Trinch
Biographic Data
| ID | 13956 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Trinch |
| FAMILY NAME | Trinch |
| SIGNATURE | TRINCH |
| AFFILIATIONS | John Jay College of Criminal Justice |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6326-6629 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Rape, Pedagogy, Performance: A Practice for Speaking Trauma
Rape is often considered traumatizing for those who have experienced it and also for those who hear about it. We explore how a content‐based semester‐long study of sexualized violence and harm incorporates the language arts of close readings, critical thinking, low stakes writing in journals, film and theater analyses, and playwrighting in order to bring sexualized violence and harm into the discourse of the class we call Seeing Rape, and then in…
Rendering the Anthropocene: My-topias in the semiotics of Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards conflict
This article explores how the Anthropocene is semioticized in people’s everyday consciousness in conflict over urban redevelopment. Focusing on the multi-billion-dollar Atlantic Yards project, in Brooklyn, NY, we examine how political economy is discursively mobilized with urban Anthropocenic landscapes. Using ethnographic and sociolinguistic methods, we present three case studies (blight studies, architectural renderings, and activists’ manipula…
Disorienting discourses and the making of gentrifiers in redeveloping Brooklyn
To preserve and to protect vanishing signs: Activism through art, ethnography, and linguistics in a gentrifying city
This article explores how a semiotics of the artistic aesthetics of New York City storefronts is deployed as activism against processes of gentrification and redevelopment. We examine how this creative endeavor by two local photographers compares to our own ethnographic and linguistic interventions uncovering and addressing storefront signage in gentrifying Brooklyn. We also compare this art activism to the ways in which developers and nations us…
Linguistic Diversity on Center Stage: Rewriting Anthropology from the Margins of an MSI
We explore the use of linguistic varieties other than standard American (and academic) English in academia and in general, and particularly in a college theater program called Seeing Rape. Seeing Rape aspires to bring anthropology to a broader public to eradicate sexualized violence on campus. We discuss the possibilities and challenges encountered in trying to center different languages and dialects at the college through our program
What the Signs Say: Language, Gentrification, and Place-Making in Brooklyn
Engaging F‐words to create change: Rape, representation, and performance
This essay, inspired by feminism, examines a program of engaged public anthropology through student‐led theater that uses what is often considered to be ‘bad language’ in U.S. colleges and universities. We suggest that the appropriation of taboo language varieties and taboo words in plays written by student‐playwrights and performed by professional actors in front of professors, administrators and student peers creates a powerful context for brea…
Mothering Brooklyn: Signs, sexuality, and gentrification under cover
This paper examines how Brooklyn retail signage represents how gentrifying women struggle for claiming space in public and the way in which different intersectional identity formations are used and implicated in transforming urban space. In exploring different ethnographic dimensions to retail storefronts, we show how women, many of whom are college-educated, married, and new mothers, play a significant role in redefining Brooklyn and cultural no…
When the Street Disappears: Eminent Domain, Redevelopment, and the Dissociative State
In this article, we examine how the state of New York and a private developer deployed eminent domain, or the seizing of private property by the government, in order to build the Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park project in Brooklyn, NY. We use ethnography to examine how the state operated in partnership with the developer through neoliberalizing discursive practices that allowed it to dissociate itself from the assertion of its governing power. In thi…
What the signs say: Gentrification and the disappearance ofcapitalism without distinctionin Brooklyn
We examine shop signs in Brooklyn, New York, as sociolinguistic technologies of place-making that operate through specific language ideologies which represent class struggles for material wealth. We find two salient types of signs which we callOld School VernacularandDistinction-makingsignage. The first indexes multiple inclusions in the neighborhood economy before gentrification and thus suggests a capitalism without distinction. These signs als…
De-authorizing rape narrators: Stance, taboo and privatizing the public secret
This article examines how reviewers take silence-sustaining or silence-breaking stances toward rape in online reviews of anti-terrorism expert, Jessica Stern’s (2010) book, Denial: A Memoir of Terror. I analyze how reviewers recontextualize the story of this uncontroversial rape and its narrator. The data consist of 47 reviews, ranging from professional reviewers at major newspapers to ‘citizen reviewers’ found on commercial bookstores’ websites …
Forging Violence Against Women: Documents, Regimes of Family and Intimate-Partner Abuse
This article examines how legal texts can be read to broaden our understanding of intimate-partner violence in the United States. Documents, as repositories of the way institutions remember for the public, can provide insight into how people, and in this case, female victims and state actors, define this particular type of violence against women. These documents demonstrate how kin, household and family are both involved and implicated in this hi…
What the Brownstones Say: Surveying Place in Brooklyn
in focus, place, Brooklyn, redevelopment project, Atlantic Yards, community, urban anthropology
Teaching reading, writing, speaking and risk: Dialoguing with Eades, French and Lecuna
Disappearing Discourse: Performative Texts and Identity in Legal Contexts
This article examines how survivors of domestic violence and the institutional authorities to whom they turn for assistance represent verbal aggression in direct quotations and indirect reported speech in legal testimony. Using the theoretical framework proposed by Briggs and Bauman (1992) Briggs, C. and Bauman, R. 1992. Genre, intertextuality and social power. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 2(2): 131-172. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar], I su…
Risky subjects: Narrative, literary testimonio and legal testimony
The pragmatic use of gender in Latina women's legal narratives of abuse
This paper examines the way in which gender is constructed in narratives of abuse by U.S. Latina women and legal professionals within the U.S. legal context of the protective order application interview. Though traditional gender roles can be oppressive for men and women, the analysis undertaken here illustrates how Latina women pragmatically and linguistically utilize their language resources to perform some roles of traditional womanhood in ord…
Deconstructing the "stakes" in high stakes gatekeeping interviews: Battered women and narration
Bilingualism and representation: Locating Spanish-English contact in legal institutional memory
This article examines how the official legal record, presumably an institutional space consisting of Standard American English (SAE), can become a record of a regional variety of English. Utilizing theory from language contact situations, interactional sociolinguistics, and critical discourse analysis, it describes and explains how a prestigious societal institution, often analyzed as imposing its powerful voice on those less powerful, exhibits s…
Acquiring authority through the acquisition of genre: Latinas, intertextuality and violence
This article examines how laypersons acquire legal language. The site of this study is the protective order interview, where victim-survivors of domestic abuse seek legal assistance. Using thirteen protective order application interviews, in which victim-survivors had applied for orders at least once before, the analysis tests the hypothesis that women who had been through the application process would learn what constitutes relevant evidence. I …
Language Weapons Past and Present
Latinas’ Narratives of Domestic Abuse: Discrepant versions of violence
In the American legal system valid witness-testimony is supposed to be invariable and unchanging, so defense attorneys highlight seeming inconsistencies in victims’ accounts to impeach their credibility. This book offers an examination of how and why victims of domestic violence might seem to be ‘changing their stories,’ in the criminal justice system, which may leave them vulnerable to attack and criticism. Latinas’ Narratives of Domestic Abuse:…
Narrating in protective order interviews: A source of interactional trouble
This study examines the types of interactional trouble that arise from narrative variation in institutional interviews. Specifically, we examine protective order interviews in which Latina women tell of domestic violence to paralegal interviewers charged with the duty of helping them obtain a protective order. Victims' narratives are shown to take different shapes, and paralegals respond to them in different pragmalinguistic ways, depending on ho…
The advocate as gatekeeper: The limits of politeness in protective order interviews with Latina survivors of domestic abuse
Within institutions that provide assistance to victims of domestic violence, professionals and volunteers work as advocates for their clients at the same time that they act as gatekeepers for their agencies. While the labor of advocacy consists of empowering clients and validating their concerns and feelings, the task of gatekeeping entails making judgments about them in order to dole out goods and services. Thirty protective order interviews and…
What the signs say: Gentrification and the disappearance ofcapitalism without distinctionin Brooklyn
We examine shop signs in Brooklyn, New York, as sociolinguistic technologies of place-making that operate through specific language ideologies which represent class struggles for material wealth. We find two salient types of signs which we callOld School VernacularandDistinction-makingsignage. The first indexes multiple inclusions in the neighborhood economy before gentrification and thus suggests a capitalism without distinction. These signs als…
The advocate as gatekeeper: The limits of politeness in protective order interviews with Latina survivors of domestic abuse
Within institutions that provide assistance to victims of domestic violence, professionals and volunteers work as advocates for their clients at the same time that they act as gatekeepers for their agencies. While the labor of advocacy consists of empowering clients and validating their concerns and feelings, the task of gatekeeping entails making judgments about them in order to dole out goods and services. Thirty protective order interviews and…
Narrating in protective order interviews: A source of interactional trouble
This study examines the types of interactional trouble that arise from narrative variation in institutional interviews. Specifically, we examine protective order interviews in which Latina women tell of domestic violence to paralegal interviewers charged with the duty of helping them obtain a protective order. Victims' narratives are shown to take different shapes, and paralegals respond to them in different pragmalinguistic ways, depending on ho…
Deconstructing the "stakes" in high stakes gatekeeping interviews: Battered women and narration
Disappearing Discourse: Performative Texts and Identity in Legal Contexts
This article examines how survivors of domestic violence and the institutional authorities to whom they turn for assistance represent verbal aggression in direct quotations and indirect reported speech in legal testimony. Using the theoretical framework proposed by Briggs and Bauman (1992) Briggs, C. and Bauman, R. 1992. Genre, intertextuality and social power. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 2(2): 131-172. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar], I su…
When the Street Disappears: Eminent Domain, Redevelopment, and the Dissociative State
In this article, we examine how the state of New York and a private developer deployed eminent domain, or the seizing of private property by the government, in order to build the Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park project in Brooklyn, NY. We use ethnography to examine how the state operated in partnership with the developer through neoliberalizing discursive practices that allowed it to dissociate itself from the assertion of its governing power. In thi…
Bilingualism and representation: Locating Spanish-English contact in legal institutional memory
This article examines how the official legal record, presumably an institutional space consisting of Standard American English (SAE), can become a record of a regional variety of English. Utilizing theory from language contact situations, interactional sociolinguistics, and critical discourse analysis, it describes and explains how a prestigious societal institution, often analyzed as imposing its powerful voice on those less powerful, exhibits s…
To preserve and to protect vanishing signs: Activism through art, ethnography, and linguistics in a gentrifying city
This article explores how a semiotics of the artistic aesthetics of New York City storefronts is deployed as activism against processes of gentrification and redevelopment. We examine how this creative endeavor by two local photographers compares to our own ethnographic and linguistic interventions uncovering and addressing storefront signage in gentrifying Brooklyn. We also compare this art activism to the ways in which developers and nations us…
Forging Violence Against Women: Documents, Regimes of Family and Intimate-Partner Abuse
This article examines how legal texts can be read to broaden our understanding of intimate-partner violence in the United States. Documents, as repositories of the way institutions remember for the public, can provide insight into how people, and in this case, female victims and state actors, define this particular type of violence against women. These documents demonstrate how kin, household and family are both involved and implicated in this hi…
Linguistic Diversity on Center Stage: Rewriting Anthropology from the Margins of an MSI
We explore the use of linguistic varieties other than standard American (and academic) English in academia and in general, and particularly in a college theater program called Seeing Rape. Seeing Rape aspires to bring anthropology to a broader public to eradicate sexualized violence on campus. We discuss the possibilities and challenges encountered in trying to center different languages and dialects at the college through our program
The advocate as gatekeeper: The limits of politeness in protective order interviews with Latina survivors of domestic abuse
Within institutions that provide assistance to victims of domestic violence, professionals and volunteers work as advocates for their clients at the same time that they act as gatekeepers for their agencies. While the labor of advocacy consists of empowering clients and validating their concerns and feelings, the task of gatekeeping entails making judgments about them in order to dole out goods and services. Thirty protective order interviews and…
Narrating in protective order interviews: A source of interactional trouble
This study examines the types of interactional trouble that arise from narrative variation in institutional interviews. Specifically, we examine protective order interviews in which Latina women tell of domestic violence to paralegal interviewers charged with the duty of helping them obtain a protective order. Victims' narratives are shown to take different shapes, and paralegals respond to them in different pragmalinguistic ways, depending on ho…
Latinas’ Narratives of Domestic Abuse: Discrepant versions of violence
In the American legal system valid witness-testimony is supposed to be invariable and unchanging, so defense attorneys highlight seeming inconsistencies in victims’ accounts to impeach their credibility. This book offers an examination of how and why victims of domestic violence might seem to be ‘changing their stories,’ in the criminal justice system, which may leave them vulnerable to attack and criticism. Latinas’ Narratives of Domestic Abuse:…
Acquiring authority through the acquisition of genre: Latinas, intertextuality and violence
This article examines how laypersons acquire legal language. The site of this study is the protective order interview, where victim-survivors of domestic abuse seek legal assistance. Using thirteen protective order application interviews, in which victim-survivors had applied for orders at least once before, the analysis tests the hypothesis that women who had been through the application process would learn what constitutes relevant evidence. I …
Language Weapons Past and Present
Bilingualism and representation: Locating Spanish-English contact in legal institutional memory
This article examines how the official legal record, presumably an institutional space consisting of Standard American English (SAE), can become a record of a regional variety of English. Utilizing theory from language contact situations, interactional sociolinguistics, and critical discourse analysis, it describes and explains how a prestigious societal institution, often analyzed as imposing its powerful voice on those less powerful, exhibits s…
The pragmatic use of gender in Latina women's legal narratives of abuse
This paper examines the way in which gender is constructed in narratives of abuse by U.S. Latina women and legal professionals within the U.S. legal context of the protective order application interview. Though traditional gender roles can be oppressive for men and women, the analysis undertaken here illustrates how Latina women pragmatically and linguistically utilize their language resources to perform some roles of traditional womanhood in ord…
Deconstructing the "stakes" in high stakes gatekeeping interviews: Battered women and narration
Risky subjects: Narrative, literary testimonio and legal testimony
Teaching reading, writing, speaking and risk: Dialoguing with Eades, French and Lecuna
Disappearing Discourse: Performative Texts and Identity in Legal Contexts
This article examines how survivors of domestic violence and the institutional authorities to whom they turn for assistance represent verbal aggression in direct quotations and indirect reported speech in legal testimony. Using the theoretical framework proposed by Briggs and Bauman (1992) Briggs, C. and Bauman, R. 1992. Genre, intertextuality and social power. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 2(2): 131-172. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar], I su…
Forging Violence Against Women: Documents, Regimes of Family and Intimate-Partner Abuse
This article examines how legal texts can be read to broaden our understanding of intimate-partner violence in the United States. Documents, as repositories of the way institutions remember for the public, can provide insight into how people, and in this case, female victims and state actors, define this particular type of violence against women. These documents demonstrate how kin, household and family are both involved and implicated in this hi…
What the Brownstones Say: Surveying Place in Brooklyn
in focus, place, Brooklyn, redevelopment project, Atlantic Yards, community, urban anthropology
De-authorizing rape narrators: Stance, taboo and privatizing the public secret
This article examines how reviewers take silence-sustaining or silence-breaking stances toward rape in online reviews of anti-terrorism expert, Jessica Stern’s (2010) book, Denial: A Memoir of Terror. I analyze how reviewers recontextualize the story of this uncontroversial rape and its narrator. The data consist of 47 reviews, ranging from professional reviewers at major newspapers to ‘citizen reviewers’ found on commercial bookstores’ websites …
What the signs say: Gentrification and the disappearance ofcapitalism without distinctionin Brooklyn
We examine shop signs in Brooklyn, New York, as sociolinguistic technologies of place-making that operate through specific language ideologies which represent class struggles for material wealth. We find two salient types of signs which we callOld School VernacularandDistinction-makingsignage. The first indexes multiple inclusions in the neighborhood economy before gentrification and thus suggests a capitalism without distinction. These signs als…
Mothering Brooklyn: Signs, sexuality, and gentrification under cover
This paper examines how Brooklyn retail signage represents how gentrifying women struggle for claiming space in public and the way in which different intersectional identity formations are used and implicated in transforming urban space. In exploring different ethnographic dimensions to retail storefronts, we show how women, many of whom are college-educated, married, and new mothers, play a significant role in redefining Brooklyn and cultural no…
When the Street Disappears: Eminent Domain, Redevelopment, and the Dissociative State
In this article, we examine how the state of New York and a private developer deployed eminent domain, or the seizing of private property by the government, in order to build the Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park project in Brooklyn, NY. We use ethnography to examine how the state operated in partnership with the developer through neoliberalizing discursive practices that allowed it to dissociate itself from the assertion of its governing power. In thi…
What the Signs Say: Language, Gentrification, and Place-Making in Brooklyn
Engaging F‐words to create change: Rape, representation, and performance
This essay, inspired by feminism, examines a program of engaged public anthropology through student‐led theater that uses what is often considered to be ‘bad language’ in U.S. colleges and universities. We suggest that the appropriation of taboo language varieties and taboo words in plays written by student‐playwrights and performed by professional actors in front of professors, administrators and student peers creates a powerful context for brea…
To preserve and to protect vanishing signs: Activism through art, ethnography, and linguistics in a gentrifying city
This article explores how a semiotics of the artistic aesthetics of New York City storefronts is deployed as activism against processes of gentrification and redevelopment. We examine how this creative endeavor by two local photographers compares to our own ethnographic and linguistic interventions uncovering and addressing storefront signage in gentrifying Brooklyn. We also compare this art activism to the ways in which developers and nations us…
Linguistic Diversity on Center Stage: Rewriting Anthropology from the Margins of an MSI
We explore the use of linguistic varieties other than standard American (and academic) English in academia and in general, and particularly in a college theater program called Seeing Rape. Seeing Rape aspires to bring anthropology to a broader public to eradicate sexualized violence on campus. We discuss the possibilities and challenges encountered in trying to center different languages and dialects at the college through our program
Rendering the Anthropocene: My-topias in the semiotics of Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards conflict
This article explores how the Anthropocene is semioticized in people’s everyday consciousness in conflict over urban redevelopment. Focusing on the multi-billion-dollar Atlantic Yards project, in Brooklyn, NY, we examine how political economy is discursively mobilized with urban Anthropocenic landscapes. Using ethnographic and sociolinguistic methods, we present three case studies (blight studies, architectural renderings, and activists’ manipula…
Disorienting discourses and the making of gentrifiers in redeveloping Brooklyn
Rape, Pedagogy, Performance: A Practice for Speaking Trauma
Rape is often considered traumatizing for those who have experienced it and also for those who hear about it. We explore how a content‐based semester‐long study of sexualized violence and harm incorporates the language arts of close readings, critical thinking, low stakes writing in journals, film and theater analyses, and playwrighting in order to bring sexualized violence and harm into the discourse of the class we call Seeing Rape, and then in…
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (12 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Aesthetics (8 works) · Law (8 works) · History (7 works) · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Art (6 works)