Collective Survival and Wellbeing
Poverty & Violence
What individual and collective strategies do poor people North and South of the U.S. border adopt to survive?
Deckard, Faith M. and Javier Auyero. 2022. “Poor People’s Survival Strategies: Two Decades of Research in the Americas.” Annual Review of Sociology 48(1):373-395. VIDEO SUMMARY AVAILABLE VIA FACULTI
Policing
Malone Gonzalez, Shannon and Faith M. Deckard*. 2024. “’We Got Witnesses’: Black Women Navigating Police Violence and Legal Estrangement.” Social Problems 71(3):894-911. VIDEO SUMMARY AVAILABLE VIA AUTHOR ATTIC
How do Black women navigate interactions with police?
Pandemic
Deckard, Faith M. 2026. “The Pandemic Let Us Breathe.” In Rudruppa, S., Gonzalez-Lopez, G., and Smith, C., Editors. World Making in Nepantla: Feminists of Color Navigating Life and Work in the Pandemic. The University of Texas Press.