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New article by section member Alissa Cordner in Qualitative Sociology: "Staring at the Sun during Wildfire Season: Knowledge, Uncertainty, and Front-Line Resistance in Disaster Preparation" link.springer.com/article/10.100…

In a couple of weeks (4/7), I'll be giving a talk on land occupation and eviction in the post-apartheid city at UW–Madison's "Africa at Noon" series – based on my recent piece in Qualitative Sociology africa.wisc.edu/event/becoming…

Our second issue of the year is now up! You can find the articles here: link.springer.com/journal/11133/…

In our June issue, Jack Katz observes how four types of social ecologies emerged in a neigborhood with each ecology operating in independent but interdependent ways without centralized or top-down leadership from government or businesses. rdcu.be/cmsXk

In our June issue, Tracy L. Vargas finds how the automated management of Dollar General’s labor supply led to a degradation of labor and consumer redlining by undermining frontline managers’ authority and workers’ ability to resist precarious scheduling. rdcu.be/cmsXm

In our June issue, based on interviews with DACA beneficiaries and their parents who visited Mexico through Advance Parole, Emir Estrada and @DrRuth_Alissa illustrate the impact that this trip had on intergenerational family and community relationships. rdcu.be/cmsXo

In our June issue, Kendra Jason and Brianna Turgeon use data from a national workforce development program for low-wage frontline workers to show how program supervisors invoked stereotypes to justify worker deprivation, reproducing social inequalities. rdcu.be/cmsXJ

In our June issue, @ehandsman analyzes magazine articles from 1985 to 2016 to examine how the narratives around character education evolved from a means for moral education to a means for improving academic performance and teaching students to have grit. rdcu.be/cmsX6

In our June issue, Annie Hikido draws from ethnographic research from South Africa to show how Black hostesses use their race, class, gender, and nation to make Black spaces feel safe for Western tourists while organizing to regulate township environment. rdcu.be/cmsYl

In our June issue, Alissa Cordner conducts ethnographic research working as a firefighter to examine how firefighters draw from their experiences to contend with disaster-related uncertainties, including their responses to public health interventions. rdcu.be/cmsYA

Got this in the mail from AERA for my article in Qualitative Sociology. Since its publication, I've had a couple of people reach out to me saying they enjoyed it or read it in class. It's such an honor to do research that actually reaches people. I feel so fortunate!

We're celebrating the publication of our Qualitative Sociology special issue on Digital Ethnography, featuring 7 empirical articles about community, culture, urban life, violence, activism, professional identity, health, and sociality.

We are excited to share our recently published interview with Howard Becker by Qualitative Sociology editor-in-chief, Claudio Benzecry. You can find the full text here: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Howie's last interview, as far as I know, is here: x.com/qualsoc/status…