{"title":"Incorporating Intersectionality in Public Policy: A Systematic Literature Review","authors":"T. C. García, A. Zajicek","doi":"10.1177/0160597620988591","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0160597620988591","url":null,"abstract":"Intersectionality is an ascending perspective in public policy research, gaining ever wider recognition in the discipline. The purpose of this study is to systematically review the literature to assess the current state of intersectional public policy research. This study describes the temporal and research site trends, discipline, type of research methodology, multiple categories of intersectionality in public policy studies, and policy area. Particular attention is given to the categorization of the multiple applications of intersectionality in public policy studies identified in this review: intersectional framework, intersectional perspective, and intersectional critique. The results give a comprehensive picture of existing research on the topic, thus providing researchers with a solid foundation for further study.","PeriodicalId":81481,"journal":{"name":"Humanity & society","volume":"18 1","pages":"271 - 290"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91294969","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":"Signifying “Americanness”: Narrative Collective Identification Work in the Undocumented Youth Movement","authors":"E. Cabaniss, Jeffrey A. Gardner","doi":"10.1177/0160597620930149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0160597620930149","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the narrative identity work that undocumented youth activists used to shift the boundary of and claim membership in the social category “American.” Despite the seemingly inflexible, legalistic way American is conventionally defined in the United States (as a native-born or naturalized citizen), activists adopted a fluid interpretation that made room for them. Our theoretical contribution centers on articulating how the construction and deployment of identity codes within narrative processes can open spaces for claiming collective identification and belonging in seemingly closed collectivities. However, the use of such codes may unintentionally close access for others seeking to identify as part of the same collective. Data were collected through ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews, and our analysis integrates insights from sociological research on identity with interdisciplinary work on storytelling. We outline activists’ three main approaches to signifying Americanness, including constructing American as (1) a subjective feeling, (2) a status that can be earned, and (3) a quality that one can demonstrate through political engagement in the United States. We conclude by discussing the implications of such narrative identity work strategies for other undocumented immigrants who may face challenges presenting themselves as equally fitting “Americans.”","PeriodicalId":81481,"journal":{"name":"Humanity & society","volume":"50 1","pages":"99 - 124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73768013","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":"Book Review: Hurt: Chronicles of the Drug War Generation","authors":"E. Campbell","doi":"10.1177/0160597620982740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0160597620982740","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81481,"journal":{"name":"Humanity & society","volume":"71 1","pages":"125 - 127"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87267696","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":"Book Review: Health Care Off the Books: Poverty, Illness, and Strategies for Survival in Urban America","authors":"K. Cartwright","doi":"10.1177/0160597620982741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0160597620982741","url":null,"abstract":"disparate concentrated impacts on Black communities and communities of color could be addressed in greater depth throughout the discussion. Even so, her book provides invaluable insights into the long-term human costs of the drug war and advances calls for a new way forward. Not for the faint of heart, the text describes private childhood traumas, rape and interpersonal violence in detail. Boeri brings a compassionate and somehow optimistic tone to these confidential accounts, if for nothing else, to communicate her faith in and respect for the people she studies. Written in accessible prose that is jargon-averse, the book is suitable for undergraduates; it triangulates extensive narrative case studies with broader thematic arguments, historical and political context. Within the social sciences, courses on drugs, inequality and the life course will find the text useful. Practitioners in the more applied fields of public health, social work, criminology and those in drug treatment fields would be well served from the insights this book offers.","PeriodicalId":81481,"journal":{"name":"Humanity & society","volume":"77 1","pages":"127 - 129"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83183216","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":"How Loss Teaches: Beyond “Pandemic Pedagogy”","authors":"J. D. Rosso","doi":"10.1177/0160597620987008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0160597620987008","url":null,"abstract":"This Final Thought challenges two assumptions in commentary on teaching and learning amid the COVID-19 pandemic: (1) that the compassionate teaching strategies used to help students learn amid the pandemic inherently undercut academic standards and (2) that these teaching strategies weren’t previously needed, during the so-called “normal time” that preceded the pandemic. By contrast, this essay argues that educators have and will always teach students whose learning is disrupted by trauma, loss, and grief. The essay advocates that educators tune learner-centered teaching strategies to the effects of loss. Doing so, we might teach and learn more effectively, without compromising our or our learners’ humanity.","PeriodicalId":81481,"journal":{"name":"Humanity & society","volume":"17 1","pages":"423 - 434"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78492663","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":"To V or Not to V: Contingencies of Going Vegan","authors":"C. Waters","doi":"10.1177/0160597620978778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0160597620978778","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines mobilization processes with a particular focus on how people come to contemplate and embrace or reject veganism. Engaging the narratives of 33 interview participants who interacted with vegan advocacy networks in Greater Philadelphia, the study accounts for how prospective vegans negotiate forces, such as social networks and ties, that activate or hinder their mobilization; and for how they prioritize veganism among other priorities. Among other manners, participants came to contemplate the prospect of becoming vegan upon recognizing veganism as congruent with their other priorities. Participants who became vegan were more likely than participants who did not to prioritize altruism, to seek information that motivated and empowered them, and to deploy strategies to attenuate antagonism. The study’s findings suggest that participation in food movements is contingent on how prospective participants prioritize, on the incentives and mindset with which they contemplate participation, and on their capacity to participate.","PeriodicalId":81481,"journal":{"name":"Humanity & society","volume":"146 1","pages":"151 - 169"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77426136","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":"Women Faculty in STEM Disciplines: Experiences with the Tenure Process and Departmental Practices","authors":"Rodica Lisnic, A. Zajicek, Brinck Kerr","doi":"10.1177/0160597620978773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0160597620978773","url":null,"abstract":"Using data from a national survey of tenure-track faculty job satisfaction, the purpose of the study is to explore predictors of perceptions of tenure clarity for faculty in STEM and non-STEM fields. We build on extant studies and use the gendered organization framework as the conceptual lens to examine whether for four groups of faculty (women and men in STEM, and women and men in non-STEM) assessment of fairness in tenure decisions and evaluations, messages about tenure requirements, mentoring, and relationships with peers have a similar effect on their assessment of tenure clarity. Bivariate findings reveal that compared to all other faculty, women in STEM fields are less likely to perceive the expectations for tenure as clear, and the messages about tenure requirements as consistent. Compared to men in both STEM and non-STEM fields, women in STEM are less likely to assess tenure decisions and evaluations as fair, mentoring as effective, and relationships with peers as satisfactory. Multivariate results show that for women in STEM, except for relationships with peers, all other independent variables significantly influence their assessment of tenure clarity. Policy and practice recommendations are discussed.","PeriodicalId":81481,"journal":{"name":"Humanity & society","volume":"5 1","pages":"52 - 77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84939173","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":"Book Review: Journeys Out of Homelessness: The Voices of Lived Experience","authors":"Scott Schaeffer-Duffy","doi":"10.1177/0160597620982745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0160597620982745","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81481,"journal":{"name":"Humanity & society","volume":"16 1","pages":"129 - 131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82195232","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":"Book Review: When Misfortune Becomes Injustice: Evolving Human Rights Struggles for Health and Social Equality","authors":"T. Masvawure","doi":"10.1177/0160597620982727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0160597620982727","url":null,"abstract":"current federal minimum wage), housing first, minimum basic income (Andrew Yang looks smarter and smarter), universal healthcare, and other systemic changes that seemed out of reach before the pandemic, but they also stress the importance of personal attention and respect for those individuals facing homelessness. In instance after instance, caring individuals, made a huge difference in whether a person escaped homelessness or did not. I couldn’t help but think of Craig Mitchell, a superior court judge in Los Angeles who, after being invited by a former inmate to visit him in a shelter, founded a running club for the homeless and brings those who put in the work and maintain sobriety to international marathons each year, including the prestigious Rome Marathon. Like Journeys Out of Homelessness, the 2019 documentary Skid Row Marathon wraps the judge’s story around those of the women and men who, empowered by the personal relationships in the club, overcome homelessness. Clearly, all people need more than just adequate food and a roof over their head. We also need love and respect. Rife and Burnes conclude, “Caring individuals, natural networks of support, and community are essential elements in helping people without homes become more self-sufficient and productive members of our society . . . . Someone once asked, will we ever truly end homelessness? . . . That, we think, is ultimately doable, if we have the political and collective will to accomplish it” (p. 185). The pandemic mantra “We are all in this together,” wherein even conservatives now realize that crowded shelters, jails, and slums endanger everyone’s lives, gives me hope that the change of mind and heart necessary to dramatically reduce homelessness is now within reach. Scott Schaeffer-Duffy, along with his spouse Claire Schaeffer-Duffy, is a founding member of the Saints Francis & Thérèse Catholic Worker in Worcester, MA. He is the author of Nothing Is Impossible: Stories from the Life of a Catholic Worker. He holds a BA in religious studies from the College of the Holy Cross.","PeriodicalId":81481,"journal":{"name":"Humanity & society","volume":"12 1","pages":"131 - 133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85028904","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":"Pilgrims, Protest Tourists, and Palestinians: Abu Dis, Bethlehem, Dheisheh Camp","authors":"Philip Hopper","doi":"10.1177/0160597620964757","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0160597620964757","url":null,"abstract":"The central idea of this essay is that nonindigenous vernacular image-making by protest tourists on the Palestinian side of the Israeli separation barrier and elsewhere holds little meaning for the permanent residents beyond a relatively minor revenue stream. Prior to making this argument, I provide a short historical background about the use of vernacular messages in the occupied Palestinian territory known as the West Bank. I then focus on images of martyrs or shaheed and then on separation barrier images by protest tourists mostly in Bethlehem. The final sections are about two artists from the Dheisheh Palestinian Refugee Camp and the images they create within the camp. A coda of sorts discusses a mural within the camp that is venerated by the residents as opposed to the overpainting and defacement that takes place on the separation barrier. Within this final section and elsewhere within this essay, the meaning of sumood is explicated. As a note, protest tourists are defined here not as anti-tourism protesters but rather as tourists whose intent is protest Israeli policies regarding Palestinians.","PeriodicalId":81481,"journal":{"name":"Humanity & society","volume":"33 1","pages":"3 - 27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77116999","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}