On 11/23: Morals and manners in the Ghetto: Navigating public and hidden transcripts with Talja Blokland, Humboldt University of Berlin will take place at 12.30 pm

Morals and manners in the Ghetto: Navigating public and hidden transcripts

Presentation of Professor of Urban and Regional Sociologyat the Humboldt University of Berlin, Talja Blokland.

Summary: Drawing on James Scott division of public and hidden transcripts, this paper discusses the use of moral tales as resources of social interactions of residents of a public housing project, the Ghetto, with neighbors outside of the project and among each other. Through the lens of drugs, violence and alcohol consumption in public places, it tries to explain the moral ambivalence that becomes apparent between the public and hidden transcripts. Empirically, the paper draws on over two years of ethnographic research conducted between 2000 and 2004. This material for this paper was collected with a grant of the Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Wenner-Grenn Foundation.

General information

Event: Seminar "Morals and manners in the Ghetto: Navigating public and hidden transcripts", with Professor Talja Blokland.

When: 11/23 (Friday), at 12.30 pm

Where: Cebrap auditorium, Morgado de Mateus St., 615, Vila Mariana, São Paulo.

Open to interested parties without prior registration

Curriculum vitae

Professor Talja Blokland is a sociologist by Amsterdam School for Social Research, of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, with doctorate of the New School University (1996). After getting her doctor´s degree, she was visiting researcher at Yale University and at Manchester University (1993-2003) returning to Holland as member of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences of that country. She was also senior researcher and program leader at the OTB Institute, at Delft University of Technology, where today she works as invited reseracher. Between 2004 and 2008 she was member of the RMO (Council of Social Development), where she was president of the Advisory Board for Ethnic Integration Policy. Since 2009 she works at Humboldt University of Berlin, on Urban and Regional Sociology Department. Her research interests includes: social theory, relational theory, Urban Sociology and Social Policy. Within the city, her research focuses on urban inequality and marginalization processes, placemaking, among others.

Publications (in German language)