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Overview

Setha M. Low is affiliated with the City University of New York in the United States, with a research focus primarily in the social sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including sociology and political science, plant science, economics and econometrics, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, and transportation.

Their research explores topics related to urban environments and public health, with particular emphasis on:

  • Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Health disparities and outcomes

Setha M. Low has authored several papers that address social and environmental aspects of urban spaces, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Notable recent publications include:

  • Thoughts about Public Space During Covid-19 Pandemic, 2020, City & Society
  • Public space during COVID-19, 2020, Social Anthropology
  • Thoughts on Public Space and Flourishing during COVID-19, 2020, The Journal of Public Space
  • Writing urban security, 2024, City & Society

Coauthorship appears important in their work, with frequent collaborators including Mark Maguire, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Alan Smart, Javier Otero Peña, and Hanish Kodali.

Publication venues where Setha M. Low has frequently contributed include:

  • City & Society
  • Perspectives on Politics
  • Social Anthropology
  • Frontiers in Public Health
  • The Journal of Public Space

In addition to journal articles, Setha M. Low has contributed to academic books, with a recent title published by Stanford University Press eBooks titled Trapped (2024).

Best Publications

  • Behind the Gates: Life, Security, and the Pursuit of Happiness in Fortress America

    Setha M. Low

  • The anthropology of space and place : locating culture

    Setha M. Low;Denise Lawrence-Zúñiga

  • On the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and Culture

    Setha M. Low

  • The Politics of Public Space

    Setha M. Low;Neil Smith

  • Place attachment: A conceptual inquiry.

    Setha M. Low;Irwin Altman

  • The Edge and the Center: Gated Communities and the Discourse of Urban Fear

    Setha M. Low

  • The Built Environment and Spatial Form

    Denise L. Lawrence;Setha M. Low

  • Symbolic Ties That Bind

    Setha M. Low

  • spatializing culture: the social production and social construction of public space in Costa Rica

    Setha M. Low

  • THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF CITIES: Imagining and Theorizing the City

    Setha M. Low

  • Spatializing Culture: The Ethnography of Space and Place

    Setha Low

  • The People, Place, and Space Reader

    Jen Jack Gieseking;William Mangold;Cindi Katz;Setha Low

  • Theorizing the City : The New Urban Anthropology Reader

    Setha M. Low

  • Embodied Space(s) Anthropological Theories of Body, Space, and Culture

    Setha M. Low

  • Engaged Anthropology: Diversity and Dilemmas

    Setha M. Low;Sally Engle Merry

  • Rethinking Urban Parks: Public Space and Cultural Diversity

    Setha M. Low;Dana Taplin;Suzanne Scheld

  • Culturally interpreted symptoms or culture-bound syndromes: A cross-cultural review of nerves

    Setha M. Low

  • Urban Fear: Building the Fortress City

    Setha M. Low

  • Towards an anthropological theory of space and place

    Setha M. Low

  • Housing, culture, and design : a comparative perspective

    Setha M. Low;Erve Chambers

  • A sociospatial framework for the anthropology of security

    Zoltán Glück;Setha Low

  • Engaged anthropology: diversity and dilemmas. An introduction

    Setha Low;Sally Engle Merry

Frequent Co-Authors

Neil Smith
Neil Smith City University of New York
Henry Wai-chung Yeung
Henry Wai-chung Yeung Chinese University of Hong Kong
Lorna E. Thorpe
Lorna E. Thorpe New York University

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