Daniela Jauk-Ajamie

University of Akron · Criminal Justice & Sociology

This 7th issue of our open access Queer STS Forum is dedicated to reflecting and advancing queer-feminist working cultures in academia. We particularly interrogate the concept of academic kindness, which is an emerging theme and practice across disciplines yet not often systematically discussed and defined clearly. While the esteemed contributors o...

This paper takes the United States as a case study on the gendered implications of hyper-incarceration in the age of climate emergency. Prisons here are often located on toxic sites and constitute sources of contamination; climate change and global warming exacerbate these conditions. Incarcerated women and their communities are particularly affect...

This paper presents preliminary findings from two prison horticulture intervention projects. Our project sites are located in a women’s community corrections facility in the U.S. Midwest and a women’s maximum-security prison in the Southeastern United States. These garden projects illustrate the importance of sociological theory and clinical sociol...

Purpose The purpose of this chapter is to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on the invisible incarcerated women population who are convicted of a crime and serving a sentence in a residential correctional facility in the United States (US). Even though correctional populations have been declining in the past years, the extent of mass incarceration has...

Ecotherapy and gardening have gained popularity in corrections, with most interventions focusing on prison settings. This paper briefly describes the authors’ experiences developing a gardening program in a community corrections facility for women, describing a pilot research program and preliminary results. Findings indicate that gardening is an e...

Therapeutic gardening in corrections is a positive and rehabilitative intervention, yet research on its effects on well-being is lagging. We present findings from a pilot gardening program in a residential community corrections facility for women based on analyses of data including anonymously written reflections of participants, interviews with co...

In the 2021 edition of Queer STS Forum we collected experiences with queer interventions in education, academia, radio etc. – queer in the broadest sense of the term. These interventions happened in/through teaching, art and research. They posed the question of how to treat each other, how to become an inclusive and caring community, or how to tack...

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world as we knew it and affected all parts of our lives and societies. Nobody can say that their everyday life was untouched by the measures taken since spring 2020 by governments following the advent of the virus. This fifth issue of the Queer STS forum is a reflection of these turbulent times and takes the co...

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-30381-5_5 In this paper, an interdisciplinary team of authors analyzes a series of autoethnographic trialogues addressing their approaches to teaching within and beyond gender studies environments. Sabine Klinger (education studies, social work; Austria), Nicole Pruckermayr (architecture, art, community education;...

In diesem Beitrag denkt und schreibt das interdisziplinäre Autor*innenteam im Rahmen von autoethnografischen Trialogen zum Thema feministische Lehre beziehungsweise Lehren innerund außerhalb der Geschlechterforschung. Verbindend ist dabei die Suche nach einer feministischen Lehrhaltung und -praxis, die mit und/oder ohne den Begriff Feminismus respe...

This article focuses on the experiences and strategies of members of Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) who strive to bridge the worlds of social activism and academia. It concerns the International Committee's work at the United Nations (UN), specifically at the annual Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) meeting. It builds on transnationa...

Was sind die Charakteristiken eines feministischen Lernraumes? Was macht „feministische“ Lehre aus? Ist Lehre in der Geschlechterforschung zwangsläufig feministisch? Wie lassen sich Feminismen und feministische Inhalte in der Lehre auch jenseits der Gender Studies integrieren und thematisieren? Das sind einige der Fragen denen das interdisziplinäre...

A well researched brochure for gender studies students co-authored with Evanegline Adler-Klausner, Steve Mayer and Elli Scambor to help counter anti-feminist arguments. Online here: https://static.uni-graz.at/fileadmin/Koordination-Gender/Allgemeines/Broschuere_Gender_Studies_Online.pdf

Was sind die Charakteristiken eines feministischen Lernraumes? Was macht „feministische“ Lehre aus? Ist Lehre in der Geschlechterforschung zwangsläufig feministisch? Wie lassen sich Feminismen und feministische Inhalte in der Lehre auch jenseits der Gender Studies integrieren und thematisieren? Das sind einige der Fragen denen das interdisziplinäre...

Available at: http://queersts.com/forum-queer-sts/overview/queer-feminist-science-and-technology-studies-forum-volume-1/

Trans* organizing has occurred since the 1800s, but vibrant and increasingly globalized trans*gender movements entered the political stage in the 1990s. This entry addresses issues of discrimination, hate, and violence against gender non-conforming populations across the globe. They are making some legal gains in terms of recognition, particularly...

Violence against individuals with non-normative gender presentation is an alarming public health problem in the USA. Based on ethnographic research in transgender communities in the American Midwest I demonstrate that the significance of multiple and simultaneous gendered victimization experiences of transgender individuals urges the need to rethin...

We introduce a life course, multimethod approach to examine the living arrangements of middle-aged and older American Indian and European women living on the rugged North Dakotan settlement frontier around 1910. Our model suggests that women’s later life circumstances reflect the long arm of institutional forces and their ethnicity/nativity, which...

We introduce a life course, multimethod approach to examine the living arrangements of middle-aged and older American Indian and European women living on the rugged North Dakotan settlement frontier around 1910. Our model suggests that women's later life circumstances reflect the long arm of institutional forces and their ethnicity/nativity, which...

PurposeIn this chapter, I use the issue of violence against transgender individuals to explore the (limited) meanings of gender within the context of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in the United Nations (UN). Design/methodology/approachUsing constructivist grounded theory and institutional ethnography I bring together field research fr...

Welche Muster sozialer Ungleichheit konstituieren städtischen Raum? Welche Rolle spielen soziale Kategorien wie Geschlecht und Migration dabei? Dieses Buch stellt mit dem Projekt »Intersectional Map« und daran anknüpfenden Beiträgen von Vertreterinnen und Vertretern unterschiedlicher Disziplinen anschaulich dar, wie komplexe gesellschaftliche Zusam...

Guided by a sociology-of-gender framework, we provide an overview and critique of recent academic debates on substance-use, particularly alcohol-use. We note that substance use research has been useful for illuminating areas central to sociological inquiry. In limited scope, we focus on the relationships between alcohol-use, gender, marginalization...

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