P J Seth
Biographic Data
| ID | 70489 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P J Seth |
| GIVEN NAMES | P J |
| FAMILY NAME | Seth |
| SIGNATURE | SETH P J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Notre Dame |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4865-7699 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Creative trust: The rhythm of the flow-state
We always remember the movements. The Harlem Renaissance. Motown. The Bronx in the summer of 1973. But we oftentimes forget what makes the art that we love, art. We forget the rooms before the recordings. The experiments that never became albums. The joy that had no audience. This essay documents “Flow-State,” a creative retreat with five (six) musical and multimedia artists from New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Detroit, (and Norfolk). For 3 day…
The diagnostic state: Police discretion and the securitization of HIV/Aids in the United States
How do law enforcement agencies shape public health responses during epidemics? While scholars have examined the role of established medical institutions such as the Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization, the police remain understudied. Through a multimethod analysis of archival materials, national survey data, and comparisons across New York and San Francisco, I argue that police functioned as informal medical knowledge p…
Anticolonialism and Social Thought
Not only did the anticolonial movements of the past two centuries help bring down the global order of colonial empires, they also produced novel, innovative and vital social thought. Anticolonialism has been largely ignored in conventional Europe-centered social thought and theory, but this book shows how our sociological imagination can be expanded by taking challenges to colonialism and imperialism seriously. Amidst their struggles to change th…
A Wayward Method: Zora Neale Hurston's Critical Fabulation
Zora Neale Hurston looked for angularity in everyday life, where some cast her as nothing more than a liar. Despite the criticism, she continued on a path toward what she viewed as a reinvention of reality. Here, I see Zora Neale Hurston as an early arbiter of what Sadiya Hartman famously termed “critical fabulation”—a mutual braiding of critical theory, archival research, and fictional narrative. In the following paper, I discuss some of the adj…
Hip hop entrepreneurship: The poetics of the Hip Hop Mogul
Scholars of entrepreneurship, business, and economics have been reluctant to consider Hip Hop as a viable means for research and theory-building. Oddly enough, through the 1970s – a period that was generally characterized by stagnation and high unemployment – Hip Hop captivated audiences around the globe, creating innovative and diverse market opportunities for a host of different communities. The term 'Hip Hop Mogul' emerged to describe artists …
Condensed Eulogies: On Biology, Brutality, and Blame
These Field Notes are based on my 3-year ethnography of protests organized in response to police violence. During my fieldwork, I had several conversations with families that lost children at the hands of the state. While attending the 23rd Annual Procession for the United Family and Friends Campaign (UFFC) in October of 2022, I heard families recount the harrowing moment they received the news that "excited delirium," "acute behavioral disturban…
The First Time I Heard: Black Feminist Approaches to Hip Hop Methodologies
Pulse and rhythm are found in our heartbeats, our breaths, and our physical movements. Pitch and tone give our voices distinct expressive and communicative qualities that serve as articulations of our relationship to space and time. Sound constantly surrounds us, embeds us, and embraces us. Yet, in the academy, conversations on Hip Hop as a field of study tend to focus almost exclusively on lyrical analyses. We do not have to completely abandon t…
The Essence of My Coaching Is to Serve: Monty Williams, Faith, and Relationality
Oftentimes, an athletic coach is tasked with establishing a player-coach relationship that is built on trust, commitment, accountability, hard work, and a belief in process. More recently, however, head coach of the Phoenix Suns, Monty Williams, has garnered considerable public attention for adding faith into that equation. Though faith is primarily considered a theological outlook and expression of spiritual value, it has extended beyond religio…
Hip hop entrepreneurship: The poetics of the Hip Hop Mogul
Scholars of entrepreneurship, business, and economics have been reluctant to consider Hip Hop as a viable means for research and theory-building. Oddly enough, through the 1970s – a period that was generally characterized by stagnation and high unemployment – Hip Hop captivated audiences around the globe, creating innovative and diverse market opportunities for a host of different communities. The term 'Hip Hop Mogul' emerged to describe artists …
The First Time I Heard: Black Feminist Approaches to Hip Hop Methodologies
Pulse and rhythm are found in our heartbeats, our breaths, and our physical movements. Pitch and tone give our voices distinct expressive and communicative qualities that serve as articulations of our relationship to space and time. Sound constantly surrounds us, embeds us, and embraces us. Yet, in the academy, conversations on Hip Hop as a field of study tend to focus almost exclusively on lyrical analyses. We do not have to completely abandon t…
The Essence of My Coaching Is to Serve: Monty Williams, Faith, and Relationality
Oftentimes, an athletic coach is tasked with establishing a player-coach relationship that is built on trust, commitment, accountability, hard work, and a belief in process. More recently, however, head coach of the Phoenix Suns, Monty Williams, has garnered considerable public attention for adding faith into that equation. Though faith is primarily considered a theological outlook and expression of spiritual value, it has extended beyond religio…
The First Time I Heard: Black Feminist Approaches to Hip Hop Methodologies
Pulse and rhythm are found in our heartbeats, our breaths, and our physical movements. Pitch and tone give our voices distinct expressive and communicative qualities that serve as articulations of our relationship to space and time. Sound constantly surrounds us, embeds us, and embraces us. Yet, in the academy, conversations on Hip Hop as a field of study tend to focus almost exclusively on lyrical analyses. We do not have to completely abandon t…
Hip hop entrepreneurship: The poetics of the Hip Hop Mogul
Scholars of entrepreneurship, business, and economics have been reluctant to consider Hip Hop as a viable means for research and theory-building. Oddly enough, through the 1970s – a period that was generally characterized by stagnation and high unemployment – Hip Hop captivated audiences around the globe, creating innovative and diverse market opportunities for a host of different communities. The term 'Hip Hop Mogul' emerged to describe artists …
Condensed Eulogies: On Biology, Brutality, and Blame
These Field Notes are based on my 3-year ethnography of protests organized in response to police violence. During my fieldwork, I had several conversations with families that lost children at the hands of the state. While attending the 23rd Annual Procession for the United Family and Friends Campaign (UFFC) in October of 2022, I heard families recount the harrowing moment they received the news that "excited delirium," "acute behavioral disturban…
Anticolonialism and Social Thought
Not only did the anticolonial movements of the past two centuries help bring down the global order of colonial empires, they also produced novel, innovative and vital social thought. Anticolonialism has been largely ignored in conventional Europe-centered social thought and theory, but this book shows how our sociological imagination can be expanded by taking challenges to colonialism and imperialism seriously. Amidst their struggles to change th…
A Wayward Method: Zora Neale Hurston's Critical Fabulation
Zora Neale Hurston looked for angularity in everyday life, where some cast her as nothing more than a liar. Despite the criticism, she continued on a path toward what she viewed as a reinvention of reality. Here, I see Zora Neale Hurston as an early arbiter of what Sadiya Hartman famously termed “critical fabulation”—a mutual braiding of critical theory, archival research, and fictional narrative. In the following paper, I discuss some of the adj…
Creative trust: The rhythm of the flow-state
We always remember the movements. The Harlem Renaissance. Motown. The Bronx in the summer of 1973. But we oftentimes forget what makes the art that we love, art. We forget the rooms before the recordings. The experiments that never became albums. The joy that had no audience. This essay documents “Flow-State,” a creative retreat with five (six) musical and multimedia artists from New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Detroit, (and Norfolk). For 3 day…
The diagnostic state: Police discretion and the securitization of HIV/Aids in the United States
How do law enforcement agencies shape public health responses during epidemics? While scholars have examined the role of established medical institutions such as the Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization, the police remain understudied. Through a multimethod analysis of archival materials, national survey data, and comparisons across New York and San Francisco, I argue that police functioned as informal medical knowledge p…
Sociology (4 works) · Music History and Culture (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Active listening (1 works)