Justin Helepololei
Biographic Data
| ID | 179527 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Justin Helepololei |
| GIVEN NAMES | Justin |
| FAMILY NAME | Helepololei |
| SIGNATURE | HELEPOLOLEI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colgate University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1367-287X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Against Care: Abolition and the Progressive Jail Assemblage
This article uses the concept of a progressive jail assemblage to think about the focus on jails as both a target of social justice organizing and a tool for advancing social justice goals. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted among formerly incarcerated organizers and their allies in Western Massachusetts (New England), I explore how the sheriffs who operate jails in this region, along with their collaborators, have increasingly sought to …
Crime and Protest
In the years following the Great Recession of 2008 and Spain's 15M plaza occupations in 2011, protesters in Spain engaged in increasingly agitational and illegal forms of dissent, challenging the legitimacy of the government itself while working to build popular support among the millions impacted by ongoing economic and political crises. This article draws on ethnographic research conducted in Barcelona and Sevilla, Spain, during 2012 and 2013 t…
A Plurality of Communisms
The unending crisis in southern Europe has brought a new urgency to thinking and living in different ways. Responding to the exchange between Jodi Dean and Stephen Healy at the 2013 Rethinking Marxism International Conference, this article draws on recent examples in Spain of direct action at the local, regional, and national levels in order to question the perennial call to scale up. Is expansion inherently desirable? Is it a priority? What are …
The Ethnography of Resistance Then and Now: On Thickness and Activist Engagement in the Twenty-First Century
This article seeks to convey some of the theoretical frameworks and commitments that characterize how anthropologists have approached the ethnography of resistance. Using our individual biographies as a point of departure, we describe and contrast the intellectual influences that shaped our ethnographic engagements as well as the unanticipated dilemmas we each faced with regard to writing, thick description, and accountability to research partici…
The Ethnography of Resistance Then and Now: On Thickness and Activist Engagement in the Twenty-First Century
This article seeks to convey some of the theoretical frameworks and commitments that characterize how anthropologists have approached the ethnography of resistance. Using our individual biographies as a point of departure, we describe and contrast the intellectual influences that shaped our ethnographic engagements as well as the unanticipated dilemmas we each faced with regard to writing, thick description, and accountability to research partici…
A Plurality of Communisms
The unending crisis in southern Europe has brought a new urgency to thinking and living in different ways. Responding to the exchange between Jodi Dean and Stephen Healy at the 2013 Rethinking Marxism International Conference, this article draws on recent examples in Spain of direct action at the local, regional, and national levels in order to question the perennial call to scale up. Is expansion inherently desirable? Is it a priority? What are …
The Ethnography of Resistance Then and Now: On Thickness and Activist Engagement in the Twenty-First Century
This article seeks to convey some of the theoretical frameworks and commitments that characterize how anthropologists have approached the ethnography of resistance. Using our individual biographies as a point of departure, we describe and contrast the intellectual influences that shaped our ethnographic engagements as well as the unanticipated dilemmas we each faced with regard to writing, thick description, and accountability to research partici…
A Plurality of Communisms
The unending crisis in southern Europe has brought a new urgency to thinking and living in different ways. Responding to the exchange between Jodi Dean and Stephen Healy at the 2013 Rethinking Marxism International Conference, this article draws on recent examples in Spain of direct action at the local, regional, and national levels in order to question the perennial call to scale up. Is expansion inherently desirable? Is it a priority? What are …
Crime and Protest
In the years following the Great Recession of 2008 and Spain's 15M plaza occupations in 2011, protesters in Spain engaged in increasingly agitational and illegal forms of dissent, challenging the legitimacy of the government itself while working to build popular support among the millions impacted by ongoing economic and political crises. This article draws on ethnographic research conducted in Barcelona and Sevilla, Spain, during 2012 and 2013 t…
Against Care: Abolition and the Progressive Jail Assemblage
This article uses the concept of a progressive jail assemblage to think about the focus on jails as both a target of social justice organizing and a tool for advancing social justice goals. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted among formerly incarcerated organizers and their allies in Western Massachusetts (New England), I explore how the sheriffs who operate jails in this region, along with their collaborators, have increasingly sought to …
Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Accountability (1 works) · Action (physics (1 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works)