Afrodescendientes in Paraguay: the 209-Year Struggle for Recognition
Political Report #1453 — Afrodescendientes in Paraguay: the 209-Year Struggle for Recognition
by Valencia Wilson
Introduction
COVID-19 in El Paso: A Spectacle of Injustice
By Amy Reed-Sandoval
The French philosopher Michel Foucault famously described the nature of a “spectacle” in Discipline and Punish, in which he explored 18th century public executions in France. The purpose of spectacle, he argued, is “to bring into play…the dissymmetry between the subject who has dared to violate the law and the all-powerful sovereign who displays his strength.” Such “Foucauldian spectacles” are about inequality and, above all else, power.
Despite the various forces striving to invisibilize COVID-19 as much as possible, COVID-19 has become, I argue, a Foucauldian spectacle in the U.S.-Mexico border city of El Paso, Texas, which is now […]
Political Report # 1452 A Global Police State is Emerging as World Capitalism Descends Into Crisis
Female Bodies and Globalization: The Work of Indigenous Women Weavers in Zinacantán
Female Bodies and Globalization: The Work of Indigenous Women Weavers in Zinacantán | November 10, 2020
by Eugenia Bayona Escat | November 10, 2020
ABSTRACT:
Women producers and sellers of textile crafts in Zinacantán, Chiapas, Mexico, use one of the few resources they have to enter business: craft production as informal, invisible, and underpaid work. Taking the body as the axis of analysis, three distinct areas of transformation of indigenous women producers by tourism may be identified: the private and domestic body of craftswomen, the social and public body as an icon of ethnic difference, and the commodified body as an extension […]
Climate Change, Neoliberalism, and Migration: Mexican Sons of Peasants on the Beach
by Tamar Diana Wilson | November 10, 2020
Climate change and neoliberal policies in Mexico have been fomenting migration by campesinos and their sons. This migration is primarily internal, to cities and tourist centers, where migrants engage in informal and semi-informal income-generating activities. Interviews with 32 beach vendors, sons of campesinos, in Cabo San Lucas reflect these two drivers of migration: while most reported that they would like to farm, they identified drought and lack of government aid as major difficulties for farmers in their hometowns.
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Abstract: The Rise and Fall of Marcha Verde in the Dominican Republic
The Rise and Fall of Marcha Verde in the Dominican Republic | October 9, 2020
by Emelio Betances
The Marcha Verde movement emerged in 2017 to protest bribery on the part of the Brazilian transnational Odebrecht. It conducted 25 protests in the provinces and large marches in July 2017 and August 2018 but ultimately failed to force the government to try those responsible. As a movement for the democratization of democracy through the construction of citizens’ rights, it was a watershed moment in Dominican political history. However, it did not have time to build the social base that would have allowed […]
Paul Almeida’s book GLOBAL STRUGGLES AND SOCIAL CHANGE
From one of LAP’s editors, Paul Almeida, a recent book on global struggles and social change co-authored with Christopher Chase-Dunn. Good for updating material for those remote classes.
GLOBAL STRUGGLES AND SOCIAL CHANGE
From Prehistory to World Revolution in the Twenty-First Century
Now available from JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Christopher Chase-Dunn is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside, where he is the director of the Institute for Research on World-Systems. He is the coauthor of Social Change: Globalization from the Stone Age to the Present.
Paul Almeida is a professor of sociology at the University of […]
Paul Almeida’s newly published book GLOBAL STRUGGLES AND SOCIAL CHANGE
From one of LAP’s editors, Paul Almeida, a recent book on global struggles and social change co-authored with Christopher Chase-Dunn. Good for updating material for those remote classes. | September 10, 2020
GLOBAL STRUGGLES AND SOCIAL CHANGE
From Prehistory to World Revolution in the Twenty-First Century
Now available from JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Christopher Chase-Dunn is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside, where he is the director of the Institute for Research on World-Systems. He is the coauthor of Social Change: Globalization from the Stone Age to the Present.
Paul Almeida is a professor of sociology […]