Book, "Integración Económica. Impactos Regionales Y Sectoriales 2ª Ed." by Alejandro Álvarez Béjar y Gabriel Mendoza Pichardo

Integración Económica. Impactos Regionales Y Sectoriales 2ª Ed.

En los ensayos recopilados en este libro se aborda en términos teóricos y empíricos la problemática regional de México desde la perspectiva de la integración internacional. Se identifican las áreas "ganadoras" y "perdedoras" en el proceso de integración de México con América del Norte y los cambios estructurales en las relaciones Estado-mercado y en las relaciones laborales ocasionados por la fuerza gravitacional que opera en la formación del Área de Libre Comercio de las Américas.

Book, "Mobilizing Democracy: Globalization and Citizen Protest" by Paul Almeida

Mobilizing Democracy: Globalization and Citizen Protest

Paul Almeida’s comparative study of the largest social movement campaigns that existed between 1980 and 2013 in every Central American country (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama) provides a granular examination of the forces that spark mass mobilizations against state economic policy, whether those factors are electricity rate hikes or water and health care privatization. Many scholars have explained connections between global economic changes and local economic conditions, but most of the research has remained at the macro level. Mobilizing Democracy contributes to our knowledge about the protest groups "on the ground" and what makes some localities successful at mobilizing and others less successful. His work enhances our understanding of what ingredients contribute to effective protest movements as well as how multiple protagonists—labor unions, students, teachers, indigenous groups, nongovernmental organizations, women’s groups, environmental organizations, and oppositional political parties—coalesce to make protest more likely to win major concessions.

Abstract, Building Memory: Museums, Trauma, and the Aesthetics of Confrontation in Argentina

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Building Memory: Museums, Trauma, and the Aesthetics of Confrontation in Argentina

by Kristi M. Wilson

As Colombia’s asymmetric war has evolved, gravitating toward cities, it has become absorbed by a transitional justice system. In the process, language used to name relevant stakeholders, shape national narratives of collective memory, and activate legal infrastructure is mediated by a symbolic and often duplicitous system of governance. A history of political violence and attempts to impose security focusing on the contemporary population of Comuna 13, the fastest-growing site of urban displacement in the city of Medellín, gives context to stories of violence that are otherwise eclipsed by the process of collective memory making and describes grassroots attempts at retracing a public narrative.

Book, "Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador’s Modern Indigenous Movements" by Marc Becker

Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador’s Modern Indigenous Movements by Marc Becker

In June 1990, Indigenous peoples shocked Ecuadorian elites with a powerful uprising that paralyzed the country for a week. Militants insisted that the government address Indigenous demands for land ownership, education, and economic development. This uprising was a milestone in the history of Ecuador’s social justice movements, and it inspired popular organizing efforts across Latin America. While the insurrection seemed to come out of nowhere, Marc Becker demonstrates that it emerged out of years of organizing and developing strategies to advance Indigenous rights. In this richly documented account, he chronicles a long history of Indigenous political activism in Ecuador, from the creation of the first local agricultural syndicates in the 1920s through the galvanizing protests of 1990. In so doing, he reveals the central role of women in Indigenous movements and the history of productive collaborations between rural Indigenous activists and urban leftist intellectuals.

Abstract, Building Memory: Museums, Trauma, and the Aesthetics of Confrontation in Argentina

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Building Memory: Museums, Trauma, and the Aesthetics of Confrontation in Argentina

by Kristi M. Wilson

As Colombia’s asymmetric war has evolved, gravitating toward cities, it has become absorbed by a transitional justice system. In the process, language used to name relevant stakeholders, shape national narratives of collective memory, and activate legal infrastructure is mediated by a symbolic and often duplicitous system of governance. A history of political violence and attempts to impose security focusing on the contemporary population of Comuna 13, the fastest-growing site of urban displacement in the city of Medellín, gives context to stories of violence that are otherwise eclipsed by the process of collective memory making and describes grassroots attempts at retracing a public narrative.

Exclusive, Ecología Política 51. Political Ecology in Latin America by Nemer E. Narchi

For nearly four decades studies in Political Ecology has proven the well known effects that power relations have over the quality of and availability and access to natural resources. Nonetheless, the neo-Maltusian discourse [1], which highlights population growth as the single-most salient factor promoting anthropogenic impacts on the environment, is still a prevailing idea among prominent thinkers and opinion leaders.

Optimal scenarios for understanding how unbalanced exercises of political and economical power create environmental costs and benefits can be observed throughout the world due to an overarching colonial past. However, when scrutinizing the recent history of Latin America, there is no question that the region could provide a myriad of textbook-scenarios.

Exclusive,"Medidas extraordinarias de seguridad en El Salvador: ¿Pueden reducir la violencia en el país?" by Noemy Polanco and Harry E. Vanden

Medidas extraordinarias de seguridad en El Salvador: 
¿Pueden reducir la violencia en el país?

Por

Noemy Polanco

Y

Harry E. Vanden

Después de abandonar una tregua entre las pandillas que se negoció con la ayuda del gobierno del FMLN en 2012 la violencia en El Salvador aumento significativamente, los registros del nivel de muertes violentas se elevó hasta alcanzar cifras entre los 25 o 30 homicidios por día hasta llegar a más que 100 homicidios por 100,000, habitantes por ano haciendo el Salvador el país no en guerra más violento en el mundo. Los niveles de violencia han sido atribuidos a las maras, las pandillas Mara Salvatrucha (MS ó MS-13) y Barrio 18 (M 18).Por ello el gobierno del FMLN, en turno hoy representado por el Presidente Salvador Sánchez Cerén, ha optado por implementar medidas extraordinarias en la búsqueda de reducir la violencia y desarticular las estructuras de crimen organizado en manos de grupos de pandillas.

Political Report # 1147 Coup acts to repress Brazil Landless Movement

By Clifford Andrew Welch, LAP Editor and  Contributing Editor/UNIFESP

On May 31, Valdir Misnerovicz, an important and effective organizer of the Landless Workers Movement (MST) in Brazil was arrested while teaching a class on agricultural coops in Veranópolis, a city in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul. The arrest did not stem from his lectures, but from his activism. To organize the poor to occupy land in the name of fulfilling Brazil's constitutional mandate to ensure the "social function" of land through its appropriation and distribution among peasants is considered illegal gang activity by the government of Michel Temer, which came to power last month in what many consider to be a coup d'etat.

Meet LAP Editor Tomás Crowder-Taraborelli

Tomas Crowder-Taraborelli, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies

Phone: 949-480-4327
Fax: 949-480-4243
Email: tcrowdertaraborrelli@soka.edu
http://www.tcrowdertaraborrelli.com/
Faculty - Full-Time
BIOGRAPHY

Tomás Crowder-Taraborrelli studied journalism and film at San Francisco State University, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1990. In 1994,  he received a master's degree in Comparative Literature from San Francisco State University. He then went into the Spanish and Portuguese doctoral program at the University of California, Irvine and received his Ph. D in 2001. Before coming to SUA, Dr. Crowder-Taraborrelli taught at the University of San Francisco, where he founded the film collective Cine Campesino and made two documentaries in Honduras (2002-2004). He then received a Fellowship in the Humanities at Stanford University, California, where he taught and did research on the role of cinema in the investigation of crimes against humanity. He also co-founded the Stanford Film Lab and ran it from 2004-2008. Dr. Crowder-Taraborrelli also studied scriptwriting, lighting and direction at the Film Arts Foundation, San Francisco, California. He has given lectures and workshops on film and is one of the editors of the anthology Film and Genocide (University of Wisconsin Press, 2012).

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Meet LAP editor Armando Gonzalez-Caban

Armando Gonzalez-Caban

Economist

4955 Canyon Crest Drive

Riverside

California

United States

92507

Phone: 951-680-1525

Political Report # 1086 State Terror or Capitalist Terror, Military Coup or Capitalist Coup By James Petras, LAP Editor

Introduction             Democratic critics of military seizures of power commonly refer to them as military coups.  They adopt a very narrow and misleading conception of what is taking place.             Likewise, human rights activists and progressive analysts who conceptualize the reign of violence which follows, a 'coup' as state terror fail to take account of the systemic forces - the capitalist social order and class relations - which determine the classes which wield state power.  They ignore the specific classes and groups which are targeted and which classes direct and benefit from terror.             Concepts like 'state terror' and 'military coup' obscure as much as enlighten.  Moreover, the narrow focus on the military limits the political changes in the class structure required to avoid the repetition  of the violent overthrow of democratic governments.             In this essay we will focus on the case of Argentina, where the Central Bank has opened its archives to judicial investigators looking into the relationship between the military dictatorship (1976-83) and major capitalist enterprises.          We will also  cite the empirical research of Professor Juan Carlos "Lito" Marin ,one of Argentina's leading scholars on the violent overthrow of the elected government. His specialty was on the social relations and class context of the killing of 30,000 Argentines during the military dictatorship.             We will especially draw on his statistical analysis of the victims found in his book ("Lucha de calles, lucha de clase' -  Street struggles, class struggle).

Meet LAP Editor Jennifer Hughes

Jennifer Hughes
Associate Professor of History
Ph.D. Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley 2005
Masters, Harvard University, Divinity School 1996
B.A., Highest Honors, Latin American Studies, University of California, San

ta Cruz 1996

Areas of specialization: History of Religions. Historical and cultural study of Latin American and Latino religions, including conquest, mission, conversion, syncretism, indigenous Christianity. History of modern Christianity. Material religion, material culture (theory of the object) and religion and art, especially the religious image. Affective approaches to the study of religion, religion and emotion.

jennifer.hughes@ucr.edu
Curriculum Vitae

BIOGRAPHY

Jennifer Hughes' research and teaching focuses on Latin American and Latino religions, religion and art (including especially religious images), the role of religion in colonialism and decolonization, Christianity in the Southern Hemisphere, and immigrant religions. Professor Hughes' first book, Biography of a Mexican Crucifix: Lived Religion and Local Faith from the Conquest to the Present (Oxford University Press, 2010), is a history of popular devotion to artistic images of the suffering Christ in Mexico. She is currently working on two new projects. The first treats the impact of mass death by epidemic disease on the shape of New World Christianity. The second explores Latino religious practice in the metro Los Angeles/Southern California area. She is currently the co-chair of the Religion in Latin America and Caribbean Group of the American Academy of Religion. In addition to her academic scholarship, Professor Hughes has worked as an advocate for homeless Latinos with HIV/AIDS, as a translator and advocate for Angolan refugees in South Africa, and with the liberation theology base community movement in Brazil. Professor Hughes is also the founding co-director of UC Riverside's Institute for the Study of Immigrant Religions.

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Meet LAP Editor George S. Leddy

George S. Leddy

Brief Biography

Born in Washington D.C. to a career foreign service family with Irish-American father and a Peruvian mother.  I spent my childhood and youth in Latin America, particularly in Mexico, where I lived for twenty years.  Attended school in the United States; California resident since 1974. Research and travel in South America, Europe and Africa.

Education

University of California at Santa Barbara, Major: Philosophy, 1973-1975
University of California at Santa Cruz, Double Major:  Environmental/Community Studies, 1977-1978
University of California at Berkeley, B.Sc.  Conservation & Resource Studies, 1978-1979
Area of Interest:  The Political Economy of Agriculture in Latin America.
University of California at Berkeley, M.A.  Human Geography, 1981- 1985
Thesis:  Petroleum Revenue, Agriculture and the State in Venezuela
University of California at Berkeley, Ph.D. Ad Hoc Individual Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in
Ecology and Development Policy, 1995
Thesis:  Catches, Commerce and Crisis:  Fisheries, Government and Trade in the Mexican port of Guaymas, Sonora



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Meet LAP Editor Sheryl Lutjens

Dr. Lutjens joined the Women’s Studies Department at CSUSM as Chair in January 2008.  Her teaching areas include Feminist Theory, Women and Politics, Gender and Organizations, Gender and Development, and Women and Revolution.

Education
Sheryl Lutjens earned a B.A. in German from the University of California, Riverside, a secondary teaching credential from CSU San Bernardino, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.



 Research

Sheryl’s research has focused on power, participation, the state, and democracy; women/gender and politics in the U.S., Spain, and Latin America; and feminist politics and political theory.  As a Cuba specialist, her research on Cuba has explored the state and administrative reform, popular participation and democracy, women, education, and U.S.-Cuba academic relations.   Her publications include two books, The State, Bureaucracy, and the Cuban Schools: Power and Participation and the co-edited collection Rereading Latin American Women: The Political Economy of Gender, six special issues of the journal Latin American Perspectives (two on women/gender in Latin America and four on Cuba), numerous articles and chapters in books, and North America and the Caribbean, a volume she edited for the six-volume The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Children’s Issues Worldwide.  Her recent publications include “The Subject(s) of Academic and Cultural Exchange:  Paradigms, Power, and Possibilities,” in Debating U.S.-Cuba Relations:  Shall We Play Ball? eds. Rafael Hernández and Jorge I. Domínguez (Routledge, 2011).

Sheryl is a member of the editorial boards of Cuban Studies and The International Journal of Cuban Studies, and a coordinating editor of Latin American Perspectives.  Among other collaborative projects, Lutjens has worked since 1994 with the Association of Cuban Educators in the organization of annual seminarios, in Cuba, for U.S. and Cuban educational professionals, teachers, and graduate students.  She is a founding member of the Latin American Studies Association’s Section for Scholarly Relations with Cuba and is currently co-chair of the 665-member section.


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Meet LAP Editor Stephanie Moore

Stephanie Moore

Educator/Program Manager/Researcher/Community Engagement/Latin American, World, Gender & Oral History
Greater Los Angeles AreaHigher Education


Japanese Peruvian Oral History Project, Coordinating Council for Women in History, Latin American Perspectives Journal
Salisbury University, Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, UC San Diego


Education
University of California, San Diego

I am presently seeking a position that draws upon my extensive teaching and program management experience in higher education and nonprofit organizations. I have over seven years of university teaching experience in History (Latin American, world, U.S. immigration, Spanish, and East Asian), Spanish, and Spanish-English Interpretation. I am an innovative educator, dedicated to fostering in students a critical engagement with our world through inquiry and service learning. Student evaluations have consistently characterized me as a dynamic teacher of highly interactive classes, creative in my teaching methods, and successful with diverse learners. I am an award-winning scholar (Coordinating Council for Women in History (CCWH) Prelinger Award, 2010) specializing in race and gender in Latin America (19th-20th centuries) and I presently serve on the CCWH Executive Board.

Reflective of my commitment to community engagement, I have published and presented in multiple community forums as well as led university community outreach programs. From 2009 to 2013, I coordinated Salisbury University's Bienvenidos a Delmarva (2009-2013) where I organized educational programs on immigrant issues for a network of over 70 public, private, and nonprofit agencies. I presently serve as Program and Development Coordinator of the Japanese Peruvian Oral History Project (JPOHP). I recently secured a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to fund the JPOHP/National Japanese American Historical Society’s creation of a digital museum, on which I serve as Principal Scholar, on the incarceration of Japanese Latin Americans in U.S. internment camps during WWII. Finally, I have over a decade of experience managing education and advocacy programs in human (Mothers of the Disappeared in El Salvador, Witness for Peace, and JPOHP), civil (Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights), and workers' rights (The Newspaper Guild-Communications Workers of America) in the United States and Latin America.

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Political Report # 1081 US-China Relations: the Pentagon versus High Tech By James Petras LAP Editor

Introduction

            Step by step, Washington is inexorably setting up a major provocation against China.  Until now, the Obama regime tightened a military encirclement of China, expanding its armed forces agreements with Japan, the Philippines and Australia.  In addition, it has promoted the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), a regional trade agreement which openly excludes China.  Obama has ordered a major naval build-up in the South China Sea and embarked on extensive cyber-espionage of Chinese industries and the government via major US high-tech companies, as revealed by Edward Snowden in his release of confidential NSA document.

In Memoriam: Maria Helena Moreira Alves (1944–2015)

::::::In Memoriam::::::

 Maria Helena Moreira Alves (1944–2015) 

Maria Helena Moreira Alves passed away on July 27, 2015, in Havana, Cuba, where she was receiving treatment for cancer. An internationally recognized Brazilian political scientist and human rights activist, Alves was a longtime collaborator of Latin American Perspectives and served as a participating editor. During the late 1970's she participated in the transnational movement to denounce the Brazilian military dictatorship through the Brazilian Labor and Information Center. Between 1983 and 1985 she was the Director of Public and International Relations of the city of Diadema...

Latin American Perspectives
September 2015 42: 272

Meet LAP Editor Jonathan Ritter

Meet LAP Editor Jonathan Ritter
Associate Professor and Graduate Advisor
Director, UCR Latin American Studies Program
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Email: jonathan.ritter@ucr.edu
Phone: (951) 827-6097
Office: Arts 139


Jonathan Ritter is an ethnomusicologist whose research focuses on the indigenous and Afro-Hispanic musical cultures of Andean South America.

Meet LAP editor Dolores Trevizo, Occidental College

Meet LAP editor Dolores Trevizo, Occidental College

Professor, Sociology; Advisory Committee, Latino/a and Latin American Studies

Trevizo is a political sociologist and teaches courses in political sociology, social movements and revolutions, theory, immigration to the United States, and quantitative research methods.

Education: A.B., Occidental College; M.A., Ph.D., UCLA

Her research and writing focus on the relations between states (democratic and authoritarian) and civil societies. Recently, her work has focused on the causes and political consequences of peasant movements in Mexico. She returned to Oxy in 1997 as a minority dissertation fellow and has been teaching as an assistant professor since 1998.

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Meet LAP Editor Clare M. Weber, California State University, Domingo Hills

Meet LAP Editor Clare M. Weber, California State University, Domingo Hills