SSSP 2024 Annual Meeting

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