Sociology LensPub Date : 2023-02-21DOI: 10.1111/johs.12412
Sarah Eleazar
{"title":"Grey Spaces: Familiarity and Solidarity in Carceral Edgeland","authors":"Sarah Eleazar","doi":"10.1111/johs.12412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.12412","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Carceral edgelands are witness to the migrant's travels and travails. How are solidarity and despair carved into ordinary places such as parking lots and roadsides along the fringes of carceral institutions?</p>","PeriodicalId":101168,"journal":{"name":"Sociology Lens","volume":"36 1","pages":"86-87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50139818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sociology LensPub Date : 2023-02-21DOI: 10.1111/johs.12403
Joseph C. Russo
{"title":"Hiding in Plain Sight: QAnon and its Seekers","authors":"Joseph C. Russo","doi":"10.1111/johs.12403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.12403","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101168,"journal":{"name":"Sociology Lens","volume":"36 1","pages":"44-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50153005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sociology LensPub Date : 2023-02-21DOI: 10.1111/johs.12407
Luisa Gandolfo
{"title":"A Tapestry of Edgelands: Defining Carceral Edgeland(s) in Masafer Yatta (Firing Zone 918)","authors":"Luisa Gandolfo","doi":"10.1111/johs.12407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.12407","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The carceral edgeland occupies a unique position. At times, it is acknowledged; at others, it remains unseen by those outside its boundaries. In cases where the edgeland is architectural, such as a prison or a detention center, it can prompt viewers to consider the power dynamics exercised within. This article, however, is concerned with the possibilities for the edgeland to be <i>moveable</i> and <i>embodied</i>. Focusing on the transformation of the area of Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank into a military training zone, the article shifts the discourse from the connection between the edgeland and the symbolic power of carceral architecture to suggest alternative carceral edgelands: the <i>occupying</i> edgeland, wherein the moveable and embodied converge to form a tapestry of edgelands. The Israeli military presence varies in intensity, yet the result is the realization of Achille Mbembe's ‘infrastructural warfare’ (2003) that manifests through the moveable edgeland, and second, the embodied edgeland that is enacted by the military personnel who symbolize the state. In Masafer Yatta, the army's long-term presence has had an impact on the communities that evokes Lauren Berlant's ‘political depression’ (2011). Building on Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts' recognition of multitudinous edgelands (2012), this article suggests that there can be multiple carceral edgelands at one site, all of which facilitate exclusion and political depression through enclosure, whether through fences, walls, or moveable checkpoints.</p>","PeriodicalId":101168,"journal":{"name":"Sociology Lens","volume":"36 1","pages":"18-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/johs.12407","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50153006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sociology LensPub Date : 2023-02-14DOI: 10.1111/johs.12396
Yoke-Sum Wong
{"title":"From the Journal of Historical Sociology to Sociology Lens: An Editorial","authors":"Yoke-Sum Wong","doi":"10.1111/johs.12396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.12396","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101168,"journal":{"name":"Sociology Lens","volume":"36 1","pages":"3-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50132375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sociology LensPub Date : 2023-02-09DOI: 10.1111/johs.12393
James Foley
{"title":"Of Oil and Agency: Scotland and the Material Conditions of National Imagining","authors":"James Foley","doi":"10.1111/johs.12393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.12393","url":null,"abstract":"<p>North Sea oil discoveries introduced a qualitative divide that gave rise to at least the prospect of an economically viable Scottish independence, insofar as it made the “Scottish economy” a legitimate point of contestation on constitutional lines. In turn, this problematised the nature of minority nationalism in advanced, developed, post-imperial capitalist regional economies. The research assesses how economic factors – most notably oil – materially affected the prospects of asserting power, and thus the possibilities for imagining collective agency as a national (i.e. Scottish) project. Oil helped shift “New Left” thinking away from assimilationist and modernising projects of assimilating regional consciousness into “national” projects, while also inspiring outright nationalists to define their own project in relation to the earlier phases of nationalism. The study thus contributes to recentring the study of Scotland, with a smaller emphasis on the local dimension and identities, as against the role of national actors in untangling relationships with wider geopolitical and geo-economic forces. The claim is not simply that global forces formed the qualitative divide that made nationalist action possible; but also that these were conscious considerations of actors in the aftermath of North Sea discoveries.</p>","PeriodicalId":101168,"journal":{"name":"Sociology Lens","volume":"36 1","pages":"147-163"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/johs.12393","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50126156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sociology LensPub Date : 2023-02-02DOI: 10.1111/johs.12395
Tao Peng, Jianxun Shen
{"title":"Social Dynamics and the Lost Tradition of a Third Front Enterprise in Post-Maoist China: The Anding Computer Factory and the Everyday Lives of Employees","authors":"Tao Peng, Jianxun Shen","doi":"10.1111/johs.12395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.12395","url":null,"abstract":"<p>During significant social transformations, the government and society are closely interconnected with each other, mediated by the family. A special group of the state-owned enterprises in China prepared for national security and infrastructure constructions. The Third Front (TF), such as the Anding Computer Factory, were typical small societies that confronted the decline of the work unit system and the socioeconomic transformation from a planned economy to a socialist market system. This study attempts to understand the lives of employee residents in the Anding factory community by applying long-term participant observation and in-depth interviews. Overall, both the Anding community and its employees can be considered to have experienced three historical stages—the productive youth, the confused midlife, and the unsettled twilight years. The material culture, organization, and spirit were all profoundly impacted in each of the three periods. After realizing the unstoppable deindustrializing trend and the rising social disparity brought along by the free market, employees gradually transferred their considerations from the factory society to the future of their families as a cultural adaptaion. Driven by the priority rule of profits, the employees' lives are full of contradictions and are poorly suited to the economically competitive society. This study opens a novel dialog between ethnography, industrial relations, labor history, elderly affairs, and social dynamics.</p>","PeriodicalId":101168,"journal":{"name":"Sociology Lens","volume":"36 2","pages":"258-280"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50117693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sociology LensPub Date : 2023-01-31DOI: 10.1111/johs.12394
Abigail Tobias-Lauerman
{"title":"Racial Differences in Black and White Residential Outcomes in the Sundown Era","authors":"Abigail Tobias-Lauerman","doi":"10.1111/johs.12394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.12394","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Using publicly available census and historical records, I compare the Sundown-era residential patterns and outcomes of Black and White residents from one small Wisconsin city between 1880 and 1930 to observe how sundown violence may have affected Black residential outcomes. Census summary data shows that while the White racial group population continued to grow at the state, county, and city levels, the Black population at the city level stalled before dropping to zero, providing evidence for sundown-type violence and exclusion against Black households by White city residents. For the Black residents (N = 18) whose histories I could trace, three outcomes were observed: remaining in the city, internally migrating to an adjacent county, and moving to much larger metropolitan areas that were already known as Black residential destinations. In contrast, the residential outcomes for White residents (n = 42) were much more varied in their residential destinations, both at the state/regional levels, and in the size of community settled in. I suggest that sundown-era displacement should be further considered in discussions of Black internal migration in the early 20<sup>th</sup> century, and that residents of formerly sundown towns and cities need to confront their under-examined histories of racial exclusion.</p>","PeriodicalId":101168,"journal":{"name":"Sociology Lens","volume":"36 1","pages":"132-146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50149352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}