福雷斯特-斯图尔特 社会学家

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Forrest Stuart
Sociologist | Class of 2020
Challenging long-held assumptions about the forces that shape urban poverty and violence and bringing to light the lived reality of those who experience it.


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Title
Sociologist
Affiliation
Department of Sociology, Stanford University
Location
Stanford, California
Age
38 at time of award
Area of Focus
Sociology
Website
www.forreststuart.net
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Published October 6, 2020
ABOUT FORREST'S WORK
Forrest Stuart is a sociologist whose multi-year, immersive investigations reveal the causes and consequences of entrenched poverty and bring to light the lived reality of those who experience it. Combining historical and theoretical analysis with extensive ethnographic fieldwork, Stuart situates communities impacted by poverty and violence within the context of broader policy decisions and cultural forces.

His first book, Down, Out, and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row (2016), presents an account of Los Angeles’s Skid Row from the perspectives of both its residents and the police over the first five years of the Safer Cities Initiative (SCI). Launched in 2006, the SCI sought to reduce violence and “clean up” Skid Row through aggressive enforcement of minor or “quality of life” laws (such as prohibition of sleeping in public, jaywalking, and panhandling) and then coercing alleged offenders to enter social service programs in order to avoid tickets or jail time. Skid Row officers promoted this system as a way to rehabilitate residents, rather than punish them, regardless of whether the services met residents’ needs and wants. For example, as Stuart recounts, an individual attempting to recover from drug addiction through regular participation in a park exercise group is prohibited from accessing this support system after he enters a shelter recovery program that restricts his movements and associates. Stuart argues that as residents are subjected to intensive regulation in public spaces, they must become “copwise” in their daily activities—from walking to a store to working out in the park—to avoid becoming ensnared in the criminal justice apparatus. At the same time, his fieldwork with police officers reveals that although officers genuinely believe they are helping Skid Row residents, their efforts at rehabilitation rest on the same flawed logic that informs modes of social control rooted in punishment—that is, attributing poverty and criminal records to individuals’ lack of character rather than to structural determinants or social factors.

Stuart’s recently published second book, Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy (2020), focuses on the use of social media, particularly the creation of drill music videos, among gang-associated youth in Chicago. He demonstrates that youth use social media to promote their street prowess while also mitigating or avoiding potentially violent confrontations. He also illuminates how social media enables disenfranchised young men to build economic, cultural, and social capital that is otherwise unattainable for them. Stuart helps us to better understand the lives of people whose humanity is often obscured by stereotypes and challenges long-held assumptions about the forces that shape urban poverty and violence.

BIOGRAPHY
Forrest Stuart received a BA (2004) from the University of California at Santa Cruz, an MS (2006) from American University, and an MA (2008) and PhD (2012) from the University of California at Los Angeles. He was a member of the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago from 2012 to 2019 and is currently an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and director of the Stanford Ethnography Lab at Stanford University. His additional publications include articles in such journals as Social Problems, Law and Social Inquiry, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, and Theoretical Criminology.




福雷斯特-斯图尔特
社会学家 | 2020级
挑战关于形成城市贫困和暴力的力量的长期假设，并揭示那些经历过这种力量的人的生活现实。


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标题
社会学家
工作单位
斯坦福大学社会学系
工作地点
斯坦福, 加州
年龄
获奖时38岁
重点领域
社会学
网站
www.forreststuart.net
斯坦福大学。福里斯特-斯图尔特
社会学
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2020年10月6日发布
关于弗雷斯特的工作
福瑞斯特是一位社会学家，他多年的沉浸式调查揭示了根深蒂固的贫困的原因和后果，并揭示了那些经历贫困的人的生活现实。结合历史和理论分析以及广泛的人种学实地调查，斯图尔特将受贫困和暴力影响的社区置于更广泛的政策决定和文化力量的背景中。

他的第一本书，《堕落、外出和被逮捕》。2016年），从居民和警察的角度介绍了洛杉矶滑稽街在 "更安全城市计划"（SCI）的前五年中的情况。2006年启动的 "安全城市计划 "试图通过积极执行轻微或 "生活质量 "法律（如禁止在公共场所睡觉、乱穿马路和摆摊）来减少暴力和 "清理 "贫民区，然后胁迫被指控的罪犯进入社会服务项目，以避免开罚单或坐牢。贫民区官员将这一制度作为改造居民而不是惩罚他们的一种方式来推广，而不管这些服务是否符合居民的需要和愿望。例如，正如斯图尔特所叙述的那样，一个试图通过定期参加公园锻炼小组来恢复毒瘾的人，在进入限制其行动和交往的收容所恢复计划后，被禁止进入这一支持系统。斯图尔特认为，由于居民在公共空间受到密集的监管，他们必须在日常活动中变得 "聪明"--从走到商店到在公园锻炼，以避免陷入刑事司法机构。同时，他对警察的实地调查显示，尽管警察真正相信他们在帮助滑坡区的居民，但他们的康复努力是建立在同样有缺陷的逻辑之上的，这种逻辑指导着以惩罚为基础的社会控制模式，即把贫穷和犯罪记录归因于个人缺乏性格，而不是结构决定因素或社会因素。

斯图尔特最近出版的第二本书《子弹之歌》。Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy (2020), 专注于社交媒体的使用，特别是在芝加哥与帮派有关的青年中创造的演习音乐视频。他表明，青年利用社交媒体来宣传他们的街头实力，同时也减轻或避免潜在的暴力冲突。他还阐明了社交媒体如何使被剥夺权利的年轻人建立经济、文化和社会资本，否则他们是无法实现的。斯图尔特帮助我们更好地理解那些人性常常被刻板印象所掩盖的人的生活，并挑战长期以来对形成城市贫困和暴力的力量的假设。

个人简历
Forrest Stuart在加州大学圣克鲁兹分校获得学士学位（2004年），在美国大学获得硕士学位（2006年），并在加州大学洛杉矶分校获得硕士学位（2008年）和博士学位（2012年）。2012年至2019年，他是芝加哥大学社会学系的成员，目前是斯坦福大学社会学系的副教授和斯坦福民族志实验室的主任。他的其他出版物包括在《社会问题》、《法律与社会调查》、《当代民族志》和《理论犯罪学》等杂志上发表的文章。