Bruce O'Neill
Biographic Data
| ID | 4531657 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruce O'Neill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruce |
| FAMILY NAME | O'Neill |
| SIGNATURE | NEILL B O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Digital Underground
Much has been written about the public life of cities, almost all of which is grounded in observations taken from the square and the sidewalk. Yet across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, environmental, demographic, and economic pressures have prompted cities to invest in new and expanded underground spaces, such as subterranean Metro systems, pedestrian passageways, and the basement levels of buildings where apartments, offices, cafes, bars and re…
Up, down, and away
Anthropologists have become increasingly sophisticated in the analysis of class by detailing the urban margins, by 'studying up' to examine elite wealth, and by charting the rise of the global middle classes. The anthropological commitment to depth, however, tends to keep these three strata separate in ways that mirror analytically the kind of segregation observed on the ground. Tight analytical framings risk obscuring the co-ordinates of privile…
Fada
Reviewed by: Fada: Boredom and Belonging in Niger by Adeline Masquelier Bruce O'Neill Adeline Masquelier, Fada: Boredom and Belonging in Niger. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. 264 pp. Fada: Boredom and Belonging in Niger is a study of youth prolonged, perhaps indefinitely, by precarious economic circumstances. At the center of the book are samari, or young unmarried men, who have completed their formal education but who are unable to …
The ethnographic negative
Outside the main railway station in Bucharest, Romania, otherwise unemployed day laborers hustle for small change as informal parking lot attendants (parcagii). While their efforts yield numerous ethnographic observations of entrepreneurial activity, these attendants report "doing nothing" day in and day out. This article explores the tension between etic observations and emic feelings in order to ask a methodological question: how can "not doing…
Cast Aside
The homeless, in post-Communist Bucharest, Romania, are bored. They describe themselves as bored all of the time. Drawing upon nearly three years of ethnographic fieldwork that moves between Bucharest's homeless shelters and squatter camps, day centers and public parks, this article approaches the homeless's boredom as an everyday affect structured by the politics of consumption in post-communist Bucharest. At the center of this study sits not si…
Down and Then Out in Bucharest
This paper analyzes at the level of space the invention and management of homelessness in postsocialist cities. Based on more than a year of ethnographic fieldwork in a nongovernmental organization (NGO) that provides shelter space in Bucharest, Romania, this paper foregrounds the political significance of placing homeless populations to better understand neoliberal governance as a set of spatially minded practices, arguing (ultimately) that spac…
The political agency of cityscapes
How does spatial organization contribute to the governance of a population? This article explores how the construction of monumental streetscapes turns city spaces into technologies of political control. It is the central claim that monumental spaces are not just static representations of particular ideologies; rather, the production of monumental spaces contributes to the project of autocratic governance. It is an argument rooted in the claim th…
Cast Aside
The homeless, in post-Communist Bucharest, Romania, are bored. They describe themselves as bored all of the time. Drawing upon nearly three years of ethnographic fieldwork that moves between Bucharest's homeless shelters and squatter camps, day centers and public parks, this article approaches the homeless's boredom as an everyday affect structured by the politics of consumption in post-communist Bucharest. At the center of this study sits not si…
Down and Then Out in Bucharest
This paper analyzes at the level of space the invention and management of homelessness in postsocialist cities. Based on more than a year of ethnographic fieldwork in a nongovernmental organization (NGO) that provides shelter space in Bucharest, Romania, this paper foregrounds the political significance of placing homeless populations to better understand neoliberal governance as a set of spatially minded practices, arguing (ultimately) that spac…
The ethnographic negative
Outside the main railway station in Bucharest, Romania, otherwise unemployed day laborers hustle for small change as informal parking lot attendants (parcagii). While their efforts yield numerous ethnographic observations of entrepreneurial activity, these attendants report "doing nothing" day in and day out. This article explores the tension between etic observations and emic feelings in order to ask a methodological question: how can "not doing…
The political agency of cityscapes
How does spatial organization contribute to the governance of a population? This article explores how the construction of monumental streetscapes turns city spaces into technologies of political control. It is the central claim that monumental spaces are not just static representations of particular ideologies; rather, the production of monumental spaces contributes to the project of autocratic governance. It is an argument rooted in the claim th…
Up, down, and away
Anthropologists have become increasingly sophisticated in the analysis of class by detailing the urban margins, by 'studying up' to examine elite wealth, and by charting the rise of the global middle classes. The anthropological commitment to depth, however, tends to keep these three strata separate in ways that mirror analytically the kind of segregation observed on the ground. Tight analytical framings risk obscuring the co-ordinates of privile…
The Digital Underground
Much has been written about the public life of cities, almost all of which is grounded in observations taken from the square and the sidewalk. Yet across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, environmental, demographic, and economic pressures have prompted cities to invest in new and expanded underground spaces, such as subterranean Metro systems, pedestrian passageways, and the basement levels of buildings where apartments, offices, cafes, bars and re…
The political agency of cityscapes
How does spatial organization contribute to the governance of a population? This article explores how the construction of monumental streetscapes turns city spaces into technologies of political control. It is the central claim that monumental spaces are not just static representations of particular ideologies; rather, the production of monumental spaces contributes to the project of autocratic governance. It is an argument rooted in the claim th…
Down and Then Out in Bucharest
This paper analyzes at the level of space the invention and management of homelessness in postsocialist cities. Based on more than a year of ethnographic fieldwork in a nongovernmental organization (NGO) that provides shelter space in Bucharest, Romania, this paper foregrounds the political significance of placing homeless populations to better understand neoliberal governance as a set of spatially minded practices, arguing (ultimately) that spac…
Cast Aside
The homeless, in post-Communist Bucharest, Romania, are bored. They describe themselves as bored all of the time. Drawing upon nearly three years of ethnographic fieldwork that moves between Bucharest's homeless shelters and squatter camps, day centers and public parks, this article approaches the homeless's boredom as an everyday affect structured by the politics of consumption in post-communist Bucharest. At the center of this study sits not si…
The ethnographic negative
Outside the main railway station in Bucharest, Romania, otherwise unemployed day laborers hustle for small change as informal parking lot attendants (parcagii). While their efforts yield numerous ethnographic observations of entrepreneurial activity, these attendants report "doing nothing" day in and day out. This article explores the tension between etic observations and emic feelings in order to ask a methodological question: how can "not doing…
Fada
Reviewed by: Fada: Boredom and Belonging in Niger by Adeline Masquelier Bruce O'Neill Adeline Masquelier, Fada: Boredom and Belonging in Niger. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. 264 pp. Fada: Boredom and Belonging in Niger is a study of youth prolonged, perhaps indefinitely, by precarious economic circumstances. At the center of the book are samari, or young unmarried men, who have completed their formal education but who are unable to …
The Digital Underground
Much has been written about the public life of cities, almost all of which is grounded in observations taken from the square and the sidewalk. Yet across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, environmental, demographic, and economic pressures have prompted cities to invest in new and expanded underground spaces, such as subterranean Metro systems, pedestrian passageways, and the basement levels of buildings where apartments, offices, cafes, bars and re…
Up, down, and away
Anthropologists have become increasingly sophisticated in the analysis of class by detailing the urban margins, by 'studying up' to examine elite wealth, and by charting the rise of the global middle classes. The anthropological commitment to depth, however, tends to keep these three strata separate in ways that mirror analytically the kind of segregation observed on the ground. Tight analytical framings risk obscuring the co-ordinates of privile…
Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Feeling (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)