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 […]
Political Report # 1451 Letter from Friar Neto to his friends from abroad
Frei Betto
Political Report #1450 Walking the Tightrope: Latin America’s Pink Tide
Steve Ellner, ed. Foreword by Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 355 pp.
Latin America’s Pink Tide: Breakthroughs and Shortcomings, edited by economic historian and prominent Latin Americanist Steve Ellner, offers a critical ethical theoretical framework for assessing the performance of left and left-of-center governments in Latin America during the Pink Tide. The “Pink Tide” refers to the wave of progressive governments beginning with the election of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela in 1998. […]
Political Report #1449 What is Next for Washington After Its Failed Venezuela Strategy?
by Steve Ellner, Consortium News
Senator Chris Murphy’s recent characterization of U.S. policy toward Venezuela as an “unmitigated disaster” makes it conspicuously clear that many in the political establishment recognize the need for a change in course. The statement by such an influential Democrat may signal a policy revision toward Venezuela, though not […]
The return of the history and the indigenous of the Amazon
Por Rodrigo Yáñez[1] and Daniela García Grandón[2] | Aug. 10, 2020
Por Rodrigo Yáñez[1] and Daniela García Grandón[2]
With the expansion of the COVID-19 the society has experienced a return to history. Although we have never escaped it, it seemed as if the levels of hyper-connection and technological advances had put us in another dimension, that of the end of history, different from all time before. To a certain extent, the contemporary view was more open to the idea of colonizing Mars than to remembering past events such as the epidemics that struck Egypt, Rome or […]