Katherine Jensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3619717 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katherine Jensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Jensen |
| SIGNATURE | JENSEN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3701-9798 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Why Ethnography
What kind of knowledge does ethnography afford? Why do we need such knowledge? This paper draws upon the authors’ individual work to reflect on the ongoing necessity of good enough ethnographic fieldwork in sociology. Alongside presenting moving stories, unearthing rules of behavior, interpreting meanings through thick description, obtaining fine-grained insight into the working of organizations, revealing the complex interplay of informal and fo…
Critical needs to close monitoring gaps in pan-tropical wetland CH 4 emissions
Global wetlands are the largest and most uncertain natural source of atmospheric methane (CH 4 ). The FLUXNET-CH 4 synthesis initiative has established a global network of flux tower infrastructure, offering valuable data products and fostering a dedicated community for the measurement and analysis of methane flux data. Existing studies using the FLUXNET-CH 4 Community Product v1.0 have provided invaluable insights into the drivers of ecosystem-t…
From the asylum official's point of view
In 2021, there were 4.6 million asylum claims pending globally. How does the state determine that someone qualifies for refugee status? To understand refugee status determination, scholarship has focused on the characteristics of asylum seekers, their applications, and adjudicating officials. Relatively less is known about how officials make sense of asylum seekers and their claims. Building from a cognitive sociological approach, this article de…
Varied Racialization and Legal Inclusion
What does immigrant racialization look like in a context of legal inclusion? Although scholars have given notable attention to racialization in the face of illegality and exclusionary immigration regimes, less well understood are dimensions of racialization in inclusive legal contexts. Over the past decade, Brazil has experienced three major influxes of forcibly displaced people-from Haiti, Syria, and Venezuela. For each, Brazil radically expande…
The Meanings of Refugee Status
The legal processes and social hierarchies that asylum seekers and refugees navigate as they seek safe haven shape how they understand that status and their sense of belonging. In Brazil, formal policies of legal inclusion—combined with a lack of protection from economic precarity, social exclusion, and anti-black racism in daily life—slessen the objective impact and subjective weight of asylum
Teaching and Learning the Craft
Ethnography is not only a set of tools with which to collect data, but an epistemological vantage point from which to apprehend the social world. In this vein, we articulate a model of teaching and learning ethnography that entails focusing on how to construct an ethnographic object. In this chapter, we describe our way of teaching ethnography as not simply a method of data collection, but as a manner of training that pays particular attention – …
Asylum after empire
This is a book we have been waiting for. Asylum after Empire breaks new ground by taking seriously the legacies of colonialism for the politics of asylum in contemporary Britain and beyond. It prov
The epistemic logic of asylum screening
The current era demands our thoughtful attention to how states process asylum seeker claims for safe haven, yet we know little about the practices through which asylum officials carry out that work. Building from literature on the body and knowledge production, this paper illuminates the workings of (dis)embodiment in the asylum process. I use the term (dis)embodiment to refer to an arrangement of separate yet interdependent practices of disembod…
A Proposal for Public Sociology as Localized Intervention and Collective Enterprise
Gambling as a Community Development Quick Fix
As small communities throughout the country felt the loss of federal programs and funding, four gold-mining towns in South Dakota and Colorado turned to the legalization of limited-stakes gambling as a means of economic revitalization. All four used the preservation of their historic Old West images to legitimate gaming, but differences in state legislation resulted in different patterns of development. In Deadwood, South Dakota, many small casin…
Who Carries the Load? Who Carries the Cash? Work and Status among Egyptian Farm Women
A l'aide de la theorie de R. L. Blumberg sur la stratification de la categorie de sexe, l'A. etudie l'activite agricole et le statut social des femmes egyptiennes. Si la participation des femmes ne cesse d'augmenter dans le travail agricole, elles n'en ont pas pour autant une reconnaissance et un pouvoir social : chaque activite effectuee par une femme est en fait devaluee. De meme la remuneration ne sera pas synonyme de pouvoir a la difference d…
Women on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Woman as Subject, Oral History as Method
The Results. When we wrote the initial grant proposal, we intended to follow a strict academic model for writing and distributing the results of our research. Unfortunately, this has not happened with the speed or to the degree we had anticipated. There are several reasons for this. First, and most important, in 1975, most traditional academics were not interested in what we had to say and we quickly lost interest in telling them. To the Universi…
The epistemic logic of asylum screening
The current era demands our thoughtful attention to how states process asylum seeker claims for safe haven, yet we know little about the practices through which asylum officials carry out that work. Building from literature on the body and knowledge production, this paper illuminates the workings of (dis)embodiment in the asylum process. I use the term (dis)embodiment to refer to an arrangement of separate yet interdependent practices of disembod…
Varied Racialization and Legal Inclusion
What does immigrant racialization look like in a context of legal inclusion? Although scholars have given notable attention to racialization in the face of illegality and exclusionary immigration regimes, less well understood are dimensions of racialization in inclusive legal contexts. Over the past decade, Brazil has experienced three major influxes of forcibly displaced people-from Haiti, Syria, and Venezuela. For each, Brazil radically expande…
From the asylum official's point of view
In 2021, there were 4.6 million asylum claims pending globally. How does the state determine that someone qualifies for refugee status? To understand refugee status determination, scholarship has focused on the characteristics of asylum seekers, their applications, and adjudicating officials. Relatively less is known about how officials make sense of asylum seekers and their claims. Building from a cognitive sociological approach, this article de…
A Proposal for Public Sociology as Localized Intervention and Collective Enterprise
Who Carries the Load? Who Carries the Cash? Work and Status among Egyptian Farm Women
A l'aide de la theorie de R. L. Blumberg sur la stratification de la categorie de sexe, l'A. etudie l'activite agricole et le statut social des femmes egyptiennes. Si la participation des femmes ne cesse d'augmenter dans le travail agricole, elles n'en ont pas pour autant une reconnaissance et un pouvoir social : chaque activite effectuee par une femme est en fait devaluee. De meme la remuneration ne sera pas synonyme de pouvoir a la difference d…
Gambling as a Community Development Quick Fix
As small communities throughout the country felt the loss of federal programs and funding, four gold-mining towns in South Dakota and Colorado turned to the legalization of limited-stakes gambling as a means of economic revitalization. All four used the preservation of their historic Old West images to legitimate gaming, but differences in state legislation resulted in different patterns of development. In Deadwood, South Dakota, many small casin…
Women on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Woman as Subject, Oral History as Method
The Results. When we wrote the initial grant proposal, we intended to follow a strict academic model for writing and distributing the results of our research. Unfortunately, this has not happened with the speed or to the degree we had anticipated. There are several reasons for this. First, and most important, in 1975, most traditional academics were not interested in what we had to say and we quickly lost interest in telling them. To the Universi…
Women on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Who Carries the Load? Who Carries the Cash? Work and Status among Egyptian Farm Women
A l'aide de la theorie de R. L. Blumberg sur la stratification de la categorie de sexe, l'A. etudie l'activite agricole et le statut social des femmes egyptiennes. Si la participation des femmes ne cesse d'augmenter dans le travail agricole, elles n'en ont pas pour autant une reconnaissance et un pouvoir social : chaque activite effectuee par une femme est en fait devaluee. De meme la remuneration ne sera pas synonyme de pouvoir a la difference d…
Gambling as a Community Development Quick Fix
As small communities throughout the country felt the loss of federal programs and funding, four gold-mining towns in South Dakota and Colorado turned to the legalization of limited-stakes gambling as a means of economic revitalization. All four used the preservation of their historic Old West images to legitimate gaming, but differences in state legislation resulted in different patterns of development. In Deadwood, South Dakota, many small casin…
A Proposal for Public Sociology as Localized Intervention and Collective Enterprise
The epistemic logic of asylum screening
The current era demands our thoughtful attention to how states process asylum seeker claims for safe haven, yet we know little about the practices through which asylum officials carry out that work. Building from literature on the body and knowledge production, this paper illuminates the workings of (dis)embodiment in the asylum process. I use the term (dis)embodiment to refer to an arrangement of separate yet interdependent practices of disembod…
Teaching and Learning the Craft
Ethnography is not only a set of tools with which to collect data, but an epistemological vantage point from which to apprehend the social world. In this vein, we articulate a model of teaching and learning ethnography that entails focusing on how to construct an ethnographic object. In this chapter, we describe our way of teaching ethnography as not simply a method of data collection, but as a manner of training that pays particular attention – …
Asylum after empire
This is a book we have been waiting for. Asylum after Empire breaks new ground by taking seriously the legacies of colonialism for the politics of asylum in contemporary Britain and beyond. It prov
The Meanings of Refugee Status
The legal processes and social hierarchies that asylum seekers and refugees navigate as they seek safe haven shape how they understand that status and their sense of belonging. In Brazil, formal policies of legal inclusion—combined with a lack of protection from economic precarity, social exclusion, and anti-black racism in daily life—slessen the objective impact and subjective weight of asylum
Varied Racialization and Legal Inclusion
What does immigrant racialization look like in a context of legal inclusion? Although scholars have given notable attention to racialization in the face of illegality and exclusionary immigration regimes, less well understood are dimensions of racialization in inclusive legal contexts. Over the past decade, Brazil has experienced three major influxes of forcibly displaced people-from Haiti, Syria, and Venezuela. For each, Brazil radically expande…
From the asylum official's point of view
In 2021, there were 4.6 million asylum claims pending globally. How does the state determine that someone qualifies for refugee status? To understand refugee status determination, scholarship has focused on the characteristics of asylum seekers, their applications, and adjudicating officials. Relatively less is known about how officials make sense of asylum seekers and their claims. Building from a cognitive sociological approach, this article de…
Critical needs to close monitoring gaps in pan-tropical wetland CH 4 emissions
Global wetlands are the largest and most uncertain natural source of atmospheric methane (CH 4 ). The FLUXNET-CH 4 synthesis initiative has established a global network of flux tower infrastructure, offering valuable data products and fostering a dedicated community for the measurement and analysis of methane flux data. Existing studies using the FLUXNET-CH 4 Community Product v1.0 have provided invaluable insights into the drivers of ecosystem-t…
Why Ethnography
What kind of knowledge does ethnography afford? Why do we need such knowledge? This paper draws upon the authors’ individual work to reflect on the ongoing necessity of good enough ethnographic fieldwork in sociology. Alongside presenting moving stories, unearthing rules of behavior, interpreting meanings through thick description, obtaining fine-grained insight into the working of organizations, revealing the complex interplay of informal and fo…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (4 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Refugee (3 works)