Kate Pride Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 210340 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kate Pride Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kate Pride |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN K P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0812-5997 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Flexible Authoritarianism: Cultivating Ambition and Loyalty in Russia
Teaching Sociology with The Autobiography of Malcolm X
This article offers an innovative way to teach an introductory sociology course by taking seriously C. Wright Mills’s dictum that the sociological imagination can be found at the nexus of history and biography. Indeed, introductory sociological concepts can be taught using a biography as the central text. To illustrate the idea, I describe my experience teaching a course titled “The Sociological Imagination” in which students read The Autobiograp…
Rumor has it: Strategies for ethnographic analysis in authoritarian regimes
Accurate information can be difficult to access in authoritarian regimes. As more and more countries fall under the sway of illiberal leaders, ethnographers may find themselves unable to easily corroborate knowledge that comes from native informants. This article proffers several strategies for researchers to utilize when analyzing unverifiable ethnographic data. Following from sociological and psychological studies of rumor, the article discusse…
The Everyday Lives of Sovereignty: Political Imagination beyond the State
Generational and Geographic Effects on Collective Memory of the USSR
This study examines memory of the Soviet Union and political opinions in modern Russia through qualitative, semi-structured interviews across generations in two Russian cities. The study aims to explore the differences in memory and meaning of the Soviet Union across generation and geography, and to connect those differences to political dispositions in modern Russia. Respondents were asked about their impressions of the Soviet Union and modern-d…
Saving the Sacred Sea
Lake Baikal is like no place on Earth. More than a mile deep, Baikal contains a fifth of the world’s freshwater. Thousands of endemic species reside in its watershed. It is an ecological treasure trove and a natural reservoir of global proportions. The region is also home to a strong environmentalist community that works tirelessly to protect Baikal from human harm. Environmentalists around Baikal began their campaign in the late 1950s, sparking …
State Suppression of Baikal Activism: The Power of Civil Society in an Age of Authoritarianism and Globalization
In 2012, the Russian Federation passed the “Foreign Agent” law, requiring nonprofit organizations that receive funding from abroad and engage in political activity to register with the government as a “foreign agent.” This chapter traces the enactment of this law in the Baikal community. Only one organization fell victim to the law: Baikal Environmental Wave. The Wave was one of Siberia’s oldest environmental organizations and was the most commit…
Water, Water Everywhere (or, Seeing Is Believing): The Visibility of Water Supply and the Public Will for Conservation
Why do some arid locations persist in having weak water conservation policies? And why do some wetter locales implement comparatively strong conservation requirements? Based upon 43 qualitative interviews with water stakeholders in four selected cities (Atlanta, Phoenix, San Antonio, Tampa), this article puts forward one contributing factor to explain this apparent contradiction: the variable “visibility” of stressed water resources. The material…
Green tea: Clean-energy conservatism as a countermovement
Environmental politics in advanced industrialized countries have been characterized as a dynamic interaction of two opposing movements: an original movement of progressive environmentalism and a countermovement of conservative opposition to environmental and energy-transition policies. This study analyzes an additional dynamic based on the emergence of clean-energy conservatism in the United States. We develop an explanation of the emergence of t…
Pathways to policy: Partisanship and bipartisanship in renewable energy legislation
The effort to transition energy sources away from dependence on fossil fuels has become highly divided along partisan lines in some countries, but the social-science literature has not yet caught up with this important problem. Policy-adoption studies do not address the specific problem of polarization and gridlock, and the literature on gridlock does not examine conditions for breaking gridlock for renewable energy and energy efficiency (REEE) p…
Theprospectusof activism: Discerning and Delimiting Imagined Possibility
This article aims to articulate a new agenda in the scholarship of social movements. Specifically, it seeks to turn attention to the assumptions that undergird activism. Rather than studying movements themselves, we can study them as the embodiment of collective expectation in a particular public. We can learn more about the broader society in which movements are embedded by asking how activists and the public they seek to engage determine what i…
Red states, green laws: Ideology and renewable energy legislation in the United States
We develop a novel, mixed methods approach to examine the relationship between political ideology and support for renewable energy and energy efficiency (REEE) policies. Through qualitative analysis of interviews with state-government legislators in the U.S., we show that when legislators evaluate and justify their support for and opposition to different types of renewable energy and energy efficiency (REEE) policies, they distinguish bills based…
Guarding the memory of the National Guard: Strategies of avoidance in official historiography
This article examines strategies employed in official state histories to avoid or “collectively forget” an unflattering past. The data comprise the textual histories presented on the websites of the US National Guard. Using content analysis and qualitative textual analysis, I find five different “strategies of avoidance” that these websites employ in their historiography: silence, thematic memory, displacement, invented tradition, and genre switc…
Red states, green laws: Ideology and renewable energy legislation in the United States
We develop a novel, mixed methods approach to examine the relationship between political ideology and support for renewable energy and energy efficiency (REEE) policies. Through qualitative analysis of interviews with state-government legislators in the U.S., we show that when legislators evaluate and justify their support for and opposition to different types of renewable energy and energy efficiency (REEE) policies, they distinguish bills based…
Theprospectusof activism: Discerning and Delimiting Imagined Possibility
This article aims to articulate a new agenda in the scholarship of social movements. Specifically, it seeks to turn attention to the assumptions that undergird activism. Rather than studying movements themselves, we can study them as the embodiment of collective expectation in a particular public. We can learn more about the broader society in which movements are embedded by asking how activists and the public they seek to engage determine what i…
Green tea: Clean-energy conservatism as a countermovement
Environmental politics in advanced industrialized countries have been characterized as a dynamic interaction of two opposing movements: an original movement of progressive environmentalism and a countermovement of conservative opposition to environmental and energy-transition policies. This study analyzes an additional dynamic based on the emergence of clean-energy conservatism in the United States. We develop an explanation of the emergence of t…
The Everyday Lives of Sovereignty: Political Imagination beyond the State
Generational and Geographic Effects on Collective Memory of the USSR
This study examines memory of the Soviet Union and political opinions in modern Russia through qualitative, semi-structured interviews across generations in two Russian cities. The study aims to explore the differences in memory and meaning of the Soviet Union across generation and geography, and to connect those differences to political dispositions in modern Russia. Respondents were asked about their impressions of the Soviet Union and modern-d…
Pathways to policy: Partisanship and bipartisanship in renewable energy legislation
The effort to transition energy sources away from dependence on fossil fuels has become highly divided along partisan lines in some countries, but the social-science literature has not yet caught up with this important problem. Policy-adoption studies do not address the specific problem of polarization and gridlock, and the literature on gridlock does not examine conditions for breaking gridlock for renewable energy and energy efficiency (REEE) p…
Red states, green laws: Ideology and renewable energy legislation in the United States
We develop a novel, mixed methods approach to examine the relationship between political ideology and support for renewable energy and energy efficiency (REEE) policies. Through qualitative analysis of interviews with state-government legislators in the U.S., we show that when legislators evaluate and justify their support for and opposition to different types of renewable energy and energy efficiency (REEE) policies, they distinguish bills based…
Guarding the memory of the National Guard: Strategies of avoidance in official historiography
This article examines strategies employed in official state histories to avoid or “collectively forget” an unflattering past. The data comprise the textual histories presented on the websites of the US National Guard. Using content analysis and qualitative textual analysis, I find five different “strategies of avoidance” that these websites employ in their historiography: silence, thematic memory, displacement, invented tradition, and genre switc…
Green tea: Clean-energy conservatism as a countermovement
Environmental politics in advanced industrialized countries have been characterized as a dynamic interaction of two opposing movements: an original movement of progressive environmentalism and a countermovement of conservative opposition to environmental and energy-transition policies. This study analyzes an additional dynamic based on the emergence of clean-energy conservatism in the United States. We develop an explanation of the emergence of t…
Pathways to policy: Partisanship and bipartisanship in renewable energy legislation
The effort to transition energy sources away from dependence on fossil fuels has become highly divided along partisan lines in some countries, but the social-science literature has not yet caught up with this important problem. Policy-adoption studies do not address the specific problem of polarization and gridlock, and the literature on gridlock does not examine conditions for breaking gridlock for renewable energy and energy efficiency (REEE) p…
Theprospectusof activism: Discerning and Delimiting Imagined Possibility
This article aims to articulate a new agenda in the scholarship of social movements. Specifically, it seeks to turn attention to the assumptions that undergird activism. Rather than studying movements themselves, we can study them as the embodiment of collective expectation in a particular public. We can learn more about the broader society in which movements are embedded by asking how activists and the public they seek to engage determine what i…
Water, Water Everywhere (or, Seeing Is Believing): The Visibility of Water Supply and the Public Will for Conservation
Why do some arid locations persist in having weak water conservation policies? And why do some wetter locales implement comparatively strong conservation requirements? Based upon 43 qualitative interviews with water stakeholders in four selected cities (Atlanta, Phoenix, San Antonio, Tampa), this article puts forward one contributing factor to explain this apparent contradiction: the variable “visibility” of stressed water resources. The material…
Saving the Sacred Sea
Lake Baikal is like no place on Earth. More than a mile deep, Baikal contains a fifth of the world’s freshwater. Thousands of endemic species reside in its watershed. It is an ecological treasure trove and a natural reservoir of global proportions. The region is also home to a strong environmentalist community that works tirelessly to protect Baikal from human harm. Environmentalists around Baikal began their campaign in the late 1950s, sparking …
State Suppression of Baikal Activism: The Power of Civil Society in an Age of Authoritarianism and Globalization
In 2012, the Russian Federation passed the “Foreign Agent” law, requiring nonprofit organizations that receive funding from abroad and engage in political activity to register with the government as a “foreign agent.” This chapter traces the enactment of this law in the Baikal community. Only one organization fell victim to the law: Baikal Environmental Wave. The Wave was one of Siberia’s oldest environmental organizations and was the most commit…
Generational and Geographic Effects on Collective Memory of the USSR
This study examines memory of the Soviet Union and political opinions in modern Russia through qualitative, semi-structured interviews across generations in two Russian cities. The study aims to explore the differences in memory and meaning of the Soviet Union across generation and geography, and to connect those differences to political dispositions in modern Russia. Respondents were asked about their impressions of the Soviet Union and modern-d…
The Everyday Lives of Sovereignty: Political Imagination beyond the State
Rumor has it: Strategies for ethnographic analysis in authoritarian regimes
Accurate information can be difficult to access in authoritarian regimes. As more and more countries fall under the sway of illiberal leaders, ethnographers may find themselves unable to easily corroborate knowledge that comes from native informants. This article proffers several strategies for researchers to utilize when analyzing unverifiable ethnographic data. Following from sociological and psychological studies of rumor, the article discusse…
Flexible Authoritarianism: Cultivating Ambition and Loyalty in Russia
Teaching Sociology with The Autobiography of Malcolm X
This article offers an innovative way to teach an introductory sociology course by taking seriously C. Wright Mills’s dictum that the sociological imagination can be found at the nexus of history and biography. Indeed, introductory sociological concepts can be taught using a biography as the central text. To illustrate the idea, I describe my experience teaching a course titled “The Sociological Imagination” in which students read The Autobiograp…
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