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URBAN ETHNOGRAPHY

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RESEARCH IN URBAN SOCIOLOGY

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RESEARCH IN URBAN SOCIOLOGY VOLUME 16

URBAN ETHNOGRAPHY: LEGACIES AND CHALLENGES

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RICHARD E. OCEJO

CUNY, John Jay College and the Graduate Center, USA

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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ISSN: 1047-0042 (Series)

About the Editors

About the Contributors

Javier Auyero is the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Texas at Austin, where he directs the Urban Ethnography Lab. His books include Poor People’s Politics, Patients of the State, Flammable (with Débora Swistun), In Harm’s Way (with Fernanda Berti), and The Ambivalent State (with Katherine Sobering, forthcoming).

Jennifer Abrams is a Graduate Student of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. Her research explores the intersection of culture and place through formal state cultural districting programs aimed at developing cities, towns, and rural places as creative hubs.

Jean Beaman is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of California, Santa Barbara (USA). She is the author of Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France (University of California Press, 2017). She is also Associate Editor of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, and Corresponding Editor for Metropolitics/Metropolitiques.

Thomas Corcoran is a Graduate Student of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. His research focuses on the politics of urban production economies, work, and organizations. Currently he is studying the mobilization of a multinational casino firm in a mid-sized northeastern city and how it constructs partnership with community groups and small business.

Waverly Duck is an Urban Sociologist and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. His research examines the social orders of urban neighborhoods, as well as manifestations of race and gender among the upwardly mobile, using ethnographic and ethnomethodological approaches that focus on how meanings are created and sustained in contexts of inequality.

James Farrer is Professor of Sociology at Sophia University in Tokyo. Focusing on Shanghai and Tokyo, his ethnographic research has covered sexuality, nightlife, expatriate communities, and urban foodways. His recent books include International Migrants in China’s Global City: The New Shanghailanders and Shanghai Nightscapes: A Nocturnal Biography of a Global City (with Andrew Field).

Rebecca Hanson is Assistant Professor at University of Florida in the Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law and the Center for Latin American Studies. Her research interests include qualitative methods, political sociology, criminology, gender, and Latin America.

Marcus Anthony Hunter is the Scott Waugh Endowed Chair in the Division of the Social Sciences, Professor in sociology, and Chair of the department of African American Studies at UCLA. He is author of Black Citymakers: How The Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America (2013), coauthor of Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life (2018), and editor of The New Black Sociologists: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (2018).

Katherine Jensen is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests lie in race, the state, forced migration, and ethnography.

Mitchell Kiefer is a Graduate Student at University of Pittsburgh. His work explores local sense-making of environmental threats and problems, how people attempt to govern them, and why and how dominant regimes such as resilience are locally constructed and situated.

Karyn Lacy is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. Her work focuses on black elites, race relations, residential segregation, identity, parental socialization, inequality, and suburban culture. She is the author of Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class (University of California Press), winner of the 2008 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award. Her work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals as well as the New York Times and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Her current work explores the construction and maintenance of racial and class-based identities among members of an elite children’s organization.

Gabriele Manella is Associate Professor in Sociology of Territory and the Environment at the University of Bologna. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago, Brown University, and Portland State University, and is the author of Chicago e gli studi urbani (FrancoAngeli, 2013).

Pamela J. Prickett is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. She uses ethnographic and historical methods to understand how urban communities form, are organized, and change over time. She teaches urban ethnography, urban sociology, and qualitative data analysis. She walks the city every day.

Victoria Reyes is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside. Her book, Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence, and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines, is forthcoming (September 2019) from Stanford University Press.

Stefan Timmermans is Professor of Sociology at UCLA. His research interests include medical sociology and science studies. He has conducted research on medical technologies, health professions, and death and dying. He is the author of Abductive Analysis: Theorizing Qualitative Research (Chicago 2014, with Iddo Tavory).

Terrell J. A. Winder is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Winder’s research areas include race & ethnicity, sexuality, and qualitative methods. His research has been published in Qualitative Sociology, AIDS Patient Care & STDs, the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, and the Journal of Medical Internet Research.

Jonathan Wynn is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the author of numerous articles and two books: Music/City: American Festivals and Placemaking in Austin, Nashville, and Newport (2015, University of Chicago Press) and The Tour Guide: Walking and Talking New York (2011, University of Chicago Press).

Acknowledgments

A quick thank you to Ray Hutchison, the series editor, for inviting me to edit this volume. I truly appreciate his faith and guidance. Thank you to the authors for all their work. I couldn’t believe so many esteemed scholars were so willing to contribute to this volume. They honored me by their generosity and effort. Finally, a special thank you to my wife, Chantal, for her love, patience, and willingness to take care of our daughters, Rita and Nola, and our household even more than she normally does whenever I had another round of edits to make.