Waverly Duck is an urban ethnographer whose primary research examines the social order of neighborhoods and institutional settings. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania and […]

“No Way Out: Precarious Living in the Shadow of Poverty and Drug Dealing” with Waverly Duck

This talk illustrates how overlapping surveillance systems—police, schools, creditors, social workers, public housing officials, landlords, probation and parole officers—place multiple, contradictory demands on the residents of poor black neighborhoods that […]

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“Graduate Methods Workshop: Conducting Ethnographic Research” with Waverly Duck

“No Way Out: Precarious Living in the Shadow of Poverty and Drug Dealing” with Waverly Duck