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@StefanoBloch

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Author: Going All City https://t.co/4vOCxT2uUX Cultural Geography Research/Expert Witness: Gangs, Graffiti, Prison, Displacement

Tucson ๐Ÿœ๏ธ & Los Angeles ๐ŸŒ…
Joined June 2020
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My second book, an "urban autopsy of an LA gang murder," is now officially in progress. @UChicagoPress, editor @dylanmontanari
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My new article with Olivares-Pelayo in @SocietyandSpace in which we advance an ontologically flat, theoretically grounded, and relational understanding of racialization in a prison setting that is informed by experiential data and agentic discourse. https://t.co/tMaLTwtIHY
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This paper examines the racialization processes within the US prison system through the lens of site ontology. We argue that racial formation in prison cannot b...
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"By shifting focus from crime as events to crime as an ontological category, scholars can better understand its role in advancing ideological perceptions of place, the incitement of fear, and uninformed calls for social control..." Read more here:
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I call on geographers and other social scientists, including critical criminologists, to continue theorizing crime as a relational concept shaped by political narratives and politicized perceptions...
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In my latest article I discuss"shifting the focus from crime as events to crime as an ontological category that advances ideological perceptions of place, the incitement of fear, and uninformed calls for social control and increased criminalization." https://t.co/dBZxa9CMGQ
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I call on geographers and other social scientists, including critical criminologists, to continue theorizing crime as a relational concept shaped by political narratives and politicized perceptions...
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Check out the stuff being published in Dialogues in Urban Research. It is one of the most interesting and innovative journals in the discipline. https://t.co/Svp8VOhFnu
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They did their due diligence over at @lastweektonight and asked for authentic graffiti for their show's hero card, so I gave it to them. They also used some of my research on gang databases: https://t.co/FvzBXcUMlr. Check out the episode.
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New pub on the politics of prison sound. https://t.co/Ue7BD2vDz1
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Displacement beyond dislocation. Affective dimensions of gentrification. Check it out. https://t.co/bN6rFoxc3n
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In this article, we argue for a critical gentrification studies that includes a more expansive and nuanced understanding of how displacement works, beyond the m...
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Affective dimensions of gentrification. Check it out. https://t.co/3oROtNA2Vz
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In our initial paper calling for a more affective understanding of displacement in gentrification studies, we argued that displacement is a process that functio...
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Assessing neighborhood character with big and ethnographic data. Check it out. https://t.co/geygG4hwYA
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While big spatial data is certainly useful as a means of getting to know a place, to get closer to actually understanding a place, the rigorous and sometimes slow process of conducting onโ€theโ€groun...
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Gentrification researchers, check it out. "Displacement Beyond Dislocation."
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S Bloch, D Meyer, Dialogues in Urban Research, 2023 - Cited by 25
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If you are interested in graffiti, gangs, policing, poverty, and the complexity of identity, especially in a 1990s LA context, you may be interested in this... https://t.co/pRLva2K5ay
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ย  In the age of Banksy, trendy street art, and commissioned wall murals, it's easy to forget graffiti's complicated and often violent past in the United States. Though graffiti has become one of the...
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If you do research on policing, particularly the policing of public space, consider how vehicles and "car space" is different in every way. You may find this helpful: https://t.co/Smn9nyrJ3N
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The car is a primary locus for police-civilian interaction as measured by routine legal intrusion into the lives of vulnerable populations โ€“ communities of colo...
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If you are interested in or do research on the work of Edward. W. Soja, you may find this useful. https://t.co/pUeAtvvS5o
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Edward W. Soja saw early in his career that โ€œit is now space more than time, geography more than history, that hides consequences from us.โ€ His life-long schola...
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If you do research on trauma, somatic response, and/or prisons, you may find this helpful. https://t.co/T79XLKmuMp
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Putting research and reflection on prison experience into conversation with the subfields of carceral and health geography, we discuss the โ€œsomatic carceral con...
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If you do research on police and policing in geography, or from a geographical perspective, you may find this helpful. https://t.co/KdN8pTm5V3
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Despite the fact that any semblance of a โ€œpolice studiesโ€ in geography is relatively recent, with calls for its development and expansion still being made in the literature today, geographers have...
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If you do research on gangs, especially in geography, you may find this helpful. https://t.co/6Ka5QJkwiD
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Gangs are geographically oriented social entities as evidenced by the display of cardinal points in their graffiti, the use of neighborhood namesakes, a focus on territoriality as their raison...
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If you do research on prisons and other carceral spaces, and are interested in civil law, you may find this helpful. https://t.co/AqQbHlLXMZ
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As scholars apply the concept of โ€œthe carceralโ€ to more and increasingly diffuse spaces of containment, displacement, and cordoning across free society, I call for a means by which โ€œcarceralityโ€ is...
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