The IVth Conference of the European Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction
28-30 AUGUST 2013, UPPSALA, SWEDEN
www.his.se/eu-sssi
PROGRAM
The Conference is organized by the Department of Sociology, Uppsala University, and the Department of Social Psychology, Institute for
Technology and Society, University of Skövde, with the cooperation of the Department of Cultural Geography, the Institute for Housing and
Urban Research, and the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology at Uppsala University.
Sponsors: Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ); The Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), Uppsala University
WEDNESDAY, 28 AUGUST
Norrlands Nation Conference, Västra Ågatan 14
8:30-9:30 Registration (refreshments available)
9:30-10:30 Conference Opening
Vessela Misheva,
Chairperson of the International Organizing Committee of the EU-SSSI Conference
Gale Miller,
President of SSSI
Kerstin Rathsman,
Acting Head of Department, Department of Sociology , Uppsala University
Ella Johansson,
Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University
Irene Molina,
Institute for Housing and Urban Research & Department of Cultural Geography, Uppsala University
Jasna Sersic,
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Social and Economic Geography, Uppsala University
Anna Liv Jonsson,
Master’s student, Department of Sociology, Uppsala University
PLENARY SESSION I 10:30-11:45 (Venue: Norrlands Nation Conference)
10:30-11:00 Jan Trost, Uppsala University, Sweden
Symbolic Interactionism in Sweden
11:00-11:30 Jack Katz, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
How Symbolic Interaction Got Marginalized and Why it Keeps Coming Back
11:30-11:45 Discussion
11:45-13:15 Lunch Break
PLENARY SESSION II 13:15-14:30 (Venue: Norrlands Nation Conference)
13:15-13:45 Lonnie Athens, Seton Hall University, USA
The Nature and Genesis of Radical Interactionism
13:45-14:15 Vessela Misheva, Uppsala University and University of Skövde, Sweden
The Interdisciplinary Promise of Symbolic Interactionism
14:15-14:30 Discussion
14:30-15:00 Coffee and Refreshments
pLENARY SESSION III 15:00-17:00 (Venue: Norrlands Nation Conference)
15:00-15:30 Gary Fine, Northwestern University, USA
The Hinge: Civil Society, Group Culture, and the Interaction Order
15:30-16:00 Robert Dingwall, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Symbolic Interactionism as an Economic Sociology
16:00-16:30 Mikael Carleheden, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Towards a Conception of Critical Social Psychology: Self-realization, Social Pathologies
and Critique
16:30-17:00 Discussion
17:00-17.30 Break (refreshments available)C
cONCURRENT SESSIONS no 1-3 17:30-19:00 (Venue: Norrlands Nation Conference)
19:30 Rector’s Reception, University Main BuildingTH
THURSDAY, 29 AUGUST
PLENARY SESSION IV 09:00-09:45 (Venue: Ihre-salen, Campus Engelska Parken)
9:00-9:30 Gale Miller, Marquette University, USA
Social Constructionism as Public Sociology: Lessons from Kenneth Burke
9:30-9:45 Discussion
9:45-10:15 Coffee and RefreshmentsCONCURRENT SESSIONS No 4-7 10:15 – 11:45
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CONCURRENT SESSIONS No 4-7 10:15-11:45 (Venue: Campus Engelska Parken)
Campus Engelska Parken )
11:45-13:15 Lunch Break
PLENARY SESSION V 13:15-15:00 (Venue: Ihre-salen, Campus Engelska Parken)
13:15-13:45 Patricia A. Adler, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
The Cyber Worlds of Self-Injurers: Deviant Communities, Relationship, and Selves
13:45-14:15 Joseph Kotarba, Texas State University, USA
Exploring Contemporary Experiences of Self: From Translational Research Scientists to
Baby Boomer Rock ‘n’ Roll Fans.
14:15-14.45 Emma Engdahl, Aalborg University, Denmark
The Paradox of Self-realization within Western Society: The Case of Depressive Love
14:45-15:15 Discussion
15:15-15:30 Coffee and RefreshmentsCO
coNCURRENT SESSIONS No 8-12 15:30-17:00 (Venue: Campus Engelska Parken
PLENARY PANEL 17:15-18:30 (Venue: Ihre-salen, Campus Engelska Parken)
The Thwarted Self of the 21st C: Reflections on Recognition, Subjectivity and Identity
Lauren Langman, Loyola University, Chicago, USA
The Social Self as Subject: Identity as “Contested Terrain”
Michael Thompson, William Paterson University, USA
The Insufficiency of Recognition
Tova Benski, The College of Management Academic Studies, Israel
Recognition and Dignity: The Emotions of the 21st Century Mobilizations?
19:30 Conference Dinner (Venue: Norrlands Nation, Västra Ågatan 14)
FRIDAY, 30 AUGUST PLENARY SESSION VI 9:00-10:15 (Venue: Ihre-salen, Campus Engelska Parken)
9:00-9:30 Audrey Kobayashi, Queens University, Canada
Robert Park, the Concept of Race, and the Influence of Symbolic Interaction in American
Geography
9:30-10:00 Irene Molina, Uppsala University, Sweden
Spatial Ethnography –Understanding the Interactions between Individuals and Places
10:00-10:15 Discussion
10:15-10:45 Coffee and Refreshments
PLENARY SESSION VI 10:45-12:45 (Venue: Ihre-salen, Campus Engelska Parken)
10:45-11:15 Ella Johansson, Uppsala University, Sweden
Does Methodology Matter: Interviews versus Observations
11:15-11:45 P
eter Adler, University of Denver, USA
Notes from a Conjoint Career: Four Decades of Ethnography’s ‘Twists’ and ‘Turns’’
11:45-12:15 Patrik Aspers, Uppsala University, Sweden
What is Qualitative in Qualitative Social Science?
12:15-12:45 Discussion
12:45-13:45 Lunch Break
CONCURRENT SESSIONS No 13-16 13:45-15:30 (Venue: Campus Engelska Parken)
15:30-15:45 Coffee and Refreshments
15:45-17:45 Talking About Ethnography: Interdisciplinary Workshop for Young Researchers with
ary Fine, Jack Katz, Emma Engdahl, Joseph Kotarba, Ella Johansson and Patrik Aspers
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(Venue: Ihre-salen, Campus Engelska Parken)
Chairs: Alexander Dobeson, Jasna Sersic, Daniel Bodén
17:45-18:00 Conference Closing: (Venue: Ihre-salen, Campus Engelska Parken)
18:00-19:00 EU SSSI Business meeting, Engelska Parken (Venue: Ihre-salen, Campus Engelska Parken)
19:00 Buffet-dinner (’tapas’) at Matikum, Engelska parken:
An evening of dance with Bengt Starrin and live music with REZAR.
The IV EU SSSI Conference, 28-30 August 2013, Uppsala
Thematic Sessions
PROGRAMME
WEDNESDAY, 17:30-19:00, 28 AUGUST, 2013
Venue: Norrlands Nation, Västra Ågatan 14
Session 1: SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM, PEACE AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Room: Gamla Salen
Session organizer and chair: A
ndrea Salvini,
Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Pisa, Italy
17:30-17:50 Valentina Bartolucci,
Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Pisa, Italy
Discourse, Social Interaction and Peace
17:50-18:00 Discussion
18:00-18:20 Georgios Tsarsitalidis,
Euroculture, Uppsala University, Sweden & Deusto University, Bilbao,Spain
European Economic Crisis- Revitalizing National Identity throughPolitical Cartoons and Images
18:20-18:30 Discussion
18:30-18:50
Andrea Salvini,
Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Pisa, Italy
Symbolic Interactionism on “peace” and “peaceful interactions”
18:50-19:00 Discussion
Session 2: RACE, SELF & IDENTITY
Room: Strömholm-salen
Session Organizer and Chair: Nikolay Zakharov,
School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University, Sweden
Room: Strömholm-salen
17:30-17:50
WEDNESDAY
AUGUST, 2013
Venue: Norrlands Nation, Västra Ågatan 14
William Ryan Force,
Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Western New England University & James Michael
Thomas, University of Mississippi, United States
Race, Affect, and the Embodied Self
17:50-18:00 Discussion
18:00-18:20
Denis Peskov,
Centre for Ethnopolitical Research, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of
Sciences, Russia
He Who Has Eyes Let Him See: Some New Ways of the Visual Presentation and Perception of States
18:20-18:30 Discussion
18:30-18:50
Nathan Light,
Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University, Sweden
Speculation on the Past: Symbolic Interactionism and Historical Narrative in Central Asia
18:50-19:00 Discussion
Session 3: EMOTIONS AND STIGMA MANAGEMENT
Room: Biblioteket
Chair: Susanna Nordström,
Department of Social Psychology, Institute for Technology and Society, University of Skövde, Sweden
17:30-17:50
David Shulman & Rebecca Heslin,
Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Lafayette College, United States
Stigma 2.0: Mocking Content and the Amplification of Deviance in Virtual Social Interactions
17:50-18:00 Discussion
18:00-18:20
Thaddeus Muller,
Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Dealing with the Academic Stigma of Fraud: The Case of Diederik Stapel and his PhD Students
18:20-18:30 Discussion
Room: Biblioteket
WEDNESDAY
AUGUST, 2013
Venue: Norrlands Nation, Västra Ågatan 14
18:30-18:50
Judith Schmelz,
University of Kassel, Germany
Cynicism and Emotions, or Cynical Emotions?
18:50-19:00 Discussion
THURSDAY, 10:15-11:45, 29 AUGUST, 2013 Venue: Campus Engelska Parken
Session 4: INTERACTIONIST CONCEPTS AND MUSIC IN EVERYDAY LIFE
Room: 2-0022
Session Organizer and Chair: Joseph A. Kotarba,
Center for Social Inquiry, Texas State University-San Marcos, USA
10:15-10.35
Vincenzo Romania,
Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology, University of Padova, Italy
Daily Life as a Musical Performance: An Interactionist Approach
10:35-10:45 Discussion
10:45-11:05
Susanna Nordström,
Department of Social Psychology, Institute for Technology and Society, University of Skövde, Sweden
Uncertainty and Discontinuation as Facilitators of Agency? - The Case of the 21st Century Emo
11:05-11:15 Discussion
11:15-11:35
Thaddeus Müller,
Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Lou Reed’s walk on the Wild Side: Transgression in Sex, Drugs, and Rock’n Roll
11:35-11:45 Discussion
THURSDAY
AUGUST, 2013
Session 5: DANCE, HUMAN PERFORMATIVITY & EMOTIONS
Room: 16-0054
Venue: Campus Engelska Parken
Chair: Bengt Starrin,
Institute for Social and Psychological Studies, University of Karlstad, Sweden
10:15-10:35
Susie Scott,
University of Sussex, UK
The Paradox of Shy Performativity: Stage Fright and its Relation to Shyness in Everyday Life
10:35-10:45 Discussion
10:45-11:05
Lars-Erik Berg,
Department of Social Psychology, Institute for Technology and Society, University of Skövde
Non-vocal Gestures as Language - The Example of Dancing
11:05-11:15 Discussion
11:15-11:35
Bengt Starrin,
Institute for Social and Psychological Studies, University of Karlstad, Sweden
Rituals on the Dance Floor – From Bumper Belt to Dirty Fox
11:35-11:45 Discussion
Session 6: YOUTH CULTURE & SOCIAL DEVIANCE
Room: 6-0031
Chair: Philip Lalander,
Department of Social Work, Malmö University, Sweden
10:15-10:35
Margaretha Järvinen,
University of Copenhagen, Department of Sociology &The Danish National Centre for Social Research
(SFI) & Signe Ravn, SFI
Cannabis Careers Revisited: Applying Howard S. Becker’s Theory to Present-day Cannabis Use
10:35-10:45 Discussion
THURSDAY
AUGUST, 2013
Room: 6-0031
Venue: Campus Engelska Parken
10:45-11:05
Philip Lalander,
Department of Social Work, Malmö University, Sweden
A Social Dimension on Everyday Life among Heroin Users in a Swedish Setting
11:05-11:15 Discussion
11:15-11:35 (19)
Elke Van Hellemont,
University of Leuven, Belgium
Seduced by Imagination: Young Men and the Seduction of Gangs
11:35-11:45 Discussion
Session 7: THE PRIVATE BODY IN THE PUBLIC REALM
Room: 6-K1031
Chair: Thomas Kumlin,
School of Health, Care and Social Welfare, Mälardalen University, Sweden
10:15-10:35
Magdalena Wojciechowska,
University of Łódź, Poland
Mine – Not Mine. Problematic Aspects of How Female Escorts Experience Agency over Their Bodies
10:35-10:45 Discussion
10:45-11:05
Liselotte Olsson,
Institute for Social and Psychological Studies, University of Karlstad, Sweden
Constructing Family through Assisted Reproduction
11:05-11:15 Discussion
11:15-11:35
Vesa Leppänen,
Department of Sociology, Lund University, Sweden
Sociability in Paid Domestic Work
11:35-11:45 Discussion
THURSDAY, 15:30-17:00, 29 AUGUST, 2013 Venue: Campus Engelska Parken
Session 8 : GAMES, FRAMES AND THE ORGANIZATION OF PLAY EXPERIENCE
Room: 6-0022
Session Organizer and Chair: Jonas Linderoth,
Department of Education, Communication and Learning, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
15:30-15:50
Matilda Hellman,
Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki,Finland
The Role of Temporality in the Problem Definition of the Excessive Playing of MMORPGs
15:50-16:00 Discussion
16:00-16:20
Jonas Linderoth,
Department of Education, Communication and Learning, University of Gothenburg &
Adam Chapman, Department of Media, Culture and Society, University of Hull, UK
The Limits of Play in Game Narratives Concerning World War II
16:20-16:30 Discussion
16:30-16:50
Jukka Kemppainen,
Department of Social Psychology, Institute for Technology and Society, University of Skövde
Problem Gambling -Identity - Cultural Environment
16:50-17:00 Discussion
Session 9: COPING WITH DEATH IN EVERYDAY LIFE
Room: 16-0042
Chair: Silvia Pezzoli,
Department of Political Science and Sociology, University of Florence, Italy
15:30-15:50
Annika Jonsson,
Faculty of Social and Life Sciences, Sociology, Karlstad University
The Ontology of Continuing Bonds
15:50-16:00 Discussion
Room: 16-0042
THURSDAY
AUGUST, 2013
16:00-16:20
Venue: Campus Engelska Parken
Viola Abermet,
University of Kassel, Germany.
The Mortician as Substitute Family
16:20-16:30 Discussion
16:30-16:50
Silvia Pezzoli,
Department of Political Science and Sociology, University of Florence, Italy
Mourning: Self-help Groups as a Means of Returning Life
16:50-17:00 Discussion
Session 10:THE SOCIAL AND MEDICAL FUNCTION OF PRAGMATIST
METHODOLOGIES
Room: 6-0031
Chair: Michael Dellwing,
Department of Social Sciences, University of Kassel, Germany
15:30-15:50
Marianne Boström,
School of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Örebro, Sweden
Everyday Life as a Treatment Tool for Change and the Development of Self for Persons with Severe
Mental Disabilities
15:50-16:00 Discussion
16:00-16:20
Michael Dellwing,
Department of Social Sciences, University of Kassel, Germany
The Use Value of Psychiatric Diagnoses: Addiction Ascriptions as Involvement Control
16:20-16:30 Discussion
16:30-16:50
Alireza Moula,
Department of Social and Psychological Studies, Karlstad University, Sweden
A Pragmatist Methodology for Qualitative Research Design
16:50-17:00 Discussion
THURSDAY
AUGUST, 2013
Venue: Campus Engelska Parken
Session 11: CONSTRUCTING SOCIAL ATTITUDES
Room: 21-0011 (Ihre-Salen)
Chair: Ella Johansson,
Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University, Sweden
15:30-15:50
Jo Ann Oravec,
College of Business and Economics, University of Wisconsin, United States
Physical and Virtual Hoarding: Personal Possessions as Spectacle in an Era of Overconsumption
15:50-16:10
Andreas Henriksson,
Department of Sociology, Institute for Social and Psychological Studies, University of Karlstad, Sweden
Organizing Intimacy - Swedish Singles Activities as Negotiations over Intimate Relations
16:10-16:30
Anders Lundberg,
Institute for Social and Psychological Studies, University of Karlstad, Sweden
Constructing Environmentalism as a Faith Issue
16:30-16:50
Malin Lindström,
Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University, Sweden
Queer Ventures or Business as usual? Everyday Experiences of Swedish Entrepreneurs in Cultural and
Creative Industries.
16:50-17:10 Discussion
Session 12: SELF-EXPRESSIVE BEHAVIOR AMONG YOUTH
Room: 16-0041
Chair: Lika Rodin,
Department of Social Psychology, Institute for Technology and Society, University of Skövde
15:30-15:50
Sveinn Eggertsson,
Department of Anthropology and Folkloristics, University of Island, Island
Some Concerns Regarding the Use of ‘Graffiti’ as a Classificatory Term
15:50-16:00 Discussion
16:00-16:20
THURSDAY
AUGUST, 2013
Venue: Campus Engelska Parken
Vessela Misheva,
Department of Sociology, Uppsala University & Department of Social Psychology, Institute for
Technology and Society, University of Skövde, Sweden
Tattooing as a Modern Phenomenon: A Symbolic Interactionist Perspective
16:20-16:30 Discussion
16:30-16:50
Anna Liv Jonsson,
Department of Sociology, Uppsala University, Sweden
Making Good Traditions Better – Student Life at the Uppsala Student Nations
16:50-17:00 Discussion
FRIDAY, 13:45-15:30, 30 AUGUST, 2013 Venue: Campus Engelska Parken
Session 13: SOCIAL CRISIS, TRUTH AND TRUST IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE
Room: 16-0041
Chair: Andrew Blasko,
European Polytechnical University, Bulgaria & Uppsala University, Sweden
13:45-14:05
Toshko Krastev,
European Polytechnical University, Bulgaria
Truth and Deception: Types of Deformations of Party-political Reflections
14:05-14:15 Discussion
14:15-14:35
Maija Vorslava,
Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Latvia, Latvia
The Model of Rebuilding Public Trust in Governing Institutions in Latvia
14:35-14:45 Discussion
14:45-15:05
Antoaneta Hristova,
European Polytechnical University & Institute of Psychology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences &
Bulgaria
Cultural Values and Political Conservatism in Terms of a Society in Transition – The Case of Bulgaria
15:05-15:15 Discussion
FRIDAY
AUGUST, 2013
Venue: Campus Engelska Parken
Session 14: INTERACTION, POLITICS, AND WELL-BEING
Room: 16-0042
Chair: Irene Molina,
Department of Social and Economic Geography & Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala
University, Sweden
13:45-14:05
Saddik M. Gouhar,
English Literature Department (FHSS), United Arab Emirates University, UAE
Integrating Western / Christian Symbolism into Arabic –Islamic Literature
14:05-14:25
Roy Kemmers,
Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Becoming Politically Discontented
14:25-14:45
Hamideh Addelyan Rasi,
Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Sweden
The Cognitive Empowerment of Female Youth in Iran: Can Psychosocial Interventions Improve Their
Lives?
14:45-15:05
Anita Vaivade,
Latvian Academy of Culture, Latvia
The Impact of Political Discourse upon Conceptualisation and Communication Practices: The Case of
Suiti Cultural Space
15:05-15:30 Discussion
FRIDAY
AUGUST, 2013
Venue: Campus Engelska Parken
Session 15: CULTURE; TECHNOLOGY & MEANING PRODUCTION
Room: 6-0031
Chair: Fredrik Palm,
Department of Sociology, Uppsala University, Sweden
13:45 – 14:05
Daniel Bodén,
Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University, Sweden
Flexible Bureaucracy – Technology and New Public Management
14:05 – 14:25
Michael Dellwing,
Department of Social Sciences, University of Kassel, Germany
Looking-glass Television
14:25-14:45
Gerrit Retterath und Alessandro Tietz,
University of Kassel, Germany
Images of Otherness in ‘The Walking Dead
14:45-15:05
Lisa Salmonsson,
Department of Sociology, Uppsala University, Sweden
Doing Physicianship: Reflection on the Role of Interactions for the Social Construction of
Immigranthood in Swedish Health Care Organizations
15:05-15:30 Discussion
Session 16: SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM: HISTORICAL, THEORETICAL &
METHODOLOGICAL REFLECTIONSR
Room: 6-0022
Chair: Lars-Erik Berg,
Department of Social Psychology, Institute for Technology and Society, University of Skövde, Sweden
13:45 – 14:05
Lika Rodin,
Department of Social Psychology, Institute for Technology and Society, University of Skövde, Sweden
Micro-Macro Issue in the Mirror of Microsociology
FRIDAY
AUGUST, 2013
Venue: Campus Engelska Parken
Room: 16-0041
14:05-14:15 Discussion
14:15 – 14:35
Lars-Erik Berg.
Department of Social Psychology, Institute for Technology and Society, University of Skövde, Sweden
Levels of Language Power
14:35-14:45 Discussion
14:45-15:05
Berith Nyqvist Cech,
Department of Social and Psychological Studies, University of Karlstad, Sweden
Sweden Just to be called “elderly”?
15:05-15:15 Discussion
Per Månson,
Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Sociology and the Development of Symbolic Interactionism in Sweden
(Per Månson will present his paper on Thursday 29 August.Time and venue will be announced later)
Keynote-speakers:
PATRICIA A. ADLER is Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Together
with Peter Adler she has co-authored Wheeling and Dealing, Momentum, Membership Roles in Field
Research, Backboards and Blackboards, Peer Power, Paradise Laborers, and The Tender Cut, among
many other books and articles.
PETER ADLER is Professor of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Denver. For nearly
40 years all of his work has engaged the symbolic interactionist and ethnographic perspectives. His
main areas of interest include social psychology, deviant behavior, the sociology of sport, and the
sociology of children. He and Patricia A. Adler have received a number of joint and individual awards
from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, including the Mentor Excellence Award, two
Charles Horton Cooley Awards (Honorable Mention), and the George Herbert Mead Award for Lifetime
Achievement.
LONNIE ATHENS is a long-time Professor of Criminal Justice at Seton Hall University, United States.
His research interests center on domination, violence and conflict, and naturalistic methods of inquiry.
Athens has received Seton Hall University’s Researcher of the Year Award for Social and Natural
Scientists and the George Herbert Mead Award of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction
for his career achievements. He has authored and edited numerous articles and books. He hopes that
radical interactionism will one day become a viable alternative to the much older, better known, and
conservative interactional approach that is popularly referred to as symbolic interactionism.
PATRIK ASPERS is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology, Uppsala University. His
research focuses on economic sociology, especially markets, and sociological theory, with an empirical
interest in fashion. Aspers is the author of Markets in Fashion; Orderly Fashion, A Sociology of Markets;
and Markets. He is also co-editor with Jens Beckert of The Worth of Goods.
TOVA BENSKI is Researcher and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Behavioral Sciences, Colman
School of Managment, Rishon LeZion, Israel. Her research addresses such issues as social movements,
protest, peace movements, emotions, gender, body, and identity. Her most recent publications include
The Holocaust as Active Memory: The Past in the Present and Internet and Emotions.
MIKAEL CARLEHEDEN is director of the Ph.D. program and Associate Professor at the Department of
Sociology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has served as President of the Swedish Sociological
Association and is currently editor of Distinktion: The Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory. His
research focuses on critical social theory, the theory of modernity, and the theory of science. Carleheden’s
recent publications in English include “Bauman on Politics: Stillborn Democracy,” “The Imaginary
Significations of Modernity: A Re-Examination,” and “Recognition, Social Invisibility, and Disrespect.”
He is currently preparing for publication On Theorizing: C. S. Peirce and Contemporary Social Science”
and The Ambivalent Significance of Freedom in Sociological Theory.
ROBERT DINGWALL is a consulting sociologist and part-time Professor of Sociology at Nottingham
Trent University, United Kingdom. He has broad international experience in teaching and research,
particularly in the study of law, medicine, science, and technology, focusing primarily on issues
concerning professions, work, and organizations. His writing has emphasized social theory and
qualitative research methods. Before establishing his professional practice, Dingwall was the founding
Director of the Institute for Science and Society at the University of Nottingham, a leading European
research center in science and technology studies. His academic recognition includes terms as editor-inchief of Sociology of Health and Illness and Symbolic Interaction, the international journal of the Society
for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. He has also held office in the Law and Society Association and the
American Sociological Association.
EMMA ENGDAHL is Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Work, Aalborg
University, Denmark. Her fields of research are the sociology of emotions, the sociology of the body,
self-development, identity-formation, non-verbal communication, social pathologies, and the structural
transformation of modern society. The aim of her research is the development of innovative methods and
new knowledge about (a) the social conditions for individual development of body, emotion, and mind;
(b) the structural transformation of norms and values within modern society; and (c) the effects these
changes have on the social conditions for identity-formation and self-realization. Engdahl is the author of
a number of monographs, articles, and book chapters.
GARY ALAN FINE is the John Evans Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University, United States.
He has served as President of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. He is a recipient of the
Society’s George Herbert Mead Award for Lifetime Achievement in Symbolic Interaction and the Mentor
Excellence Award, as well as the Charles Horton Cooley Award (twice) for a book-length monograph.
His most recent book is Tiny Publics: A Theory of Group Culture and Action.
ELLA JOHANSSON is Professor of European Ethnology at the Department of Cultural Anthropology
and Ethnology, Uppsala University. A prominent set of historical themes in her research concerns social
change and modernity in Northern Sweden during the 19th and early 20th centuries, including Sweden’s
transformation from a farming society into a modern industrial nation as well as relations between the
periphery and the political and economic center. A second thematic area in her research concerns Swedish
national identity in relation to modern immigration as well as heritage, landscape, and gender issues. Her
current research addresses children’s play in suburban Stockholm, swimming and national identity, and
the early modern ritual of godmothers on baptism day.
JACK KATZ is Professor of Sociology at UCLA, United States. He has been a Fellow at the Center for
Advanced Study, Stanford University, and an invited professor at several European universities. His
current research includes a historical and contemporary study of diverse neighborhoods in the Hollywood
section of Los Angeles; studies of work careers and material status strategies in urban settings; and
a reconceptualization of sociological methodology for qualitative research. His publications include
Seductions of Crime; How Emotions Work; “From How to Why: On Luminous Description and Causal
Inference in Ethnography”; “Toward a Natural History of Ethical Censorship”; “Time for New Urban
Ethnographies”; “Emotion’s Crucible”; “Se cuisiner un statut. Des noms aux verbes dans l’étude de la
stratification sociale”; and “Methods for Mortals” (forthcoming).
AUDREY KOBAYASHI is Professor and holder of the Queen’s Research Chair of Geography at Queen’s
University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Her research focuses on the social and political geographies of
human rights, and she has published widely on questions of race, gender, migration, employment equity,
civic participation, and the relationship between intellectual history and anti-oppression movements.
Koyabashi recently completed a term as President of the Association of American Geographers, and her
presidential address raised questions concerning geographical approaches to racialization throughout the
20th century.
JOSEPH A. KOTARBA is Professor of Sociology, Texas State University, United States, where he
serves as Director of the Center for Social Inquiry. He is also a faculty member at the Institute for
Translational Sciences at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston. Kotarba’s major areas of
scholarly interest are culture, health and illness, and social theory. He has received the George Herbert
Mead Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction as well as
Society’s Mentor Excellence Award. His most recent books include The Present and Future of Symbolic
Interactionism, co-edited with Andrea Salvini and Bryce Merrill; Understanding Society through Popular
Music, co-authored with Bryce Merrill, Patrick Williams, and Phillip Vannini; and Baby Boomer Rock
‘n’ Roll Fans: The Music Never Ends.
LAUREN LANGMAN is Professor of Sociology, Loyola University of Chicago, United States. He has
long worked in the tradition of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, particularly on relationships
between culture, identity, politics/political movements, and the psychosocial in a global world. He is a
co-founder of the Global Studies Association-North America, past President of Research Committee 36
on Alienation Theory and Research at the International Sociological Association, as well as past president
of the Marxist section of the American Sociological Association. He has served as the Illinois director
of the Midwest Sociological Society, as a member of the board of the Globalization and Transnational
Studies section of the American Sociological Association, as a member of the editorial board of
Sociological Theory, and is currently a board member of Current Perspectives in Social Theory and
Critical Sociology. Recent publications include a number of articles and book chapters dealing with the
social psychology of nationalism, national character, globalization and alienation, identity, hegemony,
global justice movements, Islamic fundamentalism, and the body. His most recent books include Trauma,
Promise, and Millennium: The Evolution of Alienation; Mind and Exploitation: Alienation and its Limits;
Alienation and Carnival; The Carnivalization of America (forthcoming); and Identity and Hegemony
(forthcoming).
GALE MILLER is the current President of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction and also
Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Marquette University, United States. He has longstanding research
interests in the sociology of troubles and social problems, social theory, and social institutions. These
interests intermingle in much of his research, particularly in his analyses of how personal troubles and
social problems are defined and managed in diverse human service institutions. They also inform his
interest in public sociology. Miller’s research includes studies of a work to welfare program (Enforcing
the Work Ethic: Rhetoric and Everyday Life in a Work Incentive Program) and the evolution and practice
of solution-focused brief therapy (Becoming Miracle Workers: Language and Meaning in Brief Therapy).
A major theme in his current research involves the ways in which families manage enduring crises. He is
also involved in studies of drug treatment programs in Denmark.
VESSELA MISHEVA is Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Uppsala University, and
Professor of Social Psychology, Institute of Technology and Society, University of Skövde, Sweden.
She is President of Research Committee 36 on Alienation Theory and Research and also a former Vicepresident of Research Committee 51 on Sociocybernetics and Systems Theory at the International
Sociological Association. She has published extensively on autopoietic systems theory in sociology, the
social studies of science, and sociological social psychology. Her work has a particular focus on symbolic
interactionism and the theory of self and socialization, self-conscious emotions, such as shame and guilt,
self-expressive youth behavior, and well-being.
IRENE MOLINA is Professor of Social and Economic Geography, Institute for Housing and Urban
Research, Uppsala University. Her research interests have focused on the constructions that shape
inequality and injustice and the intersectional relations between them. Her writing has sought to reveal
the repressive mechanisms underlying racism, sexism, and the class structure of society from an
integrated perspective within the framework of the capitalist world order, with an emphasis upon how
the system of racial rules is constructed and results from the material process of racism. She is currently
a contributor to the project Those Left Behind – Female Migration and the Transnational Family in Latin
America as well as project coordinator for Planning for Segregation? Social and Ethnic Separatism in the
Swedish City.
MICHAEL THOMSON is Associate Professor of Political Theory, the Department of Political Science,
William Paterson University, United States. His areas of research include political and social theory,
moral philosophy, political psychology, critical theory, German idealism, classical political thought, and
Western Marxism. He is currently researching the ways in which social and economic life impacts and
shapes forms of political consciousness and is undertaking the construction of a new understanding of
radical political thought and critical theory. He is the founding editor of Logos: A Journal of Modern
Society & Culture. Recent publications he has authored and edited include Constructing Marxist Ethics:
Critique, Normativity, Praxis (forthcoming); The Republican Reinvention of Radicalism (forthcoming);
Georg Lukács Reconsidered: Essays in Politics, Philosophy, and Aesthetics; The Politics of Inequality:
A Political History of the Idea of Economic Inequality in America; Islam and the West: Critical
Perspectives on Modernity; and Confronting the New Conservatism: The Rise of the Right in America.
JAN TROST is Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Uppsala University.
His main areas of empirical research have been disaster studies and family studies from a symbolic
interactionist perspective. He was the first researcher to investigate the new system of non-marital
cohabitation as well as Living Apart Together (LAT) relationships. He became Honorary President
of the Committee on Family Research of the International Sociological Association in 1994. The
National Council on Family Relations inaugurated the “Jan Trost Award for Outstanding Contributions
to Comparative Family Studies” in 1999, of which Trost was the first recipient. He has been visiting
professor at the University of Minnesota, the Kinsey Institute, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Leuven
University, University of North Carolina, and elsewhere, and is the author of approximately 40 books and
300 articles and book chapters.
International Organizing Committee
Chair: Vessela Misheva, Uppsala University & University of Skövde, Sweden
Michael Dellwing, University of Kassel, Germany Robert Dingwall, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Thaddeus Müller, University of Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Andrea Salvini, University of Pisa, Italy National Organizing Committee Chair: Fredrik Palm, Uppsala University ([email protected]) Lars-Erik Berg, University of Skövde
Emma Engdahl, Örebro Univerisity
Tanya Jukkala, Södertörn University Tomas Kumlin, Mälardalen University
Jonas Linderoth, Gothenburg University Alireza Moula, University of Karlstad
Susanna Nordström, University of Skövde Anders Persson, University of Lund
Lika Rodin, University of Skövde Bengt Starrin, University of Karlstad Local Organizing Committee Chair and Program Coordinator: Vessela Misheva ([email protected]; [email protected]) Administrative Coordinator: Helena Olsson, Department of Sociology ([email protected])
Ella Johansson, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology
Irene Molina, Institute for Housing and Urban Research & Department of Cultural Geography
Fredrik Palm, Department of Sociology Susanne Stenbacka, Department of Social and Economic Geography Jan Trost, Department of Sociology Daniel Bodén, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Cultural Anthropology and
Ethnology
Alexander Dobeson, Ph.D. Candidate Department of Sociology
Jasna Sersic, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Social and Economic Geography
Anna Liv Jonsson, Master’s student, Department of Sociology
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