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Thomas Beamish

Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
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Email:  tdbeamish @ ucdavis.edu
Office: 2271 SS&H
Phone: 754-6897

Office hours: M 1-3


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  • 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.