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Authors:Blu Lewis, Felicia Arriaga Abstract: Humanity & Society, Ahead of Print. The North Carolina Black Leadership Organizing Collective (NCBLOC) began in 2015 and is in a 10-year process to develop Black-led movement organizations in North Carolina. Blu Lewis was one of the visionary architects of this initiative and refers to many of the ways we use research inside of the organization to work towards our goals. Felicia Arriaga joined NCBLOC as the network coordinator for one of NC BLOC’s projects called the NC Statewide Police Accountability Network in 2019, moved into supporting cross movement organizing within NC BLOC, and now is the Development Manager for NC BLOC. We dive into a discussion about research and organizing strategies, how we can redefine validation, how we can pair research with narratives that represent our communities, how our values can align with our research, and how we can combat white supremacy culture that shows up in our research practices. Citation: Humanity & Society PubDate: 2023-03-16T11:22:02Z DOI: 10.1177/01605976231162337
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Authors:Jodie M. Dewey, Ellie R. Oppenheim, Dennis P. Watson Abstract: Humanity & Society, Ahead of Print. To depathologize transgender (trans) healthcare, revisions have been made to two documents used in the treatment of trans people. First, the 7th Version of the Standards of Care (SOC-7) removed a lengthy therapeutic relationship and real-life experience (RLE), replacing these with a gender assessment. The second was a shift in language from Gender Identity Disorder to Gender Dysphoria in the 5th Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), as well as its removal from the chapter on ‘sexual dysfunctions and paraphilias’. Despite changes, trans healthcare remains stigmatizing and gatekept. Through qualitative interviews with 20 U.S.-based health professionals, we expand current knowledge of the shifting treatment approaches for those seeking gender-affirming medical services. Data show that despite progressive document changes, providers continue to place the burden on patients to fit within a sex/gender dichotomous system and to prove mental stability and decision-making competency to access what are increasingly considered life-saving treatments. We illuminate resultant health disparities that can emerge when providers perceive trans people in need of their education and mental health support and advocate a move away from the current medicalized process towards a healthcare model situated in trans peoples' own lived experience. Citation: Humanity & Society PubDate: 2023-03-09T01:45:13Z DOI: 10.1177/01605976231162341
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Authors:Myron Strong Abstract: Humanity & Society, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Humanity & Society PubDate: 2023-03-06T05:31:42Z DOI: 10.1177/01605976231159773
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Authors:Shaonta’ E. Allen Abstract: Humanity & Society, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Humanity & Society PubDate: 2023-03-03T02:24:00Z DOI: 10.1177/01605976231159547
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Authors:Heidi Nicholls Abstract: Humanity & Society, Ahead of Print. The history of humanism is intertwined with empire and racism. Many in sociology are aware of the significant contributions of Sylvia Wynter in our understanding of how modernity has shaped what it means to be human. ‘Man,’ Wynter argues, was never more that the European bourgeois man of the colonial world. Colonial conceptions of humanity have largely excluded ways of being and living that resist and refuse global empires. I argue that the differences between those who lived under state rule and those whose politics were illegible to European colonists became part of what we now think of as race. Colonists conflated the human with a certain kind of colonial subject, and later, the favored White citizen-subject and fellow colonist of an empire-state. In contemplating this journal’s title and mission for a humanist sociology, I argue that ‘society’ its 20th and 21st century articulations have often stood in for Man in the Wynterian sense. U.S. Sociology promoted ‘society’ as both an object of inquiry and a cognate for the colonial state. As such, sociology as the study of ‘society’ contained a specifically statist bent. Finally, this essay ends by offering examples of anticolonial humanist sociology that nurtures a more egalitarian genres of the human for the future. Citation: Humanity & Society PubDate: 2023-02-28T10:52:17Z DOI: 10.1177/01605976231160520
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Authors:hephzibah v. strmic-pawl Abstract: Humanity & Society, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Humanity & Society PubDate: 2023-02-23T08:28:23Z DOI: 10.1177/01605976231159755
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Authors:Shaonta’ Allen Abstract: Humanity & Society, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Humanity & Society PubDate: 2023-02-21T07:30:21Z DOI: 10.1177/01605976231158963
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Authors:Maretta McDonald Abstract: Humanity & Society, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Humanity & Society PubDate: 2023-02-21T04:35:21Z DOI: 10.1177/01605976231158986
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Authors:Jason M. Williams, Retha Onitiri Abstract: Humanity & Society, Ahead of Print. This manuscript is an interview of a local activist in NJ, Ms. Retha Onitiri. We asked her a series of questions that caused her to reflect on her life and journey as an activist. She is a notable activist that has forged immense change in the NJ Juvenile Justice System. She is also an experienced community organizer and mobilizer. She has organized around issues pertaining to the criminal legal system, economic inequality, accessibility, and other social issues. In this paper, Retha unpacks her life story and how that journey has influenced her work today. Her experiences as an activist is revealed, and she closes the interview by foregrounding the need for elders to embrace and prepare the next generation of activists. Citation: Humanity & Society PubDate: 2023-02-20T10:02:03Z DOI: 10.1177/01605976231158973
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Authors:Myron T. Strong, Tanya Cook, Lilika A. Belet, Paul Calarco Abstract: Humanity & Society, Ahead of Print. Comic books and graphic novels offer an excellent way to democratize the classroom and improve student learning by giving them the ability to understand social issues and social institutions in a relatable way. This article is a conversation exploring the validity of comics as tools to teach sociology. Specifically, the article does this through examining the effectiveness of comics as a way to analyze gender, the looking glass self, and the sociological imagination and exploring the use of graphic novels to replace traditional texts in the introductory sociology classroom. If one of our disciplinary goals is to change society for the better by boosting the development of sociological imaginations, looking at comics may give us the best format to do so. Citation: Humanity & Society PubDate: 2023-02-18T10:24:01Z DOI: 10.1177/01605976231158969
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Authors:Emily Brissette, Mike King Abstract: Humanity & Society, Ahead of Print. Within the field of US social movement studies, there is periodic concern that the work produced by scholars is not more widely read and used by activists and organizers, yet there is little attention given to how epistemological norms within the field produce and maintain the disconnect between mainstream US social movement studies and movements on the ground. In this paper we trace the major contours of the problem: the positivism that saturates the field’s tendency towards abstraction and model building; the implicit normative commitment to a liberal-pluralist social order which eclipses radical voices; and the refusal to engage seriously with the organic knowledge production that takes place within every movement. We also highlight exemplary theorizing that has emerged out of active struggles and argue that the humanistic study of social movements must begin from a place of intellectual humility, decentering academic expertise and recognizing that scholars have much to learn from organic intellectuals in movements today. Citation: Humanity & Society PubDate: 2023-02-16T12:58:36Z DOI: 10.1177/01605976231158396
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Authors:Brittany Pearl Battle, Tamara K Nopper, Antonia Randolph Abstract: Humanity & Society, Ahead of Print. In this conversation between Brittany Pearl Battle and Tamara K. Nopper (facilitated by Antonia Randolph), two sociologists who have been involved in a variety of social justice struggles (e.g. prison abolition, worker’s rights, Asian American rights), describe the everyday practices that make up struggles for social justice. They identify a spectrum of practices that individuals can do to bring about a more just world, while arguing that all practices towards justice do not constitute organizing or activism. Moreover, they describe the salience of their status as workers and women of color as structuring the ways they have pursued social change at different points in their lives. In so doing, they identify academia as a workplace rather than being an academic as a status as the salient force that shapes how they work to build a more just world. Ultimately, the article questions the usefulness of the designation scholar-activist, opting to recognize the unique role of activists in social change while affirming that we all bring what we can to struggles for justice. Citation: Humanity & Society PubDate: 2023-02-16T01:08:01Z DOI: 10.1177/01605976231158397
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Authors:Corey J. Miles Abstract: Humanity & Society, Ahead of Print. The opacity and mundaneness of racism often allows it to slip through our traditional systems of accounting and measuring. The study of racialized emotions has been an important intervention in sociology to understand the intimate nature of racialized social structures. There still is a need to understand the language Black communities use to communicate their complex emotional worlds and the nuanced ways abusive power systems are felt in everyday life. Using 24 months of ethnographic fieldwork in northeast North Carolina and data from 23 in-depth interviews, the author examines the relationship between Black people’s emotional habitus and racial structures. The results indicate that Black people developed vibe as a rhetorical tool to articulate their complex emotional economy and it is regularly used to make sense of racialize experiences. Vibe is not limited to racial understanding as it works to name the often unsayable and perceptive ways people know, feel, and respond to the opacity and non-quantifiable dimensions of social experience. This paper focuses on the ways Black community members used vibe to articulate feeling the criminalization of Blackness or what this research refers to as ‘felt criminality.’ Despite facing emotional subjugation Black community members were still invested in emotive projects and used their felt experience as an epistemological resource to make sense of racial processes in a supposedly colorblind society. Citation: Humanity & Society PubDate: 2022-12-16T02:39:13Z DOI: 10.1177/01605976221146733
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Authors:Jenny Logan, Mallaigh McGinley Abstract: Humanity & Society, Ahead of Print. Those of us with embodied experiences of gender diversity and sexually assault have and continue to be subject to psychiatric diagnosis and categorization that pathologize our acts of dissociation within a medical framework. In this paper we adopt Barad, Karen. 2007. Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Durham and London: Duke University Press new materialist ontology of agential realism to argue that agentially cutting psychiatric discourse on dissociative symptoms could materialize new realities for embodied people which have been excluded to the psychiatric realm of abjection via gender diversity and sexual assault. Specifically, we explore how approaching dissociative symptoms not as dysfunction but as forms of agential dislocation from hegemonic norms of race and gender could open new political horizons by naming relations of dominance. Citation: Humanity & Society PubDate: 2022-12-13T04:14:00Z DOI: 10.1177/01605976221146111
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Authors:Martin Aidnik Abstract: Humanity & Society, Ahead of Print. Europe’s treatment of refugees provides growing evidence that the continent is losing its moral compass, and that Europe is increasingly callous – so-called Fortress Europe. Brute force, deterrence, including pushbacks and barbed wire fences have become the instruments with which European governments have responded to irregular migration and refugees. This article seeks to bring to the fore the contradiction between the EU’s self-proclaimed values — human dignity and human rights — and the callous policies of nation states and the EU’s migration regime. My main focus lies on the calamitous conditions of refugees and the thousands of deaths that have occurred in the Mediterranean Sea since 2015, the year that refugees fleeing Syria’s civil war started making their way to Europe. Importantly, the Mediterranean is the deadliest border in the world; it is the veritable global epicenter of lethal border crossings. Drawing on contemporary critical theory, I undertake a humanist critique of the European status quo. The EU, as a force for a better, more livable world, is on its way to becoming irrelevant, something that was evident well before the Covid-19 pandemic. This is what is principally at stake today. Citation: Humanity & Society PubDate: 2022-11-02T08:44:26Z DOI: 10.1177/01605976221120537
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Authors:Randy La Prairie Abstract: Humanity & Society, Ahead of Print. In this article, I present a theory of American military imperialism that combines three structural factors: the military-industrial complex (MIC); elite control of public policy; and elite, imperial ideology. I argue that because this theory is more plausible and empirically grounded than major Weberian and Marxist theories of war, it can provide a better explanation for specific US military interventions. As a theory of American military imperialism, it is also more nuanced than existing power elite theories. A case study of the 2003 Iraq War is presented to illustrate the utility of the theory. The case study shows that in invading Iraq, key Bush administration officials sought to expand the MIC and their own decision power making within it, and that these preferences were associated with their specific elite social backgrounds, and the hardline ideology they subscribed to. I conclude with suggestions for future research. Citation: Humanity & Society PubDate: 2022-08-11T07:41:50Z DOI: 10.1177/01605976221119997
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Authors:Cindy Brooks Dollar, Grant Tietjen First page: 3 Abstract: Humanity & Society, Ahead of Print. Perceptions, applications, and consequences of stigma have been of interest to sociologists for centuries. Following criticisms of original labeling models, modified labeling theory (MLT) sought to reframe arguments about the consequences of negative labeling. MLT focuses on explaining how socialization teaches us the deleterious consequences of stigmatizing labels, and how anticipations of stigma are met with deliberate management to cope with expected stigma. MLT proposes three stigma management strategies: secrecy, withdrawal, and education. In the present paper, we use an autoethnographic, narrative sociology approach to share our personal experiences with stigma. The autoethnographic-storytelling approach effectively places our experiences within our cultural settings and demonstrates MLT’s applicability. Using one narrative of a designated “criminal offender” and the other of a “sexual assault victim,” we show how the politically charged labels of “offender” and “victim” while publicly framed as opposing, share similarities, thus emphasizing MLT’s explanatory potential. The narratives indicate, however, that stigma management may be more complex than present literatures capture. We propose the notion of a stigma management toolkit to help explain the availability, selection, and employment of certain stigma management practices and conclude by encouraging further theorization on stigma-related processes. Citation: Humanity & Society PubDate: 2022-11-05T11:46:47Z DOI: 10.1177/01605976221137714
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Authors:Brandi Perri First page: 29 Abstract: Humanity & Society, Ahead of Print. A university campus is a critical site to analyze the day-to day experiences of custodial staff and to examine the practices janitors employ to manage the negative social attitudes commonly associated with their positions. Building on service work literature, this paper asks how janitors create more value and meaning within low-status jobs. With data collected from in-depth interviews, observations of worksites at a public university, and in the janitors’ local union office, I argue that within higher education institutions, janitors find ways to add value to their jobs in two ways: taking on non-compensated roles such as parental surrogates or university historians and participating in various types of resistance on a personal and/or community level. Participating in these processes, the janitors themselves report feeling more fulfilled in the job, and they establish the importance of their work, beyond the broom and mop. Citation: Humanity & Society PubDate: 2022-07-15T01:31:34Z DOI: 10.1177/01605976221111815
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Authors:Sean Byrne, Karine Levasseur, Laura E. Reimer First page: 49 Abstract: Humanity & Society, Ahead of Print. Since the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, over 2 billion Euros have been poured into Northern Ireland for peacebuilding. This article presents the hopes and experiences of workers in CSOs funded by either or both funds, development officers, and civil servants employed by the funders. They confirm that peacebuilding and reconciliation projects funded by the European Union (EU) Peace and Reconciliation Fund and the International Fund for Ireland (IFI) have positively contributed to the peace process in Northern Ireland. Civil Society Organizational (CSO) projects support peacebuilding, reconciliation, and greater cooperation between the Protestant and Catholic communities. This study explored the perceptions of 120 respondents working with these funders. They indicated that designated peacebuilding funding promotes bridging, needs to be balanced, and is important to building the peace dividend and that local knowledge, practices, and skillsets should be built into the funding process. The politics of post-Brexit Northern Ireland means that understanding how to best fund peacebuilding and reconciliation is critical. At time of writing, tensions have risen. Citation: Humanity & Society PubDate: 2022-06-06T05:04:37Z DOI: 10.1177/01605976221107093
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Authors:Amelia E Clark, Erin Macey, Ashley Irby, Cynthia Stone, Mary Pell Abernathy, Jack E Turman First page: 69 Abstract: Humanity & Society, Ahead of Print. Maternal mortality in the United States of America is a human rights issue. This study gathered perspectives from Black women community members and from duty bearers in four fields (academic, special interest, government, and media) on barriers to maternal health in Indiana. Semi-structured interviews and an editing (data-based) analytic strategy revealed six themes regarding barriers to maternal health: lack of continuous, quality health care coverage; racism and implicit bias; trauma and lack of mental health services; lack of instrumental and emotional support systems; insufficient knowledge for self-advocacy; and lack of data transparency and reliability. Participants raised several strategies to address barriers, including continuous high-quality health care coverage, implicit bias training, mental health services, doulas, and grassroots-university partnerships. We discuss these barriers and solutions using a human rights-based approach to health (HRBA). These findings present a blueprint for duty bearers in Indiana to increase women’s ability to claim their right to health. Citation: Humanity & Society PubDate: 2022-06-23T08:47:27Z DOI: 10.1177/01605976221109785
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Authors:Andrew F. Baird, J Micah Roos, J. Scott Carter First page: 95 Abstract: Humanity & Society, Ahead of Print. The anti-politically correct (PC) stance has been a key defensive position held by many conservative Americans for more than three decades. This position holds that being forced to be politically correct hinders open dialogue and debate on important yet sensitive issues, especially those around race and racism. However, scholars have questioned this anti-PC orientation and tied it to political orientation and racism. One caveat that stands as the basis of this paper is the role of education in moderating the impact of racial emotions on various outcomes. While some scholars, such as Seymour Lipset, highlight the liberalizing impact of education, others question such impact. Accordingly, this research examines how educational attainment, racial resentment, and White guilt concerning racial injustice interact to impact the likelihood of White Americans taking an anti-PC stance. Our data is drawn from the American National Election Study 2016 pilot survey. In line with past research, we find that racial resentment and White guilt indeed predict views toward political correctness; however, we find educational attainment does not change the effect of these variables on views toward political correctness. We discuss the importance of these findings in relation to prominent social theories on race and social dominance. Citation: Humanity & Society PubDate: 2022-09-01T09:16:42Z DOI: 10.1177/01605976221120536
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