faculty-books

Selected Works:

Phillip A. Hough, 2024. “A Labor History of Extractivism in Colombia: From Coffee to Coca and Beyond,” in Kristin Ciupa and Jeffery R. Webber, eds., The Labor of Extraction in Latin America (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)

Phillip A. Hough assesses the validity of Bergquist’s interpretation of the coffee growers of mid twentieth-century Colombia, as well as extending Bergquist’s framework into the contemporary era of coca growers and accelerating extractive sectors of the economy.

Phillip A. Hough, Karthik Balaji Ramanujam, Charles Burggraff, Vanessa de Becze, Lucas López-Arrastía,“ 2024. Beyond the Fields: Solidarity Narratives and Coalition Building in the Fair Food Movement,” Global Labour Journal, Vol. 15:3, pp. 146-163

This paper extends scholarship on emerging sources of worker power in the 21st century through an examination of the solidarity activism of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), an agricultural worker-led human rights organisation that advocates for Fair Food policies. We demonstrate how CIW coalitions are sustained through solidarity narratives that clarify the stakes for student allies and the discursive frames that motivate their activism.

Dr. Phillip A. Hough published At the Margins of the Global Market: Making Workers, Commodities, and Crisis in Rural Colombia (Cambridge University Press, 2022). This book pulls together nearly two decades of research analyzing the intersection of capitalist development, political violence, and struggles for labor and land rights in Colombia’s coffee, banana, and coca-producing regions. It received "Honorable Mention" for the 2023 Barrington Moore Award of the Comparative and Historical section and "Winner" of the 2023 Immanuel Wallerstein Memorial Book Award of the Political Economy of the World-System section of the American Sociological Association.

Yang-Sook Kim, 2022, National Care Experts and Joseonjok Aunties: Eldercare Workers’ Resistance in South Korea. Korean Journal of International Migration , 9(1), 5-23 (Written in Korean).

Yang-Sook Kim and Yi-Chun Chien, 2021, “We are Not Foreigners”: Constructing Migrant Subjects in Korean Chinese Claims-making in South Korea. International Journal of Korean History, 26(2), 11-40.

In this paper, we approach citizenship as a claims-making process consisting of social construction practices that emerge from ongoing negotiations and contestations. Kim and Chien examines the migrant subject-making process of Korean Chinese migrants in South Korea. Kim and Chien draw on the voices of migrants to discuss how Korean Chinese construct their migrant subjectivity by mobilizing a collective understanding of ethnonational belonging and thereby deploy distinctive strategies to support their claims.

Yang-Sook Kim, 2018, Care Work and Ethnic Boundary Marking in South Korea, Critical Sociology, 44 (7-8), 1045-1059.

This article examines how state eldercare provision influences care workers’ subjectivities and claims for dignity and self-worth. Drawing upon extensive fieldwork conducted in South Korea, Kim argues that migrant and native-born care workers construct different ideals around what is “good” versus “bad” care through the marking of ethnic and professional boundaries.

Lewin, Philip. 2024. “Policy Recommendations for Improving Housing Access, Affordability, and Equity.” Report for the City of Lake Worth Beach, FL. March. 78 pages.

Lewin, Philip. 2023. “Florida Housing Policies: Impact Analysis and Strategic Approaches for Lake Worth Beach.” Report for the City of Lake Worth Beach, FL. November. 63 pages.

Lewin, Philip, Yanmei Li, and Carter Koppelman. 2023. “Social, Economic, and Housing Conditions in Lake Worth Beach.” Report for the City of Lake Worth Beach, FL. September. 210 pages.

Lewin, Philip. 2021. “‘Don’t Call Me White’ (Or Middle-Class): Constructing an Authentic Identity in Punk Subculture.” Pp. 89-106 in Studies on the Social Construction of Identity and Authenticity, edited by J. Patrick Williams and Kaylan Schwarz. London, UK: Routledge.

Lewin focuses on the construction of identity and authenticity within the punk subculture, specifically addressing the issues of race and class.

Lewin, Philip. 2020. “Reaching the Boiling Point: Energy and Climate Policy under the Trump Administration.” Pp. 235-263 in The Future of U.S. Empire in the Americas: The Trump Administration and Beyond, edited by Timothy M. Gill. New York, NY: Routledge.

Lewin, Philip. 2019. “‘I Just Keep My Mouth Shut’: The Demobilization of Environmental Protest in Central Appalachia.” Social Currents 6(6): 534-552.

Lewin, Philip. [2017] 2019. “‘Coal is not just a Job; It’s a Way of Life’: The Cultural Politics of Coal Production in Central Appalachia.” Social Problems 66(1): 51-68.

Lewin, Philip. 2017. “Fighting King Coal: The Challenges to Micromobilization in Central Appalachia.” Contemporary Sociology 46(6): 657-65.

Lewin, Philip. 2016. “The Public Engagement Industry and the Future of Democratic Praxis.” Trajectories 28(1): 26-30.

Lewin, Philip. 2015. “Embodying the Postmodern Self: Ecstatic Ritual as a New Mode of Youth Identity Work.” Studies in Symbolic Interaction 44: 161-195.

Lewin, Philip. 2014. “Political Participation, Demobilization, and the Problem of Community Embeddedness.” States, Power, and Societies 20(1): 1-6.

Lewin, Philip. 2013. “Scenes, Subcultures and the 21st Century.” Symbolic Interaction 36(3): 365-369.

Lewin, Philip and Tim Gill. 2012. “Propagandhi and the Politics of Subcultural Resistance.” Pp. 391-415 in The Art of Social Critique: Painting Mirrors of Social Life, edited by Shawn Bingham. Plymouth, UK: Lexington Books.

Lewin, Philip and J. Patrick Williams. 2009. “The Ideology and Practice of Authenticity in Punk Subculture.” Pp. 65-83 in Authenticity in Self, Culture and Society, edited by Phillip Vannini and J. Patrick Williams. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.

Lichtenstein, Matty. “Unseeing Poverty: Tracing the Origins of Inequality in American Child Welfare.” Forthcoming in Policing not Protecting Families: The Child Welfare System as Poverty Governance . Eds. Jennifer Randles and Kerry Woodward. New York University Press, 2024.

Edwards, Frank, Sarah Roberts, Kathleen Kenny, Mical Raz, Matty Lichtenstein, Mishka Terplan. “The Prevalence and Racial Inequity of Child Protection Investigations Resulting from Medical Professional Reports in the US, 2010-2019.” Health Equity, October 2023, (653-662). http://doi.org/10.1089/heq.2023.0136.

Lichtenstein, Matty. “Legitimizing Discourses: Hasidic Schools, Non-Compliance, and the Politics of Deservingness.” American Journal of Sociology, May 2022 (127:6). DOI: 10.1086/719926
**Best Graduate Student Paper Award, Political Sociology Section, American Sociological Association, 2021.

Lichtenstein, Matty and Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana. “Contextual Text Coding: A Mixed Methods Approach for Large-Scale Textual Data.” Sociological Methods and Research , February 2021. DOI: 10.1177/0049124120986191

Lichtenstein, Matty. 2019. “‘Younger People Want to Do It Themselves’ - Self-Actualization, Commitment, and the Reinvention of Community.” Qualitative Sociology 42(2):181–203. DOI: 10.1007/s11133-019-9414-6