Lauren J Silver
Biographic Data
| ID | 89884 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lauren J Silver |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lauren J |
| FAMILY NAME | Silver |
| SIGNATURE | SILVER L J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4217-5330 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Children's radical kincrafting-Riverways through care, healing, and transformation
This piece explores radical kinship through patchwork ethnography across multiple intimate and educational spaces. The style is multivocal as the work honors creative, nonlinear, and embodied ways of knowing and crafting kin relationships. I learn intergenerationally from youth, educators, and my daughter, as we build kin to care for one another and heal from harm. Through my art, I share aspects of my inner child's relationship to kinship. This …
Queering reproductive justice
Why does a queer feminist approach to reproductive justice matter? Why might it matter for youth who build their families while navigating the surveillance of a large urban U.S. child welfare system? Why might it matter for queer transracial families like my own and for other “disruptive families”? This autoethnographic account shadows my ethnography with Black adolescent mothers and their children living under surveillance. The works stems from …
Transformative childhood studies – a remix in inquiry, justice, and love
The meaning of justice is never pre-given. In this manuscript, I suggest that childhood studies scholars look critically at what justice means and what it would entail for differently positioned children, youth, and communities. I map out a concept and praxis of transformative childhood studies (TCS) which involves a remix in transformative justice, childhood studies scholarship, and feminist methodology. Transformative justice (TJ) calls attenti…
Urban School Formation
Spaces of Encounter
In this article I analyze the intertwining of cultural narratives, identity stereotypes, and the material environment as these factors shape public service negotiations between clients and officials. I emphasize the material deficits, spatial barriers, and bureaucratic procedures that restrict the storylines clients and officials use to make sense of one another. This article is drawn from a two-year ethnographic study with African American young…
Minding the Gap
This article explores the gap between official policies and the realities of social programs. It examines relations among administrators, case managers, and adolescent mothers in a Supervised Independent Living program. It also adds to the traditional analysis of policies an exploration of the use of cultural tools in developing program practices. The work finds that, due to the distribution of the hierarchy of authority, there is social distance…
Transformative childhood studies – a remix in inquiry, justice, and love
The meaning of justice is never pre-given. In this manuscript, I suggest that childhood studies scholars look critically at what justice means and what it would entail for differently positioned children, youth, and communities. I map out a concept and praxis of transformative childhood studies (TCS) which involves a remix in transformative justice, childhood studies scholarship, and feminist methodology. Transformative justice (TJ) calls attenti…
Spaces of Encounter
In this article I analyze the intertwining of cultural narratives, identity stereotypes, and the material environment as these factors shape public service negotiations between clients and officials. I emphasize the material deficits, spatial barriers, and bureaucratic procedures that restrict the storylines clients and officials use to make sense of one another. This article is drawn from a two-year ethnographic study with African American young…
Minding the Gap
This article explores the gap between official policies and the realities of social programs. It examines relations among administrators, case managers, and adolescent mothers in a Supervised Independent Living program. It also adds to the traditional analysis of policies an exploration of the use of cultural tools in developing program practices. The work finds that, due to the distribution of the hierarchy of authority, there is social distance…
Minding the Gap
This article explores the gap between official policies and the realities of social programs. It examines relations among administrators, case managers, and adolescent mothers in a Supervised Independent Living program. It also adds to the traditional analysis of policies an exploration of the use of cultural tools in developing program practices. The work finds that, due to the distribution of the hierarchy of authority, there is social distance…
Spaces of Encounter
In this article I analyze the intertwining of cultural narratives, identity stereotypes, and the material environment as these factors shape public service negotiations between clients and officials. I emphasize the material deficits, spatial barriers, and bureaucratic procedures that restrict the storylines clients and officials use to make sense of one another. This article is drawn from a two-year ethnographic study with African American young…
Urban School Formation
Transformative childhood studies – a remix in inquiry, justice, and love
The meaning of justice is never pre-given. In this manuscript, I suggest that childhood studies scholars look critically at what justice means and what it would entail for differently positioned children, youth, and communities. I map out a concept and praxis of transformative childhood studies (TCS) which involves a remix in transformative justice, childhood studies scholarship, and feminist methodology. Transformative justice (TJ) calls attenti…
Queering reproductive justice
Why does a queer feminist approach to reproductive justice matter? Why might it matter for youth who build their families while navigating the surveillance of a large urban U.S. child welfare system? Why might it matter for queer transracial families like my own and for other “disruptive families”? This autoethnographic account shadows my ethnography with Black adolescent mothers and their children living under surveillance. The works stems from …
Children's radical kincrafting-Riverways through care, healing, and transformation
This piece explores radical kinship through patchwork ethnography across multiple intimate and educational spaces. The style is multivocal as the work honors creative, nonlinear, and embodied ways of knowing and crafting kin relationships. I learn intergenerationally from youth, educators, and my daughter, as we build kin to care for one another and heal from harm. Through my art, I share aspects of my inner child's relationship to kinship. This …
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