Rachel HeimanAssistant Professor of Anthropology,Bachelor’s Program & Department of Social Sciences, The New School for General Studies
Profile:Concentrations: United States; middle classes; suburban life; built environment; cultural politics of class; habit formation; consumption; youth culture; ethnography and ethnographic writing
Recent Publications:Rugged Entitlement: Driving After Class in a SuburbanNew JerseyTown (under contract with University of California Press)
“The Last Days of Low-Density Living: Suburbs and the End of Oil,” Built Environment (forthcoming)
“‘At Risk’ for Becoming Neoliberal Subjects: Rethinking the ‘Normal’ Middle-Class Family,” in Childhood, Youth, and Social Work in Transformation, eds. Lynn Nybell, Jeffrey Shook and Janet L. Finn, Columbia University Press (forthcoming)
“Gate Expectations: Middle Class Anxieties in a Suburban Zoning Board Debate” (article in preparation for submission to Cultural Anthropology)
“‘A Little Security in an Insecure World’: SUVs and the Consumption of Class Security” (article in preparation for submission to American Ethnologist)
“The Ironic Contradictions in the Discourse on Generation X, or How ‘Slackers’ are Saving Capitalism,” Childhood 8 (May 2001): 275-293.
“Vehicles for Rugged Entitlement: Teenagers, Sport-Utility Vehicles, and the Suburban Upper-Middle Class,” New Jersey History 118 (Fall/Winter 2000): 22-33.
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Email:heimanr@newschool.eduResearch Interests:Middle class anxieties and suburban life amid contemporary political-economic shifts; the implications of diminishing fossil fuels for compounding the spatialization of inequality; comparative perspectives on the global middle classes