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Just Doing It: Popular Collective Action in the Americas (Black Rose Books: Montreal, 2002; co-edited by CERLAC Fellow Deborah Barndt and her FES colleagues Gene Desfor and Barbara Rahder) comprises a powerful collection of narratives on community mobilizations in Mexico, Guatemala, the United States, and Canada.  continue with this article

POPULAR STRUGGLE IN THE AMERICAS:
JUST DOING IT
 

Just Doing It: Popular Collective Action in the Americas (Black Rose Books: Montreal, 2002; co-edited by CERLAC Fellow Deborah Barndt and her FES colleagues Gene Desfor and Barbara Rahder) comprises a powerful collection of narratives on community mobilizations in Mexico, Guatemala, the United States, and Canada. The work presented, concentrating on communities involved in resisting policies associated with the dominant neo-liberal economic model, stems in part from the authors’ involvement in the North American Mobility Program. The selections are widely varied in topic, methodological approach, and location; nevertheless, they share a concern for marginalized communities struggling for social justice, including improvements in their environment and economic status. The topics it engages are urgent and the stories it tells genuinely moving and often inspiring.

“ I believe the material in the book will give hope to people trying to build new and creative ways for undertaking popular collective actions.”

Professor Gene Desfor (co-editor)

The first section concerns student experiences in Mexico and Guatemala. For example, Galit Wolfensen’s “Popular Mobilization in Mexico” describes the plight of exiled Guatemalan refugees living precariously in Mexico and their struggles, through such grassroots organizations as the Association of Dispersed Guatemalan Refugees, around the issues of identity, recognition, and eventual return to Guatemala.

In “Development and Coercion,” Egla Martinez-Salazar explores the connection between the national development project of the nominally democratic terror state of 1970–90 Guatemala, and the campaign of oppression and genocide inflicted upon an indigenous Maya-Tzutuhil community. The author notes the remarkable persistence of a will toward social mobilization within this community, despite the legacy of state-directed vio-lence with its goal of smashing any impetus toward political activism.

W. Alexander Long, in “Marginalization and Waste in Mexico,” provides an intriguing account of informal waste recovery in Zapopan in the north-west zone of Guadalajara. Theoretical reflections mix with personal interviews in this portrait of the pepenadores, those who ‘scour the streets’ and dumps for garbage they can resell.

Other contributions cover stories ranging from sustainable agriculture initiatives among Mexican campesinos, to the environmental justice movement in New York City and housing struggles among seniors in Vancouver, BC.

While the Latin American chapters are particularly strong, in that the circumstances of the actors involved are the most daunting, the direct juxtaposition of these struggles with popular efforts in North America served to highlight the hemispheric trends of exclusion and popular response under corporate globalization. The student voices in Just Doing It convey these realities with passion, while paying tribute to the protagonists of collective action across the Americas.

Fellows' Publications: BOOKS
 

Basok, Tanya. Tortillas and Tomatoes. Mexican Transmigrant Harvesters in Canada. McGill-Queen’s Press, 2000.

Cameron, Maxwell. The Making of NAFTA: How the Deal was Done. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2000.

Galleguillos, Nibaldo with Jorge Nef (Eds.). Civil-Military Relations and Democracy in Latin America. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder, 2000.

Henry, Frances (with Carol Tator) Discourses of Domination:  Racism in Canadian English Language Press.  University of Toronto Press, 2002.

Reclaiming African Religion in Trinidad: The Orisha and Spiritual Baptist Faiths. Ian Randle Publishers, Jamaica, forthcoming 2003.

Kirk, John and Padura Fuentes, Leonardo, eds., La Cultura y la Revolución Cubana: Conversaciones en La Habana.  Editorial Plaza Mayor, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2002.

Lovejoy, Paul E., The Biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua: His Passage from Slavery to Freedom in Africa and America.  Markus Wiener, Publisher, Princeton, N.J. (co-edited with Robin Law), 2001.

Murray, DavidOpacity: Masculinity, Sexuality, and the ‘Problem’ of Identity in Martinique.  New York: Peter Lang; 2002.

Rochlin, Jim. Rebels with a Cause: New Age Revolutionaries in Colombia, Mexico and Peru. Lynne Rienner Publishers, forthcoming, 2002.

Rochlin, James F.  Vanguard Revolutionaries in Latin America: Peru, Colombia and Mexico.  Lynne Rienner Publishers, USA/UK, 320 pp.; 2002.

Roman, Richard and Edur Velasco Arregui. Straddling the Border: The Mexican Working Class, Zapatismo and Globalization.  Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City: Pluto Press series on International Labour, forthcoming

Rudakoff, Judith, and Thomson, Lynn M.  Between the Lines: The Process of Dramaturgy.  Playwrights Canada Press, May 2002.

Schecter, S. R., & Cummins, J. (Eds.). Imagination in practice: Strategies for teaching and learning in multilingual classrooms. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Books, in press.

Schecter, S. R. & Bayley, R(Eds.). Language socialization in bilingual and multilingual societies. Multilingual Matters. In press.

Language as cultural practice: Mexicanos en el norte. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers, 2002.

Solomon, R. Patrick & J.P. Portelli (Eds.). The Erosion Of Democracy In Education: Critique To Possibilities. Detselig Enterprises, Calgary: May, 2001.

Taylor, Patrick (Ed.). Nation Dance: Religion, Identity and Cultural Difference in the Caribbean. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001.

Teichman, Judith, The Politics of Freeing Markets in Latino America: Chile, Argentina and Mexico. University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

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Fellows' Publications: OTHER
 

Basok, Tanya. “Migration of Mexican Seasonal Farm Workers to Canada and Development: Obstacles to Productive Investment,” International Migration Review (2000).

“Seasonal Contract Workers and Domestic Labor: The Displacement Debate” in Lydio Tomasi (Ed), In Defense of the Alien. vol 22 (2000).

“He Came, He Saw, He... Stayed. Guest Worker Programs and the Issue of Non-Return," International Migration (2000), pp. 215-238.

Bernhard, J.K., Pacini-Ketchabaw, V., & Freire, M. . Struggling to preserve home language: The experiences of Latino students and families in the Canadian school system. Bilingual Research Journal, 25 (1 & 2),(2002) pp. 115-145.

“Apoyo a la participacion de padres en las escuelas primarias:  Un estudio etnografico de un grupo latino americano en Canada,” Educational Policy Analysis Archives, 8 (52), (2000).

Berry, Albert. “When do Agricultural Exports Help the Rural Poor? A Political Economy Approach” Oxford Development Studies, forthcoming (2001).

“The Macroeconomic Context for Policies, Projects and Programmes to Promote Social Development and Combat Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)” Terry McKinley (Ed.), Macroeconomic Policy, Growth and Poverty Reduction. (Palgrave, Macmillan/St. Martins, 2001).

Birbalsingh, Frank (Ed.) Jahaji: An Anthology of Indo-Caribbean Literature.

(Ed.) "Selvon and Salkey: Makers of Modern West Indian Literature", Journal of Caribbean Studies, XVI, iii (Spring 2002).

(Ed.). Journal of Caribbean Studies: Asians in the Caribbean XIV(122) (Fall/Spring 2000).

Blacklock, Cathy. Women and the New Trade Agenda:  Lessons from the Canadian Experience, International Feminist Journal of Politics, (forthcoming).

The Sounds of Silence:  Feminist Research Across Time in Guatemala in Gender and Violence: Women in Conflict Zones, eds. Wenona Giles, et al. (Los Angeles:  University of California Press, forthcoming).  Co-author Alison Crosby.

Women and Citizenship in Mexico and Guatemala in Gender and Democratization, ed.  Shirin Rai (Houndmills, Basingstoke:  Macmillan, 2000).  Co-author Laura Macdonald.

Clarke, Kim. “Ecuadorean Indians, the Nation and Class in Historical Perspective: Rethinking a ‘New Social Movement’” in A. Marcus and C. Menzies, (Eds.). Power, Culture and Society: Marxism and Anthropology. New York: Brandywine Press, forthcoming.

DeBarros, Juanita. "Order and Place in a Colonial City:  Patterns of Struggle and Resistance in Georgetown, British Guiana, 1889-1924," McGill-Queen's University Press, monograph (fall 2002).

"Wharf Rats, Centipedes, and Pork Knockers: Labourers and Labour Law in Colonial Georgetown," solicited for publication in Master and Servant: Uses of the Law, edited by Paul Craven and Doug Hay, forthcoming.

Duncan, Carol  "Mammy in the Erotic Imaginary of Anaïs Nin," Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering. (Spring/Summer 2002, Issue 4.1), pp. 146-155.

“Women, Religion and Identity in the African Diaspora,” Making Waves: An Ecumenical Feminist Journal. Toronto: Women's Inter-Church Council, (forthcoming, Summer 2002).

"Madres de la Iglesia: la maternidad y la identidad en la iglesia espiritual bautista en el Toronto" Del Caribe, Santiago de Cuba: Casa del Caribe, Number 39 (forthcoming, November 2002).

Duran, Claudio V., "Ideologia y Propaganda en el Diario El Mercurio, 1954-2000." ACTAS (Proceedings
of the Third International Congress on Latin American Studies), Universidad de La Serena, Chile, 2001.

In Boreal (Anthology of Latin American Poetry in Canada published by Verbum Veritas/La Cita Trunca, Ottawa, April 2002).

Goldring, Luin. “The Gender and Geography of Citizenship in Mexico-U.S. Transnational Spaces,” Identities (2001).

“Dissagregating Transnational Social Spaces: Gender, Place and Citizenship in Mexico-U.S. Transnational Spaces” in Ludger Pries (Ed). New Transnational Social Spaces: International migration and transnational companies in the early twenty-first century (London/New York: Routledge, 2001).

“The Mexican State and Transmigrant Organizations: Negotiating the Boundaries of Membership and Participation in the Mexican Nation”  Latin American Research Review   (2001)

Hellman, Judith A. “Opting for Fox: Why - and How – Mexicans Went for the PAN” NACLA, Vol. XXXIV, No. 2(September/October 2000).

“Los movimientos sociales: Revolución, reforma, y reacción,” Manuel Moreneo (Ed.). Alternativas al neoliberalismo (Madrid: Fundacion de Estudios Marxistas, 2000).

“Virtual Chiapas: A Response to Justin Paulson,” Socialist Register  (November 2000).

Judson, Fred. “Music and Central American Revolutionary Dynamics,” in R. Qureshi (Ed.), Music and Marx: Ideas, Practice and Politics (Routledge, 2001)

“A Critical Political Economy Understanding of Canada’s Economic Relations with Mexico, Cuba and Chile,”  D. Wood and A. Hristoulas (Eds.). New Friends, New Challenges: Canada’s Bilateral Relations with Mexico, Chile and Cuba in the Post-Cold War Era. 2001

Kirk, John M. “Thoughts on Canada's Development Assistance Program in Cuba,” in Revista Mexicana de Estudios Canadienses. 2(3) (September 2000).

Kopinak, Kathryn. (with Rocio Barajas) "Too Close for Comfort? The Proximity of Industrial Hazardous Wastes to Local Populations in Tijuana, Baja California" forthcoming in the Journal for Environment and Development (Spring, 2003).

- (with Rocio Barajas) “La localización de los centros de trabajo y de las viviendas de los trabajadores de la maquiladora en el espacio urbano de Tijuana, Baja California,” Región y Sociedad .

- "Maquiladora Industrialization of the Baja California Peninsula: the coexistence of thick and thin globalization with Economic Regionalism"  in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (June, 2003).

- “Environmental Implications of New Mexican Industrial Investment: The Rise of Asian Origin Maquiladoras As Generators of Hazardous Waste," Asian Journal of Latin American Studies. 15 (1):(2002: pp. 91-120).
 

Lovejoy, Paul. (with David Trotman) “Experiencias de vida y exectativas: Nociones Africanas sobre la esclavitud y la realidad en América,” in Rina Cáceres (ed.), Rutas de la Esclavitud en África y América Latina. (San José, Costa Rica), pp. 379-404.

- “Creating the Community of Believers: African Muslims in Trinidad, c. 1800-
- 1850” (with David Trotman) (forthcoming 2002).
- “Kola Nuts in Cartagena: 17th Century Trans-Atlantic Exchange in the Era of the Slave Trade” (with Renée Soulodre-La-France) 2002.
- “Jihad e Escravidao: As Origens dos Escravos Muculmanos de Bahia,” Topoi 1 (Rio de Janeiro)  (2000): pp. 11-44.

Macdonald, Laura and Schwartz, Mildred A. "Political Parties and NGOs in the Creation of New Trading Blocs in the Americas," International Political Science Review, Vol. 23, No. 2 (2002), pp. 135-158.

- "Globalization and Social Movements:  Comparing Women's Movements Responses to NAFTA in Mexico, the United States, and Canada".  International Feminist Journal of Politics, Vol 4 No.2, 2002, Forthcoming.
- and Gabriel, Christina, "NAFTA, Women, and Organizing in Canada and Mexico:  Forging a 'Feminist Internationality'," in Veronica Strong-Boag, Mona Gleason and Adele Perry, Rethinking Canada:  The Promise of Women's History, 4th ed. (Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2002).

Massicotte, Marie-Josee. "Local organising and global struggles: Coalition-building for social justice in the Ameritas," in Gordon Laxer and Sandra Halperin, eds. Global Civil Society and its Limits? (Forthcoming, London: Palgrave; 2001).

Murray, David.  "Undressing Crossdressing in Martinique's Carnival: Subjectivity and The Meanings of the Black Male Body in a Neo-colonial Society" in Returning the Gaze: Looking at Male Bodies, N. Tuana et al, eds. University of Indiana Press (forthcoming).

“Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Power and Powerlessness of Transnational Narratives among Gay Martinican Men,” American Anthropologist 102(2) (2000) pp. 261-270.

Nef, Jorge. "Neoliberalism and the Chilean Model: A Forerunner of the New World Order", in Gordana Yovanovich (ed.) The New World Order: Corporate Agenda and Parallel Reality, (Kingston: McGill-Queens' Press, 2002), forthcoming.

- “Globalization and the Crisis of Sovereignty, Legitimacy and Democracy”, Latin American Perspectives.
- “Seguridad humana y vulnerabilidad mutua” in Francisco Rojas (ed.) Paz, Seguridad Humana y Prevención de Conflictos en América Latina y el Caribe (Santiago: FLACSO, 2002).

North, Liisa and Shiela Gruner. “Colombia’s Invisible Wars” in Peace Magazine (Apr-June 2001)

- “Estrategias comunitarias de desarrollo rural en un contexto de políticas neoliberales: el caso de Salinas desde una perspectiva comparativa” in Giuseppina Da Ros (Ed.). Realidad y desafíos de la economia solidaria: iniciativas communitarias y cooperativas en el Ecuador (EdicionesABYA-YALA, Quito:2001), pp. 1-50.
- and John Cameron. “Grassroots-Based Rural Development Strategies: Ecuador in Comparative Perspective” in World Development (October 2000).

Patroni, Viviana. "Democracy and organized labour in Argentina: challenges and new alternatives?" in Remonda Bensabat-Kleinberg and Janine Clark (Eds.). Economic Liberalization, Democratization and Civil Society in the Developing World (London and New York: Macmillan Press, 2000).

Peake, Linda and Kobayashi, A. “Anti-Racist Policies and Practices for Geography at the Millennium.”  The Professional Geographer (2002).

- and Trotz, A. “Work, Family and Organising: An Overview of the Contemporary Economic, Social and Political Roles of Women in Guyana” (Caribbean Journal of 2001) Social and Economic Studies, 50 (2) (2001), pp. 67-102.
- and Trotz, A. "Feminism and Feminist Issues in the South” in Desai, V., Potter, R. (eds.) Companion to Development Studies (London: Arnold), pp. 334-337.

Rocha, Cecilia. “Urban Food Security Policy: The Case of Belo Horizonte, Brazil,” in Journal of Food and Society (2001).

Roman, Richard and Edur Velasco Arregui. “Neoliberalism, Labor Market Transformation and Working Class Responses: Social and Historical roots of Accomodation and Protest.” Latin American Perspectives (Summer, 2001).

Rummens, Joanna.  “The Plural Society Concept Reconsidered: Personal Identity and Social Structure in Sint Maarten/Saint Martin, The Lesser Antilles” Caribbean Issues, Special Edition on Ethnicity.

James, C. E., & Schecter, S. R. “Mainstreaming and Marginalization: two national strategies in the circumscription of difference," Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 8 (1) (2000) pp. 25-42.

Schecter, S. R. & Bayley, R. “Doing school at home: Four Mexican immigrant families interpret texts and instructional agendas." In R. Horowitz (Ed.), Talking texts: Knowing the world through instructional discourse. Newark, DE: International Reading Association and Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers (in press).

Schryer, Frans J.   “Multiple Hierarchies and the Duplex Nature of Groups,” Journal of the Royal
Anthropological Institute, 705-21 (2001).

Solomon, R. Patrick. “Exploring Cross-race Dyads in Learning to Teach” Teachers College Record. 102 (6) (Dec 2000), pp. 953-979.

Wilkinson, Paul. “Tourism development in Anguilla” Tourism Research Review (2001).

CERLAC PUBLICATIONS
 

CERLAC Working Papers

Nadine Jubb, Articulating and Fighting for our Rights: Examples of the Canadian Women’s Movement’s Experience in Advocacy (July 2001).  Available here.

Dr. Frances Henry, Reclaiming African Religions in Trinidad: The Orisha and Spiritual Baptist Faiths Today (June 2001). Available here.

Gus Van Harten, Guatemala's Peace Accords in a Free Trade Area of the Americas (May 2000).  Available here.

Cirila Quintero Ramírez, Unions and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA): The Canadian and Mexican Experiences (April 2001). Available here.
 
 

Amanda Romero-Medina Colombia: Internal Displacement and Humanitarian Crisis  2001 Michael Baptista Lecture (held at York University May 23, 2001) (July 2002). Available here.

Sabine Neidhardt and Sheila Simpkins, Rapporteurs.Violence and Peacebuilding in Colombia Conference (held at York University, May 24-25, 2001) (January 2002). Available here.
 
 

Chris Beyers, Directions in Ethnohistorical Research on the Inca State and Economy(February 2001). Available here.

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