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Human Rights Policing book

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August 27, 2022
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A Routledge Featured Author for his new book: Human Rights Policing Reimagining Law Enforcement in the 21st Century By Peter Marina & Pedro Marina Relying on intense ethnographic research and extensive … Continue Reading →

Social Problems workbook

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August 16, 2022
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Social Problems in the Age of Discontent: A Manual for Sociological Thinking By Peter Marina Published by Kendall Hunt Tired of boring rubrics that turn the university education into a “rubrication” … Continue Reading →

Human Rights Policing Certificate

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September 12, 2017
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Human Rights Policing Program (Go to the course here.) Peter Marina and retired NOPD Lieutenant and current educator Pedro Marina will soon be offering a state-certified, Human Rights Policing program for … Continue Reading →

ETHNOGRAPHIES OF RELIGION

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October 1, 2016
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A NEW SERIES FROM LEXINGTON BOOKS SERIES EDITOR Peter Marina, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse ADVISORY BOARD Michael Wilkinson, Stephen Glazier, Carlos Hernández, Margaret Paloma, Donna Bowman, & Jill Krebs As … Continue Reading →

UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL PROBLEMS

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October 1, 2016
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Understanding Social Problems: A Guide to Field Research takes the student beyond the academic classroom and into the community to explore social problems first hand using a variety of sociological methods. Students … Continue Reading →

DOWN AND OUT IN NEW ORLEANS

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September 14, 2016
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Down & Out in New Orleans: Transgressive Living in the Informal Economy (Publisher’s book page) This book reproduces the conditions of Orwell’s exploits while downtrodden in late 1920s Paris to … Continue Reading →

GETTING THE HOLY GHOST

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September 13, 2016
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URBAN ETHNOGRAPHY IN A BROOKLYN PENTECOSTAL TONGUE-SPEAKING CHURCH As America finds itself embroiled in constant debate over religion, secularization and political difference–and as spiritually fueled tongue-speaking charismatic churches spread exponentially across the … Continue Reading →

CHASING RELIGION IN THE CARIBBEAN

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September 13, 2016
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ETHNOGRAPHIC JOURNEYS FROM ANTIGUA TO TRINIDAD The large and explosive global Charismatic movement spread in powerful ways in the small and tranquil English-speaking Caribbean. It is here in the … Continue Reading →

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March 6, 2015
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In the News

Peter Marina on WWNO

In case you missed it live , here is an excerpt from Peter Marina's talk about his new book, "Down and Out in New Orleans."
(The full, unedited version of the talk is here.)

Peter Marina on NPR New Orleans

Dr. Marina's interview begins at 13 minutes This week on The Reading Life: Nathaniel Rich, whose new novel is "King Zeno," set in New Orleans in 1918. We’ll also hear from Peter Marina, author of "Down and Out in New Orleans: Transgressive Living in the Informal Economy".

Peter Marina in New Orleans' The Gambit

Meet the sociologist who lived among New Orleans squatters and street performers The Gambit, January 5, 2018

HOW NEW ORLEANS BECAME THE PARIS OF THE MISSISSIPPI

Lit Hub, Sept. 28, 2017

The Page 99 Test

Peter J. Marina's "Down and Out in New Orleans" "Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you." --Ford Madox Ford

Peter J. Marina's "Down and Out in New Orleans" on "My Book, The Movie" blogspot

Here he tags the actor who should play him in an adaptation of his new book, Down and Out in New Orleans: Transgressive Living in the Informal Economy—and sketches a scenario of the imaginary film.