Adrian Favell
PROFESSOR
Ph. D., European University Institute, Florence
Office: 244 HAINES HALL
Phone: 310-825-3840
Fax: 310-206-9838
E-mail:
afavell@soc.ucla.edu
Mailing Address:
264 Haines Hall - Box 951551
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1551
Subfield
Migration, Urban Sociology, Comparative & Global Sociology, Theory
Research Interests
My work puts into action a thoroughly interdisciplinary and multi-methods approach to social science research, that reflects a background spanning sociology, political science, geography, philosophy, and comparative literature. The core of my publications focus on issues concerning migrants and minorities in Europe, looking at questions of spatial mobility, citizenship, integration and problems in comparative methodology. I am also interested in the philosophy of social science and analytical approaches to sociological theory, particularly in teaching where I have developed pedagogical techniques that incorporate commercial 'simulation' games such as The Sims and SimCity. In 2008, I published an ethnographic book on the free movement of urban professionals in Europe, entitled Eurostars and Eurocities, followed in 2009 by a parallel quantitative study Pioneers of European Integration. This effort to develop a new regional 'sociology of European Union' has led on to an interest in similar processes in East Asia and the Asia-Pacific. Thus, my work on mobile populations in London, Amsterdam and Brussels, was followed by a study of networks and entrepreneurship in the creative industries between California and Japan, particularly involving the export/import of contemporary art, music, street fashion and food. More broadly, I am interested in all work on globalization, regional integration, nationalism, cities, multiculturalism, migration and mobility, especially related to Europe and East Asia. I am currently writing a book about Japanese contemporary art and society since the 1990s.
**NEW & RECENTLY PUBLISHED**
Check out my new "art-blog" for the on-line Japanese bilingual art magazine ART-iT. Recent essays cover the mania for contemporary Chinese art, the creative city movement in Japan, an interview with Fram Kitagawa of Echigo-Tsumari, book and exhibition reviews, and profiles of emerging Japanese artists.
Pioneers of European Integration: Citizenship and Mobility in the EU (with Ettore Recchi), published by Edward Elgar September 2009.
Pioneers of European Integration
Introduction to Japanese-Danish design show at Rundetaarn, Copenhagen, summer 2009.
The Japanese Design Milieu
Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europe, published by Blackwell January 2008.
Eurostars and Eurocities
Here are two sample chapters from the book
Chapter 2 New Amsterdam
Chapter 10 Integration (2)
**BOOK REVIEWS**
Sarah Thornton, Seven Days in the Art World, & Don Thompson, The $12 Million Dollar Stuffed Shark
**SARAH THORNTON'S VISIT TO UCLA WEDS 22ND APRIL**
Emma Haddad, The Refugee in International Society: Between Sovereigns
Neil Fligstein, Euroclash: The EU, European Identity and the Future of Europe
Vivien A. Schmidt, Democracy in Europe: The EU and National Polities
Ruth Milkman, LA Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement, & Ivan Light, Deflecting Immigration: Networks, Markets and Regulation in Los Angeles
**RECENT TALKS & INTERVIEWS**
Public talk for the opening of THE ECHO, at ZAIM, Yokohama, 17 Sept 2008
After the Goldrush: Japan's New Post-Bubble Art and Why It Matters
SSRC interview about ©MURAKAMI in Brooklyn, 28 June 2008
A Sociologist's Guided Tour to ©MURAKAMI
Talk and Discussion on Japanese Contemporary Art at Royal/T, Culver City, 11 June 2008
Tokyo Tremors: Four New Waves in Japanese Contemporary Art
The David W.Roth and Robert H.Symonds Memorial Lecture, Yale University, School of Architecture, 11 April 2008
Mobility, Creativity and Security: The Economics and Politics of Global Creative Cities
**OTHER RECENT ACTIVITIES**
I organized a conference & exhibition related to my Japanese research, 13-15 March 2008 at UCLA. Here is the full color program/catalog
J-Wave USA: Southern California as the Gateway to Japanese Contemporary Creative Industries in the West
The conference featured a lecture at the UCLA Hammer Museum on contemporary women's photography from Japan by curator Hiromi Nakamura, with a panel discussion featuring Charlotte Cotton, Laura Miller, Sharon Kinsella and Yoshitaka Mouri. Here is an online report, with links to transcripts and podcasts
Sweet & Bitter UCLA Center for the Study of Women Feature
Here is an outside news report about the event by Otaku USA editor Patrick Macias
Japanese Pop Culture Goes to College
... plus my Mika Ninagawa interview in Giant Robot
Pistil Packing: Interview with Mika Ninagawa
**OTHER PROJECT INFORMATION**
LA as Offshore Japan
The Human Face of Global Mobility
PIONEUR Project: Pioneers of European Integration "From Below" (EU Framework 5 funded survey)
The Sim-Sociologist: Using Computer Games to Teach Sociological Theory
Selected Publications
‘The sociology of the European Union: an agenda’ (with Virginie Guiraudon), European Union Politics, 10,4 December 2009. COMING SOON.
‘Pioneers of European integration: an introduction’ (with Ettore Recchi), chapter in Pioneers of European Identity: Citizenship and Mobility in the EU, edited by Ettore Recchi and Adrian Favell, Edward Elgar, Sept 2009, pp.1-25.
‘Internal and external movers: East-West migration and the impact of EU enlargement’ (with Tina Nebe), chapter in Pioneers of European Identity: Citizenship and Mobility in the EU, edited by Ettore Recchi and Adrian Favell, Edward Elgar, Sept 2009, pp.205-223.
‘Immigration, migration and free movement in the making of Europe’, chapter in European Identity, edited by Jeffey C.Checkel and Peter J.Katzenstein, Cambridge University Press, January 2009, pp.167-189.
‘The new face of East-West migration in Europe’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 34,5 July 2008, pp.701-716.
‘Rebooting migration theory: Interdisciplinarity, globality and postdisciplinarity in migration studies’, chapter in Migration Theory: Talking Across Disciplines (2nd ed.), edited by Caroline Brettell and James Hollifield, Routledge 2007, pp.259-278.
‘The sociology of EU politics’, chapter in Sage Handbook of European Union Politics Politics, edited by Knud Erik Joergensen, Mark A. Pollack and Ben Rosamond, Sage, 2006, pp.122-128.
‘The human face of global mobility: a research agenda’ (with Miriam Feldblum and Michael Peter Smith), intro to The Human Face of Global Mobility, edited by Michael Peter Smith and Adrian Favell, Transaction Press, March 2006, pp.1-25.
‘Europe's identity problem’, West European Politics, 28,5 Nov 2005, pp.1109-1116.
‘European citizenship in three Eurocities’, Archive of European Integration, University of Pittsburgh, April 2005, pp.13.
‘London as Eurocity: French free movers in the economic capital of Europe’, Global and World Cities Research Bulletin, 150, Sept 2004, pp.16.
‘Games without frontiers? Questioning the transnational social power of migrants in Europe’, Archives Européennes de Sociologie, XLIV, 3, Winter 2003, pp.327-427.
‘Integration nations: the nation-state and research on immigrants in Western Europe’, Comparative Social Research, vol.22, Oct 2003, pp.13-42.
'Markets against politics: Migration, EU enlargement and the idea of Europe' (with Randall Hansen) in EU enlargement and East-West migration, special edition of Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, guest edited by Adrian Favell and Randall Hansen, vol.24, no.4, Oct 2002, pp.581-601.
'Migration, mobility and globaloney: metaphors and rhetoric in the sociology of globalisation', review essay in Global Networks, vol 1, no.4, Sept 2001, pp.389-98.
'The Europeanisation of immigration politics', European Integration online Papers working paper, published in Cultures et conflicts, été-
automne 2000, no.38-39, pp.153-185.
'Integration policy and integration research in Europe: a review and critique' in Citizenship Today: Global Perspectives and Practices, edited by T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Doug Klusmeyer, Washington, DC: Brookings Institute/Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 2001 (report prepared for the Carnegie Endowment "Comparative Citizenship Project"), pp.349-399.
Philosophies of Integration: Immigration and the Idea of Citizenship in France and Britain, London: Macmillan/New York: St.Martin’s Press 1998, pp.288. (Paperback 2nd edition with new preface and index published June 2001, pp.320)
'James Coleman: social theorist and moral philosopher?' in American Journal of Sociology, Nov 1993, Vol.99, no.3, pp.590-613.
Awards
SSRC/Japan Foundation Abe Fellowship, 2006-7
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