Ian Baran
Biographic Data
| ID | 1340561 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Baran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Baran |
| SIGNATURE | BARAN I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8148-7265 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Governing Little Fiefdoms: City Power, Fractured Politics, and Police Reform
In this article, I focus on Los Angeles' fractured political decision-making in the late 1980s and early 1990s to demonstrate how the city government functioned within constrained and fragmented conditions. Methodologically, I use interviews with public officials and archival data to demonstrate how the city government functioned and responded to a moment of crisis. I specifically focus on how police and developers grew and strengthened their pol…
Abolitionist infrastructures: Coalition Against Police Abuse, state violence, and the horizon of struggle
In this paper, I analyze how an organization, Coalition Against Police Abuse (CAPA), was formed to challenge the increasingly militarized racialized police force in Los Angeles during neoliberal industrial reorganization, regional abandonment, and massive prison boom in the 1970s and 1980s. Studying CAPA allows for an analysis of the radical ideas and actions that came out of on-the-ground mobilization by the very communities being criminalized a…
Spaces of Learning: Pedagogy and Movement Building Within the Black Panther Party
Bureaucratic Politicisation and Insurgent Bureaucrats: A Theoretical Framework
Municipal bureaucrats in the United States—mostly on the social side of the state (e.g. public health, welfare, educators, housing, and sometimes urban planners) but not exclusively so (e.g. district attorney offices)—have shown growing willingness to engage in political battles within the bureaucracy, connect with social movements, and construct oppositional identities centred on social and racial justice. Critical urban theories of the state hi…
Fossil Fuel Layoff: Capturing Decarbonization Impacts on Workers Through a Refinery Closure
We surveyed and interviewed oil refinery workers who lost their jobs when a refinery in California shutdown in October 2020 to document post-layoff employment outcomes. Workers experienced post-layoff median hourly wage losses of 24 percent, a 26 percent unemployment rate, and reported frustrating job search experiences marked by a difficulty to convey skills to new employers. Our study harbingers future transition experiences of fossil workers a…
Black Revolutionary Movements & Environmental Justice: Strategizing for Total Liberation
Bureaucratic Politicisation and Insurgent Bureaucrats: A Theoretical Framework
Municipal bureaucrats in the United States—mostly on the social side of the state (e.g. public health, welfare, educators, housing, and sometimes urban planners) but not exclusively so (e.g. district attorney offices)—have shown growing willingness to engage in political battles within the bureaucracy, connect with social movements, and construct oppositional identities centred on social and racial justice. Critical urban theories of the state hi…
Spaces of Learning: Pedagogy and Movement Building Within the Black Panther Party
Bureaucratic Politicisation and Insurgent Bureaucrats: A Theoretical Framework
Municipal bureaucrats in the United States—mostly on the social side of the state (e.g. public health, welfare, educators, housing, and sometimes urban planners) but not exclusively so (e.g. district attorney offices)—have shown growing willingness to engage in political battles within the bureaucracy, connect with social movements, and construct oppositional identities centred on social and racial justice. Critical urban theories of the state hi…
Fossil Fuel Layoff: Capturing Decarbonization Impacts on Workers Through a Refinery Closure
We surveyed and interviewed oil refinery workers who lost their jobs when a refinery in California shutdown in October 2020 to document post-layoff employment outcomes. Workers experienced post-layoff median hourly wage losses of 24 percent, a 26 percent unemployment rate, and reported frustrating job search experiences marked by a difficulty to convey skills to new employers. Our study harbingers future transition experiences of fossil workers a…
Black Revolutionary Movements & Environmental Justice: Strategizing for Total Liberation
Abolitionist infrastructures: Coalition Against Police Abuse, state violence, and the horizon of struggle
In this paper, I analyze how an organization, Coalition Against Police Abuse (CAPA), was formed to challenge the increasingly militarized racialized police force in Los Angeles during neoliberal industrial reorganization, regional abandonment, and massive prison boom in the 1970s and 1980s. Studying CAPA allows for an analysis of the radical ideas and actions that came out of on-the-ground mobilization by the very communities being criminalized a…
Spaces of Learning: Pedagogy and Movement Building Within the Black Panther Party
Governing Little Fiefdoms: City Power, Fractured Politics, and Police Reform
In this article, I focus on Los Angeles' fractured political decision-making in the late 1980s and early 1990s to demonstrate how the city government functioned within constrained and fragmented conditions. Methodologically, I use interviews with public officials and archival data to demonstrate how the city government functioned and responded to a moment of crisis. I specifically focus on how police and developers grew and strengthened their pol…
Politics (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Policing Practices and Perceptions (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Power (physics (2 works) · State (computer science (2 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (2 works)