Daina Cheyenne Harvey
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685305 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daina Cheyenne Harvey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daina Cheyenne |
| FAMILY NAME | Harvey |
| SIGNATURE | HARVEY D C |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of the Holy Cross |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8527-0293 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Gleanings from the field: Food security, resilience, and experiential learning
Gleanings From the Field stems from a three-day workshop facilitated by the Associated Colleges of the Midwest to focus on curricular engagement with food, but also represents the culmination of ma...
The Urge(ncy) to Practice Humanist Sociology
In this issue, the first of two special issues to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the journal, we look back at our origins and reassert the important of doing humanist sociology. Now, more than ever, the contributors to this special issue feel that the type of sociology that we teach and practice is essential to the betterment of our profession, but also, and more importantly, to the betterment of our society
Humanist Sociology and Academia: Fit or Quit
On the fiftieth anniversary of Humanity & Society , I reflect on the compatibility of humanist sociology and the academy as an institution. While public-facing work in academia continues to be acknowledged and, at least in some places, celebrated, it nonetheless places limits on its practitioners. In this article, I focus on these limitations and how being a scholar-activist is not compatible with being an activist-scholar
Eco-uncertainty as a Frame and Way of Life
Because at the heart of symbolic interactionism is the idea that our social world is constructed for and by us, notions of ambiguity or uncertainty remain underexplored in the paradigm. This chapter uses work on framing and meaning-making to show how the multiple framings of an event can result in uncertainty. Using Čapek’s (2006) eco-self and Zerubavel’s thought communities (1997), this chapter shows how eco-uncertainty is used in New Orleans to…
Not One but Many: Monetary Punishment and the Fergusons of America
How typical is Ferguson? That is, to what extent is monetary punishment driven by fiscal crisis and deficit spending? Do communities that increasingly rely less on property taxes generate higher rates of fines and fees? And how might increased spending on policing over time impact whether local governments turn to these sanctions for revenue? We compile city‐ and county‐level information from four national data sets to answer these questions thro…
Social Policy as Secondary Violences in the Aftermath of a Disaster: An Extension to Naomi Klein’s Disaster Capitalism
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the federal levee failures plans for the rebuilding of New Orleans favored the redevelopment of some communities over others. Where residents of vulnerable communities, in particular the Lower Ninth Ward, protested the erasure of their communities, they have been largely socially abandoned as a retaliatory measure for not acquiescing to the elite plan of “Katrina Cleansing.” The implementation of this soc…
A Passion for Society: How We Think about Human Suffering
Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer: Food as Cultural Performance in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the federal levee failures, hundreds of thousands of volunteers went to New Orleans to help rebuild. Food was quickly used as a way to welcome volunteers, to compensate them for their hard work, to celebrate progress in rebuilding community, and to interact with others. In time, however, the giving and consuming of food was renegotiated. Volunteers coming to New Orleans expected meals representative of Ne…
Everybody Loves a Good (Disaster) Story
Introduction to Special Issue: Risk, Climate, and the Environment
This essay introduces articles in a special issue of Sociological Forum on “Risk, Climate, and the Environment.”
The Discourse of the Ecological Precariat: Making Sense of Social Disruption in the Lower Ninth Ward in the Long‐Term Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
The Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans was ground zero for Hurricane Katrina. In the prolonged aftermath, residents were forced to deal with social abandonment, discriminatory rebuilding policies, the BP disaster, redistricting, and the everyday toxic assault that comes from living in Cancer Alley. A 14‐month ethnography of the neighborhood revealed residents’ understanding of Katrina was grounded in a larger pattern of discourse surrounding extreme…
Media Review: Club Disminución
The Precarious Nature of Environmental Activism
In this introduction to the special issue on “The Precarious Nature of Environmental Activism”, I describe my own path to environmental activism and the articles contributed to the special issue. In this special issue we look at the changing role of environmental activism. In particular, the authors focus on how the role of the activist is mediated by one’s relationship to the community or those individuals tasked with making environmental decisi…
Crisis Cities: Disaster and Redevelopment in New York and New Orleans
Teaching Humanist Sociology
Black Dollars, White Pockets: Looting by Another Name
Waiting in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans: A Case Study of the Tempography of Hyper-Marginalization
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina residents were forced to wait. Here the state played a familiar role where waiting is used to dominate or subordinate or further marginalize the poor. Residents of the Lower Ninth Ward, however, used waiting as a basis for interacting with other community members and as a way to structure social life. In doing so, they created a timescape of hyper-marginalization where waiting became normative. In examining t…
Kafkaesque Bureaucracies as Natural Breaching Experiments: Interactional Failures and the Search for Institutional Agency
In accord with scholars who have suggested extending the symbolic interactionist perspective to investigate interactions with macrolevel structures, we argue that symbolic interactionism provides valuable tools to understand how bureaucratic breakdowns are interpreted by individuals. In this article, we use the experience of interacting with a Kafkaesque bureaucracy as a natural breaching experiment in order to outline the subjective effects of l…
Political Gardening in a Post-disaster City: Lessons from New Orleans
The study examines the emergence of urban gardening activities in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Drawing on ethnographic and qualitative research conducted throughout the city between 2009 and 2012, it examines the ways in which various gardening projects in New Orleans exhibit different levels and scopes of political engagement, with a particular focus on how they manifest (sometimes in contradictory ways) in the projects’ mission…
A Quiet Suffering: Some Notes on the Sociology of Suffering 1
Despite a recent increase in attention within the social sciences, suffering remains for the most part outside of the purview of sociologists. In this essay, I explore the possibilities for a sociology of suffering by briefly interrogating suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in the Lower Ninth Ward, the epicenter of the hurricane and the federal levee failures
The space for culture and cognition
Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality - By Loïc Wacquant
The Art of Listening
Mise en Fiction du Monde”: Les Lieux de Mémoire and New Orleans
The recent urban trauma in New Orleans has given rise to a series of questions on how to rebuild the city. Absent from the discussion has been an analysis of the collective memory of New Orleans and the mnemonic tropes that might be used in its reconstruction
Not One but Many: Monetary Punishment and the Fergusons of America
How typical is Ferguson? That is, to what extent is monetary punishment driven by fiscal crisis and deficit spending? Do communities that increasingly rely less on property taxes generate higher rates of fines and fees? And how might increased spending on policing over time impact whether local governments turn to these sanctions for revenue? We compile city‐ and county‐level information from four national data sets to answer these questions thro…
Political Gardening in a Post-disaster City: Lessons from New Orleans
The study examines the emergence of urban gardening activities in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Drawing on ethnographic and qualitative research conducted throughout the city between 2009 and 2012, it examines the ways in which various gardening projects in New Orleans exhibit different levels and scopes of political engagement, with a particular focus on how they manifest (sometimes in contradictory ways) in the projects’ mission…
The Discourse of the Ecological Precariat: Making Sense of Social Disruption in the Lower Ninth Ward in the Long‐Term Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
The Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans was ground zero for Hurricane Katrina. In the prolonged aftermath, residents were forced to deal with social abandonment, discriminatory rebuilding policies, the BP disaster, redistricting, and the everyday toxic assault that comes from living in Cancer Alley. A 14‐month ethnography of the neighborhood revealed residents’ understanding of Katrina was grounded in a larger pattern of discourse surrounding extreme…
The space for culture and cognition
Waiting in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans: A Case Study of the Tempography of Hyper-Marginalization
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina residents were forced to wait. Here the state played a familiar role where waiting is used to dominate or subordinate or further marginalize the poor. Residents of the Lower Ninth Ward, however, used waiting as a basis for interacting with other community members and as a way to structure social life. In doing so, they created a timescape of hyper-marginalization where waiting became normative. In examining t…
Crisis Cities: Disaster and Redevelopment in New York and New Orleans
Teaching Humanist Sociology
A Quiet Suffering: Some Notes on the Sociology of Suffering 1
Despite a recent increase in attention within the social sciences, suffering remains for the most part outside of the purview of sociologists. In this essay, I explore the possibilities for a sociology of suffering by briefly interrogating suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in the Lower Ninth Ward, the epicenter of the hurricane and the federal levee failures
Introduction to Special Issue: Risk, Climate, and the Environment
This essay introduces articles in a special issue of Sociological Forum on “Risk, Climate, and the Environment.”
Social Policy as Secondary Violences in the Aftermath of a Disaster: An Extension to Naomi Klein’s Disaster Capitalism
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the federal levee failures plans for the rebuilding of New Orleans favored the redevelopment of some communities over others. Where residents of vulnerable communities, in particular the Lower Ninth Ward, protested the erasure of their communities, they have been largely socially abandoned as a retaliatory measure for not acquiescing to the elite plan of “Katrina Cleansing.” The implementation of this soc…
The Precarious Nature of Environmental Activism
In this introduction to the special issue on “The Precarious Nature of Environmental Activism”, I describe my own path to environmental activism and the articles contributed to the special issue. In this special issue we look at the changing role of environmental activism. In particular, the authors focus on how the role of the activist is mediated by one’s relationship to the community or those individuals tasked with making environmental decisi…
Black Dollars, White Pockets: Looting by Another Name
Mise en Fiction du Monde”: Les Lieux de Mémoire and New Orleans
The recent urban trauma in New Orleans has given rise to a series of questions on how to rebuild the city. Absent from the discussion has been an analysis of the collective memory of New Orleans and the mnemonic tropes that might be used in its reconstruction
The Art of Listening
Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality - By Loïc Wacquant
The space for culture and cognition
A Quiet Suffering: Some Notes on the Sociology of Suffering 1
Despite a recent increase in attention within the social sciences, suffering remains for the most part outside of the purview of sociologists. In this essay, I explore the possibilities for a sociology of suffering by briefly interrogating suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in the Lower Ninth Ward, the epicenter of the hurricane and the federal levee failures
Political Gardening in a Post-disaster City: Lessons from New Orleans
The study examines the emergence of urban gardening activities in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Drawing on ethnographic and qualitative research conducted throughout the city between 2009 and 2012, it examines the ways in which various gardening projects in New Orleans exhibit different levels and scopes of political engagement, with a particular focus on how they manifest (sometimes in contradictory ways) in the projects’ mission…
Teaching Humanist Sociology
Black Dollars, White Pockets: Looting by Another Name
Waiting in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans: A Case Study of the Tempography of Hyper-Marginalization
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina residents were forced to wait. Here the state played a familiar role where waiting is used to dominate or subordinate or further marginalize the poor. Residents of the Lower Ninth Ward, however, used waiting as a basis for interacting with other community members and as a way to structure social life. In doing so, they created a timescape of hyper-marginalization where waiting became normative. In examining t…
Kafkaesque Bureaucracies as Natural Breaching Experiments: Interactional Failures and the Search for Institutional Agency
In accord with scholars who have suggested extending the symbolic interactionist perspective to investigate interactions with macrolevel structures, we argue that symbolic interactionism provides valuable tools to understand how bureaucratic breakdowns are interpreted by individuals. In this article, we use the experience of interacting with a Kafkaesque bureaucracy as a natural breaching experiment in order to outline the subjective effects of l…
Introduction to Special Issue: Risk, Climate, and the Environment
This essay introduces articles in a special issue of Sociological Forum on “Risk, Climate, and the Environment.”
The Discourse of the Ecological Precariat: Making Sense of Social Disruption in the Lower Ninth Ward in the Long‐Term Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
The Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans was ground zero for Hurricane Katrina. In the prolonged aftermath, residents were forced to deal with social abandonment, discriminatory rebuilding policies, the BP disaster, redistricting, and the everyday toxic assault that comes from living in Cancer Alley. A 14‐month ethnography of the neighborhood revealed residents’ understanding of Katrina was grounded in a larger pattern of discourse surrounding extreme…
Media Review: Club Disminución
The Precarious Nature of Environmental Activism
In this introduction to the special issue on “The Precarious Nature of Environmental Activism”, I describe my own path to environmental activism and the articles contributed to the special issue. In this special issue we look at the changing role of environmental activism. In particular, the authors focus on how the role of the activist is mediated by one’s relationship to the community or those individuals tasked with making environmental decisi…
Crisis Cities: Disaster and Redevelopment in New York and New Orleans
Not One but Many: Monetary Punishment and the Fergusons of America
How typical is Ferguson? That is, to what extent is monetary punishment driven by fiscal crisis and deficit spending? Do communities that increasingly rely less on property taxes generate higher rates of fines and fees? And how might increased spending on policing over time impact whether local governments turn to these sanctions for revenue? We compile city‐ and county‐level information from four national data sets to answer these questions thro…
Social Policy as Secondary Violences in the Aftermath of a Disaster: An Extension to Naomi Klein’s Disaster Capitalism
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the federal levee failures plans for the rebuilding of New Orleans favored the redevelopment of some communities over others. Where residents of vulnerable communities, in particular the Lower Ninth Ward, protested the erasure of their communities, they have been largely socially abandoned as a retaliatory measure for not acquiescing to the elite plan of “Katrina Cleansing.” The implementation of this soc…
A Passion for Society: How We Think about Human Suffering
Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer: Food as Cultural Performance in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the federal levee failures, hundreds of thousands of volunteers went to New Orleans to help rebuild. Food was quickly used as a way to welcome volunteers, to compensate them for their hard work, to celebrate progress in rebuilding community, and to interact with others. In time, however, the giving and consuming of food was renegotiated. Volunteers coming to New Orleans expected meals representative of Ne…
Everybody Loves a Good (Disaster) Story
Eco-uncertainty as a Frame and Way of Life
Because at the heart of symbolic interactionism is the idea that our social world is constructed for and by us, notions of ambiguity or uncertainty remain underexplored in the paradigm. This chapter uses work on framing and meaning-making to show how the multiple framings of an event can result in uncertainty. Using Čapek’s (2006) eco-self and Zerubavel’s thought communities (1997), this chapter shows how eco-uncertainty is used in New Orleans to…
Gleanings from the field: Food security, resilience, and experiential learning
Gleanings From the Field stems from a three-day workshop facilitated by the Associated Colleges of the Midwest to focus on curricular engagement with food, but also represents the culmination of ma...
The Urge(ncy) to Practice Humanist Sociology
In this issue, the first of two special issues to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the journal, we look back at our origins and reassert the important of doing humanist sociology. Now, more than ever, the contributors to this special issue feel that the type of sociology that we teach and practice is essential to the betterment of our profession, but also, and more importantly, to the betterment of our society
Humanist Sociology and Academia: Fit or Quit
On the fiftieth anniversary of Humanity & Society , I reflect on the compatibility of humanist sociology and the academy as an institution. While public-facing work in academia continues to be acknowledged and, at least in some places, celebrated, it nonetheless places limits on its practitioners. In this article, I focus on these limitations and how being a scholar-activist is not compatible with being an activist-scholar
Sociology (17 works) · Law (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Environmental ethics (6 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (5 works)