SSSP 2024 Annual Meeting
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Board of Directors Meeting, 2024-25
Room: Salon 1
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
THEMATIC
Session 080: Gender-Based Violence: Women and Victimization
Room: Drummond West
Sponsors:
Crime and Justice
Family, Aging, and Youth
Gender, Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities
Organizer, Presider &
Discussant: Lloyd Klein, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
Description: This session highlights gender-based violence as represented by presentations focused on women's lives, offender demographics, community reentry, and sexual assault.
Papers:
“U.S. Female Sex Offender Demographics, 2010-2022,” Amelia Roskin-Frazee, University of California, Irvine
“Sexual Assault Victims and Forensic Interventions in Rural Scotland and Ontario: Compounded Inequities and Continued Injustices,” Deborah White, Trent University, Andrea Quinlan, University of Waterloo and Gethin Rees, Newcastle University
“Stochastic Gender-based Violence: How Incels Justify and Encourage Sexualized Violence against Women,” Michael Halpin, Dalhousie University
“In the Belly of the Beast: Impact of Gender-based Violence on the Lives of Woman,” Lloyd Klein, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Session 081: Shared Identity Making and Mental Illness
Room: Drummond Centre
Sponsor: Disability, Mental Wellness, and Social Justice
Organizers: Melinda Leigh Maconi, Moffitt Cancer Center
Douglas J. Engelman, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Presider &
Discussant: Melinda Leigh Maconi, Moffitt Cancer Center
Description: Impact of Social Media Websites Targeting Individuals with Eating Disorders
Papers:
“Childhood Trauma and the Impact on Mental Health Later in Life,” Marissa Button, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Honorable Mention in the Society and Mental Health Division’s Student Paper Competition
“Impact of Social Media Websites Targeting Individuals with Eating Disorders,” Savannah Moriarty, University of North Carolina Wilmington
“Overlooked: Hoarding as Trauma-tainment,” Liz Wilcox, Boston College
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
SPECIAL
Session 082: GIFTS: Good Ideas for Teaching Sociology and Publishing in TRAILS
Room: Drummond East
Sponsor: Program Committee
Organizer, Presider &
Discussant: Jacqueline M. Zalewski, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Description: In this workshop, participants identify their great ideas for teaching sociology and learn how to use TRAILS. Participants will be able to get any questions they might have about TRAILS answered, learn insider tips for TRAILS users and individuals who want to submit, learn about the qualities of a good submission, and leave with a good idea for teaching by way of demonstrating a published activity.
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
THEMATIC
Session 083: Necropolitics: The Death Worlds of Drug Wars
Room: Hemon
Sponsor: Program Committee
Organizer &
Presider: Dolores Trevizo, Occidental College
Discussant: R.A. Dello Buono, Manhattan University
Description: Whether because of the role of states or of nonstate armed actors, the contemporary world is afflicted by what Achille Mbembé calls "death worlds," “new and unique forms of social existence in which vast populations are subjected to conditions of life conferring upon them the status of the living dead.” The papers on this panel will discuss the death worlds associated with the war on drugs in Mexico, the Philippines, Central America and the United States.
Papers:
“The Collateral Damage of Mexico’s Drug War,” Dolores Trevizo, Occidental College
“Rodrigo Duterte’s War on Drugs in the Philippines,” Ligaya Lindio McGovern, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Indiana University Kokomo
“The Role of the Drug Trade in Refugee Flows from Central America,” Leisy J. Abrego, University of California, Los Angeles
“Death by Politics: Three Counties in the U.S. and Their Approach to the Opioid Crisis,” Gabreélla Friday, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs and Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Brown University and Nilüfer Akalin, Lyman Briggs College at Michigan State University
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Session 084: Violating Norms: Unlawful Bodies in Public Spaces
Room: Jarry
Sponsors: Law and Society
Sport, Leisure, and the Body
Organizer, Presider &
Discussant: Jinsun Yang, University of Oregon
Description: This session delves into the social construct of "unlawful bodies" in public spaces. By examining the politics of spatiality, legitimacy, and the hierarchy of the body, the session will explore the meanings and locations of "unlawful bodies" at the intersection of sex, race, class, ability, age, religion, appearance, citizenship status, nationality, and more.
Papers:
“‘Even When I Wasn’t Large, I Felt Large’: Fatphobia and Women Baby Boomers,” Jeannine A. Gailey, Texas Christian University
“Be Nice Until It’s Time to Not Be Nice: Bouncers as Experience Makers and Place Makers at a College Bar,” Michael O. Johnston, William Penn University
“Body Modification Practices and Sexual Identities,” David C. Lane, Illinois State University and Whitney DeCamp, Western Michigan University
“Justice for Juveniles in Morocco,” Taylor Lee, School for International Training and Salve Regina University
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Session 085: Migration, Mobility, and Place in Global Context
Room: Joyce
Sponsors: Global
Poverty, Class, and Inequality
Organizer: Judith R. Halasz, SUNY New Paltz
Presider &
Discussant: Frank Ridzi, Le Moyne College and Central New York Community Foundation
Description: This session explores social processes of changing place, from immigration to housing relocation. How do people navigate the challenges associated with finding their place as they move through the world? How do migration and mobility transform place-based identities, opportunities, and resources in a globalized world? And how do race, class, gender, nationality, and the environment inform experiences of migration and mobility?
Papers:
“Immigration Narratives of Loss and Belonging,” Amir B. Marvasti and Travis B. Saylor, Penn State Altoona
“Housing Aspirations in Turbulent Times: The Struggles and Strategies of Highly-educated Young People amidst Housing Crisis,” Tangi Pui-chi Yip, Gender Research Center of The Chinese University of Hong Kong
“Are High Lead Poisoning Rates Associated with Family Relocation to Safer Neighborhoods? Implications for Public Policy,” Frank Ridzi, Le Moyne College and Central New York Community Foundation
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
THEMATIC
Session 086: Institutional Inequalities and Violence
Room: Kafka
Sponsor: Critical Race and Ethnic Study
Organizer &
Presider: Watoii Rabii, Oakland University
Description: This session involves multiple manifestations and intersections of violence in institutions.
Papers:
“‘Rinse and Repeat, The Same Old Thing’. How My Yogic Informed Autoethnographic Research Allowed Me to ‘Survive the Stop’ and Prevented Me from Being Shot (Possibly Murdered) by Law Enforcement at a Gas Station in Holton, Kansas. While Allowing Me to Heal and Discuss the Trauma Safely as a Black Man,” Brett Lesley Cumberbatch, University of Manitoba
“Dignified Partnership in Black and White: A Critical Analysis on the Clash between Black Feminist Thought and White Saviorism,” Chidimma Ozor Commer, University of Michigan
“Harmonies of Contention: Unveiling the Hidden Narratives of Country Music through Content Analysis,” Olivia Yoh, University of Miami
“How Much Change is Change Enough? Examining Gender Transition in the Context Discretionary Parole Release,” Kimberly D. Richman, University of San Francisco and Valerie Jenness, University of California, Irvine
“They Haven’t Been Sued Yet: Hooked by Capitalism and Caught in Legal Netting,” Jordan C. Grasso, University of California, Irvine
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Session 087: Ethnography/Institutional Ethnography and the Environment
Room: Lamartine
Sponsors: Environment and Technology
Institutional Ethnography
Organizers: Lauren Eastwood, SUNY, Plattsburgh
Haisu Huang, University of Oregon
Presider: Lauren Eastwood, SUNY, Plattsburgh
Description: This session presents critical work from India, Canada, and the US, using ethnographic methods to understand societal and environmental interactions. Issues in this session cover community organizing, institutional violence in healthcare, climate disasters, in both rural and urban setting, on both the institutional and individual levels.
Papers:
“‘Re-emergence of the Commons’: How Central Pennsylvania Communities Find Support and a Voice through Community Gardening,” Andrew Thomas Silliker, The Pennsylvania State University
“Connecting the Social with the Environmental: Bringing Institutional Ethnography into Conversation with Urban Political Ecology,” Mitchell McLarnon, Concordia University
“How Place Matters in Disaster Survivors’ Journey Back Home: An Ethnographic Study of the 2020 Holiday Farm Fire,” Haisu Huang, University of Oregon
“Interrogating Power and Politics in Community Development Partnerships: The Case of a Grassroots Community Based Organization in Rural Rajasthan, India,” Prerna Rana, University of Wisconsin Madison
“Violent Space: An Institutional Ethnography on Emergency Nurse Work in a Radically Redesigned Department,” Sophie Pomerleau, CISSS de la Montérégie-Est
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Session 088: PAR and Organizing in Social Movement Spaces
Room: Musset
Sponsors: Community, Research, and Practice
Conflict, Social Action, and Change
Organizers: C. Michael Awsumb, Northwest Missouri State University
Thomas Pineros-Shields, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Presider: C. Michael Awsumb, Northwest Missouri State University
Description: Papers in this session present findings from and discuss experiences doing community-based, participatory action, and ethnographic research on community organizing, civic engagement, and social movement activism.
Papers:
“‘Making the New One to Push out the Old One’: Conflicts as Property for a Mutual Aid Collective,” Zachary J. Kyle, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Joining the Mutual Aid Community Movement: Participatory Action Research as Praxis in the Mutual Aid Community Movement,” C. Michael Awsumb, Northwest Missouri State University and Michael Lee Hurst Jr., Swansea Mutual Aid Resource Treasury
“The Mirage of Democracy: How the Political Process Erodes Political Trust and Nurtures Critical Citizens,” Sadie Dempsey, University of Wisconsin
“Collaborative Reflections on a Joint ‘Lab’ Configuration in CBPR,” Molly Clark-Barol, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Centering Voices and Stories of Immigrant and Refugee Youth through Co-designing and Documenting a Community Garden,” Riann Lognon, Santanu Dutta and Pallavi Banerjee, University of Calgary
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Session 089: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: The Changing Impact of Technologies on Mental Health
Room: Joyce
Sponsors: Disability, Mental Wellness, and Social Justice
Health, Health Policy, and Health Services
Organizers: Yuying Shen, Norfolk State University
Douglas J. Engelman, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Presider/Discussant: Yuying Shen, Norfolk State University
Description: An in-depth discussion on the impact of changing technologies on our mental health.
Papers:
“‘Better Safe Than Sorry’: Prepping, COVID-19, and the Influence of Masculine Norms. Is This Something New?” Andrew Thomas Silliker, The Pennsylvania State University
“Digital Disparity and Mental Health Equity: The Mental Health Impacts of Cyberbullying among Adolescents,” Yuying Shen, Norfolk State University
“Doom Scrolling: How Does Constant Exposure to Violent and Traumatic Media Impact Our Worldview and Mental Health?” Spencer Boatwright, University of North Carolina Wilmington
“Exploring Dating App Usage and Addiction,” Laura S. Hatvany, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
THEMATIC
Session 090: Criminalizing Immigration
Room: Drummond West
Sponsors: Crime and Justice
Family, Aging, and Youth
Global
Law and Society
Poverty, Class, and Inequality
Organizer: Rafia Javaid Mallick, Georgia State University
Presider &
Discussant: Melissa Maxey, The University of Oklahoma
Description: This conference session promises a deep dive into the intricate layers of the United States immigration system, shedding light on its profound impact on various marginalized communities. Our esteemed panel of researchers will present four compelling papers that encourage critical dialogue and foster a better understanding of the multifaceted issues surrounding race, surveillance, homonationalism, and crimmigration. Don't miss this opportunity to engage with cutting-edge research and contribute to the ongoing discourse on immigration policy and its consequences.
Papers:
“Crimmigration and Critical Criminology: Policing the Relative Surplus Population,” David B. Feldman, Oberlin College
“From Criminalization to Deportation: Race in the United States Immigration System,” Sarah Tosh, Rutgers University-Camden
“Quotidian Homonationalism: Green Card Adjudication, Immigration Law, and Liberal Inclusion of Same-sex Binational Marriages,” Juhwan Seo, Cornell University, Winner of the Family Division’s Student Paper Competition
“Unbounded Surveillance: Punishing Visitors in and out of U.S. Immigration Detention,” Luis A. Romero, Texas Christian University
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Session 091: Activism for Social Change CANCELLED
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Session 092: Organizing in the Workplace
Room: Drummond East
Sponsor: Labor Studies
Organizer &
Presider: Emily Helen An-Mei Yen, University of Virginia
Description: This panel explores the praxis of fighting for better working conditions through collective action. Workers in the United States and Canada have increasingly decided to unionize when facing harsh working conditions. Members of several labor unions will examine the challenges they faced organizing their workplace, building a campaign, and preparing for a strike. Panelists will also reflect on the lessons they learned, and they could be applied to other workers facing similar challenges.
Panelists:
Kelsey Weymouth-Little, University of California, Irvine
Shannon Ikebe, John Abbott College Faculty Association
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Session 093: Problematizing the Medicalization of Addiction
Room: Hemon
Sponsors: Drinking and Drugs
Social Problems Theory
Organizer &
Presider: Joshua H. Stout, Illinois State University
Discussant: Benjamin Fleury-Steiner, University of Delaware
Description: This session explores the medicalization of addiction by examining the consequences of this framework on individuals and institutions.
Papers:
“Analyzing and Replacing the Moral-disease Model of Addiction,” Andrew R. Burns, Louisiana State University
“Challenging Biomedical Constructions of Risk among People Who Use Drugs,” David Frank, Luther Elliott and Alexander S. Bennett, New York University
“Recovery Denied: Bereaved Survivors’ Stories of Institutional Stigma and the Necrotherapeutic State in Drug Treatment,” Joshua H. Stout, Illinois State University, Benjamin Fleury-Steiner and Timothy Chesnik, University of Delaware
“What are the Consequences of Medicalization? An Autoethnographic Account of Losing My Mom to Opioid Addiction,” Hope E. Ousey, Wilkes University
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
THEMATIC
Session 094: Trauma and the Life Course
Room: Jarry
Sponsor:
Organizer, Presider &
Discussant: Brittney Miles, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Description: This panel explores various ways trauma-informed research shapes our understanding of phenomena across the life course. Specifically, the papers in this panel will examine trauma related to victimization, childhood sexual experiences and PTSD, intimate partner violence, military veteran's exposure to violence, and older women's experiences of homelessness. These papers interrogate the relationship between trauma and the life course to consider its impact among diverse populations and across diverse social issues.
Papers:
“Adolescent Violence, Victimization, and Later Civic Engagement: The Role of Agency,” Andrew Wilczak and Emily E. Roberts, Wilkes University
“An Experiential Intimate Partner Violence Recidivism Intervention: A Trauma-Informed Transformative Justice Approach with Racialized Allophone Immigrants,” Katherine Maurer, McGill University
“Appraisals of Childhood Sexual Experiences, PTSD, and Help-seeking Behavior among Black and Latino Sexual Minority Men,” Martin J. Downing, Lehman College, CUNY, Ellen Benoit, North Jersey Community Research Initiative and Jason M. Dotson, Wellness with Jason Dotson, LLC
“The Importance of Life Course and Intersectionality Perspectives for Understanding Older Women’s Homelessness: Social Identity, Social Othering, and Marginalization,” Judith G. Gonyea, Boston University and Kelly Melekis, University of Vermont
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Session 095: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Identity Matters: How an Instructor's Subjectivity Influences the Way They Teach about Race
Room: Salon 5
Sponsors: Critical Race and Ethnic Study
Teaching Social Problems
Organizer &
Presider/Discussant: Florence Emilia Castillo, The University of Texas at Dallas
Description: This session explores how the subjectivity of instructors impacts our theoretical interpretations of race and shapes the pedagogical choices we make when we teach race in the classroom. Intersectional and critical race scholars continue to call our attention to how lived experiences also influence the ways we process and disseminate information both in and outside the classroom. With this in mind, we seek to further explore how our intersectional identities create the embodied pedagogies and experiences we bring into the classroom. We hope to share classroom experiences that lead to more critical and transformative self-reflection and strategies for teaching race, especially in the current political climate where teaching about race is under attack.
Papers:
“Oral History as Embodied Classroom Pedagogy,” Jacqueline Daugherty and Rodney D. Coates, Miami University
“Feeling Teaching Race,” Adriana Leela Bohm, Delaware County Community College, Michelle Byng, Donna-Marie Peters and Mary Stricker, Temple University
“‘A White Woman from the South’: Social Location and the Pedagogy of Race,” Karyn McKinney Marvasti, Penn State Altoona
“Parallel Cultures: Creating Alternative Spaces of Truth-telling through Activist-based Curriculum Development and Community Outreach in the Rural Black South,” Masonya J. Bennett, Kennesaw State University
“Operationalizing Anti-oppression in Doctoral Health Care Education,” Katerina Melino, University of Alberta and Samantha P. Louie-Poon, Dalhousie University
“White Professors of Race: Ethics, Strategies, and Impacts,” Devon R. Goss, Oxford College of Emory University
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
THEMATIC
Session 096: Policing Environmental Problems: Who is Responsible and Who is Accountable
Room: Kafka
Sponsor: Environment and Technology
Organizer, Presider &
Discussant: Angus A. Nurse, Anglia Ruskin University and Nottingham Trent University
Description: Green criminologist Rob White (2007, 2012) suggests that given the potential for environmental harms to extend far beyond the impact on individual victims that are the norm with "traditional" crimes of interpersonal violence and property crime, green crimes should be given importance if not priority within justice systems. Yet the policing of environmental problems and crimes is often left to environmental regulators rather than mainstream policing agencies which risks environmental "crimes" being classified as somehow less important than mainstream crimes. This panel considers the question of how environmental problems should be "policed" and who should be responsible for doing so. This includes examining different policies; perspectives and enforcement approaches and some case studies relating to specific environmental problems.
Papers:
“Conservatism, the Far Right, and the Environment,” Jesse C. Bryant, Yale University
“Corporations, Carbon, and Climate: Examining the Macrosociological Determinants of Corporate Emissions,” Annika Rieger, Singapore Management University
“Environmental Justice as Transformative Justice; Transformative Justice as Environmental Justice,” Jeff Feng, Northwestern University and Melanie Brazzell, Harvard University
“Mediating the Human Impacts of Environmental Harms: The Case for an Ecojustice Approach,” Angus A. Nurse, Anglia Ruskin University and Nottingham Trent University
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
THEMATIC
Session 097: Theorized versus Everyday Experiences of Violence
Room: Lamartine
Sponsors: Conflict, Social Action, and Change
Institutional Ethnography
Organizers: Naomi E. Nichols, Trent University
C. Michael Awsumb, Northwest Missouri State University
Presider: Naomi E. Nichols, Trent University
Description: Papers in this session explore how institutional ethnography can be used to investigate violence (institutional, state, inter-personal) as it is it experienced, rather than as it is theorized.
Papers:
“‘But You’re American’- Positionality and Reflexivity among Black Researchers Examining Antiblackness in Central/Eastern Europe,” Bryan L. Greene, University of Connecticut
“Anchoring Investigations of Institutional Violence in Experience – Examples from Institutional Ethnography,” Naomi E. Nichols, Trent University
“Identities of Violence, Identities of Healing: Residential School Survivors Represent Themselves,” Lily Ivanova, University of British Columbia
“Theory and Practice in Peer Support and Community-led Advocacy: Theorizing as a Tool for Making Sense of Everyday Spaces of Violence,” Jayne Malenfant, McGill University
“Violence, Resistance, Ethnography, and Critical Criminology: Working towards an Institutional Ethnography Agenda in Victimology and Crimes of the Powerful,” C. Michael Awsumb, Northwest Missouri State University
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Session 098: Accessible Cities
Room: Musset
Sponsors: Community, Research, and Practice
Sport, Leisure, and the Body
Organizer, Presider &
Discussant: Michael O. Johnston, William Penn University
Description: The sociological study of cities and urban life is one of the field’s oldest sub-disciplines. Urban sociologists’ study and examine the social, historical, political, cultural, economic, and environmental forces that have shaped urban environments. This field of study focuses on things like poverty, racial residential segregation, economic development, migration and demographic trends, gentrification, homelessness, blight and crime, urban decline, and neighborhood changes and revitalization. Such critical insights provided by the analyses conducted by urban sociologists can be used to shape and guide urban planning and policymaking. This regular session brings scholars together to talk about their research on the accessibility (and inaccessibility) of cities.
Papers:
“A Proposed Phenomenological Investigation of Exclusion to Blue and Green Spaces in Rural Cities,” Peder E. Schillemat, University of West Georgia
“Black Mecca, U.S.A: An in-depth Look at Race, Class, and Placemaking in Atlanta, Georgia,” Jonathan P. Grant, University of North Florida
“Reimagining Public Parks: Latinx Identity and Community Perceptions of Safety,” Ireri Bernal, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lillian Wynne Platten and Teresa Irene Gonzales, Loyola University Chicago
“The Journey towards Inclusive Tourism: Assessing Accessibility in Kathmandu, Nepal,” Ramesh Khanal, Saraswati Multiple Campus
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
SPECIAL
Session 116: Life in Sociology Lecture: Born a Sociologist by Dr. Barbara Katz Rothman
Room: Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Level 5, Room 515C
Sponsors: American Sociological Association Retirement Network
Program Committee
Organizer: Judith A. Howard, University of Washington
Description: The Life in Sociology Lecture is co-sponsored with the American Sociological Association. Barbara Katz Rothman, PhD, is Professor of Sociology, Public Health, Disability Studies and Women’s Studies at the City University of New York. She has her BA and MA from Brooklyn College, PhD from NYU. She is the author of several books, including, most recently, The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned from the Covid-19 Pandemic. She is Past President of Sociologists for Women in Society; the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and the Eastern Sociological Society. She was the Fulbright-Saastamoinen Foundation Distinguished Chair in Health Sciences 2018-2019 and is a proud recipient of an award for “Midwifing the Movement” from the Midwives Alliance of North America.
Panelist:
Barbara Katz Rothman, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
THEMATIC
Session 099: Intersections of Health, Criminal Justice, and Harm Reduction
Room: Drummond West
Sponsors: Crime and Justice
Sociology, Social Work, and Social Welfare
Organizer: Cynthia Baiqing Zhang, Evergreen Campus LLC
Presider: Gethin Rees, Newcastle University
Description: This session is focused on how health, criminal justice, and harm reduction are inter-related. The contact with the criminal justice system is significant for people’s lives, including health. The criminal justice system is supposed to reduce harm. That is, the criminal justice system is assigned the tasks of social security explicitly and social wellbeing implicitly. In this session, we explore the inter-connection of health, criminal justice, and harm reduction with theoretical and empirical studies. Because vulnerable people (e.g. women, minority, low-income individuals, LGBTQ community, and others) are overrepresented in the inmate population in the U.S., this session is also informed by scholarship on inequality.
Papers:
“Disrupting Constructions: How Prison Dog Rehabilitation Programs Destabilize Racialized Arrangements during and after Incarceration,” Jennifer K. Wesely, University of North Florida
“Exploring the Impact of a Cathartic Movement Program (Dance to be Free) on Incarcerated Women,” Timbre L. Wulf, Central State University, Suzanne L. Maughan Spencer and Julie N. Campbell, University of Nebraska Kearney
“Harm Reduction and Reproductive Health for Peripregnant Women Who Use Drugs and Have a History of Incarceration in the U.S.,” Kathryn Nowotny and Melanie McKenna, University of Miami and Edward Suarez, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
“Methadone Access in Police Custody Healthcare as Denied Care: Professional Risk Discourses and the Patient Group Directive,” Gethin Rees, Newcastle University
“Trauma, Gender, and The Criminal(izing) Justice System: A Critical Review of Sentencing,” Josephine A. Barnett, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Session 100: Teaching Social Problems in Time of Polarization
Room: Drummond Centre
Sponsor: Teaching Social Problems
Organizers: Perri S. Leviss, Rhode Island College
Katie Founds, Independent Scholar
Jennifer Roebuck Bulanda, Miami University
Morena Tartari, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Presider &
Discussant: Pedrom Nasiri, University of Calgary
Description: This session presents examples of different pedagogies and models that teachers are using to provide deep learning for both K-12 and college students in today's polarized and contentious educational environment. From the passage of legislation banning books to limiting the topics that are allowed to be discussed in the classroom, teachers today face significant challenges both in how and what they can teach. This session provides important learnings that attendees can apply to their own classroom environments.
Papers:
“Using the Social Order-social Justice Framework to Enhance Constructive Dialogue,” Monnica Gavin, Clark State College
“Racism Evasiveness and Racism Consciousness in the Curriculum: How We Talk and Teach about Racism and Why It Matters,” Wade P. Smith, Eastern Illinois University
“Crip Pedagogies as Anti-violent, Anti-carceral Practices in the College Classroom,” Siobhan Marie Pokorney, The Graduate Center, CUNY
“‘Controversial’ Content in K-12 Schools: The Intersection of Federal and State Policy and Its Bearing on Local Implementation,” Jane Rochmes and Linda M. Waldron, Christopher Newport University and Carlie Carter, College of William and Mary
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Session 101: Reproductive Justice
Room: Hemon
Sponsors:
Gender, Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities
Health, Health Policy, and Health Services
Organizer &
Presider: Giovanna Follo, Wright State University-Lake Campus
Discussant: Shannon K. Carter, University of Central Florida
Description: In a time where reproductive rights are being contested, we need to advocate for reproductive justice.
Papers:
“‘I Left There Just Like Crying.’: Black Doulas’ Response to Gender and Race-based Violence in Correctional Institutions,” Denae Bradley-Morris, Howard University
“Counter-narratives about Breastfeeding in Black Newspapers,” Shannon K. Carter, University of Central Florida and Bhoomi K. Thakore, University of Connecticut
“Seahorses on Social Media: Analyzing #SeahorseDads and Pregnant Trans* Men on TikTok,” Athanasia Angela Platis, Georgia State University
“The Experiences and Priorities of Women with Disabilities Regarding Reproduction and Pregnancy in Alberta, Canada,” Eleni Moumos and Alan Santinele Martino, University of Calgary
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Session 102: Institutional Ethnographies of Law, Crime, and Justice
Room: Jarry
Sponsors: Institutional Ethnography
Law and Society
Organizers: Catherine Hastings, Macquarie University
Colin Hastings, University of Waterloo
Presider &
Discussant: Elizabeth L. Brule, Queen's University
Description:
Papers:
“Legitimating Strategies: Pretrial Risk Assessments and the Logics of Data-driven Judicial Discretion,” Sino V. Esthappan, Northwestern University, Winner of the Law and Society Division’s Student Paper Competition
“Mortality Tracking as Data Justice: An Ethnography into a Community-based Data Infrastructure Seeking to Address Homelessness,” Maxime Goulet-Langlois, McGill University
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
THEMATIC
Session 103: Violence and Theory
Room: Joyce
Sponsor: Social Problems Theory
Organizer &
Presider: Joshua H. Stout, Illinois State University
Description: This session broadly explores theoretical contributions to our understanding of violence, the impacts and implications of violence, and cultures of violence.
Papers:
“Habituating the Police,” Justin Turner, Illinois State University
“Imagining Social Collapse: Intersectional Representation in Apocalyptic Cultural Field,” Jonathan Nathaniel Redman, University of California, Irvine
“Peculiar Sensations: Toward A (Racialized) Sociology of Violence,” Endia Hayes, Dartmouth College
“Violence by Design: How Mobile and Spatialized Violence Shape Urban Spaces,” Gwendolyn Purifoye, University of Notre Dame
“‘Peace is Dangerous’: Du Bois’ Theory of Colonial Post-fascism,” Ali Meghji, University of Cambridge
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Session 104: The Costs of Higher Ed
Room: Kafka
Sponsor: Educational Problems
Organizer: Myron T. Strong, Community College of Baltimore County
Presider &
Discussant: Assata Zerai, The University of New Mexico
Description: The papers in this section focus on the emotional, physical, academic and other labor individuals experience caused by the higher education and grant funding institutions. While there is a sort of freedom that comes with education, there is a cost navigating the structure.
Papers:
“A Moral Dilemma of ‘Selling Out’: Race, Class, and Career Considerations among Elite College Students,” Joyce Kim, University of Pennsylvania, Winner of the Educational Problems Division’s Student Paper Competition
“Intersectional Microaggressions in Transnational Contexts: Black Students Experiencing Gendered, Ableist, and Queer-phobic Anti-blackness in the U.S. and South Africa,” Assata Zerai, The University of New Mexico
“The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on International Students’ Future Career and Migration Plans,” Eugena Kwon, Trent University
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Session 105: Patterns and Practices of Resistance, Solidarity, and Organizing vis-à-vis the Conditions of Poverty and Inequality
Room: Lamartine
Sponsors: Conflict, Social Action, and Change
Poverty, Class, and Inequality
Organizer: Sara Maani, University of Milan-Bicocca
Presider &
Discussant: Andrew Wilczak, Wilkes University
Description: This session aims at delving into the intricate dynamics of resistance, solidarity, and organizing emerging in response to the pressing issues of poverty, class, and inequality. We invite papers with the empirical research and theoretical discussions that explore varied patterns and practices that marginalized communities employ to confront and navigate multiple conditions of inequality through acts of resistance and solidarity for collective empowerment and social change. This session aims to foster a deeper understanding of the ways in which grassroots movements and community organizations challenge existing power structures and advocate for equitable solutions. We invite attendees to critically reflect on the complexities of social organizing and the potential for transformative action in the face of adversity and inequality.
Papers:
“‘I’m Pretty Bad at This, Dude’: Attending to Social Class and Power in Qualitative Research,” Shelley M. Kimelberg, SUNY University at Buffalo
“‘It’s the Stupid Food System Here’: Emotions, Solidarity, and Community Building in Food Access Spaces,” Julie Schweitzer and Tamara L. Mix, Oklahoma State University
“On Building a Criminology of Revolutions,” Andrew Wilczak, Wilkes University
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM
Session 106: Crisis and Globalization(s)
Room: Musset
Sponsor: Global
Organizer &
Presider: David A. Smith, University of California, Irvine
Description: The papers in this session cover a lot of topics in the area of world-system analysis. Come hear from junior scholars and faculty members alike as they present on issues of food, water, the Global South, tech workers, and issues of inequality and hierarchy. All five papers will dive deep on some very interesting topics!
Papers:
“A taste for terroir: The science and politics of the EU’s global geographical indication development agenda,” Matthew J. Zinsli, University of Wisconsin–Madison
“Comparative Analysis of Public Response to Mexico’s Junk Food Labeling Policy,” A. Susana Ramirez, University of California, Merced
“Privilege is a Prison: Indian Tech Workers Facing Covert Carcerality in India and the US,” Rianka Roy, University of Connecticut
“Why’s the Water Gone?: The Treadmill of Production through Global Water Exploitation,” Joshua C. Cafferty, Utah Tech University
“World-system Hierarchy, Economic Productivity, and Global Economic Downturns: Analyzing Trade Networks Post-2008 Global Financial Crisis,” Martin Jacinto, California State University, Chico
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Council of Division Chairpersons and Program Chair, 2024-25
Room: Salon 1
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 107: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Critical Race and Rural Studies
Room: Salon 5
Sponsors: Community, Research, and Practice
Social Problems Theory
Organizer &
Presider/Discussant: Nathaniel Dumas, Xoogler Founders-Researchers Hub
Description: Critical Rural Theory transformed sociologies of rurality by encouraging the study of rurality through conceptual lenses of structure, space, and culture. While they note similarities between spatial and racial identities, these scholars have yet to explore how political economies of race create competing experiences of rurality. Similarly, Critical Race Theorists pushed disciplines to problematize and move beyond simplistic comparisons and demographic understandings of race. While some of their work decenters “place-centricism,” these scholars have yet to make use of transformative conversations happening within Critical Rural Theory. Through dialogue, we aim for Critical Rural Theorists to cultivate complex perspectives of how race complicates rurality and for Critical Race Theorists to incorporate complex rethinkings of rurality that further problematize studying racial articulations.
Papers:
“Intersections of Race and Rurality: Settlement Space as Medium of Oppression,” Alexander R. Thomas and Gregory M. Fulkerson, SUNY Oneonta and Polly J. Smith, Utica University
“The Very Very Far North: Considering Canada’s Northern Tier through the Lenses of Critical Rural Theory and Critical Race Theory,” Aimee Vieira, CanNor
“Rural Land Tenure and the Racial Wealth Gap,” Natasha Moodie and Keith Wiley, Housing Assistance Council
“Indigenous Identity and Struggles for State Recognition in Ecuador,” Caroline Martinez, University of California, Irvine
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
THEMATIC
Session 108: The Social Construction of Violence
Room: Drummond West
Sponsor: Crime and Justice
Organizer: Kylie Parrotta, California Polytechnic State University
Presider &
Discussant: Karmvir Kaur Padda, University of Waterloo
Description: The session will focus on narrative criminology, specifically how people use narratives to explain violent behavior that may or may not be seen as criminal. Papers will focus on violent offenders, immigrant experiences, and practitioners' assessments of programs and court processes.
Papers:
“(De)Racializing Victimhood: Narratives of Service Workers at the Human Trafficking Intervention Courts,” Yen-Chiao Liao, Siena College
“Constructing Effectiveness: Men’s Anti-violence Program Practitioners’ Narratives of Success,” Doug Schrock and Hailey S. McGee, Florida State University
“Narratives of Radicalization: The Role of Manifestos in Shaping Extremist Violence,” Karmvir Kaur Padda, University of Waterloo
“The Brutalization of Immigrants in the Line at the Questura in Italy,” Robert Garot, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
THEMATIC
Session 109: Systemic Vulnerabilities and Technology
Room: Drummond Centre
Sponsor: Environment and Technology
Organizer, Presider &
Discussant: Nels Paulson, University of Wisconsin-Stout
Description: The 21st century is largely defined by forces of globalization and digital technologies. Shifts for society in these ways must be understood in all their complexities. This session explores the ways in which technology amplifies or resists inequities in society.
Papers:
“Automating the Automators: De/Up-skilling and Re/Off-shoring in Globalized Software Work,” Bhumika Chauhan, New York University, Winner of the Labor Studies Division’s Student Paper Competition
“COVID-19, Teens, and ‘Silver Linings’: Exploring Some ‘Positive’ Experiences during the Pandemic,” Michael Adorjan, University of Calgary
“Equity and Inclusion in Hospital-at-home: How Can We Study This?” Nels Paulson and Jeffrey Sweat, University of Wisconsin-Stout
“Addressing Challenges for Rural Health Care: The Promises and Perils of Technological Solutions,” Nels Paulson, University of Wisconsin-Stout
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 110: Author Meets Critics: Behind Crimmigration: ICE, Law Enforcement, and Resistance in America by Felicia Arriaga, The University of North Carolina Press, 2023
Room: Drummond East
Sponsor: Critical Race and Ethnic Study
Organizer &
Presider: Felicia Arriaga, Baruch College, CUNY
Description: Felicia Arriaga will be in conversation about their book Behind Crimmigration: ICE, Law Enforcement, and Resistance in America.
Author:
Felicia Arriaga, Baruch College, CUNY
Critics:
Jamella N. Gow, Bowdoin College
Michelle Christian, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
THEMATIC
Session 111: The Social Organization of Medical Violence
Room: Joyce
Sponsors: Drinking and Drugs
Health, Health Policy, and Health Services
Institutional Ethnography
Sociology, Social Work, and Social Welfare
Organizers: Kathryn Nowotny, University of Miami
Colin Hastings, University of Waterloo
Presider: Kathryn Nowotny, University of Miami
Description: This session examines how medical systems, knowledges, technologies, and expertise reproduce broad forms of structural inequity and violence. Papers reflect on how people's everyday experiences are caught up in these systems and call attention to openings for intervening in health systems in ways that promote equity and social justice.
Papers:
“Carceral to Transformative: Abolitionist Social Work Strategies and Principles,” Craig Fortier, University of Waterloo
“Fractured Sueño Americano and State Violence: Immigration Processes, Labor and Power, and Drug and Alcohol Misuse among Recent Immigrants in Los Angeles,” Alice Cepeda, Nefertari Rincon Guerra and Avelardo Valdez, University of Southern California
“Healthwork at the Office: An Explication of Medical History Making,” Manda Ann Roddick, University of Victoria
“Producing a Licit Economy of Living Bodies: Symbolic Violence and Living Organ Donation,” Matthew J.P. Strang, York University
“Where Does My Blood and Information Go? Early Reflections on an Institutional Ethnographic Study of Sero Surveillance from Clinic to Public Health,” Colin Hastings, University of Waterloo
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
THEMATIC
Session 112: Imagining, Building and Sustaining Alternative Forms of Justice
Room: Jarry
Sponsor: Law and Society
Organizer: Catherine Hastings, Macquarie University
Presider &
Discussant: Paul J. Draus, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Description: This session profiles a diverse international collection of emancipatory projects and perspectives that challenge existing practices and suggest alternative forms of justice. In each case, the papers imagine and advocate for progressive forms of transformative justice to confront oppression. They provide examples of how community and individual agency can be reclaimed and supported to oppose disempowerment and violence in justice and other institutional systems.
Papers:
“Art, Agency, and Decarceration: Imagining Alternatives to Social Exclusion,” Paul J. Draus, University of Michigan-Dearborn
“Exploring Alternative Modes of Justice in the Context of Sexual Violence in College Campuses in India,” Sukanya Bhattacharya, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
“Speculative Knowledges as Anti-racism Practice for Children’s Pain Research in Canada: Building Asian Liberatory Futures,” Samantha P. Louie-Poon, Dalhousie University
“Survivor Justice: An Abolitionist Perspective on Justice and the #MeToo Movement,” Kasey Carmile Ragan, St. Edward's University
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 113: Immigrant Youth and Education
Room: Kafka
Sponsor: Educational Problems
Organizer &
Presider: Irina Chukhray, University of California, Davis
Description: This session focuses broadly on higher education and immigrant youth in the United States and Canada. Our papers dive deep into immigrants’ supports and constraints in accessing higher education by asking whether counselors are the best informational resources, by illuminating the ways in which immigrants navigate constraints and costs of educational achievement, by delving into the ways immigrants redefine college-going habitus, by examining higher education access through mapping methodology that documents undocumented youths’ access to higher education across the United States, and by exploring immigrants’ experiences within STEM and higher education. The papers in this session focus on diverse immigrant groups, including African, Latinx, Asian, and other populations.
Papers:
“A Mixed-Methods Approach to Understanding Immigrant Youths’ Experiences with Gathering Information about Post-Secondary Education,” Irina Chukhray, University of California, Davis
“From Immigrant Legacy to Educational Future: Redefining Latinx Immigrant Familial Engagement in College-going Habitus Cultivation,” Leslie Patricia Luqueno, Stanford Graduate School of Education
“Perspectives on First-generation African Immigrant Women STEM Experiences in Postsecondary Institutions in Canada,” Rachael Ileh Edino, University of Calgary
“The Constraints to and Costs of Educational Achievement: Mexican Immigrant Youth in Northeast New Destinations,” Jorge Ballinas, Penn State University
“Using Mapping Methodology to Make Sense of Higher Education Access for Undocumented Students across the United States,” Katherine Cumings Mansfield, University of North Texas
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
THEMATIC
Session 114: Repertoires of Violence: Countermovement, Repression, Oppression, and Social Control
Room: Lamartine
Sponsor: Conflict, Social Action, and Change
Organizer, Presider &
Discussant: Marcos Perez, Washington and Lee University
Description: In recent years, violence against dissidence and diversity has risen throughout the world. This panel will explore case studies of these phenomena and discuss potential causes, with the goal of identifying solutions.
Papers:
“Attitudes of Disposability towards MMIWG on the Highway of Tears, A CPTED Study,” molly jane clare, University of Calgary
“Queer Remote Activism in the LGBTI+ Movement in Turkey,” E. Ecem Ece, University of Florida
“Transnational Fight Clubs: The Glocalization of Fascism?” Liz Wilcox, Boston College
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
THEMATIC
Session 115: State and Interpersonal Violence against Contemporary Family Structures
Room: Musset
Sponsors:
Family, Aging, and Youth
Gender, Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities
Poverty, Class, and Inequality
Organizer, Presider &
Discussant: Monnica Gavin, Clark State College
Description: Violence against and within families is an enduring social issue that has gained increasing attention in recent times. The growing awareness of how the state and individual actors are causing harm to contemporary families in societies worldwide is encouraging. In this session, we will delve into the topic of violence against families, focusing on the foster care and carceral systems, laws targeting the LGBTQIA+ community, and environmental racism.
Papers:
“State Predation? How the Carceral Care Economy Harms Black and Latine Women,” Raquel Guzman Delerme, University of Southern California, Winner of the Gender Division’s Student Paper Competition
“The Effect of Incarceration on the Termination of Parental Rights,” Loren Beard, The University of Chicago, Winner of the Sociology and Social Welfare Division’s Student Paper Competition
“Estimating the Effects of Additional Placements on Internalizing Symptoms Using Quasi-Experimental Design,” Rin Ferraro, The University of Oklahoma, Honorable Mention in the Family Division’s Student Paper Competition
“Environmental Injustice and Community Burden in Southern California: A Local Evaluation of the Superfund Program,” Jacqueline Maria Maciel, California Lutheran University