Communities

(RUS2) Sustaining Rural Futures

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Friday Jun 21 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)
Wong Building - WONG 1030

Rural communities are simultaneously on the front lines of myriad significant societal changes and left behind by or left out of many others. This session invited papers that consider how ... more

(SCL10b) Sociology of Space, Place, and Time II

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Wednesday Jun 19 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)
Trottier Building - ENGTR 1080, Wong Building - WONG 1050

Social processes occur in space and over time (Maritn and Miler, 2003). Thus, social processes are intertwined with spatiality and temporality. Everything we study is emplaced ... place is not merely a ... more

(SON1) Alternative Kinships at the End of the World (and the Beginning of the Next One)

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Friday Jun 07 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)
Online via the CSA

From Bergman and Montgomery’s Joyful Militancy: “The state is a social relationship; a certain way of people relating to one another. It can be destroyed by creating new social ... more

(URS2) Public-private Dynamics of Urban Spaces

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Thursday Jun 20 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)
Trottier Building - ENGTR 1090

Despite unprecedented waves of privatization of public space and concomitant encroachments, such as commercialization, regulation, and sanitization, being in public spaces remains a fundamental component of our urban experiences. The ... more

(URS3) Homelessness Governance

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Thursday Jun 20 11:00 am to 12:30 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)
Wong Building - WONG 1030

As homelessness continues to rise and become more visible throughout Canada, it is crucial to understand contemporary homelessness governance strategies that attempt to supervise, regulate, and integrate people experiencing homelessness ... more