Neighborhood Outsiders, Field Insiders: Latino Immigrant Men and the Control of Public Space

Trouille, David

doi:10.1007/s11133-012-9243-3

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“…And as outings combine and conflict, the collective patterning of park life comes into fuller view. Drawing from our own (DeLand 2012, 2013, 2016; Trouille 2013, 2014) and other studies of parks and public places, we emphasize emergent organizational properties that are missed when parks are studied as static containers of public life.…”

Section: A Sociology Of Park Outingsmentioning

confidence: 92%

Going Out: A Sociology of Public Outings

DeLand

Trouille

2018

Sociological Theory

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In this article we propose a framework for description and analysis of public life by treating "outings" as a unit of sociological analysis. Studying outings requires bracketing a concern with bounded places and isolated encounters. Instead, descriptions of outings track people as they organize trips "out," including their preparations, turning points, and post hoc reflections. We emphasize how people understand and contextualize their time in public by linking situated moments of public life to the outing's unfolding trajectory and to people's biographical circumstances. We treat outings in and through public parks as a strategic site to show the utility of studying public outings more generally. A sociology of outings has broad theoretical and methodological implications for how we understand the collective patterning of public life and inequality in everyday encounters.

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Section: A Sociology Of Park Outingsmentioning

confidence: 92%

Going Out: A Sociology of Public Outings

DeLand

Trouille

2018

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“…The actions and perspectives of the Latino users of the soccer field were obtained through my interactions with them on and around the soccer field. What is most important for this article is that they generally did not attend or directly participate in community meetings and debates about the field (but see Trouille 2013). In speaking with many of these men, it became clear that they felt both unwelcome and uncomfortable in these settings, and lacked time or interest to participate in lengthy and often convoluted deliberations in their second language.…”

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Fencing a Field: Imagined Others in the Unfolding of a Neighborhood Park Conflict

Trouille

2014

City & Community

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This article offers a detailed analysis of a neighborhood dispute over fencing a public park. Unlike the archetypal turf battles between longstanding and new neighborhood residents described in previous research, here the daily visits of Latino “outsiders” coming into a local public space produce conflict over park usage and control. The usually cited conditions for conflict, such as reactionary residents resisting ethnic transition and protecting their backyards, do not apply in this case, as the park sits amidst a relatively stable, affluent, white “liberal” neighborhood. This case study shows how sources of tension and trouble extend beyond the property interests and actions of the park users to include the more symbolic and indirect concerns about identity as reflected in park use. Together with longstanding concerns over neighborhood reputation and property values, changing demographics and greater sensitivity to the perception of racism distinctively shaped the unfolding of conflict in this case. The bumpy course of conflict and shifting opinions about the fence shed light on the new complexities and contradictions of contemporary social diversity and exclusion in city parks and other public spaces.

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“…Some come from the same pueblos in Mexico and others are part of different waves of migration for whom playing fútbol and engaging in recreational and cultural activities (festivals, park picnics, religious processions, outdoor concerts, etc.) is as important for fun as it is for learning about resources and opportunities (Alarcon et al., 2016; Trouille, 2013). A similar process was observed in a Chicago club where Black folks made their nightly round to find employment opportunities and exchange resource knowledge (Hunter, 2010).…”

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Toward a sociology of global comparative placemaking

Chica

2021

Sociology Compass

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I call for a globally informed sociology of comparative placemaking that integrates historical and contemporary processes and includes the ephemeral, institutional, and personal. By placemaking, I am referring to the explicit or tacit cooperation among people to create, maintain, and give meaning to places in space through bodily occupation given differential resources and constraints. I review select place, space, and community‐based literature about urban, Black, migrant, LGBTQ, and international populations to think about how we can build upon and integrate multiple theoretical, methodological, and epistemological insights to form an explicit placemaking research agenda. A US focus on neighborhoods contrasts with a comparative examination of global urban networks, social polarization, and transformation of the built environment in the interdisciplinary field of global urban studies (Ren, 2018). I argue for a placemaking research agenda that bridges insight from US Urban Sociology with Global Urban Studies to consider how various structures and actors constrain and facilitate place projects. With a globally reaching and comparatively informed sociology of placemaking, we can illuminate our multi‐structured story of place and agency in context. We can answer questions about how and why we co‐create and are simultaneously disciplined by the process of creation.

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Neighborhood Outsiders, Field Insiders: Latino Immigrant Men and the Control of Public Space

Cited by 11 publications

References 23 publications

Going Out: A Sociology of Public Outings

Going Out: A Sociology of Public Outings

Fencing a Field: Imagined Others in the Unfolding of a Neighborhood Park Conflict

Toward a sociology of global comparative placemaking

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