Stefano Bloch
Biographic Data
| ID | 3780031 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stefano Bloch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stefano |
| FAMILY NAME | Bloch |
| SIGNATURE | BLOCH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Geographies of Trauma
Stefano Bloch on Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics and The Marvelous Ones
Banging them out
Place Matters
Research on place-making and place-taking coming out of the discipline of geography remains an untapped intellectual resource for research on gangs. Part of the reason for this is that geographers have not sufficiently included gangs and gang members in their theories of space and place. This may be surprising given what is known about gangs and their place-oriented penchant for territoriality and neighborhood demarcation as part of their express…
A Legal Geography of Prison and Other Carceral Spaces
As scholars apply the concept of “the carceral” to more and increasingly diffuse spaces of containment, displacement, and cordoning across free society, I call for a means by which “carcerality” is measured and understood as a productive force in the denial of constitutional rights and protections. I therefore provide a legal reading of carcerality, which establishes prisons as the sine qua non of the carceral landscape, preceded by an analysis o…
Displacement beyond dislocation
In this article, we argue for a critical gentrification studies that includes a more expansive and nuanced understanding of how displacement works, beyond the mapping and counting of dislocated bodies. As part of our argument, we introduce the concept of aversive racism to the geographical literature on displacement, pointing to this insidious mode of spatial practice that we argue is widely constitutive of place-making and place-taking processes…
Focusing in on fringe urban spaces
Within DeVerteuil's lopsided city are spaces in which creative and combative place-making persist. Guma most recently and within the pages of this very issue of Dialogues in Urban Research identifies such spaces as those produced by “urban populations, in situ,” noting their “forms of hustling in fringe positions” as they fight against displacement by gentrification in the global South, as well as against the dizzying effect of the lopsided city …
Displacement and affective economies in gentrification research
In our initial paper calling for a more affective understanding of displacement in gentrification studies, we argued that displacement is a process that functions through diverse rearticulations of people's embodied capacity to make place, only some of which take the form of physical or social dislocation. Our intervention was intended to reignite this already existing argument by drawing attention to the embodied, affective, and emotional dimens…
Going All City
Place-Based Elicitation
Interviews conducted in situ-literally at "the scene of the crime"1-can elicit more nuanced data than interviews conducted in locations removed from where the activity in question occurred. This is particularly true when conducting research on and with members of spatially conscious, "deviant," and vulnerable communities who may for the sake of social and existential survival defer to rehearsed narratives and formula stories about their actions a…
Why do Graffiti Writers Write on Murals? The Birth, Life, and Slow Death of Freeway Murals in Los Angeles
For three decades graffiti writers have marked the Olympic Festival freeway murals painted in celebration of the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles (LA). These high-profile murals, which once symbolized LA's status as the 'Mural Capital of the World', became palimpsests on which graffiti writers painted their monikers, perhaps unwittingly contributing to their eventual destruction. Local government, muralists and residents have bemoaned the murals…
A People's Guide to Los Angeles
It's a great place to live, but I wouldn't want to visit there.—Mark Twain on Los AngelesI often tell would-be visitors that unless they plan to stay a while, they might as well bypass Los Angeles
The Illegal Face of Wall Space
A series of retaining walls on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles have been used as platforms for traditional murals since 1975. Today, however, it is the "technically illegal" graffiti-murals on these same walls that have been tacitly tolerated if not outright accepted by the community. Unlike the sanctioned murals previously painted on these walls by famed Chicano artists Judith Baca and Ernesto De La Loza, Cache and Eye One's Los Angeles: Untitle…
Place-Based Elicitation
Interviews conducted in situ-literally at "the scene of the crime"1-can elicit more nuanced data than interviews conducted in locations removed from where the activity in question occurred. This is particularly true when conducting research on and with members of spatially conscious, "deviant," and vulnerable communities who may for the sake of social and existential survival defer to rehearsed narratives and formula stories about their actions a…
A Legal Geography of Prison and Other Carceral Spaces
As scholars apply the concept of “the carceral” to more and increasingly diffuse spaces of containment, displacement, and cordoning across free society, I call for a means by which “carcerality” is measured and understood as a productive force in the denial of constitutional rights and protections. I therefore provide a legal reading of carcerality, which establishes prisons as the sine qua non of the carceral landscape, preceded by an analysis o…
The Illegal Face of Wall Space
A series of retaining walls on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles have been used as platforms for traditional murals since 1975. Today, however, it is the "technically illegal" graffiti-murals on these same walls that have been tacitly tolerated if not outright accepted by the community. Unlike the sanctioned murals previously painted on these walls by famed Chicano artists Judith Baca and Ernesto De La Loza, Cache and Eye One's Los Angeles: Untitle…
A People's Guide to Los Angeles
It's a great place to live, but I wouldn't want to visit there.—Mark Twain on Los AngelesI often tell would-be visitors that unless they plan to stay a while, they might as well bypass Los Angeles
Banging them out
Why do Graffiti Writers Write on Murals? The Birth, Life, and Slow Death of Freeway Murals in Los Angeles
For three decades graffiti writers have marked the Olympic Festival freeway murals painted in celebration of the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles (LA). These high-profile murals, which once symbolized LA's status as the 'Mural Capital of the World', became palimpsests on which graffiti writers painted their monikers, perhaps unwittingly contributing to their eventual destruction. Local government, muralists and residents have bemoaned the murals…
The Illegal Face of Wall Space
A series of retaining walls on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles have been used as platforms for traditional murals since 1975. Today, however, it is the "technically illegal" graffiti-murals on these same walls that have been tacitly tolerated if not outright accepted by the community. Unlike the sanctioned murals previously painted on these walls by famed Chicano artists Judith Baca and Ernesto De La Loza, Cache and Eye One's Los Angeles: Untitle…
A People's Guide to Los Angeles
It's a great place to live, but I wouldn't want to visit there.—Mark Twain on Los AngelesI often tell would-be visitors that unless they plan to stay a while, they might as well bypass Los Angeles
Why do Graffiti Writers Write on Murals? The Birth, Life, and Slow Death of Freeway Murals in Los Angeles
For three decades graffiti writers have marked the Olympic Festival freeway murals painted in celebration of the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles (LA). These high-profile murals, which once symbolized LA's status as the 'Mural Capital of the World', became palimpsests on which graffiti writers painted their monikers, perhaps unwittingly contributing to their eventual destruction. Local government, muralists and residents have bemoaned the murals…
Place-Based Elicitation
Interviews conducted in situ-literally at "the scene of the crime"1-can elicit more nuanced data than interviews conducted in locations removed from where the activity in question occurred. This is particularly true when conducting research on and with members of spatially conscious, "deviant," and vulnerable communities who may for the sake of social and existential survival defer to rehearsed narratives and formula stories about their actions a…
Going All City
Displacement beyond dislocation
In this article, we argue for a critical gentrification studies that includes a more expansive and nuanced understanding of how displacement works, beyond the mapping and counting of dislocated bodies. As part of our argument, we introduce the concept of aversive racism to the geographical literature on displacement, pointing to this insidious mode of spatial practice that we argue is widely constitutive of place-making and place-taking processes…
Focusing in on fringe urban spaces
Within DeVerteuil's lopsided city are spaces in which creative and combative place-making persist. Guma most recently and within the pages of this very issue of Dialogues in Urban Research identifies such spaces as those produced by “urban populations, in situ,” noting their “forms of hustling in fringe positions” as they fight against displacement by gentrification in the global South, as well as against the dizzying effect of the lopsided city …
Displacement and affective economies in gentrification research
In our initial paper calling for a more affective understanding of displacement in gentrification studies, we argued that displacement is a process that functions through diverse rearticulations of people's embodied capacity to make place, only some of which take the form of physical or social dislocation. Our intervention was intended to reignite this already existing argument by drawing attention to the embodied, affective, and emotional dimens…
Place Matters
Research on place-making and place-taking coming out of the discipline of geography remains an untapped intellectual resource for research on gangs. Part of the reason for this is that geographers have not sufficiently included gangs and gang members in their theories of space and place. This may be surprising given what is known about gangs and their place-oriented penchant for territoriality and neighborhood demarcation as part of their express…
A Legal Geography of Prison and Other Carceral Spaces
As scholars apply the concept of “the carceral” to more and increasingly diffuse spaces of containment, displacement, and cordoning across free society, I call for a means by which “carcerality” is measured and understood as a productive force in the denial of constitutional rights and protections. I therefore provide a legal reading of carcerality, which establishes prisons as the sine qua non of the carceral landscape, preceded by an analysis o…
Geographies of Trauma
Stefano Bloch on Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics and The Marvelous Ones
Banging them out
Sociology (10 works) · Art (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Visual arts (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works)