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Stefano Bloch
Born
Alma materUniversity of Minnesota(Ph.D.)
UCLA(M.A.)
UC Santa Cruz(B.A.)
InstitutionsArizona University
Brown University
Main interests
Cultural geography, Cultural criminology, Gangs, Graffiti, Social theory, Autoethnography

Stefano Bloch is an author, former graffiti writer, and assistant professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Arizona.[1][2] Before the University of Arizona, he was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Brown University Cogut Center for the Humanities, as well as Presidential Diversity Fellow and a Senior Research Associate in the Urban Studies Program at Brown University.[3][4]

Bloch is the author of Going All City: Struggle and Survival in LA's Graffiti Subculture[5][6] (University of Chicago Press) and appeared in the documentaries "Bomb It" and Vigilante Vigilante: The Battle for Expression.[7][8]

While in the Department of Urban Planning within the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Bloch worked under the preeminent socio-spatial theorist, urbanist, and co-founder of the Los Angeles School, Edward Soja. As a graduate researcher Bloch collaborated on Dr. Soja's ″My Los Angeles″[9] and ″Seeking Spatial Justice″.[10]

Bloch's research entitled "Policing car space and the legal liminality of the automobile" was published in the journal Progress in Human Geography in 2020.[11] In 2020, Bloch co-authored with sociologist Daniel E. Martinez, "Canicide by Cop: A geographical analysis of canine killings by police in Los Angeles," which was published in the journal Geoforum.[12]

In 2020, Bloch's writing on gang member identification appeared as an op-ed in ''the New York Times''.[13]

References

  1. ^ "Stefano Bloch". University of Chicago Press. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  2. ^ https://geography.arizona.edu/people/stefano-bloch
  3. ^ "Stefano Bloch, "Going All City: Struggle and Survival in LA's Graffiti Subculture"". Brown University. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  4. ^ https://www.brown.edu/about/administration/institutional-diversity/presidential-diversity-postdoctoral-fellows-2015-2017#Stefa
  5. ^ https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo26835013.html
  6. ^ https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/no-one-is-nothing-on-going-all-city-struggle-and-survival-in-las-graffiti-subculture/
  7. ^ Bloch, Stefano (November 2019). Going All City: Struggle and Survival in LA’s Graffiti Subculture. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226493589.
  8. ^ Harvey, Dennis. "Variety Reviews "Vigilante, Vigilante: The Battle for Expression"".
  9. ^ https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520281745/my-los-angeles
  10. ^ https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/seeking-spatial-justice
  11. ^ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0309132519901306
  12. ^ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016718520300440
  13. ^ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/03/opinion/los-angeles-gang-database.html