Queer Placemaking Beyond the Gayborhood
Monday, August 8, 2022
10:00 – 11:30 am
Co-Organizers:
Greggor Mattson, Oberlin College (gmattson@oberlin.edu)
Mahesh Somashekhar, University of Illinois-Chicago (msoma@uic.edu)
This panel explores strategies of placemaking and community by LGBTQ+ populations beyond the metronormative and post-gay subcultures and representations within iconic gay neighborhoods. We invite submissions that center the spatial expressions and experiences of LGBTQ+ people across various geographic contexts, including, but not limited to, suburbs, rural areas, “ordinary cities,” online and virtual spaces, and geographies hostile to LGBTQ+ rights. We also welcome submissions that explore how marginalized LGBTQ+ communities might refashion and reimagine spaces and places within iconic gay neighborhoods. We especially encourage submissions that focus on contexts outside central cities and the Global North, that deploy intersectional and antiracist approaches, and those that center on the agency of marginalized populations.
Presider: Mahesh Somashekhar, University of Illinois-Chicago
Panelists:
“Queer Latinx Political-Creatives in Los Angeles: A Spectrum of Space-Making Strategies”
Jessennya Hernandez, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
“Density, Diversity, Culture: How Place Characteristics Shape Individual Sense of Community for LGBTQ People”
Connor Craig Gilroy, University of Washington
“Rethinking Queer Spaces: Making of a Subversively Queer Space in a South Korean Choir”
Jiwon Yun, Yale University
“Flirting with Non-Existence: Hidden Currencies of Gay Expatriate Nightlife in Dubai”
Ryan Centner, London School of Economics
Urban Futures: Cities after COVID-19
Monday, August 8, 2022
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Co-Organizers:
Krista E. Paulsen, Boise State University (kristapaulsen@boisestate.edu)
Youbin Kang, University of Wisconsin-Madison (ykang62@wisc.edu)
This panel engages how the COVID-19 pandemic impacts the future of cities. We invite submissions that consider how the pandemic reshapes community and urban citizenship, population density and distribution, transportation and infrastructure, work, technology, urban cultures, leisure and urban nightlife, spatial justice, and urban movements. We also welcome submissions that highlight how the pandemic exposes new urban problems and inequalities confronting our cities. We especially encourage submissions that focus on contexts outside central cities and the Global North, that deploy intersectional and antiracist approaches, and those that center on the agency of marginalized populations.
Presider: Krista E. Paulsen, Boise State University
Presenters:
“Digital Urban Governance: Data Work in Crisis Response”
Yan Long, University of California-Berkeley
Wei Willa Luo, Stanford University
“Creation after Disaster: LGBT+ Placemaking in Mexico City During COVID-19”
Christina Marie Chica, University of California, Los Angeles
“From #CancelRent to #SocialHousing: The Politics of Radical Demands in US Cities After COVID-19”
Gianpaolo Baiocchi, New York University
Howard Jacob Carlson, Brown University
“Informal Livelihoods or Ineffective Cash Transfer Programs: Explaining COVID-19-Contagion Rates in Lima”
Lissette Aliaga Linares, University of Nebraska at Omaha
“Social Engagement and Happiness during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Return to Gemeinschaft?”
Alonso Aravena, Baylor university
Homelessness, Unsheltered Populations, and Housing Precarity
Tuesday, August 9, 2022
8:00 am – 9:30 am
Co-Organizers:
Christine Jang-Trettien, Princeton University (cjj3@princeton.edu)
Kesha S. Moore, Thurgood Marshall Institute (kmoore@naacpldf.org)
This panel explores the various ecosystems of homelessness and housing insecurity. We invite submissions that consider how the pandemic and the ongoing housing crisis have expanded or complicated our understanding of homelessness and those who fit that category. Topics include, but are not limited to, (re)conceptualizing homelessness, unsheltered populations, and housing precarity, community, government, and media responses to homelessness and housing insecurity, policies around containment and displacement, criminalization and policing of homeless and housing insecure populations, and people’s efforts to mobilize on their own behalf. We especially encourage submissions that focus on contexts outside central cities and the Global North, that deploy intersectional and antiracist approaches, and those that center on the agency of marginalized populations.
Presider: Kesha S. Moore, Thurgood Marshall Institute
Presentations:
“Housing Instability and Adult Wellbeing”
Hope Harvey, University of Kentucky
Brielle Bryan, Rice University
“Pandemic Poverty Governance: Neoliberalism Under Crisis”
Devin Michael Collins, University of Washington
Katherine Beckett, University of Washington
Marco Brydolf-Horwitz, University of Washington
“Resisting and Reclaiming: Housing Occupations by Homeless Mothers in Three U.S. Cities”
Claire W. Herbert, University of Oregon
Amanda Vel Ricketts
“‘We’ll Make it Work’: Navigating Housing Instability Following Romantic Partner Incarceration”
Angie Belen Monreal, University of California, Irvine
Kristin Turney, University of California, Irvine
Steven Edward Schmidt, University of California, Irvine
Migrations: Forced, Temporary, and Voluntary
Tuesday, August 9, 2022
10:00 am – 11:30 am
Co-Organizers:
Teresa Irene Gonzales, University of Massachusetts-Lowell (teresa_gonzales@uml.edu)
Cheryl Llewellyn, University of Massachusetts-Lowell (cheryl.llewellyn@gmail.com)
This panel investigates the various approaches to studying migration in the twenty-first century. We invite submissions that consider the impact of such factors as the pandemic, environmental disasters, violence, and the ongoing housing crisis in cities on the voluntary, forced, or temporary geographical movement of populations. Topics might include, but are not limited to, the ecosystems of immigration, forms of out-migration driven by COVID-19 to lower density areas, Black, Latinx, and other communities of color out-migration from the central cities to lower-income suburbs or rural areas, and political refugees. Papers may also consider the implications of out-migration from cities, how patterns of migration force a reimagining of spaces and places, and the placemaking strategies of migrant communities arising out of these patterns. We especially encourage submissions that focus on contexts outside the Global North, that deploy intersectional and antiracist approaches, and those that center on the agency of marginalized populations.
Presider: Cheryl Llewellyn, University of Massachusetts-Lowell
Presenters:
“Precarious Migrant Workers in Limbo Between Migration, Labor, and Criminal Law”
Kurt Kuehne, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Return Migration, Reintegration, and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan”
Saeed Ahmad, Utah State University
Erin Trouth Hoffman, Utah State University
“The Institutional Mechanisms of Minority Displacement: The Southeastern Perspective”
Yael Shmaryahu-Yeshurun, University of California San Diego
“The sakan shababiyy, or the world improvised: displacement and masculine domestic space in Lebanon”
Samuel Dinger, New York University
“Turkish Emigration as a Response to the Incremental Degradation of Democracy”
Dugyu Alpan, Stony Brook University
Unlearning Core Concepts in Urban/Community Sociology
Tuesday, August 9, 2022
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Co-Organizers:
Zachary Levenson, University of North Carolina, Greensboro (zachary.levenson@uncg.edu)
Demar Lewis, Yale University (demar.lewis@yale.edu)
This session explores how growing scholarly attention to decolonizing sociology calls for new perspectives that question, challenge, and unsettle foundational concepts, frameworks, and debates within Urban and Community Sociology. We invite submissions that draw on various socio-spatial contexts from diverse geographic locations to offer a critical and reflexive exploration of the field’s epistemic and methodological limitations and suggest new approaches for investigating a range of topics, including (but not limited to) the city/suburb/rural divide, community, urbanism, segregation, local community membership, gentrification and renewal, insecurity (housing, food), displacement and dispossession, and local activism. We especially encourage submissions that focus on contexts outside the Global North, that deploy intersectional and antiracist approaches, and those that center on the agency of marginalized populations.
Presider: Zachary Levenson, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Presenters:
“Flourishing in the Black Metropolis: Toward a Positive Sociology of Race”
Demetrius Miles Murphy, University of Southern California
“Producing and Emplacing Difference: Property Regulation, Spatialization, and Urban Fragmentation in Mexico City”
Sarah Elizabeth Farr, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“White Spacemaking: Race and Urban Change”
Shani Adia Evans, Rice University
“Securityscapes of Colonial Nairobi”
Amanda Cristina Ball, Brown University
CUSS Refereed Roundtables
Tuesday, August 9, 2022
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Co-Organizers:
Paige Ambord, University of Notre Dame (paige.ambord@gmail.com)
Grigoris Argeros, Eastern Michigan University (gargeros@emich.edu)
Table 1: Gentrification
Table 2: Affordable Housing
Table 3: Policing and Safety
Table 4: Displacement
Table 5: Cities and COVID-19
Table 6: Responding to COVID-19
Table 7: Cities and Rental Platforms
Table 8: Marginalized Community
Table 9: Infrastructure
Table 10: Residential Mobility and Instability
Table 11: Residential Segregation 1
Table 12: Residential Segregation 2
Table 13: Sports and Cultural Developments
Table 14: Mobilization and Collective Action
Table 15: Money and Resources
Table 16: Informal Housing and Economy
Table 17: Culture and Placemaking
Table 18: Other Urban Issues
Community and Urban Sociology Business Meeting
Tuesday, August 9, 2022
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm
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