Community and Urban Sociology

1. Interdisciplinarity and Urban Sociology
Session Organizers: Xuefei Ren and Claire Herbert
Presider: TBD

Individual Presentations:
“Challenging the Ecology of Social Disorganization,” Matthew J. DelSesto.
“Reclaiming Spaces, Shifting Safety: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis of Brownfield Redevelopment and Crime Trends in Chicago,” Marisol Becerra and Agustina Laurito.
“The Sociology of Drywall: Labor, Monopoly Capitalism, and Environmental Hazards,” Albert S. Fu.
“‘Urban-Rural Politics’: The Social Dynamics of Spatial Planning in Urbanizing China,” Bingzhe Lu.

2. Racial Capitalism and the Financialization of the City
Session Organizer: Luana Pinto Coelho
Presider: Elizabeth Korver-Glenn

Individual Presentations:
“A Racial Capitalist Perspective on Debt Blocks,” Ian Kennedy, Kate Krushinski O’Neill, Ryan Paul Larson, Sarah K.S. Shannon, and Alexes Harris.
“Boomtown Landlording: Real Estate Speculation, Racialized Displacement and the Persistence of Small Landlords in Austin, Texas,” Andrew Ford Messamore.
“’It’s a Land Grab:’ Financialized Development Under Racial Capitalism,” Matthew Atwell.
“Reflecting on the Pandemic: Is Using Big Data Another Tool of Racial Capitalism?” Tabitha R. Ingle.
“Using the Master’s Tools: How CLTs’ Legal Models Enable and Constrain Their Work,” Victoria F. Sisk.

3. Suburbs, Small Towns, and Midsize Cities
Session Organizer: Kiara Wyndham-Douds
Presider: Thalia Tom

Individual Presentations:
“Brokering Time: The Impact of Circulating Experts in Suburban Housing Policy,” Jennifer Girouard.
“Bubble vs Real World: Narratives of Place and Privilege in Suburbia,” Whitney Gecker.
“Gentrification and The Social Disruption of Neighborhoods,” Payton Johnson.
“Huesos Ganadores: Domino Play and Parks as Sites of Latinx Pla(y)cemaking,” Teresa Irene Gonzales and Lilian Wynne Platten.
“New Immigrants in Local Politics,” Jonathan Acosta.

4. Urban Inequalities Across Canada
Session Organizer: Prentiss Dantzler
Presider: Jan Doering

Individual Presentations:
“Assessing diversity among urban mobile home residents in Canada,” Lora A. Phillips.
“A Tale of Two Cities: Heterogeneity in Racial/Ethnic Discrimination in the Canadian Housing Market,” S. Michael Gaddis.
“Subsidized housing: The solution to housing affordability issues?” Kate Hee Choi and Arabella Soave.
“Toronto’s Drug Policy Paradox: Harm Reduction Sites versus Drug Arrests in Toronto Neighborhoods (1992-2020),” Taylor Domingos.

5. Community and Urban Sociology Section Refereed Roundtables
Session Organizer: Thalia Tom