Hannah Obertino-Norwood
Biographic Data
| ID | 376372 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hannah Obertino-Norwood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hannah |
| FAMILY NAME | Obertino-Norwood |
| SIGNATURE | OBERTINO-NORWOOD H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Policy metaphors we live by: Beyond the bounds of street-level bureaucracy
Lipsky’s Street-level Bureaucracy is an iconic framework, shaping how scholars understand who makes policy, where it occurs, and how it is enacted. Yet as this framework has traveled across diverse sites, empirical studies increasingly reveal forms of policy work that exceed its bounds. We argue that this tension stems, in part, from the metaphor that structures it – ‘street-level bureaucracy.’ What does the metaphor illuminate and obscure, and h…
Pandemic ethnography: Fieldwork in transformed social space
This methodological analysis traces the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak on two ethnographic studies in Chicago: a neighborhood fight for affordable housing, and an effort to increase local participation in the 2020 U.S. Census. We attend to the relationship between space and visibility after the onset of the pandemic as methodological and political challenges. Drawing on Haraway's seminal description of situated knowledge, this article …
Hard to Count? The 2020 Census “Citizenship Question” and Bureaucratic Visibility among Undocumented Latin Americans in Chicago
Census enumeration distributes resources and power and extends potential surveillance and punishment. Given these dual capacities, attempts to insert a citizenship question on the 2020 US Census heightened expectations of depressed participation among undocumented immigrants. We draw on data from 63 undocumented Latin American residents of Chicago to understand decision-making processes across 15 months of enumeration. Analyzing two interview wav…
Legitimizing evidence: The trans-institutional life of evidence-based practice
Legitimizing evidence: The trans-institutional life of evidence-based practice
Hard to Count? The 2020 Census “Citizenship Question” and Bureaucratic Visibility among Undocumented Latin Americans in Chicago
Census enumeration distributes resources and power and extends potential surveillance and punishment. Given these dual capacities, attempts to insert a citizenship question on the 2020 US Census heightened expectations of depressed participation among undocumented immigrants. We draw on data from 63 undocumented Latin American residents of Chicago to understand decision-making processes across 15 months of enumeration. Analyzing two interview wav…
Legitimizing evidence: The trans-institutional life of evidence-based practice
Hard to Count? The 2020 Census “Citizenship Question” and Bureaucratic Visibility among Undocumented Latin Americans in Chicago
Census enumeration distributes resources and power and extends potential surveillance and punishment. Given these dual capacities, attempts to insert a citizenship question on the 2020 US Census heightened expectations of depressed participation among undocumented immigrants. We draw on data from 63 undocumented Latin American residents of Chicago to understand decision-making processes across 15 months of enumeration. Analyzing two interview wav…
Pandemic ethnography: Fieldwork in transformed social space
This methodological analysis traces the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak on two ethnographic studies in Chicago: a neighborhood fight for affordable housing, and an effort to increase local participation in the 2020 U.S. Census. We attend to the relationship between space and visibility after the onset of the pandemic as methodological and political challenges. Drawing on Haraway's seminal description of situated knowledge, this article …
Policy metaphors we live by: Beyond the bounds of street-level bureaucracy
Lipsky’s Street-level Bureaucracy is an iconic framework, shaping how scholars understand who makes policy, where it occurs, and how it is enacted. Yet as this framework has traveled across diverse sites, empirical studies increasingly reveal forms of policy work that exceed its bounds. We argue that this tension stems, in part, from the metaphor that structures it – ‘street-level bureaucracy.’ What does the metaphor illuminate and obscure, and h…
Sociology (3 works) · Bureaucracy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · American Community Survey (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Architecture (1 works) · Architecture (1 works) · Argument (complex analysis) (1 works) · Census (1 works) · Citizenship (1 works)