Gregory Gullette
Biographic Data
| ID | 649422 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gregory Gullette |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gregory |
| FAMILY NAME | Gullette |
| SIGNATURE | GULLETTE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Gwinnett College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7107-8073 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Community Engagement and Experiential Learning to Understand Food Insecurity in Georgia’s Urban Environments
Livelihoods, Social Protectionism, and Thailand’s Precarious Labor Markets
Despite assurances by the Thai government that it has prioritized extensive economic improvements that will enhance people’s wellbeing, significant limitations exist within the Thai economy. Notably, Thailand has struggled to achieve sustained upward national growth while providing adequate social safety nets for working classes, which have contributed to the normalization of precarious work within the labor market. Drawing on ethnographic resear…
Socioeconomic and livelihood impacts within Bangkok’s expanding metropolitan region
Recent national development plans in Thailand have incorporated concepts of sustainability, livelihood rights, and human dignity. Yet, development and urban expansion have unfolded in unexpected ways, complicating the socioeconomic and ecological integrity of peri-urban and rural spaces. This paper explores the ways in which urban expansion and state development within rural peripheries reshape political economies and, in so doing, the nature of …
Experiential Learning on the Inequities Confronted by Immigrant and Refugee Communities
Constrained urban aspirations: Development, structural precarity and inequalities within Thai migration
This work foregrounds changing state development policies in Thailand as a way to consider the complex drivers and motivations within internal migration. Using uncertain outcomes of state development and broader socio-cultural divisions as structure, ethnographic data detail the ways personal agency marks one's aspirational character and possible futures in the pursuit of well-being and economic security. Ultimately, I argue that ongoing state de…
Urban Expansion, Agrarian Shifts, and Decentralized Governance in Thailand's Isaan Region
The Thai government has increasingly sought to expand urban growth in provinces characterized by agricultural production. However, urbanization's structural changes alter natural resource availabilities, encumbering agrarian families, and constraining livelihood options. In an effort to map state development and urban growth objectives to local conditions, the Thai state has supported regional autonomy by decentralizing decision-making powers to …
Assessing Urban Expansion and Livelihoods in Thailand’s Transitional Spaces through Combined Ethnography and Landsat Data
Thailand's decentralization policies have sought to increase urbanization and development in provinces outside Bangkok. Provincial and district government offices increasingly formulate local development strategies that draw on concepts of sustainability, livelihood rights, and market opportunities. Despite such local shifts in policy, urban sprawl has created environmental degradation and natural resource competition among different stakeholders…
Rural-Urban Hierarchies, Status Boundaries, and Labour Mobilities in Thailand
Thai national development strategies have sought to expand infrastructure and reduce poverty in the country's northern and north-eastern regions by constructing industrial estates, facilitating foreign investments, increasing market integration, and encouraging capital flexibilities. Despite government efforts to decrease material divisions between rural and urban spaces, rural–urban migration strategies commonly exist within household economic p…
The Built Environment and Public Health, Russell P.Lopez. 2012. San Francisco: Jossey‐Bass.
The Role of Urbanity, Status, and Identity on Migrant Remittance Management and Rural Development Potentials in Thailand
The Thai government has utilized various development initiatives to expand infrastructure, improve local services, and reduce poverty in the country's northern, northeastern, and southern regions. However, relative to the central region, which is dominated by Bangkok and its extended metropolitan zone, these regions have lagged in economic growth and infrastructural improvements. As a result, rural-urban migration notably from the north and north…
State tourism, labour mobilities, and remittance potentials within Huatulco, Oaxaca
This paper examines how state tourism agencies may adjust to and capitalise on changing socio-economic conditions within tourism host communities. Ethnographic data from Huatulco, Oaxaca frame the discussion as they illustrate how state tourism development engendered complex international labour mobilities. Emigration from Huatulco centred on finding economic stability, whereby remittances sent from the USA enabled Huatulco families to purchase l…
Social impacts of tourism as perceived by state-planned tourism destination residents: The case of Huatulco, Mexico
Drawing from primarily quantitative data collected in 2010 among adult residents (n = 204) in the state-planned tourism destination of Huatulco, Oaxaca, Mexico, this paper examines the ways in which local residents perceive the social effects of regional tourism development. Currently, socio-demographic impacts of tourism are insufficiently addressed within developing economies and within tourism development initiatives crafted and implemented un…
Development Economics, Developing Migration: Targeted Economic Development Initiatives as Drivers in International Migration
This paper explores how market liberalization, privatization, and deregulation can result in low economic growth or unequally distributed economic expansion, which may lead to social inequality and new motives for emigration. Mexico's neoliberal policies and their economic and social performances are critically analyzed in comparison to variants of developmental states, where governments choose greater involvement with economic direction. Compara…
Migration and Tourism Development in Huatulco, Oaxaca
It has been argued that targeted development can help to reduce the internal pressures contributing to emigration from Mexico. Focusing development on economically depressed regions, it is suggested, may reduce some of the differences between Mexico and the United States, thus reducing the incentive to emigrate. For the past few decades the Mexican government has been exploring tourism development as a way of strengthening locally depressed econo…
Migration, Transnationalism, and Belonging: Movements in the Nation-State
Sovereign Bodies: Citizens, Migrants, and States in the Postcolonial World. Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat, eds. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. 366 pp.When Women Come First: Gender and Class in Transnational Migration. Sheba Mariam George. Berkley: University of California Press, 2005. 259 pp.In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration. Nancy Foner. New York: New York University Press, 2005. 327 pp
Conceptualizing Nature: The Politics behind Allocating and Utilizing Native Forest Resources in New Zealand
This paper explores the political ecological basis behind events in New Zealand’s sustainable harvesting regime of native forest species on public land. The case study centers on the mandate of the 1999 newly elected Labour-led government to stop all native forest harvesting on Crown-owned land along the West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island. Ethnographic research was conducted from May to July of 2001. This study examined how different member…
Migration and Tourism Development in Huatulco, Oaxaca
It has been argued that targeted development can help to reduce the internal pressures contributing to emigration from Mexico. Focusing development on economically depressed regions, it is suggested, may reduce some of the differences between Mexico and the United States, thus reducing the incentive to emigrate. For the past few decades the Mexican government has been exploring tourism development as a way of strengthening locally depressed econo…
Rural-Urban Hierarchies, Status Boundaries, and Labour Mobilities in Thailand
Thai national development strategies have sought to expand infrastructure and reduce poverty in the country's northern and north-eastern regions by constructing industrial estates, facilitating foreign investments, increasing market integration, and encouraging capital flexibilities. Despite government efforts to decrease material divisions between rural and urban spaces, rural–urban migration strategies commonly exist within household economic p…
Constrained urban aspirations: Development, structural precarity and inequalities within Thai migration
This work foregrounds changing state development policies in Thailand as a way to consider the complex drivers and motivations within internal migration. Using uncertain outcomes of state development and broader socio-cultural divisions as structure, ethnographic data detail the ways personal agency marks one's aspirational character and possible futures in the pursuit of well-being and economic security. Ultimately, I argue that ongoing state de…
Urban Expansion, Agrarian Shifts, and Decentralized Governance in Thailand's Isaan Region
The Thai government has increasingly sought to expand urban growth in provinces characterized by agricultural production. However, urbanization's structural changes alter natural resource availabilities, encumbering agrarian families, and constraining livelihood options. In an effort to map state development and urban growth objectives to local conditions, the Thai state has supported regional autonomy by decentralizing decision-making powers to …
State tourism, labour mobilities, and remittance potentials within Huatulco, Oaxaca
This paper examines how state tourism agencies may adjust to and capitalise on changing socio-economic conditions within tourism host communities. Ethnographic data from Huatulco, Oaxaca frame the discussion as they illustrate how state tourism development engendered complex international labour mobilities. Emigration from Huatulco centred on finding economic stability, whereby remittances sent from the USA enabled Huatulco families to purchase l…
Migration, Transnationalism, and Belonging: Movements in the Nation-State
Sovereign Bodies: Citizens, Migrants, and States in the Postcolonial World. Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat, eds. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. 366 pp.When Women Come First: Gender and Class in Transnational Migration. Sheba Mariam George. Berkley: University of California Press, 2005. 259 pp.In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration. Nancy Foner. New York: New York University Press, 2005. 327 pp
Conceptualizing Nature: The Politics behind Allocating and Utilizing Native Forest Resources in New Zealand
This paper explores the political ecological basis behind events in New Zealand’s sustainable harvesting regime of native forest species on public land. The case study centers on the mandate of the 1999 newly elected Labour-led government to stop all native forest harvesting on Crown-owned land along the West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island. Ethnographic research was conducted from May to July of 2001. This study examined how different member…
Conceptualizing Nature: The Politics behind Allocating and Utilizing Native Forest Resources in New Zealand
This paper explores the political ecological basis behind events in New Zealand’s sustainable harvesting regime of native forest species on public land. The case study centers on the mandate of the 1999 newly elected Labour-led government to stop all native forest harvesting on Crown-owned land along the West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island. Ethnographic research was conducted from May to July of 2001. This study examined how different member…
Migration, Transnationalism, and Belonging: Movements in the Nation-State
Sovereign Bodies: Citizens, Migrants, and States in the Postcolonial World. Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat, eds. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. 366 pp.When Women Come First: Gender and Class in Transnational Migration. Sheba Mariam George. Berkley: University of California Press, 2005. 259 pp.In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration. Nancy Foner. New York: New York University Press, 2005. 327 pp
Development Economics, Developing Migration: Targeted Economic Development Initiatives as Drivers in International Migration
This paper explores how market liberalization, privatization, and deregulation can result in low economic growth or unequally distributed economic expansion, which may lead to social inequality and new motives for emigration. Mexico's neoliberal policies and their economic and social performances are critically analyzed in comparison to variants of developmental states, where governments choose greater involvement with economic direction. Compara…
Migration and Tourism Development in Huatulco, Oaxaca
It has been argued that targeted development can help to reduce the internal pressures contributing to emigration from Mexico. Focusing development on economically depressed regions, it is suggested, may reduce some of the differences between Mexico and the United States, thus reducing the incentive to emigrate. For the past few decades the Mexican government has been exploring tourism development as a way of strengthening locally depressed econo…
State tourism, labour mobilities, and remittance potentials within Huatulco, Oaxaca
This paper examines how state tourism agencies may adjust to and capitalise on changing socio-economic conditions within tourism host communities. Ethnographic data from Huatulco, Oaxaca frame the discussion as they illustrate how state tourism development engendered complex international labour mobilities. Emigration from Huatulco centred on finding economic stability, whereby remittances sent from the USA enabled Huatulco families to purchase l…
Social impacts of tourism as perceived by state-planned tourism destination residents: The case of Huatulco, Mexico
Drawing from primarily quantitative data collected in 2010 among adult residents (n = 204) in the state-planned tourism destination of Huatulco, Oaxaca, Mexico, this paper examines the ways in which local residents perceive the social effects of regional tourism development. Currently, socio-demographic impacts of tourism are insufficiently addressed within developing economies and within tourism development initiatives crafted and implemented un…
The Built Environment and Public Health, Russell P.Lopez. 2012. San Francisco: Jossey‐Bass.
The Role of Urbanity, Status, and Identity on Migrant Remittance Management and Rural Development Potentials in Thailand
The Thai government has utilized various development initiatives to expand infrastructure, improve local services, and reduce poverty in the country's northern, northeastern, and southern regions. However, relative to the central region, which is dominated by Bangkok and its extended metropolitan zone, these regions have lagged in economic growth and infrastructural improvements. As a result, rural-urban migration notably from the north and north…
Rural-Urban Hierarchies, Status Boundaries, and Labour Mobilities in Thailand
Thai national development strategies have sought to expand infrastructure and reduce poverty in the country's northern and north-eastern regions by constructing industrial estates, facilitating foreign investments, increasing market integration, and encouraging capital flexibilities. Despite government efforts to decrease material divisions between rural and urban spaces, rural–urban migration strategies commonly exist within household economic p…
Assessing Urban Expansion and Livelihoods in Thailand’s Transitional Spaces through Combined Ethnography and Landsat Data
Thailand's decentralization policies have sought to increase urbanization and development in provinces outside Bangkok. Provincial and district government offices increasingly formulate local development strategies that draw on concepts of sustainability, livelihood rights, and market opportunities. Despite such local shifts in policy, urban sprawl has created environmental degradation and natural resource competition among different stakeholders…
Urban Expansion, Agrarian Shifts, and Decentralized Governance in Thailand's Isaan Region
The Thai government has increasingly sought to expand urban growth in provinces characterized by agricultural production. However, urbanization's structural changes alter natural resource availabilities, encumbering agrarian families, and constraining livelihood options. In an effort to map state development and urban growth objectives to local conditions, the Thai state has supported regional autonomy by decentralizing decision-making powers to …
Constrained urban aspirations: Development, structural precarity and inequalities within Thai migration
This work foregrounds changing state development policies in Thailand as a way to consider the complex drivers and motivations within internal migration. Using uncertain outcomes of state development and broader socio-cultural divisions as structure, ethnographic data detail the ways personal agency marks one's aspirational character and possible futures in the pursuit of well-being and economic security. Ultimately, I argue that ongoing state de…
Experiential Learning on the Inequities Confronted by Immigrant and Refugee Communities
Socioeconomic and livelihood impacts within Bangkok’s expanding metropolitan region
Recent national development plans in Thailand have incorporated concepts of sustainability, livelihood rights, and human dignity. Yet, development and urban expansion have unfolded in unexpected ways, complicating the socioeconomic and ecological integrity of peri-urban and rural spaces. This paper explores the ways in which urban expansion and state development within rural peripheries reshape political economies and, in so doing, the nature of …
Community Engagement and Experiential Learning to Understand Food Insecurity in Georgia’s Urban Environments
Livelihoods, Social Protectionism, and Thailand’s Precarious Labor Markets
Despite assurances by the Thai government that it has prioritized extensive economic improvements that will enhance people’s wellbeing, significant limitations exist within the Thai economy. Notably, Thailand has struggled to achieve sustained upward national growth while providing adequate social safety nets for working classes, which have contributed to the normalization of precarious work within the labor market. Drawing on ethnographic resear…
Economics (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (7 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (7 works) · Development economics (6 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (5 works) · Urbanization (5 works)