SSSP 2024 Annual Meeting

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