Denise Milstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 256636 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Denise Milstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Denise |
| FAMILY NAME | Milstein |
| SIGNATURE | MILSTEIN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6601-0709 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Hybrid Epistemology
This paper describes how sociologists and oral historians collaborated to create, register, and analyze an extensive archive of interviews with New Yorkers during the Covid-19 pandemic. The challenges of framing the project, forming a team of interviewers, recruiting participants, and conducting interviews within the demands and urgency of pandemic conditions led researchers to reexamine their respective disciplinary foundations and methodologica…
Repertoires of repair
This article examines the practices used by people who, while in a state of crisis, attempt to restore the sense of continuity and dependability in their environment that is a prerequisite for meaningful social action. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 115 people conducted during the catastrophic first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in New York City, we identify major categories and triggers of disruption as well as what we call the “repe…
Improvisation, Design, and Sociality during the Pandemic
This conversation explores the use of rapid response oral history to collect the lived experiences of New Yorkers during the pandemic. Through audio-visual interviews and written testimonials, this project archives accounts of the general public, including public health officials, frontline workers, policymakers, and essential workers. Documenting the pandemic in real time offers insight into moments that might be lost as the situation transforms…
Reassembling Activism, Activating Assemblages
Down to earth social movements
Taking his most recent publications on ways to engage with the planet as a point of departure, this conversation with Bruno Latour considers some of the political and conceptual challenges associated with what he calls the New Climate Regime. Latour discusses the need for breaking with the modernist framework that set the stage for the environmental crisis in the first place, and which has also hindered the capacity of social movements to affect …
Reassembling activism, activating assemblages
This introductory essay conceptually situates the dialogue between Actor–Network Theory (ANT) and Social Movement Studies that this special issue aims to foster. Rather than considering ANT as a theory in the classic sense, we define it as a theoretical sensibility open to permanently redrawing its own shape in response to the relational entanglements it studies. ANT and its sibling, assemblage theory, have allowed scholars to attend to the compl…
The Cold War and Musical Convergence in Uruguay
This paper explores how the Cold War directly and indirectly shapedthe terrain on which popular music evolved in Uruguay during the period ofauthoritarianism that stretched from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s. Fourmoments in the evolution of two distinct musical movements, one associatedwith protest, the other with rock, reveal the intersection of politics andculture in the world of popular music. When Cold War driven repressionsupersedes aesthet…
Popular Music and Society, 2nd edition
The Interactions of Musicians, Mass Media and the State in the Context of Brazilian and Uruguayan Authoritarianism
During the 1960s and 1970s, the Uruguayan and Brazilian states clashed with politically and culturally contestatarian artistic movements. While counter-cultural artists built their images and created art against the grain of accepted cultural norms, politically engaged artists supported and participated in the struggle for social change, serving as mouthpieces for social movements by using their songs to transmit political messages. Not all artis…
Down to earth social movements
Taking his most recent publications on ways to engage with the planet as a point of departure, this conversation with Bruno Latour considers some of the political and conceptual challenges associated with what he calls the New Climate Regime. Latour discusses the need for breaking with the modernist framework that set the stage for the environmental crisis in the first place, and which has also hindered the capacity of social movements to affect …
Reassembling activism, activating assemblages
This introductory essay conceptually situates the dialogue between Actor–Network Theory (ANT) and Social Movement Studies that this special issue aims to foster. Rather than considering ANT as a theory in the classic sense, we define it as a theoretical sensibility open to permanently redrawing its own shape in response to the relational entanglements it studies. ANT and its sibling, assemblage theory, have allowed scholars to attend to the compl…
Repertoires of repair
This article examines the practices used by people who, while in a state of crisis, attempt to restore the sense of continuity and dependability in their environment that is a prerequisite for meaningful social action. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 115 people conducted during the catastrophic first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in New York City, we identify major categories and triggers of disruption as well as what we call the “repe…
The Interactions of Musicians, Mass Media and the State in the Context of Brazilian and Uruguayan Authoritarianism
During the 1960s and 1970s, the Uruguayan and Brazilian states clashed with politically and culturally contestatarian artistic movements. While counter-cultural artists built their images and created art against the grain of accepted cultural norms, politically engaged artists supported and participated in the struggle for social change, serving as mouthpieces for social movements by using their songs to transmit political messages. Not all artis…
Popular Music and Society, 2nd edition
The Cold War and Musical Convergence in Uruguay
This paper explores how the Cold War directly and indirectly shapedthe terrain on which popular music evolved in Uruguay during the period ofauthoritarianism that stretched from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s. Fourmoments in the evolution of two distinct musical movements, one associatedwith protest, the other with rock, reveal the intersection of politics andculture in the world of popular music. When Cold War driven repressionsupersedes aesthet…
Reassembling activism, activating assemblages
This introductory essay conceptually situates the dialogue between Actor–Network Theory (ANT) and Social Movement Studies that this special issue aims to foster. Rather than considering ANT as a theory in the classic sense, we define it as a theoretical sensibility open to permanently redrawing its own shape in response to the relational entanglements it studies. ANT and its sibling, assemblage theory, have allowed scholars to attend to the compl…
Reassembling Activism, Activating Assemblages
Down to earth social movements
Taking his most recent publications on ways to engage with the planet as a point of departure, this conversation with Bruno Latour considers some of the political and conceptual challenges associated with what he calls the New Climate Regime. Latour discusses the need for breaking with the modernist framework that set the stage for the environmental crisis in the first place, and which has also hindered the capacity of social movements to affect …
Improvisation, Design, and Sociality during the Pandemic
This conversation explores the use of rapid response oral history to collect the lived experiences of New Yorkers during the pandemic. Through audio-visual interviews and written testimonials, this project archives accounts of the general public, including public health officials, frontline workers, policymakers, and essential workers. Documenting the pandemic in real time offers insight into moments that might be lost as the situation transforms…
Repertoires of repair
This article examines the practices used by people who, while in a state of crisis, attempt to restore the sense of continuity and dependability in their environment that is a prerequisite for meaningful social action. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 115 people conducted during the catastrophic first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in New York City, we identify major categories and triggers of disruption as well as what we call the “repe…
Hybrid Epistemology
This paper describes how sociologists and oral historians collaborated to create, register, and analyze an extensive archive of interviews with New Yorkers during the Covid-19 pandemic. The challenges of framing the project, forming a team of interviewers, recruiting participants, and conducting interviews within the demands and urgency of pandemic conditions led researchers to reexamine their respective disciplinary foundations and methodologica…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Music History and Culture (3 works) · Authoritarianism (2 works) · Brazilian cultural history and politics (2 works)