2021 Canadian Sociological Association Conference: Resisting Racism and Colonialism All times listed in Mountain Time 2021 Canadian Sociological Association Conference: Resisting Racism and Colonialism We are pleased to present the summary 2021 Conference Program for the Canadian Sociological Association. This document will be updated weekly as details are finalized. Please refer to the Conference website for the most current information as well as full abstracts. https://www.csa-scs.ca/conference/en/ The sessions and events are listed by day, time (Mountain Time), and title. Our Conference will be virtual and attendance subject to our registration policies. https://www.csa-scs.ca/conference/conference-registration/ Please contact us with questions or corrections to the information posted. [email protected] All times listed in Mountain Time 2021 Canadian Sociological Association Conference: Resisting Racism and Colonialism ACTING AGAINST SPECIESISM I: BRINGING ANIMALS TO THE CENTRE Session Code: ANS1A Date: Monday, May 31 Time (MT): 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Social movements and activism around animal welfare and rights have been a consistent presence in Western society over the past six decades. From reform to animal welfare laws and the status of animals as property to climate crisis protests, awareness is being raised around the prevalence of speciesism in our world. Speciesism harms both animals and humans; academic research and social justice initiatives with intersectional non-speciesist approaches are needed. This session focuses on the human-animal bond and bringing animals from the periphery to the centre. The papers presented here highlight successes of animal related advocacy, challenges within the social movements, efforts to reform structural speciesism, and recognition of both human and animal labour in the drive for non-speciesist social justice. Chair: Rochelle Stevenson, Thompson Rivers University Organizer(s): Rochelle Stevenson, Thompson Rivers University; Sarah May Lindsay, McMaster University Research Cluster Affiliation: Animals in Society Presentations: 1. Understanding the Relationship between People with Physical Disabilities and Their Companion Animals in Urban China Presenter: Siyu Ru, University of Saskatchewan 2. Speciesism in Emergency Intimate Partner Violence Shelters in Ontario, Canada Presenter: Sarah May Lindsay, McMaster University 3. Commensalism and Liminal Animals Presenter: Varun Joshi, University of Guelph 4. Empathy in Art Featuring Non-Humans Presenter: Shannon Johnstone, Meredith College All times listed in Mountain Time 2021 Canadian Sociological Association Conference: Resisting Racism and Colonialism ANTI-RACIST METHODOLOGIES IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES II: INTERROGATING MAINSTREAM EPISTEMOLOGIES, METHODS AND KNOWLEDGES Session Code: RAE2B Date: Monday, May 31 Time (MT): 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Anti-racist research critiques canonized notions of objectivity in the social sciences, arguing the ways in which traditional research reinforce the status quo. Part of anti-racist methodologies is challenging the researcher’s authority and the unidirectional flow of knowledge by placing the racialized ‘other’ at the centre of analysis. Papers in this session employ a diverse set of methodologies and theoretical frameworks to call into question power relationships involved in knowledge production in academia. More specifically, this session offers a critical discussion of topics such as institutional bias in academia, racialization of census data, theorization of hate crimes and terrorism, and community-based participatory research. Chair: Kayonne Christy, University of British Columbia Organizer(s): Jessica Stallone, University of Toronto; Carlo Handy Charles, McMaster University; Jennifer Adkins, University of British Columbia; Lisa Giuseppina Iesse, University of Toronto; Kayonne Christy, University of British Columbia; Jillian Sunderland, University of Toronto; Firrisaa Abdulkarim, York University Research Cluster Affiliation: Race and Ethnicity Presentations: 1. Race in the Census: A critical realist analysis of Blackness as produced through the Canadian census Presenter: Patience Adamu, Ryerson University 2. 'Writing the Other as Other': Collaborative autoethnography on the experience of Otherness in academia Presenter: Ahmed Ajil, University of Lausanne; Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill, City University New York 3. Hate Crime and Terrorism: Violent Siblings that Construct Identity Presenter: Austin Lawrence, Ontario Tech University 4. Control in Community Archiving with/in Black Communities Presenter: Philip Howard, McGill University; Lerona Lewis, McGill University; Adama Kaba, McGill University 5. Not Indigenous Enough: The Voices of Indigenous Atheists and Skeptics Presenter: Jonathan Simmons, University of Alberta All times listed in Mountain Time 2021 Canadian Sociological Association Conference: Resisting Racism and Colonialism BRIDGING DIVIDES, BUILDING SOLIDARITY FOR CHANGE: FEMINISTS CONFRONTING COLONIALISM, ANTI-BLACK RACISM AND PATRIARCHY Session Code: FEM2A Date: Monday, May 31 Time (MT): 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Recognising that Congress takes place on the traditional lands of diverse Indigenous peoples implies responsibilities. This necessarily includes meaningful engagement with Indigenous ways of being, knowing and doing. Likewise, we recognize that what is now called Canada is a site of Black slavery, from the 17th to 19th centuries, and a place where there is ongoing anti-Black racism and white supremacy. Our interdisciplinary feminist committee invited papers that take up the responsibilities that arise in settler colonialism, in contexts marked by the dispossession and ongoing resilience of Indigenous peoples, as well as histories of Black enslavement and Black resistance to ongoing white supremacy. This demands engagement with Indigenous and Black women’s scholarship and knowledges. Chair: Elaine Coburn, York University Organizer(s): Elaine Coburn, York University; Alana Cattapan, University of Waterloo Research Cluster Affiliation: Feminist Sociology Presentations: 1. Mapping colonialism in child protection: Examining the permissibility of multilateral structural violence towards Black female child protection workers in Ontario Presenter: Woyengi Goary, Independent Researcher 2. For Settlers Who Say That They Support Decolonization ... But Wish It Weren't So Hard Presenter: Sheri McConnell, Memorial University 3. Gendered Responses to Violence against Indigenous Peoples: Does settler solidarity redwash violence against indigenous men? Presenter: Dean Ray, York University 4. Learning from a Study of Black Women's Transnational Lives Presenter: K. Melchor Hall, Centre for Feminist Research, York University 5. Cripping Transnational Feminism Presenter: Valérie Grand'Maison, University of Guelph All times listed in Mountain Time 2021 Canadian Sociological Association Conference: Resisting Racism and Colonialism DIGITAL DATA MANAGEMENT AND OPEN ACCESS: IMPLICATIONS FOR RESEARCH AND PUBLISHING Session Code: REM1 Date: Monday, May 31 Time (MT): 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM The environment surrounding academic research and publishing is undergoing transformation. SSHRC (along with NSERC and CIHR) is putting in place a policy on research data management that will have significant implications for the way sociologists manage their research and knowledge making practices. At the same time, the transition to open access publishing models is the subject of ongoing debate among academics, universities, publishers, librarians, and governments. This panel will consider important questions that are emerging from these shifts. • What new opportunities and challenges will present themselves to individual researchers and the sociological community? • How will data management practices change and how will different groups of researchers be impacted differently? • How will the new publishing model work and what impacts will it have on the CSA/SCS and the CRA/RCS? • How can the association and journal archive a smooth transition to the open access publishing model? Organized by the CSA Research Advisory subcommittee, this panel will bring together panelists with varying expertise on academic publishing, open access, and data management to consider these and other relevant questions from a variety of perspectives. Organizers: Kristyn Frank, Statistics Canada, Lisa Kaida, McMaster University, Allyson Stokes, Memorial University, Kyle Willmott, University of Alberta Panelists • Matthew Lucas, Executive Director, Corporate Strategy and Performance, SSHRC • Karen Stanbridge, Memorial University of Newfoundland • Jenny Godley, University of Calgary • Vincent Lariviere, Université de Montréal All times listed in Mountain Time 2021 Canadian Sociological Association Conference: Resisting Racism and Colonialism GENDER, WORK AND MENTAL HEALTH I Session Code: SMH1A Date: Monday, May 31 Time (MT): 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM This session invited papers that focus on the theoretical, methodological, and/or empirical issues related to the significance of gender to workers' mental health. Chair: Organizer(s): Ivy Bourgeault, University of Ottawa; Tracey L. Adams, Western University Research Cluster Affiliation: No Presentations: 1. Inclusion of Indigenous workers in workplace mental health Presenter: Robyn O'Loughlin, Carleton University and EPID@Work Research Institute, Lakehead University 2. The Gendered Nature of Parole Work: How Female and Male Canadian Federal Parole Officers Experience Occupational Stressors and Navigate Risk Presenter: