SSSP 2024 Annual Meeting
Date: Friday, August 9
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Council of Division Chairpersons, 2023-24
Room: Salon 1
Date: Friday, August 9
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Permanent Organization and Strategic Planning Committee, 2023-24 & 2024-25
Room: Salon 4
Date: Friday, August 9
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 018: Critical Analysis of Measurements of Poverty
Room: Salon 5
Sponsor: Poverty, Class, and Inequality
Organizer, Presider &
Discussant: Sarah E. Castillo, University of Tennessee
Description: This session delves into the complexities and nuances of poverty measurement, critically examining the existing metrics, their strengths, and their limitations. The papers in this session explore innovative methodologies, challenge conventional wisdom, and propose more holistic or nuanced measures of poverty. Topics include, but are not limited to, income-based measures, multidimensional poverty indices, relative poverty, and the impact of social, political, and economic factors on poverty metrics. The session aims to foster a comprehensive understanding of how poverty is quantified and the implications of these measurements on policy-making and societal perceptions.
Papers:
“Alternative Foodways in Nashville: Complicating Food Desert Mapping,” Melissa Luong, Vanderbilt University
“Assessing the Landscape: Critiques and Insights into Chile’s Poverty Measurement through the National Survey of Socioeconomic Characterization (CASEN),” Rossana A. Diaz, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
“The Social Wallet: How Social Influence and Buy-in for Minorities Can Offer a Window into Policy for Systemic Equity,” Kayla Marshall, Engineer
“Wading through Credit Swamps: The Making of Diverse Consumer Credit Markets,” Asia Inez Bento, University of California, Irvine
Date: Friday, August 9
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
THEMATIC
Session 019: Curricular Violence: White Supremacist Silencing in Education
Room: Drummond West
Sponsors: Crime and Justice
Critical Race and Ethnic Study
Educational Problems
Organizer: Miltonette Olivia Craig, Sam Houston State University
Presider &
Discussant: Florence Emily Castillo, Texas Christian University
Description: This session focuses on how U.S. classrooms have become a political target, as numerous cities and states have instituted bans on materials and lectures that cover topics such as diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), critical race theory (CRT), gender and sexuality, and bias in the criminal legal system. Papers in this session will discuss the challenges that faculty across the U.S. have experienced due to such legislation that seeks to uphold white supremacy, stifle academic freedom, and silence teachings that focus on discrimination of marginalized groups and communities.
Papers:
“‘Making Whiteness Strange’: Displacing Whiteness through an Application of Racialized Organizational Theory in an Analysis of a Southwest School District,” Florence Emily Castillo, Texas Christian University
“Curricular Injustice: How Medical Educators Obscure Structural Racism in the Teaching of Social Inequalities to Medical Students,” Lauren Olsen, Temple University
“White Liberal Supremacy in Higher Education as Symbolic and Institutional Violence: Experiences, Strategies, and Solutions,” Angie Beeman, Baruch College, CUNY
Date: Friday, August 9
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
SPECIAL
Session 020: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Agenda for Social Justice: Active Agents for the Future
Room: Drummond Centre
Sponsor: Justice 21 Committee
Organizer: Jason A. Smith, George Mason University
Presider/Discussant: David C. Lane, Illinois State University
Description: This session will feature a dynamic discussion with authors from the most recent Agenda for Social Justice: Solutions 2024, focused on actionable insights to a number of social problems in the United States. Policy recommendations and solutions will be at the heart of the discussion, as panelists engage with each other and the audience. The goal of the discussion is not an overview or synopsis of the authors’ work, but centering the idea of research and people as active agents which can help shape the future.
Papers:
“A Bold Policy Agenda for Improving Immigrant Healthcare Access in the U.S.,” Meredith Van Natta, University of California, Merced
“Gender-affirming Healthcare for Transgender and Gender Minority Youth,” Ashley C. Rondini, Franklin & Marshall College
“From Blame to Criminalization: Black Motherhood and Intimate Partner Violence,” Sarah Jane Brubaker, Virginia Commonwealth University
“Affordable Housing in America: A Matter of Availability, Access, and Accountability,” Jeanne Kimpel, Molloy University
“Shelter from the Storm: A Framework for Housing and Climate Justice,” Tony Samara, Right to the City Alliance
Date: Friday, August 9
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 022: PAPERS IN THE ROUND: Sexualities
Room: Ballroom West
Sponsor: Gender, Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities
Organizer: Hannah R. Regan, Flora Stone Mather Center for Women and Case Western Reserve University
Description: This roundtable covers an array of topics in sexuality.
Roundtable #1 Title: Sexualities
Presider & Discussant:
Hannah R. Regan, Flora Stone Mather Center for Women and Case Western Reserve University
Papers:
“‘You’re Hot, for an Asian!’ Resistance and Desires in the Lives of Cisgender Sexually Nonconforming Pinays,” Veronica B. Salcedo, Georgia State University
“A Dual Case Study of Elite Sex Trafficking and Government Indifference,” Thomas Volscho, College of Staten Island, CUNY
“Queering College Sports: LGBTQ+-inclusive Athletic Department Policies at U.S. Colleges and Universities,” Jonathan S. Coley and Gabby Gomez, Oklahoma State University
Date: Friday, August 9
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
THEMATIC
Session 023: Alternatives to Policing
Room: Hemon
Sponsors: Community, Research, and Practice
Drinking and Drugs
Health, Health Policy, and Health Services
Organizers: Keisha M. Muia, Portland State University
Paul J. Draus, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Presider &
Discussant: Keisha M. Muia, Portland State University
Description: This session explores alternatives to policing currently taking place in the United States. Alternatives to policing includes any service in which behavioral health crises and public safety needs are addressed by trained community safety specialists rather than police. This may also include incorporating human services programs as opposed to exercising punitive practices. Using police as the primary tool to address health and social issues such as mental illness, substance use, homelessness, and community violence has contributed to mass incarceration. This in turn causes individual as well as communal harm and incurs substantial costs. Investing in other programs and services would reduce costs and address the harms that are tied to the current model of responding to public safety concerns.
Papers:
“‘But Do They Have Their Rights?’ Informal Kinship Care, Custody Loss, and, Substance Use among Latinas in a Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Community,” Esme Ramirez, The University of Texas, Jessica Frankeberger, University of California, San Diego, Alice Cepeda and Avelardo Valdez, University of Southern California
“Alternatives to Policing: What it is and Why it Matters,” Keisha M. Muia, Portland State University
“Examining Experiences of Non-police Responses to Mental Health Crisis,” Jenny K. Leigh, New York University
“What Happened after the Crisis? Comparing Post-year Arrest Outcomes between Law Enforcement and Clinical Service Responses,” Catherine Zettner and Kaitlyn Kok, Wayne State University Center for Behavioral Health and Justice and Juliette Roddy, Northern Arizona University
Date: Friday, August 9
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
THEMATIC
Session 024: Institutional Ethnographies of Everyday Experiences of State Violence
Room: Jarry
Sponsor: Institutional Ethnography
Organizers: Jayne Malenfant, McGill University
Helen Hudson, University of Ottawa
Presider &
Discussant: Helen Hudson, University of Ottawa
Description: This session will explore the social organization of everyday experiences of State Violence, informed by the work of Dorothy E. Smith.
Papers:
“‘It’s Literally Jail’: Carcerality in School Discipline,” Karlyn J. Gorski, The University of Chicago
“Child Protective Services: Policing, Prosecuting, and Punishing Parents,” Anna Rockhill, Portland State University
“The Intersectionality of Race, Culture, and Income on Oral Language and Literacy Practices in the Black Communities of Montreal,” Tanya Matthews, McGill University
“Topologies of Dispossession: An Exploration on Administrative Data and Reshaping of Racial Capitalist Systems on the Lives Crossover Youth,” Faith Mottahedi, Trent University
Date: Friday, August 9
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
THEMATIC
Session 025: Teaching about Violence: How to Navigate Trust and Disclosure with Students
Room: Joyce
Sponsor: Teaching Social Problems
Organizers: Kathlen J. Fitzgerald, University of North Carolina
Alessandra Seggi, Villanova University
Presider &
Discussant: Kathlen J. Fitzgerald, University of North Carolina
Description: This session will cover a variety of topics and issues revolving around teaching about violence.
Papers:
“Teaching about American Society in Broken English,” Jinsun Yang, University of Oregon, Winner of the Teaching Social Problems Division’s Student Paper Competition
“When Only Some Violence Counts: Curricular Violence, Community Silence, and How Education Must Shift in Order to Heal,” Cami L. Touloukian, Teachers College, Columbia University and Uzma Chowdhury, Teachers College at Columbia University
“Using Trauma Informed Pedagogy to Teach about Sexual Assault on Campus,” Kathlen J. Fitzgerald, University of North Carolina
“Talking about Suicide through Film,” Alessandra Seggi, Villanova University
Date: Friday, August 9
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 026: Contingent/Precarious Work
Room: Kafka
Sponsor: Labor Studies
Organizers: Jacqueline M. Zalewski, West Chester University
Seth Kahn, West Chester University
Presider: Jacqueline M. Zalewski, West Chester University
Discussant: Seth Kahn, West Chester University
Description: This session examines contingent and precarious work across a range of sites (human services; Amazon; sex work; multi-level marketing) and situates the conditions of precarity/contingency among a complex array of analytical schemes: late-stage neoliberal capital; professionalism and white-collar self-perception; global supply chains; and more.
Papers:
“Amazon, Global Supply Chains -- and Gig and Contingent Labor,” David A. Smith, University of California, Irvine
“Double Disadvantage? Nonstandard Work Forms and Job Quality in the US, 2002-2018,” Jeffrey C. Dixon, College of the Holy Cross and Andrew S. Fullerton, Oklahoma State University
“Privileged and Unprivileged Precarity: Multi-level Marketing as a Site of Non-standard Work in the New Economy,” Nicole Cochran, Temple University
“Risky Business: Sex Work as Precarious Work,” Quinn Maya Kinzer, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Date: Friday, August 9
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 027: The Neoliberal Nonprofit-Trapped in a Conundrum of Care
Room: Musset
Sponsor: Sociology, Social Work, and Social Welfare
Organizer, Presider &
Discussant: Bob Spires, University of Richmond
Description: This session offers scholars and practitioners to engage in dialogue and present work on neoliberalism and its impact on today's nonprofit. From New Public Management, to managerialism and marketing, we intend to explore why neoliberal pressures on nonprofits have not faded despite continuous failure of late-stage capitalism.
Papers:
“How Much Do We Help? The Colonial Legacies of Anti-rape Victim Advocacy,” Melinda Chen, The University of Oklahoma
“The Industrialization of Nonprofit Labor,” Andrew Schoeneman and Bob Spires, University of Richmond
“Integrative Interactions as Market Contestations: A Microfoundational Perspective on Transformative Hybrid Organizing,” Yi Ming Ng, Northwestern University
Date: Friday, August 9
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 028: Decolonizing the Canon: Global South Scholarship and Countering Western Hegemony in Social Problems Theory and Research
Room: Lamartine
Sponsors: Conflict, Social Action, and Change
Global
Social Problems Theory
Organizers: Faryal Razzaq, Karachi School of Business & Leadership
Korey Tillman, Northeastern University
Presider: Faryal Razzaq, Karachi School of Business & Leadership
Discussant: Korey Tillman, Northeastern University
Description: The session is dedicated to shed light on the realities of social justice and social problem theory implications in the Global South, as mostly the social problem theories were developed in North America, and create a hegemony in research and thesis, which may have discounted the ground realities in global south.
Papers:
“Critical Phenomenology of Citizenship and Protest Spaces: Online Anti-immigration Movement Discourse in India,” Chetna Khandelwal, University of Calgary, Winner of the Global Division’s Student Paper Competition
“Gender-based Violence and Human Security in Conflict Zones: The Lived Experiences of Internally Displaced People from Zamboanga and Marawi,” Diana Therese Montejo Veloso, De La Salle University
“Why A Focus on Autonomous Social Science Traditions in the Global South Is Vital for Decolonizing Knowledge Production,” Caroline M. Schöpf, University of the Philippines Diliman
“Indigenous Women of the Global South Challenging Global Capitalism, Extractivism, and the Age of the Anthropocene,” Ligaya Lindio McGovern, Indiana University
