Nancy Plankey-Videla
Biographic Data
| ID | 343640 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy Plankey-Videla |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy |
| FAMILY NAME | Plankey-Videla |
| SIGNATURE | PLANKEY-VIDELA N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4264-3413 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Becoming a Citizen in the Age of Trump
In the anti-immigrant national context of the first Trump administration, what motivated Latine immigrants in Texas to pursue naturalization? Based on 31 Spanish and English semi-structured interviews conducted during 2017–2019, we examine how lawful permanent residents’ (LPRs’) perceptions of contemporary immigration policy and their social rights affect their motivations to naturalize. Surprisingly, we find that although fear of deportation was…
Community-Engaged Scholarship and Its Implications for Public Sociology and the Discipline
This article provides an overview of research, practice, and theory in community-engaged scholarship as a means to expand our understanding of public sociology and its broader implications for sociology as a discipline. We begin with an overview of community-engaged scholarship and how it is related to and distinct from public sociology. Five main principles of community-engaged work are highlighted: (1) reciprocity and mutual benefit; (2) ethics…
Art + Labor + Sociology
Jess Tolbert, Maria Cristina Morales, and Nancy Plankey-Videla on value and aesthetic labor
Lots of Time They Don’t Pay”
This critical community-engaged mixed methods study quantifies worker mistreatment on day labor corners in Bryan, Texas, and examines how day laborers resist labor exploitation. Day laborers seek work in open air spot markets. The work is precarious, with temporary and unregulated employment relations, weak enforcement, and poor working conditions. In this weak penalty and labor enforcement regime, labor violations are not surprising. Contrary to…
The discourse of deservingness
On February 12–14th, 2017, there were rumors of an ICE raid in the small East Texas city of Hometown. Reports that ICE was present circulated on social media platforms and radio stations in the area. Consequently, the Latinx community had high anxiety and fear of deportation and looked to the Spanish speaking radio DJs for information and advice. In this paper, we argue that heighten threats of deportation can accentuate divisions among the Latin…
Immigration Policy in the Age of Punishment
Precarious Entrepreneurship
With the advent of globalization, neoliberalism, and immigration policy reforms that enlarged the non-White workforce in the United States, precarious employment—work that is contingent, risky, and socially stratified—has increased dramatically. The 2008 Great Recession exacerbated labor market uncertainty, deepening the demand for precarious labor. These same structural forces have conditioned a rise in precarious entrepreneurship in the informa…
Still Dancing Together
I appreciate the opportunity this symposium offers to revisit We Are in This Dance Together, and to rethink some of the book's insights from a world systems perspective. As a feminist ethnographer, my goal was to understand women workers' lives and how they participated in shaping their own futures as active agents. Being immersed in the shop floor, flooded with daily experiences, conversations, and observations, I focused on social relations of …
Weaving Transnational Solidarity
Informed Consent as Process
De-Coca-Colonization
It Cuts Both Ways
Most studies of lean production are based on surveys of managers. This article examines the labor process under lean production at a high-end garment factory in Central Mexico through ethnographic research, consisting of nine months of work at the factory, and in-depth interviews with 25 managers and 26 workers. I found that implementation of lean production is a complex organizational and social phenomenon. I argue that besides a focus on qualit…
The Military Regime and Restructuring of Land Tenure
Following the restoration of the democratic regime in Chile in March 1990, academic efforts to evaluate the deep economic and social transformations experienced during the recent military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet have intensified. The focus of attention has centered on both the study of the political and social nature of the prior authoritarian regime and the analysis of the consequences of the neoliberal economic policies. Transf…
Informed Consent as Process
The Military Regime and Restructuring of Land Tenure
Following the restoration of the democratic regime in Chile in March 1990, academic efforts to evaluate the deep economic and social transformations experienced during the recent military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet have intensified. The focus of attention has centered on both the study of the political and social nature of the prior authoritarian regime and the analysis of the consequences of the neoliberal economic policies. Transf…
The discourse of deservingness
On February 12–14th, 2017, there were rumors of an ICE raid in the small East Texas city of Hometown. Reports that ICE was present circulated on social media platforms and radio stations in the area. Consequently, the Latinx community had high anxiety and fear of deportation and looked to the Spanish speaking radio DJs for information and advice. In this paper, we argue that heighten threats of deportation can accentuate divisions among the Latin…
Precarious Entrepreneurship
With the advent of globalization, neoliberalism, and immigration policy reforms that enlarged the non-White workforce in the United States, precarious employment—work that is contingent, risky, and socially stratified—has increased dramatically. The 2008 Great Recession exacerbated labor market uncertainty, deepening the demand for precarious labor. These same structural forces have conditioned a rise in precarious entrepreneurship in the informa…
It Cuts Both Ways
Most studies of lean production are based on surveys of managers. This article examines the labor process under lean production at a high-end garment factory in Central Mexico through ethnographic research, consisting of nine months of work at the factory, and in-depth interviews with 25 managers and 26 workers. I found that implementation of lean production is a complex organizational and social phenomenon. I argue that besides a focus on qualit…
Community-Engaged Scholarship and Its Implications for Public Sociology and the Discipline
This article provides an overview of research, practice, and theory in community-engaged scholarship as a means to expand our understanding of public sociology and its broader implications for sociology as a discipline. We begin with an overview of community-engaged scholarship and how it is related to and distinct from public sociology. Five main principles of community-engaged work are highlighted: (1) reciprocity and mutual benefit; (2) ethics…
De-Coca-Colonization
The Military Regime and Restructuring of Land Tenure
Following the restoration of the democratic regime in Chile in March 1990, academic efforts to evaluate the deep economic and social transformations experienced during the recent military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet have intensified. The focus of attention has centered on both the study of the political and social nature of the prior authoritarian regime and the analysis of the consequences of the neoliberal economic policies. Transf…
De-Coca-Colonization
It Cuts Both Ways
Most studies of lean production are based on surveys of managers. This article examines the labor process under lean production at a high-end garment factory in Central Mexico through ethnographic research, consisting of nine months of work at the factory, and in-depth interviews with 25 managers and 26 workers. I found that implementation of lean production is a complex organizational and social phenomenon. I argue that besides a focus on qualit…
Informed Consent as Process
Weaving Transnational Solidarity
Still Dancing Together
I appreciate the opportunity this symposium offers to revisit We Are in This Dance Together, and to rethink some of the book's insights from a world systems perspective. As a feminist ethnographer, my goal was to understand women workers' lives and how they participated in shaping their own futures as active agents. Being immersed in the shop floor, flooded with daily experiences, conversations, and observations, I focused on social relations of …
Precarious Entrepreneurship
With the advent of globalization, neoliberalism, and immigration policy reforms that enlarged the non-White workforce in the United States, precarious employment—work that is contingent, risky, and socially stratified—has increased dramatically. The 2008 Great Recession exacerbated labor market uncertainty, deepening the demand for precarious labor. These same structural forces have conditioned a rise in precarious entrepreneurship in the informa…
Immigration Policy in the Age of Punishment
Lots of Time They Don’t Pay”
This critical community-engaged mixed methods study quantifies worker mistreatment on day labor corners in Bryan, Texas, and examines how day laborers resist labor exploitation. Day laborers seek work in open air spot markets. The work is precarious, with temporary and unregulated employment relations, weak enforcement, and poor working conditions. In this weak penalty and labor enforcement regime, labor violations are not surprising. Contrary to…
The discourse of deservingness
On February 12–14th, 2017, there were rumors of an ICE raid in the small East Texas city of Hometown. Reports that ICE was present circulated on social media platforms and radio stations in the area. Consequently, the Latinx community had high anxiety and fear of deportation and looked to the Spanish speaking radio DJs for information and advice. In this paper, we argue that heighten threats of deportation can accentuate divisions among the Latin…
Art + Labor + Sociology
Jess Tolbert, Maria Cristina Morales, and Nancy Plankey-Videla on value and aesthetic labor
Community-Engaged Scholarship and Its Implications for Public Sociology and the Discipline
This article provides an overview of research, practice, and theory in community-engaged scholarship as a means to expand our understanding of public sociology and its broader implications for sociology as a discipline. We begin with an overview of community-engaged scholarship and how it is related to and distinct from public sociology. Five main principles of community-engaged work are highlighted: (1) reciprocity and mutual benefit; (2) ethics…
Becoming a Citizen in the Age of Trump
In the anti-immigrant national context of the first Trump administration, what motivated Latine immigrants in Texas to pursue naturalization? Based on 31 Spanish and English semi-structured interviews conducted during 2017–2019, we examine how lawful permanent residents’ (LPRs’) perceptions of contemporary immigration policy and their social rights affect their motivations to naturalize. Surprisingly, we find that although fear of deportation was…
Law (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (6 works) · Business (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Immigration (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)