Stephen Kroll-Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 108975 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Kroll-Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Kroll-Smith |
| SIGNATURE | KROLL-SMITH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Orleans |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7885-4247 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 151 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Blurring Genres, An Agenda for the Study of Climate Change
We have no conflict of interests in the preparation of this article. The data sets used and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request
Building Community in Virtual Space: A Community Collaborative Sustains Its Exploration of Environmental Justice and Migration Issues in the Midst of Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has had disproportionate impacts on communities that already bear disparate burdens of environmental and climate injustice. Migrant communities and those that have been historically marginalized are especially vulnerable. Building and maintaining relationships that serve as community support is challenged by the distance mandated by the virus. In this article, research partners from neighborhood and academic communities expl…
How a Catastrophe Found the Past Hurricane Floyd and the Rise of Historical Consciousness in Princeville, North Carolina
History has no voice. It requires those who care enough about the past to put it into words. But to narrate the past, we must be conscious of it. This paper is an inquiry into how a small town in North Carolina found its unique history in the wake of a catastrophic hurricane. In 1885, Princeville, North Carolina became the oldest town in America charted by free Blacks. In spite of its historical significance, over time the town's storied past was…
Left to Chance: Hurricane Katrina and the Story of Two New Orleans Neighborhoods
How do survivors recover from the worst urban flood in American history, a disaster that destroyed nearly the entire physical landscape of a city, as well as the mental and emotional maps that people use to navigate their everyday lives? This question has haunted the survivors of Hurricane Katrina and informed the response to the subsequent flooding of New Orleans across many years. Left to Chance takes us into two African American neighborhoods—…
The Neoliberal Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, Late Capitalism, and the Remaking of New Orleans
By Way of Introduction
Invisible Colleges and Mashups, Some Thoughts
Disaster, Time, and Dialogue: A Couple Lessons from Hurricane Katrina
There is much to learn about ourselves and the worlds we fashion 'when all hell breaks loose' (W. Lloyd Warner 1947:1). This brief paper is about The Katrina Bookshelf, specifically about a couple of the contributions several of the forthcoming books on The Shelf will make to the social study of disaster. It is both a collective and an individual achievement. Imagine The Katrina Bookshelf as a composition and each book on The Shelf a movement, a …
A Tale of Two American Cities: Disaster, Class and Citizenship in San Francisco 1906 and New Orleans 2005
Destruction, notes David Harvey, "is often required to make the new urban geography out of the wreckage of the old."2 The history of San Francisco's Chinatown following the 1906 earthquake and fire and New Orleans' public housing following Hurricane Katrina in 2005 reveal how powerful class interests collude with the fog of disaster to lay claim to the urban spaces of the poor and marginal. In two historic U.S. disasters we witness the concerted …
Disaster, Climate, and Food: A Special Issue
From an Old Editor’s Eye, Some Comments on How We Think
Telling About Society
Normalizing the Workplace Nap: Blurring the Boundaries between Public and Private Space and Time
Napping at work was typically a fugitive behaviour, a small act of resistance against the goals of management and the workplace clock. Increasingly, however, employers are encouraging employees to sleep at the worksite. Indeed, some actively encourage this once deviant behaviour, promoting its restorative features and its relationship to increased productivity. This article examines the emergence of the management organized workplace nap in the U…
Governing Sleepiness: Somnolent Bodies, Discourse, and Liquid Modernity
This paper is an inquiry into how a new truth about sleepiness is being produced in a society increasingly organized around the primacy of expertise and its representation in print and visual media. Sleepiness originally described a benign, naturally occurring corporeal moment, a precursor to sleep. Increasingly, however, a new and disturbing meaning of somnolence is found in a juncture of medical and epidemiological research, social movements, a…
People, Bodies and Biospheres: Nexus and the Toxic Tort
I. A PRELUDE “Tort reform” is a centerpiece of the Republican Party’s domestic agenda. The argument is simple and, for many, compelling: tort awards for medical malpractice, product liability, work-related accidents, and environmental damage to property and health are far too high and reflect the avarice and greed of trial lawyers. Those who differ with the Grand Old Party’s agenda also make a simple and persuasive argument: reforming tort law is…
Illness and the Environment: A Reader in Contested Medicine
In myriad ways, humans have gradually tailored their world to meet immediate material needs. In so doing, we have, in the minds of many, systematically altered a formerly hospitable environment into one more ambiguous in its effect on the human organism. Just as environments have adapted in response to human activity, so too is the human body now, in turn, forced to adapt to these altered conditions. Today, mysterious illnesses, from chronic fati…
Popular media and 'excessive daytime sleepiness: A Study of Rhetorical Authority in Medical Sociology
Problem sleepiness is emerging as a medical problem in the US and Britain. Though an increasingly salient complaint, clinical medicine is only peripherally involved in the diagnosis and treatment of sleep troubles. Paramount in shaping public perceptions and experiences of sleep are the popular media. The apparent chasm between self-reported sleep troubles and the routine medical gaze is the point of departure for this inquiry. Aided by the idea …
Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists
Bodies, Environments, and a New Style of Reasoning
The Northridge Earthquake: Vulnerability and Disaster
Research in Social Problems and Public Policy, Vol. 7
Theoretical stances and environmental debates: Reconciling the physical and the symbolic
Bodies in Protest: Environmental Illness and the Struggle over Medical Knowledge
Martha Ward, research professor of anthropology at the University of New Orleans, read chapters 1 through 3, attending to their symbolic, somatic arguments.Susan Kroll-Smith read each chapter from the standpoint of one versed in psychodynamics and interested in bodies and environments.Steve Couch and Phil Brown, good friends
Bodies in Protest: Environmental Illness and the Struggle over Medical Knowledge
Martha Ward, research professor of anthropology at the University of New Orleans, read chapters 1 through 3, attending to their symbolic, somatic arguments.Susan Kroll-Smith read each chapter from the standpoint of one versed in psychodynamics and interested in bodies and environments.Steve Couch and Phil Brown, good friends
Witnessing for Sociology: Sociologists in Court
Foreword by Marvin E. Wolfgang Old Stories, New Audiences: Sociological Knowledge in Courts by Steve Kroll-Smith and Pamela J. Jenkins The Numbers Game We Don't Deal in Probabilities Here: Tales of a Quantitative Sociologist in Court by Joseph E. Jacoby Shadowboxing with Mark Twain: Self Defense of the Statistical Expert by William E. Feinberg Humanizing the Defendant Sociology and Capital Murder: A Question of Life or Death by Craig J. Forsyth W…
Environmental Controversies, Interactional Resources, and Rural Communities: Siting Versus Exposure Disputes1
Differences in the types of social conflict occuring in facility siting disputes and toxic contamination cases are compared. An ecological-symbolic perspective and the concept of strong and weak ties are used to interpret the nature of social conflict in two rural Pennsylvania communities and in cases in the literature. Overall, community solidarity appears likely to be enhanced in siting disputes and undermined in exposure situations. To explain…
Popular media and 'excessive daytime sleepiness: A Study of Rhetorical Authority in Medical Sociology
Problem sleepiness is emerging as a medical problem in the US and Britain. Though an increasingly salient complaint, clinical medicine is only peripherally involved in the diagnosis and treatment of sleep troubles. Paramount in shaping public perceptions and experiences of sleep are the popular media. The apparent chasm between self-reported sleep troubles and the routine medical gaze is the point of departure for this inquiry. Aided by the idea …
Governing Sleepiness: Somnolent Bodies, Discourse, and Liquid Modernity
This paper is an inquiry into how a new truth about sleepiness is being produced in a society increasingly organized around the primacy of expertise and its representation in print and visual media. Sleepiness originally described a benign, naturally occurring corporeal moment, a precursor to sleep. Increasingly, however, a new and disturbing meaning of somnolence is found in a juncture of medical and epidemiological research, social movements, a…
Normalizing the Workplace Nap: Blurring the Boundaries between Public and Private Space and Time
Napping at work was typically a fugitive behaviour, a small act of resistance against the goals of management and the workplace clock. Increasingly, however, employers are encouraging employees to sleep at the worksite. Indeed, some actively encourage this once deviant behaviour, promoting its restorative features and its relationship to increased productivity. This article examines the emergence of the management organized workplace nap in the U…
MSSA plenary address: Toxic contamination and the loss of civility
1995). 1994 MSSA plenary address: Toxic contamination and the loss of civility. Sociological Spectrum: Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 377-396
Sociology, Extreme Environments and Social Change
In recent years, an increasing number of sociologists have recognized that when human technologies disrupt the relationship between communities and environments, both communities and environments change. This change is caused both directly, by physical changes in the environment, and indirectly, through the appraisals people make of those disruptions and the social processes those appraisals set in motion. Such a situation can be called an 'extre…
People, Bodies and Biospheres: Nexus and the Toxic Tort
I. A PRELUDE “Tort reform” is a centerpiece of the Republican Party’s domestic agenda. The argument is simple and, for many, compelling: tort awards for medical malpractice, product liability, work-related accidents, and environmental damage to property and health are far too high and reflect the avarice and greed of trial lawyers. Those who differ with the Grand Old Party’s agenda also make a simple and persuasive argument: reforming tort law is…
A Tale of Two American Cities: Disaster, Class and Citizenship in San Francisco 1906 and New Orleans 2005
Destruction, notes David Harvey, "is often required to make the new urban geography out of the wreckage of the old."2 The history of San Francisco's Chinatown following the 1906 earthquake and fire and New Orleans' public housing following Hurricane Katrina in 2005 reveal how powerful class interests collude with the fog of disaster to lay claim to the urban spaces of the poor and marginal. In two historic U.S. disasters we witness the concerted …
Theoretical stances and environmental debates: Reconciling the physical and the symbolic
How a Catastrophe Found the Past Hurricane Floyd and the Rise of Historical Consciousness in Princeville, North Carolina
History has no voice. It requires those who care enough about the past to put it into words. But to narrate the past, we must be conscious of it. This paper is an inquiry into how a small town in North Carolina found its unique history in the wake of a catastrophic hurricane. In 1885, Princeville, North Carolina became the oldest town in America charted by free Blacks. In spite of its historical significance, over time the town's storied past was…
Environmental illness and biomedicine: Anomalies, exemplars, and the politics of the body
An increasing number of Americans claim to be suffering from a disease caused by low‐level exposures to synthetic chemicals. Among the names given to this new medical problem are “multiple chemical sensitivity” and “environmental illness,” or “El.” The symptoms of El and stories the environmentally ill tell about the origin of their disabilities cannot be accounted for using standard pathophysiological methods or theories. However, although the s…
The Real Disaster is above Ground: A Mine Fire and Social Conflict
Environmental illness and biomedicine: Anomalies, exemplars, and the politics of the body
An increasing number of Americans claim to be suffering from a disease caused by low‐level exposures to synthetic chemicals. Among the names given to this new medical problem are “multiple chemical sensitivity” and “environmental illness,” or “El.” The symptoms of El and stories the environmentally ill tell about the origin of their disabilities cannot be accounted for using standard pathophysiological methods or theories. However, although the s…
Environmental Controversies, Interactional Resources, and Rural Communities: Siting Versus Exposure Disputes1
Differences in the types of social conflict occuring in facility siting disputes and toxic contamination cases are compared. An ecological-symbolic perspective and the concept of strong and weak ties are used to interpret the nature of social conflict in two rural Pennsylvania communities and in cases in the literature. Overall, community solidarity appears likely to be enhanced in siting disputes and undermined in exposure situations. To explain…
MSSA plenary address: Toxic contamination and the loss of civility
1995). 1994 MSSA plenary address: Toxic contamination and the loss of civility. Sociological Spectrum: Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 377-396
Witnessing for Sociology: Sociologists in Court
Foreword by Marvin E. Wolfgang Old Stories, New Audiences: Sociological Knowledge in Courts by Steve Kroll-Smith and Pamela J. Jenkins The Numbers Game We Don't Deal in Probabilities Here: Tales of a Quantitative Sociologist in Court by Joseph E. Jacoby Shadowboxing with Mark Twain: Self Defense of the Statistical Expert by William E. Feinberg Humanizing the Defendant Sociology and Capital Murder: A Question of Life or Death by Craig J. Forsyth W…
Sociology, Extreme Environments and Social Change
In recent years, an increasing number of sociologists have recognized that when human technologies disrupt the relationship between communities and environments, both communities and environments change. This change is caused both directly, by physical changes in the environment, and indirectly, through the appraisals people make of those disruptions and the social processes those appraisals set in motion. Such a situation can be called an 'extre…
Bodies in Protest: Environmental Illness and the Struggle over Medical Knowledge
Martha Ward, research professor of anthropology at the University of New Orleans, read chapters 1 through 3, attending to their symbolic, somatic arguments.Susan Kroll-Smith read each chapter from the standpoint of one versed in psychodynamics and interested in bodies and environments.Steve Couch and Phil Brown, good friends
Bodies in Protest: Environmental Illness and the Struggle over Medical Knowledge
Martha Ward, research professor of anthropology at the University of New Orleans, read chapters 1 through 3, attending to their symbolic, somatic arguments.Susan Kroll-Smith read each chapter from the standpoint of one versed in psychodynamics and interested in bodies and environments.Steve Couch and Phil Brown, good friends
Theoretical stances and environmental debates: Reconciling the physical and the symbolic
The Northridge Earthquake: Vulnerability and Disaster
Research in Social Problems and Public Policy, Vol. 7
Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists
Bodies, Environments, and a New Style of Reasoning
Illness and the Environment: A Reader in Contested Medicine
In myriad ways, humans have gradually tailored their world to meet immediate material needs. In so doing, we have, in the minds of many, systematically altered a formerly hospitable environment into one more ambiguous in its effect on the human organism. Just as environments have adapted in response to human activity, so too is the human body now, in turn, forced to adapt to these altered conditions. Today, mysterious illnesses, from chronic fati…
Popular media and 'excessive daytime sleepiness: A Study of Rhetorical Authority in Medical Sociology
Problem sleepiness is emerging as a medical problem in the US and Britain. Though an increasingly salient complaint, clinical medicine is only peripherally involved in the diagnosis and treatment of sleep troubles. Paramount in shaping public perceptions and experiences of sleep are the popular media. The apparent chasm between self-reported sleep troubles and the routine medical gaze is the point of departure for this inquiry. Aided by the idea …
People, Bodies and Biospheres: Nexus and the Toxic Tort
I. A PRELUDE “Tort reform” is a centerpiece of the Republican Party’s domestic agenda. The argument is simple and, for many, compelling: tort awards for medical malpractice, product liability, work-related accidents, and environmental damage to property and health are far too high and reflect the avarice and greed of trial lawyers. Those who differ with the Grand Old Party’s agenda also make a simple and persuasive argument: reforming tort law is…
Normalizing the Workplace Nap: Blurring the Boundaries between Public and Private Space and Time
Napping at work was typically a fugitive behaviour, a small act of resistance against the goals of management and the workplace clock. Increasingly, however, employers are encouraging employees to sleep at the worksite. Indeed, some actively encourage this once deviant behaviour, promoting its restorative features and its relationship to increased productivity. This article examines the emergence of the management organized workplace nap in the U…
Governing Sleepiness: Somnolent Bodies, Discourse, and Liquid Modernity
This paper is an inquiry into how a new truth about sleepiness is being produced in a society increasingly organized around the primacy of expertise and its representation in print and visual media. Sleepiness originally described a benign, naturally occurring corporeal moment, a precursor to sleep. Increasingly, however, a new and disturbing meaning of somnolence is found in a juncture of medical and epidemiological research, social movements, a…
Telling About Society
From an Old Editor’s Eye, Some Comments on How We Think
Disaster, Climate, and Food: A Special Issue
A Tale of Two American Cities: Disaster, Class and Citizenship in San Francisco 1906 and New Orleans 2005
Destruction, notes David Harvey, "is often required to make the new urban geography out of the wreckage of the old."2 The history of San Francisco's Chinatown following the 1906 earthquake and fire and New Orleans' public housing following Hurricane Katrina in 2005 reveal how powerful class interests collude with the fog of disaster to lay claim to the urban spaces of the poor and marginal. In two historic U.S. disasters we witness the concerted …
The Neoliberal Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, Late Capitalism, and the Remaking of New Orleans
By Way of Introduction
Invisible Colleges and Mashups, Some Thoughts
Sociology (26 works) · Political science (16 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Geography (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · History (5 works)