Edward Orozco Flores
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 284304 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Edward Orozco Flores |
| PRENOMES | Edward Orozco |
| SOBRENOME | Flores |
| ASSINATURA | FLORES E O |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Merced |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 44 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The Role of Capacity-Building Organizations and Environmental Threat in Addressing Air Quality in Highly Polluted Regions
Involving residents in meaningful participation in heavily polluted regions faces many obstacles. This study focuses on the conditions that enhance individual involvement in civic initiatives against environmental hazards in one of the largest cities in the United States, facing chronic and heightened air pollution exposure. The work is based on a large-scale representative survey of 1950 residents in Fresno, California. The survey was carried ou…
"Jesus Saved an Ex-Con"
""Jesus Saved an Ex-Con"" published on by NYU Press.
“There Is Tension in Democracy”
This chapter examines how FORCE members engaged in CRS’s style of insurgent prophetic redemption. FORCE leaders translated Alinsky-influenced community organizing principles, such as “power” and “self-interest,” and practices, such as “elevator speeches” and “one-on-ones,” in ways that resonated with members’ experiences on the street and in recovery. FORCE members, in turn, drew from recovery to reconstruct the meaning of community organizing; t…
Making Good through Prophetic Redemption
This chapter examines how former gang members and the formerly incarcerated narrated becoming involved with faith-based community organizing. Respondents’ narratives contrasted their backgrounds in gangs and drugs with their efforts to experience personal reform; they had been in rehabilitation, and made efforts to “give back” to their community, through highly personal interactions—such as mentoring—in order to “make good” and distance themselve…
“Imagine a Circle with No One Outside of It”
This chapter examines how Homeboys LOC members engaged in LA Voice’s style of pastoral prophetic redemption. Homeboys LOC leaders drew from relationship-based community organizing principles, such as fostering racial and religious “diversity” and giving a “voice” to those on the margins, in ways that built relationships with elected officials and partnerships with nonprofit organizations and that advanced Homeboy Industries’ mission of providing …
Conclusion
This chapter summarizes the main argument of the book and then telescopes out to examine how the two cases of prophetic redemption fit within the broader landscape of contemporary changes in civic activism among the formerly incarcerated. It argues that some are resistant to accept the fact that formerly incarcerated people can engage in civic and political action as a form of social integration. However, it also argues that neoliberal, elite act…
Prophetic Redemption
This chapter builds upon a gap in the field of criminology by investigating how CRS and LA Voice, as umbrella faith-based community organizing groups, shaped the social integration of former gang members and the formerly incarcerated. CRS and LA Voice’s contrasting religious traditions shaped how they facilitated members’ participation in community organizing. LA Voice leaders drew from Catholic theologies and practices and a relationship-based m…
I Really Belong Here”
This article focuses on unlikely movement actors whose civic engagement has been understudied: people with criminal records (“returning citizens”). We present findings from 18 months of ethnographic research with members (leaders) of Fighting to Overcome Records and Create Equality (FORCE), a civic group led by returning citizens. FORCE leaders received institutional support from Community Renewal Society (CRS), a larger faith and community‐based…
Latinx Millennials
This essay focuses on the diversity of Latinx millennials. As sociologists, each one of us has conducted primary research on particular segments of Latinx millennials, and we draw on our respective research to identify enduring, ongoing issues confronting Latinx young people, analyzing and comparing what we see today with experiences of Latinx young people in the past. Along the way, we review scholarship on Latinx millennials, and we conclude by…
If I Give My Soul
If I Give My Soul is an in-depth examination of the relationship between Prison Pentecostalism and narco-gangs in Brazil. Johnson examines a number of themes through sociological and historical perspectives, from Brazil’s marginalizing social structure, to the origins and growth of Pentecostalism in L.A. and Brazil, to the codes of Prison Pentecostalism and narco-gangs in Brazil’s prisons and on the streets. Johnson weaves through these themes in…
Grow Your Hair Out”
Using ethnographic data from Los Angeles, this article examines how two distinctive faith-based programs—Homeboy Industries and Victory Outreach—drew upon masculine bodily displays and practices to facilitate recovery from gang life. First, recovery’s body projects negotiated masculine bodily displays from gang member to “family man” or “man of God” by reshaping malleable facets of men’s embodiment. Second, leaders protected reformed gang embodim…
The History of Street Gangs in the United States
I Went Through it so You Don't Have To
This article examines how civil religion reworks state/citizen relations among the formerly incarcerated. Participant observation and interviews were collected at two sites: FORCE (Fighting to Overcome Records and Create Equality), a civic group of formerly incarcerated persons and former gang members, and Community Renewal Society, a larger, interfaith civic group that provided institutional backing for FORCE. Data collection occurred over 18 mo…
Chicano Gang Members in Recovery
Using ethnographic data from Los Angeles, this article examines the ritualized forms of verbal communication used in two Chicano gang recovery programs, Homeboy Industries and Victory Outreach. These two distinctive programs facilitate recovery from gangs through contrasting models of communication anchored in religion and therapeutic rehabilitation. In recovery, ritualized verbal displays subordinate gang masculinity and elevate conventional not…
I am somebody
Segmented assimilation theorists posit that second-generation immigrants today are at risk of downward acculturation and socio-economic mobility, and that dense co-ethnic communities provide the greatest resistance. Drawing upon data from ethnographic interviews and non-participant observation at a Pentecostal church, this paper will suggest that American-origin religious institutions may provide shelter against downward mobility through 'religio…
Chicano Gang Members in Recovery
Using ethnographic data from Los Angeles, this article examines the ritualized forms of verbal communication used in two Chicano gang recovery programs, Homeboy Industries and Victory Outreach. These two distinctive programs facilitate recovery from gangs through contrasting models of communication anchored in religion and therapeutic rehabilitation. In recovery, ritualized verbal displays subordinate gang masculinity and elevate conventional not…
I am somebody
Segmented assimilation theorists posit that second-generation immigrants today are at risk of downward acculturation and socio-economic mobility, and that dense co-ethnic communities provide the greatest resistance. Drawing upon data from ethnographic interviews and non-participant observation at a Pentecostal church, this paper will suggest that American-origin religious institutions may provide shelter against downward mobility through 'religio…
Grow Your Hair Out”
Using ethnographic data from Los Angeles, this article examines how two distinctive faith-based programs—Homeboy Industries and Victory Outreach—drew upon masculine bodily displays and practices to facilitate recovery from gang life. First, recovery’s body projects negotiated masculine bodily displays from gang member to “family man” or “man of God” by reshaping malleable facets of men’s embodiment. Second, leaders protected reformed gang embodim…
I Went Through it so You Don't Have To
This article examines how civil religion reworks state/citizen relations among the formerly incarcerated. Participant observation and interviews were collected at two sites: FORCE (Fighting to Overcome Records and Create Equality), a civic group of formerly incarcerated persons and former gang members, and Community Renewal Society, a larger, interfaith civic group that provided institutional backing for FORCE. Data collection occurred over 18 mo…
I Really Belong Here”
This article focuses on unlikely movement actors whose civic engagement has been understudied: people with criminal records (“returning citizens”). We present findings from 18 months of ethnographic research with members (leaders) of Fighting to Overcome Records and Create Equality (FORCE), a civic group led by returning citizens. FORCE leaders received institutional support from Community Renewal Society (CRS), a larger faith and community‐based…
Latinx Millennials
This essay focuses on the diversity of Latinx millennials. As sociologists, each one of us has conducted primary research on particular segments of Latinx millennials, and we draw on our respective research to identify enduring, ongoing issues confronting Latinx young people, analyzing and comparing what we see today with experiences of Latinx young people in the past. Along the way, we review scholarship on Latinx millennials, and we conclude by…
I am somebody
Segmented assimilation theorists posit that second-generation immigrants today are at risk of downward acculturation and socio-economic mobility, and that dense co-ethnic communities provide the greatest resistance. Drawing upon data from ethnographic interviews and non-participant observation at a Pentecostal church, this paper will suggest that American-origin religious institutions may provide shelter against downward mobility through 'religio…
Chicano Gang Members in Recovery
Using ethnographic data from Los Angeles, this article examines the ritualized forms of verbal communication used in two Chicano gang recovery programs, Homeboy Industries and Victory Outreach. These two distinctive programs facilitate recovery from gangs through contrasting models of communication anchored in religion and therapeutic rehabilitation. In recovery, ritualized verbal displays subordinate gang masculinity and elevate conventional not…
Grow Your Hair Out”
Using ethnographic data from Los Angeles, this article examines how two distinctive faith-based programs—Homeboy Industries and Victory Outreach—drew upon masculine bodily displays and practices to facilitate recovery from gang life. First, recovery’s body projects negotiated masculine bodily displays from gang member to “family man” or “man of God” by reshaping malleable facets of men’s embodiment. Second, leaders protected reformed gang embodim…
The History of Street Gangs in the United States
I Went Through it so You Don't Have To
This article examines how civil religion reworks state/citizen relations among the formerly incarcerated. Participant observation and interviews were collected at two sites: FORCE (Fighting to Overcome Records and Create Equality), a civic group of formerly incarcerated persons and former gang members, and Community Renewal Society, a larger, interfaith civic group that provided institutional backing for FORCE. Data collection occurred over 18 mo…
If I Give My Soul
If I Give My Soul is an in-depth examination of the relationship between Prison Pentecostalism and narco-gangs in Brazil. Johnson examines a number of themes through sociological and historical perspectives, from Brazil’s marginalizing social structure, to the origins and growth of Pentecostalism in L.A. and Brazil, to the codes of Prison Pentecostalism and narco-gangs in Brazil’s prisons and on the streets. Johnson weaves through these themes in…
"Jesus Saved an Ex-Con"
""Jesus Saved an Ex-Con"" published on by NYU Press.
“There Is Tension in Democracy”
This chapter examines how FORCE members engaged in CRS’s style of insurgent prophetic redemption. FORCE leaders translated Alinsky-influenced community organizing principles, such as “power” and “self-interest,” and practices, such as “elevator speeches” and “one-on-ones,” in ways that resonated with members’ experiences on the street and in recovery. FORCE members, in turn, drew from recovery to reconstruct the meaning of community organizing; t…
Making Good through Prophetic Redemption
This chapter examines how former gang members and the formerly incarcerated narrated becoming involved with faith-based community organizing. Respondents’ narratives contrasted their backgrounds in gangs and drugs with their efforts to experience personal reform; they had been in rehabilitation, and made efforts to “give back” to their community, through highly personal interactions—such as mentoring—in order to “make good” and distance themselve…
“Imagine a Circle with No One Outside of It”
This chapter examines how Homeboys LOC members engaged in LA Voice’s style of pastoral prophetic redemption. Homeboys LOC leaders drew from relationship-based community organizing principles, such as fostering racial and religious “diversity” and giving a “voice” to those on the margins, in ways that built relationships with elected officials and partnerships with nonprofit organizations and that advanced Homeboy Industries’ mission of providing …
Conclusion
This chapter summarizes the main argument of the book and then telescopes out to examine how the two cases of prophetic redemption fit within the broader landscape of contemporary changes in civic activism among the formerly incarcerated. It argues that some are resistant to accept the fact that formerly incarcerated people can engage in civic and political action as a form of social integration. However, it also argues that neoliberal, elite act…
Prophetic Redemption
This chapter builds upon a gap in the field of criminology by investigating how CRS and LA Voice, as umbrella faith-based community organizing groups, shaped the social integration of former gang members and the formerly incarcerated. CRS and LA Voice’s contrasting religious traditions shaped how they facilitated members’ participation in community organizing. LA Voice leaders drew from Catholic theologies and practices and a relationship-based m…
I Really Belong Here”
This article focuses on unlikely movement actors whose civic engagement has been understudied: people with criminal records (“returning citizens”). We present findings from 18 months of ethnographic research with members (leaders) of Fighting to Overcome Records and Create Equality (FORCE), a civic group led by returning citizens. FORCE leaders received institutional support from Community Renewal Society (CRS), a larger faith and community‐based…
Latinx Millennials
This essay focuses on the diversity of Latinx millennials. As sociologists, each one of us has conducted primary research on particular segments of Latinx millennials, and we draw on our respective research to identify enduring, ongoing issues confronting Latinx young people, analyzing and comparing what we see today with experiences of Latinx young people in the past. Along the way, we review scholarship on Latinx millennials, and we conclude by…
The Role of Capacity-Building Organizations and Environmental Threat in Addressing Air Quality in Highly Polluted Regions
Involving residents in meaningful participation in heavily polluted regions faces many obstacles. This study focuses on the conditions that enhance individual involvement in civic initiatives against environmental hazards in one of the largest cities in the United States, facing chronic and heightened air pollution exposure. The work is based on a large-scale representative survey of 1950 residents in Fresno, California. The survey was carried ou…
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