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Joe Bandy

Associate Professor

Spring 2007

  • Environmental Sociology (ES 221)
  • ADVANCED INDEPENDENT STUDY (ES 402)
  • Classics of Sociological Theory (SOC 211)

Phone (207) 725-3441
Title Associate Professor
Department SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY
Work Location 204 Riley House
E-Mail jbandy@bowdoin.edu
 
Joe Bandy: Bowdoin College: Sociology

Joe Bandy received his B.A. from Rhodes College and his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Since the fall of 1998, he has taught a variety of courses in the Sociology/Anthropology Department, several cross-listed in the Programs of Environmental Studies and Latin American Studies, on topics that include globalization and social change, environmental sociology, social movements, revolutions, identity, and U.S./Mexican relations. His research has investigated the many ways that social movement organizations have responded to the economic changes associated with globalization, especially environmental justice and labor movements in the U.S. and Mexico. More specifically, from 1996 until 2004, his research focused on the efforts of U.S. and Mexican social movements to forge coalitions in response to both free trade policy and the social problems associated with export processing. His latest research focuses on the transnational dimensions of corporate social responsibility and human rights. He has published and presented his work widely, and he has received grants and fellowships from Stanford University's Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, the University of California, San Diego's Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, and the National Science Foundation.

Education

B.A. in Psychology and Anthropology/Sociology (Rhodes College)
M.A., Ph.D. in Sociology (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Links

Teaching Methods website

Recent Publications

Coalitions Across Borders: Transnational Protest and the Neo-Liberal Order Bandy, Joe and Jackie Smith, eds. Coalitions Across Borders: Transnational Protest and the Neo-Liberal Order. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. 2004.

"Paradoxes of a Transnational Civil Society in a Neoliberal World: The Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras." Social Problems. 51(3). 2004.
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"So What Is to Be Done?: Maquila Justice Movements, Transnational Solidarity, and Dynamics of Resistance." in The Social Costs of Maquiladora Development. Ed. Kathryn Kopinak. San Diego: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, UCSD. 2004.

"A Place of Their Own? Women Organizers Negotiating the Local and Transnational in Nicaragua and Northern Mexico." Mobilization. 8(2). June. Pp. 173-88. 2003. co-author Jennifer Bickham Mendez

"Bordering the Future: Resisting Neoliberalism in the Borderlands." Critical Sociology. 26:3. 2000.
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"Reterritorializing Borders: Transnational Environmental Justice Movements on the US-Mexico Border." Race, Gender, and Class. 5(1):80-103. 1997.

"Managing the Other of Nature: Sustainability, Spectacle, and Global Regimes of Capital in Ecotourism." Public Culture. 8(3):539-66. 1996.
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Courses Taught

  • Introductory Sociology
  • Globalization and Social Change
  • Sociology of Identity and Interaction
  • Environmental Sociology
  • Social Movements
  • Sociology of Revolutions
  • Science, Technology, and Society
  • Advanced Seminar: Current Controversies in Sociology
  • Class, Labor, and Power

Faculty Advisor

Global Justice (formerly Global HELP)
Bowdoin Students for Peace
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