B Erickson
Biographic Data
| ID | 892 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B Erickson |
| GIVEN NAMES | B |
| FAMILY NAME | Erickson |
| SIGNATURE | ERICKSON B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6860-006X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mission Creep: Enduring Race-Place Schemata of California's Colonial Settlements
This article traces contemporary patterns of housing and homelessness to colonial geographies as race-place schemata: historic and ongoing relationships to territory that articulate and impose white supremacy while stimulating resistance to it. These phenomena are approached through the four fields of anthropology, placing a contemporary ethnography of gentrification/displacement in Oakland in conversation with the archeological record of coloniz…
Grotesque logic: Catalan carnival utopias and the politics of laughter
This article explores the openness of the grotesque body as a problem space to theorise links between Carnival and political discourse. Data from ethnographic field research on Carnival in the Catalan city of Vilanova i la Geltrú is interpreted through the analysis of Mikhail Bakhtin, who argued that Carnival uses a system of festive-popular images to enact the cycle of disease, death and rebirth through the medium of the grotesque body. The firs…
George Clinton and David Bowie: The Space Race in Black and White
This article explores the use of space imagery in the music of George Clinton and David Bowie and argues that different horizons of black and white terrestrial experience give rise to divergent astral imaginaries. Analysis of song lyrics, liner notes, and statements by the artists in light of their social contexts and the theoretical lens of Bakhtin’s grotesque body shows that Bowie models white imaginations of evolutionary transcendence while Cl…
Utopian virtues: Muslim neighbors, ritual sociality, and the politics ofconvivència
In this article, I explore articulations between ritual practice, public sociality, and the politics of immigration in Catalonia (Spain). I investigate phenomena associated with a vernacular interculturalist project known in Catalan asconvivència(living together), an alternative to both xenophobic and liberal multiculturalist discourses circulating in Europe. I focus on the capacity of ritual practice to shape embodied socialities between hosts a…
A Time-Series Analysis of War and Levels of Interpersonal Violence in an English Military Town, 1700-1781
Utopian virtues: Muslim neighbors, ritual sociality, and the politics ofconvivència
In this article, I explore articulations between ritual practice, public sociality, and the politics of immigration in Catalonia (Spain). I investigate phenomena associated with a vernacular interculturalist project known in Catalan asconvivència(living together), an alternative to both xenophobic and liberal multiculturalist discourses circulating in Europe. I focus on the capacity of ritual practice to shape embodied socialities between hosts a…
George Clinton and David Bowie: The Space Race in Black and White
This article explores the use of space imagery in the music of George Clinton and David Bowie and argues that different horizons of black and white terrestrial experience give rise to divergent astral imaginaries. Analysis of song lyrics, liner notes, and statements by the artists in light of their social contexts and the theoretical lens of Bakhtin’s grotesque body shows that Bowie models white imaginations of evolutionary transcendence while Cl…
A Time-Series Analysis of War and Levels of Interpersonal Violence in an English Military Town, 1700-1781
Utopian virtues: Muslim neighbors, ritual sociality, and the politics ofconvivència
In this article, I explore articulations between ritual practice, public sociality, and the politics of immigration in Catalonia (Spain). I investigate phenomena associated with a vernacular interculturalist project known in Catalan asconvivència(living together), an alternative to both xenophobic and liberal multiculturalist discourses circulating in Europe. I focus on the capacity of ritual practice to shape embodied socialities between hosts a…
George Clinton and David Bowie: The Space Race in Black and White
This article explores the use of space imagery in the music of George Clinton and David Bowie and argues that different horizons of black and white terrestrial experience give rise to divergent astral imaginaries. Analysis of song lyrics, liner notes, and statements by the artists in light of their social contexts and the theoretical lens of Bakhtin’s grotesque body shows that Bowie models white imaginations of evolutionary transcendence while Cl…
Grotesque logic: Catalan carnival utopias and the politics of laughter
This article explores the openness of the grotesque body as a problem space to theorise links between Carnival and political discourse. Data from ethnographic field research on Carnival in the Catalan city of Vilanova i la Geltrú is interpreted through the analysis of Mikhail Bakhtin, who argued that Carnival uses a system of festive-popular images to enact the cycle of disease, death and rebirth through the medium of the grotesque body. The firs…
Mission Creep: Enduring Race-Place Schemata of California's Colonial Settlements
This article traces contemporary patterns of housing and homelessness to colonial geographies as race-place schemata: historic and ongoing relationships to territory that articulate and impose white supremacy while stimulating resistance to it. These phenomena are approached through the four fields of anthropology, placing a contemporary ethnography of gentrification/displacement in Oakland in conversation with the archeological record of coloniz…
Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Carnivalesque (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)