Joan Roelofs

Joan Roelofs is Professor Emerita of political science, Keene State College, New Hampshire.


 * Member of the Boston Editorial Group of the academic journal Capitalism Nature Socialism

Her blog is http://joanroelofs.wordpress.com

Online Talks

 * "The Invisible Hand of Corporate Capitalism" (April 17, 2007)
 * “Thinking Globally, Acting Locally” Interview on New Hampshire Public Radio program, The Front Porch, by John Walters on Thursday, April 15, 2004.
 * "StoryCorps interview on Camp Woodland", July 2007.

Books

 * Greening Cities: Building Just and Sustainable Communities (Apex-Bootstrap Press, 1996) (Click here for an extract)
 * Foundations and Public Policy: The Mask of Pluralism (State University of New York Press, 2003) (Online extracts) -- referred to as a "wonderful" book by Arundhati Roy.
 * The translation of "Victor Considerant’s Principes du socialisme: Manifeste de la démocratie au XIX siècle" (Paris, 1847) (Maisonneuve Press, 2006) (Review)

Recent Articles

 * "Bases of Empire: Casting a Global Shadow", Counterpunch, February 19 - 21, 2010.
 * "It's the Whole System: Democracy, Capitalism and the Citizens United Decision", Counterpunch, January 26, 2010. (Citizens United)
 * "The Other Corporations", Corporate Watch (UK), Newsletter 43, June 2009.
 * "The Philanthropies and the Economic Crisis: Where Were the Foundations?", Counterpunch, May 28, 2009.
 * “Networks and Democracy: It Ain’t Necessarily So,” American Behavioral Scientist, 52 (March 2009): 990-1005.
 * Special Issue of Critical Sociology on foundations: Guest Editor, Introduction, and article "Foundations and Collaboration." Vol. 33 (2007).
 * "The Third Sector as a Protective Layer for Capitalism" (requested revised version), The Nonprofit Quarterly, 13 (Fall 2006).
 * "The Malleable US Constitution: A Deterrent to Democracy?", Counterpunch, August 8, 2006.
 * “Why They Hate Our Kind Hearts: The NED, NGOs and the Imperial Uses of Philanthropy: Why Some Stay Silent,” Counterpunch (May 13, 2006)
 * "A Challenge to Remake the World: Babylon and Beyond", Counterpunch (March 4 / 5, 2006)
 * “Military Contractor Philanthropy,” Counterpunch (January 25, 2006)
 * “Foundations: Impediments or Supports for Social Change?” In Daniel Faber and Deborah McCarthy (eds.), Foundations for Social Change: Critical Perspectives on Philanthropy and Popular Movements (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005).
 * "Charles Fourier: Proto-Red-Green," In David Macauley (ed.), Minding Nature: Philosophers of Ecology (Guilford Press, 1996).
 * "Foundations and Hegemony: The Velvet Glove.
 * "The Bananazation of Europe", Spinwatch, Undated.

Selected Older Articles

 * Joan Roelofs, "Market Economy: Deep Roots of Dysfunction," Synthesis/Regeneration  6 (Spring  1993): 43- 45.  ONLINE. Reprinted in Alternative Press Review  1 (1) (Fall 1993): 17-18.
 * Joan Roelofs and Erkki Berndtson, "Foundations, Social Scientists and Eastern Europe," in Stephen Brooks and Alain-G. Gagnon (eds.), The Political Influence of Ideas (Praeger, 1994).

Review Articles

 * Review of Inderjeet Parmar, Foundations of the American Century, Counterpunch, April 20-22, 2012.
 * Review of Mark Dowie, American Foundations. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001.  New Political Science 24(4) (2002): 608-610.
 * Review of Jonathan Beecher, Victor Considerant and the Rise and Fall of French Romantic Socialism, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.  New Political Science  23 (4)  (2001): 565-569.
 * Review of Universities and Empire: Money and Politics in the Social Sciences During the Cold War.  Ed. and Intro. by Christopher Simpson,  New York: The  New Press, 1998.   New  Political  Science  20 (1998): 499-503.
 * Review of Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett, Thy Will Be Done. Capitalism, Nature, Socialism  8 (4) (December 1997): 153-155.
 * Review of Teresa Odendahl. Charity Begins at Home.  New Political Science  (Fall-Winter 1990): 209-212.
 * Review of The Golden Donors by Waldemar Nielsen, and Philanthropy and Cultural Imperialism   ed. by Robert Arnove.  Telos  (Summer 1986): 178-182.
 * Review of Liberalism and the Limits of Justice by Michael Sandel.  Journal of  Politics  46  (1984): 991-993.
 * Review of Economic Democracy by Martin Conroy & Derek Shearer.  Telos  (Fall  1981)  218-223.
 * Review of Urban Self-Management by Simona Ganassi-Agger. Telos  (Winter 1980-81): 222-4.

Reviews of Foundations and Public Policy

 * Johnny E. Williams, "Review", Socialism and Democracy, 34 (Volume 17, No. 2).
 * Charles Goodsell, "Review", Choice, Volume 41; Issue 1, September 1, 2003.
 * Oleg Popov, "American “Charitable” Funds And The Russian Human Rights Organizations" (Babelfish translation from Russian), February 8, 2004.
 * "New Study on the Role of US Foundations", RUPE-India, No. 38, December 2004.
 * "Review", Public Administration Review, Volume 64, Issue 1, February 2004, p.122.
 * "Review", Namebase, Undated.
 * Rick Cohen, "National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy: Nonprofits, Philanthropy, and the Democratic Process", Foundation Center, September 19, 2006.
 * Tarik Jan, "Byzantine Face of NGOs", The Nation (A national daily newspaper from Pakistan in the Punjab and Islamabad areas), November 4, 2006.
 * Tim Stroshane, "Foundations and Hegemony", Capitalism Nature Socialism, Volume 16 Issue 3, (2005), pp.125-9.
 * Sally Covington, "Review", Social Policy, June 2003. (Roelofs response "Angry But Not Ranting")
 * Erzs'ebet Fazekas, Review, Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, Vol. 15, No. 1, March 2004, pp.91-3.
 * Robert O. Bothwell, "Philanthrophy and democracy", Nonprofit Management and Leadership, Volume 15 Issue 1, pp. 139-44.
 * Henry Robertson, "Funding Hegemony", Synthesis/Regeneration 33, Winter 2004.
 * Richard Magat, "Review", Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 2007; 36, pp.353-5.
 * Jon Van Til, "A Review Essay", A discussion paper for the Colloquium on Critical Issues in Philanthropy, ARNOVA, Atlanta, November 2007.
 * "Review", Alliance magazine, 1 September 2004.
 * Nichole Schultz, "Review", Unknown.
 * William Blum, "Some things you need to know before the world ends", The Anti-Empire Report, October 17, 2005.
 * Francesca Sawaya, "Capitalism and Philanthropy in the (New) Gilded Age", American Quarterly, 60, 1 (2008), pp.201-213
 * "Words that hurt", Marketing Week, April 28, 2005.
 * Bob Feldman, "Review", boston.indymedia, November 8, 2004.
 * Erkki Berndtson, "Review Essay: Power of Foundations and the American Ideology", Critical Sociology, 33 (2007) pp.575-87.
 * Stephen Viederman, "Review", Environmental Grantmakers Association, 2003.
 * Sanford F. Schram, "Review", ''New Political Science 25, 4, December, 2003, pp. 616-618.
 * Leslie Lenkowsky, "Review", Perspectives on Politics, 2004; 2 (1), pp.151-2.

Related Sourcewatch articles

 * Hugh B. Price uses Roelofs book on foundations for his university course Foundations as Change Agents (2008). Other academics who use Roelof's book included Stan Katz and Peter Dobkin Hall.