 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. |
