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 Assistant Professor of Sociology at Fordham University, Lincoln Center. She has authored books and articles on politics and a variety of social movements, including the Global Justice Movement, Anti-War Movement, and World Social Forum. Current research focuses on current economic trends in the film industry and their implications for the future of labor market regulation in entertainment and other sectors and theories of flexible specialization more generally. Dr. Gautney is a member of the Social Text collective (see www.socialtextonline.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, see:
http://www.fordham.edu/campus_resources/enewsroom/inside_fordham/february_17_2009/in_focus_faculty_and/charting_the_shapesh_34496.asp

Selected Publications

Books

Gautney, Heather. Forthcoming December 2009. Protest and Organization in the Alternative Globalization Era: NGOs, Anti-authoritarian Movements, and Political Parties. Palgrave Macmillan, NY. http://us.macmillan.com/protestandorganizationinthealternativeglobalizationera

Gautney, Heather, Neil Smith, Omar Dahbour, and Ashley Dawson, 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., and Akim D. Reinhardt. In press. "The imperial coin." Peace and Change 35(1).

Gautney, H. In press. "State." Social Text 100.

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, Neil Smith, Omar Dahbour, and Ashley
          Dawson, 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). (http://issuu.com/civdep/docs/pensee/7)

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 Care Industry.” 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, 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.” DeriveApprodi (in Italian). (http://www.deriveapprodi.org/estesa_rivista.php?id=35).

Gautney, H., and Michael Hardt. 2003. "An underground river: America is opposed." Global Magazine (in Italian).
          (http://www.globalproject.info/index-it.html)

Courses Taught

Undergraduate

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