Tamara Kay
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 259141 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Tamara Kay |
| PRENOMES | Tamara |
| SOBRENOME | Kay |
| ASSINATURA | KAY T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Notre Dame |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6414-6928 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 211 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Strategies for Localizing Gender Equality Norms
In this article we ask: What on-the-ground strategies do advocates of gender equality use to overcome the challenges of localizing gender equality norms in meaningful ways in different environments? We use locally adapted versions of Sesame Street , the children’s program produced by the nonprofit organization Sesame Workshop and its local partners around the world, to examine how cultural brokers work on the ground to localize gender equality no…
Theorizing Cultural Friction
How do different types of culture spread around the world? Do norms travel much like technologies? Do media and commodities diffuse in different ways? Surprisingly, research on cultural diffusion cannot yet answer these questions. Most scholars examine the spread of only one cultural object or class of object at a time. While this can tell us much about the actors, networks, and institutions involved, it tells us little about the objects themselv…
A Global Organization Based on the Structure of a Social Movement
Is it possible to build a global organization based on the model of a social movement? We analyze Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes), an entity with over 4 million participants in 193 countries, which claims to have operated with a social movement-like structure for over two decades. In so doing, it has achieved significant scale in addressing an entrenched social problem: the lack of specialized healthcare and social serv…
Diffusing Strategies North-South and South-North
Because research focuses on unidirectional diffusion, primarily from the Global North to the Global South, diffusion in more than one direction has not been examined. Here the authors ask: How does the diffusion of social movement symbols and strategies occur from North to South and from South to North? To answer this question, the authors examine a case of diffusion between abortion rights movements. Using data from in-depth interviews with acti…
Research Ethics and Methods in Shifting Policy Climates
We have spent the last two years conducting fieldwork on abortion rights movements in the United States and Latin America, building from our previous work on abortion policies, movements, organizations, and activists across the Americas (Beisel and Kay 2004; Calasanti 2015; Calasanti, Kay, and Ostermann 2023; Fernández Anderson 2017, 2020, 2022; Ruibal and Fernández Anderson 2018). In the wake of the 2022 US Supreme Court decision Dobbs v. Jackso…
Culture in transnational Interaction
Another organization is possible
Interest in alternative enterprises is again high, yielding a wave of popular experimentation with alternative organizational models, and new scholarship. From an organizational studies perspective, what have we learned about alternative enterprises since the last prior round of such experimentation in the 1970s, and what questions remain unanswered? Reflecting historical research legacies, scholarship often remains focused on micro‐aspects of in…
Response to Margaret E. Peter’s review of Trade Battles
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Social entrepreneurship as field encroachment
In explaining the emergence of new strategic action fields, in which social movements' and organizations' logic, rules and strategies are forged, inter-field dynamics remain under-explored. The case of Social Enterprise and Entrepreneurship (SEE) shows how new fields can emerge through field encroachment, whereby shifts among overlapping fields create structural opportunities for the ascendency of new fields, which may adapt logics borrowed from …
New challenges, new alliances
The ascendency of neoliberalism, anti-state ideologies, and increased corporate power has taken its toll on labor movements around the globe. Today, the proportion of unionized workers in Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries is half what it was in the 1970s. I argue that unions are dealing with the crises presented by neoliberal economic integration by entering new political coalitions and nontraditional advocacy areas…
Toward a multidimensional understanding of culture for health interventions
Theorizing the relationship between NGOs and the state in medical humanitarian development projects
Legal Transnationalism
This article examines the compelling enigma of how the introduction of a new international law, the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC), helped stimulate labor cooperation and collaboration in the 1990s. It offers a theory of legal transnationalism —defined as processes by which international laws and legal mechanisms facilitate social movement building at the transnational level—that explains how nascent international legal ins…
Building Solidarity with Subjects and Audience in Sociology and Documentary Photography
This article is part of a panel discussion addressing the sociological relevance of Sebastião Salgado’s work as well as documentary photography in general. 2
How Environmentalists "Greened" Trade Policy
This article examines why and how environmental activists, despite considerable political weakness and disproportionally few resources, won substantive negotiating concessions that far outstripped labor achievements during NAFTA's negotiation. Despite a trade policy arena hostile to their demands, environmentalists gained official recognition for the legitimacy of their claims, obtained a seat at the negotiating table, turned a previously technoc…
Labor Transnationalism and Global Governance
This article examines how the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) catalyzed cross‐border labor cooperation and collaboration (i.e., labor transnationalism), by creating a new political opportunity structure at the transnational level. Because there are differences in the way power is constituted at the transnational and national levels, theories of national political opportunity structures cannot be directly mapped onto the transnational …
Abortion, Race, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century America
Many sociologists have considered the intersection of race and gender in the production of social life, but while works on "intersectionality" have offered a useful paradigm for analyzing the experience of individual persons, a model for understanding how structures interact remains unclear. Appropriating Sewell's (1992) argument that structures consist of cultural schemas applied to resources, this article develops a more nuanced approach to int…
How Environmentalists "Greened" Trade Policy
This article examines why and how environmental activists, despite considerable political weakness and disproportionally few resources, won substantive negotiating concessions that far outstripped labor achievements during NAFTA's negotiation. Despite a trade policy arena hostile to their demands, environmentalists gained official recognition for the legitimacy of their claims, obtained a seat at the negotiating table, turned a previously technoc…
Abortion, Race, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century America
Many sociologists have considered the intersection of race and gender in the production of social life, but while works on "intersectionality" have offered a useful paradigm for analyzing the experience of individual persons, a model for understanding how structures interact remains unclear. Appropriating Sewell's (1992) argument that structures consist of cultural schemas applied to resources, this article develops a more nuanced approach to int…
Labor Transnationalism and Global Governance
This article examines how the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) catalyzed cross‐border labor cooperation and collaboration (i.e., labor transnationalism), by creating a new political opportunity structure at the transnational level. Because there are differences in the way power is constituted at the transnational and national levels, theories of national political opportunity structures cannot be directly mapped onto the transnational …
Social entrepreneurship as field encroachment
In explaining the emergence of new strategic action fields, in which social movements' and organizations' logic, rules and strategies are forged, inter-field dynamics remain under-explored. The case of Social Enterprise and Entrepreneurship (SEE) shows how new fields can emerge through field encroachment, whereby shifts among overlapping fields create structural opportunities for the ascendency of new fields, which may adapt logics borrowed from …
Theorizing the relationship between NGOs and the state in medical humanitarian development projects
New challenges, new alliances
The ascendency of neoliberalism, anti-state ideologies, and increased corporate power has taken its toll on labor movements around the globe. Today, the proportion of unionized workers in Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries is half what it was in the 1970s. I argue that unions are dealing with the crises presented by neoliberal economic integration by entering new political coalitions and nontraditional advocacy areas…
Legal Transnationalism
This article examines the compelling enigma of how the introduction of a new international law, the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC), helped stimulate labor cooperation and collaboration in the 1990s. It offers a theory of legal transnationalism —defined as processes by which international laws and legal mechanisms facilitate social movement building at the transnational level—that explains how nascent international legal ins…
Toward a multidimensional understanding of culture for health interventions
Another organization is possible
Interest in alternative enterprises is again high, yielding a wave of popular experimentation with alternative organizational models, and new scholarship. From an organizational studies perspective, what have we learned about alternative enterprises since the last prior round of such experimentation in the 1970s, and what questions remain unanswered? Reflecting historical research legacies, scholarship often remains focused on micro‐aspects of in…
Building Solidarity with Subjects and Audience in Sociology and Documentary Photography
This article is part of a panel discussion addressing the sociological relevance of Sebastião Salgado’s work as well as documentary photography in general. 2
Abortion, Race, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century America
Many sociologists have considered the intersection of race and gender in the production of social life, but while works on "intersectionality" have offered a useful paradigm for analyzing the experience of individual persons, a model for understanding how structures interact remains unclear. Appropriating Sewell's (1992) argument that structures consist of cultural schemas applied to resources, this article develops a more nuanced approach to int…
Labor Transnationalism and Global Governance
This article examines how the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) catalyzed cross‐border labor cooperation and collaboration (i.e., labor transnationalism), by creating a new political opportunity structure at the transnational level. Because there are differences in the way power is constituted at the transnational and national levels, theories of national political opportunity structures cannot be directly mapped onto the transnational …
How Environmentalists "Greened" Trade Policy
This article examines why and how environmental activists, despite considerable political weakness and disproportionally few resources, won substantive negotiating concessions that far outstripped labor achievements during NAFTA's negotiation. Despite a trade policy arena hostile to their demands, environmentalists gained official recognition for the legitimacy of their claims, obtained a seat at the negotiating table, turned a previously technoc…
Legal Transnationalism
This article examines the compelling enigma of how the introduction of a new international law, the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC), helped stimulate labor cooperation and collaboration in the 1990s. It offers a theory of legal transnationalism —defined as processes by which international laws and legal mechanisms facilitate social movement building at the transnational level—that explains how nascent international legal ins…
Building Solidarity with Subjects and Audience in Sociology and Documentary Photography
This article is part of a panel discussion addressing the sociological relevance of Sebastião Salgado’s work as well as documentary photography in general. 2
Theorizing the relationship between NGOs and the state in medical humanitarian development projects
New challenges, new alliances
The ascendency of neoliberalism, anti-state ideologies, and increased corporate power has taken its toll on labor movements around the globe. Today, the proportion of unionized workers in Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries is half what it was in the 1970s. I argue that unions are dealing with the crises presented by neoliberal economic integration by entering new political coalitions and nontraditional advocacy areas…
Toward a multidimensional understanding of culture for health interventions
Response to Margaret E. Peter’s review of Trade Battles
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Social entrepreneurship as field encroachment
In explaining the emergence of new strategic action fields, in which social movements' and organizations' logic, rules and strategies are forged, inter-field dynamics remain under-explored. The case of Social Enterprise and Entrepreneurship (SEE) shows how new fields can emerge through field encroachment, whereby shifts among overlapping fields create structural opportunities for the ascendency of new fields, which may adapt logics borrowed from …
Another organization is possible
Interest in alternative enterprises is again high, yielding a wave of popular experimentation with alternative organizational models, and new scholarship. From an organizational studies perspective, what have we learned about alternative enterprises since the last prior round of such experimentation in the 1970s, and what questions remain unanswered? Reflecting historical research legacies, scholarship often remains focused on micro‐aspects of in…
Culture in transnational Interaction
Research Ethics and Methods in Shifting Policy Climates
We have spent the last two years conducting fieldwork on abortion rights movements in the United States and Latin America, building from our previous work on abortion policies, movements, organizations, and activists across the Americas (Beisel and Kay 2004; Calasanti 2015; Calasanti, Kay, and Ostermann 2023; Fernández Anderson 2017, 2020, 2022; Ruibal and Fernández Anderson 2018). In the wake of the 2022 US Supreme Court decision Dobbs v. Jackso…
Diffusing Strategies North-South and South-North
Because research focuses on unidirectional diffusion, primarily from the Global North to the Global South, diffusion in more than one direction has not been examined. Here the authors ask: How does the diffusion of social movement symbols and strategies occur from North to South and from South to North? To answer this question, the authors examine a case of diffusion between abortion rights movements. Using data from in-depth interviews with acti…
Strategies for Localizing Gender Equality Norms
In this article we ask: What on-the-ground strategies do advocates of gender equality use to overcome the challenges of localizing gender equality norms in meaningful ways in different environments? We use locally adapted versions of Sesame Street , the children’s program produced by the nonprofit organization Sesame Workshop and its local partners around the world, to examine how cultural brokers work on the ground to localize gender equality no…
Theorizing Cultural Friction
How do different types of culture spread around the world? Do norms travel much like technologies? Do media and commodities diffuse in different ways? Surprisingly, research on cultural diffusion cannot yet answer these questions. Most scholars examine the spread of only one cultural object or class of object at a time. While this can tell us much about the actors, networks, and institutions involved, it tells us little about the objects themselv…
A Global Organization Based on the Structure of a Social Movement
Is it possible to build a global organization based on the model of a social movement? We analyze Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes), an entity with over 4 million participants in 193 countries, which claims to have operated with a social movement-like structure for over two decades. In so doing, it has achieved significant scale in addressing an entrenched social problem: the lack of specialized healthcare and social serv…
Political science (13 obras) · Sociology (11 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Politics (7 obras) · Political economy (6 obras) · Economics (4 obras) · Legitimacy (4 obras) · Public relations (4 obras) · Abortion (3 obras)