C H Klein
Biographic Data
| ID | 9348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C H Klein |
| GIVEN NAMES | C H |
| FAMILY NAME | Klein |
| SIGNATURE | KLEIN C H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Portland State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9621-7172 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Educators' perceptions about outdoor play affordances for solitary, parallel, and cooperative play
Grounded in the Theory of Affordances, this exploratory study examined the afforded behaviors of play in outdoor play environments. Although studies have extensively examined affordances for physical development, this study contributes to the lesser‐published topic of designing spaces that foster socioemotional development in young children. A survey utilized heat map images and open‐ended questions to collect qualitative data from 44 early child…
The HIV Environmental Riskscape: The Roles of HIV Sexual Risk and Resilience Factors among Black Men Who Have Sex with Men: Findings from the Real Talk Project
THC-O-Acetate: Scarce Evidence for a Psychedelic Cannabinoid
There is a growing interest in semi-synthetic cannabinoids, including THC-O-acetate (THC-Oac). Some cannabis marketers and users have claimed that THC-Oac produces psychedelic effects; the current study is the first to examine this claim. Researchers developed an online survey for THC-Oac consumers based on previous cannabis and psychedelic use surveys and in consultation with the moderator of an online forum. The survey assessed the experiential…
Periferias nas universidades: Ecos Femininos Das Políticas De Ações Afirmativas
O objetivo deste artigo é refletir sobre a forma como medidas de acesso ao ensino superior dos últimos 20 anos, articuladas a outras políticas sociais, modificaram as condições de vida de muitas famílias moradoras das periferias da cidade de São Paulo, sobretudo de mulheres. Argumentamos que tais políticas, de modo mais amplo, também vêm contribuindo para transformar o contexto político e cultural desses territórios. Nesse sentido, analisamos alg…
Mobility Interrupted: "A New Framework for Understanding Anti-Left Sentiment Among Brazil's "Once-Rising Poor
How do sequences of upward and downward socioeconomic mobility influence political views among those who have "risen" or "fallen" during periods of leftist governance? While existing studies identify a range of factors, long-term mobility trajectories have been largely unexplored. The question has particular salience in contemporary Brazil, where, after a decade of extraordinary poverty reduction on the watch of the leftist Workers' Party (PT), a…
What Happened to the “New Middle Class”? The 2016 Borp (Brazil’s Once-Rising Poor) Survey
This research note provides a detailed account of the development and implementation of a household survey conducted in 2016 as part of a larger investigation into the lifeways and political subjectivities of Brazil’s “once-rising poor,” the demographic sector comprising poor and working-class people who experienced various forms of socioeconomic mobility in the early twenty-first century. After reflecting on the challenges of maintaining a criti…
Voyages in Applied and Activist Anthropology
Epigenetics and Applied Anthropology
Since Francis Crick and James D. Watson’s discovery of DNA in 1953, researchers, policymakers, and the general public have sought to understand the ways in which genetics shapes human lives. A milestone in these efforts was the completion of the Human Genome Project’s (HGP) sequencing of Homo sapiens’ nearly three million base pairs in 2003. Yet, despite the excitement surrounding the HGP and the discovery of the structural genetic underpinnings …
Between "us" and "them: Political Subjectivities in the Shadows of the 2018 Brazilian Election
This article examines political subjectivities, community engagements and voting practices among residents of São Paulo's Zona Sul peripheries in the three years preceding Brazil's 2018 presidential election. Building on a 398-person household survey, 46 in-depth interviews, and extensive participation observation over the course of a four-year study, we argue that although most residents of our study communities across the political spectrum are…
I never thought this could be for me”: Aspirational capital, identities, and political engagement among first-generation college students in São Paulo
Today, young adults from lower-income backgrounds are pursuing educational trajectories that would have been distant dreams for their parents. In many Global South countries, this expansion has followed a neoliberal logic in which private universities purport to provide students skills and increased earning capacity, and employers the necessary human capital to compete in global markets. This article examines these processes in Brazil, where fede…
Flipping the City: Space and Subjectivity in the São Paulo Periphery
Like many urban spaces in the Global South, Brazilian cities are renowned for their extreme inequalities, with socio-spatial distinctions generally following a center/periphery divide in which wealth and infrastructure are concentrated in center districts, and social vulnerability increases the farther out one goes. Yet, in the past fifteen years, poverty reduction, planning initiatives, higher education opportunities, and social media networks h…
Naming Brazil's previously poor: New middle class” as an economic, political, and experiential category
The early years of the twenty‐first century were historic for socioeconomic relations in Brazil. While long known for stark socioeconomic inequality, the nation became internationally celebrated for its economic growth and successful poverty‐reduction initiatives, which together propelled some 35 million “previously poor” Brazilians into what became called a “new middle class.” The apparent rise of this “new” class has generated contentious debat…
Opening up the Echo Chamber
In recent years, political discussion and social life are increasingly concentrating in face-to-face and online echo chambers composed of individuals with similar world views. This segmentation of civil society has stymied in-depth and respectful communication across ideological difference and in the process contributed to the divisiveness that characterizes political discourse across the globe. In this article, I examine how anthropological lear…
WiLLOW: Reaching HIV-Positive African-American Women Through a Computer-Delivered Intervention
Structural barriers and facilitators in HIV prevention: A review of international research
OBJECTIVES: This article provides an overview of a growing body of international research focusing on the structural and environmental factors that shape the spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and create barriers and facilitators in relation to HIV-prevention programs. OVERVIEW OF STRUCTURAL-FACTORS LITERATURE: Most of the research on structural and environmental factors can be grouped into a small number of analytically distinct but interconnected…
Patterns and Correlates of Risky Behavior Among HIV+ Gay Men: Are They Really Different from HIV− Men
The ghetto is over, darling: Emerging gay communities and gender and sexual politics in contemporary Brazil
This article examines how "gayness" and the "gay community" have been conceived and experienced by participants in Porto Alegre's homosexual/gay subcultures. The objective of this article is to map out some of the key tensions and power dynamics involved in the apparent consolidation of gay communities/culture in Brazil and to explore what might be gained and lost and for whom in these recent transformations of Brazilian male homosexualities. The…
The Aids Crisis: A Documentary History
The AIDS Crisis:. Documentary History. Douglas A. Feldman and Julia Wang Miller. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998.266 pp
From One `Battle' to Another: The Making of a Travesti Political Movement in a Brazilian City
This article examines the emergence of a travesti political movement out of a work group for transgendered sex professionals run by the Grupo de Apoio à Prevenção da AIDS/Rio Grande do Sul (Support Group for AIDS Prevention, or GAPA/RS) in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The author first discusses the history of GAPA/RS' involvement with sex workers and the ways in which violence structures the lives of many travestis. He then documents the killing of Cris…
Gender, Sexuality and Aids Prevention in Brazil
Additional informationNotes on contributorsCharles KleinCharles Klein is visiting professor of anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh. His dissertation, AIDS, Activism and the Social Imagination in Brazil, received the Horace R. Rackham Distinguished Dissertation Award
Naming Brazil's previously poor: New middle class” as an economic, political, and experiential category
The early years of the twenty‐first century were historic for socioeconomic relations in Brazil. While long known for stark socioeconomic inequality, the nation became internationally celebrated for its economic growth and successful poverty‐reduction initiatives, which together propelled some 35 million “previously poor” Brazilians into what became called a “new middle class.” The apparent rise of this “new” class has generated contentious debat…
The ghetto is over, darling: Emerging gay communities and gender and sexual politics in contemporary Brazil
This article examines how "gayness" and the "gay community" have been conceived and experienced by participants in Porto Alegre's homosexual/gay subcultures. The objective of this article is to map out some of the key tensions and power dynamics involved in the apparent consolidation of gay communities/culture in Brazil and to explore what might be gained and lost and for whom in these recent transformations of Brazilian male homosexualities. The…
Flipping the City: Space and Subjectivity in the São Paulo Periphery
Like many urban spaces in the Global South, Brazilian cities are renowned for their extreme inequalities, with socio-spatial distinctions generally following a center/periphery divide in which wealth and infrastructure are concentrated in center districts, and social vulnerability increases the farther out one goes. Yet, in the past fifteen years, poverty reduction, planning initiatives, higher education opportunities, and social media networks h…
Between "us" and "them: Political Subjectivities in the Shadows of the 2018 Brazilian Election
This article examines political subjectivities, community engagements and voting practices among residents of São Paulo's Zona Sul peripheries in the three years preceding Brazil's 2018 presidential election. Building on a 398-person household survey, 46 in-depth interviews, and extensive participation observation over the course of a four-year study, we argue that although most residents of our study communities across the political spectrum are…
Mobility Interrupted: "A New Framework for Understanding Anti-Left Sentiment Among Brazil's "Once-Rising Poor
How do sequences of upward and downward socioeconomic mobility influence political views among those who have "risen" or "fallen" during periods of leftist governance? While existing studies identify a range of factors, long-term mobility trajectories have been largely unexplored. The question has particular salience in contemporary Brazil, where, after a decade of extraordinary poverty reduction on the watch of the leftist Workers' Party (PT), a…
I never thought this could be for me”: Aspirational capital, identities, and political engagement among first-generation college students in São Paulo
Today, young adults from lower-income backgrounds are pursuing educational trajectories that would have been distant dreams for their parents. In many Global South countries, this expansion has followed a neoliberal logic in which private universities purport to provide students skills and increased earning capacity, and employers the necessary human capital to compete in global markets. This article examines these processes in Brazil, where fede…
Opening up the Echo Chamber
In recent years, political discussion and social life are increasingly concentrating in face-to-face and online echo chambers composed of individuals with similar world views. This segmentation of civil society has stymied in-depth and respectful communication across ideological difference and in the process contributed to the divisiveness that characterizes political discourse across the globe. In this article, I examine how anthropological lear…
From One `Battle' to Another: The Making of a Travesti Political Movement in a Brazilian City
This article examines the emergence of a travesti political movement out of a work group for transgendered sex professionals run by the Grupo de Apoio à Prevenção da AIDS/Rio Grande do Sul (Support Group for AIDS Prevention, or GAPA/RS) in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The author first discusses the history of GAPA/RS' involvement with sex workers and the ways in which violence structures the lives of many travestis. He then documents the killing of Cris…
Gender, Sexuality and Aids Prevention in Brazil
Additional informationNotes on contributorsCharles KleinCharles Klein is visiting professor of anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh. His dissertation, AIDS, Activism and the Social Imagination in Brazil, received the Horace R. Rackham Distinguished Dissertation Award
Patterns and Correlates of Risky Behavior Among HIV+ Gay Men: Are They Really Different from HIV− Men
The ghetto is over, darling: Emerging gay communities and gender and sexual politics in contemporary Brazil
This article examines how "gayness" and the "gay community" have been conceived and experienced by participants in Porto Alegre's homosexual/gay subcultures. The objective of this article is to map out some of the key tensions and power dynamics involved in the apparent consolidation of gay communities/culture in Brazil and to explore what might be gained and lost and for whom in these recent transformations of Brazilian male homosexualities. The…
The Aids Crisis: A Documentary History
The AIDS Crisis:. Documentary History. Douglas A. Feldman and Julia Wang Miller. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998.266 pp
Structural barriers and facilitators in HIV prevention: A review of international research
OBJECTIVES: This article provides an overview of a growing body of international research focusing on the structural and environmental factors that shape the spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and create barriers and facilitators in relation to HIV-prevention programs. OVERVIEW OF STRUCTURAL-FACTORS LITERATURE: Most of the research on structural and environmental factors can be grouped into a small number of analytically distinct but interconnected…
WiLLOW: Reaching HIV-Positive African-American Women Through a Computer-Delivered Intervention
Opening up the Echo Chamber
In recent years, political discussion and social life are increasingly concentrating in face-to-face and online echo chambers composed of individuals with similar world views. This segmentation of civil society has stymied in-depth and respectful communication across ideological difference and in the process contributed to the divisiveness that characterizes political discourse across the globe. In this article, I examine how anthropological lear…
Naming Brazil's previously poor: New middle class” as an economic, political, and experiential category
The early years of the twenty‐first century were historic for socioeconomic relations in Brazil. While long known for stark socioeconomic inequality, the nation became internationally celebrated for its economic growth and successful poverty‐reduction initiatives, which together propelled some 35 million “previously poor” Brazilians into what became called a “new middle class.” The apparent rise of this “new” class has generated contentious debat…
I never thought this could be for me”: Aspirational capital, identities, and political engagement among first-generation college students in São Paulo
Today, young adults from lower-income backgrounds are pursuing educational trajectories that would have been distant dreams for their parents. In many Global South countries, this expansion has followed a neoliberal logic in which private universities purport to provide students skills and increased earning capacity, and employers the necessary human capital to compete in global markets. This article examines these processes in Brazil, where fede…
Flipping the City: Space and Subjectivity in the São Paulo Periphery
Like many urban spaces in the Global South, Brazilian cities are renowned for their extreme inequalities, with socio-spatial distinctions generally following a center/periphery divide in which wealth and infrastructure are concentrated in center districts, and social vulnerability increases the farther out one goes. Yet, in the past fifteen years, poverty reduction, planning initiatives, higher education opportunities, and social media networks h…
Between "us" and "them: Political Subjectivities in the Shadows of the 2018 Brazilian Election
This article examines political subjectivities, community engagements and voting practices among residents of São Paulo's Zona Sul peripheries in the three years preceding Brazil's 2018 presidential election. Building on a 398-person household survey, 46 in-depth interviews, and extensive participation observation over the course of a four-year study, we argue that although most residents of our study communities across the political spectrum are…
Epigenetics and Applied Anthropology
Since Francis Crick and James D. Watson’s discovery of DNA in 1953, researchers, policymakers, and the general public have sought to understand the ways in which genetics shapes human lives. A milestone in these efforts was the completion of the Human Genome Project’s (HGP) sequencing of Homo sapiens’ nearly three million base pairs in 2003. Yet, despite the excitement surrounding the HGP and the discovery of the structural genetic underpinnings …
What Happened to the “New Middle Class”? The 2016 Borp (Brazil’s Once-Rising Poor) Survey
This research note provides a detailed account of the development and implementation of a household survey conducted in 2016 as part of a larger investigation into the lifeways and political subjectivities of Brazil’s “once-rising poor,” the demographic sector comprising poor and working-class people who experienced various forms of socioeconomic mobility in the early twenty-first century. After reflecting on the challenges of maintaining a criti…
Voyages in Applied and Activist Anthropology
THC-O-Acetate: Scarce Evidence for a Psychedelic Cannabinoid
There is a growing interest in semi-synthetic cannabinoids, including THC-O-acetate (THC-Oac). Some cannabis marketers and users have claimed that THC-Oac produces psychedelic effects; the current study is the first to examine this claim. Researchers developed an online survey for THC-Oac consumers based on previous cannabis and psychedelic use surveys and in consultation with the moderator of an online forum. The survey assessed the experiential…
Periferias nas universidades: Ecos Femininos Das Políticas De Ações Afirmativas
O objetivo deste artigo é refletir sobre a forma como medidas de acesso ao ensino superior dos últimos 20 anos, articuladas a outras políticas sociais, modificaram as condições de vida de muitas famílias moradoras das periferias da cidade de São Paulo, sobretudo de mulheres. Argumentamos que tais políticas, de modo mais amplo, também vêm contribuindo para transformar o contexto político e cultural desses territórios. Nesse sentido, analisamos alg…
Mobility Interrupted: "A New Framework for Understanding Anti-Left Sentiment Among Brazil's "Once-Rising Poor
How do sequences of upward and downward socioeconomic mobility influence political views among those who have "risen" or "fallen" during periods of leftist governance? While existing studies identify a range of factors, long-term mobility trajectories have been largely unexplored. The question has particular salience in contemporary Brazil, where, after a decade of extraordinary poverty reduction on the watch of the leftist Workers' Party (PT), a…
The HIV Environmental Riskscape: The Roles of HIV Sexual Risk and Resilience Factors among Black Men Who Have Sex with Men: Findings from the Real Talk Project
Educators' perceptions about outdoor play affordances for solitary, parallel, and cooperative play
Grounded in the Theory of Affordances, this exploratory study examined the afforded behaviors of play in outdoor play environments. Although studies have extensively examined affordances for physical development, this study contributes to the lesser‐published topic of designing spaces that foster socioemotional development in young children. A survey utilized heat map images and open‐ended questions to collect qualitative data from 44 early child…
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