ISSI Fellows Working Papers
The Institute for the Study of Societal Issues (ISSI) at the University of California, Berkeley is a research center dedicated to understanding the processes of social change and contributing to the transformation of conditions of inequality. ISSI researchers use a combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches to undertake empirical investigations into critical social issues facing the nation, with a particular focus on California communities. ISSI also provides training and professional development to graduate and undergraduate students.
The Institute for the Study of Societal Issues (ISSI) is an Organized Research Unit of the University of California at Berkeley. The views expressed in ISSI working papers are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the ISSI or the Regents of the University of California.
There are 93 publications in this collection, published between 2005 and 2024. Showing 1 - 50.
Hong, Caylee: Urban Oil Afterlives: Reckoning with Risk and Responsibility in the Los Angeles City Oil Field, 2024
Reyes, Everardo: Radio, Sound, Time: The Occupation of Alcatraz Through an Indigenous Sound Studies Framework, 2024
Sierra, Valentín Q: Predicting Suicidal Ideation among Native American High Schoolers in California, 2023
Mathias, Brenda: Neighborhood Institutions and Well-being: Youth Perspectives from East Oakland, 2022
Villegas, Karen: Trapped in Our Origin Stories: Interrogating the Ideologies of ESL Citizenship Classrooms, 2022
Browne, Erica: The Paradox of Colorblind: Private Nonprofit Hospital Community Benefit Investments and the Social Determinants of Health, 2021
Plasencia, Melanie Z: Age-friendly as Tranquilo Ambiente: How Socio-Cultural Perspectives Shape the Lived Environment of Latinx Older Adults, 2021
Aguilar, Angela R: Envisioning “Loving Care” in Impermanent Healing Spaces: Sacred and Political Organizing Towards Decolonial Health/Care in Oakland, California, 2019
Corbin, C.N.E.: Enclosure-Occupations: Contested Productions of Green Space & the Paradoxes within Oakland, California’s Green City, 2019
Medina Falzone, Gabby: Beyond the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Social Death and the Relationship Between School and Incarceration, 2019
Painter, Fantasia: “Made for Your Benefit”: Prohibition, Protection, and Refusal on Tohono O’odham, 1912-1933, 2019
Rhadigan, Ryan: Surveying the Reservoir: Public Records and the Archival Logics of the Oroville Dam, 2018
Rucks-Ahidiana, Zawadi: Race and Class in the News: How the Media Portrays Gentrification, 2018
Singh, Michael V.: The Neoliberalization of Latino Men and Boys: Power and Resistance in a School-based Mentorship Program, 2018
Wright, Anthony: Pediatric Cancer, Racial Formation, and the Existential Weight of Anti-Blackness, 2018
Beltrán, Héctor: Staging the Hackathon: Codeworlds and Code Work in México, 2017
Cho, Esther Y: Engaging in Security Work: Selective Disclosure in Friendships of Korean and Mexican Undocumented Young Adults, 2017
Keliiaa, Caitlin: Unsettling Domesticity: Native Women Challenging U.S. Indian Policy in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1911-1931, 2017
Serrano, Christyna: Scaling a “Bite-Sized Implementation Strategy”: Promoting Educational Equity and Social Justice through a Farm to School Food Program, 2017
Solis, Miriam: The Triple Bottom Line and Wastewater Planning in San Francisco: A Tool for Environmental Justice?, 2017
Arata, Heather: Making Public Participation Meaningful: Assessing Twenty-Five Years of Community Strategies for Environmental Justice in Kettleman City, CA, 2016
Carrillo, Dani: Unity out of Adversity: Non-Profit Organizations’ Collaborative Strategies to Serve Immigrants in Bay Area Suburbs, 2016
Lor, Yang: Narratives of Interdependence and Independence: The Role of Social Class and Family Relationships in Where High-Achieving Students Apply to College, 2016
Tzeggai, Fithawee: Defining Racial Equity in Chicago’s Segregated Schools: The Complicated Legacy of Desegregation Reform for Urban Education Policy, 2016
Chavez-Diaz, Mara: Social Justice Healing Practitioners: Testimonios of Transformative Praxis and Hope, 2015
Henry, Colleen: Constructions of Maltreatment: Child Exposure to Domestic Violence and Its Penalization in California Law, 2015
Jacobs, Leah: More than Mental Disorder: Toward a Situated Understanding of Recidivism and Risk, 2015
Kim, Mimi: Dancing the Carceral Creep: The Anti-Domestic Violence Movement and the Paradoxical Pursuit of Criminalization, 1973 - 1986, 2015
Lo, Bao: Between Two Worlds: Hmong Youth, Culture, and Socio-Structural Barriers to Integration, 2015
Bass, Jackie: Am I My Brother's Keeper?: The Contested Role of African American Churches in Community Development, 2014
Ching, Yenhoa: Asian Youth and Race-Making in an Urban School: The Institution and its Power, 2014
Fleming, Mark: Mass Transit Workers, Urban Publics, and the Politics of Time in San Francisco, 2014
Graybeal, Pam Mei Wai: Municipal Parks: An Environmental Justice Analysis of Conditions and Use in the San Francisco East Bay, 2013
Huerta Niño, Ricardo: The Power and Promise of Culture in Economic Development: Drawing on Language for Healing, Nation Building, Sovereignty, and Development Practices in the Hoopa Nation, 2013
Mahan, Margo M.: The 'Bitch Tape': How Male Batterers Find The Woman in the State, 2013
Boas, Erica M.: Education in Disguise: Sanctioning Sexuality in Elementary School Halloween Celebrations, 2012
Burga, Hector Fernando: Spatial Politics in Metropolitan Miami, 1980-1992: Cuban American Crisis, Community Development and Empowerment, 2012
Hsu, Naomi: Local Political Context and the Puzzle of Asian American Under-participation in Electoral Politics, 2012
Moore, Ellen: From Combat to College: Student Veterans in Academic 'Contact Zones', 2012
Polyakova, Alina: Explaining Support for Radical Right Parties in New Democracies: The Limits of Structural Determinants and the Potentiality of Civil Society, 2012
Tran, Nu-Anh: Contested Nationalism: Ethnic Identity and State Power in the Republic of Vietnam, 1954-1963, 2012
Alexander, Rebecca: Marketing Whiteness: Geographies of Colorblind Liberalism, 2011
Dillon, Lindsey: Redevelopment and the Politics of Place in Bayview-Hunters Point, 2011
Dow, Dawn: Black Moms and “White Motherhood Society”: African-American Middle-Class Mothers’ Perspectives on Work, Family and Identity, 2011
Lindahl, Nicole: Intimacy, Manipulation, and the Maintenance of Social Boundaries at San Quentin Prison, 2011
Martin, Karin D.: Explaining Support for Punitive Crime Policy: Race, Social Context, and Voting Behavior, 2011
Minkin, Sarah Anne: The Threat from Within: American Jews, the State of Israel, and Intermarriage, 2011
Stover, Tamera Lee: Hijacked Identities: Silicon Valley Pakistanis and Tactics of Belonging, 2011
Abramson, Corey M.: Putting Culture Back in Context: A Context Dependent Model of How Cultural Inputs, Toolkits, and Meanings Influence Action, 2010
Herrera, Juan Carlos: At the Day Labor Hiring Zone: The Politics of Immigrant Illegality and the Regulation Of Informal Labor, 2010
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