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Sociology > People > Thomas D. Beamish Personal tools Log in     Thomas Beamish Associate Professor Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara Curriculum Vitae Email:  tdbeamish @ ucdavis.edu Office: 2271 SS&H Phone: 754-6897 Office hours: M 1-3 Research Interests Organizations, Institutions, and Economy Environment and Technology Social and Community Movements Research Statement Thomas D. Beamish is Associate Professor of Sociology at University of California-Davis. Professor Beamish's research interests include economic organization;  environment, technology, hazards, and risk; and social and community movements. Dr. Beamish's research in these areas has found expression through projects on protest movements; the petroleum industry and a massive oil spill; the economic organization of commercial construction industry; and his latest project, a comparative account of three communities and a technological controversy. What ties this array of diverse research settings together is his theoretical fascination with intersection of institutions, organization (formal and informal), and interpretive work. This has taken shape through his focus on the collective bases for “local rationalities;” how sensemaking emerges from the places people live, the formal and informal social relations people are embedded within, and the collective memories and cognitive models people share.   Selected Publications “Alliance-Building Across Social Movements: Bridging Difference in a Peace and Justice Coalition.” (w/ Amy Luebbers) Social Problems. (forthcoming) November, Volume 56, Number 4.  “The Logic of Risk Distribution: Site Fights and Resisting Global Toxics." A Review Essay. Social Movement Studies. (forthcoming) Vol. 8, No. 3, August, pp. 295-298. Economic Sociology in the Next Decade and Beyond.” American Behavioral Scientist. (2007) Vol. 50, No. 8, 993-1014. "Economic Worlds of Work: Uniting Economic Sociology with the Sociology of Work." In Social Theory at Work. (w/ Nicole W. Biggart) Marek Korczynski, Randy Hodson, and Paul Edwards (eds.). (2006) Oxford University Press. “The Economic Sociology of Conventions: Habit, Custom, Practice and Routine in Market Order. (w/ Nicole W. Biggart) Annual Review of Sociology. (2003) 29:443–64. Silent Spill: The Organization of Industrial Crisis. (2002) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Series title: Urban and Industrial Environments.) “Waiting For Crisis: Regulatory Inaction and Ineptitude and the Case of the Guadalupe Dunes Oil Spill.” Social Problems. (2002) Vol. 49, No. 2. May: 150-177. “Environmental Hazards and Institutional Betrayal: Lay Public Perceptions of Risk in the San Luis Obispo County Oil Spill.” Organization and Environment. (2001) Vol. 14, No. 1 March: 5-33. “Accumulating Trouble: Complex Organization, a Culture-of-Silence, and a Secret Spill.” Social Problems. (2000) Vol. 47, No. 4. November: 473-498. “Who Supports the Troops? Vietnam, the Gulf War and the Making of Collective Memory.” (w/ Harvey Molotch and Richard Flacks) Social Problems. (1995) Vol. 42, No. 3. August: 344-360.