Thomas D Beamish
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 256177 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Thomas D Beamish |
| NOMBRES | Thomas D |
| APELLIDO | Beamish |
| FIRMA | BEAMISH T D |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 186 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1995 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Fracking the Neighborhood
Community at Risk
Community at Risk
The anthrax attacks of 2001 provoked deep concern and urgency among U.S. security elites regarding bioterrorism. Coming after 9/11 and followed by the successive menace of West Nile virus, SARS, avian influenza, and most recently Ebola these events prompted the federal government to pursue an aggressive new biodefense agenda. Even given the purported menace of bio-catastrophe, however, the new federal risk management plans stirred controversy. Co…
Putting Social Movements in their Place
Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews http://csx.sagepub.com/ Putting Social Movements in their Place: Explaining Opposition to Energy Projects in the United States, 2000 − 2005 Thomas D. Beamish Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 2014 43: 235 DOI: 10.1177/0094306114522415bb The online version of this article can be found at: http://csx.sagepub.com/content/43/2/235 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: Ameri…
The Logic of Risk Distribution
Alliance Building across Social Movements
Alliance building across social movement groups is an important aspect of social movement dynamics, contributing to their viability and capacity to promote social change. Yet, with few exceptions, cross-movement coalitions have received little sustained theoretical or empirical attention. This article contributes to an understanding of cross-movement coalition building through the examination of a successful case of alliance: a coalition of envir…
Economic Development
Economic development studies are concerned with how societies have, could, and should pursue improvement in the quality and quantity of life for their inhabitants. Since the decades following World War II when development studies began and were implemented as policies, there has been neither consensus on how to pursue the goal of economic and social improvement nor unqualified improvement in the quality of life for most of the world's population.…
Economic Sociology in the Next Decade and Beyond
This article assesses "Economic Sociology in the Next Decade and Beyond." In addressing this broad thematic, as it relates to what some have called the new economic sociology , the article notes the "legacy effect" that a polemic with conventional economic conceptualizations has had on the recent reemergence and shape of this field, the relationship that the predominate schools of thought have to one another and the centrifugal tendencies they cu…
Silent Spill
In the Guadalupe Dunes, 170 miles north of Los Angeles and 250 miles south of San Francisco, an oil spill persisted unattended for 38 years. Over the period 1990-1996, the national press devoted 504 stories to the Exxon Valdez accident and a mere nine to the Guadalupe spill—even though the latter is most likely the nation's largest recorded oil spill. Although it was known to oil workers in the field where it originated, to visiting regulators, a…
The Economic Sociology of Conventions
Economic sociology and economics have tried to explain the organization and stability of market capitalism mostly by arguing for the effects of social structure on the patterning of relations, or for the role of the price system in balancing the demands of individual economic actors. In North America, the primary alternative to structural and individualist theories of market order has been network theory, a meso-level attempt to bridge over- and …
Failure Is not an Option
Failure Is Not an Option is Gene Kranz's epic personal account of the liftoff of the U.S. space program. Kranz was one of a select group recruited to develop the procedures, protocols, safety steps, and pre- and postflight regimes of the program and to administer NASA flight control. This small cadre of flight directors and controllers—taken from government posts, the military, and the aerospace industry—had to create Mission Control from scratch…
Waiting for Crisis
Swift and ameliorative governmental response to a range of threatening circumstances is crucial to public health and safety. This is especially the case given the expanding role such "control organizations" play in modern life. In this capacity, government organizations are in a position to arbitrate "acceptable risk" by either pursuing issues that affect the public or not. With this as its backdrop, this paper analyzes governmental response to a…
Environmental Hazard and Institutional Betrayal
In this in-depth case analysis of the massive Guadalupe Dunes oil field spill in California’s San Luis Obispo County, it is argued that understanding community members’ interpretations of risk requires attention to the broader social and historical contexts within which interpretation occurs. This conceptualization differs from conventional approaches to studying risk that tend to treat the phenomena more narrowly, as discrete “variables” that ca…
Accumulating Trouble
Over a period of thirty-eight years, Unocal Corporation spilled as much as 20 million gallons of petroleum into Central California's Guadalupe/Nipomo Dunes fouling the ground water, the beach, and other habitat producing what may be the largest petroleum spill in United States' history. A whistleblower finally reported this spill in February of 1990, which led to the shutdown of their oilfield, fines, and criminal charges. Through the analysis of…
The Spitting Image
Who Supports the Troops? Vietnam, the Gulf War, and the Making of Collective Memory
During the Gulf War, U.S. media portrayed Vietnam-era protesters as having treated American soldiers shamefully during the Vietnam War. Even Gulf War protesters lent credence to this historical interpretation. By “supporting the troops,” dissenters distanced themselves from their counterparts during the Vietnam era and its “remembered” anti-troop sentiments. But after analysis of Vietnam era media, we find that the media of the time—consistent wi…
The Economic Sociology of Conventions
Economic sociology and economics have tried to explain the organization and stability of market capitalism mostly by arguing for the effects of social structure on the patterning of relations, or for the role of the price system in balancing the demands of individual economic actors. In North America, the primary alternative to structural and individualist theories of market order has been network theory, a meso-level attempt to bridge over- and …
Alliance Building across Social Movements
Alliance building across social movement groups is an important aspect of social movement dynamics, contributing to their viability and capacity to promote social change. Yet, with few exceptions, cross-movement coalitions have received little sustained theoretical or empirical attention. This article contributes to an understanding of cross-movement coalition building through the examination of a successful case of alliance: a coalition of envir…
Who Supports the Troops? Vietnam, the Gulf War, and the Making of Collective Memory
During the Gulf War, U.S. media portrayed Vietnam-era protesters as having treated American soldiers shamefully during the Vietnam War. Even Gulf War protesters lent credence to this historical interpretation. By “supporting the troops,” dissenters distanced themselves from their counterparts during the Vietnam era and its “remembered” anti-troop sentiments. But after analysis of Vietnam era media, we find that the media of the time—consistent wi…
Accumulating Trouble
Over a period of thirty-eight years, Unocal Corporation spilled as much as 20 million gallons of petroleum into Central California's Guadalupe/Nipomo Dunes fouling the ground water, the beach, and other habitat producing what may be the largest petroleum spill in United States' history. A whistleblower finally reported this spill in February of 1990, which led to the shutdown of their oilfield, fines, and criminal charges. Through the analysis of…
Waiting for Crisis
Swift and ameliorative governmental response to a range of threatening circumstances is crucial to public health and safety. This is especially the case given the expanding role such "control organizations" play in modern life. In this capacity, government organizations are in a position to arbitrate "acceptable risk" by either pursuing issues that affect the public or not. With this as its backdrop, this paper analyzes governmental response to a…
Putting Social Movements in their Place
Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews http://csx.sagepub.com/ Putting Social Movements in their Place: Explaining Opposition to Energy Projects in the United States, 2000 − 2005 Thomas D. Beamish Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 2014 43: 235 DOI: 10.1177/0094306114522415bb The online version of this article can be found at: http://csx.sagepub.com/content/43/2/235 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: Ameri…
Economic Sociology in the Next Decade and Beyond
This article assesses "Economic Sociology in the Next Decade and Beyond." In addressing this broad thematic, as it relates to what some have called the new economic sociology , the article notes the "legacy effect" that a polemic with conventional economic conceptualizations has had on the recent reemergence and shape of this field, the relationship that the predominate schools of thought have to one another and the centrifugal tendencies they cu…
Fracking the Neighborhood
Who Supports the Troops? Vietnam, the Gulf War, and the Making of Collective Memory
During the Gulf War, U.S. media portrayed Vietnam-era protesters as having treated American soldiers shamefully during the Vietnam War. Even Gulf War protesters lent credence to this historical interpretation. By “supporting the troops,” dissenters distanced themselves from their counterparts during the Vietnam era and its “remembered” anti-troop sentiments. But after analysis of Vietnam era media, we find that the media of the time—consistent wi…
The Spitting Image
Accumulating Trouble
Over a period of thirty-eight years, Unocal Corporation spilled as much as 20 million gallons of petroleum into Central California's Guadalupe/Nipomo Dunes fouling the ground water, the beach, and other habitat producing what may be the largest petroleum spill in United States' history. A whistleblower finally reported this spill in February of 1990, which led to the shutdown of their oilfield, fines, and criminal charges. Through the analysis of…
Environmental Hazard and Institutional Betrayal
In this in-depth case analysis of the massive Guadalupe Dunes oil field spill in California’s San Luis Obispo County, it is argued that understanding community members’ interpretations of risk requires attention to the broader social and historical contexts within which interpretation occurs. This conceptualization differs from conventional approaches to studying risk that tend to treat the phenomena more narrowly, as discrete “variables” that ca…
Failure Is not an Option
Failure Is Not an Option is Gene Kranz's epic personal account of the liftoff of the U.S. space program. Kranz was one of a select group recruited to develop the procedures, protocols, safety steps, and pre- and postflight regimes of the program and to administer NASA flight control. This small cadre of flight directors and controllers—taken from government posts, the military, and the aerospace industry—had to create Mission Control from scratch…
Waiting for Crisis
Swift and ameliorative governmental response to a range of threatening circumstances is crucial to public health and safety. This is especially the case given the expanding role such "control organizations" play in modern life. In this capacity, government organizations are in a position to arbitrate "acceptable risk" by either pursuing issues that affect the public or not. With this as its backdrop, this paper analyzes governmental response to a…
Silent Spill
In the Guadalupe Dunes, 170 miles north of Los Angeles and 250 miles south of San Francisco, an oil spill persisted unattended for 38 years. Over the period 1990-1996, the national press devoted 504 stories to the Exxon Valdez accident and a mere nine to the Guadalupe spill—even though the latter is most likely the nation's largest recorded oil spill. Although it was known to oil workers in the field where it originated, to visiting regulators, a…
The Economic Sociology of Conventions
Economic sociology and economics have tried to explain the organization and stability of market capitalism mostly by arguing for the effects of social structure on the patterning of relations, or for the role of the price system in balancing the demands of individual economic actors. In North America, the primary alternative to structural and individualist theories of market order has been network theory, a meso-level attempt to bridge over- and …
Economic Development
Economic development studies are concerned with how societies have, could, and should pursue improvement in the quality and quantity of life for their inhabitants. Since the decades following World War II when development studies began and were implemented as policies, there has been neither consensus on how to pursue the goal of economic and social improvement nor unqualified improvement in the quality of life for most of the world's population.…
Economic Sociology in the Next Decade and Beyond
This article assesses "Economic Sociology in the Next Decade and Beyond." In addressing this broad thematic, as it relates to what some have called the new economic sociology , the article notes the "legacy effect" that a polemic with conventional economic conceptualizations has had on the recent reemergence and shape of this field, the relationship that the predominate schools of thought have to one another and the centrifugal tendencies they cu…
The Logic of Risk Distribution
Alliance Building across Social Movements
Alliance building across social movement groups is an important aspect of social movement dynamics, contributing to their viability and capacity to promote social change. Yet, with few exceptions, cross-movement coalitions have received little sustained theoretical or empirical attention. This article contributes to an understanding of cross-movement coalition building through the examination of a successful case of alliance: a coalition of envir…
Putting Social Movements in their Place
Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews http://csx.sagepub.com/ Putting Social Movements in their Place: Explaining Opposition to Energy Projects in the United States, 2000 − 2005 Thomas D. Beamish Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 2014 43: 235 DOI: 10.1177/0094306114522415bb The online version of this article can be found at: http://csx.sagepub.com/content/43/2/235 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: Ameri…
Community at Risk
Community at Risk
The anthrax attacks of 2001 provoked deep concern and urgency among U.S. security elites regarding bioterrorism. Coming after 9/11 and followed by the successive menace of West Nile virus, SARS, avian influenza, and most recently Ebola these events prompted the federal government to pursue an aggressive new biodefense agenda. Even given the purported menace of bio-catastrophe, however, the new federal risk management plans stirred controversy. Co…
Fracking the Neighborhood
Political science (10 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Risk Perception and Management (5 obras) · Engineering (4 obras) · Business (3 obras) · Economics (3 obras) · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (3 obras) · Law (3 obras) · Management and Organizational Studies (3 obras)