4204 - Theorizing Resistance

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

After the police shooting and killing of Michael Brown, Black Lives Matter emerged to protest racialized state violence. The election of Donald Trump to the Presidency of the United States ignited the 2017 Women’s March, which spread from coast to coast and to other countries including England, Mexico, and Canada. Indian women have recently organized I Will Go Out to demand the ability to move around in public without the threat of mass molestation, and Ni Una Más has risen in Central and South American countries to draw attention to high rates of femicide. These are just some of the ways people are taking to the streets in new ways and in great numbers. Social media has allowed people to organization protest events, and online petitions, public education, and fundraising is also happening online. #MeToo has become a phenomenon even within Sociology. In this session, scholars discuss their work studying and theorizing on the meaning and consequences of current resistance efforts and social movements from around the globe.

Sub Unit

• Section on Race, Gender, and Class / Theorizing Resistance

Session Organizer

• Kristen Barber, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale

Presider

• William F. Danaher, Southern Illinois University

Individual Presentations

• Gendered Resistance: How Indigenous Men and Women Defend Territory in Mexico’s Tehuantepec Isthmus - Alessandro Morosin, UC Riverside

• How Organizational Fields Shape Anti-Racist Strategies and Tactics in France and the United States - Nicole Arlette Hirsch

• Reproductive Justice as Resistance: Contemporary Activism Against State Violence and Gendered Racial Capitalism - Meghan Daniel, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Seeking Islamic Justice: Muslim New Yorkers Reframing the Narrative of Islam Post 9/11 - Nazreen Sameena Bacchus, Queens College,CUNY

Discussant

• Chandra Russo, Colgate University