Kevin Keenan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3720151 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kevin Keenan |
| PRENOMES | Kevin |
| SOBRENOME | Keenan |
| ASSINATURA | KEENAN K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | College of Charleston |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5892-6768 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1979 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
An unfulfilled aspiration of state planning
The urban realm and the municipal bureaucracy
Urban place offers potential to disrupt municipal bureaucratic cultures—conceptualized as organizational traps in public administration theory—that stymie policy formulation, implementation, and innovation. Drawing on 17 in-depth interviews with policy actors and survey responses from 103 urban households, this paper offers three interventions in the policy diffusion literature. First, I demonstrate that policy leaders and workers engage with mul…
Understanding the role of the policy advocacy elite in bureaucratic realms and policy diffusion
The transportation policy elite and their ladder of citizen participation
Community stakeholders, communicative geography, and the urban policy process
We situate this paper within the geographies of policy, and we draw from the Discipline of Planning to conceptualize policy analysis as a communicative act. Blending such ideas with geographical concepts leads us to a place ontology, which recognizes that the policymaker's life world is rooted in place and thus influences how that person makes professional decisions. We explore these concepts via in-depth, in-person interviews with 15 non-profit/…
The Charleston approach
This paper answers the following question: How do traditional concepts and methods of urban policy analysis and outcomes change when the concept of place is prioritized in the process? We review the public policy literature and we point out where place might usefully be incorporated to advance the study of government. We utilize a qualitative case study method of Charleston, SC and we analyze 14 in-depth interviews with municipal workers. From th…
Creating spaces of public insecurity in times of terror
From data leaks of sensitive information to the degrading or halting of complete systems upon which integral societal process rely, there are daily reminders of the precariousness of networked institutions. This form of vulnerability extends beyond services to also threaten foundational values, such as privacy, movement, and free speech. Yet, given the awareness of vulnerability to cyber disruption, little is known about how massive cyber failure…
Whiteness or Resilience? Placing Terror by Studying the Charleston, South Carolina Mother Emanuel Church Shooting
How do ideas of place support the development of racialized identities in times of terror violence? We situate this paper in the “deep” south via the shooting of 9 black churchgoers by a white supremacist. We explore how the community mobilized after the massacre, and in what ways it relied on ideas of place. While many claimed that the community exemplified resilience, we demonstrate a process of re-racialization. We analyzed local media to docu…
Rethinking place in the study of societal responses to terrorism
The dual conditions of an early emphasis on context within terrorism theory and an existing familiarity of place as point or jurisdiction for hazards researchers led to a subsequent diminished role for place as a core explanatory concept in the study of terrorism. This condition is increasingly untenable. There is growing evidence within the environmental risk-hazards literature and theories of terrorism that holistic understandings of place beyo…
Men and women in Boston learn about terrorism differently
This paper expands the values-vulnerability nexus for studying urban vulnerability to terrorism. Gender is among the most salient social structures affecting a person's interpretation of risk, and urban geographers have demonstrated that gender also deeply affects the experience of urban life. However, the values that shape urban vulnerability to terrorism have been conceptualized more broadly, usually focusing on the underpinning economic organi…
Security is going to work
Terrorism scholars have theorized excessive social control in response to post-9/11 expansive security structures. This literature is not, however, informed by the perspectives of public safety officials. Drawing on interviews with 27 public safety officials in Boston, MA conducted in 2008 and 2013 after the marathon bombing, I argue that one reason officials do not challenge social control issues is because of an organizational trap rooted in ge…
Place ontologies and a new mobilities paradigm for understanding awareness of vulnerability to terrorism in American cities
There is increasing evidence that people interpret their risk from environmental hazards through places—such as urban neighborhoods. At the same time, heightened levels of mobility are theorized to be leading to a so-called "placeless society" and possibly nullifying theories of locality-based risk perception. The purpose of this study is to combine environmental risk-hazards scholarship with work in urban geography to explore the following quest…
Gender, Place, and Social Contacts
Creating resiliency, accomplished in part by individuals preparing for disaster, is the primary strategy outside of law enforcement for responding to the threat of urban terrorism. Individuals prepare when they perceive a need to do so, yet little is known about what shapes a person's awareness of vulnerability to terrorism. Because evidence indicates that social contacts act as conduits of information and affect perception of risk to natural haz…
Managerialism and Terrorism Policy for the Urban Financial Industry
The urban financial industry is expected to continue to be a primary target of terrorism. Critical policy analyses call for reevaluations of knowledge via direct linkages with served communities. We use interview and survey data from 79 financial executives in New York after 9/11 to study place-based subsidy policies. We demonstrate that place is an important, and often overlooked, geographical concept for understanding how financial decision mak…
Hazard Perception and the Urban Geographies of Place
Theories of place have yet to be developed to explore societal responses to terrorism in the post-9/11 city. Urban geographers have shown the relevance of place for understanding the way people live in cities, including conceptualizations of the way people perceive those places. Geographers working on environmental risk have also conceptualized perception, but only in regard to hazard perception. They have not focused on the city itself as a haza…
Polls in Network Newscasts in 1984 Presidential Race
A constructivist analysis of the Rotter I‐E scale 1
A bstract A conception of locus of control attribution was advanced as an alternative to the generalized expectancy view presented by Rotter. That alternative stems from regarding the individual as actively constructing a pattern of specific choice consequence relations out of his/her ongoing experience. An integration of structural and factor approaches was used to analyze the Rotter I‐E scale. The structural analysis categorized items on four d…
Place ontologies and a new mobilities paradigm for understanding awareness of vulnerability to terrorism in American cities
There is increasing evidence that people interpret their risk from environmental hazards through places—such as urban neighborhoods. At the same time, heightened levels of mobility are theorized to be leading to a so-called "placeless society" and possibly nullifying theories of locality-based risk perception. The purpose of this study is to combine environmental risk-hazards scholarship with work in urban geography to explore the following quest…
The Charleston approach
This paper answers the following question: How do traditional concepts and methods of urban policy analysis and outcomes change when the concept of place is prioritized in the process? We review the public policy literature and we point out where place might usefully be incorporated to advance the study of government. We utilize a qualitative case study method of Charleston, SC and we analyze 14 in-depth interviews with municipal workers. From th…
Hazard Perception and the Urban Geographies of Place
Theories of place have yet to be developed to explore societal responses to terrorism in the post-9/11 city. Urban geographers have shown the relevance of place for understanding the way people live in cities, including conceptualizations of the way people perceive those places. Geographers working on environmental risk have also conceptualized perception, but only in regard to hazard perception. They have not focused on the city itself as a haza…
Whiteness or Resilience? Placing Terror by Studying the Charleston, South Carolina Mother Emanuel Church Shooting
How do ideas of place support the development of racialized identities in times of terror violence? We situate this paper in the “deep” south via the shooting of 9 black churchgoers by a white supremacist. We explore how the community mobilized after the massacre, and in what ways it relied on ideas of place. While many claimed that the community exemplified resilience, we demonstrate a process of re-racialization. We analyzed local media to docu…
Security is going to work
Terrorism scholars have theorized excessive social control in response to post-9/11 expansive security structures. This literature is not, however, informed by the perspectives of public safety officials. Drawing on interviews with 27 public safety officials in Boston, MA conducted in 2008 and 2013 after the marathon bombing, I argue that one reason officials do not challenge social control issues is because of an organizational trap rooted in ge…
Gender, Place, and Social Contacts
Creating resiliency, accomplished in part by individuals preparing for disaster, is the primary strategy outside of law enforcement for responding to the threat of urban terrorism. Individuals prepare when they perceive a need to do so, yet little is known about what shapes a person's awareness of vulnerability to terrorism. Because evidence indicates that social contacts act as conduits of information and affect perception of risk to natural haz…
Understanding the role of the policy advocacy elite in bureaucratic realms and policy diffusion
Community stakeholders, communicative geography, and the urban policy process
We situate this paper within the geographies of policy, and we draw from the Discipline of Planning to conceptualize policy analysis as a communicative act. Blending such ideas with geographical concepts leads us to a place ontology, which recognizes that the policymaker's life world is rooted in place and thus influences how that person makes professional decisions. We explore these concepts via in-depth, in-person interviews with 15 non-profit/…
Rethinking place in the study of societal responses to terrorism
The dual conditions of an early emphasis on context within terrorism theory and an existing familiarity of place as point or jurisdiction for hazards researchers led to a subsequent diminished role for place as a core explanatory concept in the study of terrorism. This condition is increasingly untenable. There is growing evidence within the environmental risk-hazards literature and theories of terrorism that holistic understandings of place beyo…
Men and women in Boston learn about terrorism differently
This paper expands the values-vulnerability nexus for studying urban vulnerability to terrorism. Gender is among the most salient social structures affecting a person's interpretation of risk, and urban geographers have demonstrated that gender also deeply affects the experience of urban life. However, the values that shape urban vulnerability to terrorism have been conceptualized more broadly, usually focusing on the underpinning economic organi…
Managerialism and Terrorism Policy for the Urban Financial Industry
The urban financial industry is expected to continue to be a primary target of terrorism. Critical policy analyses call for reevaluations of knowledge via direct linkages with served communities. We use interview and survey data from 79 financial executives in New York after 9/11 to study place-based subsidy policies. We demonstrate that place is an important, and often overlooked, geographical concept for understanding how financial decision mak…
A constructivist analysis of the Rotter I‐E scale 1
A bstract A conception of locus of control attribution was advanced as an alternative to the generalized expectancy view presented by Rotter. That alternative stems from regarding the individual as actively constructing a pattern of specific choice consequence relations out of his/her ongoing experience. An integration of structural and factor approaches was used to analyze the Rotter I‐E scale. The structural analysis categorized items on four d…
Polls in Network Newscasts in 1984 Presidential Race
Hazard Perception and the Urban Geographies of Place
Theories of place have yet to be developed to explore societal responses to terrorism in the post-9/11 city. Urban geographers have shown the relevance of place for understanding the way people live in cities, including conceptualizations of the way people perceive those places. Geographers working on environmental risk have also conceptualized perception, but only in regard to hazard perception. They have not focused on the city itself as a haza…
Gender, Place, and Social Contacts
Creating resiliency, accomplished in part by individuals preparing for disaster, is the primary strategy outside of law enforcement for responding to the threat of urban terrorism. Individuals prepare when they perceive a need to do so, yet little is known about what shapes a person's awareness of vulnerability to terrorism. Because evidence indicates that social contacts act as conduits of information and affect perception of risk to natural haz…
Managerialism and Terrorism Policy for the Urban Financial Industry
The urban financial industry is expected to continue to be a primary target of terrorism. Critical policy analyses call for reevaluations of knowledge via direct linkages with served communities. We use interview and survey data from 79 financial executives in New York after 9/11 to study place-based subsidy policies. We demonstrate that place is an important, and often overlooked, geographical concept for understanding how financial decision mak…
Place ontologies and a new mobilities paradigm for understanding awareness of vulnerability to terrorism in American cities
There is increasing evidence that people interpret their risk from environmental hazards through places—such as urban neighborhoods. At the same time, heightened levels of mobility are theorized to be leading to a so-called "placeless society" and possibly nullifying theories of locality-based risk perception. The purpose of this study is to combine environmental risk-hazards scholarship with work in urban geography to explore the following quest…
Men and women in Boston learn about terrorism differently
This paper expands the values-vulnerability nexus for studying urban vulnerability to terrorism. Gender is among the most salient social structures affecting a person's interpretation of risk, and urban geographers have demonstrated that gender also deeply affects the experience of urban life. However, the values that shape urban vulnerability to terrorism have been conceptualized more broadly, usually focusing on the underpinning economic organi…
Security is going to work
Terrorism scholars have theorized excessive social control in response to post-9/11 expansive security structures. This literature is not, however, informed by the perspectives of public safety officials. Drawing on interviews with 27 public safety officials in Boston, MA conducted in 2008 and 2013 after the marathon bombing, I argue that one reason officials do not challenge social control issues is because of an organizational trap rooted in ge…
Creating spaces of public insecurity in times of terror
From data leaks of sensitive information to the degrading or halting of complete systems upon which integral societal process rely, there are daily reminders of the precariousness of networked institutions. This form of vulnerability extends beyond services to also threaten foundational values, such as privacy, movement, and free speech. Yet, given the awareness of vulnerability to cyber disruption, little is known about how massive cyber failure…
Whiteness or Resilience? Placing Terror by Studying the Charleston, South Carolina Mother Emanuel Church Shooting
How do ideas of place support the development of racialized identities in times of terror violence? We situate this paper in the “deep” south via the shooting of 9 black churchgoers by a white supremacist. We explore how the community mobilized after the massacre, and in what ways it relied on ideas of place. While many claimed that the community exemplified resilience, we demonstrate a process of re-racialization. We analyzed local media to docu…
Rethinking place in the study of societal responses to terrorism
The dual conditions of an early emphasis on context within terrorism theory and an existing familiarity of place as point or jurisdiction for hazards researchers led to a subsequent diminished role for place as a core explanatory concept in the study of terrorism. This condition is increasingly untenable. There is growing evidence within the environmental risk-hazards literature and theories of terrorism that holistic understandings of place beyo…
Community stakeholders, communicative geography, and the urban policy process
We situate this paper within the geographies of policy, and we draw from the Discipline of Planning to conceptualize policy analysis as a communicative act. Blending such ideas with geographical concepts leads us to a place ontology, which recognizes that the policymaker's life world is rooted in place and thus influences how that person makes professional decisions. We explore these concepts via in-depth, in-person interviews with 15 non-profit/…
The Charleston approach
This paper answers the following question: How do traditional concepts and methods of urban policy analysis and outcomes change when the concept of place is prioritized in the process? We review the public policy literature and we point out where place might usefully be incorporated to advance the study of government. We utilize a qualitative case study method of Charleston, SC and we analyze 14 in-depth interviews with municipal workers. From th…
The transportation policy elite and their ladder of citizen participation
The urban realm and the municipal bureaucracy
Urban place offers potential to disrupt municipal bureaucratic cultures—conceptualized as organizational traps in public administration theory—that stymie policy formulation, implementation, and innovation. Drawing on 17 in-depth interviews with policy actors and survey responses from 103 urban households, this paper offers three interventions in the policy diffusion literature. First, I demonstrate that policy leaders and workers engage with mul…
Understanding the role of the policy advocacy elite in bureaucratic realms and policy diffusion
An unfulfilled aspiration of state planning
Political science (15 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Sociology (11 obras) · Disaster Management and Resilience (9 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Terrorism (8 obras) · Public relations (7 obras) · Psychology (6 obras) · Public Administration (6 obras) · Computer security (5 obras)