Elinore Kaufman
Biographic Data
| ID | 177359 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elinore Kaufman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elinore |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaufman |
| SIGNATURE | KAUFMAN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Towson University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6305-4984 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“The cameras look at us when we be doin’ our dances”
Poor BIPOC neighborhoods and schools in the U.S. are historically and increasingly securitized. CCTV, weaponized police, body- and dashboard cameras, and mobile surveillance stations follow racially and socioeconomically marginalized children to school, through public space, into virtual space, and inside homes. To investigate the parameters and effects of such widespread securitization, I conducted several years of ethnographic fieldwork and par…
Minor, not marginal, police geographies
The last Progress report on police called for a conceptual shift from police to policing; convergence towards a single theoretical framework; and more research in the subfield. I suggest that (1) the current multiplicity of sites and scales in police research better reflects policing’s complex spatialities, (2) there are benefits to expanding who and what counts as doing “police geography,” (3) calls for more police geographies have—in innovative…
Health Effects of Policing in Hospitals
Staying with the trouble of collegiality, professionalism and care
Collegiality and professionalism are touted as crucial in academic career success and security, and as required for participation in academic spaces. Conversely, care, essential to well-being and social reproduction, is rarely portrayed as necessary or even appropriate in academic space. This auto-ethnographic article uncovers discursive constructions of professionalism, collegiality, and care. I frame them as practices academics are unevenly req…
Policing mobilities through bio-spatial profiling in New York City
Malthus, gender and the demarcation of ‘dangerous’ bodies in 1996 US welfare reform
This article argues that populationism as a gendered narrative provides a crucial rhetorical architecture for welfare reform debates in the USA during the 1990s. Populationism, which Joni Seager defines as ‘the dogma and the rhetoric of population alarmism and population control,’ subtly legitimized efforts to control and marginalize poor women's bodies in the context of welfare reform. The populationism underlying welfare reform hinges on a deep…
Policing mobilities through bio-spatial profiling in New York City
Malthus, gender and the demarcation of ‘dangerous’ bodies in 1996 US welfare reform
This article argues that populationism as a gendered narrative provides a crucial rhetorical architecture for welfare reform debates in the USA during the 1990s. Populationism, which Joni Seager defines as ‘the dogma and the rhetoric of population alarmism and population control,’ subtly legitimized efforts to control and marginalize poor women's bodies in the context of welfare reform. The populationism underlying welfare reform hinges on a deep…
Staying with the trouble of collegiality, professionalism and care
Collegiality and professionalism are touted as crucial in academic career success and security, and as required for participation in academic spaces. Conversely, care, essential to well-being and social reproduction, is rarely portrayed as necessary or even appropriate in academic space. This auto-ethnographic article uncovers discursive constructions of professionalism, collegiality, and care. I frame them as practices academics are unevenly req…
Malthus, gender and the demarcation of ‘dangerous’ bodies in 1996 US welfare reform
This article argues that populationism as a gendered narrative provides a crucial rhetorical architecture for welfare reform debates in the USA during the 1990s. Populationism, which Joni Seager defines as ‘the dogma and the rhetoric of population alarmism and population control,’ subtly legitimized efforts to control and marginalize poor women's bodies in the context of welfare reform. The populationism underlying welfare reform hinges on a deep…
Policing mobilities through bio-spatial profiling in New York City
Staying with the trouble of collegiality, professionalism and care
Collegiality and professionalism are touted as crucial in academic career success and security, and as required for participation in academic spaces. Conversely, care, essential to well-being and social reproduction, is rarely portrayed as necessary or even appropriate in academic space. This auto-ethnographic article uncovers discursive constructions of professionalism, collegiality, and care. I frame them as practices academics are unevenly req…
Health Effects of Policing in Hospitals
“The cameras look at us when we be doin’ our dances”
Poor BIPOC neighborhoods and schools in the U.S. are historically and increasingly securitized. CCTV, weaponized police, body- and dashboard cameras, and mobile surveillance stations follow racially and socioeconomically marginalized children to school, through public space, into virtual space, and inside homes. To investigate the parameters and effects of such widespread securitization, I conducted several years of ethnographic fieldwork and par…
Minor, not marginal, police geographies
The last Progress report on police called for a conceptual shift from police to policing; convergence towards a single theoretical framework; and more research in the subfield. I suggest that (1) the current multiplicity of sites and scales in police research better reflects policing’s complex spatialities, (2) there are benefits to expanding who and what counts as doing “police geography,” (3) calls for more police geographies have—in innovative…
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 works) · Global Security and Public Health (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work)