Elsa Davidson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 99196 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Elsa Davidson |
| NOMBRES | Elsa |
| APELLIDO | Davidson |
| FIRMA | DAVIDSON E |
| AFILIACIONES | Montclair State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3989-8677 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
From ‘Sensory’ to ‘Anxiety’
This paper draws on an ethnography of care for social–emotional differences in middle-class North American childhood to explore the relation between care practices employed by parents of neurodivergent, or neuroatypical, children, and emergent ethics of care. Focusing on a single case of asymmetrical care, that between a mother and a neurodivergent child, I draw on video-recorded interviews as well other ethnographic material to highlight how pra…
Sensorial politics
This article serves as an introduction to the special section on Sensorial Politics, which includes articles by Nicholas Caverly, Elsa Davidson, Susan Falls and Ali Kenner. The introduction outlines the arguments of the articles before proceeding to a discussion of the common themes they illuminate as a whole. In particular, they address four key issues: the relationship between the sensorial and the political; the role of sensorial disruption an…
A Flexible Politics of Citizenship
Exploring children and young people as emotional suspects
Potentials of care
This article examines middle class children's and parents' complex engagements with contemporary practices of cultivation, care and surveillance focused on children's social and emotional capacities and differences. Emblematic of a sociality and emotion‐focused biopolitics of childhood, such care provokes moments of spontaneous connection and self‐expression for children even as they engage dynamics of disciplining control and normalisation, an o…
The child sensorium as privileged biopolitical resource
This article draws on ethnographic and archival material to examine a contemporary, neuroscience informed politics of care focused on the child sensorium (understood as an embodied neurobiological endowment and material and political resource). I frame care-taking practices focused on children’s sensory endowment, responsivity, and difference as a form of biopolitical regulation in which children, parents, therapists, and educators are implicated…
A risk worth taking? The effects of risk and prior experience on co-innovation participation
Purpose Co-innovation networks face the important challenge of cultivating collective innovation outcomes while also preserving the interests of individual contributors. Addressing this challenge requires first understanding and then managing individuals’ perception of co-innovation risks. The purpose of this paper is to provide a meaningful approach to addressing co-innovation risks using a valid and reliable model to assess actors’ perception o…
The Burdens of Aspiration
During the tech boom, Silicon Valley became one of the most concentrated zones of wealth polarization and social inequality in the United States—a place with a fast-disappearing middle class, persistent pockets of poverty, and striking gaps in educational and occupational achievement along class and racial lines. Low-wage workers and their families experienced a profound sense of exclusion from the techno-entrepreneurial culture, while middle-cla…
Service Innovation in the Digital Age
Over the last decade, there has been an increasing focus on service across socioeconomic sectors coupled with transformational developments in information and communication technologies (ICTs). Together these developments are engendering dramatic new opportunities for service innovation, the study of which is both timely and important. Fully understanding these opportunities challenges us to question conventional approaches that construe service …
Fifty Ways to Leave a Child Behind
The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act required states to adopt accountability systems measuring student proficiency on state-administered exams. The federal legislation contained several strict requirements for NCLB implementation, such as escalating student proficiency targets that reach 100% proficiency by 2014. But it also gave states considerable flexibility to interpret and implement components of NCLB. Using a data set we constructed, this pa…
Playful Identities
In this edited volume, eighteen scholars examine the increasing role of digital media technologies in identity construction through play. Going beyond computer games, this interdisciplinary collection argues that present-day play and games are not only appropriate metaphors for capturing postmodern human identities, but are in fact the means by which people create their identity. From discussions of World of Warcraft and Foursquare to digital car…
Responsible girls
This article offers a comparative ethnographic examination of working-class Latina and middle-class white girls' narratives of aspiration and expressions of self-cultivation in early twenty-first-century Silicon Valley, USA. I argue that such girls' subject-making statements of aspiration and gendered practices of self-cultivation reflect their emotively charged negotiations of race and class differentiated ideals of feminine success, their exper…
The Burdens of Aspiration
During the tech boom, Silicon Valley became one of the most concentrated zones of wealth polarization and social inequality in the United States—a place with a fast-disappearing middle class, persistent pockets of poverty, and striking gaps in educational and occupational achievement along class and racial lines. Low-wage workers and their families experienced a profound sense of exclusion from the techno-entrepreneurial culture, while middle cla…
Tiger Mother Anxiety
Managing risk and 'giving back
This article focuses on the formation of aspirations among low-income, 'at-risk' Latino youth attending a state and privately funded Biotechnology Academy within a public high school in San Jose, California. I identify a pattern of aspiration among Academy youth that contradicts the goal of individual advancement in the regional information economy stressed in the Academy: the desire to give back to a 'community' or to the nation via public servi…
Righteous DopefiendandAids, Sex, and Culture
This essay offers a comparative reading of two ethnographies, Ida Susser's AIDS, Sex, and Culture: Global Politics and Survival in Southern Africa (2009 Susser, I. 2009. AIDS, Sex, and Culture: Global Politics and Survival in Southern Africa, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]), a multisited text focused on community responses to dynamics of HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment in Southern Africa, and Philippe Bourgois and Jeff S…
Marketing the Self
I explore a contemporary politics of social reproduction among middle-class youth in Silicon Valley during the economic downturn subsequent to the tech boom of the 1990s. Drawing on ethnographic data collected at a public high school serving middle-class and affluent youth, I examine the relationship of the school and community environment to students' styles of self-cultivation and aspiration. In particular, I explore values and notions of succe…
Needs assessment in hidden populations using respondent-driven sampling
One of the primary methods for identifying relevant evaluative criteria or dimensions of merit for evaluating programs is assessing the needs of a program's target population. These criteria, or dimensions, are the attributes of the evaluand, which are used for determining how good or how effectively a program is meeting the target population's needs. However, identifying relevant criteria for many human and social service programs, especially th…
Reflections on Roberta Lamb, Social Actor
I first learned of Roberta Lamb and her research when I reviewed a paper for the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) in the summer of 1998. The paper presented preliminary fi
Taking People out of the Network
Web services are frequently discussed as “the next big thing” in information technology architecture. The picture painted by pundits, practitioners, IT vendors, and academics is appealing technically: Web service applications “exposed” to one another through standard protocols, navigating through an open infrastructure to search out counterparts over the Internet, with “seamless” integration across business processes and enterprises, without huma…
Information and Communication Technology Challenges to Scientific Professional Identity
Increasingly, information and communication technology (ICT) uses are transforming professional activities and interactions in ways that challenge traditional assumptions about professional identity. In this article, we consider the ways in which the professional identities of research scientists in oceanography and marine biology are shaped by the use of ICTs. We draw empirical data from an ongoing study of scientific research collaborations tha…
Cultures@SiliconValley
Cultures@SiliconValley. J. A. English-Lueck. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. 201 pp
Playful Identities
In this edited volume, eighteen scholars examine the increasing role of digital media technologies in identity construction through play. Going beyond computer games, this interdisciplinary collection argues that present-day play and games are not only appropriate metaphors for capturing postmodern human identities, but are in fact the means by which people create their identity. From discussions of World of Warcraft and Foursquare to digital car…
Marketing the Self
I explore a contemporary politics of social reproduction among middle-class youth in Silicon Valley during the economic downturn subsequent to the tech boom of the 1990s. Drawing on ethnographic data collected at a public high school serving middle-class and affluent youth, I examine the relationship of the school and community environment to students' styles of self-cultivation and aspiration. In particular, I explore values and notions of succe…
Information and Communication Technology Challenges to Scientific Professional Identity
Increasingly, information and communication technology (ICT) uses are transforming professional activities and interactions in ways that challenge traditional assumptions about professional identity. In this article, we consider the ways in which the professional identities of research scientists in oceanography and marine biology are shaped by the use of ICTs. We draw empirical data from an ongoing study of scientific research collaborations tha…
Fifty Ways to Leave a Child Behind
The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act required states to adopt accountability systems measuring student proficiency on state-administered exams. The federal legislation contained several strict requirements for NCLB implementation, such as escalating student proficiency targets that reach 100% proficiency by 2014. But it also gave states considerable flexibility to interpret and implement components of NCLB. Using a data set we constructed, this pa…
Responsible girls
This article offers a comparative ethnographic examination of working-class Latina and middle-class white girls' narratives of aspiration and expressions of self-cultivation in early twenty-first-century Silicon Valley, USA. I argue that such girls' subject-making statements of aspiration and gendered practices of self-cultivation reflect their emotively charged negotiations of race and class differentiated ideals of feminine success, their exper…
Needs assessment in hidden populations using respondent-driven sampling
One of the primary methods for identifying relevant evaluative criteria or dimensions of merit for evaluating programs is assessing the needs of a program's target population. These criteria, or dimensions, are the attributes of the evaluand, which are used for determining how good or how effectively a program is meeting the target population's needs. However, identifying relevant criteria for many human and social service programs, especially th…
Sensorial politics
This article serves as an introduction to the special section on Sensorial Politics, which includes articles by Nicholas Caverly, Elsa Davidson, Susan Falls and Ali Kenner. The introduction outlines the arguments of the articles before proceeding to a discussion of the common themes they illuminate as a whole. In particular, they address four key issues: the relationship between the sensorial and the political; the role of sensorial disruption an…
The child sensorium as privileged biopolitical resource
This article draws on ethnographic and archival material to examine a contemporary, neuroscience informed politics of care focused on the child sensorium (understood as an embodied neurobiological endowment and material and political resource). I frame care-taking practices focused on children’s sensory endowment, responsivity, and difference as a form of biopolitical regulation in which children, parents, therapists, and educators are implicated…
A risk worth taking? The effects of risk and prior experience on co-innovation participation
Purpose Co-innovation networks face the important challenge of cultivating collective innovation outcomes while also preserving the interests of individual contributors. Addressing this challenge requires first understanding and then managing individuals’ perception of co-innovation risks. The purpose of this paper is to provide a meaningful approach to addressing co-innovation risks using a valid and reliable model to assess actors’ perception o…
Managing risk and 'giving back
This article focuses on the formation of aspirations among low-income, 'at-risk' Latino youth attending a state and privately funded Biotechnology Academy within a public high school in San Jose, California. I identify a pattern of aspiration among Academy youth that contradicts the goal of individual advancement in the regional information economy stressed in the Academy: the desire to give back to a 'community' or to the nation via public servi…
Cultures@SiliconValley
Cultures@SiliconValley. J. A. English-Lueck. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. 201 pp
Information and Communication Technology Challenges to Scientific Professional Identity
Increasingly, information and communication technology (ICT) uses are transforming professional activities and interactions in ways that challenge traditional assumptions about professional identity. In this article, we consider the ways in which the professional identities of research scientists in oceanography and marine biology are shaped by the use of ICTs. We draw empirical data from an ongoing study of scientific research collaborations tha…
Taking People out of the Network
Web services are frequently discussed as “the next big thing” in information technology architecture. The picture painted by pundits, practitioners, IT vendors, and academics is appealing technically: Web service applications “exposed” to one another through standard protocols, navigating through an open infrastructure to search out counterparts over the Internet, with “seamless” integration across business processes and enterprises, without huma…
Needs assessment in hidden populations using respondent-driven sampling
One of the primary methods for identifying relevant evaluative criteria or dimensions of merit for evaluating programs is assessing the needs of a program's target population. These criteria, or dimensions, are the attributes of the evaluand, which are used for determining how good or how effectively a program is meeting the target population's needs. However, identifying relevant criteria for many human and social service programs, especially th…
Reflections on Roberta Lamb, Social Actor
I first learned of Roberta Lamb and her research when I reviewed a paper for the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) in the summer of 1998. The paper presented preliminary fi
Marketing the Self
I explore a contemporary politics of social reproduction among middle-class youth in Silicon Valley during the economic downturn subsequent to the tech boom of the 1990s. Drawing on ethnographic data collected at a public high school serving middle-class and affluent youth, I examine the relationship of the school and community environment to students' styles of self-cultivation and aspiration. In particular, I explore values and notions of succe…
The Burdens of Aspiration
During the tech boom, Silicon Valley became one of the most concentrated zones of wealth polarization and social inequality in the United States—a place with a fast-disappearing middle class, persistent pockets of poverty, and striking gaps in educational and occupational achievement along class and racial lines. Low-wage workers and their families experienced a profound sense of exclusion from the techno-entrepreneurial culture, while middle cla…
Tiger Mother Anxiety
Managing risk and 'giving back
This article focuses on the formation of aspirations among low-income, 'at-risk' Latino youth attending a state and privately funded Biotechnology Academy within a public high school in San Jose, California. I identify a pattern of aspiration among Academy youth that contradicts the goal of individual advancement in the regional information economy stressed in the Academy: the desire to give back to a 'community' or to the nation via public servi…
Righteous DopefiendandAids, Sex, and Culture
This essay offers a comparative reading of two ethnographies, Ida Susser's AIDS, Sex, and Culture: Global Politics and Survival in Southern Africa (2009 Susser, I. 2009. AIDS, Sex, and Culture: Global Politics and Survival in Southern Africa, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]), a multisited text focused on community responses to dynamics of HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment in Southern Africa, and Philippe Bourgois and Jeff S…
Responsible girls
This article offers a comparative ethnographic examination of working-class Latina and middle-class white girls' narratives of aspiration and expressions of self-cultivation in early twenty-first-century Silicon Valley, USA. I argue that such girls' subject-making statements of aspiration and gendered practices of self-cultivation reflect their emotively charged negotiations of race and class differentiated ideals of feminine success, their exper…
Service Innovation in the Digital Age
Over the last decade, there has been an increasing focus on service across socioeconomic sectors coupled with transformational developments in information and communication technologies (ICTs). Together these developments are engendering dramatic new opportunities for service innovation, the study of which is both timely and important. Fully understanding these opportunities challenges us to question conventional approaches that construe service …
Fifty Ways to Leave a Child Behind
The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act required states to adopt accountability systems measuring student proficiency on state-administered exams. The federal legislation contained several strict requirements for NCLB implementation, such as escalating student proficiency targets that reach 100% proficiency by 2014. But it also gave states considerable flexibility to interpret and implement components of NCLB. Using a data set we constructed, this pa…
Playful Identities
In this edited volume, eighteen scholars examine the increasing role of digital media technologies in identity construction through play. Going beyond computer games, this interdisciplinary collection argues that present-day play and games are not only appropriate metaphors for capturing postmodern human identities, but are in fact the means by which people create their identity. From discussions of World of Warcraft and Foursquare to digital car…
The Burdens of Aspiration
During the tech boom, Silicon Valley became one of the most concentrated zones of wealth polarization and social inequality in the United States—a place with a fast-disappearing middle class, persistent pockets of poverty, and striking gaps in educational and occupational achievement along class and racial lines. Low-wage workers and their families experienced a profound sense of exclusion from the techno-entrepreneurial culture, while middle-cla…
A risk worth taking? The effects of risk and prior experience on co-innovation participation
Purpose Co-innovation networks face the important challenge of cultivating collective innovation outcomes while also preserving the interests of individual contributors. Addressing this challenge requires first understanding and then managing individuals’ perception of co-innovation risks. The purpose of this paper is to provide a meaningful approach to addressing co-innovation risks using a valid and reliable model to assess actors’ perception o…
The child sensorium as privileged biopolitical resource
This article draws on ethnographic and archival material to examine a contemporary, neuroscience informed politics of care focused on the child sensorium (understood as an embodied neurobiological endowment and material and political resource). I frame care-taking practices focused on children’s sensory endowment, responsivity, and difference as a form of biopolitical regulation in which children, parents, therapists, and educators are implicated…
A Flexible Politics of Citizenship
Exploring children and young people as emotional suspects
Potentials of care
This article examines middle class children's and parents' complex engagements with contemporary practices of cultivation, care and surveillance focused on children's social and emotional capacities and differences. Emblematic of a sociality and emotion‐focused biopolitics of childhood, such care provokes moments of spontaneous connection and self‐expression for children even as they engage dynamics of disciplining control and normalisation, an o…
Sensorial politics
This article serves as an introduction to the special section on Sensorial Politics, which includes articles by Nicholas Caverly, Elsa Davidson, Susan Falls and Ali Kenner. The introduction outlines the arguments of the articles before proceeding to a discussion of the common themes they illuminate as a whole. In particular, they address four key issues: the relationship between the sensorial and the political; the role of sensorial disruption an…
From ‘Sensory’ to ‘Anxiety’
This paper draws on an ethnography of care for social–emotional differences in middle-class North American childhood to explore the relation between care practices employed by parents of neurodivergent, or neuroatypical, children, and emergent ethics of care. Focusing on a single case of asymmetrical care, that between a mother and a neurodivergent child, I draw on video-recorded interviews as well other ethnographic material to highlight how pra…
Political science (14 obras) · Sociology (14 obras) · Computer Science (10 obras) · Politics (10 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Psychology (7 obras) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (6 obras) · Children's Rights and Participation (5 obras) · Gender Studies (5 obras) · Law (5 obras)