Welcome to the July 2014 issue of the URBAN-Sociology newsletter. In this newsletter you will find news and updates from participants in the Sociology node of the Urban Research Based Action Network (URBAN). (more…)
URBAN’s Sociology node has planned a series of activities to advance collaborative, community-based research at the upcoming American Sociological Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Please join us! Information about the scheduled sessions is listed below. Click here to access the downloadable flier. (more…)
The American Cultures Engaged Scholarship program at the University of California, Berkeley and the DataCenter invite proposals for Research Justice: A Symposium Exploring Community Engaged Scholarship, taking place April 24, 2014 at the University of California, Berkeley. The Symposium will hold a critical conversation about university-community partnerships that take the form of Read more…
The URBAN Sociology node facilitated a highly successful series of events at the 2013 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting held this August in New York City. We used the conference to build our network and to promote discussion and ongoing collaboration around research connected to pressing social justice concerns. This post provides highlights from URBAN Sociology’s organizational and planning meetings, two educational workshops, and a series of roundtables co-hosted with the Section on Sociological Practice and Public Sociology. (more…)
A number of sociologists played a role in establishing URBAN, an emerging multidisciplinary network that will promote community-based and collaborative forms of research. While many sociologists have long conducted research in collaboration with community-based organizations, most of these scholars work in silos and their work is typically not rewarded or credited within the academy. Learn more in this American Sociological Association Footnotes article by Jose Calderon and Mark Warren about the innovative ways that sociologists across the United States worked to bring URBAN into being. (more…)
My survival in higher education has its roots in the connections between my lived experience as the immigrant son of farm worker parents and the lessons learned in overcoming systemic obstacles as a community organizer and intellectual activist. Whenever the road in academia got rough I had to face another hurdle, I always remembered the difficulties that my immigrant farm worker family had to face. In this way, the problems I encountered in academia appeared smaller and more manageable. My struggles with learning English and growing up in a poor immigrant farm worker family became the foundations of language, labor, and immigration issues that I passionately took up in my organizing, teaching, and research as an activist intellectual in academia. (more…)