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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
gautney777@aol.com; gautney@fordham.edu

 
Research Interests
Social movements, political sociology, Globalization, labor, social theory.
 

Biography
Heather Gautney is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Fordham University, Lincoln Center. She has authored books and articles on politics and a variety of social movements, including Occupy Wall Street, the Alternative Globalization Movement, the Anti-Iraq War Movement, and the World Social Forum. Current research projects include (1) Occupy Wall Street, and (2) current economic trends in the film industry and their implications for the future of labor market regulation in entertainment and beyond. Dr. Gautney is a member of the Social Text collective (see www.socialtextjournal.org) and the Advisory Board of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center (see http://web.gc.cuny.edu/pcp/). For a review of Dr. Gautney's current research, click here.

 
Selected Publications
Books
Gautney, Heather. 2009. Protest and Organization in the Alternative Globalization Era: NGOs, Anti-authoritarian Movements, and Political Parties. Palgrave Macmillan, NY. http://us.macmillan.com/protestandorganizationinthealternativeglobalizationera
(A 2nd edition with additional chapter on Occupy Wall Street is expected in August 2012.)
 
Gautney, Heather, Omar Dahbour, Ashley Dawson, and Neil Smith, eds. 2009. Democracy and the State in the Struggle for Global Justice. Routledge, NY. (http://www.routledge.com/books/Democracy-States-and-the-Struggle-for-Global-Justice-isbn9780415989831)
 
Aronowitz, Stanley, and Heather Gautney, eds. 2003. Implicating Empire: Globalization and Resistance in the 21st Century World Order. Basic Books, NY.
http://www.amazon.com/Implicating-Empire-Stanley-Aronowitz/dp/0465004946
Chinese edition, 2004. Guangxi Normal University Press.
 

Articles

Gautney, H., Op-Ed:  "Why Occupy Wall Street wants nothing to do with our politicians."  The Washington Post 
          online
.  Nation: Onleadership.  October 21, 2011.

Gautney, H., Op-Ed:  What is Occupy Wall Street?  The history of leaderless movements."  The Washington Post 
          online
.  Nation: Onleadership.  October 10, 2011.

Gautney, H., and Akim D. Reinhardt. 2010. "The imperial coin." Peace and Change 35(1):146-163.  
          doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0130.2009.00616.x

Gautney, H. 2009. "State." Social Text 27(3/100):242-245. doi:  10.1215/01642472-2009-047

Gautney, H. 2009. “Between Anarchism and Autonomist Marxism.” WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and 
          Society
12(3):467-487. doi: 10.1111/j.1743-4580.2009.00249.x

Gautney, H. 2009. "The Globalization Movement and World Social Forum: From Protest to Politics." In Engaging 
          Social Justice: Critical Studies of 21st Century Transformation, David Fasenfest, ed., pp. 135-160. Brill, 
          Leiden.

Gautney, H. 2009. "Contesting Neoliberal Globalization and State Sovereignty.” In Globalisation and the 
          Prospects of Critical Reflection
, Jung Min Choi and John W. Murphy, eds. Aakar Press, New Delhi.

Gautney, H. 2009. "Is Another State Possible?" and "Rethinking Activism and the State." In Democracy and the 
          State in the Struggle for Global Justice
. Heather Gautney, Omar Dahbour, and Ashley 
          Dawson, and Neil Smith, eds. Routledge, New York.

Gautney, H., and Akim D. Reinhardt. 2007. “Les deux faces de la médaille impériale.” La Pensée 350:33-42 (in 
          French).

Gautney, H. 2007. “Political Organization on the Global Left.” Berkeley Journal of Sociology 51:150-182.

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

Gautney, H., 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).

Ducey, Ariel, H. Gautney, and Dominic Wetzel. 2003. “Regulating Affective Labor: Communications Skills 
          Training in the Health CareIndustry.” Research in the Sociology of Work 12:49-72, David Bills, ed., 
          Elsevier Science.

Aronowitz, Stanley, and H. 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, H. 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.

Gautney, H., and Franco Barchiesi. 2003. “Vieques O Muerte: Transnational Movement and the Politics of 
          Diaspora.” Derive Approdi (in Italian).

Gautney, H., and Michael Hardt. 2003. "An underground river: America is opposed." Global Magazine (in Italian).

 
Courses Taught

Undergraduate

Social Movements; Introduction to Sociology; Sociological Theory; Inequality in America; Political Sociology on Film; International Sociology


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