Aaron Niznik
Biographic Data
| ID | 4267817 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aaron Niznik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aaron |
| FAMILY NAME | Niznik |
| SIGNATURE | NIZNIK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Research Department, Trellis Company, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Embodied, embedded or both? Investigating experts and expertise in two Greater Boston social movements
This study employs quantitative and qualitative data from a large diverse sample of scientists and professionals active in Greater Boston's environmental and community development movements to pursue two lines of inquiry regarding experts and expertise in social movements. Statistical analysis and supporting qualitative analysis investigate, first, the extent to which expert's professional training and employment predict their mobilization into d…
Long after 'People before Highways
The study investigates the way local social movements respond to structural transformations in city politics. Drawing from archival research, published scholarship, and 51 in-depth interviews, we characterize the mobilization of experts into social movements in Greater Boston since the 1960s as a long-term shift from 'protecting places' to 'providing services.' Consonant with a shift from centralized to decentralized municipal government, we show…
Disasters
Disasters are sudden, unexpected, localized, rare, and acute events that disrupt the environment and the social structure and inflict substantial harm on individuals, groups, and property. They differ from accidents in the greater scale of their individual and collective impact; and they also differ from environmental hazards, which cause harm over longer periods of time. Roughly speaking, disasters cause a hundred or more deaths in a short perio…
Embodied, embedded or both? Investigating experts and expertise in two Greater Boston social movements
This study employs quantitative and qualitative data from a large diverse sample of scientists and professionals active in Greater Boston's environmental and community development movements to pursue two lines of inquiry regarding experts and expertise in social movements. Statistical analysis and supporting qualitative analysis investigate, first, the extent to which expert's professional training and employment predict their mobilization into d…
Disasters
Disasters are sudden, unexpected, localized, rare, and acute events that disrupt the environment and the social structure and inflict substantial harm on individuals, groups, and property. They differ from accidents in the greater scale of their individual and collective impact; and they also differ from environmental hazards, which cause harm over longer periods of time. Roughly speaking, disasters cause a hundred or more deaths in a short perio…
Long after 'People before Highways
The study investigates the way local social movements respond to structural transformations in city politics. Drawing from archival research, published scholarship, and 51 in-depth interviews, we characterize the mobilization of experts into social movements in Greater Boston since the 1960s as a long-term shift from 'protecting places' to 'providing services.' Consonant with a shift from centralized to decentralized municipal government, we show…
Embodied, embedded or both? Investigating experts and expertise in two Greater Boston social movements
This study employs quantitative and qualitative data from a large diverse sample of scientists and professionals active in Greater Boston's environmental and community development movements to pursue two lines of inquiry regarding experts and expertise in social movements. Statistical analysis and supporting qualitative analysis investigate, first, the extent to which expert's professional training and employment predict their mobilization into d…
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Public relations (2 works) · Social movement (2 works) · Art (1 work) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (1 work) · Context (archaeology) (1 work)