Sandra Morgen
Biographic Data
| ID | 76445 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sandra Morgen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Morgen |
| SIGNATURE | MORGEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 296 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
DeKeynesianizing Citizenship: Ballot Initiatives, the Tea Party, and the Cultural Politics of Taxes in Oregon
Incipient "commoning" in defense of the public
This article examines the development of competing forms of fiscal citizenship in Oregon tax-related ballot initiative campaigns between 1970 and 2010. Antitax advocates constructed a "taxpayer identity politics" that positioned a privatized "taxpayer" against representatives of the state, recipients of public services, and public sector unions. In response, a progressive coalition produced an alternative citizen-the "Oregonian," a socially respo…
Anthropology as White Public Space
How far has anthropology come in becoming racially inclusive? In this article, we analyze an online survey of anthropology graduate students and faculty of color undertaken by the AAA Commission on Race and Racism in Anthropology. Despite some progress, institutional and attitudinal barriers remain. We use the concept of "white public space" to analyze these barriers: departmental labor is divided in ways that assign to faculty and graduate stude…
Report from the President
SANA member research provides critical insights into key issues facing contemporary North America. The section depends on, and thrives because of the research of members and the contributions of members who take on leadership roles. We thank them profusely. The article also focuses on the thoughts of past and current presidents about the challenges of engaged public anthropology. It is important to consider not only “how” to do engaged anthropolo…
The Neoliberal American Dream as Daydream: Counter-hegemonic Perspectives on Welfare Restructuring in the United States
Despite the efforts of its supporters to cast welfare `reform' in the United States as a successful achievement of neoliberal public policy, we argue that among low-income people who have received public assistance, counter-hegemonic interpretations and `possibilities' coexist with, texture and sometimes, challenge hegemonic assumptions about poverty, the state, motherhood and relations of power. Paying attention to these counter-hegemonic perspe…
Moving Up and Out: Poverty, Education, and the Single Parent Family
It Ain't That Simple 2. Barriers to Success 3. Myths and Images: The Morality Trap 4. Education and Mobility 5. Chance and Choice 6. Starting a Single Parent Scholarship Program: Ingredients for Success 7. Where Do We Go from Here? Appendixes Notes References Index
Into Our Own Hands: The Women's Health Movement in the United States, 1969 to 1990
The Anthropology of Welfare “Reform: New Perspectives on U.S. Urban Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era
Anthropological research on welfare restructuring differs from most poverty research conducted by U.S. policy analysts and many other social scientists by its situating the study of welfare “reform” within an examination of the production of poverty and inequality at the center of the global system of advanced capitalism. In this review we examine urban poverty and welfare-state restructuring in relation to the ascent of neoliberalism, including …
The Politics of Welfare and of Poverty Research
Soon after the 1996 Congressional passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (commonly known as "welfare reform," and hereafter referred to as PRWORA), thousands of researchers began to document the effects of this dramatic change in social welfare policy. Millions of grant dollars and hundreds of thousands of research hours later, there is a voluminous body of research on welfare restructuring. But at this wri…
The Agency of Welfare Workers: Negotiating Devolution, Privatization, and the Meaning of Self-Sufficiency
In this article I examine how the neoliberal agenda of downsizing the state and minimizing its role in regulating the market has shaped welfare policy and the work of welfare provision. Using a study of welfare reform in Oregon, I explore how the enactment of welfare-to-work policies positions workers to negotiate the ideological terrain of welfare reform and the conflicts that privatization and devolution generate in a social welfare context. Se…
Association for Feminist Anthropology: Message From The President
Visible Women: New Essays on American Activism . Nancy A. Hewitt , Suzanne Lebsock Women, Community, and the Hormel Strike of 1985-1986 . Neala J. Schleuning
Beyond Methodology: Feminist Scholarship as Lived Research . Mary Margaret Fonow , Judith A. Cook Getting Smart: Feminist Research and Pedagogy with/in the Postmodern . Patricia Ann Lather
Personalizing Personnel Decisions in Feminist Organizational Theory and Practice
This article extends the feminist critique of bureaucracy by examining the ways feminist health organizations contest the bureaucratic ideal of impersonal, role-based, and instrumental social relations. Drawing on interview, archival, and fieldwork data collected by the author, this paper explores the personnel practices of feminist workplaces revealing the difficulties and possibilities that accompany their ways of handling personnel issues. The…
Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge: Feminist Anthropology in the Postmodern Era. Micaela DI Leonardo
Beyond Eurocentrism: Developing World Women's Studies
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Circles of Care: Work and Identity in Women's Lives . Emily K. Abel and Margaret K. Nelson , eds
Changing Goals and Changing Strategies: Varieties of Women's Political Activities
Extended abstracts from the 1991 AAA Session: Women's Work Cultures
Challenging the Politics of Exclusion: The Perspective of Feminist Anthropology
Beyond the Double Day: Work and Family in Working-Class Women's Lives
Critical Reviews of Gender and Anthropology: Implications for Research and Teaching
Gender and Anthropology: Critical Reviews for Research and Teaching
Women and the politics of empowerment
The dynamics of cooptation in a feminist health clinic
The Anthropology of Welfare “Reform: New Perspectives on U.S. Urban Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era
Anthropological research on welfare restructuring differs from most poverty research conducted by U.S. policy analysts and many other social scientists by its situating the study of welfare “reform” within an examination of the production of poverty and inequality at the center of the global system of advanced capitalism. In this review we examine urban poverty and welfare-state restructuring in relation to the ascent of neoliberalism, including …
Anthropology as White Public Space
How far has anthropology come in becoming racially inclusive? In this article, we analyze an online survey of anthropology graduate students and faculty of color undertaken by the AAA Commission on Race and Racism in Anthropology. Despite some progress, institutional and attitudinal barriers remain. We use the concept of "white public space" to analyze these barriers: departmental labor is divided in ways that assign to faculty and graduate stude…
The Agency of Welfare Workers: Negotiating Devolution, Privatization, and the Meaning of Self-Sufficiency
In this article I examine how the neoliberal agenda of downsizing the state and minimizing its role in regulating the market has shaped welfare policy and the work of welfare provision. Using a study of welfare reform in Oregon, I explore how the enactment of welfare-to-work policies positions workers to negotiate the ideological terrain of welfare reform and the conflicts that privatization and devolution generate in a social welfare context. Se…
The dynamics of cooptation in a feminist health clinic
Gender and Anthropology: Critical Reviews for Research and Teaching
The Neoliberal American Dream as Daydream: Counter-hegemonic Perspectives on Welfare Restructuring in the United States
Despite the efforts of its supporters to cast welfare `reform' in the United States as a successful achievement of neoliberal public policy, we argue that among low-income people who have received public assistance, counter-hegemonic interpretations and `possibilities' coexist with, texture and sometimes, challenge hegemonic assumptions about poverty, the state, motherhood and relations of power. Paying attention to these counter-hegemonic perspe…
Personalizing Personnel Decisions in Feminist Organizational Theory and Practice
This article extends the feminist critique of bureaucracy by examining the ways feminist health organizations contest the bureaucratic ideal of impersonal, role-based, and instrumental social relations. Drawing on interview, archival, and fieldwork data collected by the author, this paper explores the personnel practices of feminist workplaces revealing the difficulties and possibilities that accompany their ways of handling personnel issues. The…
Incipient "commoning" in defense of the public
This article examines the development of competing forms of fiscal citizenship in Oregon tax-related ballot initiative campaigns between 1970 and 2010. Antitax advocates constructed a "taxpayer identity politics" that positioned a privatized "taxpayer" against representatives of the state, recipients of public services, and public sector unions. In response, a progressive coalition produced an alternative citizen-the "Oregonian," a socially respo…
Towards a politics of “feelings”: Beyond the dialectic of thought and action
The Politics of Welfare and of Poverty Research
Soon after the 1996 Congressional passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (commonly known as "welfare reform," and hereafter referred to as PRWORA), thousands of researchers began to document the effects of this dramatic change in social welfare policy. Millions of grant dollars and hundreds of thousands of research hours later, there is a voluminous body of research on welfare restructuring. But at this wri…
Beyond the Double Day: Work and Family in Working-Class Women's Lives
Towards a politics of “feelings”: Beyond the dialectic of thought and action
The dynamics of cooptation in a feminist health clinic
Women and the politics of empowerment
Critical Reviews of Gender and Anthropology: Implications for Research and Teaching
Gender and Anthropology: Critical Reviews for Research and Teaching
Challenging the Politics of Exclusion: The Perspective of Feminist Anthropology
Beyond the Double Day: Work and Family in Working-Class Women's Lives
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Circles of Care: Work and Identity in Women's Lives . Emily K. Abel and Margaret K. Nelson , eds
Changing Goals and Changing Strategies: Varieties of Women's Political Activities
Extended abstracts from the 1991 AAA Session: Women's Work Cultures
Beyond Eurocentrism: Developing World Women's Studies
Beyond Methodology: Feminist Scholarship as Lived Research . Mary Margaret Fonow , Judith A. Cook Getting Smart: Feminist Research and Pedagogy with/in the Postmodern . Patricia Ann Lather
Personalizing Personnel Decisions in Feminist Organizational Theory and Practice
This article extends the feminist critique of bureaucracy by examining the ways feminist health organizations contest the bureaucratic ideal of impersonal, role-based, and instrumental social relations. Drawing on interview, archival, and fieldwork data collected by the author, this paper explores the personnel practices of feminist workplaces revealing the difficulties and possibilities that accompany their ways of handling personnel issues. The…
Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge: Feminist Anthropology in the Postmodern Era. Micaela DI Leonardo
Visible Women: New Essays on American Activism . Nancy A. Hewitt , Suzanne Lebsock Women, Community, and the Hormel Strike of 1985-1986 . Neala J. Schleuning
Association for Feminist Anthropology: Message From The President
The Agency of Welfare Workers: Negotiating Devolution, Privatization, and the Meaning of Self-Sufficiency
In this article I examine how the neoliberal agenda of downsizing the state and minimizing its role in regulating the market has shaped welfare policy and the work of welfare provision. Using a study of welfare reform in Oregon, I explore how the enactment of welfare-to-work policies positions workers to negotiate the ideological terrain of welfare reform and the conflicts that privatization and devolution generate in a social welfare context. Se…
The Politics of Welfare and of Poverty Research
Soon after the 1996 Congressional passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (commonly known as "welfare reform," and hereafter referred to as PRWORA), thousands of researchers began to document the effects of this dramatic change in social welfare policy. Millions of grant dollars and hundreds of thousands of research hours later, there is a voluminous body of research on welfare restructuring. But at this wri…
Moving Up and Out: Poverty, Education, and the Single Parent Family
It Ain't That Simple 2. Barriers to Success 3. Myths and Images: The Morality Trap 4. Education and Mobility 5. Chance and Choice 6. Starting a Single Parent Scholarship Program: Ingredients for Success 7. Where Do We Go from Here? Appendixes Notes References Index
Into Our Own Hands: The Women's Health Movement in the United States, 1969 to 1990
The Anthropology of Welfare “Reform: New Perspectives on U.S. Urban Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era
Anthropological research on welfare restructuring differs from most poverty research conducted by U.S. policy analysts and many other social scientists by its situating the study of welfare “reform” within an examination of the production of poverty and inequality at the center of the global system of advanced capitalism. In this review we examine urban poverty and welfare-state restructuring in relation to the ascent of neoliberalism, including …
Report from the President
SANA member research provides critical insights into key issues facing contemporary North America. The section depends on, and thrives because of the research of members and the contributions of members who take on leadership roles. We thank them profusely. The article also focuses on the thoughts of past and current presidents about the challenges of engaged public anthropology. It is important to consider not only “how” to do engaged anthropolo…
The Neoliberal American Dream as Daydream: Counter-hegemonic Perspectives on Welfare Restructuring in the United States
Despite the efforts of its supporters to cast welfare `reform' in the United States as a successful achievement of neoliberal public policy, we argue that among low-income people who have received public assistance, counter-hegemonic interpretations and `possibilities' coexist with, texture and sometimes, challenge hegemonic assumptions about poverty, the state, motherhood and relations of power. Paying attention to these counter-hegemonic perspe…
Anthropology as White Public Space
How far has anthropology come in becoming racially inclusive? In this article, we analyze an online survey of anthropology graduate students and faculty of color undertaken by the AAA Commission on Race and Racism in Anthropology. Despite some progress, institutional and attitudinal barriers remain. We use the concept of "white public space" to analyze these barriers: departmental labor is divided in ways that assign to faculty and graduate stude…
Incipient "commoning" in defense of the public
This article examines the development of competing forms of fiscal citizenship in Oregon tax-related ballot initiative campaigns between 1970 and 2010. Antitax advocates constructed a "taxpayer identity politics" that positioned a privatized "taxpayer" against representatives of the state, recipients of public services, and public sector unions. In response, a progressive coalition produced an alternative citizen-the "Oregonian," a socially respo…
Sociology (22 works) · Political science (15 works) · Law (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works)