Alice Goffman is an assistant professor of sociology at University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America’s most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Arrest quotas and high-tech surveillance techniques criminalize entire blocks, and transform the very associations that should stabilize young lives—family, relationships, jobs—into liabilities, as the police use such relationships to track down suspects, demand information, and threaten consequences.
Alice Goffman spent six years living in one such neighborhood in Philadelphia, and her close observations and often harrowing stories reveal the pernicious effects of this pervasive policing. Goffman introduces us to an unforgettable cast of young African American men who are caught up in this web of warrants and surveillance—some of them small-time drug dealers, others just ordinary guys dealing with limited choices. All find the web of presumed criminality, built as it is on the very associations and friendships that make up a life, nearly impossible to escape. We watch as the pleasures of summer-evening stoop-sitting are shattered by the arrival of a carful of cops looking to serve a warrant; we watch—and can’t help but be shocked—as teenagers teach their younger siblings and cousins how to run from the police (and, crucially, to keep away from friends and family so they can stay hidden); and we see, over and over, the relentless toll that the presumption of criminality takes on families—and futures.
While not denying the problems of the drug trade, and the violence that often accompanies it, through her gripping accounts of daily life in the forgotten neighborhoods of America's cities, Goffman makes it impossible for us to ignore the very real human costs of our failed response—the blighting of entire neighborhoods, and the needless sacrifice of whole generations.
發表於2024-12-22
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在這本從本科開始就進行田野調查的著作中,戈夫曼之女愛麗斯戈夫曼(小戈)融閤民族誌方法與老戈部分理論,觀察執法機器對族群社群生活與社會紐帶的衝擊及後者的反應。司法和執法係統變得越來越精密(各種科技進步甚至嚮斯塔西學習盤查和監控技巧)、繁瑣(各個執法機構各自有...
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評分今年五月剛由衛城齣版的《全員在逃:一部關於美國黑人城市逃亡生活的民族誌》在颱灣宣傳的策略非常明確:儘管有著非常高的評價,這本書同時也極具爭議性。甚至隨著此書的齣版,在網路上唯一相關的中文文章是一篇由一群學生寫給作者社會學傢愛麗絲‧高夫曼的公開抗議信的翻譯...
評分既然都很喜歡本書,隻好科普一下本書和Alice Goffman在美國被圈內黑爆的事情。 當政治學的quantie Lacour的支持同性戀婚姻研究被揭穿完全造假的同時,也就是15年夏天,AG的On the Run也開始被揭穿。 最開始是有人匿名網傳給各社會學者一封巨長的信,人稱"massive takedown of...
評分在這本從本科開始就進行田野調查的著作中,戈夫曼之女愛麗斯戈夫曼(小戈)融閤民族誌方法與老戈部分理論,觀察執法機器對族群社群生活與社會紐帶的衝擊及後者的反應。司法和執法係統變得越來越精密(各種科技進步甚至嚮斯塔西學習盤查和監控技巧)、繁瑣(各個執法機構各自有...
圖書標籤: 社會學 人類學 美國 AliceGoffman 美國研究 民族誌 政經/人類/社會 社會學/人類學
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評分處在風口浪尖的作品,讀完不禁拿她跟Kimberly對比:一個齣身優渥白人女性vs.一個工人傢庭長女亞裔。讀後者的notes和全書有一種soulness:那種世俗化的“煙火氣”。她也許是充滿爭議的社會學傢,卻是無可置疑的優秀民族誌學者;而前者則更像小說,忍不住有一種data are too good to be true懷疑。至於notes裏的父親和田野反思總覺得差那麼一點點火候。AG somehow "doomed" to be sociologist based on her family,but she is not a good ethnographer. 換言之,用導師的話說,不夠“痛”的研究做齣來就是無聊。
評分good story without theoretical framework. but as a sociology book, it is not that professional. the TED talk....she's like gonna cry anytime, can't stand her voice... it is counter-example for us that we definitely can't take a job as whole life, otherwise your life will be totally fucked up.
評分good story without theoretical framework. but as a sociology book, it is not that professional. the TED talk....she's like gonna cry anytime, can't stand her voice... it is counter-example for us that we definitely can't take a job as whole life, otherwise your life will be totally fucked up.
On the Run 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載