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LANDOLT, Patricia 

last update 01/08

 

Institutional affiliation:  

  • CERLAC Fellow  

Contact:  

Centre for Urban and Community Studies

455 Spadina Ave. Toronto, ON. M5S 2G8

Tel. 416.978.1350  

Fax 416.978.7162

Email: landolt@utsc.utoronto.ca

 

Research Interests:  

Transnationalism, international migration, immigrant incorporation, political sociology, economic sociology

 

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization:

Central America: El Salvador, Latin America: Caribbean

 

Work in Progress:  

 

Recent Publications

 

Landolt, Patricia. “The Transnational Geographies of Immigrant Politics: Insights from a Comparative Study of Migrant Grassroots Organizing.” The Sociological Quarterly 49 (1) (2008): 57-77.

 

Bernhard, Judith, Patricia Landolt and Luin Goldring. “Transnationalizing Families: Canadian Immigration Policy and the Spatial Fragmentation of Care-giving among Latin American Newcomers” International Migration 46 (May, 2008).

 

Landolt, Patricia. “Nation-State Building Projects and the Politics of Transnational Migration: Locating Salvadorans in Canada, the United States and El Salvador.” In Citizenship and Immigrant Incorporation: Comparative Perspectives on North America and Western Europe, edited by Gokce Yurdakul and Michal Bodemann. New York City: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007.

 

Landolt, Patricia. “The Institutional Landscapes of Salvadoran Transnational Migration: Trans-Local Views from Los Angeles and Toronto.” In Organizing the Transnational: The Experience of Asian and Latin American Migrants in Canada, edited by L. Goldring and S. Krishnamurti. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2007.

 

 

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LANDSTREET, Peter  

last update 11/09

 

Institutional affiliation:

  • Associate Professor, Sociology, York  
  • CERLAC Fellow  

 

Contact:  

2082 Vari Hall, York University
4700 Keele St, Toronto, ON
Canada  M3J 1P3  

Phone: (416) 736-2100 ext. 77987
Fax: (416) 736-3206
Email: plbarent@yorku.ca

Website: www.arts.yorku.ca/soci/barent/

 

Research Interests:  

Chilean military dictatorship (1973-1990); state repression and civil opposition; human rights.

 

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization

Latin America and the Caribbean; Chile, Cuba.

 

Recent Publications

"Human Rights Advocacy in a Repressive Context: Chile", co-author in Making Knowledge Count: Advocacy and Social Science, Harris-Jones (ed.), McGill-Queen's University Press: 1991.   

 

Human Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean, co-editor, Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, 1989.

 

Work in Progress:  

  • Update, November 2009: Arrangements are actively being put into place for the adaptation into
    Spanish of the textbook described below, for use in the universities of Spanish-speaking Latin
    America and Spain. The nucleus of the adaptation team consists of three sociologists. Two of
    them are the current and the incoming Directors of the Instituto de Sociología, at the Universidadde Valparaíso, in Chile (one a Chilean, one a Spaniard). The third is Spaniard who is Director of the Departamento de Sociología V, at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. As a step along the way, the four of us plan to have a week-long workshop in Madrid, in June 2010. Translation/adaptation of Chapter 1 is in process.
  • A World of Sociology, in two parts — Part 1: The Basic Concepts and Part 2: Societies Across
    Time and Space. An introductory sociology textbook of a highly unusual sort, based on
    comparative, social-evolutionary and historical approaches.

 

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LARREA, Carlos     

last update 05/08

 

Institutional affiliation:  

  • Professor, Latin American Studies, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (UASB), Quito
  • Professor - Universidad Central del Ecuador
  • CERLAC Fellow

 

Contact:  

USAB

Toledo N22-80 (Plaza Brasilia)

Apartado Postal 17-12-569

Quito, Ecuador  

Fax: (593-2) 322 8426

Email: clarrea_2000@yahoo.com

 

Research Interests:  

Development strategies; social and environmental impacts of structural adjustment and trade liberalization policies; poverty, income distribution and employment in Ecuador and Latin America, Social indicators of development.

 

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization:

Ecuador, Andean Region, Latin America.

 

Special activities

 

  • Design and construction of an information system of social indicators of development in Ecuador (ODEPLAN).

 

Recent Publications

Hacia una Historia Ecológica del Ecuador: Propuestas para el Debate. Quito: Corporación Editora Nacional, 2007.

 

Dolarización, Crisis y Pobreza en el Ecuador. Quito: Abya-Yala-IEE-FLACSO-ILDIS, 2004.

 

With Jeanette Sanchez, Pobreza, Empleo y Equidad en el Ecuador: Perspectivas para el Desarrollo Humano. Quito: PNUD, 2002.

 

"Structural Adjustment, Income Distribution and Employment in Ecuador," in Poverty, Economic reform and Income Distribution in Latin America, Albert Berry (ed.), Boulder: Lynne Reiner Publishers, 1998.   

 

"Ecuador: Adjustment Policy Impacts on Truncated Development and Democratization", with Liisa North, Third World Quarterly 18:5, 1997.  

 

Work in Progress:  

  • Research on social and environmental impacts of structural adjustment and trade liberalization policies in Ecuador.
  • National information system and social and environmental development indicators in Ecuador. 

 

Read about Carlos' effort to "keep oil in the soil" in Ecuadorean Amazon

 

  

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LATTA, Alex

last update 11/09

 

Institutional affiliation:

  •  Assistant Professor, Global Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University  
  • CERLAC Associate Fellow  

 

Contact:  

Department of Global Studies
Wilfrid Laurier University
75 University Ave. West
Waterloo, Ontario
N2L 3C5  
Phone: (519) 884-0710 extension 3115
Fax: (905) 522-5993
Email: alatta@wlu.ca

 

Research Interests:  

Environmental/Ecological Citizenship; Indigenous Citizenship; Environmental Justice; Eco-Criticism.

 

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization

Latin America (especially Chile)

 

Special Activites:

  • Member of the editorial board for Environments

Recent Publications

Latta, Alex and Cid, Beatriz (Forthcoming) Testing the Limits: Neoliberal Ecologies From Pinochet to Bachelet. Latin American Perspectives.

 

(2009). Between Political Worlds: Indigenous Citizenship in Chile's Alto Bío Bío. Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 4(1): 47-71.

 

(2008). The Ecological Citizen. In E. Isin (ed.) Recasting the Social In Citizenship. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 239-260.

 

Edenic Narratives in the Nature Poetry of Chile’s Pablo Neruda and Gabriela Mistral. Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature and Environment, 14:2, 2007, pp. 141-163.   

 

"Citizenship and the Politics of Nature: The Case of Chile’s Alto Bío Bío ", Citizenship Studies, 11:2 2007, pp. 229 - 246.  

 

"Locating Democratic Politics in Ecological Citizenship", Environmental Politics, 16:3, 2007, pp. 377-393.  

 

“La Política Mapuche Local en Chile. Las Comunidades Pehuenche del Alto Bío Bío. Un Estudio de Caso”, (“Local Mapuche Politics in Chile. The Pehuenche Communities of the Alto Bío Bío. A Case Study”), Líder, 13:2, 2006, 165-190

 

Recently Completed Projects:

  • Testing the Limits: Neoliberal Ecologies from Pinochet to Bachelet. Collaborative research project conducted with Beatriz Cid of the Universidad de Concepción. Findings are forthcoming in Latin American Perspectives.

  • Completed fieldwork in November-December 2006 examining the conditions for local indigenous citizenship in the Municipality of Alto Bío Bío, Chile

 

Work in Progress:  

  • Hydroelectricity and the Political Ecology of Citizenship in Chile, a one-year research project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
  • Environment and Citizenship in Latin America, a collaborative book project co-coordinated with Dr. Hannah Wittman of Simon Fraser University.
  • Currently developing a long-term research project on the intersection between citizenship and energy policy in Chile.  

 

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LEFEBER, Louis

last update 12/07

 

Institutional affiliation:  

  • Professor of Economics and Graduate Programme for Social and Political Thought (Emeritus), York University  
  • CERLAC Fellow  (Founding Director)
 

Contact:  

CERLAC
Room 240 York Lanes
York University 
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M3J 1P3  

Phone: (416) 736-5237
Fax: (416) 736-5737
Email: lefeber@yorku.ca
Website: www.yorku.ca/cerlac/lefeber

 

Research Interests:

Political Economy

 

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization:

Latin America (Andean regions), South Asia (India), Mediterranean (Greece)

 

Special activities:

  • Canadian Pugwash Group
  • Science for Peace  
  • Presented a paper On the Meaning of Efficiency (jointly with Professor Thomas Vietorisz of Columbia and Cornell universities) at the First Annual Symposium on Development and Globalization, organized by Professor Joseph Stiglitz, Director, Program in International Development and Globalization, Columbia University. 

 

Recent Publications:

"The Meaning of Social Efficiency." (jointly with Thomas Vietorisz), Review of Political Economy, (April 2007).

See additional selected writings at www.yorku.ca/cerlac/lefeber

 

Work in Progress:  

  • History of the founding and establishment of CERLAC

 

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LEGLER, Thomas 

last update 08/03

 

Institutional affiliation:  

  • International Relations, Mount Allison University  
  • CERLAC Fellow  

 

Contact:

Department of Political Science
Avard-Dixon Building
Mount Allison University
144 Main Street
Sackville NB E4L 1A7

Phone: (506) 364-2326
Fax: (506) 364-2625  
Email: tlegler@mta.ca

 

Research Interests:  

Politics of economic restructuring; social movements; Canada-Latin America relations.

 

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization:

Mexico; Latin America.

 

Recent Publications

"The OAS Democratic Solidarity Paradigm: The Question of Leadership", with Andrew Cooper, in Journal of Inter-American Studies and World Affairs, 2000.  

 

“Canadian and Mexican Foreign Policies, 1990-2000: Convergence or Divergence?”, in edited volume of proceedings from the CALACS seminar on “La Integración Canadá-México: Una Perspectiva Latinoamericana”, June 2000.

 

"The Dimensions of Statecraft in South Korean and Taiwanese Development: A Comparison With Latin America", in In Markets, States, and Identities: Looking at Social Change in Latin America, José Javet (ed.), Ottawa: Canadian Scholars' Press, 1999.

 

Work in Progress:

  • Mexican civil society and democracy; Canadian and Mexican foreign policies in comparative perspective; Mexico's democratic transition; politics of economic restructuring in rural Mexico; transnational social movement formation.  

 

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LLAMBÍAS-WOLFF, Jaime  

last update 11/09

 

Institutional affiliation:

  • Associate Professor, Division of Social Science, York University  
  • CERLAC Associate Fellow  

 

Contact:  

South Ross 733 
4700 Keele Street 
York University
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M3J 1P3  

Phone: (416) 736-5054 ext. 33298
Fax: (416) 736-5615
Email: jlwolff@yorku.ca
 

Research Interests

Development studies; Latin America; Health studies.

 

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization

Latin America (mainly South America and Chile).

 

Special activities:

  • 2009-2012 York University Senator

  • 2006-2009 SSHRC Standard Research Grant: The Political Economy of the Transitions Between Public and Private Health Care in Chile in the 20th Century.

  • Regular TV Interviews on Television Program "Conversaciones del Siglo XXI" in Quintavision, VTR V Region, Chile.

 

Recent Publications:

 

“The Process of Building Hegemony: Health Reforms in Chile”, The International Journal of the Humanities, Vol. 7, No 8, http://Humanities-Journal, Common Ground, Melbourne, Australia, 2009

 

“La Televisión: quien se beneficia”, El Mercurio de Valparaíso, October 2, 2009

 

“Influenza porcina: no somos inocentes”. El Mercurio de Valparaíso, April, 29, 2009

 

“Crisis: paradigmas y oportunidades”, El Mercurio de Valparaíso, May 19, 2009

 

“Valparaíso: sobre el ruido y las nueces”, Mercurio de Valparaíso, March 17, 2009

 

“El Derecho y la globalización”, El Mercurio de Valparaíso, February 5, 2009

 

“Seguridad Internacional”, El Mercurio de Valparaíso, January 5, 2009

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LOVEJOY, Paul E.   

last update 07/09

 

Institutional affiliation:

  • Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History & Distinguished Research Professor, York University  
  • Distinguished Research Professor and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada 
  • Director, Harriet Tubman Institute
  • CERLAC Fellow  

 

Contact:  

2190 Vari Hall, Department of History

York University

4700 Keele Street

Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3  

Phone: (416) 736-2100 ext. 66917

Fax: (416) 736-5836

Email: plovejoy@yorku.ca

 

Research Interests

African diaspora in Latin America, Caribbean, Brazil.

 

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization

Nigeria, Benin, Ghana in West Africa; Jamaica, Cuba, Trinidad, Costa Rica, Brazil

 

Special activities

  • Co-editor, African Economic History  
  • Advisory Board, Canadian Journal of History  
  • International Scientific Committee, UNESCO Slave Route Project
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Series
  • Editor, The Harriet Tubman Series on the African Diaspora, The Continuum International Publishing Group, London & New York  

 

Recent Publications

 

2009 Slavery, Islam and Diaspora (Trenton NJ: Africa World Press) co-edited (with Behnaz Asl Mirzai and Ismael Musah Montana)

 

2009 “The Autobiography of Oluadah Equiano, the African, and the Life of Gustavus Vassa, Reconsidered,” in Ana Lucia Araujo, Mariana Pinho Cândido and Paul E. Lovejoy, eds., Crossing Memories in the African Diaspora (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press)

 

2009 “Gustavus Vassa, Africano quien trató de humanizar la esclavización en la Costa de Mosquitos, 1775-1780,” in Jaime Arocha, ed., Nina S. de Friedemann, cronista de disidencias y resistencias (Bogota)

 

2009 “Scarification and the Loss of History in the African Diaspora,” in Andrew Apter and Lauren Derry, eds., Activating the Past Historical Memory in the Black Atlantic (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing)

 

2009 “The Slave Ports of the Bight of Biafra in the Eighteenth Century,” in Carolyn Brown and Paul E. Lovejoy, eds., Repercussions of the Atlantic Slave Trade: The Interior of the Bight of Biafra and the African Diaspora (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press) (with David Richardson)

 

2009 “Extending the Frontiers of Transatlantic Slavery, Partially,” Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 11:1, 57-70

 

2008 Africa and Trans-Atlantic Memories: Literary and Aesthetic Manifestations of Diaspora and History (Trenton NJ: Africa World Press), co-edited with Naana Opoku-Agyemang, and David Trotman)

 

2008 Haití – Revolución y emancipación (San José: Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica), co-edited with Rina Cáceres

 

2008 “Transatlantic Transformations: The Origins and Identities of Africans in the Americas,” in Boubacar Barry, Livio Sansone, and Elisée Soumonni, eds., Africa, Brazil, and the Construction of Trans-Atlantic Black Identities (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press)

 

2008 “Narratives of Trans-Atlantic Slavery: The Lives of Two Muslims, Muhammad Kabā Saghanaghu and Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua,” in Naana Opoku-Agyemang, Paul E. Lovejoy, and David Trotman, eds), Africa and Trans-Atlantic Memories: Literary and Aesthetic Manifestations of Diaspora and History (Trenton NJ: Africa World Press)

 

2008 “Resistencia y rebellion en Río Tinto,” in Rina Cáceres Gómez, ed., Del olvido a la memoria: Esclavitud, resitencia y cultura (San José: UNESCO, 2008), 17-22.

 

2008 “Los niños de Atlántico,” in Rina Cáceres Gómez, ed., Del olvido a la memoria: África en tiempos de la esclavitud (San José: UNESCO, 2008), 47-54

 

2008 “Las ambiciones imperiales británicas en la Costa de la Mosquitia y la abolición de la esclavitud indígena, 1773-1781,” in Rina Cáceres and Paul E. Lovejoy, eds. Haití – Revolución y emancipación (San José: Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica)

 

Work in Progress:

  • Ethnicity in Central America and the Caribbean.

 

See Y-File article:

CERLAC Fellow Paul Lovejoy receives Distinguished Africanist Award

 

 

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LUCCISANO, Lucy 

last update 10/04

 

Institutional affiliation:  

  • Assistant Professor, Sociology & Anthropology, Wilfrid Laurier University
  • CERLAC Associate Fellow  

 

Contact:  

Department of Sociology
5-416 Dr. Alvin Woods Building
75 University Avenue
Waterloo, Ontario
N2L 3C5

Tel: 519-884-1970 x 2866
Email: lluccisa@wlu.ca

 

Research Interests

Gender and Development, Sociology of Poverty and Inequality, Anti-Poverty Programs in Mexico.

 

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization

Latin America, Mexico.

 

Special activities

  • Dissertation defended on Nov. 27 2002: Mexican Anti-Poverty Programs and the Making of "Responsible" Poor Citizens (1995-2000).

 

Recent Publications

“Programa Progresa/Oportunidades: ¿Seguridad Familiar a Costa de la Seguridad Comunitaria? in La construcción de los desarrollos rurales ¿hacia la sustentabilidad?, Bruno Lutz (ed.), Toluca, Mexico: Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Mexico, 2005.

 

“Mexico’s Progresa Program (1997-2000):  An Example of Neo-Liberal Poverty Alleviation Programs Concerned with Gender, Human Capital Development, Responsibility, and Choice”, Journal of Poverty, Special Issue, 8:4, 2004.

 

“Communal Kitchens in Peru and Mexico”, Feminism(s) on the Edge of the Millennium, Krista Hunt and Christine Saulnier (eds.), Toronto: lnanna Publications and Educations, 2001, pp. 39-54.

 

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MACDONALD, Katherine

last update 10/10

 

Institutional affiliation:

  • PhD candidate, Department of Geography, York University
  • CERLAC Research Associate

Contact:  

York University
4700 Keele Street
York Research Tower

Phone: 416-736-2100 ext. 40615
Email:
katiem@yorku.ca

 

 

Research Interests

Brazilian migration activity across the Guyanese border in the Amazon region, including studies of transnational migration, economic change, social disintegration, local political dynamics, and increasing and changing criminal patterns within the region, exploring the intersections between sovereignty, nationalism, migration, political ecology, social change and Indigenous culture.

Katie's current research focuses on an increasing migration pattern from Brazil to Guyana and the economic, social, environmental and geo-political contexts, causes and impacts of this transnational movement, specifically upon the Makushi and Wapishana Indigenous peoples of the Rupununi. A PhD candidate in Geography, she holds a Canada Graduate Scholarship through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

 

Keywords:

Political ecology, transnationalism, mobility, de/re-territorialization, Indigeneity, garimpeiros

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization:

Brazil, Guyana

 

Special activities

Member, organizing committee of the 2011 Graduate Student Research Conference on Latin America & the Caribbean (York University)

Member, Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) and Ontario division (CAG-ONT)

Member, Canadian Association for Latin and Caribbean Studies (CALACS)

Member, Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia (AILASA)

Member, York Centre for International and Security Studies (YCISS)

 

Recent Publications

MacDonald, K. (2009) "Living Culture": The Evolution of the Festival Folclórico de Parintins. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research. 15(2): 77-98.

 

MacDonald, K. (2007) Internships as a Way of Facilitating Participation and Experiential Learning in Development Studies. New Community Quarterly, 5(2):40-44.

 

 

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MACDONALD, Laura 

last update 09/05

 

Institutional affiliation:

  • Full-Time Faculty, Department of Political Science, Carleton University  
  • Acting Director, Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University
  • Director, Centre on North American Politics and Society, Carleton University  
  • CERLAC Associate Fellow  

 

Contact:  

Department of Political Science 
Carleton University 
1125 Colonel By Drive 
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada E1S 5B6

Phone: (613) 520-2600 ext. 8858
Fax: (613) 520-4064
Email: Laura_Macdonald@carleton.ca

 

Research Interests

NGOs, democratization in Mexico, North American integration

 

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization:

North America, Central America.

 

Special activities

  • Director of Carleton's Centre on North American Politics and Society.  

 

Recent Publications

"Of Borders and Business: Canadian Corporate Proposals for North American 'Deep Integration'" (with Christina Gabriel).  Studies in Political Economy 74, Fall 2004.  pp. 79-100.  

 

"Chretien and North America: Between Integration and Autonomy" (with Christina Gabriel).  Review of Constitutional Studies 9 (1&2), 2004.  pp. 79-91.  

 

"The Hypermobile, The Mobile and the Rest: Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion in an Emerging North American Migration Regime" (with Christina Gabriel).  Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 29 (57/58), 2004.  pp. 67-91.  

 

"Hard Times for Citizenship: Women's Movement in Chile and Mexico" (with Susan Franceschet).  Citizenship Studies 8 (1), March 2004.  pp. 3-23.

 

"Gendering Transnational Social Movement Analysis: Women's Groups Contest Free Trade in the Americas."  In Coalitions Across Borders: Transnational Protest and the Neo-Liberal Order, J. Bandy and J. Smith (eds.).  Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004.  pp. 21-41.  

 

Work in Progress:  

  • Jane Bayes, Patricia Begne, Laura Gonzalez, Lois Harder, Mary Hawkesworth and Laura Macdonald.  Women, Democracy, and Globalization in North America: A Comparative Study.  Palgrave, In Press.  
  • Jeffrey Ayres and Laura Macdonald, eds.  Contentious Politics in North America.  Book manuscript under review by a university press.

 

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MARCUZZI, Michael  

  last update 12/06

 

Institutional affiliation:  

  • CERLAC Fellow

  • Assistant Professor, Dept of Music and Faculty of Education, York University

  • American Federation of Musicians

  • Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS)

  • Canadian University Music Society

  • Ontario Arts Teacher Educators Association

  • Society for Ethnomusicology

 

Contact:  

369 Accolade East

Department of Music, Fine Arts

Faculty of Education, Music

York University

4700 Keele Street

Toronto Ontario

M3J 1P3

Phone:(416) 736-2100 ext 33314

Email: marcuzzi@yorku.ca

 

Research Interests:

Latin American and Caribbean popular music; Afrocuban sacred music, and ethnopedagogical approaches in the musical transmission of the regions;  African Diaspora in the Americas and the ethnographic history of the same. 

 

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization:

Cuba; African Diaspora in the Americas

 

Recent Publications

Marcuzzi, Michael (with Amanda Vincent, eds.) (forthcoming)Talking with wood: transatlantic perspectives on the orisa of drumming.

 

Marcuzzi, Michael (In Press).   “(Review) Lydia Cabrera and the Construction of an  Afro-Cuban Identity,” by Edna M. Rodríguez-Mangual. Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

 

Marcuzzi, Michael (In Press). "(Review)  Santería Enthroned: Art, Ritual, and Innovation in an Afro-Cuban Religion,” by David Brown. Ethnologies.  

 

Marcuzzi, Michael (2005). “A comparative examination of the ìpanódù ceremony and its implications for a multilocal approach to constituting the history of the òrìsà people.” In Orisa: Yoruba gods and spiritual identity, edited by Toyin Falola and Anne Genova, 183–207. Trenton, NJ: African World Press. 

 

Marcuzzi, Michael (2005). “A historical study of the ascendant role of bàtá drumming in Cuban òrìsà worship.” PhD dissertation, York University.

 

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McALLISTER, Carlota 

last update 11/09

 

Institutional affiliation:  

  • Assistant Professor, Anthropology, York University

  • Fellow, CERLAC

Contact:  

815York Research Tower
4700 Keele Street
York University
Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3

Phone: (416)736.2100 ext. 66121

Email: carlota@yorku.ca

 

Research Interests

Agency; revolution; human rights; gender; the Cold War; Catholicism; violence; post-war societies; forensic anthropology; indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica.

 

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization

Guatemala, Central America, Mexico, Cuba.

 

Recent Publications

 

Single authored:Forthcoming The Good Road: Conscience and Consciousness in a Postrevolutionary Guatemalan Village. Durham: Duke University Press

Edited:Forthcoming Aftermath: Revisiting Guatemala’s Harvest of Violence. Co-edited with Diane Nelson. Durham: Duke University Press.

 

Forthcoming An Indian Dawn. In The Guatemala Reader. D. Levenson, L. Oglesby, and G. Grandin, eds. Durham: Duke University Press. 8 pp.

2010 A Headlong Rush into the Future: Violence and Revolution in a Guatemalan Indigenous Village. In A Century of Revolution: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin America’s Long Cold War. G. Joseph and G. Grandin, eds. Duke University Press. 47 pp.

 

2009 Seeing like an indigenous village: Reading the World Bank’s Agriculture for Development (2008) from the perspective of postwar rural Guatemala. Journal of Peasant Studies 36(3): 645-51.


2007 Reseña of Worker in the Cane, Sidney Mintz. Íconos: Revista de ciencias sociales 29: 135-37 (Invited commentary).


2007 Rural Markets, Revolutionary Souls, and Rebellious Women in Cold War Guatemala. In In From the Cold: Latin America’s New Encounter with the Cold War. G. Joseph and D. Spenser, eds. Durham: Duke University Press, pp. 350-77.

 

Work in Progress:  

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McGILLIVRAY, Gillian

last update 12/09

 

Institutional affiliation:  

  • Assistant Professor, Glendon College Department of History

  • Fellow, CERLAC

Contact:  

York Hall 262, 2275 Bayview Avenue
Toronto, Ontario M4N3M6

Phone: (416) 736-2100 x88598

Email: gmcgilli@glendon.yorku.ca

 

Research Interests

Colonial and Modern Latin America; Atlantic Plantation Societies and Latin American Culture

 

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization

Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, Nicaragua

 

Recent Publications

 

Blazing Cane: Sugar Communities, Class, and State Formation in Cuba, 1868-1959. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009.

 

“Reading Revolution from Below: Cuba, 1933,” in Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Latin America: From the Wars of Independence to the Central American Civil Wars. Edited by Pedro Santoni. Westport, Ct: Greenwood Press, 2008.

 

“Revolution in the Cuban Countryside: The Blazing Cane of Las Villas, 1895-1898,” Cuban Studies 38 (2007): 50-81.

 

Work in Progress:

  • completing an article called “Harvesting Revolution: The Sugar Workers of Los Mochis, Sinaloa, 1900-1940,” and have begun research on a new project called “Sugar and Power in the Brazilian Countryside, 1900-1964.”
  • organizing a panel on “Sugar and Power in Modern Latin America” for the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies conference in Montreal in June 2010, and on “Peopling the Frontiers of Latin America: Sugar and Rubber in Mexico and Bolivia” for the Latin American Studies Association conference in Toronto in September 2010.
  • my colleague Marc McLeod from the University of Seattle and I intend to submit in July 2010 the “Sugar and Power in Modern Latin America” papers to the Hispanic American Historical Review for publication as a special issue.

 

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MURPHY, Julia 

last update 07/09

 

Institutional affiliation:    

  • Independent Scholar
  • Part-time Instructor, St Mary’s University College, Calgary
  • CERLAC Fellow

 

Contact:  

3125 4A Street NW 
Calgary, Alberta  CANADA  T2M 3B5    

Phone: (403) 289-7305
Email: Julia.Murphy@telus.net

 

Research Interests

Cultural Anthropology, Development Studies

Mexico, Latin America; ethnographic perspectives on development, resource management, environmentalism and ecotourism, anthropology of gender and feminist research; Calgary health sector responses to domestic violence  

 

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization

Mexico

 

Recent Publications

 

In Press. Recent Research on Rural Mexico: New Politics, Indigeneities, and Political Economies [Review Essay]. Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

 

2007. Anthropological Perspectives on Environmental Concerns in Rural Mexico: Ethnography in the Calakmul Model Forest, Campeche. In Across Borders: Diverse Perspectives on Mexico: Collected Essays of Contributors to the 11th Annual International Studies Symposium. J. Perkins and K. Campbell, eds. Pp. 71-96. Toronto, ON: International Studies Symposium, Glendon College.

 

"Embroidery as Participation? Women in the Calakmul Model Forest, Campeche, Mexico," Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme. Special Issue on Women and Sustainability: From Rio de Janeiro (1992) to Johannesburg (2002) 23(1), 2003.  pp. 159-167.   

 

Special Activities:

  • Ceremonía, celebración, y cambio.  Text for photographic exhibition at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City.  November 4-December 4, 2004.  Exhibition funded by Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Embassy of Canada in Mexico, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, and University of Calgary International Project Grants Committee.  

 

Work in Progress:  

  • Feminism and the Anthropology of ‘Development’: Dilemmas in Rural Mexico. Submitted November 2008 for special issue of Anthropology in Action, Feminist Anthropology Confronts Disengagement, edited by Pamela Downe (University of Saskatchewan) and Robin Whitaker (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
  • Daniel Martínez and Julia E. Murphy. Café Justicia/Coffee Justice?: The Comité Campesino del Altiplano, Fair Trade Coffee, and Guatemala-Canada Solidarity. 

 

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MURRAY, David A. B.

last update 07/09

 

Institutional affiliation:  

  • Associate Fellow, CERLAC
  • Associate Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, York University
  • Graduate Program Director, School of Women's Studies, York University  
 

Contact:  

School of Women’s Studies
206 Founders College
York University
4700 Keele St.
Toronto, ON 
Canada M3J 1P3

Phone:  (416)736-2100 x 40104 
Fax: (416) 650-3900
Email: damurray@yorku.ca
Website: http://www.arts.yorku.ca/anth/damurray/cv.html

 

Research Interests:

Cultural Anthropology: gender and sexuality specializing in masculinity and homosexuality; theories of culture and identity; nationalism and cultural politics; spectacle and performance; media studies

 

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization:

Martinique/Barbados/Caribbean; New Zealand; gay/homosexual communities

 

Special Activities:

  • 2004-05 - Visiting Fellow, Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Studies, University of West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados

 

Recent Publications

Forthcoming "Digisex: Cell-phones, Barbadian Queens and Circuits of Desire in the Gay Caribbean." Anthropologica (accepted)

 

2009 Homophobias: Lust and Loathing Across Time and Space. (Editor.) Duke University Press.

 

2009 "Homosexuality, Society and the State: An Ethnography of Sublime Resistance in Martinique" in Perspectives on the Caribbean: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation. Philip Sher, editor. Blackwell Publishing.

 

2009 "Positively Limited: Gender, Sexuality and HIV/AIDS Discourses in Barbados” in From Risk to Management: HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean, Christine Barrow and Robert Carr, editors. Ian Randle Publishers.

 

2009 "Homo hauntings: Spectral Sexuality and the Good Citizen in Barbadian Media" in Homophobias: Lust and Loathing Across Time and Space. Duke University Press.

 

2006  Co-editor and co-author (with Tom Boellstorf and Kathryn Robinson).  “East Indies-West Indies: Archipelagic Interchanges”. Special Issue of Critique of Anthropology  Vol 16 #3.

 

“Whose Right? Human Rights, Sexuality and Social Change in Barbados” Journal of Culture, Health and Sexuality 8 (3) (2006): 267-281.

 

2002 Opacity: Gender, Sexuality, Race and the ‘Problem’ of Identity in Martinique New York: Peter Lang

 

Work in Progress:

  • “Bajan Queens, Gendered Dreams: Sexual Alterity in Barbados”. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (submitted)

 

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NEF, Jorge
last update 07/09

 

Institutional affiliation:  

  • University Professor Emeritus, and College Professor Emeritus, University of Guelph
  • CERLAC Fellow  

 

Contact:  

704-2067 Lakeshore Boulevard West
Toronto, Ontario M8V 4B8

Phone: 416-259-5283
Email: nef.jorge@gmail.com

Research Interests

Human Security, Comparative Politics and Public Policies (emphasis on Latin America), International Development, Comparative Public Administration, International Relations, Methodology.

 

Special activities

  • V Barcelona Festival of Art Songs, world Premiere of “Canciones de lluvia”, put to music by composer Jose Lezcano (Barcelona, July 2nd-11th 2009)
  • 2003-2008: Director and Professor, Institute for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean (ISLAC)
  • President of the Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (2007-2008)
  • Merit Award: University Teaching and Research, in recognition for a distinguished career as an educator. Hispanic-Canadian Teachers’ Association, February 10th, 2007.  

 

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization:

Southern Cone

Recent Publications

“Globalization, Insecurity and Democracy in the Americas” in Jan Black (ed.), Latin America. Its Problems and its Promise. A Multidisciplinary Introduction, Fifth Edition, (Boulder: Westview, 2009), forthcoming.

 

“Latin America and the New Pax Americana,” co-authored with Alejandra Roncallo, in Gordana Yovanovich and Amy Houras (Eds.), Latin American Identity After 1980, (Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfred Laurier Press, 2009), forthcoming.

 

The Democratic Challenge. Rethinking Democracy and Democratization, with Bernd Reiter (Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2009)

 

Capital, Power and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean, Revised Second Edition (Co-editor, R. L. Harris) (Boulder, Col.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008).

 

“Environmental Policies and Politics in Chile Revisited: The Limits of Reformism” in Jordi Díez and O.P. Dwivedi (editors). Global Environmental Challenges: Perspectives from the South. (Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2008) pp. 247-274.

 

“Chapter 5. Insecurity, Development and Democracy: A Pan American Perspective” in Richard L. Harris and Jorge Nef (eds.), op. cit. pp. 118-152.

 

“Chapter 11. Globalization and Regionalization in the Americas” by Richard L. Harris, and Jorge Nef, op. cit. pp. 273-320.

 

“Human Security and Insecurity: A Perspective from the Other America,” in Giorgio Shani, Makoto Sato, and Mustapha Kamal Pasha (Eds.) Protecting Human Security in a Post 9/11 World: Critical and Global Insights (Hampshire, U.K.: Palgrave/Macmillan 2007), pp. 251-271.

 

Inter American Relations in an Era of Globalization: Beyond Unilateralism? Revised Edition (Jorge Nef and Harry E. Vanden, Editors) (Whitby, Ont.: de Sitter, 2007)

 

Managing Development in a Global Context, with O.P. Dwivedi and Renu Kahtor (London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2007)

 

“Third Systems, Human Security and Sustainable Development”, in Rebecca Harris (ed.) Globalization and Sustainable Development. Issues and Applications (Tampa: Dr. Kiran C. Patel Center for Global Solutions, University of South Florida, 2006), pp. 43-58.

 

"Globalization, Underdevelopment and Human Security: Some Theoretical and Ethical Reflections", in Inakshi Chaturvedi (Ed.), Human Development and Globalization (New Delhi, India: Deep & Deep Publications, 2006), pp.53-68.

 

 

Work In Progress:

  • The socio-economic correlates of government corruption.
  • Research on the historical and structural roots of the Argentinean crisis of December 2001, as part of a larger project on The Politics of Insecurity in Latin America.  
  • A quantitative and qualitative analysis of health security and health policy in the Americas. 
  • Public sector reform in Latin America.

 

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NORTH, Liisa L.  

last update 07/09

 

Institutional affiliation:  

  • Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Political Science, York University
  • CERLAC Fellow  

 

Contact:  


819 York Research Tower
4700 Keele Street
York University

Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3

Phone: (416) 736.2100 ext. 66936
Email: lnorth@yorku.ca

 

Research Interests:

NGOs, states and rural development initiatives; civil-military relations and political power structures; the operations of Canadian mining corporations in Latin America

 

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization

Andean region of South America

 

Special activities

  • Associate Producer: "Under Rich Earth / Bajo Suelos Ricos", a documentary film about conflict between a Canadian mining company and local farming communities in the Intag Valley, in Cotacachi, Ecuador
  • Research and teaching at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, FLACSO-Ecuador, in Quito, Ecuador
  • Pio Jaramillo Prize for contribution to scholarship, from FLACSO-Ecuador, CONESUP and UNESCO (2005)
  • CERLAC Executive

 

Recent Publications

 

(Co-editor) "Rethinking Extractive Industries: Regulation, Dispossession and Emerging Claims". Canadian Journal of Development Studies Revue canadienne d’études du développement XXX (1–2) 2010.

 

'Vamos dando la vuelta' Iniciativas endogenas de desarollo local en la Sierra ecuatoriana. With Luciano Martinez Valle. FLACSO Sede Ecuador (Quito), 2009.

 

Co-Editor with John Cameron and Author of 3 chapters in Desarrollo Rural y Neoliberalismo: Ecuador desde una perspectiva comparada (Quito: Corporación Editora Nacional, forthcoming 2008). Translated and updated version of Rural Progress, Rural Decay: Neoliberal adjustment policies and local initiatives (Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2003).

 

Co-editor with Luciano Martínez of special issue on "El mundo rural en los Andes" of Iconos, 29, (FLASCO-Ecuador, September 2007).

 

Co-editor (with Timothy David Clark and Viviana Patroni) and co-author of Introduction with T.D. Clark), Community Rights and Corporate Responsibility: Canadian Mining and OIL Companies in Latin America. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2006, pp. 253.

 

"Militares y Estado en Ecuador: construcción militar y desmantelamiento civil?" Iconos, FLACSO-Ecuador 26, (septiembre 2006): 85-95.

 

 Work In Progress:

  • In general, the politics and implications for regional and urban/rural disparities and for democratization of neoliberal structural adjustment programs (SAPs) in the Andean and Central America regions. 

  • Current projects: Impacts of neoliberal structural adjustment policies on community-based economic enterprises and local development possibilities; continuing work on the Ecuadorean highlands in comparative perspective.

  • Conflicts between local communities and Canadian mining companies in Latin America. 

 

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O'DONNELL, Rachel T. 

last update 11/09

 

Institutional affiliation:  

PhD Candidate in Political Science, York University

CERLAC Research Associate

 

Contact:  

Email: rachelo@yorku.ca

 

Research Interests:

 

Colonialism, advanced capitalism, gender and knowledge production, botanical exchange in Latin America.

 

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization

 

Central America

 

Special activities:

 

University of Toronto Working Group “Science and Culture” funded by the Jackman Humanities Institute.

 

Visiting Researcher, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Rochester.

 

 Recent Publications:

“‘We Were Different Then’: Indigenous Women in Rural Guatemala and the ‘War-Widow’ Category.” Canadian Woman Studies Special Issue: Women in Latin America. Vol. 27, No. 1, Winter/Spring 2008.

 

“Shawn William Miller, An Environmental History of Latin America.” Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CJLACS) Special Issue: The Nation in Question in the Literatures, Cinema, and Art of Latin America and the Caribbean. Vol. 33, No. 66, 2008.

Work In Progress:

 

“Colonial Plants and Contemporary Bioprospecting in the Americas”

 

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PATRONI, Viviana

last update 11/09

 

Institutional affiliation:  

  • Associate Professor, Division of Social Science, York  
  • CERLAC Fellow

Contact:  

York Lanes 240C
York University 
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M3J 1P3   

Tel: (416) 736-2100 ext. 20227
Fax: (416) 736-5737
Email: vpatroni@yorku.ca

 

 

Research Interests

My work has focused on issues related to the political economy of development in Latin America, with a special focus on Mexico and Argentina. My most recent publications deal with the politics of labour market reform and workers’ responses to it in Argentina.

 

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization

Latin America; Argentina, Mexico.

 

Special Activities:  

  • Book Review Editor, Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
  • Co-Director, CIDA-funded project, RedLEIDH (Latin American Network on Human Rights Education and Research)

 

Recent Publications

 

Guest co-editor (with Ana Isla, Romina Maggi and Sheila Molloy), special issue on Latin American Women, Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme, Vol 27, No. 1 (2009).

 

“Economic Restructuring, Neoliberal Reforms, and the Working Class in Latin America,” in Richard Harris and Jorge Neff (eds) Capital, Power and Inequality in Latin America (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008).

 

“After the Collapse: Workers and Social Conflict in Argentina,” in Marcus Taylor (ed) Global Economy Contested: Power and conflict across theinternational division of labour (London and New York: Routledge, 2008).

 

Co-Editor (With Liisa North and Tim Clark) Community Rights and Corporate Responsibility: Canadian Mining and Oil Companies in Latin America. (Toronto: Between The Lines, forthcoming 2006).

 

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PEAKE, Linda

last update 01/08

 

Institutional affiliation:  

  • Professor, Division of Social Science and School of Women's Studies, York University  
  • CERLAC Associate Fellow

 

Contact:  

Division of Social Science
Ross S775
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M3J 1P3  

Tel: 416 736 2100   ext. 77829
Fax :416 736 5615
Email: lpeake@yorku.ca

Website: http://www.arts.yorku.ca/sosc/lpeake

 

Special activities

  • Member of Red Thread, Guyana
  • Editorial Board, The Canadian Geographer.
  • Managing Editor, Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography
  • Editorial Board, Journal of Social and Cultural Geography.

 

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization

Guyana.

 

Recent Publications

“Editorial:moving on up.” Gender, Place and Culture: A journal of feminist geography 15 (1):1-5. (Forthcoming, 2008).

 

and de Souza, K. “Red Thread: a case study in transnational feminist praxis” In Towards a Transnational Feminist Praxis, edited by Nagar, R., Swarr, A. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, Forthcoming, 2008.

 

“Gender, Race and Sexuality” In The Handbook of Social Geography, edited by Smith, S., Pain, R., Marston, S., and Jones III, J. P. London: Sage, Forthcoming, 2008.

 

“Whiteness.” In The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, edited by Kitchin, R., and Thrift, N. London: Elsevier, Forthcoming, 2008.

 

“Gender in the City.” In The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, edited by Kitchin, R., and Thrift, N. London: Elsevier, Forthcoming, 2008.

 

and Kobayashi, A. “Racism in Place: Another look at Shock, Horror and Racialisation.” In Feminisms in geography: rethinking space, place, and knowledges, edited by Moss, P and Falconer – Al-Hindi, K Rowman & Littlefield. 2007

 

Work in Progress:  

  • Guyanese women’s reproductive health. The aim of this IBD funded study has been to investigate the status of Guyanese women’s reproductive and sexual health, both their knowledge of and practices related to these aspects of their health, as well as to make explicit the links between Guyanese women’s health and human rights. All analysis has been completed and two articles for submission to Health and Place and Social Science and Medicine have been drafted. A report has also been given to the IDB, Ministry of Health and UNIFEM in Guyana.

 

  • A number of articles on women and domestic violence in the Caribbean that arise from my most recent SSHRC funded research in Guyana. Providing data for this study required interviewing over 500 women producing the most comprehensive data base on domestic violence produced in the Caribbean. A report has already been given to the IDB. Articles will be written for Feminist Review, Antipode, Journal of Social and Cultural Geography, Progress in Human Geography, Political Geography and Environment and Planning D: Society and Space.

 

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PERKINS, Ellie

last update 02/08

 

Institutional affiliation:  

  • CERLAC Associate Fellow
  • Associate Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University  
 

Contact:  

HNES 246
York University, 4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M3J 1P3  

Tel. (416)736-2100 x 22632
Email: esperk@yorku.ca

 

Special Activities:

 

Research interests:  

Feminist ecological economics; Environmental valuation; Public participation and community development; trade and environment; international metals markets and trade; Mining and environment and community development; Ecological economics and policy; Ecological economics pedagogy.

 

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization

Brazil; Mozambique.

 

Recent Publications:

 

“Democracy and governance for sustainable development:  Watershed management in São Paulo, Brazil.”  Presented at the Canadian Association for Latin American Studies conference, University of Calgary, Alberta, September 27-30, 2006.

 

“Gender and equity in public participation processes for environmental decision-making.”  Presented at the International Sociological Association Congress, Durban, South Africa, July 23-29, 2006 and forthcoming in Capitalism Nature Socialism.

 

“Women and participatory water management in Brazil.” Co-authored with Andrea Moraes.  Presented at the International Association for Feminist Economics conference, University of Sydney, Australia, July 7-9, 2006 and forthcoming in the International Feminist Journal of Politics.

 

“Feminist ecological economics and sustainability.”  Presented at the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics conference,  York University, Toronto, October 27-29, 2005 and forthcoming in the Journal of Bioeconomics.

 

“Exploring feminist ecological economics:  An introduction,” Feminist Economics, Vol. 11 No. 3, 2005 (Special Explorations section on feminist ecological economics, co-edited with Edith Kuiper).

 

Review of Robert L. Nadeau, The Wealth of Nature: How Mainstream Economics has Failed the Environment (New York:  Columbia University Press, 2003), in Ecological Economics, vol. 55 no. 4, pp. 610-611, December (2005).

 

“Participation and watershed management:  experiences from Brazil”, presented at the International Society for Ecological Economics conference, Montreal, Canada, July 11-13 2004. 

 

Work in Progress:  

  • Ongoing research on feminist ecological economics; alternative economic valuation processes; and public participation in watershed management
  • Research collaboration on Brazil through the Brazil Chair and Sister Watersheds project
  • With Paul Zandbergen and others: AUCC/CIDA Tier I project: Civil Society Participation in Water Basin Committees in Brazil www.baciasirmas.org.br.

 

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PHILLIPS, Lynne

last update 08/09

 

Institutional affiliation:  

  • Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, University of Windsor
  • CERLAC Associate Fellow  

 

Contact:  

Department of Sociology & Anthropology
University of Windsor 
Windsor, Ontario
Canada N9B 3P4  

Phone: (519) 253-3000 ext. 2192
Email: lynnep@uwindsor.ca

 

Research Interests

Globalization and development, feminism, international organizations, health, food studies

 

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization

Andes, Southern Cone

 

Special Activities:

  •  SSHRC Research Grant, 2006-2009, “Mobilizing Gender: The UN, Cultures of Accountability, and Changing Women’s Lives in Latin America” (Principal Investigator)
  • "Translating Feminisms in Latin America", paper presented at the American Anthropological Association, Nov. 28, 2007, Washington, D.C. (with Sally Cole)
  • SSHRC Research Grant, 2003-2006, "Agencies of Globalization: UNESCO, Social Transformations, and the Role of Expert Knowledge" (Co-Investigator)
  • SSHRC Research Grant, 2002-2005, "Framing Food: The FAO in Neoliberal Times" (Principal Investigator)

 

Recent Publications

 

Ilcan, S. and L. Phillips. "Developmentalities and Calculative Practices: The Millennium Development Goals" Antipode, 42(4), in press Phillips, L. 2009.

 

Genders, Spaces, Places. International Studies Encyclopedia, R. Denemark, ed. Oxford: Blackwell, in press.

 

Phillips, L. and S. Cole. 2009. "Feminist Flows, Feminist Fault Lines: Women's Machineries and Women's Movements in Latin America" Signs, 35(1), 35(1), in press.

 

Phillips, L. and S. Cole. 2008. "Governing through Accountability: Gender Equality and the UN" Atlantis, 33(1): 25-36.

 

Ilcan, S. and L. Phillips. 2008. "Governing through Global Networks: Knowledge Mobilities and Participatory Development" Current Sociology, 56(5): 711-734

 

Cole, S, and L. Phillips. 2008. "The Violence against Women Campaigns in Latin America: New Feminist Alliances" Feminist Criminology. 3(2): 145-168.

 

Phillips, L. and Ilcan, S. “Responsible Expertise: Governing the Uncertain Subjects of Biotechnology” Critique of Anthropology 27(1) (2007): 103-126.

 

Phillips, L.“Food and Globalization” Annual Review of Anthropology 35 (2006): 37-57.

 

Ilcan, S and L. Phillips. “Governing Peace: Rationalities of Security and UNESCO’s Culture of Peace Campaign” Anthropologica 48 (2006): 59-71.

 

 

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PLAZA, Dwaine 

last update 01/08

 

Institutional affiliation:  

  • Full-Time Faculty, Department of Sociology, Oregon State University  
  • CERLAC Associate Fellow  

 

Contact:  

Oregon State University
Department of Sociology
307 Fairbanks Hall 
Corvalis, Oregon
U.S.A. 97331  

Phone: (541) 737-5369
Fax: (541) 737-5372
Email: dplaza@orst.edu

 

Research Interests

Caribbean international migration; Race and ethnic relations; Quantitative and Qualitative Research.

 

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization

Commonwealth Caribbean Countries.

 

Recent Publications

 

“An Examination of Transnational Remittance Practices of Jamaican Canadian Families.” Global Development Studies 4 (3-4) (2007): 217-250.

 

“Qualitative Research Methods Soc 418/518 Syllabus.” In American Sociological Association 4th edition of the 2007 Teaching Qualitative Methods Compendium, 2007.

 

and Gonzales-Berry, Erlinda. “‘We are tired of cookies and old clothes’: From Poverty Programs to Community Empowerment Among Oregon’s Mexicano Population, 1957-1975.” In Seeing Color: Indigenous Peoples and Radicalized ethnic Minorities in Oregon, edited by Xing, Jun et al. Oregon State University Press. (2007).

 

and Gonzales-Berry, Erlinda, and Marcella, Mendoza. “Segmented Assimilation of One-and-a Half Generation Mexican Youth in Oregon” Latino(a) Research Review 6 (1-2) (2007) : 94-118.

 

“Migration Caribbeene et Integration au Canada: a la poursuite du reve d’ascension Sociale (1900-1998).” Terres D’Amerique, 6 (2007): 141-157.

 

“The Construction of a Segmented Hybrid Identity Among One and a Half and Second Generation Indo- and African- Caribbean Canadians.” Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research. 6 (3) (2006): 207-230.

 

and Simmons, Alan. “The Caribbean Community in Canada: Transnational Connections and Transformation.” In Negotiating Borders and Belonging: Transnational Identities and Practices in Canada, edited by Wong, Lloyd and Vic Satzewich. British Columbia: University of British Columbia Press, 2006.

 

and Frances Henry. Returning to the Source: The Final Stage of the Caribbean Migration Circuit. Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 2006.

 

Plaza Dwaine. Review of “A History of Education in the British Leeward Islands 1838 1945.” by Howard Fergus, 2003. Caribbean Studies Journal 34 (2) (2006): 278-282.

 

Review of “The Chinese in the Caribbean” by Andrew Wilson. Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 31 (61) (2006): 263-266.

 

Review of “Images of West Indian Immigrants in Mass Media: The Struggle for a Positive Ethnic Reputation.” by Christine M. Du Bois. New West Indian Guide. 80 (1/2) (2006).

 

Work in Progress:  

  • With Francis Henry: editing a book on return migration to the English-Speaking Caribbean: “Returning to the Source: The circulation of Caribbean Migrants in the International Diaspora”.  
  • With Carl James: preparing a book-length MS: "Despite the Odds: The Success of Second Generation Caribbeans in Southern Ontario".  
  • With Alan Simmons: paper on “Caribbean Women in Canada: An Examination of their Mobility from 1967-1996”.

 

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