Bloch
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 52220 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Bloch |
| APELLIDO | Bloch |
| FIRMA | BLOCH |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Arizona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4021-4391 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 172 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Crimmigration and the carceral fix in Arizona
This paper centers Arizona as a critical site in the racialized criminalization of immigrants—a practice known as “crimmigration”—and the associated adaptive reuse of prison infrastructure. Focusing on a closed prison facility in the Town of Marana that is slated to reopen as an immigration detention center, we propose the concept of a “carceral fix,” wherein declining incarceration rates are offset by expanded civil immigration detention. Expand…
Geographies of Trauma
Stefano Bloch on Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics and The Marvelous Ones
Spatially contingent racialization
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 be understood through universalizing or structuralist notions of race alone. Rather, the prison as a site of racialization demonstrates that such processes are spatially contingent and actively negotiated. Drawing in part on personal experience, we reveal how prisoners engage in “running” r…
Banging them out
Crime as Relational Concept in Political Geography
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 of place. Building on the literature in geography, I propose a relational ontology of crime-viewing it not as a fixed set of illicit acts, incidents of victimization, or violations of legal code, but as a political concept that influences how people an…
Place Matters
Research on place-making and place-taking coming out of the discipline of geography remains an untapped intellectual resource for research on gangs. Part of the reason for this is that geographers have not sufficiently included gangs and gang members in their theories of space and place. This may be surprising given what is known about gangs and their place-oriented penchant for territoriality and neighborhood demarcation as part of their express…
A Legal Geography of Prison and Other Carceral Spaces
As scholars apply the concept of “the carceral” to more and increasingly diffuse spaces of containment, displacement, and cordoning across free society, I call for a means by which “carcerality” is measured and understood as a productive force in the denial of constitutional rights and protections. I therefore provide a legal reading of carcerality, which establishes prisons as the sine qua non of the carceral landscape, preceded by an analysis o…
Prison geographies
Motivated by a critical concern for state-sanctioned coercion, control, and containment across "free society," geographers have extended Foucault's concept of "the carceral" to more and increasingly diffuse spaces and processes. In this paper, however, we aim to re-center the prison in the carceral geographies literature, reasserting it as the sine qua non of the subfield. In doing so, we organize geographers' analysis of prisons into nine concep…
Displacement beyond dislocation
In this article, we argue for a critical gentrification studies that includes a more expansive and nuanced understanding of how displacement works, beyond the mapping and counting of dislocated bodies. As part of our argument, we introduce the concept of aversive racism to the geographical literature on displacement, pointing to this insidious mode of spatial practice that we argue is widely constitutive of place-making and place-taking processes…
Focusing in on fringe urban spaces
Within DeVerteuil's lopsided city are spaces in which creative and combative place-making persist. Guma most recently and within the pages of this very issue of Dialogues in Urban Research identifies such spaces as those produced by “urban populations, in situ,” noting their “forms of hustling in fringe positions” as they fight against displacement by gentrification in the global South, as well as against the dizzying effect of the lopsided city …
Displacement and affective economies in gentrification research
In our initial paper calling for a more affective understanding of displacement in gentrification studies, we argued that displacement is a process that functions through diverse rearticulations of people's embodied capacity to make place, only some of which take the form of physical or social dislocation. Our intervention was intended to reignite this already existing argument by drawing attention to the embodied, affective, and emotional dimens…
Edward W. Soja's Radical Spatial Perspective
Edward W. Soja saw early in his career that “it is now space more than time, geography more than history, that hides consequences from us.” His life-long scholarly project centered around this contention, inspiring his advocacy of a socio-spatial dialectic, his contribution to the so-called “spatial turn,” and his fervent belief that all matters of justice are matters of geography, necessitating the “reassertion of space in critical social theory…
Carceral racialization, prison segregation, and the Integrated Housing Program in Arizona
Prisoners in the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation, and Reentry (ADCRR) coordinate to circumvent full racial housing integration, revealing how “race” and adherence to the “racial code” is used as an organizing concept in carceral settings that is distinct from conceptualizations of race and politics of identity within free society. In addition to providing a review of the literature on the complexity of prison racialization, we b…
Captive bodies, prison geographies, and the somatic carceral condition
Putting research and reflection on prison experience into conversation with the subfields of carceral and health geography, we discuss the “somatic carceral condition” as a viseral, bodily effect of prisonization. In doing so, we call for increased reliance on data derived from somatic experience as well as autoethnographic insight on imprisonment. More broadly, we argue, an embrace of somatic data used to tell the story of marginalization and ca…
Mapping and making gangland
We provide an example of how race- and place-based legacies of disinvestment initiated by New Deal Era redlining regimes under the auspices of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) were followed by decades of anti-gang over-policing tactics at the scale of the neighbourhood. We show how HOLC-mediated and mapped redlining has sustained community disinvestment and stigmatisation wrought by unjust and racist social policy seen to this day in cont…
Concerning community, with Lynn Staeheli
Gangs, gang members, and geography
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 d'être, as well as in the way they are policed and legally cordoned. Despite gang members' real and imagined penchant for transgressive place-making and demarcation, it has been sociologists and criminologists, not geographers, who have produced the lion's …
For Autoethnographies of Displacement Beyond Gentrification
Motivated by my own experiences with serial eviction, I argue for increased reliance on the body as archive and memory as data to be used in the storytelling process about displacement and unhoming. Increased inclusion of personal reflection in the literature on displacement has the potential to further humanize a discipline that is already well-steeped in utilizing qualitative methods, abstract theorization, and quantification to reveal other pe…
Aversive racism and community-instigated policing
I bring an understanding of the concept and practice of “aversive racism” to scholarly thinking about community formation. I argue that the exclusionary contours of community are in part a product of racialized in- and outgrouping from which people’s capacities for place-making are judged and localized policing is instigated. In bringing these concepts, formations, and practices together, this paper contributes to how urbanists might continue to …
Carceral Geographies from Inside Prison Gates
Addressing a need for carceral geographical research conducted from inside prison gates, we discuss the spatial context in which racialisation occurs, including its relationship to the performance of prison “politics”. We argue that the convoluted and contentious racial categorisation of prison inmates that begins with “racial priming” and results in “racial sorting” possesses a spatial logic derived from institutional partitioning and street‐lev…
Police and policing in geography
Despite the fact that any semblance of a "police studies" in geography is relatively recent, with calls for its development and expansion still being made in the literature today, geographers have nevertheless made important contributions to how scholars understand police and policing as a multifaceted manifestation of state power, coercion, and territoriality. Given the formative contributions that have already been made, and with promises of in…
Covid-19 graffiti
Policing car space and the legal liminality of the automobile
The car is a primary locus for police-civilian interaction as measured by routine legal intrusion into the lives of vulnerable populations – communities of color, undocumented immigrants, and those experiencing homelessness in particular. It is the car’s ability to transport bodies as well as its legal liminality as a hybrid public-private space that facilitates such coercive and carceral contact. I therefore argue for the increased inclusion of …
Canicide by Cop
Broken Windows Ideology and the (Mis)Reading of Graffiti
Implicit revanchism
As part of our theorization of the place-making conduct of new residents living in a gentrifying neighborhood of Los Angeles, we identify a curious paradox in which white liberals openly disavow overtly punitive policing practices, yet continue to actively call for or tacitly accept police action taken against individuals they perceive to be "out of place." We examine this seeming contradiction in the context of a contemporary legal mechanism cal…
Policing car space and the legal liminality of the automobile
The car is a primary locus for police-civilian interaction as measured by routine legal intrusion into the lives of vulnerable populations – communities of color, undocumented immigrants, and those experiencing homelessness in particular. It is the car’s ability to transport bodies as well as its legal liminality as a hybrid public-private space that facilitates such coercive and carceral contact. I therefore argue for the increased inclusion of …
Place-Based Elicitation
Interviews conducted in situ-literally at "the scene of the crime"1-can elicit more nuanced data than interviews conducted in locations removed from where the activity in question occurred. This is particularly true when conducting research on and with members of spatially conscious, "deviant," and vulnerable communities who may for the sake of social and existential survival defer to rehearsed narratives and formula stories about their actions a…
For Autoethnographies of Displacement Beyond Gentrification
Motivated by my own experiences with serial eviction, I argue for increased reliance on the body as archive and memory as data to be used in the storytelling process about displacement and unhoming. Increased inclusion of personal reflection in the literature on displacement has the potential to further humanize a discipline that is already well-steeped in utilizing qualitative methods, abstract theorization, and quantification to reveal other pe…
Carceral Geographies from Inside Prison Gates
Addressing a need for carceral geographical research conducted from inside prison gates, we discuss the spatial context in which racialisation occurs, including its relationship to the performance of prison “politics”. We argue that the convoluted and contentious racial categorisation of prison inmates that begins with “racial priming” and results in “racial sorting” possesses a spatial logic derived from institutional partitioning and street‐lev…
An autoethnographic account of urban restructuring and neighborhood change in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley
Suburbs have long been glossed over by critical urbanists for being culturally, even if not spatially, less than urban. In Los Angeles, it is the San Fernando Valley that has received such treatment as scholars have tended toward the metropolitan basin. In this article, I aim to help re-center the San Fernando Valley as a complex and conflictual cultural landscape through an autoethnographic exploration of four moments of urban restructuring in t…
Police and policing in geography
Despite the fact that any semblance of a "police studies" in geography is relatively recent, with calls for its development and expansion still being made in the literature today, geographers have nevertheless made important contributions to how scholars understand police and policing as a multifaceted manifestation of state power, coercion, and territoriality. Given the formative contributions that have already been made, and with promises of in…
Aversive racism and community-instigated policing
I bring an understanding of the concept and practice of “aversive racism” to scholarly thinking about community formation. I argue that the exclusionary contours of community are in part a product of racialized in- and outgrouping from which people’s capacities for place-making are judged and localized policing is instigated. In bringing these concepts, formations, and practices together, this paper contributes to how urbanists might continue to …
Broken Windows Ideology and the (Mis)Reading of Graffiti
A Legal Geography of Prison and Other Carceral Spaces
As scholars apply the concept of “the carceral” to more and increasingly diffuse spaces of containment, displacement, and cordoning across free society, I call for a means by which “carcerality” is measured and understood as a productive force in the denial of constitutional rights and protections. I therefore provide a legal reading of carcerality, which establishes prisons as the sine qua non of the carceral landscape, preceded by an analysis o…
Mapping and making gangland
We provide an example of how race- and place-based legacies of disinvestment initiated by New Deal Era redlining regimes under the auspices of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) were followed by decades of anti-gang over-policing tactics at the scale of the neighbourhood. We show how HOLC-mediated and mapped redlining has sustained community disinvestment and stigmatisation wrought by unjust and racist social policy seen to this day in cont…
Canicide by Cop
The Illegal Face of Wall Space
A series of retaining walls on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles have been used as platforms for traditional murals since 1975. Today, however, it is the "technically illegal" graffiti-murals on these same walls that have been tacitly tolerated if not outright accepted by the community. Unlike the sanctioned murals previously painted on these walls by famed Chicano artists Judith Baca and Ernesto De La Loza, Cache and Eye One's Los Angeles: Untitle…
Carceral racialization, prison segregation, and the Integrated Housing Program in Arizona
Prisoners in the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation, and Reentry (ADCRR) coordinate to circumvent full racial housing integration, revealing how “race” and adherence to the “racial code” is used as an organizing concept in carceral settings that is distinct from conceptualizations of race and politics of identity within free society. In addition to providing a review of the literature on the complexity of prison racialization, we b…
Captive bodies, prison geographies, and the somatic carceral condition
Putting research and reflection on prison experience into conversation with the subfields of carceral and health geography, we discuss the “somatic carceral condition” as a viseral, bodily effect of prisonization. In doing so, we call for increased reliance on data derived from somatic experience as well as autoethnographic insight on imprisonment. More broadly, we argue, an embrace of somatic data used to tell the story of marginalization and ca…
Gangs, gang members, and geography
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 d'être, as well as in the way they are policed and legally cordoned. Despite gang members' real and imagined penchant for transgressive place-making and demarcation, it has been sociologists and criminologists, not geographers, who have produced the lion's …
An On-the-Ground Challenge to Uses of Spatial Big Data in Assessing Neighborhood Character
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 on‐the‐ground ethnographic fieldwork cannot be replaced, no matter the admittedly seductive size, speed, and simplicity offered by big data. In this article, I caution against the overreliance on Google Street View (GSV) and municipal call‐for‐service, or 311, data…
A People's Guide to Los Angeles
It's a great place to live, but I wouldn't want to visit there.—Mark Twain on Los AngelesI often tell would-be visitors that unless they plan to stay a while, they might as well bypass Los Angeles
Banging them out
Edward W. Soja's Radical Spatial Perspective
Edward W. Soja saw early in his career that “it is now space more than time, geography more than history, that hides consequences from us.” His life-long scholarly project centered around this contention, inspiring his advocacy of a socio-spatial dialectic, his contribution to the so-called “spatial turn,” and his fervent belief that all matters of justice are matters of geography, necessitating the “reassertion of space in critical social theory…
Covid-19 graffiti
Why do Graffiti Writers Write on Murals? The Birth, Life, and Slow Death of Freeway Murals in Los Angeles
For three decades graffiti writers have marked the Olympic Festival freeway murals painted in celebration of the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles (LA). These high-profile murals, which once symbolized LA's status as the 'Mural Capital of the World', became palimpsests on which graffiti writers painted their monikers, perhaps unwittingly contributing to their eventual destruction. Local government, muralists and residents have bemoaned the murals…
The Truce
The Truce: Lessons from an L.A. Gang War., Karen Umemoto." Urban Geography, 32(1), pp. 145–146
The Illegal Face of Wall Space
A series of retaining walls on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles have been used as platforms for traditional murals since 1975. Today, however, it is the "technically illegal" graffiti-murals on these same walls that have been tacitly tolerated if not outright accepted by the community. Unlike the sanctioned murals previously painted on these walls by famed Chicano artists Judith Baca and Ernesto De La Loza, Cache and Eye One's Los Angeles: Untitle…
Hollywood as waste regime
With this paper I enter the discussion on waste with the example of the cast-off mattress. In Los Angeles, mattresses left out at curbsides and in alleyways are picked up, put on trucks and brought to mattress recycling centers as part of subsistence scavenging. However, some mattresses also end up in local prop houses and eventually are used as set dressing on films. Once brought into the circulation of objects within the cultural industry of Ho…
A People's Guide to Los Angeles
It's a great place to live, but I wouldn't want to visit there.—Mark Twain on Los AngelesI often tell would-be visitors that unless they plan to stay a while, they might as well bypass Los Angeles
Why do Graffiti Writers Write on Murals? The Birth, Life, and Slow Death of Freeway Murals in Los Angeles
For three decades graffiti writers have marked the Olympic Festival freeway murals painted in celebration of the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles (LA). These high-profile murals, which once symbolized LA's status as the 'Mural Capital of the World', became palimpsests on which graffiti writers painted their monikers, perhaps unwittingly contributing to their eventual destruction. Local government, muralists and residents have bemoaned the murals…
Place-Based Elicitation
Interviews conducted in situ-literally at "the scene of the crime"1-can elicit more nuanced data than interviews conducted in locations removed from where the activity in question occurred. This is particularly true when conducting research on and with members of spatially conscious, "deviant," and vulnerable communities who may for the sake of social and existential survival defer to rehearsed narratives and formula stories about their actions a…
Going All City
Implicit revanchism
As part of our theorization of the place-making conduct of new residents living in a gentrifying neighborhood of Los Angeles, we identify a curious paradox in which white liberals openly disavow overtly punitive policing practices, yet continue to actively call for or tacitly accept police action taken against individuals they perceive to be "out of place." We examine this seeming contradiction in the context of a contemporary legal mechanism cal…
Covid-19 graffiti
Policing car space and the legal liminality of the automobile
The car is a primary locus for police-civilian interaction as measured by routine legal intrusion into the lives of vulnerable populations – communities of color, undocumented immigrants, and those experiencing homelessness in particular. It is the car’s ability to transport bodies as well as its legal liminality as a hybrid public-private space that facilitates such coercive and carceral contact. I therefore argue for the increased inclusion of …
Canicide by Cop
Broken Windows Ideology and the (Mis)Reading of Graffiti
An On-the-Ground Challenge to Uses of Spatial Big Data in Assessing Neighborhood Character
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 on‐the‐ground ethnographic fieldwork cannot be replaced, no matter the admittedly seductive size, speed, and simplicity offered by big data. In this article, I caution against the overreliance on Google Street View (GSV) and municipal call‐for‐service, or 311, data…
An autoethnographic account of urban restructuring and neighborhood change in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley
Suburbs have long been glossed over by critical urbanists for being culturally, even if not spatially, less than urban. In Los Angeles, it is the San Fernando Valley that has received such treatment as scholars have tended toward the metropolitan basin. In this article, I aim to help re-center the San Fernando Valley as a complex and conflictual cultural landscape through an autoethnographic exploration of four moments of urban restructuring in t…
Aversive racism and community-instigated policing
I bring an understanding of the concept and practice of “aversive racism” to scholarly thinking about community formation. I argue that the exclusionary contours of community are in part a product of racialized in- and outgrouping from which people’s capacities for place-making are judged and localized policing is instigated. In bringing these concepts, formations, and practices together, this paper contributes to how urbanists might continue to …
Carceral Geographies from Inside Prison Gates
Addressing a need for carceral geographical research conducted from inside prison gates, we discuss the spatial context in which racialisation occurs, including its relationship to the performance of prison “politics”. We argue that the convoluted and contentious racial categorisation of prison inmates that begins with “racial priming” and results in “racial sorting” possesses a spatial logic derived from institutional partitioning and street‐lev…
Police and policing in geography
Despite the fact that any semblance of a "police studies" in geography is relatively recent, with calls for its development and expansion still being made in the literature today, geographers have nevertheless made important contributions to how scholars understand police and policing as a multifaceted manifestation of state power, coercion, and territoriality. Given the formative contributions that have already been made, and with promises of in…
Mapping and making gangland
We provide an example of how race- and place-based legacies of disinvestment initiated by New Deal Era redlining regimes under the auspices of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) were followed by decades of anti-gang over-policing tactics at the scale of the neighbourhood. We show how HOLC-mediated and mapped redlining has sustained community disinvestment and stigmatisation wrought by unjust and racist social policy seen to this day in cont…
Concerning community, with Lynn Staeheli
Gangs, gang members, and geography
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 d'être, as well as in the way they are policed and legally cordoned. Despite gang members' real and imagined penchant for transgressive place-making and demarcation, it has been sociologists and criminologists, not geographers, who have produced the lion's …
For Autoethnographies of Displacement Beyond Gentrification
Motivated by my own experiences with serial eviction, I argue for increased reliance on the body as archive and memory as data to be used in the storytelling process about displacement and unhoming. Increased inclusion of personal reflection in the literature on displacement has the potential to further humanize a discipline that is already well-steeped in utilizing qualitative methods, abstract theorization, and quantification to reveal other pe…
Displacement beyond dislocation
In this article, we argue for a critical gentrification studies that includes a more expansive and nuanced understanding of how displacement works, beyond the mapping and counting of dislocated bodies. As part of our argument, we introduce the concept of aversive racism to the geographical literature on displacement, pointing to this insidious mode of spatial practice that we argue is widely constitutive of place-making and place-taking processes…
Focusing in on fringe urban spaces
Within DeVerteuil's lopsided city are spaces in which creative and combative place-making persist. Guma most recently and within the pages of this very issue of Dialogues in Urban Research identifies such spaces as those produced by “urban populations, in situ,” noting their “forms of hustling in fringe positions” as they fight against displacement by gentrification in the global South, as well as against the dizzying effect of the lopsided city …
Displacement and affective economies in gentrification research
In our initial paper calling for a more affective understanding of displacement in gentrification studies, we argued that displacement is a process that functions through diverse rearticulations of people's embodied capacity to make place, only some of which take the form of physical or social dislocation. Our intervention was intended to reignite this already existing argument by drawing attention to the embodied, affective, and emotional dimens…
Edward W. Soja's Radical Spatial Perspective
Edward W. Soja saw early in his career that “it is now space more than time, geography more than history, that hides consequences from us.” His life-long scholarly project centered around this contention, inspiring his advocacy of a socio-spatial dialectic, his contribution to the so-called “spatial turn,” and his fervent belief that all matters of justice are matters of geography, necessitating the “reassertion of space in critical social theory…
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