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(DIS3) Decolonial and Transnational Disability Justice
Session | Virtual Session | Sociology of Disability
In “Decolonising Disability,” Helen Meekosha has challenged the domination of the Global North in Disability Studies. What are the alternatives now? Topics include but are not limited to: national and regional alternatives; borders and migration; underdevelopment, resource extraction and the production of disability; international organizing; settler colonialism; “glocalism;” the limits of international solidarity; supply chains.
Organizers: Chris Churchill, University of Lethbridge, Yiyan Li, University of Toronto
(DIS4a) Sociology of Disability I
Session | Virtual Session | Sociology of Disability
This session broadly explores the sociology of disability.
Organizers: Chris Churchill, University of Lethbridge, Yiyan Li, University of Toronto
(DIS4b) Sociology of Disability II
Session | In-person Session | Sociology of Disability
This session broadly explores the sociology of disability.
Organizers: Chris Churchill, University of Lethbridge, Yiyan Li, University of Toronto
(ECS2) Economic Sociology Open Session
Session | In-person Session | Economic Sociology
This session focuses on both theoretical and empirical topics in economic sociology and political economy. The themes for presentations include recent shifts in economic inequalities and class relations; the dynamics of global capitalism; economic policies in the age of neoliberalism; sociology of finance; and broader themes in institutional studies.
Organizers: Zhen Wang, University of Toronto, Dean Curran, University of Calgary
(ECS4) Confronting Contemporary Capitalism
Session | Virtual Session | Economic Sociology
The 2008 financial crisis massively destabilized the neoliberal regime of capitalism. Yet, despite greater state intervention in responses to the crises, including COVID-19, neither do we appear to have returned to Keynesianism. So, what is the current conjuncture of capitalism? This session is a general call for theoretical and empirical interventions that aim to speak to contemporary capitalism and the challenges it faces, as well as the challenges we face in analyzing it. The themes include political trust, crises of capitalism, the re-emergence of inflation and the ongoing cost of living crises, imagination of a post-capitalist economy, as well as the study of contemporary capitalism utilizing novel tools such as AI and machine learning.
Organizers: Dean Curran, University of Calgary, Zhen Wang, University of Toronto