Jacob Avery
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685309 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacob Avery |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacob |
| FAMILY NAME | Avery |
| SIGNATURE | AVERY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | New Mexico Highlands University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3526-3973 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Surviving the Edge
Making Precarity Work: Life on the Edge of Venice Beach By Laura A. Orrico (University of Chicago Press, 2025). In Making Precarity Work: Life on the Edge of Venice Beach, Laura A. Orrico creates a richly textured ethnographic portrait of street vendors, performers, and artists who occupy the Venice Beach boardwalk, an iconic yet contested public space in Los Angeles. Drawing on 5 years of participant observation fieldwork conducted while complet…
Administrative Indigenous Erasure
Jacob Avery and Zubick Taliman on a troubling tribal metric
Where Memoir and Method Collide
Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analyzed in this study
Begging for Change
Jacob Avery on common humanity
America by the Numbers
Black Families and Recession in the United States
Human Relations Commissions
The Value of Homelessness
Just One More Hand
A Philadelphia Story
Informal American City
Down and Out in Atlantic City
This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews to provide a sociological life history of a man the author calls George. George lived on Atlantic City's streets between 1995 and 2009. Instead of accessing available social services, George stayed outside year-round, even during the cold winter months. He obtained small amounts of money by begging for spare change and slept in alleyways, casino bus terminals, underneath the Boardwalk, a…
Taking chances
■ This article conceives of heavy gambling loss as a phenomenon driven by situational antecedents located in the foreground of the experience itself, rather than being deeply determined by background factors like biological inclinations or psychological pathologies, as the prevalent biomedical model of pathological gambling assumes. Drawing on naturalistic accounts from first-hand observation, this analysis focuses on the internal states of playe…
Taking chances
■ This article conceives of heavy gambling loss as a phenomenon driven by situational antecedents located in the foreground of the experience itself, rather than being deeply determined by background factors like biological inclinations or psychological pathologies, as the prevalent biomedical model of pathological gambling assumes. Drawing on naturalistic accounts from first-hand observation, this analysis focuses on the internal states of playe…
Just One More Hand
Down and Out in Atlantic City
This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews to provide a sociological life history of a man the author calls George. George lived on Atlantic City's streets between 1995 and 2009. Instead of accessing available social services, George stayed outside year-round, even during the cold winter months. He obtained small amounts of money by begging for spare change and slept in alleyways, casino bus terminals, underneath the Boardwalk, a…
Taking chances
■ This article conceives of heavy gambling loss as a phenomenon driven by situational antecedents located in the foreground of the experience itself, rather than being deeply determined by background factors like biological inclinations or psychological pathologies, as the prevalent biomedical model of pathological gambling assumes. Drawing on naturalistic accounts from first-hand observation, this analysis focuses on the internal states of playe…
Down and Out in Atlantic City
This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews to provide a sociological life history of a man the author calls George. George lived on Atlantic City's streets between 1995 and 2009. Instead of accessing available social services, George stayed outside year-round, even during the cold winter months. He obtained small amounts of money by begging for spare change and slept in alleyways, casino bus terminals, underneath the Boardwalk, a…
Informal American City
A Philadelphia Story
Just One More Hand
The Value of Homelessness
Human Relations Commissions
America by the Numbers
Black Families and Recession in the United States
Begging for Change
Jacob Avery on common humanity
Administrative Indigenous Erasure
Jacob Avery and Zubick Taliman on a troubling tribal metric
Where Memoir and Method Collide
Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analyzed in this study
Surviving the Edge
Making Precarity Work: Life on the Edge of Venice Beach By Laura A. Orrico (University of Chicago Press, 2025). In Making Precarity Work: Life on the Edge of Venice Beach, Laura A. Orrico creates a richly textured ethnographic portrait of street vendors, performers, and artists who occupy the Venice Beach boardwalk, an iconic yet contested public space in Los Angeles. Drawing on 5 years of participant observation fieldwork conducted while complet…
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Economics (4 works) · Ethnography (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Begging (2 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)