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Faculty: Ryan Centner  
Ryan Centner
Assistant Professor
PhD, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley (2008) ; MA, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley (2002) ; BA, International Relations & Sociology, Tufts University (1998)

Visiting Affiliations:
Yildiz Teknik Üniversitesi (2008)
Universidad de Buenos Aires (2003-2005)

Expertise:
Urban Sociology, Development, Globalization, Leadership, Political Sociology, Inequality, Space & Place, Environment, Latin America, Southern Europe, Qualitative Methods, Contemporary Theory

Biography and interests:
Ryan Centner is the newest member of the Sociology faculty, having joined the Department in 2008. Ryan Centner is currently transforming his dissertation, about global-economic influences and redevelopment in Argentina, into a book manuscript. He is also editing a volume on national political shifts and struggles for local belonging across major South American cities. In both projects, there is a focus on urban social change and its connections to larger processes of economic and governmental reform. His future research involves a return to Argentina as well as new fieldwork in Brazil and Turkey, looking especially at struggles over identity representation, urban landscape interventions, and geopolitical alignments. He is also interested in local community research in the Boston area. His most recent publications appear in the journal City & Community and the Berkeley Journal of Sociology; he has forthcoming work in Local Environment. Beyond his research, he enjoys photography, exploring cities, and improving his Portuguese and Turkish skills.

Publications:
Centner, Ryan. (book manuscript in progress) Boom, Bust, and Blur in Buenos Aires: Structurally Adjusted Urbanisms as a Way of Life.

Centner, Ryan (Ed.) (edited volume manuscript in progress) Citizens of Another World: Urban Change and Citizenship Struggles in the "New" South America.

Centner, Ryan. (forthcoming 2009) "Landscapes of Conflicting Sustainabilities: The Neoliberal Quagmire of Urban Environmental Planning in Buenos Aires." Local Environment.

Centner, Ryan. (2008) "Places of Privileged Consumption Practices: Spatial Capital, the Dot-Com Habitus, and San Francisco's Internet Boom." City & Community 7(3): 193-223.

Centner, Ryan. (2007) "Redevelopment from Crisis to Crisis: Urban Fixes of Structural Adjustment in Argentina" Berkeley Journal of Sociology 51: 3-32.