Amin Ghaziani

Professor of Sociology

News

For articles previous to 2017, please visit my news archives.

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Top Cited Articles, 2018-2019 Award

I’m delighted to receive two “Top Cited Article, 2018-2019” awards from Wiley publishing. My articles, “Performative Progressiveness: Accounting for New Forms of Inequality in the Gayborhood” (co-authored with my graduate student Adriana Brodyn) and “Cultural Archipelagos: New Directions in the Study of Sexuality and Space” were both published in City & Community – making them both among the top cited articles from that journal.

“Performative Progressiveness” looks at the co-occurrence of progressive mindsets and homonegative actions among straight residents of urban gay districts. Adriana and I describe the subtle forms that discrimination takes in a contemporary context of increasing acceptance and integration. “Cultural Archipelagos” is part of a special symposium on queer urbanisms. In the article, I describe the diversity of queer spaces, particularly the forms they take beyond big city gayborhoods.

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Culture and the Nighttime Economy of London

From 2006 to 2016, the number of LGBTQ bars, pubs, and nightclubs in London declined by 58%, falling from 125 venues to 53. In my new article, I explore the high closure rate of LGBTQ nighttime venues in London, and the city’s recognition of these venues’ intertwined economic and cultural significance. Available now on Metropolitics.

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Queer Pop-Ups

My graduate student Ryan Stillwagon and I have just published our research in the journal City & Community. Our article is entitled “Queer Pop-Ups: A Cultural Innovation in Urban Life.” You can access the piece here.

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Social Forces

My book, Sex Cultures, was reviewed in Social Forces. Dustin Kidd from Temple University writes, “What sort of a book is Sex Cultures? While it is constructed very differently from the author’s previous monographs, I cannot rightly say this is not a monograph unto itself. It offers original arguments and analysis, and it is based significantly on fieldwork, even if that fieldwork was primarily the basis for the previous volumes. Much of its argumentation is driven by theoretical and methodological claims, which are worthy of monographs unto themselves. I pose this question because the monograph is the most esteemed book form in the field. So, I want to say that this is indeed a monograph, but I also want to recognize that it is a unique sort of monograph that I would love to see a great deal more. In Sex Cultures, Ghaziani synthesizes a narrative from across his existing works, and then further synthesizes that narrative with the field of sexuality studies. The book essentially lays out an agenda for the field by staking claims about the pivotal contributions of the sociology of sexuality and the possibilities for future analysis.”