Date: Friday, August 8

Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM

THEMATIC

Session 007: Insurgent Productions: The Use of Culture as a Vehicle for Social Change
Room: Spire Parlor

Sponsor: Sport, Leisure, and the Body

Organizer, Presider &

Discussant: Michael O. Johnston, William Penn University

Description: 

In this thematic session we will focus on productions that generate cultural goods for social purposes. Panelists for this session will have conducted research on the production of symbolic and material aspects that are associated with a group of people's shared beliefs, values, and practices (e.g., applied art, comedy, fine art, music, poetry, sport, and so on).

They will particularly focus on production of cultural goods that are made to deliver social change.

Papers:

“Mental Health & the Movies: An Analysis of Depictions of Mental Illness in Films Spanning from 1922 to Today,” Melinda Leigh Maconi, Moffitt Cancer Center

“Mentioning the Unmentionable: Perception of Opportunities, Agency, Emotions, and Identity in Iranian Resistance Rap prior and during the Women, Life, Freedom Uprisings,” Danial Vahabli, SUNY Stony Brook, Winner of the Conflict, Social Action, and Change Division’s Student Paper Competition

“Reel Deadly: Resisting Colonial Images in Reservation Dogs,” Rowan Greywolf Moore, Arizona State University

“The Corruption of the Lifeworld: Habermas in the Time of X,” Andrew Wilczak, Emily Roberts and Alyssa Donnini, Wilkes University

“White Widow: Karen Read and Racialization of Innocence,” Carly Jennings, Texas A&M University

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