Robin Bartram
Biographic Data
| ID | 3887951 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robin Bartram |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robin |
| FAMILY NAME | Bartram |
| SIGNATURE | BARTRAM R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tulane University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Distrust and Disrepair
Drawing on qualitative interviews with a racially diverse sample of 46 homeowners in New Orleans and Chicago, we reveal how homeowners’ distrust in contractors shapes the character of home repair experiences. We demonstrate that distrust shapes homeowners’ attitudes toward construction workers, affects how homeowners find contractors, and influences the working relationship between homeowners and contractors. Overall, we argue that homeowners use…
Sociology, Housing, and Gender
The sociology of housing has clear implications for and overlaps with sociological studies of inequality. However, gender is still overlooked and undertheorized in housing research. Drawing on gender scholars, we caution against the tendency to treat gender as a synonym for women, as a variable that compares outcomes to those of men, and/or as synonymous with binary roles (e.g., poor mothers of color versus affluent, White gentrifiers). We demons…
Making Babies Pay Rent
Stacked Decks
Stacked Decks
Uncertain Sexualities and the Unusual Woman
How does contemporary society deal with uncertainty about sexualities in the past? We investigate how two museums manage uncertainty about the sexual histories of two female biographical subjects. Contributing to understandings of how cultural institutions handle such uncertainty, and, in particular, how museums depict gender and sexualities, our paper brings together current debates in literatures on queer histories, collective memory, and sexua…
Cracks in Broken Windows
Sociologists consistently show that people are more likely to perceive physical disorder in minority and low-income neighborhoods and that frontline workers either target or neglect issues in these places. A study of building inspectors in Chicago reveals an alternative explanation. Inspectors use assessments of dilapidated and dangerous material conditions—such as broken windows and abandoned buildings—to infer intentional disregard, a process I…
Emplacing Risks in the City
Residential clubs for women in Progressive Era urban America offered protection against risks in the city. This article is an investigation into the relationship between perceptions of risk, built environments, class, and political ideology at two such clubs in Chicago. I merge theories of risk with Bourdieu’s notions of fields, symbolic violence, and symbolic labor to establish two new concepts: risk ideology and risk emplacement. Risk ideologie…
Material Evidence and Evidentiary Reasoning
Cracks in Broken Windows
Sociologists consistently show that people are more likely to perceive physical disorder in minority and low-income neighborhoods and that frontline workers either target or neglect issues in these places. A study of building inspectors in Chicago reveals an alternative explanation. Inspectors use assessments of dilapidated and dangerous material conditions—such as broken windows and abandoned buildings—to infer intentional disregard, a process I…
Making Babies Pay Rent
Emplacing Risks in the City
Residential clubs for women in Progressive Era urban America offered protection against risks in the city. This article is an investigation into the relationship between perceptions of risk, built environments, class, and political ideology at two such clubs in Chicago. I merge theories of risk with Bourdieu’s notions of fields, symbolic violence, and symbolic labor to establish two new concepts: risk ideology and risk emplacement. Risk ideologie…
Material Evidence and Evidentiary Reasoning
Material Evidence and Evidentiary Reasoning
Emplacing Risks in the City
Residential clubs for women in Progressive Era urban America offered protection against risks in the city. This article is an investigation into the relationship between perceptions of risk, built environments, class, and political ideology at two such clubs in Chicago. I merge theories of risk with Bourdieu’s notions of fields, symbolic violence, and symbolic labor to establish two new concepts: risk ideology and risk emplacement. Risk ideologie…
Uncertain Sexualities and the Unusual Woman
How does contemporary society deal with uncertainty about sexualities in the past? We investigate how two museums manage uncertainty about the sexual histories of two female biographical subjects. Contributing to understandings of how cultural institutions handle such uncertainty, and, in particular, how museums depict gender and sexualities, our paper brings together current debates in literatures on queer histories, collective memory, and sexua…
Cracks in Broken Windows
Sociologists consistently show that people are more likely to perceive physical disorder in minority and low-income neighborhoods and that frontline workers either target or neglect issues in these places. A study of building inspectors in Chicago reveals an alternative explanation. Inspectors use assessments of dilapidated and dangerous material conditions—such as broken windows and abandoned buildings—to infer intentional disregard, a process I…
Stacked Decks
Stacked Decks
Making Babies Pay Rent
Distrust and Disrepair
Drawing on qualitative interviews with a racially diverse sample of 46 homeowners in New Orleans and Chicago, we reveal how homeowners’ distrust in contractors shapes the character of home repair experiences. We demonstrate that distrust shapes homeowners’ attitudes toward construction workers, affects how homeowners find contractors, and influences the working relationship between homeowners and contractors. Overall, we argue that homeowners use…
Sociology, Housing, and Gender
The sociology of housing has clear implications for and overlaps with sociological studies of inequality. However, gender is still overlooked and undertheorized in housing research. Drawing on gender scholars, we caution against the tendency to treat gender as a synonym for women, as a variable that compares outcomes to those of men, and/or as synonymous with binary roles (e.g., poor mothers of color versus affluent, White gentrifiers). We demons…
Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Economics (2 works)