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About Richard Ocejo
Richard E. Ocejo is professor of sociology at John Jay College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). He is the author of Masters of Craft: Old Jobs in the New Urban Economy (Princeton University Press, 2017), about the transformation of low-status occupations into cool, cultural taste-making jobs (cocktail bartenders, craft distillers, upscale men’s barbers, and whole animal butchers), and of Upscaling Downtown: From Bowery Saloons to Cocktail Bars in New York City (Princeton University Press, 2014), about growth policies, nightlife, and conflict in gentrified neighborhoods. Ocejo’s work has appeared in such journals as the Urban Affairs Review, Journal of Urban Affairs, Sociological Perspectives, City & Community, and Poetics. He is also the editor of Urban Ethnography: Legacies and Challenges (Emerald, 2019) and Ethnography and the City: Readings on Doing Urban Fieldwork (Routledge, 2012), the Editor of City & Community, and serves on the editorial boards of the journals Work and Occupations, Journal of Urban Affairs, Metropolitics, and the Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography. Finally, he is the director of the MA program in International Migration Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center.Richard E. Ocejo is professor of sociology at John Jay College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY).
NBN Episodes hosted by Richard:
October 13, 2024
A Good Reputation
Neighborhoods have the power to form significant parts of our worlds and identities. A neighborhood's reputation, however, doesn't always match up to …
October 29, 2023
Urban Specters
Racial capitalism, invisible but threaded throughout the world, shapes our lives. Focusing on the experiences of white, Black, and Latinx residents o…
September 28, 2022
Delivery As Dispossession
In Dispossession as Delivery: Land Occupation and Eviction in the Postapartheid City (Oxford University Press; 2022), Zachary Levenson explains why po…
December 15, 2021
Race Brokers
Elizabeth Korver-Glenn's book Race Brokers: Housing Markets and Segregation in 21st Century Urban America (Oxford UP, 2021) examines how housing marke…
July 29, 2021
How Green Became Good
As projects like Manhattan's High Line, Chicago's 606, China's eco-cities, and Ethiopia's tree-planting efforts show, cities around the world are devo…
June 2, 2021
The Voucher Promise
Eve Rosen's The Voucher Promise: 'Section 8' and the Fate of an American Neighborhood (Princeton UP, 2020) examines the Housing Voucher Choice Program…
March 1, 2021
What the Signs Say
Two stores sit side-by-side. One with signage overflowing with text: a full list of business services (income tax returns, notary public, a variety of…
July 28, 2020
Us versus Them
With such high levels of residential segregation along racial lines in the United States, gentrifying neighborhoods present fascinating opportunities …
February 27, 2020
Narrow Fairways
Processes of globalization—the liberalization of national markets, the rapid movement of goods, services, and labor across national borders—have had p…
December 4, 2019
Global Borderlands
Increasing levels of globalization have led to the proliferation of spaces of international exchange. In her new book, Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Vi…
October 29, 2018
Working for Respect
When we hear about the “future of work” today we tend to think about different forms of automation and artificial intelligence—technological innovatio…
July 19, 2018
Better Safe Than Sorry
Consumers today have a lot of choices. Whether in stores or online, people are inundated by an abundance of options for what to buy. At the same time,…
June 20, 2018
The Help-Yourself City
The built environment around us seems almost natural, as in beyond our control to alter or shape. Indeed, we have reached a point in history when citi…
June 11, 2018
The Cost of Being a Girl
With the rise of the #MeToo movement following dozens of high-profile cases of sexual harassment and assault by professional men against women colleag…
April 10, 2018
How Places Make Us
Many of us move to a new place at some point in our lives for a variety of reasons: for a job, to be with a partner, to attend school, for a change of…
February 8, 2018
Citizen Outsider
What does it mean to be a citizen? Every country has its own legal codes that confer a set of rights on official members. But full citizenship is ofte…
January 11, 2018
Kids These Days
Every young generation inspires a host of comparisons---usually negative ones---with older generations. Whether preceding a criticism or punctuating o…
November 13, 2017
The Big Rig
There may not be a more ubiquitous presence on American highways than the truck. The images are iconic: eighteen-wheelers with muddy steel and chrome,…
July 28, 2017
The New Minority
In our era of economic instability, rising inequality, and widespread immigration, complaints about fairness and life chances are coming from an inter…
July 24, 2017
Cut Loose
We are nearly a decade removed from the start of the Great Recession, and many indicators show that the economy is doing relatively well. But during t…
June 2, 2017
Down the Up Staircase
Public scholarship takes many forms, from op-eds to activism to blog posts. In their new book, Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Fa…
May 27, 2017
Race and the Politics of Deception
Urban sociologists typically use a few grand narratives to explain the path of the American city through the twentieth century and into the twenty-fir…
March 25, 2017
Contested Tastes
A heritage food in France, and a high-priced obscurity in the United States. But in both countries, foie gras, the specially fattened liver of a duck …
March 16, 2017
Surviving Poverty
A number of recent events (the Great Recession, Occupy Wall Street, the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign) have brought inequality and poverty into…