Sarah Lyons
Biographic Data
| ID | 3600792 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Lyons |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Lyons |
| SIGNATURE | LYONS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington University in St. Louis |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7128-2699 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 117 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Beyond the commodity
Increasingly, women are the producers of many agricultural commodities around the world and feminist scholars astutely argue that women subsidize global agricultural production because the exchange value attributed to their products in commodity chains does not fairly compensate them. Although this is the case with women's smallholder coffee in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, in this paper we seek to move beyond an analysis of value and exploitation…
Assembling Fair Trade
This article situates fair trade within the broader landscape of diverse economies theory. It explores how assemblages of objects and practices, including scholarship and teaching, boThenact economy and contain the performative potential to constitute economy as other than itself. I demonstrate how this occurs through three overlapping political realms: ethico-political practices; the politics of performativity; and ontological politics through w…
Constructing the female coffee farmer
The quest for gender economic equality is becoming a component of corporate and transnational institutional antipoverty initiatives in the Global South. Framed as "smart economics," this approach explicitly ties women's empowerment to economic growth. On one hand, this framework employs a discursive construction that depicts women as attentive, family-oriented entrepreneurs and caregivers who are more likely than their male counterparts to invest…
Hands Off Pants On”
What Happened, or, Impasses and Future Horizons for an Open Anthropology of Work
The Work of Anthropology Reconsidered
In recent years, discussion about the training and job placement of PhD students in the humanities and social sciences has increasingly been informed by broader conversations about the crisis in higher education and the persistent decline in the availability of tenure-track academic jobs. This article analyzes 28 semi-structured interview transcripts from the Society for Applied Anthropology's Oral History Project to explore how one group of anth…
Imagined Globalization ‐ by Garía Canclini, Néstor
Garía Canclini, Néstor ([ 1999] 2014) Trans. G. Yúdice. Imagined Globalization, Duke University Press (Durham, NC), xxxv + 288 pp. £59.00 hbk, £15.99 pbk. One may ask why we are only now reading this book fifteen years after its original publication date. The answer to this question illustrates one of Garía Canclini's central points: globalisation results from multiple, often contradictory movements. Consequently, it's highly uneven and not every…
Racial Composition Over the Lifecourse
We found associations between mostly Black residential and workplace settings and hypertension diagnoses among African American men. Findings suggest exposure to segregated environments during childhood and later adulthood may impact hypertension risk among African American men over the life course
Configuring and Commoditizing the Archaeological Landscape
This paper explores how the burgeoning tourism economy in the western Tuxtla Mountains is shaping the perception and presentation of archaeological heritage. We compare the divergent motives and representations of three groups: professional archaeologists, municipalities, and private entrepreneurs. A struggling local economy has contributed to inhabitants of the region increasingly perceiving the past as a potential economic stimulus. Narratives …
Fair Trade Towns USA
Fair trade is both a movement and a market, and the tension between these two domains reflects an ambiguity at the center of fair trade in the United States, resulting from long-standing debates within the contemporary movement. In practice, this ideological division produces a struggle between companies that offer a small number of fair trade products aside a vast number of conventional items, and those that sell only fair trade certified produc…
Using Small-Area Analysis to Estimate County-Level Racial Disparities in Obesity Demonstrating the Necessity of Targeted Interventions
Data on the national and state levels is often used to inform policy decisions and strategies designed to reduce racial disparities in obesity. Obesity-related health outcomes are realized on the individual level, and policies based on state and national-level data may be inappropriate due to the variations in health outcomes within and between states. To examine county-level variation of obesity within states, we use a small-area analysis techni…
The psychological structure of aggression across cultures
To date, the vast majority of the research on aggression has been conducted on Western samples. This research expands the culture‐bound understanding of aggression by examining universal and culture‐specific dimensions that underlie the psychological structure of aggression. Drawing on cultural logics of honor, dignity, and face, we examine the construal of aggression across Pakistan, Israel, Japan, and the United States. Multidimensional scaling…
Coffee Tourism in Chiapas
In contrast to specialty coffee marketing, which tends to overlook the history and political economic position of real coffee producers, coffee tourism provides producers with the opportunity to shape their own self-image in the marketplace. This article employs two coffee tourism projects in theMexican state ofChiapas as case studies, one that is managed by a cooperative of small coffee farmer organizations and another that is situated on a plan…
Descriptive Norms as Carriers of Culture in Negotiation1
Research on culture and negotiation is critical for expanding theories of negotiation beyond Western cultures and for helping people to manage their interdependence in a world of increasing global threats and opportunities. Despite progress of understanding cultural influences on negotiation, research is limited in that it portrays a static and decontextualized view of culture and ignores cultural dynamics. The almost exclusive focus on main effe…
Toward a Psychological Science of Globalization
A psychological perspective has been largely absent in the multidisciplinary discourse surrounding globalization. In this commentary, we highlight the unique contributions that the articles in this special issue have made in advancing a new psychological science of globalization. We discuss the critical role that psychological theory plays in understanding reactions to globalization, and in turn, how globalization research provides a new context …
Cultural Heritage and Economic Encounters in the Age of Global Tourism
Keywords: tourism, economics, heritage, globalization, Society for Economic Anthropology annual meeting
Evaluating fair trade consumption
This paper combines a critical review of the scholarly literature on fair trade with an analysis of data gathered during 19 months of ethnographic research conducted between 2001 and 2003 among the members of a Guatemalan fair trade coffee co-operative and fair trade coffee roasters and advocates in the US. It explores three common claims made about fair trade consumption that: first, fair trade consumption emerges from the political choices and …
Evaluating fair trade consumption
This paper combines a critical review of the scholarly literature on fair trade with an analysis of data gathered during 19 months of ethnographic research conducted between 2001 and 2003 among the members of a Guatemalan fair trade coffee co-operative and fair trade coffee roasters and advocates in the US. It explores three common claims made about fair trade consumption that: first, fair trade consumption emerges from the political choices and …
The psychological structure of aggression across cultures
To date, the vast majority of the research on aggression has been conducted on Western samples. This research expands the culture‐bound understanding of aggression by examining universal and culture‐specific dimensions that underlie the psychological structure of aggression. Drawing on cultural logics of honor, dignity, and face, we examine the construal of aggression across Pakistan, Israel, Japan, and the United States. Multidimensional scaling…
Constructing the female coffee farmer
The quest for gender economic equality is becoming a component of corporate and transnational institutional antipoverty initiatives in the Global South. Framed as "smart economics," this approach explicitly ties women's empowerment to economic growth. On one hand, this framework employs a discursive construction that depicts women as attentive, family-oriented entrepreneurs and caregivers who are more likely than their male counterparts to invest…
Toward a Psychological Science of Globalization
A psychological perspective has been largely absent in the multidisciplinary discourse surrounding globalization. In this commentary, we highlight the unique contributions that the articles in this special issue have made in advancing a new psychological science of globalization. We discuss the critical role that psychological theory plays in understanding reactions to globalization, and in turn, how globalization research provides a new context …
The Work of Anthropology Reconsidered
In recent years, discussion about the training and job placement of PhD students in the humanities and social sciences has increasingly been informed by broader conversations about the crisis in higher education and the persistent decline in the availability of tenure-track academic jobs. This article analyzes 28 semi-structured interview transcripts from the Society for Applied Anthropology's Oral History Project to explore how one group of anth…
Fair Trade Towns USA
Fair trade is both a movement and a market, and the tension between these two domains reflects an ambiguity at the center of fair trade in the United States, resulting from long-standing debates within the contemporary movement. In practice, this ideological division produces a struggle between companies that offer a small number of fair trade products aside a vast number of conventional items, and those that sell only fair trade certified produc…
Descriptive Norms as Carriers of Culture in Negotiation1
Research on culture and negotiation is critical for expanding theories of negotiation beyond Western cultures and for helping people to manage their interdependence in a world of increasing global threats and opportunities. Despite progress of understanding cultural influences on negotiation, research is limited in that it portrays a static and decontextualized view of culture and ignores cultural dynamics. The almost exclusive focus on main effe…
Assembling Fair Trade
This article situates fair trade within the broader landscape of diverse economies theory. It explores how assemblages of objects and practices, including scholarship and teaching, boThenact economy and contain the performative potential to constitute economy as other than itself. I demonstrate how this occurs through three overlapping political realms: ethico-political practices; the politics of performativity; and ontological politics through w…
Hands Off Pants On”
Evaluating fair trade consumption
This paper combines a critical review of the scholarly literature on fair trade with an analysis of data gathered during 19 months of ethnographic research conducted between 2001 and 2003 among the members of a Guatemalan fair trade coffee co-operative and fair trade coffee roasters and advocates in the US. It explores three common claims made about fair trade consumption that: first, fair trade consumption emerges from the political choices and …
Cultural Heritage and Economic Encounters in the Age of Global Tourism
Keywords: tourism, economics, heritage, globalization, Society for Economic Anthropology annual meeting
Descriptive Norms as Carriers of Culture in Negotiation1
Research on culture and negotiation is critical for expanding theories of negotiation beyond Western cultures and for helping people to manage their interdependence in a world of increasing global threats and opportunities. Despite progress of understanding cultural influences on negotiation, research is limited in that it portrays a static and decontextualized view of culture and ignores cultural dynamics. The almost exclusive focus on main effe…
Toward a Psychological Science of Globalization
A psychological perspective has been largely absent in the multidisciplinary discourse surrounding globalization. In this commentary, we highlight the unique contributions that the articles in this special issue have made in advancing a new psychological science of globalization. We discuss the critical role that psychological theory plays in understanding reactions to globalization, and in turn, how globalization research provides a new context …
Using Small-Area Analysis to Estimate County-Level Racial Disparities in Obesity Demonstrating the Necessity of Targeted Interventions
Data on the national and state levels is often used to inform policy decisions and strategies designed to reduce racial disparities in obesity. Obesity-related health outcomes are realized on the individual level, and policies based on state and national-level data may be inappropriate due to the variations in health outcomes within and between states. To examine county-level variation of obesity within states, we use a small-area analysis techni…
The psychological structure of aggression across cultures
To date, the vast majority of the research on aggression has been conducted on Western samples. This research expands the culture‐bound understanding of aggression by examining universal and culture‐specific dimensions that underlie the psychological structure of aggression. Drawing on cultural logics of honor, dignity, and face, we examine the construal of aggression across Pakistan, Israel, Japan, and the United States. Multidimensional scaling…
Coffee Tourism in Chiapas
In contrast to specialty coffee marketing, which tends to overlook the history and political economic position of real coffee producers, coffee tourism provides producers with the opportunity to shape their own self-image in the marketplace. This article employs two coffee tourism projects in theMexican state ofChiapas as case studies, one that is managed by a cooperative of small coffee farmer organizations and another that is situated on a plan…
Fair Trade Towns USA
Fair trade is both a movement and a market, and the tension between these two domains reflects an ambiguity at the center of fair trade in the United States, resulting from long-standing debates within the contemporary movement. In practice, this ideological division produces a struggle between companies that offer a small number of fair trade products aside a vast number of conventional items, and those that sell only fair trade certified produc…
Racial Composition Over the Lifecourse
We found associations between mostly Black residential and workplace settings and hypertension diagnoses among African American men. Findings suggest exposure to segregated environments during childhood and later adulthood may impact hypertension risk among African American men over the life course
Configuring and Commoditizing the Archaeological Landscape
This paper explores how the burgeoning tourism economy in the western Tuxtla Mountains is shaping the perception and presentation of archaeological heritage. We compare the divergent motives and representations of three groups: professional archaeologists, municipalities, and private entrepreneurs. A struggling local economy has contributed to inhabitants of the region increasingly perceiving the past as a potential economic stimulus. Narratives …
Imagined Globalization ‐ by Garía Canclini, Néstor
Garía Canclini, Néstor ([ 1999] 2014) Trans. G. Yúdice. Imagined Globalization, Duke University Press (Durham, NC), xxxv + 288 pp. £59.00 hbk, £15.99 pbk. One may ask why we are only now reading this book fifteen years after its original publication date. The answer to this question illustrates one of Garía Canclini's central points: globalisation results from multiple, often contradictory movements. Consequently, it's highly uneven and not every…
Hands Off Pants On”
What Happened, or, Impasses and Future Horizons for an Open Anthropology of Work
The Work of Anthropology Reconsidered
In recent years, discussion about the training and job placement of PhD students in the humanities and social sciences has increasingly been informed by broader conversations about the crisis in higher education and the persistent decline in the availability of tenure-track academic jobs. This article analyzes 28 semi-structured interview transcripts from the Society for Applied Anthropology's Oral History Project to explore how one group of anth…
Assembling Fair Trade
This article situates fair trade within the broader landscape of diverse economies theory. It explores how assemblages of objects and practices, including scholarship and teaching, boThenact economy and contain the performative potential to constitute economy as other than itself. I demonstrate how this occurs through three overlapping political realms: ethico-political practices; the politics of performativity; and ontological politics through w…
Constructing the female coffee farmer
The quest for gender economic equality is becoming a component of corporate and transnational institutional antipoverty initiatives in the Global South. Framed as "smart economics," this approach explicitly ties women's empowerment to economic growth. On one hand, this framework employs a discursive construction that depicts women as attentive, family-oriented entrepreneurs and caregivers who are more likely than their male counterparts to invest…
Beyond the commodity
Increasingly, women are the producers of many agricultural commodities around the world and feminist scholars astutely argue that women subsidize global agricultural production because the exchange value attributed to their products in commodity chains does not fairly compensate them. Although this is the case with women's smallholder coffee in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, in this paper we seek to move beyond an analysis of value and exploitation…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Economics (6 works) · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (3 works) · Economy (3 works)