` Social Problems and Global Issues SSSP Global Division Newsletter SUMMER 2011 MESSAGE FROM THE GLOBAL DIVISION CHAIR This yearÕs SSSP Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada will focus on the theme of Òservice sociology.Ó For the Global Division, this yearÕs theme provides us with an opportunity to explore some of the ways that sociologists are conducting research and producing knowledge with and for audiences beyond the boundaries of their discipline. The DivisionÕs thematic session, ÒToward a Public Sociology: Integrating Transnational Scholarship and Community Service,Ó examines this question with a particular focus on efforts to integrate transnational research and education with community service, policies, or providers that address social problems and related issues of social justice. We are sponsoring and co-sponsoring a total of nine sessions at this yearÕs meetings. Below you will find a full list of schedule of these sessions, as well as a few other events that we think you will find interesting. Also, please be sure to join us for food and drink at the Division Sponsored Reception on Friday, August 19th, from 6:30 - 7:30 PM At the Awards Banquet, on Saturday, August 20th, from 8:00-10:00 PM, the Global Division will honor the winners of this yearÕs prize for the best graduate student paper (Erica Blom,) and the outstanding book on global issues (Millie Thayer). Congratulations to this yearÕs winners, and thanks to all of those who sent submissions to these awards. Thanks as well to those who served as members of these award committees for your diligent work. The Division is also grateful to David Fasenfest, Editor of Critical Sociology, for continuing to co-sponsor our annual award for the best graduate student paper on globalization. Finally, I would like to welcome Tony Samara as the Global DivisionÕs new Chair for 2011-2013. Please take a moment to introduce yourself to him at the conference or by email (tsamara@gmu.edu), if you have not already has the pleasure of making his acquaintance. He will need someone to serve as next yearÕs co-editor of ÒSocial Problems and Global Issues, the newsletter of the Global Division, and someone to serve as webmaster. If you are interested in serving on the Global DivisionÕs Executive Committee, please try to attend our business meeting on Friday, August 19th, from 12:30-2:10 PM in the Lake Tahoe Room. I look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas! John G. Dale. Associate Professor of Sociology George Mason University IMPORTANT GATHERINGS IN LAS VEGAS Global Division Business Meeting All Global Division members are invited to participate in the organizing meeting for our Division scheduled for Friday, August 19th from 12:30 a.m. to 2:10 p.m. in the Lake Tahoe Room. During the meeting we will create conference sessions for the 2012 SSSP meeting, discuss the student paper competition, book award, and other issues pertinent to our Division. We look forward to seeing you at the meeting! Division Sponsored Reception Date:ÊFriday, August 19 Time:Ê6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Room: Reno Graduate Student Happy Hour Date:ÊFriday, August 19 Time:Ê10:00 PM - 11:00 PM Room: Toby Keith's I Love this Bar & Grill Awards Banquet Date:ÊSaturday, August 20 Time:Ê8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Room: Reno WINNERS OF THE 2011 GLOBAL DIVISION AWARD COMPETITIONS Global Division/Critical Sociology Graduate Student Paper Competition The 2009 SSSP Global Division/Critical Sociology Graduate Student Award Committee co-chairs, Dr. John G. Dale and Dr. Tony R. Samara, are pleased to announce this yearÕs winner: Erica Blom Departments of Sociology and Public Policy University of Michigan ÒFrom the Developing World to the West: Transnational Networks and Policy Change.Ó They also are pleased to award this yearÕs Honorable Mention to: Bart Bonikowski Department of Sociology Princeton University ÒCross-national Interaction and Cultural Similarity: A Relational Analysis.Ó Global Division Outstanding Book Award The co-chairs of the 2011 SSSP Global Division Outstanding Book Award Committee, Dr. Ethel Brooks and Dr. Bhavani Arabundi, are pleased to announce this yearÕs winner: Millie Thayer Department of Sociology University of Massachusetts-Amherst Making Transnational Feminism: Rural Women, NGO Activists, and Northern Donors in Brazil (Routledge., 2010) GLOBAL DIVISION SPONSORED AND CO-SPONSORED SESSIONS FOR THE 2011 CONFERENCE IN LAS VEGAS Date:ÊFriday, August 19 Time:Ê8:30 AM - 10:10 AM Session 7:Ê The Social Reconstruction After Natural and Unnatural Disasters I Room: Studio 1 Sponsors:ÊCommunity Research and Development; Environment & Technology; Family; and Global Organizer, Presider & Discussant:ÊSteven Lang, LaGuardia College at CUNY Papers: ÒBeyond Petroleum in the Gulf of Mexico: The Social Construction of Catastrophe,Ó LynnÊLetukas, University of Delaware and JohnÊBarnshaw, University of South Florida ÒÕThereÕs God, then thereÕs MacÕ: Responses to Living in a Geography of Trouble,Ó DainaÊCheyenneÊHarvey, Rutgers University ÒCitizen Activism and the Reframing of a Slow-Moving Disaster,Ó StevenÊLang, LaGuardia College at CUNY Date:ÊFriday, August 19 Time:Ê10:30 AM - 12:10 PM Session 15:Ê The Social Reconstruction After Natural and Unnatural Disasters II Room: Studio 1 Sponsors:ÊCommunity Research and Development; Environment & Technology; Family; and Global Organizer, Presider &Discussant:ÊSteven Lang, LaGuardia College at CUNY Papers: ÒOh, did the women suffer, they suffered so much: Impacts of Gendered Based Violence on Kinship Networks in Rwanda,Ó NicoleÊS.ÊFox, Brandeis University, 1st place Winner of the Family DivisionÕs Student Paper Competition ÒWhat Matters about ÔOne dead cowÕ?: Institutional Responses and Adaptations to BSE and Food Risks in Canada,Ó KevinÊE.ÊJones and DebraÊJ.ÊDavidson, University of Alberta ÒSociological insights in the search of the disaster resilient community: past, present and future,Ó FernandoÊI.ÊRivera and MarcÊR.ÊSettembrino, University of Central Florida Date:ÊFriday, August 19 Time:Ê2:30 PM - 4:10 PM Session 34:Ê Immigration, Exclusion, and Human Rights: Changes in State and Local Policy Room: Studio 2 Sponsors:ÊCommunity Research and Development; Conflict, Social Action, and Change; Global; Law and Society; and Racial and Ethnic Minorities Organizers:ÊTheo J. Majka, University of Dayton Lloyd Klein, Saint Francis College Presider:ÊLloyd Klein, Saint Francis College Papers: ÒGod has been Bordered: Vietnamese Caodaists in Cambodia Struggle for Religious and Ethnic Integration Across Borders,Ó Thien-HuongÊNinh, University of Southern California ÒDifferent structure, different outcome: comparing ethnic relations in Indonesia and Malaysia,Ó Kim-YungÊKeng, University of Hawaii ÒCriminal Justice Protection for Muslim Minorities in Europe,Ó PamelaÊIrvingÊJackson, Rhode Island College and PeterÊDoerschler, Bloomsburg University ÒPatterns of ethnic segregation in contemporary cities: a comparison between Milan, Copenhagen and Toronto,Ó RobertaÊCucca, Politecnico di Milano Date:ÊFriday, August 19 Time:Ê4:30 PM - 6:10 PM Session 43:Ê Immigration, Exclusion, and Human Rights: American Perspectives Room: Studio 2 Sponsors:ÊCommunity Research and Development; Conflict, Social Action, and Change; Global; Law and Society; and Racial and Ethnic Minorities Organizers:ÊLloyd Klein, Saint Francis College Theo J. Majka, University of Dayton Presider:ÊLloyd Klein, Saint Francis College Papers: ÒPathways to participation in the politics of immigration: Comparing professional advocates and amateur activists in a new immigration destination,Ó JulieÊStewart and MartiÊMorris, University of Utah ÒThe US-Mexico Border as Liminal Space: transnational problems, local institutions, and vulnerable migrants,Ó HeidyÊSarabia, UC Berkeley ÒOnline forums as a space for Moral Panic: Examining the online debate on AZSB1070,Ó KishonnaÊL.ÊGray, Arizona State University and ArifaÊE.ÊRaza, University of California, Riverside ÒThe DREAM Act at the State Level: Explaining the Passage and Rejection of In-State Tuition for Undocumented Students in Utah and Colorado,Ó EricaÊJadeÊMullen and OrlyÊClerge, Brown University ÒDo Cubans Care About Social Problems? The Exile Identity and Civil Society Ideology Among Cuban-Americans in Florida,Ó GuillermoÊJ.ÊGrenier, Florida International University Date:ÊSaturday, August 20 Time:Ê11:10 AM - 12:20 PM PLENARY Session 56:Ê Presidential Address Room: Lake Tahoe Sponsor:ÊProgram Committee Introduction:Ê James A. Holstein, Marquette University Presidential Address:Ê The Challenge of Service Sociology A. Javier Trevi–o, Wheaton College Date:ÊSaturday, August 20 Time:Ê2:30 PM - 4:10 PM Session 71:Ê Global Drug Issues Room: Ely Sponsors:ÊDrinking and Drugs and Global Organizer & Presider:ÊStephen J. Sifaneck, Berkeley College-NYC Papers: ÒAssembling governmental technologies of harm reduction in Taiwan,Ó Jia-shinÊChen, Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan ÒCannabis Drug Tourism: Global Travel to Quasi-Legal Contexts,Ó StephenÊJ.ÊSifaneck, Berkeley College-NYC ÒMexicoÕs Drug War Exposes Transitional Social Problem and Political Crisis,Ó AvelardoÊValdez, CharlesÊKaplan and AliceÊCepeda, University of Houston ÒMorality, Science, and the Politics of HIV Prevention: Needle Exchange Policy in the United States and the United Kingdom,Ó TasleemÊJ.ÊPadamsee, The Ohio State University ÒShackles, full circle: An ethnography of methamphetamine use among Cambodian-American refugee deportees in Phnom Penh,Ó HeidiÊHoefinger, Goldsmiths College, University of London Date:ÊSaturday, August 20 Time:Ê4:30 PM - 6:10 PM Session 83:Ê Understanding the Consequences of the Financial Crisis Room: Parlor D Sponsor:ÊProgram Committee Organizer:ÊKaren M. McCormack, Wheaton College Presider:ÊVince Montes, LaGuardia CC / CUNY Papers: ÒDonÕt Give Up the Dream: Advice from Low-Income Homeowners to Prospective Homebuyers,Ó AnnaÊM.ÊSantiago and AmyÊR.ÊRoberts, Case Western Reserve University, GeorgeÊC.ÊGalster, Wayne State University and Eun-LyeÊLee, Case Western Reserve University ÒHomeowners in Trouble: Strategies of Action in Unsettled Times,Ó LindsayÊA.ÊOwens, Stanford University ÒState Control And Managing Marginalization In The Current Economic Crisis,Ó VinceÊMontes, LaGuardia CC / CUNY ÒThe Greek Financial Crisis,Ó StevenÊPanageotou, University of Tennessee ÒTwo Giants on the World Stage: A Look at China and the US Surrounding the Financial Crisis of 2008,Ó ShaneÊM.ÊWillson, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Date:ÊSunday, August 21 Time:Ê8:30 AM - 10:10 AM Session 98:Ê Critical Analysis of Governance: Institutional Ethnography and Global Studies Room: Laughlin Sponsors:ÊGlobal and Institutional Ethnography Organizers & Presiders:Ê Lauren E. Eastwood, SUNY Plattsburgh Lauri J. Grace, Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University Discussant:ÊLauren E. Eastwood, SUNY Plattsburgh Papers: ÒGlobal Connections in Local Educational Policy: The Australian Vocational Education and Training Sector,Ó LauriÊJ.ÊGrace, Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University ÒFair Labor Governance: Global Systems, Local Consequences,Ó SarahÊMiraglia, Syracuse University ÒChildrenÕs Health and Welfare Policy Reform in South Africa: The Social Implications of New Management Strategies,Ó CatherineÊvan de Ruit, University of Pennsylvania ÒThe Transnational Production of Place-Based Policy Discourse in Neighbourhood Policymaking,Ó JessicaÊErinÊCarriere, University of Toronto Date:ÊSunday, August 21 Time:Ê8:30 AM - 10:10 AM Session 97:ÊAuthors Meet Critics: Amory Starr, Luis Fernandez, and Christian Scholl, Shutting Down the Streets: Political Violence and Social Control in the Global Era, New York University Press Room: Tonopah Sponsor:ÊProgram Committee Organizer:ÊKaren M. McCormack, Wheaton College Presider:ÊMichelle Janning, Whitman College Critics: Patrick Gillham, University of Idaho Jeff Juris, Northeastern University Jackie Smith, University of Pittsburgh Linus Owens, Middlebury College Date:ÊSunday, August 21 Time:Ê8:30 AM - 10:10 AM SPECIAL Session 101:Ê Student Award Winning Papers III Room: Studio 2 Sponsor:ÊProgram Committee Organizer:ÊHolly Foster, Texas A&M University Presider:ÊDonald A. Lloyd, University of Southern California Papers: ÒCross-national Interaction and Cultural Similarity: A Relational Analysis,Ó BartÊBonikowski, Princeton University, Honorable Mention of the Global DivisionÕs Student Paper Competition ÒExpressions of Relatedness: Ethnography of Everyday Talk and Interactions in the Barbershop,Ó ShatimaÊJ.ÊJones, Rutgers University, 1st place Winner of the Racial and Ethnic Minorities DivisionÕs Student Paper Competition ÒRights vs. Neoliberalism: Welfare State Spending as institutionalization of Human Rights Norms in 18 Latin American Nations, 1980-2008,Ó K.ÊRussellÊShekha, Florida State University, 1st place Winner of the Sociology and Social Welfare DivisionÕs Student Paper Competition ÒHopping on the Tips of a Trident: Graduate Students of Color Reflect on Teaching Social Problems at Predominantly White Institutions,Ó ChandraÊWaring and SamitÊBordoloi, University of Connecticut, 1st place Winner of the Teaching Social Problems DivisionÕs Student Paper Competition Date:ÊSunday, August 21 Time:Ê10:30 AM - 12:10 PM Session 109:Ê Globalization and Environmental Justice Room: Silver Sponsors:ÊEnvironment & Technology and Global Organizer & Presider:ÊErin E. Robinson, Canisius College Papers: ÒMaterialism and Post-Materialism: Theory, Human Development, and Valuation of the Environment,Ó TobinÊN.ÊWalton, University of Tennessee ÒNational Footprints in the Modern World-System: An Indirect and Direct Effects Theorization and Structural Equation Modeling,Ó LauraÊA.ÊMcKinney and EdÊKick, North Carolina State University ÒStatistics, Uncertainty, and the News Media Construction of Cancer Clusters in Delaware,Ó VictorÊW.ÊPerez and JoelÊBest, University of Delaware ÒThird World Sanitation in the First World: A Look at Detroit, MI and Lowndes County, AL,Ó JenniferÊS.ÊCarrera, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Date:ÊSunday, August 21 Time:Ê12:30 PM - 2:10 PM THEMATIC Session 118:Ê Toward a Public Sociology: Integrating Transnational Scholarship and Community Service Room: Laughlin Sponsor:ÊGlobal Organizer, Presider & Discussant:ÊJohn G. Dale, George Mason University Description:Ê In what ways are sociologists conducting research and producing knowledge with and for audiences beyond the boundaries of their discipline? This thematic session, sponsored by the SSSP's Global Division, examines this question with a particular focus on efforts to integrate transnational research and education with community service, policies, and/or providers that address social problems and related issues of social justice. The papers presented at this session reflect diverse theoretical and methodological approaches for fostering public sociological understanding of complex social problems affecting (and deriving from) transnational practices and relations shaping communities around the world. Papers: ÒStrengthening Community Through Social Ties: How the Alvalade Case Matters to Public Sociology Debate,Ó RomanaÊXerez, Institute for Social and Political Sciences - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal ÒSociology of Human Trafficking: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally,Ó NadiaÊShapkina, Kansas State University ÒLongings and Legalities: What Deported MigrantsÕ Narratives Reveal about the Future of U.S. Border Policy,Ó CarolÊL.ÊOwen, Salem State University Date:ÊSunday, August 21 Time:Ê2:30 PM - 4:10 PM Session 129:Ê Re-imagining Community Room: Laughlin Sponsor:ÊGlobal Organizer & Presider:ÊTony Roshan Samara, George Mason University Papers: ÒCan Everyone be an Estonian?: National Boundaries in a Civic State,Ó LisaÊC.ÊFein, Westminster College, Missouri ÒContemporary Indigenous Identities,Ó MichelleÊA.ÊHarris, Northern Arizona University ÒRe-imagining Community: Kashmiri Pandit Migrants Reliving Identity through Narratives,Ó TamannaÊM.ÊShah, Kansas State University ÒSolidifying the Right to Space: Consequences of the New Privatized African City?Ó ClaireÊHerbert, University of Michigan NEW BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS OF THE GLOBAL DIVISION Free Burma: Transnational Legal Action and Corporate Accountability by John G. Dale (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) When the militaryÕs ruling party violently quashed BurmaÕs pro-democracy movement, diplomatic condemnation quickly followedÑto little effect. But when BurmaÕs activists began linking the movement to others around the world, the result was dramatically different. This book is the first to explain how BurmaÕs pro-democracy movement became a transnational social movement for human rights. Through the experience of the Free Burma movement, John G. Dale demonstrates how social movements create and appropriate legal mechanisms for generating new transnational political opportunities. He presents three corporate accountability campaigns waged by the Free Burma movement. The cases focus on the legislation of ÒFree BurmaÓ laws in local governments throughout the United States; the effort to force the state of California to de-charter Unocal Oil Corporation for its flagrant abuse of human rights; and the first-ever use of the U.S. Alien Tort Claims Act to sue a corporation in a U.S. court for human rights abuses committed abroad. DaleÕs work also raises the issue of how foreign policies of so-called constructive engagement actually pose a threat to the hope of BurmaÕs activistsÑand others worldwideÑfor more democratic economic development. John Dale is Associate Professor of Sociology and Affiliate Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. He has served as Chair of the SSSP Global Division from 2009-2011. Yo Soy Negro: Blackness in Peru by Tanya Maria Golash-Boza (University of Florida Press, 2011) Yo Soy Negro addresses the question of how "blackness" is experienced in Peru primarily through the eyes of the inhabitants of a small coastal Afro-Peruvian town, both in terms of their day-to-day lives in that town and as migrant workers in Lima. Based on extensive ethnographic work in the country and informed by more than eighty interviews with Peruvians of African descent, this groundbreaking study explains how ideas of race, color, and mestizaje in Peru differ greatly from those held in other Latin American nations. Tanya Maria Golash-Boza explores the ways people in Peru talk about blackness and finds that the local discourse of blackness centers on skin color. The existence of this local discourse raises questions with regard to how we can conceptualize and theorize the African diaspora and calls for a more fluid conception of diaspora that allows for localized differences. The conclusion that Golash-Boza draws from her rigorous inquiry is that Peruvians of African descent give meaning to blackness without always referencing Africa, slavery, or black cultural forms. This represents a significant counterpoint to diaspora scholarship that points to the importance of slavery in defining blackness in Latin America as well as studies that place cultural and class differences at the center of racial discourses in the region. Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, assistant professor of sociology and American studies at the University of Kansas, is the author of Immigration Nation? Raids, Detentions and Deportations in Post-9/11 America. Cape Town after Apartheid: Crime and Governance in the Divided City by Tony Roshan Samara (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) Nearly two decades after the dismantling of apartheid in South Africa, how different does the nation look? In Cape Town, is hardening inequality under conditions of neoliberal globalization actually reproducing the repressive governance of the apartheid era? By exploring issues of urban security and development, Tony Roshan Samara brings to light the features of urban apartheid that increasingly mark not only Cape Town but also the global cities of our dayÑcities as diverse as Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, and Beijing. Cape Town after Apartheid focuses on urban renewal and urban security policies and practices in the city center and townships as this aspiring world-class city actively pursues a neoliberal approach to development. The cityÕs attempt to escape its past is, however, constrained by crippling inequalities, racial and ethnic tensions, political turmoil, and persistent insecurity. Samara shows how governance in Cape Town remains rooted in the perceived need to control dangerous populations and protect a somewhat fragile and unpopular economic system. In urban areas around the world, where the affluent minority and poor majority live in relative proximity to each other, aggressive security practices and strict governance reflect and reproduce the divided city. A critical case for understanding a transnational view of urban governance, especially in highly unequal, majority-poor cities, this closely observed study of postapartheid Cape Town affords valuable insight into how security and governance technologies from the global North combine with local forms to create new approaches to social control in cities across the global South. Tony Samara is Associate Professor of Sociology at George Mason University and Chair-Elect of the SSSP Global Division (2011-2013). Understanding Organizations by Howard Lune (Polity Press, 2011) Understanding Organizations takes a fresh look at the sociology of organizations, blending classic theories of industrial society with contemporary cultural studies, labor studies, social movement theory, and the role of nonprofits. In each chapter, Lune describes the major ideas and the new work that define the topic, as well as asking how these assumptions came about and how they impact us in our daily lives. This book will be the ideal companion to courses on organizations across the social sciences, and has insights to offer all students of organized life, whether one is interested in entering the corporate world, starting an arts organization, or mobilizing for social change. Howard Lune is Associate Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Applied Social Research Program at Hunter College, CUNY. He has served on the SSSP Global DivisionÕs Executive Committee since 2005. 13