Andrew Deener
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594865 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Deener |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Deener |
| SIGNATURE | DEENER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The political economy of sustainable urban development
This article extends sociological questions about the political economy of urban growth in relation to sustainable development. Drawing on the growth machine thesis (Molotch 1976), we argue that conflicts among pro-growth coalitions, environmentalists, and NIMBY activists are measurably embedded in construction project timelines. Using a geodatabase of all U.S. LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) projects from 2007 to 2022, we em…
Ethnography's Laborious Crossing
The Storm Map as Digital Ambiguity
This article focuses on how digital platforms mediate disasters in the form of storm maps generating struggles over knowledge and authority. We focus on the dissemination of storm maps during Hurricane Dorian, one of the most severe hurricanes on record, as an example of an environmental disaster event that was widely circulated for public consumption. The storm map has become one of the most significant artifacts of the information age. Digital …
Shelter at Home, if You Can
This study examines the effects of community vulnerability on residential sequestering across counties in the United States. Powerlessness and racialized politics are two hypothesized reasons for why community vulnerability affects social distancing behavior. Powerlessness is tied to the socioeconomic disadvantages of places, which intertwines with politics and race to produce a stratified response to the pandemic. We examine these dynamics with …
Symposium
Archival Work as Qualitative Sociology
Taking Back the Boulevard
The Architecture of Ethnographic Knowledge
Building ethnographic knowledge is a tacit epistemic process involving two steps: narrowing down the framework through which ethnographers hold constant empirical units as social relationships of the same kind, and paring down the boundaries of time and space to contextualize the data as levels of analysis. This article explicates the workings of and relationships between these hermeneutic and phenomenological processes as the underlying architec…
The Origins of the Food Desert
This article develops the concept of infrastructural exclusion as a form of urban inequality through the case of the origins of the food desert in Philadelphia. Infrastructural exclusion refers to the reorganization of spatial and material interdependence into a semi-autonomous and path-dependent force that separates resources from those reliant on them. Building on archival research, it emphasizes how social problems arise out of taken-for-grant…
The Uses of Ambiguity in Sociological Theorizing
Claims of causality and generalizability are the primary means through which sociologists triumph over ambiguity. Yet ambiguity also has significant uses in the process of theorizing. This article identifies and examines three ethnographic approaches: (1) Ambiguity in shared situations highlights how subjects create and resolve disruptions in face-to-face interactions, (2) ambiguity as a transitional social form addresses certain stages and space…
There Goes the Gayborhood
The Ecology Of Neighborhood Participation and The Reproduction Of Political Conflict
Building on three years of participant observation and 30 life-history interviews with activists in the Los Angeles community of Venice, this article introduces an ecological perspective to examine neighborhood participation and the reproduction of political conflict. As the official local space of community politics, the city-funded Venice Neighborhood Council has experienced dramatic conflict. Observers have framed the conflict as occurring bet…
Street Level
Cultural Reflexivity in Health Research and Practice
Recent public health movements have invoked cultural change to improve health and reduce health disparities. We argue that these cultural discourses have sometimes justified and maintained health inequalities when those with power and authority designated their own social practices as legitimate and healthy while labeling the practices of marginalized groups as illegitimate or unhealthy. This “misrecognition,” which creates seemingly objective kn…
Seeing Cities Change
Venice
Cultural Variations or Socioeconomic Positions
The 'black section' of the neighborhood
■ The public identity of a neighborhood does not always reflect its demographic composition. Some groups sustain their collective visibility as they experience demographic decline. Oakwood, a neighborhood in Los Angeles where African Americans once made up the largest segment of the population, is still known as the 'black section of Venice' despite the fact that Latinos have outnumbered African Americans since 1980 and whites have outnumbered th…
Faithful to Fenway
Forging Distinct Paths Towards Authentic Identity
This article demonstrates how boardwalk artists who arrive at Venice Beach through various biographical channels adapt to an informal market context by learning economic skills that enable them to present themselves as "Venice Beach Artists." Although the boardwalk market blurs original biographical distinctions between people who come to share the same market identity in the eyes of visitors, individuals also pursue different versions of authent…
Commerce as the Structure and Symbol of Neighborhood Life
Abbot Kinney Boulevard is a central commercial artery that serves as the structure and symbol of neighborhood life in Venice, a coastal community in Los Angeles. In recent years, the street has become an upscale commercial scene made up of independently owned, small–scale shops and restaurants. New residents and merchants work to preserve this new “anticorporate” commercial culture as an authentic version of community life, labeling its distinct …
Commerce as the Structure and Symbol of Neighborhood Life
Abbot Kinney Boulevard is a central commercial artery that serves as the structure and symbol of neighborhood life in Venice, a coastal community in Los Angeles. In recent years, the street has become an upscale commercial scene made up of independently owned, small–scale shops and restaurants. New residents and merchants work to preserve this new “anticorporate” commercial culture as an authentic version of community life, labeling its distinct …
Archival Work as Qualitative Sociology
The 'black section' of the neighborhood
■ The public identity of a neighborhood does not always reflect its demographic composition. Some groups sustain their collective visibility as they experience demographic decline. Oakwood, a neighborhood in Los Angeles where African Americans once made up the largest segment of the population, is still known as the 'black section of Venice' despite the fact that Latinos have outnumbered African Americans since 1980 and whites have outnumbered th…
Cultural Reflexivity in Health Research and Practice
Recent public health movements have invoked cultural change to improve health and reduce health disparities. We argue that these cultural discourses have sometimes justified and maintained health inequalities when those with power and authority designated their own social practices as legitimate and healthy while labeling the practices of marginalized groups as illegitimate or unhealthy. This “misrecognition,” which creates seemingly objective kn…
The Uses of Ambiguity in Sociological Theorizing
Claims of causality and generalizability are the primary means through which sociologists triumph over ambiguity. Yet ambiguity also has significant uses in the process of theorizing. This article identifies and examines three ethnographic approaches: (1) Ambiguity in shared situations highlights how subjects create and resolve disruptions in face-to-face interactions, (2) ambiguity as a transitional social form addresses certain stages and space…
Faithful to Fenway
Forging Distinct Paths Towards Authentic Identity
This article demonstrates how boardwalk artists who arrive at Venice Beach through various biographical channels adapt to an informal market context by learning economic skills that enable them to present themselves as "Venice Beach Artists." Although the boardwalk market blurs original biographical distinctions between people who come to share the same market identity in the eyes of visitors, individuals also pursue different versions of authent…
The Architecture of Ethnographic Knowledge
Building ethnographic knowledge is a tacit epistemic process involving two steps: narrowing down the framework through which ethnographers hold constant empirical units as social relationships of the same kind, and paring down the boundaries of time and space to contextualize the data as levels of analysis. This article explicates the workings of and relationships between these hermeneutic and phenomenological processes as the underlying architec…
Shelter at Home, if You Can
This study examines the effects of community vulnerability on residential sequestering across counties in the United States. Powerlessness and racialized politics are two hypothesized reasons for why community vulnerability affects social distancing behavior. Powerlessness is tied to the socioeconomic disadvantages of places, which intertwines with politics and race to produce a stratified response to the pandemic. We examine these dynamics with …
The Ecology Of Neighborhood Participation and The Reproduction Of Political Conflict
Building on three years of participant observation and 30 life-history interviews with activists in the Los Angeles community of Venice, this article introduces an ecological perspective to examine neighborhood participation and the reproduction of political conflict. As the official local space of community politics, the city-funded Venice Neighborhood Council has experienced dramatic conflict. Observers have framed the conflict as occurring bet…
Ethnography's Laborious Crossing
Symposium
Street Level
Commerce as the Structure and Symbol of Neighborhood Life
Abbot Kinney Boulevard is a central commercial artery that serves as the structure and symbol of neighborhood life in Venice, a coastal community in Los Angeles. In recent years, the street has become an upscale commercial scene made up of independently owned, small–scale shops and restaurants. New residents and merchants work to preserve this new “anticorporate” commercial culture as an authentic version of community life, labeling its distinct …
Faithful to Fenway
Forging Distinct Paths Towards Authentic Identity
This article demonstrates how boardwalk artists who arrive at Venice Beach through various biographical channels adapt to an informal market context by learning economic skills that enable them to present themselves as "Venice Beach Artists." Although the boardwalk market blurs original biographical distinctions between people who come to share the same market identity in the eyes of visitors, individuals also pursue different versions of authent…
Cultural Variations or Socioeconomic Positions
The 'black section' of the neighborhood
■ The public identity of a neighborhood does not always reflect its demographic composition. Some groups sustain their collective visibility as they experience demographic decline. Oakwood, a neighborhood in Los Angeles where African Americans once made up the largest segment of the population, is still known as the 'black section of Venice' despite the fact that Latinos have outnumbered African Americans since 1980 and whites have outnumbered th…
Venice
Seeing Cities Change
Cultural Reflexivity in Health Research and Practice
Recent public health movements have invoked cultural change to improve health and reduce health disparities. We argue that these cultural discourses have sometimes justified and maintained health inequalities when those with power and authority designated their own social practices as legitimate and healthy while labeling the practices of marginalized groups as illegitimate or unhealthy. This “misrecognition,” which creates seemingly objective kn…
There Goes the Gayborhood
The Ecology Of Neighborhood Participation and The Reproduction Of Political Conflict
Building on three years of participant observation and 30 life-history interviews with activists in the Los Angeles community of Venice, this article introduces an ecological perspective to examine neighborhood participation and the reproduction of political conflict. As the official local space of community politics, the city-funded Venice Neighborhood Council has experienced dramatic conflict. Observers have framed the conflict as occurring bet…
Street Level
The Origins of the Food Desert
This article develops the concept of infrastructural exclusion as a form of urban inequality through the case of the origins of the food desert in Philadelphia. Infrastructural exclusion refers to the reorganization of spatial and material interdependence into a semi-autonomous and path-dependent force that separates resources from those reliant on them. Building on archival research, it emphasizes how social problems arise out of taken-for-grant…
The Uses of Ambiguity in Sociological Theorizing
Claims of causality and generalizability are the primary means through which sociologists triumph over ambiguity. Yet ambiguity also has significant uses in the process of theorizing. This article identifies and examines three ethnographic approaches: (1) Ambiguity in shared situations highlights how subjects create and resolve disruptions in face-to-face interactions, (2) ambiguity as a transitional social form addresses certain stages and space…
The Architecture of Ethnographic Knowledge
Building ethnographic knowledge is a tacit epistemic process involving two steps: narrowing down the framework through which ethnographers hold constant empirical units as social relationships of the same kind, and paring down the boundaries of time and space to contextualize the data as levels of analysis. This article explicates the workings of and relationships between these hermeneutic and phenomenological processes as the underlying architec…
Archival Work as Qualitative Sociology
Taking Back the Boulevard
Symposium
The Storm Map as Digital Ambiguity
This article focuses on how digital platforms mediate disasters in the form of storm maps generating struggles over knowledge and authority. We focus on the dissemination of storm maps during Hurricane Dorian, one of the most severe hurricanes on record, as an example of an environmental disaster event that was widely circulated for public consumption. The storm map has become one of the most significant artifacts of the information age. Digital …
Shelter at Home, if You Can
This study examines the effects of community vulnerability on residential sequestering across counties in the United States. Powerlessness and racialized politics are two hypothesized reasons for why community vulnerability affects social distancing behavior. Powerlessness is tied to the socioeconomic disadvantages of places, which intertwines with politics and race to produce a stratified response to the pandemic. We examine these dynamics with …
Ethnography's Laborious Crossing
The political economy of sustainable urban development
This article extends sociological questions about the political economy of urban growth in relation to sustainable development. Drawing on the growth machine thesis (Molotch 1976), we argue that conflicts among pro-growth coalitions, environmentalists, and NIMBY activists are measurably embedded in construction project timelines. Using a geodatabase of all U.S. LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) projects from 2007 to 2022, we em…
Sociology (16 works) · Anthropology (7 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Ethnography (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works)