Climate Change will have convened in Paris to finalize a global climate PRELIMINARY PROGRAM (as of 5/12/2016) treaty. However, the process has been marked by a protracted This document is subject to change. Any stalemate between the interests of the global North and the global South. Simultaneously, a sprawling climate justice movement has been changes made will be made to the online growing in numbers, reach, and strength, interlinked in a vast network program. of networks. As December 2015 approaches and passes, these movements are hoping to persuade governments and global institutions to take decisive steps that include signing on to a fair and binding Monday, August 22 global climate treaty and charting pathways toward deeply sustainable societies. This session will address the post-2015 situation, asking whether it remains possible to “change everything,” as Naomi Klein The length of each daytime session/meeting activity puts it in her best-selling book (and 2015 film by the same name) This is one hour and forty minutes, unless noted Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate. Consisting of otherwise. The usual turnover is as follows: prominent public intellectuals, climate activists, and interdisciplinary 8:30am-10:10am scholars, the panel will collectively address the question: how can the global environmental and climate justice movements work creatively to 10:30am-12:10pm craft action plans that address the root causes and future impacts of 12:30pm-2:10pm climate change? In doing so, we will be rethinking the most important 2:30pm-4:10pm global social movement of the 21st century, and the issue of humanity’s 4:30pm-6:10pm response to the problem of climate change will define the conditions of life as the century wears on. Session presiders and committee chairs are requested to see that sessions and meetings end on 311. Thematic Session. When Changing the time to avoid conflicts with subsequent activities Conversation Matters: Lessons from Southern scheduled into the same room. Europe Session Organizer: Robert M. Fishman, Carlos III 7:00 am Meetings University Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements Presider: Mabel Berezin, Cornell University Council and Breakfast Meeting From Protest in the Streets to Party-System Change: Section on Environment and Technology Council Spain’s Indignados Movement and the Growth of Meeting Podemos. Eduardo Romanos, Universidad Section on International Migration Council Meeting Complutense Section on Medical Sociology Council Meeting Political Claims and Alternative Forms of Resilience Section on Sociology of Development Council Meeting Confronting Hard Economic Times in Greece, Spain Section on Sociology of Religion Council Meeting and Italy. Maria Kousis, University of Crete; Lorenzo Bosi, Scula Normale Superiore; Camilo Cristancho 8:30 am Meetings Mantilla, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2017 Excellence in Reporting on Social Issues Award Foreign Conversations: How Northern Europe Differs Selection Committee from Southern Europe. Mabel Berezin, Cornell 2017 Jessie Bernard Award Selection Committee University; Elisabeth Becker, ; Thomas Davidson, 2017 Program Committee Cornell University Contemporary Sociology Editorial Board When Voices in the Streets Can(not) Change the World: Contingent Faculty Task Force Origins of the Iberian Divide in Inclusion. Robert M. Department Resources Group (DRG) Training Fishman, Carlos III University Orientation for New Section Officers Discussant: Jeff Goodwin, New York University Sociological Methodology Editorial Board Southern Europe provides a useful vantage point for addressing Sociology of Education Editorial Board the 2016 meeting theme. Even before the recent wave of protests over austerity policies, countries in this region were world leaders in the 8:30 am Sessions sheer volume and public visibility of social protest, much of it focused on efforts to change the public agenda through discourse and mobilization. Yet the impact of popular energies expressed in the 310. Thematic Session. Re-Imagining Movements for streets has varied enormously between – and within – these countries. Environmental and Climate Justice: Can They Discursive creativity has been a frequent mark of protests but the ability Change Everything? of activists to achieve favorable results in matters of public policy – and Session Organizer: John Foran, University of California other societal outcomes – has been anything but constant. Spain’s M- Panelists: David Pellow, University of California-Santa 15 movement of Indignados has reoriented tendencies in public opinion but has been denounced by elected office-holders who question its Barbara legitimacy. In contrast in Portugal, on crucial occasions, office holders John Foran, University of California have not only engaged in ‘conversation’ with protesters but have also Shannon Gibson, University of Southern California changed policies in response to public pressure. This cross-national Jill Stein, Global Climate Convergence for People, contrast is reflected in the evolution of distributional outcomes in the two countries. Greece and Italy have faced economic challenges and Planet and Peace Over Profit waves of protest that hold much in common with the salience of social Corrie Ellis Grosse, University of California Santa movements in Portugal and Spain but the ability of conversation and Barbara discourse to achieve at least some of their goals has varied greatly By December 2015, the United Nations Framework Convention on within these countries. This thematic panel will focus on the southern European experience, exploring the impact of protesters’ discursive application of the NSF evaluation criteria to qualitative research. They innovation and energy on socio-structural and political change. Most will also share their experiences in developing, reviewing and securing of the papers will engage in comparative analysis, drawing contrasts funding for projects that reflect various qualitative approaches as well within – and beyond – southern Europe. as qualitative methodological innovations and the integration. The session is interactive: audience participation is encouraged. 312. Special Session. Movements Matter: Connecting the Local and Global in Addressing Violence 315. Open Refereed Roundtable Session Against Women Session Organizer: Bandana Purkayastha, University of Session Organizer: Martha Crowley, North Carolina Connecticut State University Presider: Bandana Purkayastha, University of Connecticut Table 1 Shared and Contested Spaces Panelists: Yakin Erturk, Middle East Technical University Table Presider: John G. Boulahanis, Southeastern Margaret Abraham, Hofstra University Louisiana University Eleanor Lyon, University of Connecticut Portland, Indie City Northwest: Cultural Identity and A Discussant: Bandana Purkayastha, University of Presence in the City. Jeffrey R London, City Connecticut University of New York-Hunter College This session will focus on movements to address violence against Lost (and Gained) in Transition: The Contradictions of women. It will include American and international scholars on Gentrification in Alaçatı, Turkey. Melis S. Kural, movements and initiatives at international platforms and specific STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT countries. The speakers will address topics such as mobilization to address VAW, initiatives in specific countries to address VAW BUFFALO (including sexual violence in conflict zones) as well as the role of the Relational Microcultures: Culture in Interaction Among United Nations to expand the meanings and accounting of VAW. Two Schools in a Shared Space. Haj Yazdiha, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill 313. Special Session. Sexual Harrassment in Spatial agency: Socio-spatial Transformation and Sociological Fieldwork Session Organizer: Rebecca Annice Hanson, University Urban Agriculture in the Food Justice Movement. Matthew J DelSesto, of Georgia- Athens Fear of Crime and Media Exposure: A Pre and Post- Getting Intimate: The Gendered Experience of Ethnography. Laura A. Orrico, Pomona College Hurricane Katrina Analysis. John G. Boulahanis, Women in the Streets: Gender, Distrust, and its Southeastern Louisiana University Methodological Implications for Ethnography. Denia Garcia, Princeton University Table 2 Crossing Borders: People, Finance and Culture Table Presider: Andrew Breidenbach, University of Sexual Harassment and the Construction of Ethnographic Knowledge. Patricia Richards, New Mexico From Colonial Veracruz to the U.S.-Mexico University of Georgia Discussant: Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, University of Borderlands: An Alternative Perspective on Mexican Migration. Christian Ramirez, Michigan South Florida State University 314. Policy and Research Workshop. Qualitative The Marshall Plan: The Beginning of U.S. Research: Funding Opportunities and Review at Development Assistance? Amanda Marie the National Science Foundation Shriwise, Harvard University Session Organizer: Patricia E. White, National Science Risk, Security, and Finance: A Sociology of the Foundation Transnational Field of Counter-terrorism Leader: Patricia E. White, National Science Foundation Financing. Anna Rose Hanson, Northwestern Co-Leaders: Edwin Amenta, University of California, University Irvine The Role of NGOs in the Diffusion of "New" Sport. Sarah Damaske, The Pennsylvania State University Andrew Breidenbach, University of New Mexico Roslyn A. Mickelson, Univ. of North Carolina, Charlotte Table 3 Stratification around the World Stefanie Mollborn, University of Colorado