Richard E Ocejo
Biographic Data
| ID | 196861 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard E Ocejo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard E |
| FAMILY NAME | Ocejo |
| SIGNATURE | OCEJO R E |
| AFFILIATIONS | John Jay College of Criminal Justice |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5449-7695 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 110 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Editor’s Farewell
Gentrification in small cities: Growth Coalitions, Civic Engagement, and Political Participation
Most gentrification research uses large cities as cases to make sense of how the process unfolds, while studies of gentrification in nonmetropolises tend to focus on the process's similarities across differently-sized municipalities. Unexplained is how the distinct characteristics of differently-sized places inform how the process unfolds. Based on interviews with eighty-five stakeholders and four years of ethnographic fieldwork in a small city e…
Dancing Their Hearts Out
Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analyzed in this study
The Virtue of Opportunity: Moral Framing, Community, and Conditional Gentrification
Gentrification is controversial mainly because of the potential displacement of existing low-income groups. Many gentrifiers therefore grapple with the moral implications of their role in this process. Based on three years of fieldwork and 46 interviews in a small city, this paper explains how gentrifiers construct the moral frames they use to identify and justify both themselves and gentrification as morally good, and how their moral ideas shape…
Mobile trust regimes: Modes of attachment in an age of banal omnivorousness
The 21st century rise of culturally omnivorous tastes and classifications proffers a new dilemma for how markets create attachments and achieve trust for global consumers. Consumer entities must be both globally circulatable and offer a sense of localized authenticity without compromising either. Drawing from research on market trust and attachment, this article introduces the concept of mobile trust regimes to account for how sets of actors and …
Andrews, C. K. (2019). The Overworked Consumer: Self-Checkouts, Supermarkets, and the Do-It-Yourself Economy
The Precarious Project and the Wasted Opportunity: The Social and Cultural Dynamics of Conflict over Urban Development
Much of the research on residents’ responses to urban development projects focuses on their self-interests, specifically economic position or quality of life. We know comparatively little about how social and cultural factors help influence and explain these behaviors, especially under conditions of gentrification. Based on an analysis of people’s reactions toward a development project in Newburgh, New York, an impoverished small city experiencin…
Centering Small Cities for Urban Sociology in the 21st Century
Working for Respect
From Taverns to Gastropubs: Food, Drink, and Sociality in England
Urban Ethnography: Legacies and Challenges
The creative class gets political: Gentrifier politics in small city America
Gentrification is one among many issues in small cities that urban research has yet to adequately address. As many large cities are becoming unaffordable for even the middle class, some of these residents with assets are leaving them and bypassing suburbs for smaller cities, becoming gentrifiers in these places. However, we know very little about the perspectives and actions of such gentrifiers in their new urban environment. This study analyzes …
From Apple to Orange: Narratives of Small City Migration and Settlement among the Urban Middle Class
As large cities become unaffordable, some people in the urban middle class are moving to small cities but risk replicating gentrification and its harms. Based on a qualitative research project on Newburgh, a small city north of New York City, this paper examines the narratives that middle-class urbanites construct to make sense of this migration, their new urban environment, and their place within it. These narratives describe their decision to m…
Capital Without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent by Harrington, B. (2016)
Sustaining Enchantment: How Cultural Workers Manage Precariousness and Routine
Deriving pleasure and meaning from one’s job is especially potent in the cultural industries, where workers routinely sacrifice monetary rewards, stability, and tidier careers for the nonmonetary benefits of self-expression, autonomy, and contribution to the greater good. Cultural labor markets are consequently characterized by the continual churning of its workforce; the lure of “cool” employment attracts an oversupply of aspirants while precari…
Untapped: Exploring the Cultural Dimensions of Craft Beer
Masters of Craft: Old Jobs in the New Urban Economy
In today's new economy—in which “good” jobs are typically knowledge or technology based—many well-educated and culturally savvy young men are instead choosing to pursue traditionally low-status manual-labor occupations as careers. This book looks at the renaissance of four such trades: bartending, distilling, barbering, and butchering. The book takes readers into the lives and workplaces of these people to examine how they are transforming these …
Masters of Craft: Old Jobs in the New Urban Economy
How educated and culturally savvy young people are transforming traditionally low-status manual labor jobs into elite taste-making occupationsIn today's new economy-in which "good" jobs are typically knowledge or technology based-many well-educated and culturally savvy young men are instead choosing to pursue traditionally low-status manual labor occupations as careers. Masters of Craft looks at the renaissance of four such trades: bartending, di…
The Con Men: Hustling in New York City
Divided Spirits: Tequila, Mezcal, and the Politics of Production
Show the animal: Constructing and communicating new elite food tastes at upscale butcher shops
Subway diaries: How people experience and practice riding the train
This article examines the diverse ways in which people experience being strangers in public space. Based primarily on the journal entries of teenagers in New York City on their trips, we show the different ways in which riders experience being a rider amid diversity and norm violations. Some teenagers see being a rider as an engaging role, some as a detached role, and others as a precarious role. All the teenagers use folk theories to navigate th…
Brokerage, Mediation, and Social Networks in the Creative Industries
At your service: The meanings and practices of contemporary bartenders
Focusing on the differences between the devices and dispositions of cocktail and neighborhood bartenders, this article examines how service industry jobs become cultural intermediaries. Unlike other types of bartenders, cocktail bartenders engage in forms of professionalization to make legitimacy claims and use interactive service work to add value to their products. They possess autonomy and exclusivity over their work in the sense that they con…
The Early Gentrifier: Weaving a Nostalgia Narrative on the Lower East Side
Focusing on the consequences of social and cultural displacement from commercial gentrification, this article examines the perspective of “early gentrifiers” decades after they moved into the neighborhood. Based on ethnographic data collected on the Lower East Side—a gentrified neighborhood with new bars—this article analyzes how new nightlife triggered early gentrifiers to weave a “nostalgia narrative” from their experiences. They use this narra…
The Early Gentrifier: Weaving a Nostalgia Narrative on the Lower East Side
Focusing on the consequences of social and cultural displacement from commercial gentrification, this article examines the perspective of “early gentrifiers” decades after they moved into the neighborhood. Based on ethnographic data collected on the Lower East Side—a gentrified neighborhood with new bars—this article analyzes how new nightlife triggered early gentrifiers to weave a “nostalgia narrative” from their experiences. They use this narra…
Subway diaries: How people experience and practice riding the train
This article examines the diverse ways in which people experience being strangers in public space. Based primarily on the journal entries of teenagers in New York City on their trips, we show the different ways in which riders experience being a rider amid diversity and norm violations. Some teenagers see being a rider as an engaging role, some as a detached role, and others as a precarious role. All the teenagers use folk theories to navigate th…
Untapped: Exploring the Cultural Dimensions of Craft Beer
Show the animal: Constructing and communicating new elite food tastes at upscale butcher shops
Centering Small Cities for Urban Sociology in the 21st Century
The creative class gets political: Gentrifier politics in small city America
Gentrification is one among many issues in small cities that urban research has yet to adequately address. As many large cities are becoming unaffordable for even the middle class, some of these residents with assets are leaving them and bypassing suburbs for smaller cities, becoming gentrifiers in these places. However, we know very little about the perspectives and actions of such gentrifiers in their new urban environment. This study analyzes …
At your service: The meanings and practices of contemporary bartenders
Focusing on the differences between the devices and dispositions of cocktail and neighborhood bartenders, this article examines how service industry jobs become cultural intermediaries. Unlike other types of bartenders, cocktail bartenders engage in forms of professionalization to make legitimacy claims and use interactive service work to add value to their products. They possess autonomy and exclusivity over their work in the sense that they con…
The Precarious Project and the Wasted Opportunity: The Social and Cultural Dynamics of Conflict over Urban Development
Much of the research on residents’ responses to urban development projects focuses on their self-interests, specifically economic position or quality of life. We know comparatively little about how social and cultural factors help influence and explain these behaviors, especially under conditions of gentrification. Based on an analysis of people’s reactions toward a development project in Newburgh, New York, an impoverished small city experiencin…
From Apple to Orange: Narratives of Small City Migration and Settlement among the Urban Middle Class
As large cities become unaffordable, some people in the urban middle class are moving to small cities but risk replicating gentrification and its harms. Based on a qualitative research project on Newburgh, a small city north of New York City, this paper examines the narratives that middle-class urbanites construct to make sense of this migration, their new urban environment, and their place within it. These narratives describe their decision to m…
The Virtue of Opportunity: Moral Framing, Community, and Conditional Gentrification
Gentrification is controversial mainly because of the potential displacement of existing low-income groups. Many gentrifiers therefore grapple with the moral implications of their role in this process. Based on three years of fieldwork and 46 interviews in a small city, this paper explains how gentrifiers construct the moral frames they use to identify and justify both themselves and gentrification as morally good, and how their moral ideas shape…
Mobile trust regimes: Modes of attachment in an age of banal omnivorousness
The 21st century rise of culturally omnivorous tastes and classifications proffers a new dilemma for how markets create attachments and achieve trust for global consumers. Consumer entities must be both globally circulatable and offer a sense of localized authenticity without compromising either. Drawing from research on market trust and attachment, this article introduces the concept of mobile trust regimes to account for how sets of actors and …
As it Seems: Producing and Consuming Nightlife in the Postindustrial City
What’ll it be? Cocktail bartenders and the redefinition of service in the creative economy
The Early Gentrifier: Weaving a Nostalgia Narrative on the Lower East Side
Focusing on the consequences of social and cultural displacement from commercial gentrification, this article examines the perspective of “early gentrifiers” decades after they moved into the neighborhood. Based on ethnographic data collected on the Lower East Side—a gentrified neighborhood with new bars—this article analyzes how new nightlife triggered early gentrifiers to weave a “nostalgia narrative” from their experiences. They use this narra…
At your service: The meanings and practices of contemporary bartenders
Focusing on the differences between the devices and dispositions of cocktail and neighborhood bartenders, this article examines how service industry jobs become cultural intermediaries. Unlike other types of bartenders, cocktail bartenders engage in forms of professionalization to make legitimacy claims and use interactive service work to add value to their products. They possess autonomy and exclusivity over their work in the sense that they con…
Brokerage, Mediation, and Social Networks in the Creative Industries
Show the animal: Constructing and communicating new elite food tastes at upscale butcher shops
Subway diaries: How people experience and practice riding the train
This article examines the diverse ways in which people experience being strangers in public space. Based primarily on the journal entries of teenagers in New York City on their trips, we show the different ways in which riders experience being a rider amid diversity and norm violations. Some teenagers see being a rider as an engaging role, some as a detached role, and others as a precarious role. All the teenagers use folk theories to navigate th…
Masters of Craft: Old Jobs in the New Urban Economy
In today's new economy—in which “good” jobs are typically knowledge or technology based—many well-educated and culturally savvy young men are instead choosing to pursue traditionally low-status manual-labor occupations as careers. This book looks at the renaissance of four such trades: bartending, distilling, barbering, and butchering. The book takes readers into the lives and workplaces of these people to examine how they are transforming these …
Masters of Craft: Old Jobs in the New Urban Economy
How educated and culturally savvy young people are transforming traditionally low-status manual labor jobs into elite taste-making occupationsIn today's new economy-in which "good" jobs are typically knowledge or technology based-many well-educated and culturally savvy young men are instead choosing to pursue traditionally low-status manual labor occupations as careers. Masters of Craft looks at the renaissance of four such trades: bartending, di…
The Con Men: Hustling in New York City
Divided Spirits: Tequila, Mezcal, and the Politics of Production
Sustaining Enchantment: How Cultural Workers Manage Precariousness and Routine
Deriving pleasure and meaning from one’s job is especially potent in the cultural industries, where workers routinely sacrifice monetary rewards, stability, and tidier careers for the nonmonetary benefits of self-expression, autonomy, and contribution to the greater good. Cultural labor markets are consequently characterized by the continual churning of its workforce; the lure of “cool” employment attracts an oversupply of aspirants while precari…
Untapped: Exploring the Cultural Dimensions of Craft Beer
Urban Ethnography: Legacies and Challenges
The creative class gets political: Gentrifier politics in small city America
Gentrification is one among many issues in small cities that urban research has yet to adequately address. As many large cities are becoming unaffordable for even the middle class, some of these residents with assets are leaving them and bypassing suburbs for smaller cities, becoming gentrifiers in these places. However, we know very little about the perspectives and actions of such gentrifiers in their new urban environment. This study analyzes …
From Apple to Orange: Narratives of Small City Migration and Settlement among the Urban Middle Class
As large cities become unaffordable, some people in the urban middle class are moving to small cities but risk replicating gentrification and its harms. Based on a qualitative research project on Newburgh, a small city north of New York City, this paper examines the narratives that middle-class urbanites construct to make sense of this migration, their new urban environment, and their place within it. These narratives describe their decision to m…
Capital Without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent by Harrington, B. (2016)
Centering Small Cities for Urban Sociology in the 21st Century
Working for Respect
From Taverns to Gastropubs: Food, Drink, and Sociality in England
Andrews, C. K. (2019). The Overworked Consumer: Self-Checkouts, Supermarkets, and the Do-It-Yourself Economy
The Precarious Project and the Wasted Opportunity: The Social and Cultural Dynamics of Conflict over Urban Development
Much of the research on residents’ responses to urban development projects focuses on their self-interests, specifically economic position or quality of life. We know comparatively little about how social and cultural factors help influence and explain these behaviors, especially under conditions of gentrification. Based on an analysis of people’s reactions toward a development project in Newburgh, New York, an impoverished small city experiencin…
Mobile trust regimes: Modes of attachment in an age of banal omnivorousness
The 21st century rise of culturally omnivorous tastes and classifications proffers a new dilemma for how markets create attachments and achieve trust for global consumers. Consumer entities must be both globally circulatable and offer a sense of localized authenticity without compromising either. Drawing from research on market trust and attachment, this article introduces the concept of mobile trust regimes to account for how sets of actors and …
The Virtue of Opportunity: Moral Framing, Community, and Conditional Gentrification
Gentrification is controversial mainly because of the potential displacement of existing low-income groups. Many gentrifiers therefore grapple with the moral implications of their role in this process. Based on three years of fieldwork and 46 interviews in a small city, this paper explains how gentrifiers construct the moral frames they use to identify and justify both themselves and gentrification as morally good, and how their moral ideas shape…
Editor’s Farewell
Sociology (20 works) · Political science (17 works) · Law (13 works) · Business (11 works) · Art (9 works) · Economics (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (7 works)