“In her book Bargaining for Brooklyn: Community Organizations in the Entrepreneurial City, sociologist Nicole Marwell explains: “Sociologists who study organizations sometimes use the term ‘field’ to describe a set of organizations linked together as competitors and collaborators within a social space devoted to a particular type of action—such as a market for certain products, the…
Archives for June 2021
First Week with Pratt
I had a wonderful first week with the Pratt Center for Community Development. My supervisors had me jump right in taking notes on the Hunts Point Forward Vision Plan (HPF + HPVP) meetings and the East Side Coastal Resiliency project’s Community Advisory Group (ESCR CAG). Having been briefed on these projects, coupled with the time…
