Amir Mohammad Wani, Sinan Aquib Gull, Sayima Geni, Aneesa Shafi, Mohmad Saleem Jahangir
{"title":"Sexual Harassment and Female Students of Kashmir Universities: (Con)testing spaces in Public Transportation","authors":"Amir Mohammad Wani, Sinan Aquib Gull, Sayima Geni, Aneesa Shafi, Mohmad Saleem Jahangir","doi":"10.1177/01605976251364751","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01605976251364751","url":null,"abstract":"This paper attempts to investigate the experiences of sexual harassment and its associated consequences among female students of Kashmir universities on public transportation. It argues that sexual harassment is a distressing issue impacting not just the personal safety of female students but also creating a broader culture of fear and discomfort for women using public transport. Sexual harassment and other forms of sexual offenses in public spaces are common for women across the globe, a recurring problem around the world, with every nation taking its stand to deal with its consequences. This is a qualitative study based on 50 oral narratives conducted over time with female students of the universities of Kashmir (India) experiencing sexual harassment while travelling on public transport. It also included five semi-structured interviews of eyewitnesses who have observed sexual harassment on public transport. The evidence-based findings revealed that the female students of the universities of Kashmir have experienced diverse forms of sexual harassment, significantly impacting their health and well-being. Notably, toucherism and leering have emerged as a particularly concerning aspect of the pervasive problem.","PeriodicalId":81481,"journal":{"name":"Humanity & society","volume":"49 4","pages":"431-449"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147918605","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}
{"title":"Liberating Silence: Sociological Explorations","authors":"Stella M. Čapek, Natalia Ruiz‐Junco","doi":"10.1177/01605976251314428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01605976251314428","url":null,"abstract":"Past sociological scholarship has narrowly considered silence, with a few exceptions. This paper considers neglected aspects of silence in sociology, focusing on its positive, liberating dimensions. After a review of multidisciplinary research on the subject, we theorize silence sociologically, linking “spaciousness” with George Herbert Mead’s concept of a meaningful pause between stimulus and response. We provide a critique of social conditions that stand in the way of a freely chosen and accessible capacity to be silent. We draw in part on our experiential and research knowledge of forms of meditation to illustrate our argument. We discuss increasing silence commodification in global capitalism and introduce the notion of sensory exploitation. Next, we offer a few suggestions for the social design of silence. In the spirit of public sociology, this partial blueprint contributes to a more resilient, sustainable, and inclusive society. The conclusion contemplates several potential critiques of our perspective and articulates a response.","PeriodicalId":81481,"journal":{"name":"Humanity & society","volume":"49 2","pages":"277-303"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147331823","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}
{"title":"Lessons Learned as a Global Activist Rock Star","authors":"James R. Pennell","doi":"10.1177/01605976231213019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01605976231213019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81481,"journal":{"name":"Humanity & society","volume":"86 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135725521","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}
Jonathan M. Cox, Ashley Stone, Angela Vergara, Shannon K. Carter, J. Scott Carter
{"title":"To See or Not to See: Latinx (In)Visibility at a Newly Designated Hispanic-Serving Institution","authors":"Jonathan M. Cox, Ashley Stone, Angela Vergara, Shannon K. Carter, J. Scott Carter","doi":"10.1177/01605976231201657","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01605976231201657","url":null,"abstract":"More than two-thirds of Latinx undergraduate students in the U.S. obtain their college degrees from Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI), a designation based on the proportion of students who are of Latinx descent and low-income, instead of any federal guidelines for serving Latinx students. Existing literature identifies factors that aid students’ success at HSIs, but there is little knowledge about how Latinx students experience newly designated HSIs. This project centers the experiences of a sample of Latinx undergraduate students attending a newly designated HSI. Data consist of six focus group interviews with 23 students, focusing on participants’ decisions to attend the university and their experiences on campus. Data show students were attracted to the university with promotional materials portraying diversity and Latinx inclusion. However, they experienced the campus culture as promoting Latinx visibility in performative ways and among invisible workers, such as cleaning staff and groundskeepers. They found Latinx people and cultures to be largely invisible in the academic spaces of the university. Findings show how this mismatch between promotional materials and students’ experiences hinders their success and colors their experiences on campus.","PeriodicalId":81481,"journal":{"name":"Humanity & society","volume":"130 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135929716","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}
{"title":"Sociology for Whom? Real Conversations and Critical Engagements in Amerikkka","authors":"David G. Embrick","doi":"10.1177/01605976231199074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01605976231199074","url":null,"abstract":"Sociology, like most disciplines/institutions in racialized (and other oppressive) social systems, are steeped with policies and practices that are designed to maintain the status quo. Thus, they are partly responsible for the gatekeeping, careerism, racism, sexism, and other forms of discrimination that plague our scholarly communities. In this piece, an extension of my 2018 Presidential Address to the Association for Humanist Sociology, I challenge academics to push back and find better ways, through critical humanist sociology, to serve the public good.","PeriodicalId":81481,"journal":{"name":"Humanity & society","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135878426","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}
{"title":"Introduction: A Presidential Speech Retrospective","authors":"hephzibah v. strmic-pawl, Marc Settembrino","doi":"10.1177/01605976231199292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01605976231199292","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81481,"journal":{"name":"Humanity & society","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135826906","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}
{"title":"U.S. Climate Politics: Strategic Conditions and Interactions Among Actors and Structures","authors":"Jon Shefner, Jenna A. Lamphere","doi":"10.1177/01605976231201645","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01605976231201645","url":null,"abstract":"In the United States, the years following the Great Recession were pivotal to the advancement of sustainability solutions to current climate and inequality crises. Despite marked gains in renewables and energy efficiencies following the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), crises and warnings from the IPCC continue to grow direr. Drawing on James Jasper’s players and arenas strategic perspective, we examine how the context for sustainability action has shifted since ARRA. Much of the context appears favorable. External pressure from climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, and social unrest intensified the need and resources to act. Market conditions for renewable and efficient energy greatly improved, and public support for government investments increased. Despite the coexistence of many positive trends, a countervailing context exists, including a legacy of inaction, greenwashing, and recalcitrance, which is thwarting the speed in which change is happening.","PeriodicalId":81481,"journal":{"name":"Humanity & society","volume":"22 24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135981667","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}
{"title":"“Risk Mitigation: Preparation for Police Interaction”","authors":"Watoii Rabii","doi":"10.1177/01605976231174647","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01605976231174647","url":null,"abstract":"Literatures on parenting strategies examine social and cultural reproduction. However, a growing literature also documents the unique concerns of parents from marginalized communities. Of particular concern for these parents is the racialized surveillance of their children. This is especially true in Muslim communities. Racialized surveillance influences Muslim parents’ childrearing practices and erodes trust in law enforcement. Due to this distrust, parents have a “talk” to prepare their children for the realities of discrimination and causes them to develop risk mitigation strategies for police interaction. These precautions are similar to the ones issued by non-Muslim racialized parents. Using qualitative data from a survey of Muslim parents (N = 90), this paper explores how a diverse group of Muslim parents create safety plans for police interaction. I argue that Muslim parents’ childrearing strategies include a form of risk management that provides their children with necessary cultural repertoires to safely navigate police interactions. Body and emotion management are key components of these strategies. The directives issued by the Muslim parents I surveyed focus on mitigating the vulnerability their children experience as racialized beings – whether this is due to their Muslim identity, being read as Muslim, or their racial and/or ethnic identity.","PeriodicalId":81481,"journal":{"name":"Humanity & society","volume":"20 1","pages":"385 - 411"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88504328","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}
{"title":"Introduction: The New Book & Media Reviews Section","authors":"Shaonta’ E. Allen, Maretta McDonald","doi":"10.1177/01605976231159764","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01605976231159764","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81481,"journal":{"name":"Humanity & society","volume":"67 1","pages":"258 - 261"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72640306","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}