Jeff Maskovsky
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 629964 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jeff Maskovsky |
| NOMBRES | Jeff |
| APELLIDO | Maskovsky |
| FIRMA | MASKOVSKY J |
| AFILIACIONES | The Graduate Center, CUNY |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9043-3074 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 223 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2000 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Dragging Anthropology Towards a Just and Egalitarian Future
I propose a dialogue between new abolitionist approaches and black feminist theory on the one hand and anticapitalist critical urban social theory on the other. This dialogue has great potential to advance approaches that unhide the death dealing logics that shape city-making and also to identify and amplify the emancipatory potentialities and forms of cultural, social, economic, and political improvisation that can lead us to more positive futur…
We Need a Loud and Fractious Poor
This article explores the political consequences of four decades of consistent humiliation of the poor by the most authoritative voices in the land, and offers insights into ways that new movements are creating spaces for poor people’s political voices to surface and become relevant again. Our specific concern is the challenge that the current humiliation regime poses to those who seek to revive radical, disruptive and fractious anti‐poverty acti…
Anti-social security
Gavin Smith's (2014) Intellectuals and (Counter-) Politics is a tour de force. It calls for anthropology to attend more carefully to the history of moves by the dominant capitalist blocs to enhance the conditions for their own reproduction and to the ways in which different subordinated and subaltern groups respond to these moves. This is, of course, a well-established line of inquiry. Yet, in Intellectuals, Smith breathes new life into an intell…
Do We All “Reek of the Commodity”?
Foregrounding the Political and Confronting the Authoritarian Present
When White Nationalism Became Popular
Toward the anthropology of white nationalist postracialism
This article explains Donald Trump's brutal political effectiveness in terms of his white nationalist appeal. It locates the intellectual, popular, and policy imperatives of Trumpism in a new form of racial politics that I am calling white nationalist postracialism. This is a paradoxical politics of twenty-first-century white racial resentment whose proponents seek to do two contradictory things: to reclaim the nation for white Americans while al…
Reclaiming the streets
This article focuses on the emergence of a new pattern of black urban insurgency emerging in major US metropolitan areas such as Philadelphia. I locate this pattern in the context of a new securitization regime that I call "antisocial security." This regime works by establishing a decentered system of high-tech forms of surveillance and monitory techniques. I highlight the dialectic between the extension of antisocial security apparatuses and tec…
“The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love”
A Conversation with incoming Sunta President-Elect, Jeff Maskovsky
Rethinking America
Protest Anthropology in a Moment of Global Unrest
In this review essay, I explore today's protest anthropology, the high-stakes domain of professional and political practice in which anthropologists are not just aligned with protest movements, revolts, and uprisings but are also full-fledged participants in them. Focusing on examples from the Occupy Movement, I discuss the promises and perils of taking a protest stance. I argue that, despite the risks, protest anthropology has the power to unset…
Beyond Neoliberalism
Beyond Neoliberalism: Academia and Activism in a Nonhegemonic Moment Jeff Maskovsky (bio) There is no doubt that neoliberalism is having profoundly harmful effects on the academy and the world at large, and that it constitutes a major ideological and material project to which the academic Left must respond. Many academics have done so by, for example, opposing the advent of consumerist, market-driven learning; the privatization, corporatization, …
Rethinking America
Prologue: The of Neoliberalism? Foreign Military Bases: The Edge and Essence of Empire Catherine Lutz Chapter 2: JROTC and Latina/o Youth in Neoliberal Cities Gina Perez Chapter 3: Human in the Imperial Heartland Sally Engle Merry Chapter 4: Torture Is US: Public Amnesia and the School of the Americas Lesley Gill Chapter 5: Imperial Moralities Ida Susser PART II: TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY CULTURE WARS Chapter 6: Whose Homeland? The New Imperialism, Ne…
Some New Directions in Anthropology “At Home”
Frugal Philly, Part III
The Homeland Archipelago
In the post-9/11 period, the power of the concept of neoliberalism to describe US social and political dynamics has been questioned, particularly in light of discourses emphasizing the disaggregation of state power. Relying primarily on ethnographic data collected in Philadelphia between 2000 and 2005, this article examines the melding of neoliberal governance and Homeland Security ideology in the figure of `home', as a social construct more coll…
Rethinking North America
Governing the “New Hometowns”
Inner city residents, once shunned and ignored by city planners, are now seen as a vital resource in United States urban redevelopment plans. This shift in perspective has come at a time when municipal elites routinely champion the neoliberal strategies of privatization, marketization, and consumerism across the urban policy spectrum. In this article, I draw upon ethnographic fieldwork conducted in a gentrifying neighborhood in Philadelphia to il…
Society for the Anthropology of North America
Introduction
This Introduction provides a thematic overview of this special issue. It draws attention to the multiplicity of forces that produce new and complicated forms of oppression and exploitation in post-Cold War, post-9/11 America and provides brief descriptions of the articles collected here, highlighting their contributions to Americanist critical theory and ethnography and anthropology in general
Do People Fail Drugs, or Do Drugs Fail People
Pathologies of Power
The New Poverty Studies
Stock market euphoria and blind faith in the post cold war economy have driven the topic of poverty from popular and scholarly discussion in the United States. At the same time the gap between the rich and poor has never been wider. The New Poverty Studies critically examines the new war against the poor that has accompanied the rise of the New Economy in the past two decades, and details the myriad ways poor people have struggled against it. The…
The Anthropology of Welfare “Reform
Anthropological research on welfare restructuring differs from most poverty research conducted by U.S. policy analysts and many other social scientists by its situating the study of welfare “reform” within an examination of the production of poverty and inequality at the center of the global system of advanced capitalism. In this review we examine urban poverty and welfare-state restructuring in relation to the ascent of neoliberalism, including …
The Anthropology of Welfare “Reform
Anthropological research on welfare restructuring differs from most poverty research conducted by U.S. policy analysts and many other social scientists by its situating the study of welfare “reform” within an examination of the production of poverty and inequality at the center of the global system of advanced capitalism. In this review we examine urban poverty and welfare-state restructuring in relation to the ascent of neoliberalism, including …
"Managing" the poor
In order to explore the contradictions of neoliberal health policy, this article examines Medicaid managed care in Philadelphia. At the federal and state levels, government is increasingly promoting private-sector market-based strategies over policies formerly associated with the welfare state, arguing that the former are the most effective means of achieving economic growth and guaranteeing social welfare. A prime example of this shift, Medicaid…
Toward the anthropology of white nationalist postracialism
This article explains Donald Trump's brutal political effectiveness in terms of his white nationalist appeal. It locates the intellectual, popular, and policy imperatives of Trumpism in a new form of racial politics that I am calling white nationalist postracialism. This is a paradoxical politics of twenty-first-century white racial resentment whose proponents seek to do two contradictory things: to reclaim the nation for white Americans while al…
Do People Fail Drugs, or Do Drugs Fail People
We Need a Loud and Fractious Poor
This article explores the political consequences of four decades of consistent humiliation of the poor by the most authoritative voices in the land, and offers insights into ways that new movements are creating spaces for poor people’s political voices to surface and become relevant again. Our specific concern is the challenge that the current humiliation regime poses to those who seek to revive radical, disruptive and fractious anti‐poverty acti…
Protest Anthropology in a Moment of Global Unrest
In this review essay, I explore today's protest anthropology, the high-stakes domain of professional and political practice in which anthropologists are not just aligned with protest movements, revolts, and uprisings but are also full-fledged participants in them. Focusing on examples from the Occupy Movement, I discuss the promises and perils of taking a protest stance. I argue that, despite the risks, protest anthropology has the power to unset…
Beyond Neoliberalism
Beyond Neoliberalism: Academia and Activism in a Nonhegemonic Moment Jeff Maskovsky (bio) There is no doubt that neoliberalism is having profoundly harmful effects on the academy and the world at large, and that it constitutes a major ideological and material project to which the academic Left must respond. Many academics have done so by, for example, opposing the advent of consumerist, market-driven learning; the privatization, corporatization, …
The Homeland Archipelago
In the post-9/11 period, the power of the concept of neoliberalism to describe US social and political dynamics has been questioned, particularly in light of discourses emphasizing the disaggregation of state power. Relying primarily on ethnographic data collected in Philadelphia between 2000 and 2005, this article examines the melding of neoliberal governance and Homeland Security ideology in the figure of `home', as a social construct more coll…
When White Nationalism Became Popular
Reclaiming the streets
This article focuses on the emergence of a new pattern of black urban insurgency emerging in major US metropolitan areas such as Philadelphia. I locate this pattern in the context of a new securitization regime that I call "antisocial security." This regime works by establishing a decentered system of high-tech forms of surveillance and monitory techniques. I highlight the dialectic between the extension of antisocial security apparatuses and tec…
Dragging Anthropology Towards a Just and Egalitarian Future
I propose a dialogue between new abolitionist approaches and black feminist theory on the one hand and anticapitalist critical urban social theory on the other. This dialogue has great potential to advance approaches that unhide the death dealing logics that shape city-making and also to identify and amplify the emancipatory potentialities and forms of cultural, social, economic, and political improvisation that can lead us to more positive futur…
Foregrounding the Political and Confronting the Authoritarian Present
Some New Directions in Anthropology “At Home”
Society for the Anthropology of North America
"Managing" the poor
In order to explore the contradictions of neoliberal health policy, this article examines Medicaid managed care in Philadelphia. At the federal and state levels, government is increasingly promoting private-sector market-based strategies over policies formerly associated with the welfare state, arguing that the former are the most effective means of achieving economic growth and guaranteeing social welfare. A prime example of this shift, Medicaid…
Society for the Anthropology of North America
American Ethnological Society
The New Poverty Studies
Stock market euphoria and blind faith in the post cold war economy have driven the topic of poverty from popular and scholarly discussion in the United States. At the same time the gap between the rich and poor has never been wider. The New Poverty Studies critically examines the new war against the poor that has accompanied the rise of the New Economy in the past two decades, and details the myriad ways poor people have struggled against it. The…
The Anthropology of Welfare “Reform
Anthropological research on welfare restructuring differs from most poverty research conducted by U.S. policy analysts and many other social scientists by its situating the study of welfare “reform” within an examination of the production of poverty and inequality at the center of the global system of advanced capitalism. In this review we examine urban poverty and welfare-state restructuring in relation to the ascent of neoliberalism, including …
Do People Fail Drugs, or Do Drugs Fail People
Pathologies of Power
Rethinking North America
Governing the “New Hometowns”
Inner city residents, once shunned and ignored by city planners, are now seen as a vital resource in United States urban redevelopment plans. This shift in perspective has come at a time when municipal elites routinely champion the neoliberal strategies of privatization, marketization, and consumerism across the urban policy spectrum. In this article, I draw upon ethnographic fieldwork conducted in a gentrifying neighborhood in Philadelphia to il…
Society for the Anthropology of North America
Introduction
This Introduction provides a thematic overview of this special issue. It draws attention to the multiplicity of forces that produce new and complicated forms of oppression and exploitation in post-Cold War, post-9/11 America and provides brief descriptions of the articles collected here, highlighting their contributions to Americanist critical theory and ethnography and anthropology in general
The Homeland Archipelago
In the post-9/11 period, the power of the concept of neoliberalism to describe US social and political dynamics has been questioned, particularly in light of discourses emphasizing the disaggregation of state power. Relying primarily on ethnographic data collected in Philadelphia between 2000 and 2005, this article examines the melding of neoliberal governance and Homeland Security ideology in the figure of `home', as a social construct more coll…
Rethinking America
Prologue: The of Neoliberalism? Foreign Military Bases: The Edge and Essence of Empire Catherine Lutz Chapter 2: JROTC and Latina/o Youth in Neoliberal Cities Gina Perez Chapter 3: Human in the Imperial Heartland Sally Engle Merry Chapter 4: Torture Is US: Public Amnesia and the School of the Americas Lesley Gill Chapter 5: Imperial Moralities Ida Susser PART II: TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY CULTURE WARS Chapter 6: Whose Homeland? The New Imperialism, Ne…
Some New Directions in Anthropology “At Home”
Frugal Philly, Part III
Beyond Neoliberalism
Beyond Neoliberalism: Academia and Activism in a Nonhegemonic Moment Jeff Maskovsky (bio) There is no doubt that neoliberalism is having profoundly harmful effects on the academy and the world at large, and that it constitutes a major ideological and material project to which the academic Left must respond. Many academics have done so by, for example, opposing the advent of consumerist, market-driven learning; the privatization, corporatization, …
Protest Anthropology in a Moment of Global Unrest
In this review essay, I explore today's protest anthropology, the high-stakes domain of professional and political practice in which anthropologists are not just aligned with protest movements, revolts, and uprisings but are also full-fledged participants in them. Focusing on examples from the Occupy Movement, I discuss the promises and perils of taking a protest stance. I argue that, despite the risks, protest anthropology has the power to unset…
Rethinking America
“The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love”
A Conversation with incoming Sunta President-Elect, Jeff Maskovsky
When White Nationalism Became Popular
Toward the anthropology of white nationalist postracialism
This article explains Donald Trump's brutal political effectiveness in terms of his white nationalist appeal. It locates the intellectual, popular, and policy imperatives of Trumpism in a new form of racial politics that I am calling white nationalist postracialism. This is a paradoxical politics of twenty-first-century white racial resentment whose proponents seek to do two contradictory things: to reclaim the nation for white Americans while al…
Reclaiming the streets
This article focuses on the emergence of a new pattern of black urban insurgency emerging in major US metropolitan areas such as Philadelphia. I locate this pattern in the context of a new securitization regime that I call "antisocial security." This regime works by establishing a decentered system of high-tech forms of surveillance and monitory techniques. I highlight the dialectic between the extension of antisocial security apparatuses and tec…
Do We All “Reek of the Commodity”?
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