From: jlgulick@cats.ucsc.edu
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 14:14:35 -0800
Subject: John L. Gulick.
Name: John L. Gulick
      Sociology Graduate Program
      Stevenson College
      U. Cal. - Santa Cruz
      Santa Cruz, CA 95064

Phone: (408) 438-6803

Telnet: jlgulick@cats.ucsc.edu

I am a third-year graduate student at UCSC polishing up my Master's
Thesis intending to take a short break to do research/policy work
and activism. My Master's Thesis is a critical reconstruction on much
of the recent writing on the "disappearance of public space" -- I
situate the phenomenon in relation to globalization of all three circuits
of capital, and especially investigate the dynamic between global city
formation/gentrification in the North, and export-oriented production/
land dispossession in the South. My first academic passion I call "eco-
Marxist sociology of the built environment" -- how the social relations
of capitalism govern the production of the built environment, how the
built environment as "fixed capital" mediates stages of capitalist
development, and how crisis fits into this dialectical process. I
am also interested in stages of capitalist development, household forms,
and personality formation (with an emphasis on late capitalism and
narcissism), and also in epistemology and the social sciences. I sit
on the Santa Cruz editorial board of the red-green journal _Capitalism,
Nature, Socialism_; I am a research associate in the "technology, regions,
and innovation" cluster of the Center for the Study of Global Transformations;
and I am the Graduate Student Employees Association delegate to the local
Central Labor Council. In the future I would like to do research on
globalization, the material power of producers of the built environment
to mess with the circuits of capital, and possibilities for international
labor organizing.