Date: TBD

Time: TBD

THEMATIC

CFP 55 - Thematic: Law in/as Crisis: Spatial Mechanisms of Legal Control
Room: TBD

Sponsor: Law and Society

Organizers: Michael Branch, Hawaiʻi Community College
Sino V. Esthappan, Northwestern University

Presider: Michael Branch, Hawaiʻi Community College

Description: 

This thematic session on law and its (dis)contents examines how law operates through space to produce and manage crisis. Panelists will trace how legal regimes shape access to housing, public space, neighborhood belonging, and basic survival. Panelists will address the ways in which law structures precarity spatially, transforming the contexts of daily life into contested terrains of control and resistance. 

Papers:

“Sacred Spaces and Queer Geographies: Spatial Violence in Homeless Services,” Taylor June and Madeline Yu Carrola, The Ohio State University

“Against Evictability: How Tenants Experience and Resist Precarity in the Chicago Housing Authority,” Rahim Kurwa, Almethia Franklin, Ronikia Beane and Sally Schmisek, University of Illinois Chicago

“Predatory Opacity: Bureaucratic Exclusion and Street Vendor Crackdowns in New Orleans,” AJ Golio, Tulane University

“Symbolic Violence in the Privatization of U.S. Public Housing,” Grace C. Sementilli, University at Buffalo, Winner of the Sociology, Social Work, and Social Welfare Division’s Student Paper Competition

“The Digitally Defended Neighborhood: Suburban Neighborhood Change, Racial Threat, and Surveillance,” Max Lubell, The University of Texas at Austin

“Waiting for Housing: The Supply-Side Origin of Administrative Burden in Affordable Housing Provision,” Katherine Smock, University of California, Los Angeles

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