1、DRAFTStructural, Cultural and Social features of a Binational Organizational Community: Binational Collaboration between the US and Mexican HIV/AIDS SectorsBy Nielan BarnesDepartment of SociologyUniversity of California, San DiegoPaper submitted to the Society for Comparative Research Graduate Stude 。

2、nt Retreat, May 14-15 2004Abstract: This paper discusses how binational networks interact with certain structural, cultural, and social features of local community-based organizations to shape their strategies, forms and goals and ultimately their success or failure. For example, binational networks 。

3、 intersect with structural aspects of the organizational environment, such as funding and policies provided by government (State, Federal), private foundations, and/or international agencies, to shape the mission, decision-making structures and daily activities of local organizations. Binational net 。

4、works must also negotiate the different cultural features of organizational settings (such as the taken-for-granted and normative “rules” and regulations) typical of community-based organizations and the public health sector. Finally, binational ties intersect with already-existing social networks a 。

5、nd ties between organizations in ways that can reduce or enhance access to key resources and decision-making processes. This paper contributes to current debates in the fields of globalization and health inequities, transnational social movements, and the sociology of organizations and the non-profi 。

6、t sector by generating original knowledge and theory about the origin, function and social impact of transnational networks upon local community-based AIDS organizations in the US and Mexico, and in transnational settings in general. In addition, the study clarifies what kinds of resources, funding。

7、policies and collaborative institutional processes are required for developing effective State-Community partnerships and sustainable local non-profits that can negotiate the kinds of complex and diverse problems presented by the AIDS pandemic and other major health issues that span transnational se 。

8、ttings. I. IntroductionSpurred by international AIDS conferences and the recognition that the AIDS pandemic does not respect national borders, the concept of an “international AIDS community” is increasingly used to describe a global vision of a transnational community of individuals and organizatio 。

9、ns linked because they are infected and/or affected by HIV/AIDS. The global vision of an AIDS community also explicitly recognizes that global forces of capitalism contribute to the world-wide spread of HIV/AIDS and inequities in access to AIDS treatments. In particular, access to AIDS medications a 。

10、nd treatments has become a global issue giving rise to a new phase of global solidarity between AIDS organizations (UNAIDS 1998). Regardless of the conceptual level, descriptions of the AIDS community revolve around a sense of shared history and identity, and mutually intelligible meanings” (Goldrin 。

11、g 1999: 173) that exists between individuals and organizations claiming membership in this group. This concept, however, does not assume consensus over all areas of meaning. Indeed, conflict and contestation over the meaning of membership and community boundaries are central to the process of formin 。

12、g and maintaining a community. The importance of contestation (and negotiation) in the creation of community shows how meanings, boundaries and identities and therefore communities - are socially constructed within particular historical contexts (Smith 1999: 204). Organizations are particularly impo 。

13、rtant to the construction and maintenance of communities, as they provide both a physical and ideological space for individual members to negotiate and structure the boundaries of their community. In many ways, communities can be viewed as networks of inter-organizational linkages” (Hall 1999: 9), o 。

14、r as “a group of populations bound by ecological ties of commensalism (involving the co-action of like forms) and symbiosis (involving mutual interdependence of unlike forms) that co-evolve with each other and the environment” (Rao, Morrill et al. 2000: 541). Within organizational communities and co 。

15、mmunities in general it is the social ties and networks between actors that constitute and maintain the community. Such social networks have a boundary-making function that determines membership in the community and by extension determines access to resources embedded in the social networks of the c 。

16、ommunity. Resources embedded in social networks social capital are typically available only to community members. However the location of an individual (or organization) in relation to the network can offer unexpected opportunities to access social capital (e.g. bridging of structural holes) from wi 。

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