Publications (Collection)

Between Tolerant Containment and Concerted Constraint: Managing Madness for the City and the Privileged Family

Winner of the 2020 Junior Theorist Award, ASA Theory Section
Winner of the 2020 James F. Short Distinguished Article Award, ASA Crime, Law, and Deviance Section

Neil GongAugust 21, 2019American Sociological Review

Seeing Like a State Athletic Commission: Multi-Case Ethnography and the Making of 'Underground' Fight Sports

Neil GongAugust 8, 2018Ethnography

‘That Proves You Mad, Because You Know it Not’: Impaired Insight and the Dilemma of Governing Psychiatric Patients as Liberal Subjects

Winner of the 2019 Shils-Coleman Award, ASA Theory Section

Neil GongJuly 14, 2017Theory and Society

How to Fight Without Rules: On Civilized Violence in 'De-Civilized' Spaces

Winner of the 2016 ASA Body and Embodiment Section Graduate Student Paper Award