Sharon Zukin
Biographic Data
| ID | 216691 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sharon Zukin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sharon |
| FAMILY NAME | Zukin |
| SIGNATURE | ZUKIN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brooklyn College |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-6476-1779 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 95 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1556 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 93 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
From the control room to the Googleplex: ‘Innovation needs a where’
Big Tech companies like Google have spread their priorities from city to city by integrating their products into local infrastructure and forming new public–private partnerships to manage them. This article asks what happens when co-dependence fails, and briefly reviews attempts to describe and label emerging urban-tech regimes
The Covid-19 Pandemic in New York’s Food Sector: How Small Businesses, Restaurants, and Outdoor Markets Adapted
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the food industry in New York was devastated by the public health crisis, accompanied by state-imposed shutdowns, mass unemployment, and broken supply chains. When New Yorkers were allowed to return to work, although under pandemic restrictions, food businesses adapted by offering new services, selling groceries and takeout dishes, and shifting from indoor to outdoor dining. Restaurant workers became entrepreneurs, o…
La pandémie de Covid-19 dans le secteur alimentaire à New York: L’adaptation des petites entreprises (restaurants et marchés de plein air)
Pendant la pandémie du Covid-19, le secteur alimentaire à New York a été dévasté par la crise sanitaire, avec les confinements imposés par l’État, le chômage de masse et la rupture des chaînes d’approvisionnement. Quand les New-Yorkais étaient autorisés à retourner au travail, malgré les restrictions liées à la pandémie, les entreprises alimentaires se sont adaptées en proposant de nouveaux services, en vendant des produits alimentaires et des pl…
Resistance and Response in Planning: Edited by Susan S. Fainstein and John Forester
Variations on Variations: Placing public space in context
The year that frames this special issue, 2020, was a year of enormous aspiration and tragic repression, both enacted and represented in the commonly accessible places where our most significant collectivities are formed. It was a year of euphoria and denial, peaceful protest and violence, ingenious celebrations of participatory civic rituals and terrifying mobilizations of near-fascist state power. It was also when a previously unknown corona vir…
The Innovation Complex: Cities, Tech, and the New Economy (excerpt)
Э лектронный журнал «Экономическая социология» издаётся с 2000 г.Учредителями являются Национальный исследовательский университет «Высшая школа экономики» (с 2007 г.) и Вадим Валерьевич Радаев (главный редактор).Цель журнала -утверждать международные стандарты экономико-социологических исследований в России, представлять современные работы российских и зарубежных авторов в области экономической социологии, информировать профессиональное сообществ…
Planetary Silicon Valley: Deconstructing New York’s innovation complex
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the use of digital platforms and software for operating remotely and encouraged employers to reshape the workplace for social distancing. But it is not at all clear what these arrangements will mean for cities that have spent the past decade building an ‘innovation complex’ around physical density, digital technology and real estate development. On the one hand, many parts of the tech ecosystem that relied on…
The Innovation Complex: Cities, Tech, and the New Economy
The Innovation Complex shows how the new urban economy is being shaped by digital technology businesses and organizations, city government, and a tech-financial meritocracy. Looking closely at “innovation” in New York from the city’s fall in the dot-com crash of 2000 to its emergence as the second-largest startup ecosystem of the 2010s, the book examines the emergence of new organizational, geographical, and discursive spaces that literally root …
Editors' introduction to the special issue on the sociology of digital technology
Seeing like a city: How Tech Became Urban
Death and Life of Great American C ities, The /J. Jacobs
In The Death and Life of Great American Cities , Jane Jacobs defends the complexity, vitality, and diversity of older cities against the massive post‐World War II shift of resources and people to US suburbs. She praises mixed uses of space and describes the “sidewalk ballet” of storekeepers, neighbors, and strangers that keeps a street lively and safe at all hours of day and night. But she condemns the “great blight of dullness” imposed by bureau…
Point of Purchase: How Shopping Changed American Culture
Prologue: What Shopping Is 1. A Brief History of Shopping 2. Julia Learns to Shop 3. From Woolworth's to Wal-Mart 4. Perfect Pair of Leather Pants 5. B. Altman, Ralph Lauren, and the Death of the Leisure Class 6. Artemio Goes to Tiffany's 7. Consumer Guides and the Invention of Lifestyle 8. How Brooks Brothers Came to Look Like Banana Republic 9. The Zen of Internet Shopping 10.
Alienation by Consumption: New‐Wave Gentrification in DC
Dire la ville c’est faire la ville: La performativité des discours sur l’espace urbain
L’urbanisme se nourrit de discours, de récits, d’idéologies, de théories et de doctrines. Les discours officiels, les argumentaires marchands et civiques affectent la production et la transformation de l’espace urbain. Introduit par Sharon Zukin, cet ouvrage collectif essaye de montrer comment les discours des usagers, des décideurs et des concepteurs de la ville mettent en scène l’urbanisme au quotidien. Ils fabriquent le passé et le futur des v…
Gentrification in Three Paradoxes
Global Cities, Local Streets: Everyday Diversity from New York to Shanghai
The omnivore’s neighborhood? Online restaurant reviews, race, and gentrification
Social media users who post restaurant reviews on the website Yelp.com act as both prosumers or produsers and “discursive investors” in gentrification. Their unpaid online reviews create cultural and financial value for individual restaurants and also construct a positive or negative image of their locations that may lead to economic investment. Moreover, Yelp reviewers show marked preferences in terms of race. Examining 7046 Yelp reviews of rest…
Restaurants as “Post Racial” Spaces. Soul Food and Symbolic Eviction in Bedford‐Stuyvesant (Brooklyn)
Pendant de nombreuses années, la prédominance de restaurants bon marché et de restaurants servant les plats traditionnels du Sud rural, dont beaucoup des migrants afro‐américains étaient originaires, incarnait l’icône du ghetto américain. Les restaurants proposant de la Soul Food offraient un espace social où se pouvait se développer et se mettre en scène une identité « noire », et où, bien qu’ils ne soient propriétaires ni des bâtiments ni des m…
Restaurants as “post racial” spaces. Soul food and symbolic eviction in Bedford‐Stuyvesant (Brooklyn)
Pendant de nombreuses années, la prédominance de restaurants bon marché et de restaurants servant les plats traditionnels du Sud rural, dont beaucoup des migrants afro‐américains étaient originaires, incarnait l’icône du ghetto américain. Les restaurants proposant de la Soul Food offraient un espace social où se pouvait se développer et se mettre en scène une identité « noire », et où, bien qu’ils ne soient propriétaires ni des bâtiments ni des m…
After the World Trade Center: Rethinking New York City
The terrorist attacks of September 11 have created an unprecedented public discussion about the uses and meanings of the central area of lower Manhattan that was once the World Trade Center. While the city sifts through the debris, contrary forces shaping its future are at work. Developers jockey to control the right to rebuild "ground zero." Financial firms line up for sweetheart deals while proposals for memorials are gaining in appeal. In Afte…
Universités et enjeux territoriaux: Une comparaison internationale de l'économie de la connaissance
Appelées de plus en plus à participer à des projets de développement basés sur la connaissance, les universités subissent de fortes pressions, pour se réorganiser autour de pôles d'innovation, s'ouvrant davantage vers l'extérieur et favorisant les interactions avec le territoire. Les universités, il est vrai, ont déjà fait l'objet d'études, de réflexions ou de critiques, par le passé. De nouveaux enjeux les ont remis à l'ordre du jour, un peu par…
The social production of urban cultural heritage: Identity and ecosystem on an Amsterdam shopping street
The Just City – By Susan S. Fainstein
The life cycle of New York’s creative districts: Reflections on the unanticipated consequences of unplanned cultural zones
Reconstructing the authenticity of place
Sociologists tend to over-conceptualize the divergent cultures of adjacent places, both neglecting necessary structural and institutional factors and focusing on symbols more than interests. In the post-industrial era, sense of place reflects geographical mobility, the social construction of landscape, and marketing strategies. Like gentrified neighborhoods and hipster districts in cities, rural regions like Vermont are reborn through the social,…
Gentrification: Culture and Capital in the Urban Core
Gentrification, the conversion of socially marginal and working-class areas of the central city to middle-class residential use, reflects a movement, that began in the 1960s, of private-market investment capital into downtown districts of major urban centers. Related to a shift in corporate investment and a corresponding expansion of the urban service economy, gentrification was seen more immediately in architectural restoration of deteriorating …
Urban Lifestyles: Diversity and Standardisation in Spaces of Consumption
Entrepreneurial Labor among Cultural Producers: Cool" Jobs in "Hot" Industries
This article compares the work of fashion models and "new media workers" (those who work in the relatively new medium of the Internet as dot-com workers) in order to highlight the processes of entrepreneurial labor in culture industries. Based on interviews and participant-observation in New York City, we trace how entrepreneurial labor becomes intertwined with work identities in cultural industries both on and off the job. While workers are draw…
Consuming Authenticity: From Outposts of Difference to Means of Exclusion
Alternative consumption practices often lead to the creation of entrepreneurial spaces like restaurants and bars, and to the resurgence of farmers' markets, offering urban consumers a safe and comfortable place to 'perform' difference from mainstream norms. These spaces fabricate an aura of authenticity based on the history of the area or the back story of their products, and capitalize on the tastes of their young, alternative clientele. This vi…
Consumers and Consumption
Consumption is a social, cultural, and economic process of choosing goods, and this process reflects the opportunities and constraints of modernity. Viewing consumption as an 'institutional field,' the review suggests how consumption bridges economic and cultural institutions, large-scale changes in social structure, and discourses of the self. New technologies, ideologies, and delivery systems create consumption spaces in an institutional framew…
New Retail Capital and Neighborhood Change: Boutiques and Gentrification in New York City
Since the 1970s, certain types of upscale restaurants, cafés, and stores have emerged as highly visible signs of gentrification in cities all over the world. Taking Harlem and Williamsburg as field sites, we explore the role of these new stores and services (“boutiques”) as agents of change in New York City through data on changing composition of retail and services, interviews with new store owners, and discursive analysis of print media. Since …
The omnivore’s neighborhood? Online restaurant reviews, race, and gentrification
Social media users who post restaurant reviews on the website Yelp.com act as both prosumers or produsers and “discursive investors” in gentrification. Their unpaid online reviews create cultural and financial value for individual restaurants and also construct a positive or negative image of their locations that may lead to economic investment. Moreover, Yelp reviewers show marked preferences in terms of race. Examining 7046 Yelp reviews of rest…
From Coney Island to Las Vegas in the Urban Imaginary: Discursive Practices of Growth and Decline
A discursive analysis of cultural images, social practices, and space adds a new level of social critique to the usual explanations of urban growth and decline. Instead of focusing on either "objective" or "subjective" factors, a discursive analysis assumes a coherence between social and spatial arrangements that is derived in and through cultural meanings attached to specific places and has a material effect on their growth and decline. Both the…
Socio-Spatial Prototypes of a New Organization of Consumption: The Role of Real Cultural Capital
The recent proliferation of new market-based consumer goods and experiences, and the high visibility of such consumption-biased spatial complexes as 'gentrification' and 'Disney World', call attention to the real, rather than the symbolic, role of cultural capital in contemporary service economies. Cultural capital is linked, on the one hand, with the circulation of financial capital in investment and production. It is related, on the other hand,…
A decade of the new urban sociology
Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places
As cities have gentrified, educated urbanites have come to prize what they regard as "authentic" urban life: aging buildings, art galleries, small boutiques, upscale food markets, neighborhood old-timers, funky ethnic restaurants, and old, family-owned shops. These signify a place's authenticity, in contrast to the bland standardization of the suburbs and exurbs. But as Sharon Zukin shows in Naked City, the rapid and pervasive demand for authenti…
Bourdieu Off‐Broadway: Managing Distinction on a Shopping Block in the East Village
The economic and social vitality of East Ninth Street, in the East Village of Lower Manhattan, testifies to the area's long‐standing reputation for cutting‐edge culture and the street's astounding high density of unusual stores. Like a regional industrial district, the block between First and Second Avenues works as a specialized agglomeration of small producers, who are dependent on both supportive local suppliers and populations and customers f…
The Postmodern Debate over Urban Form
Changing Landscapes of Power: Opulence and the Urge for Authenticity
Moving beyond two often used constructs that describe recent socio-spatial changes in cities - gentrification and neoliberalism - this discussion suggests working with the aesthetic idea of authenticity to support the right to a diverse city. As an analytic construct, authenticity has several virtues: it directs attention to culture as well as political economy in the development of global urbanism; it connects to the pervasive modern search for …
Reconstructing the authenticity of place
Sociologists tend to over-conceptualize the divergent cultures of adjacent places, both neglecting necessary structural and institutional factors and focusing on symbols more than interests. In the post-industrial era, sense of place reflects geographical mobility, the social construction of landscape, and marketing strategies. Like gentrified neighborhoods and hipster districts in cities, rural regions like Vermont are reborn through the social,…
Loft living as 'historic compromise' in the urban core: The New York experience
Gentrification in Three Paradoxes
Seeing like a city: How Tech Became Urban
Planetary Silicon Valley: Deconstructing New York’s innovation complex
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the use of digital platforms and software for operating remotely and encouraged employers to reshape the workplace for social distancing. But it is not at all clear what these arrangements will mean for cities that have spent the past decade building an ‘innovation complex’ around physical density, digital technology and real estate development. On the one hand, many parts of the tech ecosystem that relied on…
What's cooking
Critical and Moral Stances in Consumer Studies
Beyond Marx and Tito: Theory and Practice in Yugoslav Socialism
1. Yugoslav socialism: a critical introduction 2. The official ideology of self-management 3. Perceptions of society and politics 4. Political generations and political attitudes 5. The structure of political participation 6. Patterns of public interaction 7. Cultural parameters of Yugoslav society 8. Political and socialist development
Point of Purchase: How Shopping Changed American Culture
Prologue: What Shopping Is 1. A Brief History of Shopping 2. Julia Learns to Shop 3. From Woolworth's to Wal-Mart 4. Perfect Pair of Leather Pants 5. B. Altman, Ralph Lauren, and the Death of the Leisure Class 6. Artemio Goes to Tiffany's 7. Consumer Guides and the Invention of Lifestyle 8. How Brooks Brothers Came to Look Like Banana Republic 9. The Zen of Internet Shopping 10.
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
In the Middle Ages there were gaols and dungeons, but punishment was for the most part a spectacle. The economic changes and growing popular dissent of the 18th century made necessary a more systematic control over the individual members of society, and this in effect meant a change from punishment, which chastised the body, to reform, which touched the soul. Foucault shows the development of the Western system of prisons, police organizations, a…
Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World
The Case of the 'Belgrade Eight
Several times over the last two years, and especially during the past few months, Western intellectuals and reporters have called attention to the case of eight professors at Belgrade University who, under political pressure, have been subject to critical attacks and attempts at dismissal from their teaching positions (see statement of the Yugoslav Embassy, Telos, Winter 1973–74). While we must deplore these attacks as an unwarranted persecution …
From Affluence to Praxis
The Yugoslav social philosophers with whom Mihailo Marković and Svetozar Stojanović are most closely associated offer a “middle way” toward Marxist theory in which praxis, particularly through critical application of dialectical reasoning, has overcome the certainty of cant. In eschewing both Stalinism and Maoism for humanism, this approach has conformed, over the past two decades, to the apparent evolution of Yugoslav political practice. Indeed,…
Beyond Marx and Tito: Theory and Practice in Yugoslav Socialism
In this study Dr Zukin combines the approaches of a political scientist and a sociologist to examine the distance between theory and practice in the lives of ordinary Yugoslavs living under socialist self-management. Going beyond previous work on socialist societies, she asks how Yugoslavs - as workers, as citizens and as a society - have benefited from the form of socialism that they have pioneered. She also considers the relevance of the offici…
Does Socialism Liberate Women? Experiences from Eastern Europe
Hilda Scott, Does Socialism Liberate Women? Experiences from Eastern Europe. Boston: Beacon Press, 1974. 240 pages. $7.95
Beyond Marx and Tito: Theory and Practice in Yugoslav Socialism
1. Yugoslav socialism: a critical introduction 2. The official ideology of self-management 3. Perceptions of society and politics 4. Political generations and political attitudes 5. The structure of political participation 6. Patterns of public interaction 7. Cultural parameters of Yugoslav society 8. Political and socialist development
Class Struggle and the Industrial Revolution: Early Industrial Capitalism in Three English Towns
John Foster, Class Struggle and the Industrial Revolution: Early Industrial Capitalism in Three English Towns. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974
The Paris Conference on Self-Management
The Second International Conference on Participation, Workers' Control and Self-management, held in Paris last September 7 to 10, drew representatives of 28 countries, most of whom—except for a sizable dual delegation of “official” and “unofficial” Yugoslavs—came from the capitalist core of Western Europe and the United States. While these participants were well versed in the classical texts and the historical experiences of the revolutionary mov…
Mimesis in the origins of bourgeois culture
"Introduction to the "Belgrade Manifesto
The “Belgrade Eight,” a group of social scientists and philosophers from Belgrade University, has issued a statement on civil rights in socialist society to coincide with the current Belgrade meetings on compliance with the international Helsinki agreement. Their case, like their argument, is both ironic and complex. After being removed from their teaching positions years ago, at least seven members of the group—as well as several other sociologi…
The problem of social class under socialism
Praxis: Marxist Criticism and Dissent in Socialist Yugoslavia
Gerson S. Sher. Praxis: Marxist Criticism and Dissent in Socialist Yugoslavia. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1977
The Soviet Industrial Worker: Social Class, Education and Control
David Lane, and Felicity O'Dell. The Soviet Industrial Worker: Social Class, Education and Control. St. Martin's Press: New York, 1978. 167 pages
A decade of the new urban sociology
The Representation of Working-Class Interests in Socialist Society: Yugoslav Labor Unions
Loft living as 'historic compromise' in the urban core: The New York experience
French Socialists vs. Deindustrialization: The State in the World Economy
Both before and after May 1981, economic policy offered the Socialists a chance to prove themselves serious contenders for taking state power. The municipal socialism which had enabled them to establish or to maintain strong local bases in various parts of France during the 1970s launched a strategy of economic development by the indirect means at local governments' disposal. Transferring this strategy to the big domain of industrial management a…
Books in review
Markets and politics in France's declining regions
France has adopted an explicit policy of countering the decline of its old industrial areas, by encouraging a process of reindustrialization in those regions. The French experience illustrates the challenge that such an approach encounters, including dificulties arising out of policies of the European Community, the efforts of the government to achieve national growth targets, the locational preferences of potential “replacement” industries, and …
Markets and Politics in France's Declining Regions
The regional challenge to French industrial policy
Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850.Sean Wilentz
Books in review
Regulating the City: Competition, Scandal and Reform
The City and the Grassroots: A Cross-Cultural Theory of Urban Social Movements. Manuel Castells Urban Social Movements: The City After Castells. Stuart Lowe
Gentrification: Culture and Capital in the Urban Core
Gentrification, the conversion of socially marginal and working-class areas of the central city to middle-class residential use, reflects a movement, that began in the 1960s, of private-market investment capital into downtown districts of major urban centers. Related to a shift in corporate investment and a corresponding expansion of the urban service economy, gentrification was seen more immediately in architectural restoration of deteriorating …
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