The focus on “active citizenship” in income assistance policy reform has increasingly attempted to cleave the “able” from the “not able” through multiple regulatory axes. One of the potential implications is an increasingly fragmented milieu [...]
Automobility – or the complex and expanding system associated with, and foundational to, motor vehicle transportation – is fundamental to heterogeneous contemporary social and spatial practices. In recent years, critical scholars have increasingly problematized the [...]
The ways in which we define, form and experience family and intimate relationships are changing, and we are constantly made aware of this through what we read, watch and listen to in mainstream media and [...]
The goal of this session is to explore the possibilities for feminist organizing on university campuses and examine what role students, staff and faculty can have in such a movement. Within the context of continued [...]
This session seeks to showcase work exploring intersections among (bio)medicalization, gender and sexuality including historical, contemporary, theoretical and/or empirical dimensions. Contemporary work on medicalization has introduced new lines of inquiry around its shifting contexts and [...]