John Marlovits
Biographic Data
| ID | 100943 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Marlovits |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Marlovits |
| SIGNATURE | MARLOVITS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Jose State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9944-6162 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Narratives of Lost Seattle: Depression, Whiteness, and Neoliberal Affect
This article explores how local narratives of depression in Seattle are a form of affective mapping that provide a vernacular theory of neoliberal transformation in the city. Seattle depression narratives allegorized a structure of feeling characterizing racially‐inflected capitalist transformations and the recomposition of racial subjectivity, entitlements, and expectations of whiteness under postwar racial capitalism. I address three key depres…
Skateboarding is not a sport: Creativity at the margins of capitalism
One might expect skateboarders to be jubilant that the Olympics recognized theirs as an Olympic sport, but their response is ambivalent. Alexis Sablone, a women's street competition participant, does not consider skateboarding 'a sport'. What is it if not a sport? This article argues that it is a fugitive, non-teleological, open-source practice for creating new 'existential territories' - new forms of personhood, public space and social relations…
Is a Psychotic Anthropology Possible? Or How to Have Inclusive Anthropologies of Subjectivity and Personhood
Dominant anthropological theories of mind, cognition, and consciousness reify particular ways of being in the world as "normal," which marginalizes the experiences of people who do not meet normative expectations of personhood or exhibit nonnormative subjectivities. By focusing on atypical forms of communication and self-representation in the ethnographic record, which draws from work in the anthropology of disability and psychological anthropolo…
Life under lockdown: Notes on Covid‐19 in Silicon Valley
This article is a preliminary exploration of the effects of Covid‐19 in Silicon Valley, one of three pandemic ‘hotspots’ on America’s west coast. In particular, it describes how the crisis has deepened and magnified social and economic inequalities in a region where poverty, homelessness and gentrification are rife. Despite the fact that many technology firms are reaping massive profits in the wake of ‘shelter in place’ orders, many Silicon Valle…
Mental Health as Ruination: The Psychiatrization of Space and Poverty in Seattle
This essay draws on ethnographic research I conducted in "clubhouse" spaces in two community mental health clinics serving economically disadvantaged people of color and immigrants in Seattle. Drawing on my informants' experiences in the Pioneer Square neighborhood-an enclave associated with the "homeless mentally ill"-and in mental health clinics, I track the displacement and containment of a "right to the city" for impoverished people. I track …
Give Me Slack: Depression, Alertness, and Laziness in Seattle
This article is about alertness and depressive enactments in Seattle, Washington. It tracks depression and depressive disorder as something beyond a psychiatric diagnosis—more as a generative cultural analytic and mode of alertness that people use to track affect and a sense of ordinariness-gone-tilt. I argue that depressive enactments constitute a mode of alertness used to track something emergent, unknown, unpredictable, and often disruptive—af…
Is a Psychotic Anthropology Possible? Or How to Have Inclusive Anthropologies of Subjectivity and Personhood
Dominant anthropological theories of mind, cognition, and consciousness reify particular ways of being in the world as "normal," which marginalizes the experiences of people who do not meet normative expectations of personhood or exhibit nonnormative subjectivities. By focusing on atypical forms of communication and self-representation in the ethnographic record, which draws from work in the anthropology of disability and psychological anthropolo…
Give Me Slack: Depression, Alertness, and Laziness in Seattle
This article is about alertness and depressive enactments in Seattle, Washington. It tracks depression and depressive disorder as something beyond a psychiatric diagnosis—more as a generative cultural analytic and mode of alertness that people use to track affect and a sense of ordinariness-gone-tilt. I argue that depressive enactments constitute a mode of alertness used to track something emergent, unknown, unpredictable, and often disruptive—af…
Life under lockdown: Notes on Covid‐19 in Silicon Valley
This article is a preliminary exploration of the effects of Covid‐19 in Silicon Valley, one of three pandemic ‘hotspots’ on America’s west coast. In particular, it describes how the crisis has deepened and magnified social and economic inequalities in a region where poverty, homelessness and gentrification are rife. Despite the fact that many technology firms are reaping massive profits in the wake of ‘shelter in place’ orders, many Silicon Valle…
Mental Health as Ruination: The Psychiatrization of Space and Poverty in Seattle
This essay draws on ethnographic research I conducted in "clubhouse" spaces in two community mental health clinics serving economically disadvantaged people of color and immigrants in Seattle. Drawing on my informants' experiences in the Pioneer Square neighborhood-an enclave associated with the "homeless mentally ill"-and in mental health clinics, I track the displacement and containment of a "right to the city" for impoverished people. I track …
Give Me Slack: Depression, Alertness, and Laziness in Seattle
This article is about alertness and depressive enactments in Seattle, Washington. It tracks depression and depressive disorder as something beyond a psychiatric diagnosis—more as a generative cultural analytic and mode of alertness that people use to track affect and a sense of ordinariness-gone-tilt. I argue that depressive enactments constitute a mode of alertness used to track something emergent, unknown, unpredictable, and often disruptive—af…
Life under lockdown: Notes on Covid‐19 in Silicon Valley
This article is a preliminary exploration of the effects of Covid‐19 in Silicon Valley, one of three pandemic ‘hotspots’ on America’s west coast. In particular, it describes how the crisis has deepened and magnified social and economic inequalities in a region where poverty, homelessness and gentrification are rife. Despite the fact that many technology firms are reaping massive profits in the wake of ‘shelter in place’ orders, many Silicon Valle…
Mental Health as Ruination: The Psychiatrization of Space and Poverty in Seattle
This essay draws on ethnographic research I conducted in "clubhouse" spaces in two community mental health clinics serving economically disadvantaged people of color and immigrants in Seattle. Drawing on my informants' experiences in the Pioneer Square neighborhood-an enclave associated with the "homeless mentally ill"-and in mental health clinics, I track the displacement and containment of a "right to the city" for impoverished people. I track …
Is a Psychotic Anthropology Possible? Or How to Have Inclusive Anthropologies of Subjectivity and Personhood
Dominant anthropological theories of mind, cognition, and consciousness reify particular ways of being in the world as "normal," which marginalizes the experiences of people who do not meet normative expectations of personhood or exhibit nonnormative subjectivities. By focusing on atypical forms of communication and self-representation in the ethnographic record, which draws from work in the anthropology of disability and psychological anthropolo…
Skateboarding is not a sport: Creativity at the margins of capitalism
One might expect skateboarders to be jubilant that the Olympics recognized theirs as an Olympic sport, but their response is ambivalent. Alexis Sablone, a women's street competition participant, does not consider skateboarding 'a sport'. What is it if not a sport? This article argues that it is a fugitive, non-teleological, open-source practice for creating new 'existential territories' - new forms of personhood, public space and social relations…
Narratives of Lost Seattle: Depression, Whiteness, and Neoliberal Affect
This article explores how local narratives of depression in Seattle are a form of affective mapping that provide a vernacular theory of neoliberal transformation in the city. Seattle depression narratives allegorized a structure of feeling characterizing racially‐inflected capitalist transformations and the recomposition of racial subjectivity, entitlements, and expectations of whiteness under postwar racial capitalism. I address three key depres…
Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 works) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (2 works) · Normative (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak (1 works) · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking (1 works)