Category: Publications
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Pandemic retelling: What GoFundMe posts reveal about the socioeconomic context of COVID-19 death and bereavement among Latinx & Spanish-speaking communities in the U.S.
Assistant Professor Alicia Riley published this 2023 article in Advances in Global Health, which was co-led by two former UCSC undergraduate students and was initiated during their Building Belonging fellowships. The study explores the social relationships, economic factors, and emotional experiences that surround COVID-19 deaths among the members of Spanish-speaking Latinx communities in the United…
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The Black Geographic: Praxis, Resistance, Futurity
Associate Professor Camilla Hawthorne co-edited this 2023 book for Duke Press Contributors to explore the theoretical innovations of Black Geographies scholarship and how it approaches Blackness as historically and spatially situated. In studies that span from Oakland to the Alabama Black Belt to Senegal to Brazil, the contributors draw on ethnography, archival records, digital humanities,…
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Environmentalizing Urban Sociology
Associate Professor Hillary Angelo and Professor Miriam Greenberg co-authored the 2023 introduction of a special edition of City and Community, calling for an environmentalization of urban sociology. Urban sociology, like sociology as a whole, has traditionally excluded the natural environment. They explore the epistemological and political reasons why environmentalization has been a challenge and describe…