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CFP 12 - Regular: Advocacy and Change
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Sponsors: Conflict, Social Action, and Change
Institutional Ethnography

Organizers: Lauren Eastwood, State University of New York, Plattsburgh
C. Michael Awsumb, Northwest Missouri State University

Presider: C. Michael Awsumb, Northwest Missouri State University

Description: 

This session features presentations that broadly address advocacy and social change. Institutional ethnographers begin from the “everyday,” with the premise that people’s experiences are organized by larger ruling relations. However, to paraphrase Marx, the goal is not simply to analyze these phenomena but to change them, as “ruling relations” refer to power dynamics that generate disjunctures, inequalities, and marginalization. The papers in this session take up this dynamic through research, activism, or both.

Papers:

“At All Costs: Testifying for Housing Justice through Canada’s Federal Human Rights Review Panels,” Alex Nelson, Western University, Honorable Mention of the Institutional Ethnography Division’s Student Paper Competition

“Call It Power and Resistance: Naming and Conceptualizing, Carefully, in Institutional Ethnography,” Brenda Solomon, University of Vermont

“Layered Youth: How a South Korean Housing Movement Made ‘Youth’ Politically Usable,” Eunchong Cho, University of California, San Diego

“Playing Their Game(s): Legible Contention through Strategic Mirroring at the Paris 2024 Olympics,” Sara Lancieri, Sapienza University of Rome

“The Role of Women in the Promotion of Peace and Social Justice in the Philippines: Lived Experiences, Challenges, and Lessons,” Diana Therese M. Veloso, De La Salle University

“The Social Organization of Health Work among Women with Autoimmune Diseases,” Dara Gordon, University of Toronto

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