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Book Review: Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York's Underground Economy

Book Review: Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York's Underground Economy Book Reviews FLOATING CITY:AROGUE SOCIOLOGIST LOST AND FOUND IN NEW YORK’S UNDERGROUND ECONOMY, by Sudhir Venkatesh. New York: Penguin Press HC, 2013, 304 pp. ISBN-13: 978-1594204166 ($27.95 Cloth, $17.00 Paper). Reviewed by Alford A. Young Jr. University of Michigan Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York’s Underground Economy is one of the most daring books that I have read in some time. In aspiring to tell a New York City story, author Sudhir Venkatesh weaves together an analysis of aspects of that city’s underworld, its above-world (comprised of emerging elites in business and the arts), and himself. The relevant part about him is that he is a transplant from southern Califor- nia who has come to New York to build upon a promising career in sociology that was established by his prior studies of the underworld and low-income African Americans in Chicago. Consequently, he appears in this work as much more than a self-reflective ethnographer taking stock of the field and the people that he is studying. Instead, and more provocatively, Venkatesh incorporates autobiography into his explication of how a research agenda unfolded for him in what has become his second city. Floating City does http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City and Community SAGE

Book Review: Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York's Underground Economy

Jr., Alford A. Young,
City and Community , Volume 13 (3): 1 – Sep 1, 2014
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Book Reviews FLOATING CITY:AROGUE SOCIOLOGIST LOST AND FOUND IN NEW YORK’S UNDERGROUND ECONOMY, by Sudhir Venkatesh. New York: Penguin Press HC, 2013, 304 pp. ISBN-13: 978-1594204166 ($27.95 Cloth, $17.00 Paper). Reviewed by Alford A. Young Jr. University of Michigan Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York’s Underground Economy is one of the most daring books that I have read in some time. In aspiring to tell a New York City story, author Sudhir Venkatesh weaves together an analysis of aspects of that city’s underworld, its above-world (comprised of emerging elites in business and the arts), and himself. The relevant part about him is that he is a transplant from southern Califor- nia who has come to New York to build upon a promising career in sociology that was established by his prior studies of the underworld and low-income African Americans in Chicago. Consequently, he appears in this work as much more than a self-reflective ethnographer taking stock of the field and the people that he is studying. Instead, and more provocatively, Venkatesh incorporates autobiography into his explication of how a research agenda unfolded for him in what has become his second city. Floating City does

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