Lisa Hoffman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3639534 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Hoffman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Hoffman |
| SIGNATURE | HOFFMAN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington Tacoma |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5592-0339 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 200 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Precision Medicine, Future Risk and the Present Self
In May 2015, my mother was diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer and passed away three months later at the age of 78. Two years later, my older brother, only 53 at the time, was also diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He passed away 15 months later. With this news, we engaged in the genetic retelling of family histories and connections, drawing genealogical maps on pieces of paper that reminded me of teaching Anthro 101 and starkly reimagined …
Here. Again. Anti-Asian violence in the city
Over the course of 2020 and 2021, several Asian-owned businesses were vandalized and individuals of Asian descent were attacked in Tacoma, Washington, part of the alarming increase in anti-Asian violence in the past several years. The incidents occurred in parts of the settler colonial city, which sits on the ancestral territory of the Puyallup nation, that are embedded with histories of privilege, dispossession, and anti-Asian violence. Many of …
Wake up
We are living in what geographer Allan Pred called an “extended moment of danger.” Accelerations of capitalist modernity have for decades yielded new sensibilities and situations that have given way to crises of democracy across the globe. While the sentiment that we are living in precarious time has been expressed by many over the years, we believe it to be extraordinarily apt today, and that Allan Pred's later work offers a set of illuminations…
Assemblage as heuristic
This article presents an ‘assemblage heuristic’ as a methodological and context-specific approach to examine port city waterfront infrastructures, responding to the insufficiency of structural models to fully account for their complexity. As sites of rapid change and urban investment, waterfronts offer generative, variegated and deeply empirical opportunities for the use of assemblage thinking to advance urban theory and development, through whic…
Volunteering for the environment in China
This contribution argues that Aihwa Ong's approach to the urban as problem-space is a powerful and underutilized conceptual tool for studying contemporary urban worlds. Drawing on fieldwork with an environmental nongovernmental organization in Dalian, China, it suggests that environmental volunteering signaled important shifts in the specification of citizen-subjects and in what counted as effective urban governance. Making sense of such urban as…
Seeing “RED” to Serve Students
The purpose of this study was to examine to what extent a U.S. newcomer school for adolescent English language learners lacked adequate mental health services for immigrant students. School counseling professionals at this school sought data to advocate for additional mental health professionals without asking inappropriately invasive questions about family legal immigration status. Leveraging the expertise of school administrators, refugee reset…
Urban studies and thinking topologically
Urban studies and thinking topologically. Territory, Politics, Governance. This paper explores how topological thinking may be a useful heuristic offering increased conceptual flexibility for those grappling with how best to make comparison and generalizations across geographical locations. We review the existing literature that has used topology as a means of thinking about connectivity, space and spatial relations. We argue that thinking topolo…
Spaces of Danger
The Urban, Politics and Subject Formation
In contrast to more traditional debates about voting patterns, local versus state administrations, and individual rights and participatory democracy, this article addresses the question of urban politics through an analysis of subject formation. By taking subject formation as the analytical focus, research questions about 'politics' shift from traditional ones about local or state government and the development of consensus, for instance, to ones…
Community Health Partnerships for Chronic Disease Prevention Among Latinos
Decentralization as a Mode of Governing the urban in china
Urban Modeling and Contemporary Technologies of City‐Building in China
Shanghai Rising
Just One Child
Dignity and indignation
This article examines how people experiencing homelessness view their interactions with service providers. Drawing on a database of more than 500 transcribed interviews with people experiencing homelessness we find that descriptions of interactions with staff and providers were predominantly expressed in sharply negative terms, with experiences of objectification and infantilization being commonplace. In response to these experiences, nearly all …
Creating Market Socialism
Obedient Autonomy
Notes on the Anthropology of Neoliberalism
Autonomous choices and patriotic professionalism
This paper argues that choice and autonomy constitute important new techniques of governing in late-socialist China. College students no longer receive direct state job assignments upon graduation, going instead to job fairs where they experience a degree of autonomy from state planning organs that was not available under high socialism's central planning. Yet even as post-Mao governmental rationalities have promoted autonomous decisions, young p…
Enterprising cities and citizens
Strangers in the City
Guiding College Graduates to Work
China Urban
China Urban is an ethnographic account of China's cities and the place that urban space holds in China's imagination. In addition to investigating this nation's rapidly changing urban landscape, its contributors emphasize the need to rethink the very meaning of the "urban" and the utility of urban-focused anthropological critiques during a period of unprecedented change on local, regional, national, and global levels. Through close attention to e…
Autonomous choices and patriotic professionalism
This paper argues that choice and autonomy constitute important new techniques of governing in late-socialist China. College students no longer receive direct state job assignments upon graduation, going instead to job fairs where they experience a degree of autonomy from state planning organs that was not available under high socialism's central planning. Yet even as post-Mao governmental rationalities have promoted autonomous decisions, young p…
China Urban
China Urban is an ethnographic account of China's cities and the place that urban space holds in China's imagination. In addition to investigating this nation's rapidly changing urban landscape, its contributors emphasize the need to rethink the very meaning of the "urban" and the utility of urban-focused anthropological critiques during a period of unprecedented change on local, regional, national, and global levels. Through close attention to e…
Dignity and indignation
This article examines how people experiencing homelessness view their interactions with service providers. Drawing on a database of more than 500 transcribed interviews with people experiencing homelessness we find that descriptions of interactions with staff and providers were predominantly expressed in sharply negative terms, with experiences of objectification and infantilization being commonplace. In response to these experiences, nearly all …
Notes on the Anthropology of Neoliberalism
The Urban, Politics and Subject Formation
In contrast to more traditional debates about voting patterns, local versus state administrations, and individual rights and participatory democracy, this article addresses the question of urban politics through an analysis of subject formation. By taking subject formation as the analytical focus, research questions about 'politics' shift from traditional ones about local or state government and the development of consensus, for instance, to ones…
Decentralization as a Mode of Governing the urban in china
Urban studies and thinking topologically
Urban studies and thinking topologically. Territory, Politics, Governance. This paper explores how topological thinking may be a useful heuristic offering increased conceptual flexibility for those grappling with how best to make comparison and generalizations across geographical locations. We review the existing literature that has used topology as a means of thinking about connectivity, space and spatial relations. We argue that thinking topolo…
Assemblage as heuristic
This article presents an ‘assemblage heuristic’ as a methodological and context-specific approach to examine port city waterfront infrastructures, responding to the insufficiency of structural models to fully account for their complexity. As sites of rapid change and urban investment, waterfronts offer generative, variegated and deeply empirical opportunities for the use of assemblage thinking to advance urban theory and development, through whic…
Volunteering for the environment in China
This contribution argues that Aihwa Ong's approach to the urban as problem-space is a powerful and underutilized conceptual tool for studying contemporary urban worlds. Drawing on fieldwork with an environmental nongovernmental organization in Dalian, China, it suggests that environmental volunteering signaled important shifts in the specification of citizen-subjects and in what counted as effective urban governance. Making sense of such urban as…
Seeing “RED” to Serve Students
The purpose of this study was to examine to what extent a U.S. newcomer school for adolescent English language learners lacked adequate mental health services for immigrant students. School counseling professionals at this school sought data to advocate for additional mental health professionals without asking inappropriately invasive questions about family legal immigration status. Leveraging the expertise of school administrators, refugee reset…
Guiding College Graduates to Work
China Urban
China Urban is an ethnographic account of China's cities and the place that urban space holds in China's imagination. In addition to investigating this nation's rapidly changing urban landscape, its contributors emphasize the need to rethink the very meaning of the "urban" and the utility of urban-focused anthropological critiques during a period of unprecedented change on local, regional, national, and global levels. Through close attention to e…
Enterprising cities and citizens
Strangers in the City
Notes on the Anthropology of Neoliberalism
Autonomous choices and patriotic professionalism
This paper argues that choice and autonomy constitute important new techniques of governing in late-socialist China. College students no longer receive direct state job assignments upon graduation, going instead to job fairs where they experience a degree of autonomy from state planning organs that was not available under high socialism's central planning. Yet even as post-Mao governmental rationalities have promoted autonomous decisions, young p…
Obedient Autonomy
Dignity and indignation
This article examines how people experiencing homelessness view their interactions with service providers. Drawing on a database of more than 500 transcribed interviews with people experiencing homelessness we find that descriptions of interactions with staff and providers were predominantly expressed in sharply negative terms, with experiences of objectification and infantilization being commonplace. In response to these experiences, nearly all …
Creating Market Socialism
Shanghai Rising
Just One Child
Urban Modeling and Contemporary Technologies of City‐Building in China
Community Health Partnerships for Chronic Disease Prevention Among Latinos
Decentralization as a Mode of Governing the urban in china
The Urban, Politics and Subject Formation
In contrast to more traditional debates about voting patterns, local versus state administrations, and individual rights and participatory democracy, this article addresses the question of urban politics through an analysis of subject formation. By taking subject formation as the analytical focus, research questions about 'politics' shift from traditional ones about local or state government and the development of consensus, for instance, to ones…
Spaces of Danger
Urban studies and thinking topologically
Urban studies and thinking topologically. Territory, Politics, Governance. This paper explores how topological thinking may be a useful heuristic offering increased conceptual flexibility for those grappling with how best to make comparison and generalizations across geographical locations. We review the existing literature that has used topology as a means of thinking about connectivity, space and spatial relations. We argue that thinking topolo…
Seeing “RED” to Serve Students
The purpose of this study was to examine to what extent a U.S. newcomer school for adolescent English language learners lacked adequate mental health services for immigrant students. School counseling professionals at this school sought data to advocate for additional mental health professionals without asking inappropriately invasive questions about family legal immigration status. Leveraging the expertise of school administrators, refugee reset…
Volunteering for the environment in China
This contribution argues that Aihwa Ong's approach to the urban as problem-space is a powerful and underutilized conceptual tool for studying contemporary urban worlds. Drawing on fieldwork with an environmental nongovernmental organization in Dalian, China, it suggests that environmental volunteering signaled important shifts in the specification of citizen-subjects and in what counted as effective urban governance. Making sense of such urban as…
Assemblage as heuristic
This article presents an ‘assemblage heuristic’ as a methodological and context-specific approach to examine port city waterfront infrastructures, responding to the insufficiency of structural models to fully account for their complexity. As sites of rapid change and urban investment, waterfronts offer generative, variegated and deeply empirical opportunities for the use of assemblage thinking to advance urban theory and development, through whic…
Here. Again. Anti-Asian violence in the city
Over the course of 2020 and 2021, several Asian-owned businesses were vandalized and individuals of Asian descent were attacked in Tacoma, Washington, part of the alarming increase in anti-Asian violence in the past several years. The incidents occurred in parts of the settler colonial city, which sits on the ancestral territory of the Puyallup nation, that are embedded with histories of privilege, dispossession, and anti-Asian violence. Many of …
Wake up
We are living in what geographer Allan Pred called an “extended moment of danger.” Accelerations of capitalist modernity have for decades yielded new sensibilities and situations that have given way to crises of democracy across the globe. While the sentiment that we are living in precarious time has been expressed by many over the years, we believe it to be extraordinarily apt today, and that Allan Pred's later work offers a set of illuminations…
Precision Medicine, Future Risk and the Present Self
In May 2015, my mother was diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer and passed away three months later at the age of 78. Two years later, my older brother, only 53 at the time, was also diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He passed away 15 months later. With this news, we engaged in the genetic retelling of family histories and connections, drawing genealogical maps on pieces of paper that reminded me of teaching Anthro 101 and starkly reimagined …
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · Law (11 works) · China (9 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Law (9 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Geography (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works)