Andrew Deener is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where his research and teaching focus on the cultural and political dimensions of cities, communities, infrastructures, and the environment. He is the author of Venice: A Contested Bohemia in Los Angeles (University of Chicago Press, 2012) and The Problem with Feeding Cities: The Social Transformation of Infrastructure, Abundance, and Inequality in America (University of Chicago Press, 2020).     

 

His newest book project, with Jonathan Wynn, is The Urban Way (under contract with Oxford University Press). Drawing on examples from cities around the world, this book bridges urban and cultural studies, in terms of how the semiotics of local groups and places fit into the context of an urbanizing planet. 

 

He is currently working on multiple historical and ethnographic projects about how urban, water, and energy infrastructures in California have been conceptualized, planned, assembled, contested, and transformed. He also writes and teaches about the logics of qualitative methods and the processes and practices of theorizing in sociology. Since 2019, he has been the Co-Editor of the journal Qualitative Sociology.