Rebecca Hanson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 205461 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Rebecca Hanson |
| NOMBRES | Rebecca |
| APELLIDO | Hanson |
| FIRMA | HANSON R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4643-0861 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 68 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Official vigilantism
Preaching to the Choir
Crime, Insecurity, and Community Policing
How can societies effectively reduce crime without exacerbating adversarial relationships between the police and citizens? In recent decades, perhaps the most celebrated innovation in police reform has been the introduction of community policing, where citizens are involved in building channels of dialogue and improving police-citizen collaboration. Despite the widespread adoption of community policing in the United States and increasingly in the…
The marvelous ones
Shoutings, Scoldings, Gossip, and Whispers
How do mothers deal with chronic violence and the constant presence of guns in their neighborhoods? How do they build situated meaning and discursive practices out of their experiences and relationships with armed actors? We compare the experiences of women in two poor and working-class neighborhoods in Caracas. Through this comparative ethnographic project, we aim to show how, in the midst of state-sponsored depredation and with an overwhelming …
Cris, réprimandes, rumeurs et murmures
Comment les mères font-elles face à la violence chronique et à la présence constante d'armes dans leurs quartiers ? Comment construisent-elles du sens situé et des pratiques discursives à partir de leurs expériences et relations avec des acteurs armés ? Nous comparons les expériences de femmes dans deux quartiers populaires de la classe ouvrière à Caracas. Dans ce projet ethnographique comparatif, nous voulons montrer comment, au milieu d'une dép…
The Paradox of Violence in Venezuela
Shifting Dynamics of Violence
Towards an Embodied Analysis of the Academic Field
In this introduction to the journal's special issue on Gender, Violence, and the Production of Knowledge we engage with the collected articles to expand conversations on embodiment and research. The issue brings together articles that reflect on gender, race, and violence throughout academic spaces—from teaching to tenure, from field sites to job talks. They contribute to ongoing conversations that interrogate embodied experiences not only in the…
Gobernanzas criminales en tiempos de revolución post-Chávez y legitimidad cuestionada
This paper compares the configuration of two armed territorial orders and the forms of local governance in neo-patrimonial authoritarian contexts in Caracas that suffer from what has been called a “complex humanitarian crisis”. We dialogue with the concepts of collaborative governance and criminal governance to understand how social control functions locally in an authoritarian context where a political, economic, and humanitarian crisis has rest…
Criminal Governance in Times of Post-Chávez Revolution and Questioned Legitimacy
This article compares the configuration of two armed territorial orders and forms of local governance in neo-patrimonial authoritarian contexts in Caracas that suffer from what has been called a “complex humanitarian crisis”. Based on the analysis of ethnographic data, this text dialogues with the concepts of collaborative governance and criminal governance to understand how social control functions locally in an authoritarian context where a pol…
Community policing does not build citizen trust in police or reduce crime in the Global South
Easier said than done High-profile instances of police brutality in the last few years have brought attention to patterns of abuse that have existed since the inception of modern policing. There have been many calls for police reform, a process that in many countries has taken the form of increased police engagement with communities. Blair et al . report the results of a large-scale experiment testing the effectiveness of this approach across six…
Popularity Contests Deepen Venezuela’s Deadly Stalemate
People line up to vote in Caracas in the December 2020 parliamentary election (FRANCISCO SANCHEZ)On December 6, Venezuela held highly controversial parliamentary elections. That afternoon, I was ch
From carceral punitivism to systematic killing
Since 2017, state security forces in Venezuela have been responsible for over 20% of violent deaths in the country. This represents an unprecedented period of state repression in the country’s history that demands examination. In this article, we argue that in order to understand the recent increase in violent deaths in Venezuela during the post-Chávez period, we must place at the center of our analysis the discourses and practices of an extremel…
Harassed
"Researchers frequently experience sexualized interactions, sexual objectification, and harassment as they conduct fieldwork. Nevertheless, these experiences are often left out of ethnographers' "tales from the field" and remain unaddressed within qualitative literature. Harassed argues that the androcentric, racist, and colonialist epistemological foundations of ethnographic methodology contribute to silence surrounding sexual harassment and oth…
Harassed
Ethnographic Fixations
Harassed
As a graduate student conducting interviews alone in rural locations, I experienced flirtatious comments (directed to me, or between men talking about me) and physical contact from participants that made me uncomfortable; some of my friends faced far worse. We occasionally talked about these incidents among ourselves and developed some strategies to feel safer—sharing a list of our expected locations for the day or agreeing to call each other by …
Deciphering Venezuela’s Emigration Wave
From May until August of this year I was in Venezuela, conducting research on policing, in-security, and violence. The day before I left, a blackout left 80 percent of Caracas and surrounding areas
Ethnographies of Security
Studying Gender and Sexualities with Qualitative Methods
Popular Participation and Governance in the Kirchners' Argentina and Chávez's Venezuela
How did governance in Kirchner's Argentina and Chávez's Venezuela interact with popular mobilisation? How have popular sectors engaged with and participated in Left-of-centre governance? Using ethnographic data, we argue that the answers to these questions lie in three social mechanisms that we call recognition, incorporation and selective mobilisation. We analyse how activists and participants interpreted and contested these mechanisms, paying a…
Deepening Distrust
Previous research has devoted extensive attention to the ways in which participatory initiatives—whether “successful” or “failed”—can be good for democracy. Participation, it is argued, can generate social capital and educate citizens in democratic practices. However, much research on participation has selected on the dependent variable, looking at cases that have produced empowerment and claims on the state to understand outcomes. Using ethnogra…
Protecting the Right to Life in Venezuela
Despite gains in social and economic rights in Venezuela, both Hugo Chavez's government and that of current president Nicolas Maduro have been unable to protect perhaps the most basic right associa
Pronoun acquisition and the morphological feature geometry
Sexual Harassment and the Construction of Ethnographic Knowledge
It is not uncommon for women researchers to experience sexualized interactions, sexual objectification, and harassment as they conduct fieldwork. Nevertheless, these experiences are often left out of ethnographers’ “tales from the field” and remain unaddressed within our discipline. In this article, we use women's experiences with harassment in the field to interrogate the epistemological foundations of ethnographic methodology within the discipl…
Pronoun acquisition and the morphological feature geometry
Deepening Distrust
Previous research has devoted extensive attention to the ways in which participatory initiatives—whether “successful” or “failed”—can be good for democracy. Participation, it is argued, can generate social capital and educate citizens in democratic practices. However, much research on participation has selected on the dependent variable, looking at cases that have produced empowerment and claims on the state to understand outcomes. Using ethnogra…
From carceral punitivism to systematic killing
Since 2017, state security forces in Venezuela have been responsible for over 20% of violent deaths in the country. This represents an unprecedented period of state repression in the country’s history that demands examination. In this article, we argue that in order to understand the recent increase in violent deaths in Venezuela during the post-Chávez period, we must place at the center of our analysis the discourses and practices of an extremel…
Ethnographies of Security
Popular Participation and Governance in the Kirchners' Argentina and Chávez's Venezuela
How did governance in Kirchner's Argentina and Chávez's Venezuela interact with popular mobilisation? How have popular sectors engaged with and participated in Left-of-centre governance? Using ethnographic data, we argue that the answers to these questions lie in three social mechanisms that we call recognition, incorporation and selective mobilisation. We analyse how activists and participants interpreted and contested these mechanisms, paying a…
Preaching to the Choir
Shoutings, Scoldings, Gossip, and Whispers
How do mothers deal with chronic violence and the constant presence of guns in their neighborhoods? How do they build situated meaning and discursive practices out of their experiences and relationships with armed actors? We compare the experiences of women in two poor and working-class neighborhoods in Caracas. Through this comparative ethnographic project, we aim to show how, in the midst of state-sponsored depredation and with an overwhelming …
Towards an Embodied Analysis of the Academic Field
In this introduction to the journal's special issue on Gender, Violence, and the Production of Knowledge we engage with the collected articles to expand conversations on embodiment and research. The issue brings together articles that reflect on gender, race, and violence throughout academic spaces—from teaching to tenure, from field sites to job talks. They contribute to ongoing conversations that interrogate embodied experiences not only in the…
Gobernanzas criminales en tiempos de revolución post-Chávez y legitimidad cuestionada
This paper compares the configuration of two armed territorial orders and the forms of local governance in neo-patrimonial authoritarian contexts in Caracas that suffer from what has been called a “complex humanitarian crisis”. We dialogue with the concepts of collaborative governance and criminal governance to understand how social control functions locally in an authoritarian context where a political, economic, and humanitarian crisis has rest…
Studying Gender and Sexualities with Qualitative Methods
Teaching the Religious History of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia
Until 2006, when faculty in the Departments of History and Religion at Temple University designed the course Religion in Philadelphia, no university in Pennsylvania offered a course specifically on the religious history of the state. The following essay outlines the rationale for a course on religion in Philadelphia, the issues involved with teaching such a course, available texts and resources, and possible field trips and assignments. It also d…
Protecting the Right to Life in Venezuela
Despite gains in social and economic rights in Venezuela, both Hugo Chavez's government and that of current president Nicolas Maduro have been unable to protect perhaps the most basic right associa
Sexual Harassment and the Construction of Ethnographic Knowledge
It is not uncommon for women researchers to experience sexualized interactions, sexual objectification, and harassment as they conduct fieldwork. Nevertheless, these experiences are often left out of ethnographers’ “tales from the field” and remain unaddressed within our discipline. In this article, we use women's experiences with harassment in the field to interrogate the epistemological foundations of ethnographic methodology within the discipl…
Deciphering Venezuela’s Emigration Wave
From May until August of this year I was in Venezuela, conducting research on policing, in-security, and violence. The day before I left, a blackout left 80 percent of Caracas and surrounding areas
Ethnographies of Security
Studying Gender and Sexualities with Qualitative Methods
Popular Participation and Governance in the Kirchners' Argentina and Chávez's Venezuela
How did governance in Kirchner's Argentina and Chávez's Venezuela interact with popular mobilisation? How have popular sectors engaged with and participated in Left-of-centre governance? Using ethnographic data, we argue that the answers to these questions lie in three social mechanisms that we call recognition, incorporation and selective mobilisation. We analyse how activists and participants interpreted and contested these mechanisms, paying a…
Deepening Distrust
Previous research has devoted extensive attention to the ways in which participatory initiatives—whether “successful” or “failed”—can be good for democracy. Participation, it is argued, can generate social capital and educate citizens in democratic practices. However, much research on participation has selected on the dependent variable, looking at cases that have produced empowerment and claims on the state to understand outcomes. Using ethnogra…
Harassed
"Researchers frequently experience sexualized interactions, sexual objectification, and harassment as they conduct fieldwork. Nevertheless, these experiences are often left out of ethnographers' "tales from the field" and remain unaddressed within qualitative literature. Harassed argues that the androcentric, racist, and colonialist epistemological foundations of ethnographic methodology contribute to silence surrounding sexual harassment and oth…
Harassed
Ethnographic Fixations
Harassed
As a graduate student conducting interviews alone in rural locations, I experienced flirtatious comments (directed to me, or between men talking about me) and physical contact from participants that made me uncomfortable; some of my friends faced far worse. We occasionally talked about these incidents among ourselves and developed some strategies to feel safer—sharing a list of our expected locations for the day or agreeing to call each other by …
Community policing does not build citizen trust in police or reduce crime in the Global South
Easier said than done High-profile instances of police brutality in the last few years have brought attention to patterns of abuse that have existed since the inception of modern policing. There have been many calls for police reform, a process that in many countries has taken the form of increased police engagement with communities. Blair et al . report the results of a large-scale experiment testing the effectiveness of this approach across six…
Popularity Contests Deepen Venezuela’s Deadly Stalemate
People line up to vote in Caracas in the December 2020 parliamentary election (FRANCISCO SANCHEZ)On December 6, Venezuela held highly controversial parliamentary elections. That afternoon, I was ch
From carceral punitivism to systematic killing
Since 2017, state security forces in Venezuela have been responsible for over 20% of violent deaths in the country. This represents an unprecedented period of state repression in the country’s history that demands examination. In this article, we argue that in order to understand the recent increase in violent deaths in Venezuela during the post-Chávez period, we must place at the center of our analysis the discourses and practices of an extremel…
The Paradox of Violence in Venezuela
Shifting Dynamics of Violence
Towards an Embodied Analysis of the Academic Field
In this introduction to the journal's special issue on Gender, Violence, and the Production of Knowledge we engage with the collected articles to expand conversations on embodiment and research. The issue brings together articles that reflect on gender, race, and violence throughout academic spaces—from teaching to tenure, from field sites to job talks. They contribute to ongoing conversations that interrogate embodied experiences not only in the…
Gobernanzas criminales en tiempos de revolución post-Chávez y legitimidad cuestionada
This paper compares the configuration of two armed territorial orders and the forms of local governance in neo-patrimonial authoritarian contexts in Caracas that suffer from what has been called a “complex humanitarian crisis”. We dialogue with the concepts of collaborative governance and criminal governance to understand how social control functions locally in an authoritarian context where a political, economic, and humanitarian crisis has rest…
Criminal Governance in Times of Post-Chávez Revolution and Questioned Legitimacy
This article compares the configuration of two armed territorial orders and forms of local governance in neo-patrimonial authoritarian contexts in Caracas that suffer from what has been called a “complex humanitarian crisis”. Based on the analysis of ethnographic data, this text dialogues with the concepts of collaborative governance and criminal governance to understand how social control functions locally in an authoritarian context where a pol…
Shoutings, Scoldings, Gossip, and Whispers
How do mothers deal with chronic violence and the constant presence of guns in their neighborhoods? How do they build situated meaning and discursive practices out of their experiences and relationships with armed actors? We compare the experiences of women in two poor and working-class neighborhoods in Caracas. Through this comparative ethnographic project, we aim to show how, in the midst of state-sponsored depredation and with an overwhelming …
Cris, réprimandes, rumeurs et murmures
Comment les mères font-elles face à la violence chronique et à la présence constante d'armes dans leurs quartiers ? Comment construisent-elles du sens situé et des pratiques discursives à partir de leurs expériences et relations avec des acteurs armés ? Nous comparons les expériences de femmes dans deux quartiers populaires de la classe ouvrière à Caracas. Dans ce projet ethnographique comparatif, nous voulons montrer comment, au milieu d'une dép…
Crime, Insecurity, and Community Policing
How can societies effectively reduce crime without exacerbating adversarial relationships between the police and citizens? In recent decades, perhaps the most celebrated innovation in police reform has been the introduction of community policing, where citizens are involved in building channels of dialogue and improving police-citizen collaboration. Despite the widespread adoption of community policing in the United States and increasingly in the…
The marvelous ones
Pronoun acquisition and the morphological feature geometry
Sociology (17 obras) · Political science (16 obras) · Law (12 obras) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (8 obras) · Ethnography (7 obras) · Politics (7 obras) · Psychology (7 obras) · Anthropology (6 obras) · Criminology (6 obras) · Economics (5 obras)