SSSP 2024 Annual Meeting

Date: Sunday, August 11

Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM

Council of Division Chairpersons and Program Chair, 2024-25
Room: Salon 1


Date: Sunday, August 11

Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM

Session 107: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Critical Race and Rural Studies
Room: Salon 5

Sponsors: Community, Research, and Practice
Social Problems Theory

Organizer &

Presider/Discussant: Nathaniel Dumas, Xoogler Founders-Researchers Hub

Description: 

Critical Rural Theory transformed sociologies of rurality by encouraging the study of rurality through conceptual lenses of structure, space, and culture. While they note similarities between spatial and racial identities, these scholars have yet to explore how political economies of race create competing experiences of rurality. Similarly, Critical Race Theorists pushed disciplines to problematize and move beyond simplistic comparisons and demographic understandings of race. While some of their work decenters “place-centricism,” these scholars have yet to make use of transformative conversations happening within Critical Rural Theory.

Through dialogue, we aim for Critical Rural Theorists to cultivate complex perspectives of how race complicates rurality and for Critical Race Theorists to incorporate complex rethinkings of rurality that further problematize studying racial articulations.

Papers:

“Intersections of Race and Rurality: Settlement Space as Medium of Oppression,” Alexander R. Thomas and Gregory M. Fulkerson, SUNY Oneonta and Polly J. Smith, Utica University

“The Very Very Far North: Considering Canada’s Northern Tier through the Lenses of Critical Rural Theory and Critical Race Theory,” Aimee Vieira, CanNor

“Rural Land Tenure and the Racial Wealth Gap,” Natasha Moodie and Keith Wiley, Housing Assistance Council

“Indigenous Identity and Struggles for State Recognition in Ecuador,” Caroline Martinez, University of California, Irvine


Date: Sunday, August 11

Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM

THEMATIC

Session 108: The Social Construction of Violence
Room: Drummond West

Sponsor: Crime and Justice

Organizer: Kylie Parrotta, California Polytechnic State University

Presider &

Discussant: Karmvir Kaur Padda, University of Waterloo

Description: 

The session will focus on narrative criminology, specifically how people use narratives to explain violent behavior that may or may not be seen as criminal. Papers will focus on violent offenders, immigrant experiences, and practitioners' assessments of programs and court processes.

Papers:

“(De)Racializing Victimhood: Narratives of Service Workers at the Human Trafficking Intervention Courts,” Yen-Chiao Liao, Siena College

“Constructing Effectiveness: Men’s Anti-violence Program Practitioners’ Narratives of Success,” Doug Schrock and Hailey S. McGee, Florida State University

“Narratives of Radicalization: The Role of Manifestos in Shaping Extremist Violence,” Karmvir Kaur Padda, University of Waterloo

“The Brutalization of Immigrants in the Line at the Questura in Italy,” Robert Garot, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY


Date: Sunday, August 11

Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM

THEMATIC

Session 109: Systemic Vulnerabilities and Technology
Room: Drummond Centre

Sponsor: Environment and Technology

Organizer, Presider &

Discussant: Nels Paulson, University of Wisconsin-Stout

Description: 

The 21st century is largely defined by forces of globalization and digital technologies. Shifts for society in these ways must be understood in all their complexities. This session explores the ways in which technology amplifies or resists inequities in society.

Papers:

“Automating the Automators: De/Up-skilling and Re/Off-shoring in Globalized Software Work,” Bhumika Chauhan, New York University, Winner of the Labor Studies Division’s Student Paper Competition

“COVID-19, Teens, and ‘Silver Linings’: Exploring Some ‘Positive’ Experiences during the Pandemic,” Michael Adorjan, University of Calgary

“Equity and Inclusion in Hospital-at-home: How Can We Study This?” Nels Paulson and Jeffrey Sweat, University of Wisconsin-Stout

“Addressing Challenges for Rural Health Care: The Promises and Perils of Technological Solutions,” Nels Paulson, University of Wisconsin-Stout


Date: Sunday, August 11

Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM

Session 110: Author Meets Critics: Behind Crimmigration: ICE, Law Enforcement, and Resistance in America by Felicia Arriaga, The University of North Carolina Press, 2023
Room: Drummond East

Sponsor: Critical Race and Ethnic Study

Organizer &

Presider: Felicia Arriaga, Baruch College, CUNY

Description: 

Felicia Arriaga will be in conversation about their book Behind Crimmigration: ICE, Law Enforcement, and Resistance in America.

Author:

Felicia Arriaga, Baruch College, CUNY

Critics:

Jamella N. Gow, Bowdoin College

Michelle Christian, University of Tennessee, Knoxville


Date: Sunday, August 11

Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM

THEMATIC

Session 111: The Social Organization of Medical Violence
Room: Joyce

Sponsors: Drinking and Drugs
Health, Health Policy, and Health Services
Institutional Ethnography
Sociology, Social Work, and Social Welfare

Organizers: Kathryn Nowotny, University of Miami
Colin Hastings, University of Waterloo

Presider: Kathryn Nowotny, University of Miami

Description: 

This session examines how medical systems, knowledges, technologies, and expertise reproduce broad forms of structural inequity and violence. Papers reflect on how people's everyday experiences are caught up in these systems and call attention to openings for intervening in health systems in ways that promote equity and social justice.

Papers:

“Carceral to Transformative: Abolitionist Social Work Strategies and Principles,” Craig Fortier, University of Waterloo

“Fractured Sueño Americano and State Violence: Immigration Processes, Labor and Power, and Drug and Alcohol Misuse among Recent Immigrants in Los Angeles,” Alice Cepeda, Nefertari Rincon Guerra and Avelardo Valdez, University of Southern California

“Healthwork at the Office: An Explication of Medical History Making,” Manda Ann Roddick, University of Victoria

“Producing a Licit Economy of Living Bodies: Symbolic Violence and Living Organ Donation,” Matthew J.P. Strang, York University

“Where Does My Blood and Information Go? Early Reflections on an Institutional Ethnographic Study of Sero Surveillance from Clinic to Public Health,” Colin Hastings, University of Waterloo


Date: Sunday, August 11

Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM

THEMATIC

Session 112: Imagining, Building and Sustaining Alternative Forms of Justice
Room: Jarry

Sponsor: Law and Society

Organizer: Catherine Hastings, Macquarie University

Presider &

Discussant: Paul J. Draus, University of Michigan-Dearborn

Description: 

This session profiles a diverse international collection of emancipatory projects and perspectives that challenge existing practices and suggest alternative forms of justice. In each case, the papers imagine and advocate for progressive forms of transformative justice to confront oppression. They provide examples of how community and individual agency can be reclaimed and supported to oppose disempowerment and violence in justice and other institutional systems.

Papers:

“Art, Agency, and Decarceration: Imagining Alternatives to Social Exclusion,” Paul J. Draus, University of Michigan-Dearborn

“Exploring Alternative Modes of Justice in the Context of Sexual Violence in College Campuses in India,” Sukanya Bhattacharya, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

“Speculative Knowledges as Anti-racism Practice for Children’s Pain Research in Canada: Building Asian Liberatory Futures,” Samantha P. Louie-Poon, Dalhousie University

“Survivor Justice: An Abolitionist Perspective on Justice and the #MeToo Movement,” Kasey Carmile Ragan, St. Edward's University


Date: Sunday, August 11

Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM

Session 113: Immigrant Youth and Education
Room: Kafka

Sponsor: Educational Problems

Organizer &

Presider: Irina Chukhray, University of California, Davis

Description: 

This session focuses broadly on higher education and immigrant youth in the United States and Canada. Our papers dive deep into immigrants’ supports and constraints in accessing higher education by asking whether counselors are the best informational resources, by illuminating the ways in which immigrants navigate constraints and costs of educational achievement, by delving into the ways immigrants redefine college-going habitus, by examining higher education access through mapping methodology that documents undocumented youths’ access to higher education across the United States, and by exploring immigrants’ experiences within STEM and higher education. The papers in this session focus on diverse immigrant groups, including African, Latinx, Asian, and other populations.

Papers:

“A Mixed-Methods Approach to Understanding Immigrant Youths’ Experiences with Gathering Information about Post-Secondary Education,” Irina Chukhray, University of California, Davis

“From Immigrant Legacy to Educational Future: Redefining Latinx Immigrant Familial Engagement in College-going Habitus Cultivation,” Leslie Patricia Luqueno, Stanford Graduate School of Education

“Perspectives on First-generation African Immigrant Women STEM Experiences in Postsecondary Institutions in Canada,” Rachael Ileh Edino, University of Calgary

“The Constraints to and Costs of Educational Achievement: Mexican Immigrant Youth in Northeast New Destinations,” Jorge Ballinas, Penn State University

“Using Mapping Methodology to Make Sense of Higher Education Access for Undocumented Students across the United States,” Katherine Cumings Mansfield, University of North Texas


Date: Sunday, August 11

Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM

THEMATIC

Session 114: Repertoires of Violence: Countermovement, Repression, Oppression, and Social Control
Room: Lamartine

Sponsor: Conflict, Social Action, and Change

Organizer, Presider &

Discussant: Marcos Perez, Washington and Lee University

Description: 

In recent years, violence against dissidence and diversity has risen throughout the world. This panel will explore case studies of these phenomena and discuss potential causes, with the goal of identifying solutions.

Papers:

“Attitudes of Disposability towards MMIWG on the Highway of Tears, A CPTED Study,” molly jane clare, University of Calgary

“Queer Remote Activism in the LGBTI+ Movement in Turkey,” E. Ecem Ece, University of Florida

“Transnational Fight Clubs: The Glocalization of Fascism?” Liz Wilcox, Boston College


Date: Sunday, August 11

Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM

THEMATIC

Session 115: State and Interpersonal Violence against Contemporary Family Structures
Room: Musset

Sponsors: 
Family, Aging, and Youth
Gender, Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities
Poverty, Class, and Inequality

Organizer, Presider &

Discussant: Monnica Gavin, Clark State College

Description: 

Violence against and within families is an enduring social issue that has gained increasing attention in recent times. The growing awareness of how the state and individual actors are causing harm to contemporary families in societies worldwide is encouraging. In this session, we will delve into the topic of violence against families, focusing on the foster care and carceral systems, laws targeting the LGBTQIA+ community, and environmental racism.

Papers:

“State Predation? How the Carceral Care Economy Harms Black and Latine Women,” Raquel Guzman Delerme, University of Southern California, Winner of the Gender Division’s Student Paper Competition

“The Effect of Incarceration on the Termination of Parental Rights,” Loren Beard, The University of Chicago, Winner of the Sociology and Social Welfare Division’s Student Paper Competition

“Estimating the Effects of Additional Placements on Internalizing Symptoms Using Quasi-Experimental Design,” Rin Ferraro, The University of Oklahoma, Honorable Mention in the Family Division’s Student Paper Competition

“Environmental Injustice and Community Burden in Southern California: A Local Evaluation of the Superfund Program,” Jacqueline Maria Maciel, California Lutheran University