SSSP 2024 Annual Meeting

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