Dana Fisher
Affiliation
- Faculty Fellow, Department of Sociology
Research
Dana R. Fisher is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. The major aim of her research is to understand the ways that social actors engage in decision-making processes and the successes and failures of such efforts. She has focused much of her attention on non-state actors, studying them at multiple scales, including the international comparative level, the national level in multiple nation-states (primarily the United States, Japan and countries of the European Union), and the local/grassroots level in the United States. Her most recent work focuses on the relationship between civil society actors—including social movement organizations and activists—and politics at different scales.
Her first book, National Governance and the Global Climate Change Regime, was published by Rowman and Littlefield Publishers in summer 2004. Her second book, Activism, Inc. focuses on activism in America and was publised by Stanford University Press in September 2006.
Fisher received her Ph.D. and Masters of Science degrees from the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her undergraduate degree is in East Asian Studies and Environmental Studies from Princeton University.
Selected Work
Fisher, Dana R. 2006. "Bringing the Material Back In: Understanding the United States Position on Climate Change."Sociological Forum, Volume 21, Number 3: 467-494.
Fisher, Dana R. 2006. "Taking Cover Beneath the Anti-Bush Umbrella: Cycles of Protest and Movement-to-Movement Transmission in an Era of * Repressive Politics." Research in Political Sociology. Volume 15: 27-56.
Fisher, Dana R. 2006. Activism, Inc. How the Outsourcing of Grassroots Campaigns is Strangling Progressive Politics in America. Stanford Univeristy Press.
Fisher, Dana R., Kevin Stanley, David Berman, and Gina Neff. 2005. "How Do Organizations Matter? Mobilization and Support for Participants at Five Globalization Protests." Social Problems. Volume 52, Issue 1: 102-121.
Fisher Dana R. and William R. Freudenburg. 2004. "Post Industrialization and Environmental Quality: An Empirical Analysis of the Environmental State." Social Forces. Volume 83, Issue 1.
Fisher, Dana R. 2004. National Governance and the Global Climate Change Regime. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Fisher Dana R. and Jessica Green. 2004. "Understanding Disenfranchisement: Civil Society and Developing Countries' Influence and Participation in Global Governance for Sustainable Development." Global Environmental Politics. Volume 4, Issue 3.
Fisher, Dana R. 2004. " Civil Society Protest and Participation: Civic Engagement Within the Multilateral Governance Regime." In Norichika Kanie and Peter M. Haas, ed., Emerging Forces in Environmental Governance. United Nations University Press. Pp. 176-199. 2003
Fisher, Dana R. 2003. " Global and Domestic Actors within the Global Climate Change Regime: Toward a Theory of the Global Environmental System." International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy.Volume 23, Number 10: 5-30.
See Also
- Research grants undertaken by Dana Fisher
- Featured publications by Dana Fisher
- Working paper: On Social Networks and Social Protest: Understanding the Organizational Embeddedness of Large-Scale Protest Events
- Newsletter article: STEW-MAP: Mapping Civic Innovation in New York
