Disability and Media
This session will feature papers examining the dynamic associations among disability, identity, community, and media. Topics may include explorations into mass media, popular culture, and/or social media.
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Kenzie Mintus, Indiana University Indianapolis
Disability and Social Connections
This session will feature papers focused on disability, ableism, and social connections. We broadly define social connections, and topics may include social and personal relationships, social networks, families, groups and organizations, social participation, social isolation, or loneliness.
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Kenzie Mintus, Indiana University Indianapolis
Disability in Society Section Open Call Paper Session
This session is open to all submissions in the area of disability. This session will feature cutting-edge and innovative research within the Sociology of Disability.
Session Participants:
Session Organizer: Kenzie Mintus, Indiana University Indianapolis
Incarceration, Institutionalization, and Disability (Co-sponsored by Crime, Law, and Deviance Section)
Please note: This is a co-sponsored session. Submissions for this section will be made in the portal under the Disability in Society Section.
Disabled individuals, particularly those with mental disabilities, are over-represented in incarcerated and justice-involved populations. During the mid-twentieth century the US underwent a process of “deinstitutionalization” closing large mental health hospital and wards without corresponding community supports. A consequence of this trend was the criminalization of mental illness and increased risk of incarceration. We continue to see high rates of mental health conditions among incarcerated populations. Furthermore, the graying of the prison population has shone a light on issues around physical impairment and chronic illness. This co-sponsored session invites papers focused on understanding the complex relationships among incarceration, institutionalization, and disability. We are especially interested in sociological analyses that recognize disability as an axis of inequality that intersects with other axes (e.g., social class, race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, etc.) to shape experiences with the criminal legal system.
Session Participants:
Session Organizers: Kenzie Mintus, Indiana University Indianapolis; Brianna Remster, Villanova University
Only 15 days until the @asanews.bsky.social Annual Meeting Call for Papers closes. The Section on Disability in Society has some great sessions (if I do say so myself). Please consider submitting.
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