Date: Sunday, August 10

Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM

Session 077: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Handbook of Social Justice, edited by Former SSSP President Corey Dolgon
Room: Crystal Room

Sponsor: Program Committee

Organizer &

Presider: Corey Dolgon, Stonehill College

Description: 

This session presents contributors to a new book from Oxford University Press entitled: A Handbook of Sociology for Social Justice. We’ll cover myriad ways that sociologists conduct and produce research guided by struggles against inequality and structures of oppression. Contributors present theoretical pieces promoting the democratization of knowledge production and the political vitality of emergent collaborative research with and from communities in struggle. The book also features case studies among youth in South America and South Africa, farmers and land rights activists in Southeast Asia, and anti-poverty, anti-racist and pro-LGBTQ organizations throughout the U.S. Presenters will briefly describe their work and the potential for sociologists work to inform and partake in present and future radical struggles for justice.

Panelists:

Mary Romero, Professor Emerita, Arizona State University

Melinda Messineo, Ball State University

daniel olmos, California State University, Northridge

Anthony Jerald Jackson, Bowie State University

Ali Meghji, University of Cambridge

Masonya J. Bennett, Kennesaw State University

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Date: Sunday, August 10

Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM

THEMATIC

Session 078: Collective Healing: Insurgent Strategies for Community Wellness and Social Justice Movements
Room: Indiana Room

Sponsor: Disability, Mental Wellness, and Social Justice

Organizers: Lily Ivanova, University of British Columbia
Melinda Leigh Maconi, Moffitt Cancer Center
Rebecca Siqi Qin, University of British Columbia

Presider: Melinda Leigh Maconi, Moffitt Cancer Center

Discussant: Rebecca Siqi Qin, University of British Columbia

Description: 

This session explores how collective approaches to wellness can empower communities and create transformative change in societal structures. Papers in this session turn the lens on community organizing – how do groups undertake and negotiate collective action in movements for improving community wellness and healing, including in difficult social contexts, diverse circumstances, across generational understandings, and when collective action itself takes a toll on mental wellbeing? Engaging with a breadth of empirical cases, papers in this session discuss the meanings and strategies of communities participating in social action for collective healing.

Papers:

“Settlers on a Journey: Collective Healing from the Trauma of Residential Schools in Canada,” Lily Ivanova, University of British Columbia

“Disability in Prison Newsletters: The Voices of Incarcerated People,” Margaret E. Buckridge, University of California, Irvine

“The Kids Aren’t Alright: Introduction of Disability Justice Principles to Radicalized American Youth,” Maeve Jillian King, Georgia Southern University

“Rest as Resistance: Instagram, Black Women, and the Politics of Disengagement,” Jacqueline Johnson, Adelphi University

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Date: Sunday, August 10

Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM

THEMATIC

Session 079: Youth in Crisis
Room: Kimball Room

Sponsor: Family, Aging, and Youth

Organizer &

Presider: Rin Ferraro, The University of Oklahoma

Description: 

This session explores the needs, perspectives, and experiences of youth experiencing a variety of crises and challenges.

Papers:

“Cumulative Effects of Household and Residential Instability on Adolescent Parenting: Evidence from Norway,” Anna Maria Santiago, Michigan State University and Kristin Aarland, Oslo Metropolitan University

“Examining Future Orientations of Youth Involved in the Child Welfare System,” Rin Ferraro, The University of Oklahoma

“Family Related Correlates of Risky Sexual Behaviors of Undergraduate Male Adolescents in Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria,” Macellina Yinyinade Ijadunola, Obafemi Awolowo University

“University Students’ Perspectives on Dating Violence in Turkey,” Fatime Güneş, Anadolu University

“Unsafe, Excluded, and Different: Youth with IDD Experiencing Homelessness in the Classroom,” Christina R. Luzius-Vanin, Ann Fudge Schormans, Bridget Marsdin and Stephanie Baker Collins, McMaster University

“Youth Homelessness in Utah: Needs Assessment of the Mountain Lands and Balance of State Continuums of Care (CoCs),” Danielle Littman and Denae J. Cook, University of Utah

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Date: Sunday, August 10

Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM

THEMATIC

Session 080: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Right to Resist II - Insurgent Counter-Hegemony and Agency of the Unapologetic, Emancipatory, Revolutionary, and Transformative Kinds
Room: Wabash Room

Sponsors: Conflict, Social Action, and Change
Critical Race and Ethnic Study

Organizers: C. Michael Awsumb, Northwest Missouri State University
Watoii Rabii, Oakland University

Presider/Discussant: C. Michael Awsumb, Northwest Missouri State University

Description: 

The second of two sessions exploring themes around the framing of resistance, particularly the notion that resistance should be orderly and easily ignored. This session interrogates the political and symbolic struggles against state, institutional and interpersonal violence, like racism, war, genocide, structural violence and the implicit demand that those who are oppressed suffer quietly and gratefully. The session concept is engaging the question of “who gets to determine the “right” or “acceptable” way to resist your oppressor?

Papers:

“Social Change through Social Media: How Iranian X Users Mobilize Action to Challenge Death Sentences,” Foroogh Mohammadi, Acadia University and Pouya Morshedi, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador

“Luigi Mangione and the Propaganda of the Deed--a Case Study in the Right to Resist,” Gillian Niebrugge-Brantley, Patricia Lengermann and Lauren Rosenkrantz, The George Washington University

“Radical Resistance and the Tyranny of Destructive Leadership: A Sociopsychological Analysis of the Luigi Mangione Case and the Ensuing Public Response,” Dino Vicencio, Pepperdine University

““If I Want to Kill You, Then I Should Be More Mature:“ Risk, Resistance, and Counterinsurgent Maturity,” Sophia Lindner, Yale University

“Writers against Cop Cities: Recentering Protesters and Challenging Dominant Narratives as a Cultural Process,” Jadelynn C. Zhang, Emory University

“From Cellphone Recording to Protective Monitoring: Witnessing as Resistance,” Brandon Alston, The Ohio State University

“LGBTQ+SEA: Experiences of First and Second Generation Queer and Trans Southeast Asians in the Absence of an Ethnic Core,” Jasmine S. Buenviaje, SUNY Oneonta

“Dissent, Transgress, Subvert: Transformative Potential of Expressive, Performative, and Participatory Art in Resistance to Crimes of the Powerful,” C. Michael Awsumb, Northwest Missouri State University

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Date: Sunday, August 10

Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM

SPECIAL

Session 081: Navigating Existence as an Insurgent Scholar: Work, Engagement, and Activism
Room: Wilson Room

Sponsor: Program Committee

Organizer &

Presider: Assata Zerai, The University of New Mexico

Description: 

Panelists will share their experiences as insurgent scholars balancing: 1. the academic job market, as applicants and as search committee members; 2. promotional pathways; and 3. commitments to activism. We will also address the unique challenges of navigating academia as insurgent sociologists with intersecting minoritized identities; and those related to anti-DEI, anti-LGBTQIA+, and anti-reproductive justice legislation that has spurred outmigration of academics to more friendly environments to live and work. Panelists will discuss ways to overcome these obstacles. We invite attendees who are considering careers either within or outside of academia alongside those who are willing to share their experiences as scholar activists. Scholars seeking positions and those who wish to support early career insurgent social scientists are encouraged to attend.

Panelists:

Elroi J. Windsor, University of West Georgia

Tsedale Melaku, City University of New York

Evangela Q. Oates, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Brittany Battle, Wake Forest University

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Date: Sunday, August 10

Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM

Session 082: Victimization and Victims
Room: Buckingham Room

Sponsor: Crime and Justice

Organizer, Presider &

Discussant: Stephanie Bonnes, University of New Haven

Description: 

This session explores victimization and victims across a variety of spaces including victimization in war, social conflict, the workplace, and within interpersonal relationships.

Papers:

“Crime Victim Voyeurism,” Karen G. Weiss, West Virginia University

“Deserving Victims in a Collective Crisis: U.S. News Representations of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women,” Sara Tehrani and Shannon K. Carter, University of Central Florida

“Disaggregating Civilian and Combatant Deaths in Bosnia and Herzegovina,” Anneliese Schenk-Day and Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira, The Ohio State University and Trey Billing, Armed Conflict Location and Event Data

“From Microaggressions to Discrimination: A Study on Non-religious Identities and Victimization in Four Countries,” Morena Tartari, Northumbria University

“Military Conflict, Displaced Aggression, and Anti-Muslim Hate Crime Victimization in Post-war America,” Jack Mitchel Mills, Florida State University

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Date: Sunday, August 10

Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM

THEMATIC

Session 083: Law in/as Crisis: Contemporary Problems
Room: Spire Parlor

Sponsor: Law and Society

Organizers: Michael Branch, Hartwick College
Jacinta Gau, University of Central Florida

Presider: To Be Determined, TBD

Description: 

This session explores how legal systems respond to and perpetuate crises in the modern world. Reflection on the ways in which legal frameworks are often at the center of societal upheaval, panelists in this session will examine the intersections of law, power, and emergency, questioning whether legal structures mitigate or exacerbate crises.

Papers:

“Cheating Disability: The Politics of Surviving Social Security Disability Benefits,” Sarah J. Malone, University of Illinois Chicago

“Internalized Change or Forced Coercion,” Mary Elizabeth Underwood Hood, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

“New Deal or No Deal? Dual Labor Regimes and American Subnational Governance of Work,” Chris Rhomberg, Fordham University, Laura C. Bucci, Saint Joseph's University and Todd Vachon, Rutgers University

“Strategizing Gender: Experiences of Transmasculine Folk with Police and Security Forces in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires,” Francis J. Fabre, The University of Chicago

“Strong Protections v Weak Tenants: Investigating ‘Law in Action’ with Low-income Renters in Oakland, CA,” Iris H. Zhang, Stanford University

“Unraveling the Complex Surveillance Tapestry of Homelessness in South and Middle Georgia,” Rafia Javaid Mallick and Munirat Sanmori, Georgia State University

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