{"id":2204,"date":"2013-09-20T08:57:04","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T13:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/?p=2204"},"modified":"2014-04-01T10:30:54","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T15:30:54","slug":"ru092013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/2013\/09\/20\/ru092013\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Roundup: Sept. 20, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RU092013\"<\/a>For the next couple of Roundups, I’d like to welcome TSP’s graduate editor Hollie Nyseth Brehm. She’ll be covering for me as I head off on a 3-hour cruise. Actually, there’s no cruise. But I do expect to find myself washed up on a beach for a stretch, so I won’t be rounding up the site until… October 11th? Craziness. For now, one last hurrah before heading for the airport (yet again).<\/p>\n

Features:<\/h3>\n

“Environmental Inequalities<\/a>,” by Hollie Nyseth Brehm and David Pellow. We think of environmental damage as infesting specific sites (Erin Brokovich, anyone?) or being a fully global problem (ozone layer: we need one). Brehm and Pellow urge us to consider the ways in which environmental hazards work to more directly impact the most vulnerable global citizens.<\/p>\n

Editors’ Desk:<\/h3>\n

“Sketch #2: Ears to the Ground<\/a>,” by Doug Hartmann. Talking to the media is daunting; it’s hard to speak in soundbites when scholars are used to 40 pages of nuanced analysis to make a point. What do social scientists get out of the exchange? Turns out: more data.<\/p>\n

Citings & Sightings:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Strong and Stable: Personal and Civic Lives<\/a>,” by John Ziegler. New work reported in the\u00a0Atlantic<\/em> measures voting patterns and finds that personal tragedies along with other life disruptions can keep people away from the polls. Is a stable life the first step to civic participation?<\/p>\n

“A Fitting Tribute<\/a>,” by Erin Hoekstra. Michelle Alexander, author of\u00a0The New Jim Crow<\/em>, extends her work on inequality into wider realms in a reflection on the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington.<\/p>\n

Teaching TSP:<\/h3>\n

“Guest Post: Environmental Inequality, Class, and Life Chances<\/a>,” by Marie Berry. Extending Brehm and Pellow’s new work (above) to discussions of “life chances,” or “the odds that\u00a0an individual will obtain the resources and opportunities necessary for a long and successful life.”<\/p>\n

A Few from the Community Pages:<\/strong><\/p>\n