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“Robocops” in the Making:  Reframing Police-Citizen Interactions through the Lens of Body Cameras

8/10/2020

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Holly Campeau 
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology 
University of Alberta 
Culture; legal cynicism; organizations; policing; qualitative methods; sociology of law 
As videos of police officers using lethal force continue to go viral, such as the deaths of Tamir Rice in Cleveland, Michael Brown in Ferguson, and most recently George Floyd in Minneapolis, calls for greater transparency in policing prompt nationwide discussion about recording technologies. Body-worn cameras have quickly become a frontrunner “solution” to police reform, and hundreds of police agencies across North America have already equipped their frontline officers with video surveillance devices.  

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Black Girls’ Knowledges and Resistance to School Discipline

8/8/2020

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Brittney Miles, MEd 
University of Cincinnati 
PhD Sociology Graduate Student 
Research Areas: Black Girlhood, Embodiment, Disability, (A)Sexuality 
Using focus group data from 18 Black girls in 7th-11th grades in the Greater Cincinnati Area, Black girls’ knowledges of school discipline are considered along axes of race, gender, dis/ability, and sexuality. Black girls’ educational experiences are under-researched, particularly their school-based experiences with gendered racism (Ricks 2014; Blake et al. 2011). As research on the school-to-prison pipeline typically highlights Black and brown boys, punishment disparities exist that show that Black girls move through these pathways, as well, and experience differential treatment and exclusionary enforcement (Morris and Perry 2017; Morris 2016; Crenshaw, Ocen, and Nanda 2015). Black girls are frequently punished by educators for subjective rule violations, where rules can be interpreted such as disobedience, rather than objective reasons like drug possession (Annamma et al. 2016; Blake et al. 2011). The intersectional experiences of Black girls serve as a critical site of learning in the quest for educational justice.

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Harassed: An Interview with Rebecca Hanson and Patricia Richards

6/18/2019

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In this blog post, ASA Body & Embodiment Section council member Kelly Underman interviews Rebecca Hanson and Patricia Richards about their new book, Harassed: Gender, Bodies, and Ethnographic Research (University of California Press, 2019).


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Author Rebecca Hanson, PhD
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Criminology & Law and Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida
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Author Patricia Richards, PhD
Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, University of Georgia

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The Borders are a Nightmare

1/15/2019

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by Anima Adjepong, PhD
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Simmons University

In 2016, I began making frequent trans-Atlantic research visits to Accra, Ghana. Since that first journey, every time I pass through Kotoka International Airport in Accra, I turn on my recording device. It is my sole comfort in the face of the harassment I expect to face as I pass through the national border. The first time I turned it on was when the British Airways gate agent stalled my check-in because he wanted to know if I was a footballer. While the question on its face might seem innocuous, as a trans* person, I was aware of its gender-policing subtext. I turned on my phone’s recorder because Perry was questioning me as if I had committed a crime. He asked to see multiple forms of ID in addition to my passport, questioned me about who paid for my airline ticket, and wanted to know why I was traveling. When he saw my recorder come on, he quickly informed me that I was not legally permitted to record “official security business.” His uncertainty about my gender was now a matter of national security. But nevertheless, he backed off. Perhaps it was the recorder, or my U.S. accent and passport. It’s hard to tell. Over the next year and a half, I visited Accra 3 more times, recording each interaction with agents at the airport. With the exception of my most recent visit in November 2018, I have always been harassed by some airport employee, whether from Ghana Immigration Service, the narcotics agent, or the gate agent checking me in. This harassment has always been because of my gender. On my last visit, I managed to pass through freely. But I was traveling with my partner, whose gender became a point of curiosity and conversation at immigration.
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“White Hot RAGE: Embodying my Rape Again, and Again, and Again”

10/16/2018

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by Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo, PhD
Assistant Professor of Sociology
California State University, Chico



TRIGGER WARNING!: rape, sexual violence, sexual assault, trauma

I don’t usually yell at the television, sit in front of the TV for 8 straight hours, post my real-time thoughts on Facebook over the course of an entire day, cancel every work-related meeting I had that day, have tear-filled conversations with my Mom about our own violent sexual histories, burst into tears upon hearing a single word uttered by a stranger, or sit in my (painful) memories for long stretches of time. This is not my daily, weekly or even monthly routine. But Thursday, September 27th 2018 was a special kind of day, one that literally forced me to confront, head on, what had been buried deep for well over 2 decades. Since then, I know so many of us have been in a similar space, grappling with pain that is often far too difficult and deep to confront at any one time. Honestly, the pain and rage is often so fierce and sharp that it feels like it is literally cutting me into pieces, ripping my chest apart and open a thousand times over. This entry is the beginning of my coming to terms with the avalanche that hit me on Thursday and hasn’t really gone away. It’s the beginning of some kind of clarity regarding how to move forward; some way that I/we/all of us might be able to use these moments of rage to support one another and contribute to some real social change. 

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Solidarity Activism and the Embodiment of Protest

9/30/2018

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by Chandra Russo, PhD
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Colgate University, New York


I recently stumbled upon Christina Jackson’s wonderful blog post here. Since my own work also examines the body in protest, I wanted to add my research to this stimulating conversation.

One of the many questions animating my ethnographic research with three movement communities is this:

How does the embodiment of activism operate for solidarity activists, those who are not directly targeted by the injustices they contest?

The groups I look at are:



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Surviving State Terror: An Interview with Professor Barbara Sutton

8/31/2018

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In this ASA Body and Embodiment Section blog post, Dr. Paige Sweet interviews Professor Barbara Sutton about her new book, Surviving State Terror: Women’s Testimonies of Repression and Resistance in Argentina (NYU Press, 2018).


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The Public Meeting: Embodied Dissent in Urban Spaces

6/30/2018

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by Christina Jackson, PhD
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Stockton University


In my work on San Francisco, I study public discourses and relationships between residents and institutional stakeholders. The redevelopment agency, real estate companies, corporations and the Navy all have a stake in the timely cleaning up of the environmentally toxic Hunters Point shipyard, redevelopment and the accompanying process of gentrification. Within public discourses around protest lie power struggles among neighborhood residents about how bodies negotiate dynamics in meetings over the future of their life in the neighborhood. I use public meetings to analyze the body as the central signifier of institutionalized social relations within a field of power (Adelman and Ruggi 2016:909[i], Foucault 1975[ii]).


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Synkinesis: Movement, Communication and Mood Disorder

6/15/2018

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by Faye Linda Wachs, PhD
Professor of Sociology
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona



In 2009 I woke up with Bell’s Palsy.  After googling the symptoms…  What flashed across my screen in emergency red capital letters were the words:  YOU ARE HAVING A STROKE.  GO DIRECTLY TO AN EMERGENCY ROOM...I sat frozen for a moment, but I didn’t think I was having a stroke.  I knew the signs, and I didn’t have any cognitive impact… I thought, or did I… I ran to the book shelf and grabbed Foucault and my advanced statistics book from graduate school.  I could read (and basically understand) Foucault, I could read (and basically understand) multiple regression equations.  I was reasonably convinced I was not having a stroke.


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Remembering Leonard Nimoy, Feminist Photographer

3/31/2018

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​February 27th was the third anniversary of Leonard Nimoy’s death. For most people, his name will conjure up images of “the Vulcan salute”—what a 1968 New York Times article described as a “double-fingered version of Churchill’s victory sign.” His parents were Ukrainian Jewish immigrants, and Nimoy drew from his Orthodox upbringing when creating the iconic gesture. In his autobiography, I Am Spock, he explains: “This gesture symbolizes the Hebrew letter shin, the first letter in the word Shaddai, ‘Lord.’”

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