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Gautney









Heather D. Gautney, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Sociology (at Lincoln Center)
B.A., University of Pittsburgh, M.A., St. John's University; Ph.D., CUNY, 2006

Lowenstein 923B
113 W. 60th Street
New York, NY 10023
tel: (212) 636-7294
fax: (212) 636-7153

gautney@fordham.edu

 
Research Interests
Globalization, social movements, political sociology.
 
Biography
Heather Gautney is an Assistant professor of Sociology at Fordham University, Lincoln Center. She is co-editor of two collections on contemporary movements and globalization: Implicating Empire: Globalization and Resistance in the 21st Century with Stanley Aronowitz (Basic Books, 2003), and Altered States: Politics After the Age of Democracy with Neil Smith (Routledge, forthcoming in August 2008). She has authored papers on a variety of social movements, including the Global Justice Movement, Anti-War Movement, and the World Social Forum. Future research will focus on the role of the religious left in contemporary movements for social justice.  She is a member of the Social Text collective (see www.socialtextonline.org), and she also serves on the editorial board of Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination:
Selected Publications
Books
Smith, Neil, et al., eds, expected August 2008. Altered States: Politics After the Age of Democracy. Routledge, NY.
Aronowitz, Stanley, and Heather Gautney, eds, 2003. Implicating Empire: Globalization and Resistance in the 21st Century World Order. Basic Books, NY.
Chinese edition, 2004. Guangxi Normal University Press.

Articles

Smith, Neil, et al., expected August 2008. “Anti-state politics in the World Social Forum and beyond.” In Altered States: Politics After the Age of Democracy. Routledge, NY.

Gautney, Heather, 2005. "The World Social Forum: from protest to politics?" Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination 1(1): 75-86.

Gautney, Heather and Michael Hardt, 2005. “Divenire politico: movimenti contro la guerra negli Stati Uniti" [Becoming Political: The U.S. Anti-War Movement]. In Affinità sovversive: I movimenti sociali americani nella guerra globale [Subversive Affinities: U.S. Social Movements]. Derive Approdi, Rome (in Italian).

Aronowitz, Stanley, and Heather Gautney, 2003. “The debate about globalization: an introduction.” In Implicating Empire: Globalization and Resistance in the 21st Century World Order, S. Aronowitz and H. Gautney, eds, pp. xi-xxx. Basic Books, NY.

Gautney, Heather, 2003. “The globalization of violence in the 21st century: Israel, Palestine, and the War on Terror.” In Implicating Empire: Globalization and Resistance in the 21st Century World Order, S. Aronowitz and H. Gautney, eds, pp. 65-82 . Basic Books, NY.

 

Courses Taught

Undergraduate

Introduction to Sociology; Sociological Theory; Social Movements

 

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