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