Jacob Lederman

Student Fellow

Jacob Lederman is a PhD candidate in Sociology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. His work focuses on urban restructuring and social change in the aftermath of economic crisis in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Of central importance to his project is the way in which new configurations of touristic and cultural production have become the object of state innovation from above and a form of economic resource, conflict, and survival among everyday residents of the city. Jacob also teaches in the Sociology department at Hunter College, City University of New York.

Participating Years

2013–2014

Remaking Worlds: Insurgencies, Revolutions, Utopias

Building on the past two years of seminars devoted to the theme of “Uprisings” the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics will focus its upcoming 2013-2014 seminar on questions of insurgencies, revolutions, and utopias. We propose to examine each of these phenomena as ongoing processes rather than as singular historical, present, or forthcoming events.