SSSP 2025 Annual Meeting
Date: Sunday, August 10
Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Session 063: Breaking Free from Liberal White Supremacy to a Radical Feminist Collective: The Journey towards Building Intentional Community-Based, Insurgent Spaces in Sociology
Room: Crystal Room
Sponsor: Program Committee
Organizer &
Presider: Assata Zerai, The University of New Mexico
Description: In 2024, scholars of color and their white accomplices left a feminist organization that had become increasingly exclusionary and unwelcoming, despite its leadership professing a commitment to intersectional feminism. Born out of a need for a space where radical, marginalized scholars could grow and support one another, the Radical Feminist Collective (RFC) was conceived as a non-hierarchical organization intentionally building community with non-academics. In this session, founding members of the RFC reflect on our first year growing pains. We hope to share some successful strategies for building more radical, insurgent spaces both in and outside of academia, particularly as it comes to uplifting and protecting one another as we continue to challenge the status quo in these times of crises.
Panelists:
Roberta Villalon, St. John’s University
Ranita Ray, The University of New Mexico
Florence Emily Castillo, Texas Christian University
Beatriz Padilla, University of South Florida
Brittany Battle, Wake Forest University
Pedrom Nasiri, University of Calgary
Date: Sunday, August 10
Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Session 064: New Directions in Institutional Ethnography
Room: Indiana Room
Sponsor: Institutional Ethnography
Organizer: Katherine E. Koralesky, University of British Columbia
Presider &
Discussant: Emily C. Schubert, North Dakota State University
Description: This session features papers that are using Institutional Ethnography in new ways.
Papers:
“Exceptional Spaces: Diverse Learning Environments in a Public High School,” Karlyn J. Gorski, The University of Chicago
“Exploring the Experiences of Charge Nurses: An Institutional Ethnography,” Emily C. Schubert, North Dakota State University
Date: Sunday, August 10
Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
THEMATIC
Session 065: Environmental Activism as a Form of Insurgency
Room: Kimball Room
Sponsor: Environment and Technology
Organizer, Presider &
Discussant: Angus A. Nurse, Anglia Ruskin University
Description: This session explores the insurgent nature of environmental activism. We invited papers that consider activism as challenging ideologies and practices that suppress or deny access to environmental justice, those that view activism as promoting social justice and directly confronting environmental harms committed by powerful actors and endemic to neoliberal market perspectives.
The session invites a critical discussion of the nature of environmental activism, its limitations, enforced constraints and why activism is as important now as it ever has been when powerful interests seek to exploit natural resources and roll back environmental governance and regulation.
Papers:
“Organizing against Mining Companies during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Frames, Tactics and the Digital Divide in Southern Mexico,” Alessandro Morosin, University of La Verne and James Everett Hein, National University of Singapore
“Resisting Transnational Corporations: Lesotho and Kerala’s Water Battles through a Critical Environmental Justice Lens,” Joshua Cafferty, Utah Tech University
“The Brothers: A Case Study of Environmental Justice Activism,” Tanesha A. Thomas, Montclair State University
“Can Permaculture Offer a Transformative Climate Adaptation? Perspectives of Ecological Civic Initiatives in Turkey,” Nahide Konak, Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University, Cihan Ertan, Duzce University, Ali Babahan and Mehmet Veysel Elgin, Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University
“Slow Activism and the Criminalization of Contemporary Environmental Protest,” Angus A. Nurse, Anglia Ruskin University
Date: Sunday, August 10
Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Session 066: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: How to Teach Social Change in the Classroom
Room: Wabash Room
Sponsors: Community, Research, and Practice
Teaching Social Problems
Organizers: Paul J. Draus, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Perri S. Leviss, Rhode Island College
Presider/Discussant: Paul J. Draus, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Description: This session considers a range of approaches for engaging students in active learning about social change, through capstone experiences, service-learning partnerships, use of historic maps, incorporation of open sources materials, and interactive dialogue.
Papers:
“A Matter of Social Justice: Developing, Improving, and Promoting Open Educational Resources,” Pattie Thomas, College of Southern Nevada
“Advocating for Social Change: Teaching Op-ed Writing in the Classroom,” Jennifer Roebuck Bulanda, Miami University
“Mapping Liberation,” Adriana Leela Bohm, Delaware County Community College
“Participatory Action and Community-based Research and Social Change: Examples from a Capstone Experience,” Chris R. Wellin, Illinois State University
“Prison Education through a Great Lakes Prism,” Xavier Perez, DePaul University and Paul J. Draus, University of Michigan-Dearborn
“Social Justice Advocacy with Community Partners,” Helen Rosenberg, University of Wisconsin-Parkside and Anne Statham, University of Southern Indiana
“Teaching Social Change by Uncovering Hidden Histories: Reflections on a Social Work Course Redesign,” Sasha K. Kindred and Finn McLafferty Bell, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Date: Sunday, August 10
Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Session 067: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Insurgent Transnational Feminism and the Question of Empire
Room: Wilson Room
Sponsor: Gender, Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities
Organizer &
Presider/Discussant: Pallavi Banerjee, University of Calgary
Description: This session brings together scholars and practitioners to engage in critical dialogue about empire, colonialism, and resistance to these systems of power and oppression through intersectional and southern insurgent feminism.
Papers:
“Art as Armor: Trans* Youth Resilience and Empowerment in Texas,” Nicole M. Butkovich Kraus and Shanna Peeples, West Texas A&M University
“Countering Hegemonic Frames of Doing Gender: How Immigrant Siblings of Color Center Deep Care in Predominantly White Institutional Spaces,” Megha Sanyal, University of Calgary
“Misogyny in Disguise, New Faces of Gheyrat (Honor) in Iranian Instagram,” Saman Seyfi, The University of Oklahoma
“Sweet Temptations & Silent Struggles: Unveiling the Impact of Islamophobia and Colonialism among Malian Feminists,” Kadidja Diaby, Kennesaw State University
“Witches, Women and Violence: An In-depth Qualitative Study on Witch-hunting among the Rabhas in Assam, India,” Meghna Dutta, Wayne State University
“Beyond Dress, Sarees & Hijabs: Unlocking the Social Constraints on Clothing Choices Experienced by Muslim Women in Bangladesh,” Saifa Tazrin, University of Georgia
Date: Sunday, August 10
Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
THEMATIC
Session 068: Sociology, Social Work, and Social Welfare Institution Perspectives in Response to Recent or Current Crises I
Room: Buckingham Room
Sponsor: Sociology, Social Work, and Social Welfare
Organizers: Miriam J. Landsman, The University of Iowa
Erica FS Jablonski, University of New Hampshire
Presider: Miriam J. Landsman, The University of Iowa
Description: This is the first of a two part session. Social Work, and Social Welfare Institution Perspectives in Response to Crises Session I will focus on responses to work, the workforce and financial challenges.
Papers:
“Confronting Crisis in the Rural Social Work Workforce,” Miriam J. Landsman, The University of Iowa
“Crisis and Subjective Status Injustice: A Tale of Two Crises,” Jón Gunnar Bernburg and Thoroddur Bjarnason, University of Iceland
“In the Works: The Impact of Race/Ethnicity on Local Referral Unions’ Job Allocations,” Noemi Rivera Acevedo, Texas A&M University
“Medical Praxis: Strategies for Reforming Racial-ethnic and Gender Disparities in American Patient Care,” Taylor D. Sumpter, University of Miami
“On Plastic and Paternalism: How People Who Use Drugs Negotiate Electronic Benefit Transfer Systems in Los Angeles,” Allison Laing, The University of British Columbia, Anthony DiMario, University of California, San Francisco and Lindsey Richardson, The University of British Columbia
“Tangible and Intangible Informal Welfare and Psychological Well-being amidst Precarious Retirement Plans among Low-income Informal Workers in Ghana,” Padmore Adusei Amoah, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Date: Sunday, August 10
Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Session 069: PAPERS IN THE ROUND: Problems in Schools
Room: Price Room
Sponsor: Educational Problems
Organizer: Linda M. Waldron, Christopher Newport University
Description: This roundtable explores social problems in the U.S. school system, focusing on how bias and discrimination against students based on race, ethnicity, social class, citizenship and/or disability manifests itself in disproportionate disciplinary practices, harmful seclusion, and negative educational outcomes. These papers consider how parents, counselors, and educators navigate unequal educational policies and advocate for social support and social change to help improve the lives of children.
Roundtable #1 Title: Problems in Schools
Presider:
Linda M. Waldron, Christopher Newport University
Papers:
“Systemic Processes of Regulation Influencing the US Education System: Hindering Outcomes for Low-income Students and Students of Color,” Lauri T. Klump, Illinois State University
“Accessing Whiteness: The Process through Which Black/White Multiracial Youth and Their White Parents Navigate the Education System,” Alizé B. Hill, The University of Chicago
“Comparison of Bias-based Bullying and Non-bias-based Bullying: Prevalence Rates, Impacts on Students, and the Buffering Role of Social Support,” Zehra Sahin Ilkorkor, Virginia Commonwealth University, Honorable Mention of the Educational Problems Division’s Student Paper Competition
“The Cost of Challenging School Seclusion and Restraint Practices for Parents of Black and White Children with Disabilities,” Charles Bell, Illinois State University
“The Role of School Type in Counselors’ Knowledge about Newly Implemented Tuition Equity Policy for Undocumented Students in Massachusetts,” Alessandra Bazo Vienrich and Alexis Rei, Rhode Island College
“Threats to Thriving: Black Boys, Maternal Resistance, and the Racialized Homeschooling Terrain,” Moriah Lynn Johnson, Loyola University Chicago
Date: Sunday, August 10
Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Session 070: Social Movements for Legal Change
Room: Spire Parlor
Sponsor: Law and Society
Organizer: Michael Branch, Hartwick College
Presider: To Be Determined, TBD
Description: This session will explore the broad relationship between law, collective social action, social movements, and legislative changes.
Papers:
“‘Almost Everyone Here is Blowing Smoke’: Resisting Eco-fascism and Developing a More Resilient Politics of Concern in the Wake of the 2025 Vistra Chemical Fire,” Kristin J. Wilson, Cabrillo College
“‘Terrorized by…Administrative Proceedings’: Fraternity Brothers, Police Officers, and the Delegitimization of Institutional Accountability Processes,” Anna K. Wood, University of Michigan and Anna D. Fox, The University of Chicago
“Gangism: The Religious Framework of Gangs,” Robert Northman, Portland State University
“Racial Attitudes and Contemporary Protest Criminalization: Analyzing Trends in U.S. Legislation from 2017 to 2024,” Stephanie V. Ha, University of Delaware
“Tensions of Expertise and Law: Advocating for Domestic Violence Victim-survivors with Traumatic Brain Injury,” Kathryn Henne, The Australian National University and Arizona State University
“The Bantasm of ‘Gender’: Exploring the Phantasmatic Quality of Gender in Book Banning,” Alex Niner, University of California, Irvine
