Taxpayer Identity Politics in the
Era of the Tea Party
Friday 26 October, 2012
4pm, $0
The Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, Room C415A
How has a conservative-taxpayer identity come to shape the tea party’s anti-tax, small-government agenda? The tea party movement emerged in early 2009, decrying President Obama’s stimulus and health care plans. Its initial protests explicitly evoked the symbolism of the 1773 Boston Tea Party and the Revolutionary War, while drawing on the ideological, organizational, and financial resources of contemporary libertarian and conservative struggles. Sandra Morgen has completed over three years of ethnographic research on tax-related campaigns in Oregon. Her talk will serve as the keynote to a day-long workshop on the tea party movement held at the Graduate Center. Visit the conference website for more details.
Sandra Morgen is professor of anthropology at the University of Oregon, and currently serves as vice provost for Graduate Studies and associate dean of the Graduate School. Her most recent books are Stretched Thin: Poor Families, Welfare Work and Welfare Reform, co-authored with Joan Acker and Jill Weigt; Into Our Own Hands: The Women’s Health Movement in the U.S. 1969-1990; and Taxes are a Woman’s Issue, co-authored with Mimi Abramovitz. She is also a co-editor of several recent volumes, including Work, Welfare and Politics and Rethinking Security: Gender, Race, and Militarization. She received the Career Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Anthropology of the U.S from the Society for the Anthropology of North America in 2003.
Sandra Morgen is professor of anthropology at the University of Oregon, and currently serves as vice provost for Graduate Studies and associate dean of the Graduate School. Her most recent books are Stretched Thin: Poor Families, Welfare Work and Welfare Reform, co-authored with Joan Acker and Jill Weigt; Into Our Own Hands: The Women’s Health Movement in the U.S. 1969-1990; and Taxes are a Woman’s Issue, co-authored with Mimi Abramovitz. She is also a co-editor of several recent volumes, including Work, Welfare and Politics and Rethinking Security: Gender, Race, and Militarization. She received the Career Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Anthropology of the U.S from the Society for the Anthropology of North America in 2003.
