Tammy L. Lewis

Extending the Stay: Using Community-Based Research and Service Learning to Enhance Short-Term Study Abroad.

Short-term study abroad (STSA) is an important alternative for students not likely to participate in semester-long or yearlong international study abroad programs. The authors present an assessment of their short-term study abroad program, Environmental and Cultural Conservation in Latin America. The authors show that STSA programs appeal to students not currently choosing to go abroad. The authors use four specific strategies to create outcomes that allow them to meet some of the goals of longer term study abroad. These strategies include (a) making links to campus coursework, (b) conducting community-based research, (c) participating in community service learning, and (d) emphasizing research skills and interdisciplinary connections. The assessment showed that STSA resulted in altered course of study, subsequent travel or study abroad, increased interest in interdisciplinary studies, and influenced perceptions regarding globalization.

Sociology and the Environment: An Analysis of Coverage in Introductory Sociology Textbooks

Using content analysis, this research examines the impact of the first 25 years of environmental sociology research on current introductory sociology textbooks. The investigators searched the texts for 40 key concepts in environmental sociology and for the inclusion of works by 20 award-winning environmental sociologists. On average, the texts cited 7 of the 40 key concepts. Eliminating multiple citations to a page, the total number of pages cited averaged just under three percent per book. On average, the texts cite four works by influential environmental sociologists. The texts, however, omitted some of the most central, unique concepts in the field. The texts typically treated environmental issues as social problems rather than as the by-products of institutionalized behaviors or practices. There tends to be a positive relationship between the sales of a text and the discussion of the environment.

Anatomy of a Conflict: Identity, Knowledge, and Emotion in Old-Growth Forests.By Terre Satterfield. UCB Press, 2002. 198 pp

families, and communities. Yet how is father involvement possible within a conflictual coparenting relationship, or in spite of shame that men felt as exoffenders and absent fathers? Nurse offers a thorough consideration of men’s involvement through child support, in-kind support, and visitation. The range of defined involvement can expand by integrating concepts from the growing body of literature on father involvement. For example, nonresidential fathers who cannot offer financial resources often provide social capital for their children by linking them to their own family members for additional resources, caregiving, or social support. Fatherhood Arrested leads to policy recommendations, including in-house parenting classes and enhanced visitation rights, as well as postrelease social support and enhanced legal ties. Nurse argues that child support and correctional systems need to establish more effective means of communication, and these linkages should extend to local welfare systems, educational systems, and a range of undeveloped supports (particularly transportation and medical benefits). In particular, constrained access to good jobs and opportunities to provide for children need to be explicitly addressed. Ultimately, the social embeddedness of incarcerated fathers may hold the key to successful reintegration. The search for an alternative to the “deficit model” of fatherhood can be problematic, however, given a new normative fatherhood that presumes that men are employed, in stable relationships, and able to choose between providing and caregiving. These norms set up high expectations that young lowincome fathers cannot attain without adequate employment opportunities and extensive social supports. Nurse’s innovative research offers a much-needed roadmap for realistic expectations of young incarcerated fathers and for relationship supports in correctional institutions and related policy systems.

Engendering the Environment? Gender in the World Bank's Environmental Policies

Part 1 Theoretical perspectives: theorizing gender - a framework of analysis a gender evaluation of EIA theories women, development and environment - implications for EIA. Part 2 A case study of the World Bank: the rhetoric of gender, gendered rhetoric - EIA in the context of the World Banks social policies the World Banks EIA policy the Sardar Sarovar Project - history and politics EIA in practice revisiting gender and EIA.