3551 - Urban Politics and Violence

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

How can the study of cities inform the study of politics? Moreover, how can the study of politics inform the study of cities? While political sociology has long focused on topics such as state formation and social revolutions, this section aims to highlight research speaking to these questions with the goal of broadening the scope of “urban politics” research into a political sociology of cities. Potential topics of interest may include but are not limited to: policing, relations between city and federal government, the politics of sanctuary cities, gentrification, the role of American cities in the global economy, or the role of urban research universities in shaping state-society relations. Scholars at all stages and from all methodological leanings are welcome to submit papers to this session.

Sub Unit

• Section on Political Sociology / Urban Politics and Violence

Session Organizer

• Robert Vargas, University of Chicago

Individual Presentations

• Accepting the Unacceptable: The Legitimation of Extrajudicial Violence in Medellín, Colombia - Jon Gordon, New York University

• Contexts of State Violence: Expulsions of Jews in the Holy Roman Empire - Kerice Doten-Snitker, University of Washington

• Making Security Forces Insecure: Police Vulnerability, Pluralized Violence, and Urban Politics in Venezuela - Rebecca Annice Hanson, University of Florida

• Scripted Policing and Community Relations - Tony Cheng, Yale University