Lumpen Abuse
The Human Cost of Righteous Neoliberalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2280667 |
|---|---|
| Authors | P Bourgois (0000-0002-1600-233X, California University of Pennsylvania, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 2-12 |
| Publication date | 2011-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | City & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0893-0465 • E-ISSN: 1548-744X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1548-744x.2011.01045.x |
| PMID | 21857771 |
| PMCID | PMC3156248 |
| OpenAlex | W1828989108 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 5 |
I thank the Society for Urban Anthropology for the Anthony Leeds Book Prize. The award gives me special pleasure because I think of myself primarily as an urban anthropologist. I was trained in "peasant studies" as a student of Eric Wolf's in the late 1970s and early 1980s eager to conduct participant-observation fieldwork on the revolutionary movements taking place in Central America in those decades. It was a hopeful - even inspiring - moment in history at my doctoral fieldwork theme/sites: the agrarian reform in the Amerindian Moskitia territory of Sandinista Nicaragua (1979-80, 1984), guerrilla warfare in an FMLN-controlled territory in El Salvador (1981), and farmworker organizing on a United Fruit Company plantation enclave spanning the Costa Rica/Panama Caribbean border (1982-1984). During these exciting years of fieldwork, however, I found myself longing to return to my hometown to conduct ethnography on the same themes that I was witnessing in the countryside of Central America: the political mobilization/demobilization of class struggle in the context of racialized ethnicity and extreme social inequality. Consequently, while writing up my dissertation (Bourgois 1989), I moved to East Harlem two dozen blocks from where I had grown up in New York City to document what I came to call "US inner-city apartheid." That was in March of 1985 and ever since, my work has been primarily dedicated to understanding urban social inequality
Citation · Media studies · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Housing Market and Economics · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Visually representing total pain at the end of life through photovoice
Philippe Bourgois
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Ethnographies of the Opportunities and Risks of Neoliberalisation
Visual and textual representations in public social science for the 21st century
It was fun, it was dangerous”
The good-enough science-and-politics of anthropological collaboration with evidence-based clinical research
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Pax narcotica
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Neoliberalism
The Carceral State
By Sleight of Neoliberal Logics
City and cosmology
| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,65 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2026 (35) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |