Timothy M Gill
Biographic Data
| ID | 3601677 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy M Gill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy M |
| FAMILY NAME | Gill |
| SIGNATURE | GILL T M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina Wilmington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Civilizing Mission Persists
U.S. government leaders have long considered Latin America their proverbial backyard and have recurrently intervened in the region. In earlier periods of U.S. imperialism, U.S. government leaders justified such intervention with reference to allegedly scientific racial hierarchies, which placed White, Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs) at the top of this artificial hierarchy. In more recent episodes of U.S. imperialism leading into the twenty-first …
Beyond the IFIs, beyond Usaid in Chavista Venezuela
Many scholars assert that the U.S. state promotes free market economic policies abroad through the leverage it wields within international financial institutions (IFIs), such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Other scholars have focused on U.S. bilateral aid programs, such as those implemented by USAID, and their emphasis on free market economic policies. In many middle-income countries, though, IFIs and U.S. development agen…
Late Pre-Contact Construction and Use of an ‘Archaic’ Shrine at the Pālehua Complex (Honouliuli District, O‘ahu Island, Hawai‘i)
The Pālehua enclosure in upland Honouliuli (O‘ahu Island, Hawai‘i) is a celestially-significant ritual structure believed to be associated with the annual Makahiki harvest period. Near the enclosure is an alignment of six basalt uprights typical of simple Central East Polynesian marae (temples), and early ‘shrine’ sites found in other geographically isolated regions of the Hawaiian archipelago. Here, we report on the first excavation of this shri…
Politics, human rights, and social policy under contemporary populist regimes
This debate comment addresses populism within the US under Trump, and Venezuela under former President Hugo Chavez. It draws out some of the parallels and disconnects between them, and provides a discussion of politics, human rights, and social policy under them
Shifting Imperial Strategies in Contemporary Latin America
Some scholars have shown how the U.S. has deployed several traditional, imperial strategies to maintain global power, including military interventions, support for proxy governments, economic coercion, and the exercise of hegemony. In many countries, though, these strategies cannot effectively work. Some countries have elected leaders that defy U.S. influence, and, in middle‐income countries, the U.S. cannot use economic coercion. The U.S. also c…
From Promoting Political Polyarchy to Defeating Participatory Democracy
During the 1980s, the United States initiated an explicit policy of democracy promotion throughout the world. William Robinson (1996) more accurately described this initiative as “promoting polyarchy,” whereby the United States supported moderate elite actors that promoted neoliberal economic policies to displace both right-wing and communist despots, such as General Augusto Pinochet in Chile and Soviet rulers in Eastern Europe. While much of Lat…
The Persistence of the Power Elite
In his seminal text, The Power Elite, C. Wright Mills initially drew critical attention to U.S. state power, asserting that economic, political, and military elites flow through a revolving door, cycling in and out of positions of power. Following its publication, several social scientists began to examine the nature of the U.S. state, including individuals like G. William Domhoff and Michael Useem. One particular work by Peter Freitag examined t…
The Possibilities and Pitfalls of Left-Wing Populism in Socialist Venezuela
Gill shows how Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s populist style of governance both inspired opposition to U.S. imperialism and drew the ire of many powerful domestic and foreign groups, contributing to the country's current economic malaise
Precarious Paths to Freedom
Sociological theory and US foreign policy in the 21st century
In recent decades, several sociologists have moved beyond grand theories of international relations, and empirically examined the motivations of US foreign policy leading into the 21st century. This article discusses the work of three political sociologists who have examined US foreign policy from three prominent perspectives: Michael Mann, William Robinson, and Julian Go. Working from a neo-Weberian perspective, Mann highlights the rise of neoco…
Banking on Health
Within the social sciences, much of the common sense surrounding the behavior of international financial institutions (IFIs), such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB), follows a rather conventional line of thinking. It runs something like this: many governments across the world required international funding amid debt crises in the mid-to-late twentieth century. As a result, they requested help from the IMF and WB. In…
Unpacking the world cultural toolkit in socialist Venezuela
This article examines how the Venezuelan government has discursively justified passing legislation that forbids NGOs that promote political rights from receiving foreign funding. Existing theories of globalisation theory fail to fully explain this phenomenon, including world polity/society and world-systems theories. Instead, I argue that although existing cultural scripts promote the spread of democracy and human rights through NGOs, the Venezue…
Whither Venezuelan Bolivarianism
In the early-to-late 2000s, the government of the late Hugo Chavez formed the heart of a regional “pink tide” that swept across much of Latin America. Although Chavez ran on a platform urging the c
US-Venezuela Relations since the 1990s
The Venezuelan Government and the Global Field
In recent years, several governments have targeted nongovernmental organizations ( NGO s) by enacting legislation that prohibits foreign funding for them. This article uses diplomatic cables, newspaper articles, and interviews with representatives from NGO s and donors to explain the Venezuelan government's passage of legislation prohibiting foreign funding for political NGO s in 2010. Existent political, sociological, and globalization‐oriented …
Ideology, ceremony and calendar in pre-contact Hawai'i
The Hawaiian people before Western contact gathered at special places during the Makahiki period, a time that was sacred to the god Lono, and during which sports, games and other ceremonies took place. Archaeological excavation and archaeoastronomical investigation together suggest that an approximately 40 m2 rock enclosure in the uplands of Honouliuli on the island of O†̃ahu was such a special gathering place. Radiocarbon dating indicates that t…
Why Mills, Not Gouldner?” Selective History and Differential Commemoration in Sociology
The Venezuelan Government and the Global Field
In recent years, several governments have targeted nongovernmental organizations ( NGO s) by enacting legislation that prohibits foreign funding for them. This article uses diplomatic cables, newspaper articles, and interviews with representatives from NGO s and donors to explain the Venezuelan government's passage of legislation prohibiting foreign funding for political NGO s in 2010. Existent political, sociological, and globalization‐oriented …
Ideology, ceremony and calendar in pre-contact Hawai'i
The Hawaiian people before Western contact gathered at special places during the Makahiki period, a time that was sacred to the god Lono, and during which sports, games and other ceremonies took place. Archaeological excavation and archaeoastronomical investigation together suggest that an approximately 40 m2 rock enclosure in the uplands of Honouliuli on the island of O†̃ahu was such a special gathering place. Radiocarbon dating indicates that t…
Why Mills, Not Gouldner?” Selective History and Differential Commemoration in Sociology
The Persistence of the Power Elite
In his seminal text, The Power Elite, C. Wright Mills initially drew critical attention to U.S. state power, asserting that economic, political, and military elites flow through a revolving door, cycling in and out of positions of power. Following its publication, several social scientists began to examine the nature of the U.S. state, including individuals like G. William Domhoff and Michael Useem. One particular work by Peter Freitag examined t…
Shifting Imperial Strategies in Contemporary Latin America
Some scholars have shown how the U.S. has deployed several traditional, imperial strategies to maintain global power, including military interventions, support for proxy governments, economic coercion, and the exercise of hegemony. In many countries, though, these strategies cannot effectively work. Some countries have elected leaders that defy U.S. influence, and, in middle‐income countries, the U.S. cannot use economic coercion. The U.S. also c…
The Possibilities and Pitfalls of Left-Wing Populism in Socialist Venezuela
Gill shows how Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s populist style of governance both inspired opposition to U.S. imperialism and drew the ire of many powerful domestic and foreign groups, contributing to the country's current economic malaise
Sociological theory and US foreign policy in the 21st century
In recent decades, several sociologists have moved beyond grand theories of international relations, and empirically examined the motivations of US foreign policy leading into the 21st century. This article discusses the work of three political sociologists who have examined US foreign policy from three prominent perspectives: Michael Mann, William Robinson, and Julian Go. Working from a neo-Weberian perspective, Mann highlights the rise of neoco…
Unpacking the world cultural toolkit in socialist Venezuela
This article examines how the Venezuelan government has discursively justified passing legislation that forbids NGOs that promote political rights from receiving foreign funding. Existing theories of globalisation theory fail to fully explain this phenomenon, including world polity/society and world-systems theories. Instead, I argue that although existing cultural scripts promote the spread of democracy and human rights through NGOs, the Venezue…
Why Mills, Not Gouldner?” Selective History and Differential Commemoration in Sociology
The Venezuelan Government and the Global Field
In recent years, several governments have targeted nongovernmental organizations ( NGO s) by enacting legislation that prohibits foreign funding for them. This article uses diplomatic cables, newspaper articles, and interviews with representatives from NGO s and donors to explain the Venezuelan government's passage of legislation prohibiting foreign funding for political NGO s in 2010. Existent political, sociological, and globalization‐oriented …
Ideology, ceremony and calendar in pre-contact Hawai'i
The Hawaiian people before Western contact gathered at special places during the Makahiki period, a time that was sacred to the god Lono, and during which sports, games and other ceremonies took place. Archaeological excavation and archaeoastronomical investigation together suggest that an approximately 40 m2 rock enclosure in the uplands of Honouliuli on the island of O†̃ahu was such a special gathering place. Radiocarbon dating indicates that t…
Whither Venezuelan Bolivarianism
In the early-to-late 2000s, the government of the late Hugo Chavez formed the heart of a regional “pink tide” that swept across much of Latin America. Although Chavez ran on a platform urging the c
US-Venezuela Relations since the 1990s
Unpacking the world cultural toolkit in socialist Venezuela
This article examines how the Venezuelan government has discursively justified passing legislation that forbids NGOs that promote political rights from receiving foreign funding. Existing theories of globalisation theory fail to fully explain this phenomenon, including world polity/society and world-systems theories. Instead, I argue that although existing cultural scripts promote the spread of democracy and human rights through NGOs, the Venezue…
From Promoting Political Polyarchy to Defeating Participatory Democracy
During the 1980s, the United States initiated an explicit policy of democracy promotion throughout the world. William Robinson (1996) more accurately described this initiative as “promoting polyarchy,” whereby the United States supported moderate elite actors that promoted neoliberal economic policies to displace both right-wing and communist despots, such as General Augusto Pinochet in Chile and Soviet rulers in Eastern Europe. While much of Lat…
The Persistence of the Power Elite
In his seminal text, The Power Elite, C. Wright Mills initially drew critical attention to U.S. state power, asserting that economic, political, and military elites flow through a revolving door, cycling in and out of positions of power. Following its publication, several social scientists began to examine the nature of the U.S. state, including individuals like G. William Domhoff and Michael Useem. One particular work by Peter Freitag examined t…
The Possibilities and Pitfalls of Left-Wing Populism in Socialist Venezuela
Gill shows how Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s populist style of governance both inspired opposition to U.S. imperialism and drew the ire of many powerful domestic and foreign groups, contributing to the country's current economic malaise
Precarious Paths to Freedom
Sociological theory and US foreign policy in the 21st century
In recent decades, several sociologists have moved beyond grand theories of international relations, and empirically examined the motivations of US foreign policy leading into the 21st century. This article discusses the work of three political sociologists who have examined US foreign policy from three prominent perspectives: Michael Mann, William Robinson, and Julian Go. Working from a neo-Weberian perspective, Mann highlights the rise of neoco…
Banking on Health
Within the social sciences, much of the common sense surrounding the behavior of international financial institutions (IFIs), such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB), follows a rather conventional line of thinking. It runs something like this: many governments across the world required international funding amid debt crises in the mid-to-late twentieth century. As a result, they requested help from the IMF and WB. In…
Late Pre-Contact Construction and Use of an ‘Archaic’ Shrine at the Pālehua Complex (Honouliuli District, O‘ahu Island, Hawai‘i)
The Pālehua enclosure in upland Honouliuli (O‘ahu Island, Hawai‘i) is a celestially-significant ritual structure believed to be associated with the annual Makahiki harvest period. Near the enclosure is an alignment of six basalt uprights typical of simple Central East Polynesian marae (temples), and early ‘shrine’ sites found in other geographically isolated regions of the Hawaiian archipelago. Here, we report on the first excavation of this shri…
Politics, human rights, and social policy under contemporary populist regimes
This debate comment addresses populism within the US under Trump, and Venezuela under former President Hugo Chavez. It draws out some of the parallels and disconnects between them, and provides a discussion of politics, human rights, and social policy under them
Shifting Imperial Strategies in Contemporary Latin America
Some scholars have shown how the U.S. has deployed several traditional, imperial strategies to maintain global power, including military interventions, support for proxy governments, economic coercion, and the exercise of hegemony. In many countries, though, these strategies cannot effectively work. Some countries have elected leaders that defy U.S. influence, and, in middle‐income countries, the U.S. cannot use economic coercion. The U.S. also c…
Beyond the IFIs, beyond Usaid in Chavista Venezuela
Many scholars assert that the U.S. state promotes free market economic policies abroad through the leverage it wields within international financial institutions (IFIs), such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Other scholars have focused on U.S. bilateral aid programs, such as those implemented by USAID, and their emphasis on free market economic policies. In many middle-income countries, though, IFIs and U.S. development agen…
The Civilizing Mission Persists
U.S. government leaders have long considered Latin America their proverbial backyard and have recurrently intervened in the region. In earlier periods of U.S. imperialism, U.S. government leaders justified such intervention with reference to allegedly scientific racial hierarchies, which placed White, Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs) at the top of this artificial hierarchy. In more recent episodes of U.S. imperialism leading into the twenty-first …
Political science (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Politics and Society in Latin America (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Economics (5 works) · Latin Americans (5 works) · Democracy (4 works)