C W Herbert
Biographic Data
| ID | 66580 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C W Herbert |
| GIVEN NAMES | C W |
| FAMILY NAME | Herbert |
| SIGNATURE | HERBERT C W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3650-7797 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 100 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
When penalties are framed as protections
Research has long identified street-level bureaucrats (SLBs)—often police—as key intermediaries shaping the governance of homelessness. Rising rates of unsheltered homelessness in the US implicate new public and private actors in these processes. This article broadens the focus of existing research using 42 interviews with SLBs in a mid-size US city to analyze how they interpret tent and vehicle encampments, and how they make decisions about disp…
Co-opting the ‘public’ in public health
In the name of public health protection, individuals and communities perceived to be diseased have long been coercively regulated through surveillance, sequestration, or various forms of criminal punishment. In the U.S., people experiencing homelessness (PEH) have been increasingly targeted by social control measures such as containment, banishment, or arrest, often under the guise of public health protection. This study explores how city employe…
Colonial Logics in Rust Belt Revitalization
Scholars have questioned the analytic utility of gentrification theories when applied to declining Rust Belt cities. In these contexts, scholars suggest the state may play a more significant role in instigating gentrification. This article builds on recent scholarship at the intersection of colonialism, race, and urban studies to examine eight regulatory changes aimed at quelling decline and promoting revitalization in Detroit, Michigan that were…
Long‐Term Temporary” Disaster Recovery Housing
Sociological research has begun to examine how individuals and communities stabilize, recover, and rebuild post‐disaster, highlighting the importance of housing through the broader recovery process, which often takes multiple years. Wildfire impacts and losses have been increasingly studied by sociologists, but the recovery process has not been well examined in the rural context. This article builds on the nexus of housing, rural, and disaster re…
Resisting and Reclaiming
Squatting as contentious politics has been well studied globally, expanding knowledge of how everyday people resist injustices, strive to remake cities, and respond to local/regional conditions. These histories and contemporary struggles have largely been overlooked in the U.S. This article uses qualitative data to compare three recent cases of organized housing occupations in Detroit (2011), Oakland (2019), and Philadelphia (2020) by mothers of …
Race, Property, and Erasure in the Rust Belt
This article builds on settler and domestic colonial histories and theories to advance our understanding of urban changes in segregated, disinvested, U.S. Rust Belt cities. While many major cities have rebounded in population and experienced gentrification since the mid-twentieth century, many Rust Belt cities have continued to decline. The resulting conditions call for new theories to describe their changes, trajectories, and the impacts for maj…
A Typology of Informal Housing in the United States
Recent research has documented the prevalence of informal housing across urban and suburban contexts in the United States. While there have been some efforts to theorize across cases, there has been little to no work to connect theory to on-the-ground occurrences to offer clear lessons for planners. This article begins to fill this gap. Analyzing across existing research, we create a typology of informal housing in the United States: infill, subd…
A Detroit Story
A Detroit Story
No Lawless Place
Sociologists examine space and place as constitutive of social life but rarely attend to the fact that places are also real property. The authors use a law and society lens to investigate how property regulations (property rights, codes, zoning, and licensure) shape place characteristics for two very different cases: a neighborhood and a bathhouse. These regulations influence the characteristics that sociologists argue constitute places: location…
Like a Good Neighbor, Squatters Are There
In declining cities, an abundance of vacant, devalued property, and under–resourced regulatory mechanisms challenge dominant understandings of private ownership of real property as a source of investment and stability for individuals and neighborhoods. Drawing on four years of ethnography and 65 interviews in Detroit, this article finds that, despite the privileged standing of private property in U.S. culture, residents frequently accept or advoc…
Creative Urbanity
Homelessness and Housing Insecurity Among Former Prisoners
The United States has experienced dramatic increases in both incarceration rates and the population of insecurely housed or homeless persons since the 1980s. These marginalized populations have strong overlaps, with many people being poor, minority, and from an urban area. That a relationship between homelessness, housing insecurity, and incarceration exists is clear, but the extent and nature of this relationship is not yet adequately understood…
Building from Scratch
By the start of the twenty-first century, the once dominant historical downtown core of Johannesburg had lost its privileged status as the center of business and commercial activities, the metropolitan landscape having been restructured into an assemblage of sprawling, rival edge cities. Real estate developers have recently unveiled ambitious plans to build two completely new cities from scratch: Waterfall City and Lanseria Airport City (formerly…
Home Is Hard to Find
Poor urban communities experience high rates of incarceration and prisoner reentry. This article examines where former prisoners live after prison, focusing on returns to pre-prison social environments, residential mobility, and the role of intermediate sanctions-punishments for parole violations that are less severe than returning to prison-on where former prisoners live. Drawing on a unique dataset that uses administrative records to follow a c…
Home Is Hard to Find
Poor urban communities experience high rates of incarceration and prisoner reentry. This article examines where former prisoners live after prison, focusing on returns to pre-prison social environments, residential mobility, and the role of intermediate sanctions-punishments for parole violations that are less severe than returning to prison-on where former prisoners live. Drawing on a unique dataset that uses administrative records to follow a c…
Building from Scratch
By the start of the twenty-first century, the once dominant historical downtown core of Johannesburg had lost its privileged status as the center of business and commercial activities, the metropolitan landscape having been restructured into an assemblage of sprawling, rival edge cities. Real estate developers have recently unveiled ambitious plans to build two completely new cities from scratch: Waterfall City and Lanseria Airport City (formerly…
Homelessness and Housing Insecurity Among Former Prisoners
The United States has experienced dramatic increases in both incarceration rates and the population of insecurely housed or homeless persons since the 1980s. These marginalized populations have strong overlaps, with many people being poor, minority, and from an urban area. That a relationship between homelessness, housing insecurity, and incarceration exists is clear, but the extent and nature of this relationship is not yet adequately understood…
Like a Good Neighbor, Squatters Are There
In declining cities, an abundance of vacant, devalued property, and under–resourced regulatory mechanisms challenge dominant understandings of private ownership of real property as a source of investment and stability for individuals and neighborhoods. Drawing on four years of ethnography and 65 interviews in Detroit, this article finds that, despite the privileged standing of private property in U.S. culture, residents frequently accept or advoc…
No Lawless Place
Sociologists examine space and place as constitutive of social life but rarely attend to the fact that places are also real property. The authors use a law and society lens to investigate how property regulations (property rights, codes, zoning, and licensure) shape place characteristics for two very different cases: a neighborhood and a bathhouse. These regulations influence the characteristics that sociologists argue constitute places: location…
Race, Property, and Erasure in the Rust Belt
This article builds on settler and domestic colonial histories and theories to advance our understanding of urban changes in segregated, disinvested, U.S. Rust Belt cities. While many major cities have rebounded in population and experienced gentrification since the mid-twentieth century, many Rust Belt cities have continued to decline. The resulting conditions call for new theories to describe their changes, trajectories, and the impacts for maj…
Long‐Term Temporary” Disaster Recovery Housing
Sociological research has begun to examine how individuals and communities stabilize, recover, and rebuild post‐disaster, highlighting the importance of housing through the broader recovery process, which often takes multiple years. Wildfire impacts and losses have been increasingly studied by sociologists, but the recovery process has not been well examined in the rural context. This article builds on the nexus of housing, rural, and disaster re…
A Typology of Informal Housing in the United States
Recent research has documented the prevalence of informal housing across urban and suburban contexts in the United States. While there have been some efforts to theorize across cases, there has been little to no work to connect theory to on-the-ground occurrences to offer clear lessons for planners. This article begins to fill this gap. Analyzing across existing research, we create a typology of informal housing in the United States: infill, subd…
Creative Urbanity
Home Is Hard to Find
Poor urban communities experience high rates of incarceration and prisoner reentry. This article examines where former prisoners live after prison, focusing on returns to pre-prison social environments, residential mobility, and the role of intermediate sanctions-punishments for parole violations that are less severe than returning to prison-on where former prisoners live. Drawing on a unique dataset that uses administrative records to follow a c…
Homelessness and Housing Insecurity Among Former Prisoners
The United States has experienced dramatic increases in both incarceration rates and the population of insecurely housed or homeless persons since the 1980s. These marginalized populations have strong overlaps, with many people being poor, minority, and from an urban area. That a relationship between homelessness, housing insecurity, and incarceration exists is clear, but the extent and nature of this relationship is not yet adequately understood…
Building from Scratch
By the start of the twenty-first century, the once dominant historical downtown core of Johannesburg had lost its privileged status as the center of business and commercial activities, the metropolitan landscape having been restructured into an assemblage of sprawling, rival edge cities. Real estate developers have recently unveiled ambitious plans to build two completely new cities from scratch: Waterfall City and Lanseria Airport City (formerly…
Like a Good Neighbor, Squatters Are There
In declining cities, an abundance of vacant, devalued property, and under–resourced regulatory mechanisms challenge dominant understandings of private ownership of real property as a source of investment and stability for individuals and neighborhoods. Drawing on four years of ethnography and 65 interviews in Detroit, this article finds that, despite the privileged standing of private property in U.S. culture, residents frequently accept or advoc…
Creative Urbanity
A Detroit Story
A Detroit Story
No Lawless Place
Sociologists examine space and place as constitutive of social life but rarely attend to the fact that places are also real property. The authors use a law and society lens to investigate how property regulations (property rights, codes, zoning, and licensure) shape place characteristics for two very different cases: a neighborhood and a bathhouse. These regulations influence the characteristics that sociologists argue constitute places: location…
A Typology of Informal Housing in the United States
Recent research has documented the prevalence of informal housing across urban and suburban contexts in the United States. While there have been some efforts to theorize across cases, there has been little to no work to connect theory to on-the-ground occurrences to offer clear lessons for planners. This article begins to fill this gap. Analyzing across existing research, we create a typology of informal housing in the United States: infill, subd…
Race, Property, and Erasure in the Rust Belt
This article builds on settler and domestic colonial histories and theories to advance our understanding of urban changes in segregated, disinvested, U.S. Rust Belt cities. While many major cities have rebounded in population and experienced gentrification since the mid-twentieth century, many Rust Belt cities have continued to decline. The resulting conditions call for new theories to describe their changes, trajectories, and the impacts for maj…
Co-opting the ‘public’ in public health
In the name of public health protection, individuals and communities perceived to be diseased have long been coercively regulated through surveillance, sequestration, or various forms of criminal punishment. In the U.S., people experiencing homelessness (PEH) have been increasingly targeted by social control measures such as containment, banishment, or arrest, often under the guise of public health protection. This study explores how city employe…
Colonial Logics in Rust Belt Revitalization
Scholars have questioned the analytic utility of gentrification theories when applied to declining Rust Belt cities. In these contexts, scholars suggest the state may play a more significant role in instigating gentrification. This article builds on recent scholarship at the intersection of colonialism, race, and urban studies to examine eight regulatory changes aimed at quelling decline and promoting revitalization in Detroit, Michigan that were…
Long‐Term Temporary” Disaster Recovery Housing
Sociological research has begun to examine how individuals and communities stabilize, recover, and rebuild post‐disaster, highlighting the importance of housing through the broader recovery process, which often takes multiple years. Wildfire impacts and losses have been increasingly studied by sociologists, but the recovery process has not been well examined in the rural context. This article builds on the nexus of housing, rural, and disaster re…
Resisting and Reclaiming
Squatting as contentious politics has been well studied globally, expanding knowledge of how everyday people resist injustices, strive to remake cities, and respond to local/regional conditions. These histories and contemporary struggles have largely been overlooked in the U.S. This article uses qualitative data to compare three recent cases of organized housing occupations in Detroit (2011), Oakland (2019), and Philadelphia (2020) by mothers of …
When penalties are framed as protections
Research has long identified street-level bureaucrats (SLBs)—often police—as key intermediaries shaping the governance of homelessness. Rising rates of unsheltered homelessness in the US implicate new public and private actors in these processes. This article broadens the focus of existing research using 42 interviews with SLBs in a mid-size US city to analyze how they interpret tent and vehicle encampments, and how they make decisions about disp…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (8 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Business (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (4 works)