Setting: The City
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Sunday, January 19, 2020
Monday, September 2, 2019
"Clarifying Street Culture: Integrating a Diversity of Opinions and Voices"
It was a pleasure to work alongside G. James Daichendt, Sebastian Kurtenbach, Paul Gilchrist, and Monique Charles and to be invited by Criminologist Jeffrey Ian Ross (follow his work on Twitter @jeffreyianross) to co-author the article: "Clarifying Street Culture: Integrating a Diversity of Opinions and Voices," published in Urban Research & Practice (22 June 2019).
As presented in the abstract: "This article synthesizes current ideas about the study of street culture by examining six major questions that street culture researchers currently grapple with. The article outlines suggestions for improving scholarship in this field," for "despite the frequency of its usage in the social sciences, urban planning, and selected areas of the visual arts, rarely is the term street culture defined and when it is, the definitions are often conceptually lacking."
Interestingly, this collaborative project began as a Twitter chat with #streetculture on Sept. 8, 2018--each participant responded to questions about the way "street culture" is defined within their respective academic field of study. The resulting article is available here.
As presented in the abstract: "This article synthesizes current ideas about the study of street culture by examining six major questions that street culture researchers currently grapple with. The article outlines suggestions for improving scholarship in this field," for "despite the frequency of its usage in the social sciences, urban planning, and selected areas of the visual arts, rarely is the term street culture defined and when it is, the definitions are often conceptually lacking."
Interestingly, this collaborative project began as a Twitter chat with #streetculture on Sept. 8, 2018--each participant responded to questions about the way "street culture" is defined within their respective academic field of study. The resulting article is available here.
My new article, “Clarifying street culture: integrating a diversity of opinions and voices,” co-authored with @Daichendt @skurtenbach @paulgilchrist @Neake81 @jawicks75 appearing in URBAN RESEARCH & PRACTICE https://t.co/ENYUzEQ7s7 pic.twitter.com/NxrR2IdJE3— Jeffrey Ian Ross (@jeffreyianross) June 23, 2019
Friday, February 1, 2019
Sundance Film Festival 2019, Thursday 1/31
Hala (Minhal Baig, 2019)
Minhal Baig's film Hala depicts the experiences of a young woman during her senior year of high school in the U.S. Hala is a bright thinker and student, a skater, and a good friend whose day to day decisions are shaped by the framework of her family's Pakistani American experience. Director Baig mentioned at the screening that film is an empathy machine, and indeed numerous scenes are coupled with dramatic soundscapes that heighten the all-or-nothing importance high school experiences are imbued with. Just as an action film goes all in on explosions, or a romcom goes all in on scenes on top of famous landmarks, this film shows how riding the bus on the way to school can be filled with the entire sum total of a high school student's existence. And why not? It's worthwhile to feel the emotions Hala undergoes and witness the way she navigates her life's predicaments while she learns new insights along the way.
Minhal Baig's film Hala depicts the experiences of a young woman during her senior year of high school in the U.S. Hala is a bright thinker and student, a skater, and a good friend whose day to day decisions are shaped by the framework of her family's Pakistani American experience. Director Baig mentioned at the screening that film is an empathy machine, and indeed numerous scenes are coupled with dramatic soundscapes that heighten the all-or-nothing importance high school experiences are imbued with. Just as an action film goes all in on explosions, or a romcom goes all in on scenes on top of famous landmarks, this film shows how riding the bus on the way to school can be filled with the entire sum total of a high school student's existence. And why not? It's worthwhile to feel the emotions Hala undergoes and witness the way she navigates her life's predicaments while she learns new insights along the way.
Photo by James Wicks, 2019.
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