SSSP 2024 Annual Meeting

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