Ralph Cintron
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1227422 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ralph Cintron |
| PRENOMES | Ralph |
| SOBRENOME | Cintron |
| ASSINATURA | CINTRON R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Illinois Chicago |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Plant species selection and participatory community co-design are essential in balancing ecosystem services and disservices in urban areas
Balancing the benefits and disservices of urban green infrastructure is critical for sustainable city planning. While urban vegetation provides ecosystem services such as air quality improvement and heat reduction, it can also contribute to air pollution through the emission of biogenic volatile organic compounds, and pollen can exacerbate respiratory health issues and allergies within communities. Chicago’s environmental and health disparities m…
Culture, Rhetoric and the Vicissitudes of Life
Inspired by the Rhetoric Culture Project, this volume focuses on the use of imagery, narrative, and cultural schemes to deal with predicaments that arise during the course of life. The contributors explore how people muster their resources to understand and deal with emergencies such as illness, displacement, or genocide. In dealing with such circumstances, people can develop new rhetorical forms and, in the process, establish new cultural resour…
Esta Chingadera
This essay reflects on how the pandemic has intensified long-standing discussions regarding race, Blackness, white privilege and supremacy, settler colonialism, social justice, and more. I draw from forty years of ethnographic fieldwork or being part of the departmental leadership of Latin American and Latino Studies at my university. (Backdrop: growing up Puerto Rican in South Texas with Mexican and Mexican American families, I have dealt with t…
Precarious economies
The Precarious Economies working group engaged the University of Nevada Reno’s (UNR) Campus Master Plan (CMP) from the perspective of precarity—broadly understood as material conditions of vulnerability that threaten living bodies and are outside of one’s control. Employing traditional and in situ methods of rhetorical analysis and fieldwork, we investigated how the creative destruction of Reno’s emerging technology economy implicates people with…
The Demon Ratu Macaling Brings Disease and Disaster Every Year in the Rainy Season
Today, it is widely believed that humans have the ability to grasp the material world as it is, and that this grasp can be instrumentalized so as to progressively solve problems and maximize human flourishing. We call this idea “technopositivism.” Technopositivism seeks to give a comprehensive explanation of all that is, including the best possible social order. But, like all interpretive systems, technopositivism is incapable of providing such a…
Democracy as Fetish
Democracy as Fetish
Democracy has long been fetishized. Consequently, how we speak about democracy and what we expect from democratic governance are at odds with practice. With unflinching resolve, this book probes the theory of democracy and how the left and right are fascinated by it. In this innovative multidisciplinary study, Ralph Cintron provides sustained analysis of our political discourse. He shows not only how the rhetoric of democracy produces strong desi…
Sociales de Mayagüez
In this article, which oscillates between the genres of academic analysis and intimate portrait, the author peels back the 'layers of lived contradictions' that animate and enmesh families caught in the multi-generational legacies of colonial relations and migrations. Revisiting the society columns that his mother wrote while living in Puerto Rico, Cintrón traces his family's multi-generational trajectory across class and geographic boundaries as…
Expert Knowledge
The essays in this forum collection are concerned primarily with the application of expert knowledge in fields where there is the expectation of considerable cultural, social, and political consequence for human populations, as a result of state, corporate, or non-governmental organizational action. The essays here are, with a couple of exceptions, written by anthropologists whose knowledge—insofar as it may be distinct from others in the social …
Uncertain territory
Bonfil Batalla, Guillermo. Mexico Profundo: Reclaiming a Civilization. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1996. xxi + 198 pp. including references, bibliographic appendix, and index. $30.00 cloth, $12.95 paper. Vélez‐Ibáñez, Carlos G. Border Visions: Mexican Cultures of the Southwest United States. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1997. xii + 360 pp. including endnotes, references, and index. $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper
Listening to What the Streets Say
Based on 10 years of ethnographic fieldwork in Latino/a communities in northern Illinois, this article discusses violence and vengeance among mostly youths and gang members. Four points are made. First, violence and vengeance are attempts to establish order over escalating disorder. Vengeance often relies on a conviction regarding some higher moral order. Second, vengeance can operate as a kind of counter ideology when the values and beliefs of a…
Expert Knowledge
The essays in this forum collection are concerned primarily with the application of expert knowledge in fields where there is the expectation of considerable cultural, social, and political consequence for human populations, as a result of state, corporate, or non-governmental organizational action. The essays here are, with a couple of exceptions, written by anthropologists whose knowledge—insofar as it may be distinct from others in the social …
Listening to What the Streets Say
Based on 10 years of ethnographic fieldwork in Latino/a communities in northern Illinois, this article discusses violence and vengeance among mostly youths and gang members. Four points are made. First, violence and vengeance are attempts to establish order over escalating disorder. Vengeance often relies on a conviction regarding some higher moral order. Second, vengeance can operate as a kind of counter ideology when the values and beliefs of a…
Uncertain territory
Bonfil Batalla, Guillermo. Mexico Profundo: Reclaiming a Civilization. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1996. xxi + 198 pp. including references, bibliographic appendix, and index. $30.00 cloth, $12.95 paper. Vélez‐Ibáñez, Carlos G. Border Visions: Mexican Cultures of the Southwest United States. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1997. xii + 360 pp. including endnotes, references, and index. $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper
Expert Knowledge
The essays in this forum collection are concerned primarily with the application of expert knowledge in fields where there is the expectation of considerable cultural, social, and political consequence for human populations, as a result of state, corporate, or non-governmental organizational action. The essays here are, with a couple of exceptions, written by anthropologists whose knowledge—insofar as it may be distinct from others in the social …
Sociales de Mayagüez
In this article, which oscillates between the genres of academic analysis and intimate portrait, the author peels back the 'layers of lived contradictions' that animate and enmesh families caught in the multi-generational legacies of colonial relations and migrations. Revisiting the society columns that his mother wrote while living in Puerto Rico, Cintrón traces his family's multi-generational trajectory across class and geographic boundaries as…
Democracy as Fetish
Democracy as Fetish
Democracy has long been fetishized. Consequently, how we speak about democracy and what we expect from democratic governance are at odds with practice. With unflinching resolve, this book probes the theory of democracy and how the left and right are fascinated by it. In this innovative multidisciplinary study, Ralph Cintron provides sustained analysis of our political discourse. He shows not only how the rhetoric of democracy produces strong desi…
Precarious economies
The Precarious Economies working group engaged the University of Nevada Reno’s (UNR) Campus Master Plan (CMP) from the perspective of precarity—broadly understood as material conditions of vulnerability that threaten living bodies and are outside of one’s control. Employing traditional and in situ methods of rhetorical analysis and fieldwork, we investigated how the creative destruction of Reno’s emerging technology economy implicates people with…
The Demon Ratu Macaling Brings Disease and Disaster Every Year in the Rainy Season
Today, it is widely believed that humans have the ability to grasp the material world as it is, and that this grasp can be instrumentalized so as to progressively solve problems and maximize human flourishing. We call this idea “technopositivism.” Technopositivism seeks to give a comprehensive explanation of all that is, including the best possible social order. But, like all interpretive systems, technopositivism is incapable of providing such a…
Culture, Rhetoric and the Vicissitudes of Life
Inspired by the Rhetoric Culture Project, this volume focuses on the use of imagery, narrative, and cultural schemes to deal with predicaments that arise during the course of life. The contributors explore how people muster their resources to understand and deal with emergencies such as illness, displacement, or genocide. In dealing with such circumstances, people can develop new rhetorical forms and, in the process, establish new cultural resour…
Esta Chingadera
This essay reflects on how the pandemic has intensified long-standing discussions regarding race, Blackness, white privilege and supremacy, settler colonialism, social justice, and more. I draw from forty years of ethnographic fieldwork or being part of the departmental leadership of Latin American and Latino Studies at my university. (Backdrop: growing up Puerto Rican in South Texas with Mexican and Mexican American families, I have dealt with t…
Plant species selection and participatory community co-design are essential in balancing ecosystem services and disservices in urban areas
Balancing the benefits and disservices of urban green infrastructure is critical for sustainable city planning. While urban vegetation provides ecosystem services such as air quality improvement and heat reduction, it can also contribute to air pollution through the emission of biogenic volatile organic compounds, and pollen can exacerbate respiratory health issues and allergies within communities. Chicago’s environmental and health disparities m…
Sociology (10 obras) · Political science (8 obras) · Philosophy (7 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Politics (5 obras) · Art (4 obras) · Computer Science (4 obras) · Epistemology (3 obras) · Gender Studies (3 obras) · Latin American and Latino Studies (3 obras)