SSSP 2024 Annual Meeting
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Session 089: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: The Changing Impact of Technologies on Mental Health
Room: Joyce
Sponsors: Disability, Mental Wellness, and Social Justice
Health, Health Policy, and Health Services
Organizers: Yuying Shen, Norfolk State University
Douglas J. Engelman, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Presider/Discussant: Yuying Shen, Norfolk State University
Description: An in-depth discussion on the impact of changing technologies on our mental health.
Papers:
“‘Better Safe Than Sorry’: Prepping, COVID-19, and the Influence of Masculine Norms. Is This Something New?” Andrew Thomas Silliker, The Pennsylvania State University
“Digital Disparity and Mental Health Equity: The Mental Health Impacts of Cyberbullying among Adolescents,” Yuying Shen, Norfolk State University
“Doom Scrolling: How Does Constant Exposure to Violent and Traumatic Media Impact Our Worldview and Mental Health?” Spencer Boatwright, University of North Carolina Wilmington
“Exploring Dating App Usage and Addiction,” Laura S. Hatvany, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
THEMATIC
Session 090: Criminalizing Immigration
Room: Drummond West
Sponsors: Crime and Justice
Family, Aging, and Youth
Global
Law and Society
Poverty, Class, and Inequality
Organizer: Rafia Javaid Mallick, Georgia State University
Presider &
Discussant: Melissa Maxey, The University of Oklahoma
Description: This conference session promises a deep dive into the intricate layers of the United States immigration system, shedding light on its profound impact on various marginalized communities. Our esteemed panel of researchers will present four compelling papers that encourage critical dialogue and foster a better understanding of the multifaceted issues surrounding race, surveillance, homonationalism, and crimmigration. Don't miss this opportunity to engage with cutting-edge research and contribute to the ongoing discourse on immigration policy and its consequences.
Papers:
“Crimmigration and Critical Criminology: Policing the Relative Surplus Population,” David B. Feldman, Oberlin College
“From Criminalization to Deportation: Race in the United States Immigration System,” Sarah Tosh, Rutgers University-Camden
“Quotidian Homonationalism: Green Card Adjudication, Immigration Law, and Liberal Inclusion of Same-sex Binational Marriages,” Juhwan Seo, Cornell University, Winner of the Family Division’s Student Paper Competition
“Unbounded Surveillance: Punishing Visitors in and out of U.S. Immigration Detention,” Luis A. Romero, Texas Christian University
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Session 091: Activism for Social Change CANCELLED
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Session 092: Organizing in the Workplace
Room: Drummond East
Sponsor: Labor Studies
Organizer &
Presider: Emily Helen An-Mei Yen, University of Virginia
Description: This panel explores the praxis of fighting for better working conditions through collective action. Workers in the United States and Canada have increasingly decided to unionize when facing harsh working conditions. Members of several labor unions will examine the challenges they faced organizing their workplace, building a campaign, and preparing for a strike. Panelists will also reflect on the lessons they learned, and they could be applied to other workers facing similar challenges.
Panelists:
Kelsey Weymouth-Little, University of California, Irvine
Shannon Ikebe, John Abbott College Faculty Association
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Session 093: Problematizing the Medicalization of Addiction
Room: Hemon
Sponsors: Drinking and Drugs
Social Problems Theory
Organizer &
Presider: Joshua H. Stout, Illinois State University
Discussant: Benjamin Fleury-Steiner, University of Delaware
Description: This session explores the medicalization of addiction by examining the consequences of this framework on individuals and institutions.
Papers:
“Analyzing and Replacing the Moral-disease Model of Addiction,” Andrew R. Burns, Louisiana State University
“Challenging Biomedical Constructions of Risk among People Who Use Drugs,” David Frank, Luther Elliott and Alexander S. Bennett, New York University
“Recovery Denied: Bereaved Survivors’ Stories of Institutional Stigma and the Necrotherapeutic State in Drug Treatment,” Joshua H. Stout, Illinois State University, Benjamin Fleury-Steiner and Timothy Chesnik, University of Delaware
“What are the Consequences of Medicalization? An Autoethnographic Account of Losing My Mom to Opioid Addiction,” Hope E. Ousey, Wilkes University
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
THEMATIC
Session 094: Trauma and the Life Course
Room: Jarry
Sponsor:
Organizer, Presider &
Discussant: Brittney Miles, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Description: This panel explores various ways trauma-informed research shapes our understanding of phenomena across the life course. Specifically, the papers in this panel will examine trauma related to victimization, childhood sexual experiences and PTSD, intimate partner violence, military veteran's exposure to violence, and older women's experiences of homelessness. These papers interrogate the relationship between trauma and the life course to consider its impact among diverse populations and across diverse social issues.
Papers:
“Adolescent Violence, Victimization, and Later Civic Engagement: The Role of Agency,” Andrew Wilczak and Emily E. Roberts, Wilkes University
“An Experiential Intimate Partner Violence Recidivism Intervention: A Trauma-Informed Transformative Justice Approach with Racialized Allophone Immigrants,” Katherine Maurer, McGill University
“Appraisals of Childhood Sexual Experiences, PTSD, and Help-seeking Behavior among Black and Latino Sexual Minority Men,” Martin J. Downing, Lehman College, CUNY, Ellen Benoit, North Jersey Community Research Initiative and Jason M. Dotson, Wellness with Jason Dotson
“The Importance of Life Course and Intersectionality Perspectives for Understanding Older Women’s Homelessness: Social Identity, Social Othering, and Marginalization,” Judith G. Gonyea, Boston University and Kelly Melekis, University of Vermont
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Session 095: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Identity Matters: How an Instructor's Subjectivity Influences the Way They Teach about Race
Room: Salon 5
Sponsors: Critical Race and Ethnic Study
Teaching Social Problems
Organizer &
Presider/Discussant: Florence Emily Castillo, Texas Christian University
Description: This session explores how the subjectivity of instructors impacts our theoretical interpretations of race and shapes the pedagogical choices we make when we teach race in the classroom. Intersectional and critical race scholars continue to call our attention to how lived experiences also influence the ways we process and disseminate information both in and outside the classroom. With this in mind, we seek to further explore how our intersectional identities create the embodied pedagogies and experiences we bring into the classroom. We hope to share classroom experiences that lead to more critical and transformative self-reflection and strategies for teaching race, especially in the current political climate where teaching about race is under attack.
Papers:
“Oral History as Embodied Classroom Pedagogy,” Jacqueline Daugherty and Rodney D. Coates, Miami University
“Feeling Teaching Race,” Adriana Leela Bohm, Delaware County Community College, Michelle Byng, Donna-Marie Peters and Mary Stricker, Temple University
“‘A White Woman from the South’: Social Location and the Pedagogy of Race,” Karyn McKinney Marvasti, Penn State Altoona
“Parallel Cultures: Creating Alternative Spaces of Truth-telling through Activist-based Curriculum Development and Community Outreach in the Rural Black South,” Masonya J. Bennett, Kennesaw State University
“Operationalizing Anti-oppression in Doctoral Health Care Education,” Katerina Melino, University of Alberta and Samantha P. Louie-Poon, Dalhousie University
“White Professors of Race: Ethics, Strategies, and Impacts,” Devon R. Goss, Oxford College of Emory University
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
THEMATIC
Session 096: Policing Environmental Problems: Who is Responsible and Who is Accountable
Room: Kafka
Sponsor: Environment and Technology
Organizer, Presider &
Discussant: Angus A. Nurse, Anglia Ruskin University
Description: Green criminologist Rob White (2007, 2012) suggests that given the potential for environmental harms to extend far beyond the impact on individual victims that are the norm with "traditional" crimes of interpersonal violence and property crime, green crimes should be given importance if not priority within justice systems. Yet the policing of environmental problems and crimes is often left to environmental regulators rather than mainstream policing agencies which risks environmental "crimes" being classified as somehow less important than mainstream crimes. This panel considers the question of how environmental problems should be "policed" and who should be responsible for doing so. This includes examining different policies; perspectives and enforcement approaches and some case studies relating to specific environmental problems.
Papers:
“Conservatism, the Far Right, and the Environment,” Jesse C. Bryant, Yale University
“Corporations, Carbon, and Climate: Examining the Macrosociological Determinants of Corporate Emissions,” Annika Rieger, Singapore Management University
“Environmental Justice as Transformative Justice; Transformative Justice as Environmental Justice,” Jeff Feng, Northwestern University and Melanie Brazzell, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University
“Mediating the Human Impacts of Environmental Harms: The Case for an Ecojustice Approach,” Angus A. Nurse, Anglia Ruskin University
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 Nichols, Trent University
C. Michael Awsumb, Northwest Missouri State University
Presider: Naomi 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 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
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Session 098: Accessible Cities
Room: Musset
Sponsors: Community, Research, and Practice
Sport, Leisure, and the Body
Organizer, Presider &
Discussant: Michael O. Johnston, William Penn University
Description: The sociological study of cities and urban life is one of the field’s oldest sub-disciplines. Urban sociologists’ study and examine the social, historical, political, cultural, economic, and environmental forces that have shaped urban environments. This field of study focuses on things like poverty, racial residential segregation, economic development, migration and demographic trends, gentrification, homelessness, blight and crime, urban decline, and neighborhood changes and revitalization. Such critical insights provided by the analyses conducted by urban sociologists can be used to shape and guide urban planning and policymaking. This regular session brings scholars together to talk about their research on the accessibility (and inaccessibility) of cities.
Papers:
“A Proposed Phenomenological Investigation of Exclusion to Blue and Green Spaces in Rural Cities,” Peder E. Schillemat, University of West Georgia
“Black Mecca, U.S.A: An in-depth Look at Race, Class, and Placemaking in Atlanta, Georgia,” Jonathan P. Grant, University of North Florida
“Reimagining Public Parks: Latinx Identity and Community Perceptions of Safety,” Ireri Bernal, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lillian Wynne Platten and Teresa Irene Gonzales, Loyola University Chicago
“The Journey towards Inclusive Tourism: Assessing Accessibility in Kathmandu, Nepal,” Ramesh Khanal, Saraswati Multiple Campus
