Sesame Street Around the World: Culture, Politics, and Transnational Organizational Partnerships

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Tamara Kay (Andrew W. Mellon Chair and Professor of Sociology, Andrew W. Mellon Chair and Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh)

Sesame Street Around the World

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Culture, Politics, and Transnational Organizational Partnerships

Tamara Kay (Andrew W. Mellon Chair and Professor of Sociology, Andrew W. Mellon Chair and Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh)

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Oxford University Press Inc
13 April 2026

Institutions & learned societies: general; Social issues & processes; Sociology; Organisational theory & behaviour

Series: Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics

Given the sometimes extraordinary politicization of culture, it is surprising that Sesame Street has gained acceptance and legitimacy in more than fifty countries. Sesame Street's global success raises two questions. First, how does a US icon like Sesame Street spread around the world, gaining acceptance as a local cultural product? Second, how does the nonprofit that created it, Sesame Workshop, and its partners around the world navigate cultural differences, manage conflicts, and construct shared collective representations to create Sesame Street programs that resonate with local audiences? Tamara Kay answers these questions using data from seven years of intensive ethnographic fieldwork and 200 in-depth interviews with Sesame Workshop staff and international partners-including their real-time interactions-from seventeen countries within four regions around the world. Kay argues that Sesame Workshop's secret is its engagement in coproduction, meaning it works with partners as a transnational team to create local Sesame Street programs together. Through coproduction, Sesame Workshop and its partners create new collective identities by constructing value to align their interests and exchanging complex cultural knowledge to both customize and build alliances. She traces the successive processes of coproduction, beginning with the imagination of the cultural product, to its disassembly, reconstitution, and dissemination. Coproduction privileges the creation of new knowledge that emerges from transnational interaction, and uses that new knowledge to create a hybrid cultural product. The Sesame Street case grapples with and illuminates culture in transnational interaction, providing insight into a range of other transnational organizational partnerships and different kinds of hybrid cultural products.

By: Tamara Kay (Andrew W. Mellon Chair and Professor of Sociology Andrew W. Mellon Chair and Professor of Sociology University of Pittsburgh)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 517g
ISBN: 9780190844295
ISBN 10: 0190844299
Series: Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 13 April 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1: Introduction: Coproduction and Sesame Street: Culture in Transnational Interaction 2: Universality and Particularity: Variation and the Sesame Model 3: Disassembling Sesame Street: Constructing Value to Align Interests 4: Reconstituting Sesame Street: Exchanging Cultural Knowledge to Customize 5: Pushing Cultural Boundaries: Authenticity and Social Change 6: Disseminating Sesame Street: Exchanging Cultural Knowledge to Build Alliances 7: Managing and Resolving Conflicts 8: Conclusions 9: Epilogue: The Sesame Model, Sustainability and Scale Appendix I: Data and Methods

Tamara Kay is the Andrew W. Mellon Chair and Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. She works on issues of trade, labor, social movements, globalization, culture, organizations, and global health including reproductive health and rights.