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Summer 2020 - Letter from the chair

8/1/2020

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Greta Krippner
University of Michigan   

​These are challenging times.
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It would be too pat to write that sociology – or social theory, more particularly – has ready answers to the “double pandemic” of public health and racial injustice that has dramatically and suddenly reshaped our world in the past few months. Or to suggest, with only slightly less hubris, that sociologists are uniquely positioned to understand the complex, intertwining strands that brought us to this moment. But I do think that sociology in general – and social theory in particular – has something to offer. Namely, social theory provides a certain orientation to the social world and its many paradoxes than can be helpful in directing our attention (and ultimately our actions) productively, as well as allowing us to tolerate forms of suffering wrought by the double pandemic that for some of us are new and unprecedented and for others deeply, distressingly familiar.

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Covid-19 should make us  Rethink who we turn to for theories & Concepts...

8/1/2020

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​... And This Might Help Us Better Understand The Social Dynamics Of This Pandemic
Alexandre White 
Johns Hopkins University

My work examines the social effects of infectious epidemic outbreaks in both historical and contemporary settings as well as the global mechanisms that produce responses to outbreak. My book project, Epidemics and Modernity: A Social History of International Disease Response explores the historical roots of international responses to epidemic threats. My work demonstrates a number of troubling bifurcations (Go 2020) in how we as sociologists apprehend infectious disease-namely we are far too quick to distinguish histories of epidemics in the west as distinct from the those occurring elsewhere around the globe. Postcolonial sociologists (Bhambra 2011; Go 2016; Magubane 2005) and scholars of Southern Theory (Connell 1997, 2007) have advocated for the troubling, transformation or abolition of the western canon. Pandemics should also  be moments to trouble our assumptions of whose experiences, where and whose voices constitute sociological evidence and can produce theory.

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Summer 2020 - Dissertation Spotlight

8/1/2020

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Matthew H. McLeskey - University at Buffalo, SUNY
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Anna Skarpelis - Harvard University
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Nir Rotem - University of Minnesota

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JTS Panel 1: Cities, Infrastructure, and Nature

8/1/2020

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Theorizing the Absent Object: Industrial Transportation Infrastructure Decline as Narrative Symbol in the American Rust Belt
Amanda McMillan Lequieu
Assistant Professor, Drexel University

“This used to be the parking lot,” Jesús laughed, as we piled out of his car. He and his friend Marcos pulled me into the large field of prairie grass and scrawny trees that I had been driving by, oblivious, for months while conducting fieldwork in the southeastern most neighborhood of Chicago. “There’s the dock,” Marcos said, guiding us to the edge of a watery parking spot for ships that for nearly a century delivered iron ore pellets from sources across the Great Lakes. Jesús picked up a taconite iron pellet from the edge of the dock and handed it to me. “I remember my father, when he would hear the ore boats in the [dock], he would always say, ‘That’s the sound of money.’”

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JTS Panel 2: Classification, Valuation, and Legitimacy

8/1/2020

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​The Innovation Story: Profits, Prices, and Legitimacy in the Pharmaceutical Market
Laura Halcomb - University of California at Santa Barbara

Over the last 100 years, the institution of American medicine has advanced from relative mediocracy to a preeminent position as a world leader in research. During this race to the top, healthcare became the fastest growing financial segment of the US economy, and patients have faced high and ever-rising prescription drug prices.

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JTS Panel 3: Performing Gender & Race

8/1/2020

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Gender and Vulnerability: How Interaction Power Dynamics Shape Assisted Injection Practices by People who Inject Drugs
Sarah Brothers - Yale University

In the United States, about half of the 1.3 to 1.8 million people who currently inject drugs (Brady et al. 2008) give or receive injection assistance, in which one person injects another person with illicit drugs. People receiving injection assistance are at increased risk of venous damage and are more than twice as likely than other people who inject drugs to be infected with Hepatitis C and HIV. Further, overdose risk for assisted injection recipients is twice that of other people who inject drugs, for whom it is the leading cause of death.


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