J Krinsky
Biographic Data
| ID | 186709 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Krinsky |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Krinsky |
| SIGNATURE | KRINSKY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | City College of New York |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-4137-4703 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 183 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
People, Power, Change: Organizing for Democratic Renewal
Toward a Conjunctural Analysis of New York City's Housing Movement
The work of Antonio Gramsci points the way to the analysis of political conjunctures in ways that are complementary to, but go beyond, those of historical institutionalists. With a focus on the layering of longer‐ and shorter‐term movement and policy dynamics, as well as on the fundamental contradictions that fuel social struggles, the approach is applied here to an analysis of recent housing struggles in New York City. Tracing the historical and…
Public-Private Partnerships: At What Cost to the Public
uses private, nonprofit labor and food stands whose revenue goes to the corporation that runs the park
Prisms of the People: Power and Organizing in Twenty-First-Century America
Fields and dialectics in social movement studies
In spite of the dialogue with and use of dialectics in Bourdieu’s foundational work on fields, recent work in social movements that employ fields and kindred concepts have generally abjured dialectics and, especially, Marxism. A renewed dialogue with Marxism is important to overcome some of the key limits of these meso-level analytic concepts. Several areas of extension are discussed, including the process of abstraction; the centrality of contra…
Hegel for social movements
Andy Blunden’s Hegel for Social Movements is a curious book. It is a rewarding read, partly because, as Blunden anticipates, many people in several overlapping categories – Marxists, social movemen
The Language of Contention: Revolutions in Words, 1688–2012
In Marxism and the Philosophy of Language, Valentin Volosinov (1973) posits that the generic conventions of reporting others' speech vary over time and place, and that these variations, if tracked, can reveal a great deal about changes in the ordering of social hierarchies. Sidney Tarrow's The Language of Contention, following Volosinov and his better-known collaborator and mentor, Mikhail Bakhtin, argues that language—and in particular, keywords…
Marxism and the Politics of Possibility: Beyond Academic Boundaries
This chapter discusses Marxism’s view of social relations as a totality - albeit one structured by contradictions - is better suited to answering the kinds of questions movement participants ask about the possibilities for common struggles for self-determination. By focusing on the ways in which activists and others make sense of their movements, learn in interaction with each other, and fashion relatively coherent genres and repertoires, the Mar…
Marxism and Social Movements: An Introduction
Marxism is a body of theory crafted for social movements. This chapter suggests that the language of ‘class struggle’ translated into a language of ‘social movement’ with a Marxist accent. While contemporary social movement theories rightly stress the networked character of social movements, they pay less attention to their heterogeneity and internal debates. The book includes theoretical accounts of the relationship between Marxism and social mo…
Marxism and Social Movements
Marxism and Social Movements is the first sustained engagement between social movement theory and Marxist approaches to collective action. The chapters collected here, by leading figures in both fields, discuss the potential for a Marxist theory of social movements; explore the developmental processes and political tensions within movements; set the question in a long historical perspective; and analyse contemporary movements against neo-liberali…
Social Movements and Social Networks: Introduction
In this Introduction we provide a brief literature review of work on social networks and social movements, a brief introduction to certain key concepts and debates in social network analysis, and a brief introduction to the articles which follow in the special issue
The New Tammany Hall? Welfare, Public Sector Unions, Corruption, and Neoliberal Policy Regimes
This article addresses the ways in which neoliberal governance is constituted through networks of actors, organizations, policy ideas, and rhetorical justifications—what we can call a “neoliberal policy regime.” I outline both the contours of these regimes in general, and discuss the ways in which they have developed since the 1970s, a moment at which public-sector collective bargaining became generalized and in which urban fiscal crises began to…
Formations and Formalisms: Charles Tilly and the Paradox of the Actor
Charles Tilly (1929-2008) was a pioneer in joining sociology and history. Throughout his career, he was especially concerned with the ways in which ordinary people made political claims, and how this was shaped by transformations in the state and in capitalism. Most often seen as a structuralist, Tilly was nevertheless deeply concerned with how to understand actors. This article traces Tilly's work from early research on French contention through…
Why Does Occupy Matter
Analysing the Occupy movement is important for understanding the political importance of social movements and the theoretical limits of social movement approaches. Occupy enables us to critically re-examine and question what we think we know about the processes of collective action. We identify eight contentions which illustrate why Occupy matters to scholars and which challenge us to re-examine existing assumptions: (1) the core claim to space t…
La servitude et le volontaire: Les usages politiques du travail invisible dans les parcs de la ville de New York
En s'appuyant sur une recherche sur les transformations de la main-d'œuvre chargée de l'entretien des parcs municipaux à New York, cet article se propose de montrer combien le travail des bénévoles d'une part et celui des allocataires de l'aide sociale contraints de travailler d'autre part ( workfare ), s'avèrent, depuis la crise budgétaire des années 1970, nécessaires au bon fonctionnement, voire à la survie du département des parcs et jardins d…
Déni de travail: L'invisibilisation du travail aujourd'hui Introduction
Face a la crise financiere mondiale, l’Algerie a revele ses forces... et ses faiblesses. En particulier, les ressources tirees des hydrocarbures apparaissent demesurees par rapport aux autres secteurs. Pour s’installer dans la duree, le recent et formidable developpement economique algerien depend plus que jamais de choix politiques
Neoliberal Times: Intersecting Temporalities and the Neoliberalization of New York City’s Public-Sector Labor Relations
Recent interpretations of the neoliberal transformation of welfare states emphasize the formative role of crises in which old institutions are rolled back to make way for the “rollout” of neoliberalism’s program of austerity, markets, and privatization. Policy scholars and social historians argue, however, that major social changes combine long-term institutional development, sudden pivots, and cyclical trends. This article draws on a case study …
Neoliberal Times: Intersecting Temporalities and the Neoliberalization of New York City's Public-Sector Labor Relations
Recent interpretations of the neoliberal transformation of welfare states emphasize the formative role of crises in which old institutions are rolled back to make way for the "rollout" of neoliberalism's program of austerity, markets, and privatization. Policy scholars and social historians argue, however, that major social changes combine long-term institutional development, sudden pivots, and cyclical trends. This article draws on a case study …
Dynamics of hegemony: Mapping mechanisms of cultural and political power in the debates over workfare in New York City, 1993-1999
City of Disorder: How the Quality of Life Campaign Changed New York Politics
Changing Minds: Cognitive Systems and Strategic Change in Contention over Workfare in New York City
Combining recent and foundational work in cultural theory in social movement research and cognitive psychology, this paper presents a synthetic model of cognitive processes in the context of political contention. Despite broad interest in the intersection between culture and cognition, and in the cultural dynamics of social movements, there has been little systematic effort to understand the cognitive processes of change in social movement settin…
Product Review: The Politics of Protest: Social Movements in America
The Urban Politics of Workfare: New York City's Welfare Reforms and the Dimensions of Welfare Policy Making
This article casts New York City's large, public-sector workfare program of the mid-1990s against political-economic, institutionalist, and culturalist explanations of welfare reform dynamics. It argues that the form and changes in welfare reform programs must increasingly be understood as intersecting with urban political dynamics. Synthesizing existing literatures on welfare and urban policy, the article urges explanations based on the intersec…
Forging and Sustaining Labor–Community Coalitions: The Workfare Justice Movement in Three Cities
Work, Workfare, and Contention in New York City: The Potential of Flexible Identities in Organizing Opposition To Workfare
In the past two years, workfare has expanded and changed in New York City. From a program requiring 10,000 welfare recipients to work, look for work, or enter education or training programs, it has mushroomed into a program requiring nearly 40,000 recipients at any one time to work for City agencies or contracted nonprofits. The program is set to expand further. Workfare workers represent a new, flexible public workforce whose presence undermines…
Social Movements and Social Networks: Introduction
In this Introduction we provide a brief literature review of work on social networks and social movements, a brief introduction to certain key concepts and debates in social network analysis, and a brief introduction to the articles which follow in the special issue
Why Does Occupy Matter
Analysing the Occupy movement is important for understanding the political importance of social movements and the theoretical limits of social movement approaches. Occupy enables us to critically re-examine and question what we think we know about the processes of collective action. We identify eight contentions which illustrate why Occupy matters to scholars and which challenge us to re-examine existing assumptions: (1) the core claim to space t…
Formations and Formalisms: Charles Tilly and the Paradox of the Actor
Charles Tilly (1929-2008) was a pioneer in joining sociology and history. Throughout his career, he was especially concerned with the ways in which ordinary people made political claims, and how this was shaped by transformations in the state and in capitalism. Most often seen as a structuralist, Tilly was nevertheless deeply concerned with how to understand actors. This article traces Tilly's work from early research on French contention through…
Forging and Sustaining Labor–Community Coalitions: The Workfare Justice Movement in Three Cities
Déni de travail: L'invisibilisation du travail aujourd'hui Introduction
Face a la crise financiere mondiale, l’Algerie a revele ses forces... et ses faiblesses. En particulier, les ressources tirees des hydrocarbures apparaissent demesurees par rapport aux autres secteurs. Pour s’installer dans la duree, le recent et formidable developpement economique algerien depend plus que jamais de choix politiques
Work, Workfare, and Contention in New York City: The Potential of Flexible Identities in Organizing Opposition To Workfare
In the past two years, workfare has expanded and changed in New York City. From a program requiring 10,000 welfare recipients to work, look for work, or enter education or training programs, it has mushroomed into a program requiring nearly 40,000 recipients at any one time to work for City agencies or contracted nonprofits. The program is set to expand further. Workfare workers represent a new, flexible public workforce whose presence undermines…
The Urban Politics of Workfare: New York City's Welfare Reforms and the Dimensions of Welfare Policy Making
This article casts New York City's large, public-sector workfare program of the mid-1990s against political-economic, institutionalist, and culturalist explanations of welfare reform dynamics. It argues that the form and changes in welfare reform programs must increasingly be understood as intersecting with urban political dynamics. Synthesizing existing literatures on welfare and urban policy, the article urges explanations based on the intersec…
Dynamics of hegemony: Mapping mechanisms of cultural and political power in the debates over workfare in New York City, 1993-1999
Neoliberal Times: Intersecting Temporalities and the Neoliberalization of New York City’s Public-Sector Labor Relations
Recent interpretations of the neoliberal transformation of welfare states emphasize the formative role of crises in which old institutions are rolled back to make way for the “rollout” of neoliberalism’s program of austerity, markets, and privatization. Policy scholars and social historians argue, however, that major social changes combine long-term institutional development, sudden pivots, and cyclical trends. This article draws on a case study …
La servitude et le volontaire: Les usages politiques du travail invisible dans les parcs de la ville de New York
En s'appuyant sur une recherche sur les transformations de la main-d'œuvre chargée de l'entretien des parcs municipaux à New York, cet article se propose de montrer combien le travail des bénévoles d'une part et celui des allocataires de l'aide sociale contraints de travailler d'autre part ( workfare ), s'avèrent, depuis la crise budgétaire des années 1970, nécessaires au bon fonctionnement, voire à la survie du département des parcs et jardins d…
Neoliberal Times: Intersecting Temporalities and the Neoliberalization of New York City's Public-Sector Labor Relations
Recent interpretations of the neoliberal transformation of welfare states emphasize the formative role of crises in which old institutions are rolled back to make way for the "rollout" of neoliberalism's program of austerity, markets, and privatization. Policy scholars and social historians argue, however, that major social changes combine long-term institutional development, sudden pivots, and cyclical trends. This article draws on a case study …
Fields and dialectics in social movement studies
In spite of the dialogue with and use of dialectics in Bourdieu’s foundational work on fields, recent work in social movements that employ fields and kindred concepts have generally abjured dialectics and, especially, Marxism. A renewed dialogue with Marxism is important to overcome some of the key limits of these meso-level analytic concepts. Several areas of extension are discussed, including the process of abstraction; the centrality of contra…
Changing Minds: Cognitive Systems and Strategic Change in Contention over Workfare in New York City
Combining recent and foundational work in cultural theory in social movement research and cognitive psychology, this paper presents a synthetic model of cognitive processes in the context of political contention. Despite broad interest in the intersection between culture and cognition, and in the cultural dynamics of social movements, there has been little systematic effort to understand the cognitive processes of change in social movement settin…
Work, Workfare, and Contention in New York City: The Potential of Flexible Identities in Organizing Opposition To Workfare
In the past two years, workfare has expanded and changed in New York City. From a program requiring 10,000 welfare recipients to work, look for work, or enter education or training programs, it has mushroomed into a program requiring nearly 40,000 recipients at any one time to work for City agencies or contracted nonprofits. The program is set to expand further. Workfare workers represent a new, flexible public workforce whose presence undermines…
Forging and Sustaining Labor–Community Coalitions: The Workfare Justice Movement in Three Cities
Product Review: The Politics of Protest: Social Movements in America
The Urban Politics of Workfare: New York City's Welfare Reforms and the Dimensions of Welfare Policy Making
This article casts New York City's large, public-sector workfare program of the mid-1990s against political-economic, institutionalist, and culturalist explanations of welfare reform dynamics. It argues that the form and changes in welfare reform programs must increasingly be understood as intersecting with urban political dynamics. Synthesizing existing literatures on welfare and urban policy, the article urges explanations based on the intersec…
Changing Minds: Cognitive Systems and Strategic Change in Contention over Workfare in New York City
Combining recent and foundational work in cultural theory in social movement research and cognitive psychology, this paper presents a synthetic model of cognitive processes in the context of political contention. Despite broad interest in the intersection between culture and cognition, and in the cultural dynamics of social movements, there has been little systematic effort to understand the cognitive processes of change in social movement settin…
City of Disorder: How the Quality of Life Campaign Changed New York Politics
Dynamics of hegemony: Mapping mechanisms of cultural and political power in the debates over workfare in New York City, 1993-1999
Neoliberal Times: Intersecting Temporalities and the Neoliberalization of New York City’s Public-Sector Labor Relations
Recent interpretations of the neoliberal transformation of welfare states emphasize the formative role of crises in which old institutions are rolled back to make way for the “rollout” of neoliberalism’s program of austerity, markets, and privatization. Policy scholars and social historians argue, however, that major social changes combine long-term institutional development, sudden pivots, and cyclical trends. This article draws on a case study …
Neoliberal Times: Intersecting Temporalities and the Neoliberalization of New York City's Public-Sector Labor Relations
Recent interpretations of the neoliberal transformation of welfare states emphasize the formative role of crises in which old institutions are rolled back to make way for the "rollout" of neoliberalism's program of austerity, markets, and privatization. Policy scholars and social historians argue, however, that major social changes combine long-term institutional development, sudden pivots, and cyclical trends. This article draws on a case study …
Why Does Occupy Matter
Analysing the Occupy movement is important for understanding the political importance of social movements and the theoretical limits of social movement approaches. Occupy enables us to critically re-examine and question what we think we know about the processes of collective action. We identify eight contentions which illustrate why Occupy matters to scholars and which challenge us to re-examine existing assumptions: (1) the core claim to space t…
La servitude et le volontaire: Les usages politiques du travail invisible dans les parcs de la ville de New York
En s'appuyant sur une recherche sur les transformations de la main-d'œuvre chargée de l'entretien des parcs municipaux à New York, cet article se propose de montrer combien le travail des bénévoles d'une part et celui des allocataires de l'aide sociale contraints de travailler d'autre part ( workfare ), s'avèrent, depuis la crise budgétaire des années 1970, nécessaires au bon fonctionnement, voire à la survie du département des parcs et jardins d…
Déni de travail: L'invisibilisation du travail aujourd'hui Introduction
Face a la crise financiere mondiale, l’Algerie a revele ses forces... et ses faiblesses. En particulier, les ressources tirees des hydrocarbures apparaissent demesurees par rapport aux autres secteurs. Pour s’installer dans la duree, le recent et formidable developpement economique algerien depend plus que jamais de choix politiques
Marxism and the Politics of Possibility: Beyond Academic Boundaries
This chapter discusses Marxism’s view of social relations as a totality - albeit one structured by contradictions - is better suited to answering the kinds of questions movement participants ask about the possibilities for common struggles for self-determination. By focusing on the ways in which activists and others make sense of their movements, learn in interaction with each other, and fashion relatively coherent genres and repertoires, the Mar…
Marxism and Social Movements: An Introduction
Marxism is a body of theory crafted for social movements. This chapter suggests that the language of ‘class struggle’ translated into a language of ‘social movement’ with a Marxist accent. While contemporary social movement theories rightly stress the networked character of social movements, they pay less attention to their heterogeneity and internal debates. The book includes theoretical accounts of the relationship between Marxism and social mo…
Marxism and Social Movements
Marxism and Social Movements is the first sustained engagement between social movement theory and Marxist approaches to collective action. The chapters collected here, by leading figures in both fields, discuss the potential for a Marxist theory of social movements; explore the developmental processes and political tensions within movements; set the question in a long historical perspective; and analyse contemporary movements against neo-liberali…
Social Movements and Social Networks: Introduction
In this Introduction we provide a brief literature review of work on social networks and social movements, a brief introduction to certain key concepts and debates in social network analysis, and a brief introduction to the articles which follow in the special issue
The New Tammany Hall? Welfare, Public Sector Unions, Corruption, and Neoliberal Policy Regimes
This article addresses the ways in which neoliberal governance is constituted through networks of actors, organizations, policy ideas, and rhetorical justifications—what we can call a “neoliberal policy regime.” I outline both the contours of these regimes in general, and discuss the ways in which they have developed since the 1970s, a moment at which public-sector collective bargaining became generalized and in which urban fiscal crises began to…
Formations and Formalisms: Charles Tilly and the Paradox of the Actor
Charles Tilly (1929-2008) was a pioneer in joining sociology and history. Throughout his career, he was especially concerned with the ways in which ordinary people made political claims, and how this was shaped by transformations in the state and in capitalism. Most often seen as a structuralist, Tilly was nevertheless deeply concerned with how to understand actors. This article traces Tilly's work from early research on French contention through…
The Language of Contention: Revolutions in Words, 1688–2012
In Marxism and the Philosophy of Language, Valentin Volosinov (1973) posits that the generic conventions of reporting others' speech vary over time and place, and that these variations, if tracked, can reveal a great deal about changes in the ordering of social hierarchies. Sidney Tarrow's The Language of Contention, following Volosinov and his better-known collaborator and mentor, Mikhail Bakhtin, argues that language—and in particular, keywords…
Hegel for social movements
Andy Blunden’s Hegel for Social Movements is a curious book. It is a rewarding read, partly because, as Blunden anticipates, many people in several overlapping categories – Marxists, social movemen
Fields and dialectics in social movement studies
In spite of the dialogue with and use of dialectics in Bourdieu’s foundational work on fields, recent work in social movements that employ fields and kindred concepts have generally abjured dialectics and, especially, Marxism. A renewed dialogue with Marxism is important to overcome some of the key limits of these meso-level analytic concepts. Several areas of extension are discussed, including the process of abstraction; the centrality of contra…
Prisms of the People: Power and Organizing in Twenty-First-Century America
Public-Private Partnerships: At What Cost to the Public
uses private, nonprofit labor and food stands whose revenue goes to the corporation that runs the park
People, Power, Change: Organizing for Democratic Renewal
Toward a Conjunctural Analysis of New York City's Housing Movement
The work of Antonio Gramsci points the way to the analysis of political conjunctures in ways that are complementary to, but go beyond, those of historical institutionalists. With a focus on the layering of longer‐ and shorter‐term movement and policy dynamics, as well as on the fundamental contradictions that fuel social struggles, the approach is applied here to an analysis of recent housing struggles in New York City. Tracing the historical and…
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