Category Archive: social capital

Like We’re in a Fistfight with a Fog

“There is war, but always elsewhere,” poet Jillian Weise says of reading The Economist. Americans have been watching […]

How One Tenure-Track Prof Left Academia: A Beginner’s Guide

I’m a former tenure-track professor of world and postcolonial literature now pursuing a career as a nonprofit communicator […]

East of East: Using Vacant Space to Create Place in South El Monte

[Editor’s note: This article originally appeared under the Intersections column for the KCET Departures website, January 31, 2013] […]

Activating Alternative Historical Narratives: The Black Arts Collective of Philadelphia Visits South El Monte

SEMAP Interview from Henry Pacheco on Vimeo. For Activate Vacant, the South El Monte Arts Posse invited artists […]

Is the Beltline Bad for Atlanta?

Note: An expanded and updated version of this piece will be published as part of n+1’s City by […]

Looking for the City of Knowledge

For at least the last twenty years, scholars have proposed that the rise of a post-industrial economy led […]

Behind the Mustache: The Cultural, Racial, and Class Implications of the Hipster Identity

The hipster has been an easy target in pop culture for much of the last decade. Like any […]

Brother, Can You Spare a Social Capital?

Is there a way to measure the social resources of individuals and groups – and does the effort to do so distract us from the real causes of poverty and inequality?