Debbie Becher
Biographic Data
| ID | 255664 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Debbie Becher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Debbie |
| FAMILY NAME | Becher |
| SIGNATURE | BECHER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Land Inequalities in the United States
Outside of Indigenous studies, sociologists tend to treat land in the United States as governed exclusively by an entrenched private-property regime: Land is a commodity and an object for individual control. This review presents land in the United States as more complicated and contingent. State law and related ideas comprise a dominant, hegemonic power that often appears unitary, coherent, and all-powerful. And yet, land takes on diverse cultura…
Manufactured Insecurity: Mobile Home Parks and Americans' Tenuous Right to Place
The (Valuation) Politics of Privatization
The Public Nature of Private Property
American legal academics describe private property as a set of private rights. However, liberal ideas of private control poorly describe legal practices, and thus the bundle of rights is a misleading metaphor for private property. Indeed, social theorists have long understood that property is not the ownership of a thing or a set of individual rights, but a set of social agreements about what ownership entails. In the late twentieth and early twe…
Black Citymakers: How The Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America
The Participant's Dilemma: Bringing Conflict and Representation Back In
Innovations in democratic participation involving small-scale, long-term focused governing bodies have increased citizen influence in poor American urban neighborhoods. Scholars have described these emerging forms of participation as essentially cooperative in spirit and directly democratic in nature. I argue that the new participatory regimes continue to involve social processes of representation and conflict inherent to more traditional forms o…
Narrating and naming positive agents
The Participant's Dilemma: Bringing Conflict and Representation Back In
Innovations in democratic participation involving small-scale, long-term focused governing bodies have increased citizen influence in poor American urban neighborhoods. Scholars have described these emerging forms of participation as essentially cooperative in spirit and directly democratic in nature. I argue that the new participatory regimes continue to involve social processes of representation and conflict inherent to more traditional forms o…
Black Citymakers: How The Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America
Land Inequalities in the United States
Outside of Indigenous studies, sociologists tend to treat land in the United States as governed exclusively by an entrenched private-property regime: Land is a commodity and an object for individual control. This review presents land in the United States as more complicated and contingent. State law and related ideas comprise a dominant, hegemonic power that often appears unitary, coherent, and all-powerful. And yet, land takes on diverse cultura…
Manufactured Insecurity: Mobile Home Parks and Americans' Tenuous Right to Place
Narrating and naming positive agents
The Participant's Dilemma: Bringing Conflict and Representation Back In
Innovations in democratic participation involving small-scale, long-term focused governing bodies have increased citizen influence in poor American urban neighborhoods. Scholars have described these emerging forms of participation as essentially cooperative in spirit and directly democratic in nature. I argue that the new participatory regimes continue to involve social processes of representation and conflict inherent to more traditional forms o…
The Public Nature of Private Property
American legal academics describe private property as a set of private rights. However, liberal ideas of private control poorly describe legal practices, and thus the bundle of rights is a misleading metaphor for private property. Indeed, social theorists have long understood that property is not the ownership of a thing or a set of individual rights, but a set of social agreements about what ownership entails. In the late twentieth and early twe…
Black Citymakers: How The Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America
The (Valuation) Politics of Privatization
Manufactured Insecurity: Mobile Home Parks and Americans' Tenuous Right to Place
Land Inequalities in the United States
Outside of Indigenous studies, sociologists tend to treat land in the United States as governed exclusively by an entrenched private-property regime: Land is a commodity and an object for individual control. This review presents land in the United States as more complicated and contingent. State law and related ideas comprise a dominant, hegemonic power that often appears unitary, coherent, and all-powerful. And yet, land takes on diverse cultura…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Law (2 works)