Pub Date : 2024-07-23DOI: 10.1177/01605976241266240
Nancy Rios-Contreras, Luis Fernando Hernández Mateo
Social conditions force migrants to pursue mass mobilization and transit through Latin America to the Mexico-United States border. Mainstream media continues to sensationalize the migrant caravans. Research concerning the experiences of individuals in caravans remains underdeveloped. A question remains about how women experience transit in a mass caravan migration. This study uses a migrant feminist standpoint to capture women's perspectives within the 2018 Central American migrant caravans. In 2019, a qualitative analysis of 15 semi-structured interviews with migrant participants primarily from Central America and fieldwork observation was conducted in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. Caravans provide a realistic alternative avenue for migration. Migration is a gendered process where women resist state violence. Reaching the Tijuana border is a success, but it comes at a detrimental cost for women, including experiencing deception, social class inequalities, and distrust. Humanitarian responses to the migrant caravans benefit from adopting a gender-conscious action-based practice.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-22DOI: 10.1177/01605976241266239
P. Broom, Yuki Kato, Shawn “Pepper” Roussel
Urban agriculture has gained prominence over the last decade in New Orleans, but the majority of the new gardens and farms that have emerged in the city since 2010 are neither culturally nor socially connected to the vibrant history of local food provisioning in the city’s Black communities. The history is tied closely to the region’s economic boom and bust, systemic oppression and segregation, and the cultural co-optation and devaluation of Black folk foodways in the city. By relying on the oral history to complement where the official or academic documentation has failed to capture the rich history of urban gardening by Black New Orleanians, this article demonstrates that the residents of Black communities in New Orleans once grew their own food, both as a form of collective efficacy and as a way of passing on horticultural knowledge and skills.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-20DOI: 10.1177/01605976241266213
L. Carruyo
The centrality of the self (including in published life narratives, social media confessionals, social movements and even our own classroom rituals), and the attendant conflation of experience, analysis, and truth, revive longstanding questions about our investment in the individual. The self and its narration continue to be messy and evolve in tandem with intense societal, technological, and economic shifts. This article grows from an interest in the tension between affirming the diverse set of experiences that gather in our classrooms, and challenging students to think systemically about the social world and our place in it. Published life-narratives—here I discuss the work of Virginia Grise and Valeria Luiselli—provide pedagogical opportunities to fortify agentic knowers by cultivating a practice of critical recognition. A practice of critical recognition in the classroom and beyond may help us all better face both what we know and what we don’t know, together.
{"title":"Toward a Practice of Critical Recognition: Life Narrative in the Sociology Classroom and Beyond","authors":"L. Carruyo","doi":"10.1177/01605976241266213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01605976241266213","url":null,"abstract":"The centrality of the self (including in published life narratives, social media confessionals, social movements and even our own classroom rituals), and the attendant conflation of experience, analysis, and truth, revive longstanding questions about our investment in the individual. The self and its narration continue to be messy and evolve in tandem with intense societal, technological, and economic shifts. This article grows from an interest in the tension between affirming the diverse set of experiences that gather in our classrooms, and challenging students to think systemically about the social world and our place in it. Published life-narratives—here I discuss the work of Virginia Grise and Valeria Luiselli—provide pedagogical opportunities to fortify agentic knowers by cultivating a practice of critical recognition. A practice of critical recognition in the classroom and beyond may help us all better face both what we know and what we don’t know, together.","PeriodicalId":331747,"journal":{"name":"Humanity & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141818863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-07-19DOI: 10.1177/01605976241266214
Eric O. Silva
Masks emerged as one of the few means of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. A significant minority of Americans, however, resisted the emergent mask wearing norm. This study seeks to examine the ways that constructions of mask use as an appropriate alleviation of the threat posed by COVID-19 was disrupted in public discourse. It does so by employing a qualitative content analysis of comments made on Twitter, Reddit, and YouTube in response to a mask burning rally held in Boise, Idaho in March 2021. Guided by the literature on aligning activity, this analysis identifies four of the processes by which the positive definition of mask wearing was undermined. Through fragmentation, neutralization, dilution, and displacement, the official definition of mask use was complicated by competing definitions of conduct and also contested evaluations of identities. These findings provide further understanding of the obstacles to coordination during COVID-19 and the role that aligning activity plays as an obstacle to the social construction of danger in the absence of established norms.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-21DOI: 10.1177/01605976241236863
Alicia L. Brunson, Miyanla Brockington, Gabrielle Nichols, Chelsey Rivera
This study addresses a critical barrier to the academic advancement and graduation of Black students–the presence of a hostile racial climate. While Historically and Predominantly White Institutions (HPWIs) may profess a commitment to diversity, a closer examination of their culture, climate, practices, and policies reveals the persistence of racialized structures that disproportionately advantage white individuals. This research provides strategies employed by Black students at a HPWI of higher education to achieve academic success and enhance their overall college experience. Through 44 in-depth one-on-one interviews, students share the stthey have harnessed to navigate these challenges. Central to these students’ success included active participation in Black student organizations, where they not only resist the effects of a hostile climate but also foster academic and social achievements. Through leveraging their agency to articulate their experiences and engaging with Black student organizations as counterspaces, Black students adeptly navigate the complex environment of HPWIs.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-16DOI: 10.1177/01605976241233983
Janine Schipper
This “Final Thought” is a personal reflection on the impact Thich Nhat Hanh, the Vietnamese Zen Monk, activist, and writer has had on my life, including how I teach sociology. I hope that readers get a taste of Nhat Hanh’s simple but profound teachings and also feel nourished and uplifted as they read these reflections.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-22DOI: 10.1177/01605976241228472
Guinevere Chambers
Police brutality is a salient issue in recent years, especially in the United States. Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), as well as disabled people, experience higher rates of police violence than white and nondisabled individuals, and it is important to recognize and scrutinize this pattern of injustice. This project investigated police interactions with members of the D/deaf and Hard of Hearing (Deaf/HH) community, and analyzed the intersection of race and disability in the context of policing. Four Deaf/HH individuals were surveyed, and twenty anecdotal accounts from social media were analyzed. Research findings indicate that the Deaf/HH community faces unique challenges when interacting with police. These include difficulties communicating hearing status, misinterpretation of Deaf/HH communication methods, the formulation of strategies for safely navigating police encounters, the intersection of race and disability, and accessibility concerns. The consequences of these issues can be dire, often deadly, and thus potential solutions are discussed to help mitigate future harm.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-06DOI: 10.1177/01605976231217039
Natasha Warikoo, Myron T. Strong, Dave Stovall, Victor Ray
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Pub Date : 2023-12-06DOI: 10.1177/01605976231219232
Mariya Bezgrebelna, S. Hajat, Solomon Njenga, Marc R. Settembrino, Jamie Vickery, Sean A. Kidd
There is a growing attention to neoliberal policies and practices as they relate to climate change and housing within academic literature. However, the combined effects of neoliberal political and economic decisions on the interaction between climate change and displaced and homeless populations have not been substantially explored. In this paper, we identify and focus on three key re-emerging themes prevalent within neoliberal discourses: economic considerations, individualization, and short-termism. To examine the intersecting influence of climate change and these themes on vulnerable populations, the following case studies are discussed: displaced populations in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, refugees in Kenya, and tiny homes programs in the U.S. and Canada. The diversified contexts and levels of analysis allow for more nuanced understanding of the variety of ways in which neoliberal influences and climate-induced events impact the most vulnerable populations. We argue for the need to change the framing of these issues, which are often presented in neoliberal terms and are driven by neoliberal logic. We then present potential avenues for resolving the identified issues, such as through systemic changes, development of long-term solutions, and focusing on community-based adaptation (CBA) programs.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-18DOI: 10.1177/01605976231214730
S. Buggs
This essay began as a keynote I delivered at a sociology teaching conference in the summer of 2023. It focuses on my experiences of right-wing harassment and as both a scholar and teacher working in Florida under recent legislation that targets various foundational sociology concepts and challenges various inclusion practices on college campuses. I offer an assessment of these attacks on our academic freedoms and lay out three skills that sociology specifically can provide students as they navigate learning in environments like Florida.
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