Hava Rachel Gordon
Biographic Data
| ID | 86538 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hava Rachel Gordon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hava Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Gordon |
| SIGNATURE | GORDON H R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Denver |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4616-6965 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 113 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Centering the Chicana/o/x community in methodology and pedagogy for a HWCU general education curriculum
During the 2023-2025 academic years, 14 faculty members at a midsized private R1 university located in the Rocky Mountain West collaborated to create and teach liberal arts and social sciences courses introducing students to El Movimiento, the U.S. Chicano Movement that began in the 1960s and 1970s that significantly shaped the economic, political, and social historical context of our university’s area. Employing a case study methodology, this ar…
School Cultures, Peer Cultures, and Inequality
Despite a decades‐long debate still raging about whether K‐12 schooling disadvantages boys or girls more, a closer look at the relationships between gender and schooling reveals that gender operates in complicated ways according to intersections with race, class, sexuality, and disability statuses in education. This paper takes an intersectional approach to understanding how gender structures K‐12 education through two primary lenses: institution…
It's a Little, Tiny Process”
This article investigates why popular support for neighborhood schools does not translate into stronger multi-racial and multi-class coalitions for neighborhood schools in the face of school choice systems and school closures. Using a critical place perspective, this article illustrates how place-based urban inequities facilitate fragmented resistances to school choice. Racialized dispossession, the post-Civil Rights abandonment of poor and worki…
K(not) more than threads
At the heart of the neoliberal university, affective energies linked to roles, responsibilities, expectations, policies, and bodies impact the atmosphere of university life. Associate professors report the highest levels of dissatisfaction among all ranks, as they find themselves entangled in affective knots. To understand these knots in associate professor lifeworlds, we solicit their accounts and reveal affective pain points in the neoliberal u…
Invisible labor and the associate professor
Coming Up Short
We can’t let them fail for one more day’
This article provides a critical examination of neoliberal urgency in education reform. While critics of neoliberal reform policies have argued that these reforms exclude low-income community participation almost entirely, I argue that in practice this exclusion is not as total or as overt as macro-analyses would suggest. These macro analyses do not explain the complicated alliances that reformers have with some community organizations, nor do th…
Youth activists, youth councils, and constrained democracy
This article provides a critical examination of a common form of adult attempts to promote civic engagement among young people, namely, youth advisory councils. While youth councils have been widely celebrated as an effective way to integrate young people into political processes, little research has explored why some politically active youth choose to leave, or refuse to join, youth councils. Based on two qualitative studies of politically activ…
Rethinking Youth Political Socialization
This article draws from the experiences and narratives of teenage activists throughout the Americas in order to add a needed dimension, that of peer political socialization, to the larger political and civic socialization literature. The authors argue that although the existing literature emphasizes the roles and responsibilities of adults in shaping young people's civic capacities, the roles that young people play in socializing each other for p…
Gendered Paths to Teenage Political Participation
This article examines how gender shapes the development, involvement, and visibility of teenagers as political actors within their communities. Based on ethnographic research with two high school student movement organizations on the West Coast, the author argues that gender impacts the potential for young people's political consciousness to translate into public, social movement participation. Specifically, the gendered ways in which youth conce…
Allies Within and Without
Most research on youth subordination and age inequality focuses on macrolevel institutions, ideologies, and discourses. While important, this macrolevel focus mystifies the ways in which young people themselves conceptualize and negotiate ageism. This article examines how adolescents collectively experience, politicize, and respond to ageism as they become active in educational justice and antiwar movements. Based on comparative ethnographic rese…
The Processes of Social Construction in Talk
Sociologists have paid a great deal of attention to the idea that many aspects of human life are socially constructed. However, there has been far less attention to the concrete interactional processes by which this construction occurs. In particular, scholars have neglected how consensual meaning is constructed in verbal interaction. This article outlines nine generic construction tools used in everyday talk, based on a review and synthesis of p…
Rethinking Youth Political Socialization
This article draws from the experiences and narratives of teenage activists throughout the Americas in order to add a needed dimension, that of peer political socialization, to the larger political and civic socialization literature. The authors argue that although the existing literature emphasizes the roles and responsibilities of adults in shaping young people's civic capacities, the roles that young people play in socializing each other for p…
Gendered Paths to Teenage Political Participation
This article examines how gender shapes the development, involvement, and visibility of teenagers as political actors within their communities. Based on ethnographic research with two high school student movement organizations on the West Coast, the author argues that gender impacts the potential for young people's political consciousness to translate into public, social movement participation. Specifically, the gendered ways in which youth conce…
Allies Within and Without
Most research on youth subordination and age inequality focuses on macrolevel institutions, ideologies, and discourses. While important, this macrolevel focus mystifies the ways in which young people themselves conceptualize and negotiate ageism. This article examines how adolescents collectively experience, politicize, and respond to ageism as they become active in educational justice and antiwar movements. Based on comparative ethnographic rese…
The Processes of Social Construction in Talk
Sociologists have paid a great deal of attention to the idea that many aspects of human life are socially constructed. However, there has been far less attention to the concrete interactional processes by which this construction occurs. In particular, scholars have neglected how consensual meaning is constructed in verbal interaction. This article outlines nine generic construction tools used in everyday talk, based on a review and synthesis of p…
Coming Up Short
Invisible labor and the associate professor
We can’t let them fail for one more day’
This article provides a critical examination of neoliberal urgency in education reform. While critics of neoliberal reform policies have argued that these reforms exclude low-income community participation almost entirely, I argue that in practice this exclusion is not as total or as overt as macro-analyses would suggest. These macro analyses do not explain the complicated alliances that reformers have with some community organizations, nor do th…
It's a Little, Tiny Process”
This article investigates why popular support for neighborhood schools does not translate into stronger multi-racial and multi-class coalitions for neighborhood schools in the face of school choice systems and school closures. Using a critical place perspective, this article illustrates how place-based urban inequities facilitate fragmented resistances to school choice. Racialized dispossession, the post-Civil Rights abandonment of poor and worki…
The Processes of Social Construction in Talk
Sociologists have paid a great deal of attention to the idea that many aspects of human life are socially constructed. However, there has been far less attention to the concrete interactional processes by which this construction occurs. In particular, scholars have neglected how consensual meaning is constructed in verbal interaction. This article outlines nine generic construction tools used in everyday talk, based on a review and synthesis of p…
Allies Within and Without
Most research on youth subordination and age inequality focuses on macrolevel institutions, ideologies, and discourses. While important, this macrolevel focus mystifies the ways in which young people themselves conceptualize and negotiate ageism. This article examines how adolescents collectively experience, politicize, and respond to ageism as they become active in educational justice and antiwar movements. Based on comparative ethnographic rese…
Gendered Paths to Teenage Political Participation
This article examines how gender shapes the development, involvement, and visibility of teenagers as political actors within their communities. Based on ethnographic research with two high school student movement organizations on the West Coast, the author argues that gender impacts the potential for young people's political consciousness to translate into public, social movement participation. Specifically, the gendered ways in which youth conce…
Rethinking Youth Political Socialization
This article draws from the experiences and narratives of teenage activists throughout the Americas in order to add a needed dimension, that of peer political socialization, to the larger political and civic socialization literature. The authors argue that although the existing literature emphasizes the roles and responsibilities of adults in shaping young people's civic capacities, the roles that young people play in socializing each other for p…
Youth activists, youth councils, and constrained democracy
This article provides a critical examination of a common form of adult attempts to promote civic engagement among young people, namely, youth advisory councils. While youth councils have been widely celebrated as an effective way to integrate young people into political processes, little research has explored why some politically active youth choose to leave, or refuse to join, youth councils. Based on two qualitative studies of politically activ…
We can’t let them fail for one more day’
This article provides a critical examination of neoliberal urgency in education reform. While critics of neoliberal reform policies have argued that these reforms exclude low-income community participation almost entirely, I argue that in practice this exclusion is not as total or as overt as macro-analyses would suggest. These macro analyses do not explain the complicated alliances that reformers have with some community organizations, nor do th…
Coming Up Short
Invisible labor and the associate professor
K(not) more than threads
At the heart of the neoliberal university, affective energies linked to roles, responsibilities, expectations, policies, and bodies impact the atmosphere of university life. Associate professors report the highest levels of dissatisfaction among all ranks, as they find themselves entangled in affective knots. To understand these knots in associate professor lifeworlds, we solicit their accounts and reveal affective pain points in the neoliberal u…
It's a Little, Tiny Process”
This article investigates why popular support for neighborhood schools does not translate into stronger multi-racial and multi-class coalitions for neighborhood schools in the face of school choice systems and school closures. Using a critical place perspective, this article illustrates how place-based urban inequities facilitate fragmented resistances to school choice. Racialized dispossession, the post-Civil Rights abandonment of poor and worki…
School Cultures, Peer Cultures, and Inequality
Despite a decades‐long debate still raging about whether K‐12 schooling disadvantages boys or girls more, a closer look at the relationships between gender and schooling reveals that gender operates in complicated ways according to intersections with race, class, sexuality, and disability statuses in education. This paper takes an intersectional approach to understanding how gender structures K‐12 education through two primary lenses: institution…
Centering the Chicana/o/x community in methodology and pedagogy for a HWCU general education curriculum
During the 2023-2025 academic years, 14 faculty members at a midsized private R1 university located in the Rocky Mountain West collaborated to create and teach liberal arts and social sciences courses introducing students to El Movimiento, the U.S. Chicano Movement that began in the 1960s and 1970s that significantly shaped the economic, political, and social historical context of our university’s area. Employing a case study methodology, this ar…
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (3 works)