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 [...]
Many studies have shown that a growing proportion of Canadians have jobs that are unstable and insecure and that marginalized groups disproportionately work within sectors of flexible and precarious forms of work. Current income and [...]
Religion has again come to the forefront of sociological inquiry. Thissession aims to explore the difference(s) between ‘disaporic religion’and ‘religion in the diaspora’ in connection with the role religiousleadership in immigrant communities. While ‘diasporic religion’ [...]
The 1991 census inaugurated the quantification of interracial coupling in Canada. Since then, with the release of statistical data demonstrating the absolute increase in the number of interracial unions, media reports and a growing body [...]
This session approaches the theme of this year’s congress reflectively. Understanding it is devoted to the exploration of the tensions of inclusion and exclusion, it reflects on the unwitting barriers that the congress itself creates [...]