Edward Snajdr
Biographic Data
| ID | 3617185 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward Snajdr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward |
| FAMILY NAME | Snajdr |
| SIGNATURE | SNAJDR E |
| AFFILIATIONS | John Jay College of Criminal Justice |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2044-7646 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Rendering the Anthropocene: My-topias in the semiotics of Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards conflict
This article explores how the Anthropocene is semioticized in people’s everyday consciousness in conflict over urban redevelopment. Focusing on the multi-billion-dollar Atlantic Yards project, in Brooklyn, NY, we examine how political economy is discursively mobilized with urban Anthropocenic landscapes. Using ethnographic and sociolinguistic methods, we present three case studies (blight studies, architectural renderings, and activists’ manipula…
The Banality of Good: The UN’s Global Fight Against Human Trafficking
Disorienting discourses and the making of gentrifiers in redeveloping Brooklyn
To preserve and to protect vanishing signs: Activism through art, ethnography, and linguistics in a gentrifying city
This article explores how a semiotics of the artistic aesthetics of New York City storefronts is deployed as activism against processes of gentrification and redevelopment. We examine how this creative endeavor by two local photographers compares to our own ethnographic and linguistic interventions uncovering and addressing storefront signage in gentrifying Brooklyn. We also compare this art activism to the ways in which developers and nations us…
What the Signs Say: Language, Gentrification, and Place-Making in Brooklyn
Mothering Brooklyn: Signs, sexuality, and gentrification under cover
This paper examines how Brooklyn retail signage represents how gentrifying women struggle for claiming space in public and the way in which different intersectional identity formations are used and implicated in transforming urban space. In exploring different ethnographic dimensions to retail storefronts, we show how women, many of whom are college-educated, married, and new mothers, play a significant role in redefining Brooklyn and cultural no…
When the Street Disappears: Eminent Domain, Redevelopment, and the Dissociative State
In this article, we examine how the state of New York and a private developer deployed eminent domain, or the seizing of private property by the government, in order to build the Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park project in Brooklyn, NY. We use ethnography to examine how the state operated in partnership with the developer through neoliberalizing discursive practices that allowed it to dissociate itself from the assertion of its governing power. In thi…
What the signs say: Gentrification and the disappearance ofcapitalism without distinctionin Brooklyn
We examine shop signs in Brooklyn, New York, as sociolinguistic technologies of place-making that operate through specific language ideologies which represent class struggles for material wealth. We find two salient types of signs which we callOld School VernacularandDistinction-makingsignage. The first indexes multiple inclusions in the neighborhood economy before gentrification and thus suggests a capitalism without distinction. These signs als…
Beneath the master narrative: Human trafficking, myths of sexual slavery and ethnographic realities
This paper explores the disconnections between anti-trafficking discourse and the local experience of responding to human trafficking as indicated in ethnographic data from Bosnia and Kazakhstan. Using the concept of “uptake,” I examine how anti-trafficking discourse operates as a master narrative, drawing on techniques of emotion and logic, as well as a specific type of victim story. I also consider how, despite an emerging counter discourse tha…
Anti-anti-trafficking? Toward critical ethnographies of human trafficking
From Brigades to Blogs: Environmentalism Online in Slovakia 20 Years after the Velvet Revolution
This article examines aspects of contemporary Slovak environmental activist discourse in the digital realm of blogging and cyberspace. It explores this subject by first comparing volunteer brigades and samizdat writing from the late communist period with present digital forms of environmentalism in the new millennium. Current environmental blogs are then analysed according to material, substantive, and discursive aspects as these suggest obstacle…
What the Brownstones Say: Surveying Place in Brooklyn
in focus, place, Brooklyn, redevelopment project, Atlantic Yards, community, urban anthropology
Culture and Crime
CULTURE, NORMS, AND TRANSGRESSIONS This chapter explores the complex relationship between culture and crime. Social scientists define culture as a system of learned, shared ideas and behaviors. All cultural systems include basic ideas of what constitutes proper or improper actions. But not all actions interpreted to be incorrect or immoral by members of one culture may be thought of as such by another group. It is, therefore, important from the p…
International Crime and Justice
International crime and justice is an emerging field that covers international and transnational crimes that have not been the focus of mainstream criminology or criminal justice. This book examines the field from a global perspective. It provides an introduction to the nature of international and transnational crimes and the theoretical perspectives that assist in understanding the relationship between social change and the waxing and waning of …
One Homeland or Two? The Nationalization and Transnationalization of Mongolia's Kazakhs by Alexander C. Diener
Ethnicizing the subject: Domestic violence and the politics of primordialism in Kazakhstan
This article examines how people understand domestic violence through primordialist notions of ethnicity in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. Drawing on fieldwork among police, victim advocates, and Muslim activists, I examine how these groups ethnically frame, or 'ethnicize', the topic of domestic violence, its victims and perpetrators, as well as its root causes and possible remedies. From explaining away ineffective policing to blaming past imperialism,…
Modern Clan Politics: The Power of "Blood" in Kazakhstan and Beyond
Modern Clan Politics: The Power of "Blood" in Kazakhstan and Beyond. Edward Schatz. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. 250 pp
Gender, power, and the performance of justice: Muslim women's responses to domestic violence in Kazakhstan
The grassroots assistance that Muslim women activists provide to victims of domestic abuse in Kazakhstan differs significantly from approaches commonly used by service providers in the United States. Yet the activists' informal remedies, which are shaped by discourses of religion and ethnicity and which have attracted women who seek something other than safety or formal justice, are implicitly regulated by cultural politics. By examining particul…
Society for the Anthropology of Work: Domestic Violence and the Police in Kazakhstan: Working for Change
The Children of the Greens: New Ecological Activism in Post-Socialist Slovakia
Slovakia’s vibrant Green movement of the 1980s has now taken a back seat to issues of independence and market reform. But a new generation of activists, too young to have participated in the Velvet Revolution, are revitalizing ecological issues and redefining Slovak environmentalism
What the signs say: Gentrification and the disappearance ofcapitalism without distinctionin Brooklyn
We examine shop signs in Brooklyn, New York, as sociolinguistic technologies of place-making that operate through specific language ideologies which represent class struggles for material wealth. We find two salient types of signs which we callOld School VernacularandDistinction-makingsignage. The first indexes multiple inclusions in the neighborhood economy before gentrification and thus suggests a capitalism without distinction. These signs als…
Gender, power, and the performance of justice: Muslim women's responses to domestic violence in Kazakhstan
The grassroots assistance that Muslim women activists provide to victims of domestic abuse in Kazakhstan differs significantly from approaches commonly used by service providers in the United States. Yet the activists' informal remedies, which are shaped by discourses of religion and ethnicity and which have attracted women who seek something other than safety or formal justice, are implicitly regulated by cultural politics. By examining particul…
Ethnicizing the subject: Domestic violence and the politics of primordialism in Kazakhstan
This article examines how people understand domestic violence through primordialist notions of ethnicity in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. Drawing on fieldwork among police, victim advocates, and Muslim activists, I examine how these groups ethnically frame, or 'ethnicize', the topic of domestic violence, its victims and perpetrators, as well as its root causes and possible remedies. From explaining away ineffective policing to blaming past imperialism,…
The Children of the Greens: New Ecological Activism in Post-Socialist Slovakia
Slovakia’s vibrant Green movement of the 1980s has now taken a back seat to issues of independence and market reform. But a new generation of activists, too young to have participated in the Velvet Revolution, are revitalizing ecological issues and redefining Slovak environmentalism
When the Street Disappears: Eminent Domain, Redevelopment, and the Dissociative State
In this article, we examine how the state of New York and a private developer deployed eminent domain, or the seizing of private property by the government, in order to build the Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park project in Brooklyn, NY. We use ethnography to examine how the state operated in partnership with the developer through neoliberalizing discursive practices that allowed it to dissociate itself from the assertion of its governing power. In thi…
To preserve and to protect vanishing signs: Activism through art, ethnography, and linguistics in a gentrifying city
This article explores how a semiotics of the artistic aesthetics of New York City storefronts is deployed as activism against processes of gentrification and redevelopment. We examine how this creative endeavor by two local photographers compares to our own ethnographic and linguistic interventions uncovering and addressing storefront signage in gentrifying Brooklyn. We also compare this art activism to the ways in which developers and nations us…
From Brigades to Blogs: Environmentalism Online in Slovakia 20 Years after the Velvet Revolution
This article examines aspects of contemporary Slovak environmental activist discourse in the digital realm of blogging and cyberspace. It explores this subject by first comparing volunteer brigades and samizdat writing from the late communist period with present digital forms of environmentalism in the new millennium. Current environmental blogs are then analysed according to material, substantive, and discursive aspects as these suggest obstacle…
Modern Clan Politics: The Power of "Blood" in Kazakhstan and Beyond
Modern Clan Politics: The Power of "Blood" in Kazakhstan and Beyond. Edward Schatz. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. 250 pp
The Children of the Greens: New Ecological Activism in Post-Socialist Slovakia
Slovakia’s vibrant Green movement of the 1980s has now taken a back seat to issues of independence and market reform. But a new generation of activists, too young to have participated in the Velvet Revolution, are revitalizing ecological issues and redefining Slovak environmentalism
Society for the Anthropology of Work: Domestic Violence and the Police in Kazakhstan: Working for Change
Gender, power, and the performance of justice: Muslim women's responses to domestic violence in Kazakhstan
The grassroots assistance that Muslim women activists provide to victims of domestic abuse in Kazakhstan differs significantly from approaches commonly used by service providers in the United States. Yet the activists' informal remedies, which are shaped by discourses of religion and ethnicity and which have attracted women who seek something other than safety or formal justice, are implicitly regulated by cultural politics. By examining particul…
Modern Clan Politics: The Power of "Blood" in Kazakhstan and Beyond
Modern Clan Politics: The Power of "Blood" in Kazakhstan and Beyond. Edward Schatz. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. 250 pp
Ethnicizing the subject: Domestic violence and the politics of primordialism in Kazakhstan
This article examines how people understand domestic violence through primordialist notions of ethnicity in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. Drawing on fieldwork among police, victim advocates, and Muslim activists, I examine how these groups ethnically frame, or 'ethnicize', the topic of domestic violence, its victims and perpetrators, as well as its root causes and possible remedies. From explaining away ineffective policing to blaming past imperialism,…
Culture and Crime
CULTURE, NORMS, AND TRANSGRESSIONS This chapter explores the complex relationship between culture and crime. Social scientists define culture as a system of learned, shared ideas and behaviors. All cultural systems include basic ideas of what constitutes proper or improper actions. But not all actions interpreted to be incorrect or immoral by members of one culture may be thought of as such by another group. It is, therefore, important from the p…
International Crime and Justice
International crime and justice is an emerging field that covers international and transnational crimes that have not been the focus of mainstream criminology or criminal justice. This book examines the field from a global perspective. It provides an introduction to the nature of international and transnational crimes and the theoretical perspectives that assist in understanding the relationship between social change and the waxing and waning of …
One Homeland or Two? The Nationalization and Transnationalization of Mongolia's Kazakhs by Alexander C. Diener
What the Brownstones Say: Surveying Place in Brooklyn
in focus, place, Brooklyn, redevelopment project, Atlantic Yards, community, urban anthropology
From Brigades to Blogs: Environmentalism Online in Slovakia 20 Years after the Velvet Revolution
This article examines aspects of contemporary Slovak environmental activist discourse in the digital realm of blogging and cyberspace. It explores this subject by first comparing volunteer brigades and samizdat writing from the late communist period with present digital forms of environmentalism in the new millennium. Current environmental blogs are then analysed according to material, substantive, and discursive aspects as these suggest obstacle…
Beneath the master narrative: Human trafficking, myths of sexual slavery and ethnographic realities
This paper explores the disconnections between anti-trafficking discourse and the local experience of responding to human trafficking as indicated in ethnographic data from Bosnia and Kazakhstan. Using the concept of “uptake,” I examine how anti-trafficking discourse operates as a master narrative, drawing on techniques of emotion and logic, as well as a specific type of victim story. I also consider how, despite an emerging counter discourse tha…
Anti-anti-trafficking? Toward critical ethnographies of human trafficking
What the signs say: Gentrification and the disappearance ofcapitalism without distinctionin Brooklyn
We examine shop signs in Brooklyn, New York, as sociolinguistic technologies of place-making that operate through specific language ideologies which represent class struggles for material wealth. We find two salient types of signs which we callOld School VernacularandDistinction-makingsignage. The first indexes multiple inclusions in the neighborhood economy before gentrification and thus suggests a capitalism without distinction. These signs als…
Mothering Brooklyn: Signs, sexuality, and gentrification under cover
This paper examines how Brooklyn retail signage represents how gentrifying women struggle for claiming space in public and the way in which different intersectional identity formations are used and implicated in transforming urban space. In exploring different ethnographic dimensions to retail storefronts, we show how women, many of whom are college-educated, married, and new mothers, play a significant role in redefining Brooklyn and cultural no…
When the Street Disappears: Eminent Domain, Redevelopment, and the Dissociative State
In this article, we examine how the state of New York and a private developer deployed eminent domain, or the seizing of private property by the government, in order to build the Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park project in Brooklyn, NY. We use ethnography to examine how the state operated in partnership with the developer through neoliberalizing discursive practices that allowed it to dissociate itself from the assertion of its governing power. In thi…
What the Signs Say: Language, Gentrification, and Place-Making in Brooklyn
To preserve and to protect vanishing signs: Activism through art, ethnography, and linguistics in a gentrifying city
This article explores how a semiotics of the artistic aesthetics of New York City storefronts is deployed as activism against processes of gentrification and redevelopment. We examine how this creative endeavor by two local photographers compares to our own ethnographic and linguistic interventions uncovering and addressing storefront signage in gentrifying Brooklyn. We also compare this art activism to the ways in which developers and nations us…
Rendering the Anthropocene: My-topias in the semiotics of Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards conflict
This article explores how the Anthropocene is semioticized in people’s everyday consciousness in conflict over urban redevelopment. Focusing on the multi-billion-dollar Atlantic Yards project, in Brooklyn, NY, we examine how political economy is discursively mobilized with urban Anthropocenic landscapes. Using ethnographic and sociolinguistic methods, we present three case studies (blight studies, architectural renderings, and activists’ manipula…
The Banality of Good: The UN’s Global Fight Against Human Trafficking
Disorienting discourses and the making of gentrifiers in redeveloping Brooklyn
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (9 works) · History (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Criminology (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · History (6 works) · Ethnography (5 works)