ESS 2013 Sustainable Communities, Sustainable Lives Social Change, Social Action & Social Justice EASTERN SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIETY 83RD ANNUAL MEETING Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers March 21-24, 2013 GENERAL INFORMATION REGISTRATION Hours: Thursday, 11:30 am-5:00 pm Friday, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm. Saturday, 8:00 am-5:00 pm Sunday, 8:00 am-10:00 am. The Registration Desk is located in the foyer of the Imperial Ballroom (Mezzanine) 1. When you register, you will be given a registration badge. 2. Badges are to be worn at all sessions and are required for admission to ESS events. 3. Registered participants may request complimentary badges for their nonmember spouses. ESS COMMONS The ESS COMMONS is on the Mezzanine level in the Imperial Ballroom. It includes: The Book Exhibit, which is described on the back inside cover of the program. The Message Board, where participants can leave and receive messages. Because too few job openings were submitted prior to program publication, the Employment Center will be suspended for this year. Please do check the Employment Services section on our website (http://essnet.org) for current postings. COPIES OF PAPERS The ESS does not sell or distribute papers or abstracts. Please contact authors directly to obtain copies of papers or to get further information. SESSION AND PAPER LENGTH Sessions are scheduled with the expectation that presenters and discussants will take approximately 15 minutes to make their initial presentations. This will allow time for discussion among the panelists and for audience participation. Presiders should end sessions promptly to enable the following sessions to start on time. If there is no Presider listed, please appoint one from the panel for time-keeping purposes. Next Year's Annual Meeting will be at the The Baltimore Hilton February 20-23, 2014 Sustainable Communities/Sustainable Lives: Social Change, Social Action, & Social Justice The 83rd Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers Table of Contents Program Highlights 3 Program Summary 9 Program Details 17 Previous Officers and Award Winners 93 ESS Officers and Committees 96 Acknowledgements 99 Call for 2012 Papers 100 Publisher Advertisements 101 Winners – Travel Grants 103 Index of Participants 104 General Information Inside Front Cover Book Exhibitors Inside Back Cover Session Room Maps Back Cover Cover Design: Brad Smith, Rebecca Nelson Jacobs, Emily Mahon Begin Making Plans for ESS 2014: Invisible Work Baltimore Hilton February 20-23, 2014 1 Notes 2 Sustainable Communities, Sustainable Lives: Social Change, Social Action & Social Justice ESS 2013 Program Highlights PLENARY SESSIONS: Thursday 5:30-7:00 PM Robin Williams Lecture –Presider: Reeve Vanneman Prosumption: Evolution, Revolution, or Eternal Return of the Same? George Ritzer Friday 5:30-7:00 PM Plenary – Presider: Nancy A. Naples Sustainable Democracy: Post-Election Reflections Georgian Michael Jeffries, Marshall Ganz, Saskia Sassen, and Carmen Sirianni Saturday 5:30-7:00 PM Presidential Address – Presider: Beth Mintz Georgian Sustaining Democracy: Localization, Globalization, and Feminist Praxis Nancy A. Naples PRESIDENTIAL SESSIONS: Thursday 3:30-5:00 PM The Global Street: Where Powerlessness Becomes Complex Whittier Patricia Fernandez Kelly, Rami Nashashibi, Saskia Sassen, Jocelyn Viterna Friday 12:00-1:30 PM The Obama Presidency and US Presidential Politics Whittier Justin R. Young, Kevin Young, Michael Schwartz, Cheryl Townsend Gilkes Friday 1:45-3:15 PM Creating Social Change Agents: Turning Points and Social Conditions Arlington Susan A. Ostrander, Mark R. Warren, Connie K. Chung, Rosanna Hertz, Marshall Ganz Saturday 10:15-11:45 AM Class, Culture, and Mobility Beacon Hill Hugh Mehan, Roberto G. Gonzales, Jessi Streib, Heather Curl, Annett Lareau, Mary C. Waters Sunday 1:45-3:15 PM Neoliberalism and Government: New Theoretical and Berkeley Empirical Perspectives Sam Binkley, Jyoti Puri, Yasser Munif — Emerson College, Amaka Camille Okechukwu THEMATIC SESSIONS: Thursday 1:45-3:15 PM Sociology of Natural Disasters Charles River Thursday 1:45-3:15 PM ’Eat Your Heart Out’: Food and Sustaining Identity, Clarendon Making Difference and Negotiating Community Thursday 3:30-5:00 PM Constructing World Heritage: Equity and Sustainability Stuart in Natural and Cultural Preservation Thursday 3:30-5:00 PM Organizing Foreclosure Resistance Cambridge Friday 8:30-10:00 AM Homelessness in US Society Berkeley Friday 8:30-10:00 AM Community and Economic Sustainability Thoreau Friday 10:15-11:45 AM Sustainability and Economy Berkeley Friday 10:15-11:45 AM Global, National and Local Intersections: Public Clarendon Challenges and Community Responses Friday 1:45-3:15 PM Sustainability in Action Clarendon Saturday 8:30-10:00 AM Occupy and the Media Stuart Sunday 12:00-1:30 PM Responses to Economic Crises Holmes Friday 3:30-5:00 PM The Sociological Imagination and Social Justice: Clarendon Community Based Participant Action Research for Social Change Saturday 8:30-10:00 AM Public Higher Education: Necessary for a Sustainable Future Clarendon 3 THEMATIC SESSIONS – cont’d Saturday 10:15-11:45 AM Teaching Sociology for a Sustainable 21st Century Clarendon Saturday 12:00-1:30 PM Conversation: From Disability Ghettoes to Sustainable, Clarendon Livable Communities Saturday 1:45-3:15 PM Sustainable Spaces Clarendon Saturday 3:30-5:00 PM The Social and Material Consequences and Responses Clarendon to Extractive Mining Sunday 8:30-10:00 AM Sustainability: Urban and Rural Clarendon Sunday 10:15-11:45 AM Creating Sustainable Communities Clarendon Sunday 10:15-11:45 AM Racialized Mothering: Sustaining Families and Communities Lexington Sunday 12:00-1:30 PM Agrarian Relations and Sustainability Charles River AUTHOR-MEETS-CRITICS: Thursday 12:00-1:30 PM Everyday Law on the Street: City Governance in an Age of Diversity Franklin by Mariana Valverde Friday 8:30-10:00 AM Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Franklin Medical Discrimination by Alondra Nelson Friday 10:15-11:45 AM Documenting Desegregation: Racial and Gender Segregation in Franklin Private-Sector Employment Since the Civil Rights Act by Kevin Stainback and Donald Tomaskovic-Devey Friday 10:15-11:45 AM Their Time Has Come: Youth with Disabilities on the Cusp of Lexington Adulthood by Valerie Leiter Friday 12:00-1:30 PM The Net Effect by Thomas Streeter Lexington Friday 1:45-3:15 PM Dominatrix: Gender, Eroticism, and Control in the Dungeon Berkeley by Danielle Lindemann Friday 1:45-3:15 PM Raising Brooklyn: Nannies, Childcare, and Caribbeans Creating Franklin Community by Tamara Mose Brown Friday 1:45-3:15 PM Aging Our Way: Lessons for Living from 85 and Beyond by Meika Loe Lexington Friday 3:30-5:00 PM Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life Franklin by Elijah Anderson Saturday 8:30-10:00 AM Getting Ahead: Social Mobility, Public Housing, and Immigrant Franklin Networks by Silvia Dominguez Saturday 10:15-11:45 AM For the Family?: How Class and Gender Shape Women’s Work Franklin by Sarah Damaske Saturday 12:00-1:30 PM Paging God: Religion in the Halls of Medicine by Wendy Cadge Franklin Saturday 1:45-3:15 PM Varieties of Feminism: German Gender Politics in Global Perspective Franklin by Myra Marx Ferree Saturday 3:30-5:00 PM Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence Franklin of Gender Inequality by Kristen Schilt Sunday 8:30-10:00 AM Pray the Gay Away by Bernadette Barton Franklin Sunday 10:15-11:45 AM Sex Cells by Rene Almeling Franklin Sunday 12:00-1:30 PM Money at Work: On the Job with Priests, Poker Players and Franklin Hedge Fund Managers by Kevin Delaney CONVERSATIONS: Thursday 12:00-1:30 PM Global Culture: Concepts and Paradigms Revisited Cambridge Vincenzo Mele, Andrea Borghini, Ricardo Dello Buono, Nancy A. Naples, Marina Vujnovic Presider: Vincenzo Mele 4 CONVERSATIONS – cont’d Friday 8:30-10:00 AM Immigration, Assimilation and Inequality in America: Whittier A conversation with Mary C. Waters Presider: Sivlia Dominguez Friday 1:45-3:15 PM Introductory Sociology Textbooks Whittier Margaret Andersen, Dalton Conley, Michael Kimmel, John Macionis, Jeff Manza, George Ritzer, Richard Schaefer Presider: Robert Zussman, Friday 3:30-5:00 PM Organizations and Societal Resilience: How Organizing Practices Whittier Can Either Inhibit or Enable Sustainable Communities Carmen Sirianni, George Ritzer Presider: Katherine Chen Saturday 12:00-1:30 PM From Disability Ghettoes to Sustainable, Livable Communities Clarendon Denise Torres, Ronald J. Nerio Presider: Denise Torres Saturday 3:30-5:00 PM An Interdisciplinary Conversation about Fair Trade Berkeley Nicki L Cole, James Hayes-Bohanan, Erin McLaughlin, Gwendolyn Tedeschi Presider: Keith R. Brown Sunday 12:00-1:30 PM Beyond Identity? Interrogating the Concepts of "Post-Race," Stuart "Post-Feminist," and "Post-Gay" Matthew Hughey, Jo Reger, Stephen Valocchi Presider: Mary Bernstein MINI-CONFERENCE: Aging Saturday 8:30-10:00 AM Aging and the Life Course Beacon Hill Saturday 1:45-3:15 PM Retirement Thoreau Saturday 3:30-5:00 PM Aging Public Policy and Activism Constitution MINI-CONFRENCE: Bourdieu in Practice Friday 8:30-10:00 AM Bourdieu in Practice Session I St. James Friday 10:15-11:45 AM Bourdieu in Practice Session II St. James Friday 12:00-1:30 PM Bourdieu in Practice Session III St. James Sunday 10:15-11:45 AM Bourdieu in Practice Session IV Beacon Hill MINI-CONFERENCE: Caring on the Clock Friday 8:30-10:00 AM The Contexts of Paid Care Work Cabot Friday 10:15-11:45 AM Challenges