity, and risk. Special attention will be given to disadvantaged groups, including women, racial minorities, and immigrants, who are more likely to find themselves living below the poverty line even while working. Panelists will discuss where individuals are situated in the labor market, what this means for their economic well-being, and how vulnerable populations can effectively challenge compounded inequality. We welcome a rich and active dialogue between audience members and panelists.
Papers:
“Balancing Work and Family Care in the Aftermath of COVID-19: Experiences of Women of Color and Immigrant Women in Detroit,” Anna Maria Santiago, Michigan State University
“Nuestro Trabajo Es Vida: Struggles at the Intersection of Productive and Reproductive Labor Among Migrant Latinas in the Pacific Northwest,” Lola Loustaunau, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“The Oppression and Resilience of Migrant Women in Morocco,” Isabelle E. Cole, School of International Training and Salve Regina University
“Toward a Living Wage in a Right to Work State,” Jon Shefner, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
“Working All the Time: Why Immigrant Venezuelans Can’t Get Ahead in Florida,” Alayne G. Unterberger, Florida Institute for Community Studies
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
SPECIAL
Session 068: On the Market: Strategies for Landing a Job
Room: Salon 5
Sponsor: Program Committee
Organizer: Tsedale Melaku, City University of New York
Presider: Angie Beeman, Baruch College, CUNY
Description: In this session, our panelists will share their experiences applying for jobs and hiring for various positions inside and outside of higher education. This session is intended to help you improve your chances of getting a job, whether inside academia (e.g., post-doc, balanced, research, or teaching-focused positions) or outside of the academy (e.g., non-profits, advocacy, foundations, Think tanks). We would like this session to be an immersive experience, where we hope that session attendees will include individuals who were on the job market this past year and are willing to share their experiences with others. Graduate students a year or more away from searching for a position are encouraged to attend.
Panelists:
Adriana Leela Bohm, Delaware County Community College
Elroi J. Windsor, University of West Georgia
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
THEMATIC
Session 069: Gender-Based Violence: Perceptions and Applications
Room: Drummond West
Sponsors:
Crime and Justice
Family, Aging, and Youth
Gender, Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities
Organizer &
Presider: Lloyd Klein, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
Description: This session examines the issue of gender-based violence through the application of specific analysis offered in five distinct papers. Topics covered include gender-based violence in Federal insurrection, Prostitution, cultural aspects of country music, digital evidence in sexual assault, and victim typology in sexual assault cases.
Papers:
“No Victim Is Ideal: Investigating the Influence of Perceptions of Ideal Victim Types on the Presence of SAMFEs in Sexual Assault Cases,” Alyssa J. Davis, Vanderbilt University
“Not Safe at Work, Not Safe at Home: Sexual Vulnerability in Military Spaces,” Stephanie Bonnes, University of New Haven
“Victims on Trial? The Role of Digital Evidence in Sexual Assault Proceedings,” Anna Gjika, SUNY New Paltz
“Anti-violence Work in Transition: From Radical Feminism to Picket Lines,” Elizabeth Quinlan, University of Saskatchewan
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 070: Structural Determinants of Health and Legal Needs
Room: Drummond Centre
Sponsors: Health, Health Policy, and Health Services
Law and Society
Sociology, Social Work, and Social Welfare
Organizer: William Cabin, New York University Silver School of Social Work
Presider &
Discussant: Justin R. Huft, University of California, Riverside
Description: The papers in this session will address the relationship between structural determinants of health and legal needs.
Papers:
“Assessing the Mitigating Effects of Social Capital Infrastructure on the Associations between Extreme Heat, Rurality, Older Age Structures, and Physical and Mental Health Outcomes,” Gregory M. Fulkerson and Alexander R. Thomas, SUNY Oneonta
“Belief and Wellbeing: Evaluating Health Outcomes in Religious and Secular Hospitals in California,” Justin R. Huft, University of California, Riverside
“Fight, Flight, Freeze: How Tenants Respond to and Cope with Eviction,” Natalie J. Cholula, Portland State University
“Making the Connections across the Health Care Continuum: Assessing the Impact of the JaxCareConnect Community Based Health Care Consortium,” Jeffry Will and Tracy Milligan, University of North Florida Center for Community Initiatives
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 071: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Decolonizing the Academy using Institutional Ethnography and Other Approaches: From Theory to Praxis
Room: Drummond East
Sponsors: Community, Research, and Practice
Critical Race and Ethnic Study
Global
Institutional Ethnography
Organizers: Angela E. Fillingim, San Francisco State University
Urmitapa Dutta, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Presider/Discussant: Molly Clark-Barol, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Description: This critical dialogue session dives into the complexities of decolonizing academic spaces, methodologies, and epistemologies. The papers will showcase how activist scholars center and attend to structurally marginalized voices in pursuit of epistemic justice. Employing anti-colonial, intersectional, and transnational lenses, they interrogate dominant knowledge systems while exploring the liberatory potential of diverse onto-epistemologies and research methodologies. Beyond critique, this critical session seeks actionable pathways, bridging the gap between theory and praxis to dismantle colonial legacies within academia and beyond. Join us as we connect ideas with action to co-create more just and pluriversal ecologies of knowledge.
Papers:
“Black Agency, Racial Imperialism, and the Creation of a Racial State -- the Case of Haiti,” Rodney D. Coates, Miami University
“Ethnography, CBPR, and Theory: Tensions in Sociological Research as Liberatory Praxis,” Molly Clark-Barol, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Filling in the Blanks: South to South Exchanges of Blackness, (Re)Shifting Research as Resistance, and (Re)Negotiations of Difference in the Diaspora,” Masonya J. Bennett, Kennesaw State University
“Understanding Justice, Equity, Accessibility, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEADI) from Perspective of Unveiled Histories,” Assata Zerai, The University of New Mexico
“What and Who’s Research Is ‘Real’: The Role of Qualitative Social Scientists within Medical Institutions,” Melinda Leigh Maconi, Carley Geiss and Hayden J. Fulton, Moffitt Cancer Center
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
SPECIAL
Session 072: Author Meets Critics: Murder Town, USA: Homicide, Structural Violence, and Activism in Wilmington by Yasser Arafat Payne, Brooklynn K. Hitchens, & Darryl L. Chambers, Rutgers University Press, 2023
Room: Salon 7
Sponsor: Program Committee
Organizer: Claire M. Renzetti, University of Kentucky
Presider: Jamie J. Fader, Temple University
Description: In their book, Murder Town, USA: Homicide, Structural Violence, and Activism in Wilmington, authors Yasser Payne, Brooklynn Hitchens, and Darryl Chambers, present their ethnographic study of the relationship between structural opportunity and violence in the city of Wilmington, Delaware. Through their engagement with city residents who were formerly involved with street activities and/or the criminal justice system, the authors provide a radical reconceptualization of violence in low-income Black communities, showing how involvement in violence and crime is a logical, "resilient" response to the perverse context of structural inequality. The authors will be joined by a panel of scholars who will engage in an insightful discussion of this important work.
Authors:
Yasser Arafat Payne, University of Delaware
Brooklynn K. Hitchens, University of Maryland
Darryl L. Chambers, Center for Structural Equity and University of Delaware
Critics:
Jamie J. Fader, Temple University
Anthony A. Peguero, Arizona State University
Louis Edgar Esparza, California State University, Los Angeles
Robert L. Peralta, The University of Akron
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 073: PAPERS IN THE ROUND: Educators at Work
Room: Ballroom West
Sponsor: Educational Problems
Organizer: Kyla Walters, Sonoma State University
Description: Authors consider theoretical and applied approaches to potential impacts, or even transformation of students and workers through educational praxis.
Roundtable #1 Title: Curricular Interventions
Presider:
Jacqueline M. Zalewski, West Chester University
Discussant:
Stephani Williams, Northern Arizona University
Papers:
“Online Education: Styles and Approaches to Instruction by Gender and Experience,” Whitney DeCamp, Western Michigan University
“Incorporating Career Readiness into Curriculum through Research, Application, and Intentionality,” Stephani Williams and Madison Heck, Northern Arizona University
“Encouraging Productive Behavior in Student Teams with Interventions - Part II,” Jacqueline M. Zalewski, West Chester University
Roundtable #2 Title: Labor, Education, and Inequality
Presider:
Amanda J. Brockman, Northern Kentucky University
Papers:
“Teachers’ Class in the Classroom: Trends in the Socioeconomic Background of Teachers over the Last 50 Years,” Matthew Erkenbrack, University of California, Irvine
“Revitalizing the Role of Relative Deprivation: An Analysis of Contemporary Teacher Protest Strike Emergence,” Amanda J. Brockman, Northern Kentucky University
“Research and Learning Model of Union Education,” Jelger A. Kalmijn, California State University, San Marcos
“Gender, Care, and Bargaining for the Common Good,” John O'Connor and Christina Barmon, Central Connecticut State University
“From Rise and Grind to Acting Your Wage: An Analysis of Changing U.S. Workplace Attitudes,” Erica Mildner, University of British Columbia
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 074: PAPERS IN THE ROUND: Teaching about Environmental Social Problems
Room: Ballroom West
Sponsors: Environment and Technology
Teaching Social Problems
Organizers: Angus A. Nurse, Anglia Ruskin University
Morena Tartari, Northumbria University
Description: This session, organized as a session for “papers in the round,” explores the challenges and opportunities that relate to the teaching of environmental problems. The session takes a broad view on environmental problems and includes papers on teaching climate justice and on methods and strategies for teaching environmental justice. It also includes papers that discuss the teaching of environmental social problems through the use of research results and a discussion on how to develop Ecopedagogy, considering the specific pedagogical challenges and considerations inherent to teaching environmental social problems. The organizers envision robust conversations pertaining to the many facets of teaching about environmental issues.
Roundtable #1 Title: Teaching About Environmental Social Problems
Presiders:
Angus A. Nurse, Anglia Ruskin University
Morena Tartari, Northumbria University
Discussant:
Angus A. Nurse, Anglia Ruskin University
Papers:
“Ecopedagogy: A Framework for Countering ‘Post-truth,’ ‘Anti-woke,’ and Individualistic Politics in the Classroom,” Lauren Eastwood, SUNY Plattsburgh
“Teaching Climate Justice: A Research Agenda,” Angus A. Nurse, Anglia Ruskin University
“Teaching Environmental Justice: Methods and Strategies for Social Work Education,” Sara E. Strayer, Alliant International University and Stephen W. Stoeffler, Kutztown University
“Teaching about Environmental Social Problems through First-hand Research Results: Strategies to Prepare Tools and Presentations for Students and Professionals,” Morena Tartari, Northumbria University and Hamide Elif Üzümcü, University of Padua
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 075: Understanding Stigma and Responses to Drug Use
Room: Hemon
Sponsor: Drinking and Drugs
Organizers: Juliette Roddy, Northern Arizona University
Dina Perrone, California State University, Long Beach
David Frank, New York University
Presider &
Discussant: Alexander S. Bennett, New York University
Description: Understanding how stigma impacts the treatment of people who use drugs.
Papers:
“Substance Use, Stigma, and Using Research to Inform Community Response,” Simon Purdy, SUNY Delhi
“‘Harm Reduction Policies Are Great.… but Those Drug Users Are Always Trying to Get One over on You’: History, Structural Stigma and Violence, and the Limits of Harm Reduction Expansion,” Alexander S. Bennett, New York University
“Using Mobile Technology to Identify and Respond to Critical Gaps in Harm Reduction Knowledge and Access to Resources among PWID: Results of a Pilot Study,” Honoria Guarino, CUNY School of Public Health
“Crime and Policing around Cannabis Dispensaries in Seattle,” Joshua Chanin and Burrel Vann, San Diego State University
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 076: Race, Class, Gender, and Mental Health
Room: Joyce
Sponsor: Disability, Mental Wellness, and Social Justice
Organizer: Alex Trillo, Saint Peter's University
Presider: Giovani Burgos, Adelphi University
Description: Race, Class, Gender, and Mental Health
Papers:
“‘I Read Quite a Bit, and That Brings Me in a lot of Escapist-based Joy’: The Value of Asking about Joy among Black Transgender and Nonbinary Young Adults in Florida,” Courtney Marcia Gardner and Shannon K. Carter, University of Central Florida
“Differences in Mental Health Outcomes for an Exclusively LGBTQ+ Sample in Oklahoma,” Eden Dean Ellen Nay and Kelley Sittner, Oklahoma State University
“Generating the Troubled Teen: A Content Analysis of the Troubled Teen Industry’s Recruitment Tactics,” Annie McDonnell, The George Washington University
“Mental Health and Health-seeking Behaviors amongst Married U.S. and Foreign-born Black Populations,” Tia M. Dickerson, Columbia University and Dana J. McCalla, Howard University
“Psychotic White Men and Bipolar Black Women? Racialized and Gendered Implications of Mental Health Terminology,” Amy L. Johnson, Lehigh University
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
THEMATIC
Session 077: Culture in Conflict, Action, and Change II: Narrative, Community, Discourse, and Identity
Room: Musset
Sponsor: Conflict, Social Action, and Change
Organizer &
Discussant: C. Michael Awsumb, Northwest Missouri State University
Presider: Michael Lee Hurst Jr., Swansea Mutual Aid Resource Treasury
Description: Papers in this session explore the roles and effects of narrative, community, discourse, and identity in experience of, mobilization against, and resistance to victimization, violence, and marginalization.
Papers:
“Caste and Lawfare: Anti-caste Legislations, Hinduphobia and the Case of Global Hindutva in the US,” Debadatta Chakraborty, University of Massachusetts Amherst
“Macro-micro Interaction in Knowledge Construction: Structural and Communicative Memory in Rwanda and Sierra Leone,” Jillian P. LaBranche, University of Minnesota
“Community and Belonging: The Role of Collective Narratives and Meta-stories in the Decision-making of Iranians in the Atlantic Canadian Cities,” Foroogh Mohammadi, Acadia University
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
PLENARY
Session 078: Presidential Address
Room: Ballroom Centre
Sponsor: Program Committee
Introduction: Elizabeth A. Armstrong, University of Michigan
Presidential Address: Another Damn Day in America: Racism and the Politics of Gun Violence Prevention
Mary Bernstein, University of Connecticut
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 5:45 PM - 7:00 PM
PLENARY
Session 079: Awards Ceremony
Room: Ballroom Centre
Sponsor: Program Committee
Facilitator: Mary Bernstein, University of Connecticut
AWARDS TO BE PRESENTED
• SSSP Division Awards: Winners of the Student Paper Competitions
• Arlene Kaplan Daniels Paper Award
• Beth B. Hess Memorial Scholarship
• C. Wright Mills Award
• Doris Wilkinson Faculty Leadership Award
• The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation: Awards in Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation
• Indigenous Peoples’ Social Justice Award
• Joseph B. Gittler Award
• Kathleen S. Lowney Mentoring Award
• Lee Founders Award
• Racial/Ethnic Minority Graduate Fellowship
• Thomas C. Hood Social Action Award
Date: Saturday, August 10
Time: 7:15 PM - 8:15 PM
Division-Sponsored Reception
Room: Ballroom Foyer
