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2008 Urban Ethnography Conference

Abstracts

Baseball, Snakes and Nativists: An Ethnographic Experience with Mexican Day Laborers Carol Cleaveland
Beef: Explaining the Micro-Dynamics of Gun Violence in Philadelphia Alice Goffman
The Crackhouse, the Visual Page and Other Urban Ethnographic Research Strategies Terry Williams
Ethnography of Love Heli Vaaranen
Eviction and the Reproduction of Inner-City Poverty Matthew Desmond
Gambling as a Way of Life Jacob Avery
Megachurches and Self-Help: Identifying and Solving Personal Problems David A. Snow, Jimmie Bany, Michelle Peria, and James E. Stobaugh
Movie-Going and Seating: A Note on Film Consumption Lakshmi Srinivas
A Place at the ‘Pet Shop’: Status and Sociability among Brooklyn Rooftop Pigeon Flyers Colin Jerolmack
The Precious Places Community History Project Louis Massiah
Rap Dreams Jooyoung Lee
Remembering New Haven’s Youth in the Fifties Victor Lidz
Sanctifying Neighborhood Identity Andrew Deener, Jack Katz, Maggie Kusenbach, Anup Sheth, Iddo Tavory
Small Town Life: A Study in Race Relations Marlese Durr
Urban Ethnography and Research Integrity: Empirical and Theoretical Dimensions James F. Short, Jr. and Lorine A. Hughes
Urban Immortalities: Toward an Ethnography of Race and Spirituality among African-American Hebrews John L. Jackson, Jr
Walled Territory: The Everyday Lives of Undocumented Restaurant Employees Esther Chihye Kim