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Research interests involve the study of women in
the city, street food vendors, gentrification, sociology
of fashion, urban communities, and changing consumption patterns.
Jason Patch received his PhD at New York
University (2005). He currently teaches The Modern Urban
Community and Methods of Social Research at Queens
College, City University of New
York.
His dissertation, Fashioning Gentrification: The
New Role of Women in Neighborhood Change, examines the neighborhood of Williamsburg,
Brooklyn. As a process gentrification exists
at the nexus between reinvestment and long-term urban communities. New
residents in this gentrifying neighborhood depend on many of the same
features found in traditional neighborhoods: public characters and eyes on
the street. The difference with gentrification is that new business owners,
in particular women entrepreneurs, act as what I term faces on the street.
These new public characters, and the sites of consumption they run, increase
the circulation of new residents throughout this heavily industrial
neighborhood and act as conduits of information. At the same time they are
embedded in the industrial and ethnic aesthetics of the existing space. The
analysis developed out of a multi-year field study which included extensive
visual documentation of neighborhood change, semi-structured interviews with
new business owners, participant-observation in a local art gallery, and the
use of city and federal census data to track demographic changes.
PUBLICATIONS
Patch,
Jason. 2006. “Ladies and Gentrification: New Stores, New Residents, and
New Relationships in Neighborhood Change,” in J. Desena and R. Hutchinson (eds.),
Gender in an Urban World, Research in Urban Sociology Volume Nine,
Elsevier. (Forthcoming)
Patch,
Jason and Neil Brenner. 2006. “Gentrification”, in G. Ritzer (ed.), Encyclopedia
of Sociology. Blackwell. (Forthcoming).
Patch,
Jason. 2004. “The Embedded Landscape of Gentrification.” Visual
Studies 19(2): 169-186.
Patch,
Jason. 2002. “Hey Ho!: Graduate Student
Employees Unionize at New York University.”
Humanity & Society 26(1):
69-76.
MEDIA PRESENTATIONS
Interviewed
for the documentary Bowery Dish: Gentrification Happens…,
Logical Chaos, Inc. 2004, www.bowerydish.com
Interviewed
about graduate student union drive, “NYU Grad Student Union”, All
Things Considered, National Public Radio, April 24, 2000.
Interviewed
about graduate student union drive, “NLRB Ruling May Demolish the
Barriers to T.A. Unions at Private Universities”, The
Chronicle of Higher Education, April 14, 2000
AWARDS
National
Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Grant, Spring 2002 (SES-0207410)
“Fashioning Gentrification: The New Role of Women as Entrepreneurs and
Public Characters”
women in the city, street food vendors,
gentrification, sociology of fashion
women in the city, street food vendors,
gentrification, sociology of fashion
women in the city, street food vendors,
gentrification, sociology of fashion
women in the city, street food vendors,
gentrification, sociology of fashion
women in the city, street food vendors
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