{"id":10269,"date":"2020-07-23T13:50:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T17:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=10269"},"modified":"2023-09-12T16:36:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T20:36:51","slug":"heather-mooney","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/profile\/heather-mooney\/","title":{"rendered":"Heather Mooney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>I am broadly interested in the intersections of race, gender, and emotion, in relation to social constructions of crime and deviance. My work links micro and macro-conceptions of culture to better understand identity and the &#8220;felt&#8221; experience of\/engagement with the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>My dissertation research examines race and gender in the production and consumption of true crime, a genre that typically features and is engaged by white college educated women between the ages of 18 and 35. Here, I examine how raced and gendered subject positions inform &#8220;dark leisure&#8221; practices (such as dark tourism), as well as perceptions of risk and vulnerability, crime and violence, and criminal justice more broadly. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>My other ongoing project examines the relationship between care and control-based interventions to addiction and overdose, a condition that is simultaneously medicalized and criminalized. Using the ongoing opioid epidemic in Massachusetts, USA, as a case study, I explore how &#8220;state adjacent&#8221; actors working in care fields in a progressive state manage shared grief and death related to opioid use, and how they make decisions around therapeutic and\/or punitive interventions for their service population.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1Wb3sjt2eA6bbbRMhpa4QXzm4iPMAuQJq\/view?usp=sharing\"><strong>Curriculum Vitae<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/heathermooney\/\">Linkedin<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14468,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14468"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12292,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10269\/revisions\/12292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}