Beverly Yuen Thompson
Biographic Data
| ID | 304189 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beverly Yuen Thompson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beverly Yuen |
| FAMILY NAME | Thompson |
| SIGNATURE | THOMPSON B Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Siena College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7375-2789 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 96 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Broad City: Millennial Women Surviving the Neoliberal Gig Economy in Comedy Television
The Other End of the Needle: Continuity and Change among Tattoo Workers
Digital Nomads Living on the Margins: Remote-Working Laptop Entrepreneurs in the Gig Economy
In this increasingly neoliberal gig economy, exponentially expanding with technological advances, the ability to work online remotely has led some western millennials to travel the world to work and play, while making a subsistence living as digital platform workers
Consent and ethics within sex work and research: An academic and practitioner perspective
In this short piece, we explore some areas of consent within BDSM in relation to our roles as a practitioner and as an academic researcher. Beverly Yuen Thompson is a sociology professor who specializes in ethnographies of deviant subcultures with an emphasis on an intersectional approach. In this short piece, she uses her experience of conducting a long-term ethnography in a BDSM community. Miss Couple (2018) is the author of The Ultimate Guide …
Academ-Ink: University Faculty Fashion and Its Discontents
The new generation of professors is set against a stereotype that emerged from the era of The Organization Man or Man in a Grey Flannel Suit—the 1950s white man, a family-wage earning provider for a family of dependents. Generation X and Millennial professors with subcultural affiliations and alternative appearances, including visible tattoos, are now altering the image of the new professor. Using the academic literature around fashion studies, t…
Digital Nomads Employment in the Online Gig Economy
In 1997, Tsugio Makimoto and David Manners published their future-looking manifesto Digital Nomad that, decades later, would present as a manifesto for a lifestyle movement. At the time, businesses and the US government were interested in looking at tele-commuting, productivity, and work-family balance. Critiques of a neoliberal economy provide insight into understanding the context of freelance and online, piecemeal employ- ment. This article ex…
The Digital Nomad Lifestyle: (Remote) Work/Leisure Balance, Privilege, and Constructed Community
The Tattoo Project: Commemorative Tattoos, Visual Culture, and the Digital Archive
The Price of ‘Community’ From Bisexual/Biracial Women's Perspectives
When the words ‘identity’ or ‘community’ are evoked, a homogenizing process forms for the sake of community coherence. This article is based upon interviews with nine bisexual and mixed race participants about their conceptualization of identity-based communities. All participants expressed discontent with the ‘established’ gay and lesbian community for being monolithically White in racial composition and also biphobic. More than one half of the …
Mothers without Citizenship: Asian Immigrant Families and the Consequences of Welfare Reform (review)
Reviewed by: Mothers without Citizenship: Asian Immigrant Families and the Consequences of Welfare Reform Beverly Yuen Thompson (bio) Mothers without Citizenship: Asian Immigrant Families and the Consequences of Welfare Reform. By Lynn Fujiwara. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. Xxx + 239 pp. $22.50 paper. ISBN 0-8166-5076-7. It has been twelve years since “the end of welfare as we know it,” as then- President Bill Clinton named i…
The Global Justice Movement’s Use of “Jail Solidarity” as a Response to Police Repression and Arrest: An Ethnographic Study
This article ethnographically analyzes the use of direct action, or “jail solidarity”, behind bars, during mass protest episodes. The global justice movement has been the most recent inheritors of this historical tactic, and it has been utilized since the World Trade Organization (WTO) protests in Seattle. Unjust arrests are countered with noncooperation behind bars, to pressure for charges to be reduced or dropped. Ethnography is appropriate for…
Fence Sitters, Switch Hitters, and Bi-Bi Girls: An Exploration of "Hapa" and Bisexual Identities
Oscillant entre quelques fragments de son histoire personnelle, en tant que femme asiatique americaine, metisse d'origine chinoise et anglo-americaine, homo- et bisexuelle, et des references d'auteurs ayant analyse, ou relate, des experiences de vie similaires, l'A. montre comment son vecu multiculturel a influence l'emergence d'une conscience politique feministe, et facilite ses interrogations sur son identite sexuelle
The Digital Nomad Lifestyle: (Remote) Work/Leisure Balance, Privilege, and Constructed Community
The Price of ‘Community’ From Bisexual/Biracial Women's Perspectives
When the words ‘identity’ or ‘community’ are evoked, a homogenizing process forms for the sake of community coherence. This article is based upon interviews with nine bisexual and mixed race participants about their conceptualization of identity-based communities. All participants expressed discontent with the ‘established’ gay and lesbian community for being monolithically White in racial composition and also biphobic. More than one half of the …
Digital Nomads Employment in the Online Gig Economy
In 1997, Tsugio Makimoto and David Manners published their future-looking manifesto Digital Nomad that, decades later, would present as a manifesto for a lifestyle movement. At the time, businesses and the US government were interested in looking at tele-commuting, productivity, and work-family balance. Critiques of a neoliberal economy provide insight into understanding the context of freelance and online, piecemeal employ- ment. This article ex…
The Tattoo Project: Commemorative Tattoos, Visual Culture, and the Digital Archive
The Global Justice Movement’s Use of “Jail Solidarity” as a Response to Police Repression and Arrest: An Ethnographic Study
This article ethnographically analyzes the use of direct action, or “jail solidarity”, behind bars, during mass protest episodes. The global justice movement has been the most recent inheritors of this historical tactic, and it has been utilized since the World Trade Organization (WTO) protests in Seattle. Unjust arrests are countered with noncooperation behind bars, to pressure for charges to be reduced or dropped. Ethnography is appropriate for…
Academ-Ink: University Faculty Fashion and Its Discontents
The new generation of professors is set against a stereotype that emerged from the era of The Organization Man or Man in a Grey Flannel Suit—the 1950s white man, a family-wage earning provider for a family of dependents. Generation X and Millennial professors with subcultural affiliations and alternative appearances, including visible tattoos, are now altering the image of the new professor. Using the academic literature around fashion studies, t…
Fence Sitters, Switch Hitters, and Bi-Bi Girls: An Exploration of "Hapa" and Bisexual Identities
Oscillant entre quelques fragments de son histoire personnelle, en tant que femme asiatique americaine, metisse d'origine chinoise et anglo-americaine, homo- et bisexuelle, et des references d'auteurs ayant analyse, ou relate, des experiences de vie similaires, l'A. montre comment son vecu multiculturel a influence l'emergence d'une conscience politique feministe, et facilite ses interrogations sur son identite sexuelle
Fence Sitters, Switch Hitters, and Bi-Bi Girls: An Exploration of "Hapa" and Bisexual Identities
Oscillant entre quelques fragments de son histoire personnelle, en tant que femme asiatique americaine, metisse d'origine chinoise et anglo-americaine, homo- et bisexuelle, et des references d'auteurs ayant analyse, ou relate, des experiences de vie similaires, l'A. montre comment son vecu multiculturel a influence l'emergence d'une conscience politique feministe, et facilite ses interrogations sur son identite sexuelle
The Global Justice Movement’s Use of “Jail Solidarity” as a Response to Police Repression and Arrest: An Ethnographic Study
This article ethnographically analyzes the use of direct action, or “jail solidarity”, behind bars, during mass protest episodes. The global justice movement has been the most recent inheritors of this historical tactic, and it has been utilized since the World Trade Organization (WTO) protests in Seattle. Unjust arrests are countered with noncooperation behind bars, to pressure for charges to be reduced or dropped. Ethnography is appropriate for…
Mothers without Citizenship: Asian Immigrant Families and the Consequences of Welfare Reform (review)
Reviewed by: Mothers without Citizenship: Asian Immigrant Families and the Consequences of Welfare Reform Beverly Yuen Thompson (bio) Mothers without Citizenship: Asian Immigrant Families and the Consequences of Welfare Reform. By Lynn Fujiwara. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. Xxx + 239 pp. $22.50 paper. ISBN 0-8166-5076-7. It has been twelve years since “the end of welfare as we know it,” as then- President Bill Clinton named i…
The Price of ‘Community’ From Bisexual/Biracial Women's Perspectives
When the words ‘identity’ or ‘community’ are evoked, a homogenizing process forms for the sake of community coherence. This article is based upon interviews with nine bisexual and mixed race participants about their conceptualization of identity-based communities. All participants expressed discontent with the ‘established’ gay and lesbian community for being monolithically White in racial composition and also biphobic. More than one half of the …
Digital Nomads Employment in the Online Gig Economy
In 1997, Tsugio Makimoto and David Manners published their future-looking manifesto Digital Nomad that, decades later, would present as a manifesto for a lifestyle movement. At the time, businesses and the US government were interested in looking at tele-commuting, productivity, and work-family balance. Critiques of a neoliberal economy provide insight into understanding the context of freelance and online, piecemeal employ- ment. This article ex…
The Digital Nomad Lifestyle: (Remote) Work/Leisure Balance, Privilege, and Constructed Community
The Tattoo Project: Commemorative Tattoos, Visual Culture, and the Digital Archive
Academ-Ink: University Faculty Fashion and Its Discontents
The new generation of professors is set against a stereotype that emerged from the era of The Organization Man or Man in a Grey Flannel Suit—the 1950s white man, a family-wage earning provider for a family of dependents. Generation X and Millennial professors with subcultural affiliations and alternative appearances, including visible tattoos, are now altering the image of the new professor. Using the academic literature around fashion studies, t…
Digital Nomads Living on the Margins: Remote-Working Laptop Entrepreneurs in the Gig Economy
In this increasingly neoliberal gig economy, exponentially expanding with technological advances, the ability to work online remotely has led some western millennials to travel the world to work and play, while making a subsistence living as digital platform workers
Consent and ethics within sex work and research: An academic and practitioner perspective
In this short piece, we explore some areas of consent within BDSM in relation to our roles as a practitioner and as an academic researcher. Beverly Yuen Thompson is a sociology professor who specializes in ethnographies of deviant subcultures with an emphasis on an intersectional approach. In this short piece, she uses her experience of conducting a long-term ethnography in a BDSM community. Miss Couple (2018) is the author of The Ultimate Guide …
Broad City: Millennial Women Surviving the Neoliberal Gig Economy in Comedy Television
The Other End of the Needle: Continuity and Change among Tattoo Workers
Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (3 works)