The CERLAC Review

Number 31: 2006-2007 

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Michele Johnson in profile

 

Access to justice for women survivors of violence

 

Viva VIVA!

 

Ellie Perkins in profile

 

News of Fellows

 

Fellows' book publications

 

Book Award: Patrick Solomon

 

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CERLAC Fellow Michele Johnson in profile

by Alison Bond

 

Associate Professor in the Department of History at York University and CERLAC Fellow, Michele Johnson remains connected to her roots in Jamaica through her work as a professor and researcher at York University.  She couples her identity and academic interests through research questions that explore culture and gender in Jamaica in the post-slavery period. 

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Access to Justice for Women Survivors of Violence

A Comparative Study of Women's Police Stations in Latin America

by Nadine Jubb

 

A group of researchers and activists from Canada, the US and Latin America first got together in 2001 to discuss and analyze women’s police stations (WPS) in the region. Since then the network has grown and we have shared studies regarding violence against women and the work and impact of the women’s police stations.

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CERLAC Fellow Michele Johnson

 

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Michele attended high school in rural Jamaica and completed her undergraduate and graduate work at the University of the West Indies before moving to the United States to pursue further graduate work.  At the University of the West Indies, she specialized in history and obtained a Masters of Philosophy (History) at the graduate level.  Eager to continue her graduate work, she attended Johns Hopkins University, where she pursued an MA and PhD in history.  After completing her PhD, Michele returned to the University of the West Indies as a Lecturer.

 

In 2002, Michele moved to Canada and started working in York’s History Department, and in 2006, she began her term as Coordinator of York’s Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS).  York students benefit a great deal from Michele’s role as Coordinator of the LACS program, as she is known for developing strong relationships with her students and demonstrating a keen interest in their work. 

 

Michele is recognized as a supportive professor who encourages her students to explore their research interests while sharing her knowledge of the field.  Her passion for Caribbean history is evident in the enthusiasm and effort Michele brings to her lectures.  In the past, Michele has engaged and enlightened her students in courses such as “African Canadian History”; “History of the Caribbean: Colonialism to Independence”; “History of Popular Culture in the U.S.A”; and “In Slavery and Freedom: Blacks in the Americas.” In 2005, the university recognized Michele’s commitment and contribution to student development at York, awarding her the Dean’s Award for Teaching in the Faculty of Arts.

 

Presently, Michele is working on a research project called “Female Domestic Servants and their Employers in Jamaica, 1920-1970.”  In this project, she explores the social history of domestic servants in 20th century Jamaica, with attention to the relationship between the servants and the families that they serve.  This research requires her to conduct interviews with elderly women and to examine photographs and newspaper advertisements. 

 

Tracing the relationship between domestic servants and their families is often difficult.  Although domestic work constitutes a large employment sector for Jamaican women, these women usually do not leave documents behind and are ambivalent about their experiences in the households, while former employers are indirect about a number of issues, including the wages that they paid.  However, Michele’s personal connection to Jamaica and Jamaican culture has helped her to address the complexity of this topic.

 

Michele’s interest in female domestic servants is not limited to Jamaica.  She has also explored the representation of domestic servants on American television.  In the future, Michele hopes to contribute to work that examines the experience of migrants in Canada, a country where her commitment to scholarship and teaching has been well-received by colleagues and students alike. In 2006, she joined the CERLAC Executive, and CERLAC is proud and delighted to have such a promising scholar and teacher contributing to the Centre. 

 

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Women's Police Stations in Latin America

 

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The general objective of the current two-year research project is to carry out a comparative study on the WPS regarding how they contribute to women survivors’ access to justice and exercise of their rights. It is being conducted in countries with the most experience in this area: Brazil, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and Peru. 

 

CERLAC has been actively involved in the project since the beginning. The other current institutional partners are: the Centre for Social Planning and Studies (CEPLAES, Ecuador), InterCambios/PATH (Nicaragua), the Gender Studies Department of the State University of Campinas (PAGU-UNICAMP, Brazil), the Flora Tristan Women’s Centre, and the Manuela Ramos Movement (Peru). The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) is the main funder.

 

The research addresses the services provided by the WPS and their links with the judicial system, the women’s movement, and other service providers from the perspective of women in situations of violence. The research findings will be used to improve public policy by making proposals and engaging national and regional stakeholders.

 


For further information, contact the project director, Nadine Jubb, at nadine.jubb@gmail.com or visit the project website soon at www.ceplaes.org.ec

 

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Viva VIVA!

 

by Deborah Barndt

 

The VIVA! project is alive and well…and living in five countries… Supported by SSHRC since 2004, the transnational collaborative research project involves eight partners, NGOs, and progressive pockets of universities in Panama, Nicaragua, Mexico, the United States, and Canada.

 

CERLAC Fellow Deborah Barndt has coordinated the project, and several part-time York faculty and graduate students—Diane Roberts, Heather Hermant, Maggie Hutcheson, Laura Reinsborough and Marisol Ayala—have been involved in projects, internships, translation work, websites, memorias, articles, and video productions.  Glendon College’s Spanish translation class, under the guidance of María Constanza Guzmán, has also contributed to VIVA! translations.

 

VIVA! has been built around two major objectives: a localized one that has encouraged each partner to carry out participatory action research with a community arts project, where evaluating and documenting its creative tensions and links to social movements in diasporic and Indigenous contexts is key; and a transnational objective, which involves bringing together partners and project participants for annual gatherings.  Each gathering has included young participants from the projects and has introduced collaborators to local practice.

 

Our theoretical frameworks have evolved from focusing on the creative tensions of community arts to a spiral understanding of the links between historical cultural recovery and social movement-building, to an exchange of meanings and strategies for the decolonization of art, education, and research.  Other central features of our collaboration have been a commitment to bilingualism, to intergenerational dialogue, and to alternative ways of knowing and communicating knowledge.

 

Our Mexican partners at the Universidad de la Tierra hosted the most recent official meeting.  UniTierra is a Zapatista-affiliated university for Indigenous students in Chiapas and is a model of sustainability; the campus is built by the students from natural materials, includes its own farm that feeds the students, and offers training in vernacular trades framed by Indigenous thought.

 

Each of the eight projects brought to this meeting short videos and draft chapters for a bilingual book (with a DVD), which we are now preparing for publication in Spanish and English.  Several of us presented our work and an overview video at the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Congress in Montreal in September 2007.  More importantly, the conversations between us have deepened, the connections have broadened, and the network is expanding beyond the SSHRC project, with plans to meet in Nicaragua in 2008 and to continue the exchange under leadership from the South. 

 

Viva VIVA!

 


NGO partners:

Mexican Institute for Community Development (IMDEC) – Guadalajara, Mexico

Panamanian Social Education and Action Centre (CEASPA) – Panama

Catalyst Centre – Toronto, Canada

Jumblies Theatre – Toronto, Canada

 

University partners:

URACCAN University – Nicaragua

Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Mexico City, Mexico

UCLA School of Arts and Architecture – Los Angeles, USA

York University’s Faculty of Environmental Studies – Toronto, Canada

 

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Profile on Ellie Perkins

 

by Shayna Buhler

 

Ellie Perkins first traveled to Brazil after earning her undergraduate degree at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University in 1978.  She moved to Toronto from Washington D.C. in 1982 to pursue her Masters and PhD in the Political Economy of Economic Development at the University of Toronto.  She then followed her interest in former Portuguese colonies to Mozambique, where she taught from 1990–91.  When she returned to Canada, Ellie worked at the Ontario Ministry of Environment before accepting a position at York University’s Faculty of Environmental Studies (FES) in 1993, where she is an Associate Professor. At FES, Ellie has pursued her research interests in Brazil, Portuguese Africa, feminist ecological economics, and women and development. 

 

Ellie’s involvement with CERLAC has grown through her involvement in the York/CERLAC Brazilian Studies Seminar, a series of seminars presented by York graduate students, faculty, and visiting speakers who are involved in Brazil-related research (see p.28).  Ellie is also known for her role as the Canadian Project Director of the Brazil-Canada Sisters Watershed Project.  

 

This project aims to build capacity for local activists and non-governmental organizations through collaborative engagement in needs assessments, training, and interest building. The project also provides opportunities for Brazilian and Canadian students to participate in academic exchanges.  The project is scheduled to end in 2008, and Ellie is currently seeking additional funding to continue collaborating with her partners in Brazil and possibly to extend the work to Mozambique and South Africa. 

 

Central to Ellie’s work is her commitment to gender equity.  She highlights the importance of the contributions of feminist theory to ecological economy, resource management, and governance issues.  Ellie is currently working on a paper that addresses the interconnections between feminist contributions to economic theory and feminist contributions to the idea of sustainability, a subject she says is under-researched.

 

Beyond her research and involvement in the Sisters Watershed Project, Ellie plays an important role as supervisor to many students, including many in CERLAC’s Diploma Program.  Claudia De Simone, a York graduate student and exchange student with the Sisters Watershed Project, remarks that Ellie “continually demonstrates the essential qualities of an exceptional supervisor―she is supportive, knowledgeable, inquisitive, and urges me to look at my work in new ways.  She has contributed greatly to my development as a graduate student and as a person.”  Ellie hopes to be a part of a welcoming environment for Brazilian and other students at York and to reciprocate the warmth with which she has been received in Brazil.

 

Throughout her career, Ellie has been challenged by a lack of female role models who were balancing teaching, service in the community, research, family, and other interpersonal connections.  She feels fortunate to be at York where others are committed to working in the community as well as at the university.  Ellie’s colleague Andrea Moraes sums up Ellie’s contributions: “Ellie for me is an example to be followed, not only professionally but as a whole person.  [Not only is she] a dedicated and engaged professor, researcher and director―she is also a very lively woman, a mother, a neighbour, a friend, an adventurer, a searcher, and much more.” Ellie’s students and colleagues are fortunate to have in her a role model who is dedicated to both her research and her engagement with the communities in which she works.

 


 

For more information about the Sisters Watershed Project, see www.yorku.ca/siswater and www.baciasirmas.org.br/english/projeto.asp.

 

 

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News of Fellows

 

Deborah Barndt (Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University) continues to work on a three-year SSHRC project, “Creative Tensions of Community Arts in Popular Education: A Transnational Study of the Americas,” involving research collaborators from a number of organizations in North and Central America (see VIVA).

 

Stephen Baranyi is a Principal Researcher on conflict prevention at the North-South Institute in Ottawa.  He is leading a three-year project on “Security System Reform and Peacebuilding”, which is a research, policy dialogue, and capacity-building project with partners in Burundi, Haiti, and Sudan.

 

Tanya Basok (Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Windsor) is currently working on an IDRC-funded research project titled, “Advancing the Rights of Female Migrants: Case Studies of Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic,” and she continues in her role as director of the Centre for Studies in Social Justice at the University of Windsor.

 

Judith Bernhard (Director, Early Childhood Studies, Ryerson University) received the Ryerson Research Award for 2005-2007.  She is currently working on “Families Living with Precarious Status: Navigating a Bureaucratic Nightmare” and “The Institutional Production and Social Reproduction of Transnational Families: The Case of Latin American Immigrants in Toronto.”

 

Maxwell Cameron (Professor, Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia) served as Political Advisor to Lloyd Axworthy, Chief of the Electoral Observation Mission of the Organization of American States in Peru, from March to June 2006.  He is currently carrying out SSHRC-funded research for a book on “Democracy without the Separation of Powers in Latin America.”

 

Eduardo Canel (Associate Professor, Division of Social Science, York University) is currently the Director of CERLAC. He recently completed a book-length manuscript on the process of participatory urban governance in Montevideo, Uruguay. The manuscript is tentatively titled Cities of Citizens? Experiments in Urban Democracy in Latin America.

 

Michael Czerny (African Jesuits AIDS Network) worked on Latin American issues in Canada for ten years and in El Salvador for two years. Currently, he is based in Nairobi, Kenya, and continues his role as coordinator for the African Jesuits AIDS network. 

 

Andrea Davis (Associate Professor, Division of Humanites, York University) is working on “Hegemony of the Spirit: Community and Healing in Caribbean and African American Women’s Writing.” This comparative study recognizes the formal and thematic linkages connecting the fictional writings of black women in the Caribbean and the United States, and argues that these linkages constitute an important shared literary poetics and form part of a tradition of black women’s writing in the African diaspora.

 

Juanita de Barros (Associate Professor, Department of History, McMaster University) was promoted to associate professor at McMaster University in July 2007. She is currently working on a SSHRC-supported project titled “West Indians, Medicine, and Diaspora in the Atlantic World,” and is completing a co-edited collection (with David Wright and Steven Palmer) for Routlege, titled Health and Medicine in the Caribbean: Historical Perspectives.

 

Maria Luisa de Villa (Associate Fellow, CERLAC) was awarded the Ontario Arts Council Professional Artist Grant.  Her recent exhibitions include “Huipil Xochitlalpan Yagul” at the Centro Cultural de Santo Domingo in Oaxaca, Mexico, and “Mujeres Creadoras” at the Museo de Arte Popular de Oaxaca in San Bartolo Coyotepec, Mexico.

 

Claudio Duran (Professor Emeritus, Atkinson, York University) taught a graduate course at the University of Chile in October 2006 and participated in several conferences in both Holland and Chile.  Currently, he is writing a paper on the 2005–2006 presidential elections in Chile. 

 

Margarita Feliciano (Professor Emerita, Department of Hispanic Studies, York University) continues her work in the areas of myth archetypes, poetry, and translation.  In 2005, she created Editorial Antares, a trilingual press specializing in texts of literary criticism, literary creativity, translation, and language dissemination. 

 

Maria Figueredo (Assistant Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University) is a faculty research coordinator and an academic advisor for the Venezuela Study Abroad Programme.  She is also on the editorial board of ANTARES, a journal published at Glendon College, York University. Among a number of works in progress, she is conducting research on the word-image dialectic in the work, letters, and diary of Frida Kahlo.

 

Gavin Fridell (Assistant Professor, Department of Political Studies, Trent University) is working on the social and political impact of commodity agreements in coffee and bananas.

 

Fernando Garcia (Academic Director, Program on Chile: Economic Development and Globalization, SIT-Study Abroad in Santiago, Chile) maintains research interests in a range of topics, including theory of the State, the theory and practice of neoliberalism in Latin America, and Bolivian politics and social movements.

 

Michael Gismondi (Director, MA Integrated Studies, Athabasca University) is working on a book titled Concessions: Jose Santos Zelaya and the Emergence of American Empire Along the Mosquito Coast of Nicaragua 1880-1917. He is also working on a SSHRC-funded research project on the social economy in British Columbia and Alberta, which is part of a larger project that examines social economy and development globally, including Latin America.

 

Luin Goldring (Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, York University) is the principal investigator of a SSHRC-funded project called “Public Outreach Partnership on Immigration, Settlement and Precarious Employment,” designed to disseminate findings from another SSHRC-funded project on “Immigrants in the Global Economy: Precarious Employment and the Transnational Dimensions of Economic Incorporation,” which looks at the lives of Latin American and Caribbean immigrants and refugees in the Greater Toronto Area.  Professor Goldring is the co-organizer of RELAC (Red de Estudios Sobre Latinoamericanos en Canadá) and a founding member of RIMD (Red Internacional de Migración y Desarollo).

 

Andil Gosine (Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, York University) is organizer of the conference “Sexualities in Conversation: Rights and Regulation in the Anglo-Caribbean,” taking place in Barbados in February 2008, and is the author of several articles in this area of studies. 

 

Doris Grinspun (PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, York University) continues her work as the executive director of the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO). Her research interests include health, nursing, and workplace policies and practices in the Americas and China.

 

Judith Adler Hellman (Professor, Political Science, York University) was a visiting scholar at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University from October 2005 to June 2006, working with a SSHRC Standard Research Grant on “International Migration and Political Mobilization in the Mexican Countryside.” The book that is the result of this research, The World of Mexican Migrants: The Rock and the Hard Place, was published by The New Press in March 2008.

 

Michael Kaufman (Co-founder and Global Ambassador, White Ribbon Campaign, WRC) is currently working on a three year CIDA-funded Canada–Brazil cooperation project that brings together the WRC and a consortium of NGOs throughout Brazil. 

 

Kamala Kempadoo (Associate Professor, Division of Social Sciences, York University) is the Director of the Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought at York University.  In 2006, she was a consultant to the UNIFEM-Caribbean Office on the project “Gender, Sexuality, and HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean.” She is currently working on a SSHRC-funded project on “Conceptualizing Incest in the Caribbean” and an IDRC-funded collaborative project on “Building Responsive Policy: Gender, Sexual Culture and HIV& AIDS in the Caribbean.” She also sits on the advisory and editorial boards of several journals and book series.

 

Hal Klepak (Professor Emeritus, History Department, Royal Military College) has retired as Full Professor of Latin American History and Strategy at the Royal Military College of Canada. He is currently acting as Senior Advisor to the VIII Conference of Defence Ministers of the Americas to be held in Banff in September of 2008, and will then continue to teach and conduct research on Latin America in a variety of academic institutions.

 

Kathryn Kopinak (Professor, Department of Sociology, King’s College, University of Western Ontario) is currently undertaking a research project with Rosa Maria Soriano Miras from the University of Granada on “Gender Differences in the Labor Migration of Mexican Maquiladora Workers to the United States,” funded by the University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States.  She is also working on a project on a SSHRC funded project on “A Transatlantic Comparison of the Impact of Gender and Export Processing Work Experience on International Labour Migration.” From January to June each year, she is a Senior Fellow in residence at the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at UC, San Diego.

 

Lisa Kowalchuk (Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Guelph) continues her research on social movements, privatization, and news media in El Salvador. 

 

Patricia Landolt (Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Scarborough College, University of Toronto) is working on a SSHRC project with Luin Goldring on “Public Outreach Partnership on Immigration, Settlement and Precarious Employment,” to disseminate findings from their other SSHRC project, “Immigrants in the Global Economy: Precarious Employment and the Transnational Dimensions of Economic Incorporation.”

 

Peter Landstreet (Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, York University) returned to Chile in December 2007, where he visited FLACSO-Chile in Santiago.  After completing his current book project, Peter and Marcelo Charlin of FLACSO-Chile will return to a joint research and writing project on the topic of state repression and civil responses during the military regime of 1973–1990 and the consequences thereafter.

 

Alex Latta (Assistant Professor, Global Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University) examined the conditions for local indigenous citizenship in the municipality of Alto Bio Bio, Chile, from November to December 2006.  He is currently working on a long-term research project on the intersection between citizenship and energy policy in Chile.

 

Louis Lefeber (Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics and Social and Political Thought, York University) is currently working on the “History of the Founding and Establishment of CERLAC.”  His paper titled “The Meaning of Social Efficiency,” jointly authored with Thomas Vietorisz of Cornell University, appeared as the lead article in the Review of Political Economy, April 2007.

 

Paul E. Lovejoy (Distinguished Research Professor and Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History, York University) continues his role as director of The Harriet Tubman Institute at York University.  In 2007 he received an honorary degree from the University of Stirling, Scotland.

 

Michael Marcuzzi (Assistant Professor, Department of Music and Faculty of Education, York University).  Professor Marcuzzi’s research interests include Latin American and Caribbean popular music, Afrocuban sacred music, ethnopedagogical approaches in the musical transmission of the regions, and African diaspora in the Americas and ethnography.  He is currently working with Amanda Vincent on a forthcoming publication titled “Talking with Wood: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Orisa of Drumming.”

 

Carlota McAllister (Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, York University) received the Faculty of Arts Fellowship for 2007/2008.

 

David Murray (Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, York University) continues to research and write about sexuality, gay/lesbian studies, masculinity, nationalism, and identity.  His current project focuses on issues of gay rights, sexual citizenship, and social change in Barbados.

 

Jorge Nef (Professor, Government and International Affairs, University of South Florida) is the Director of the Institute for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean.  He is currently working on a project that addresses the socio-economic correlates of government corruption and research on the historical and structural roots of the Argentinian crisis of December 2001, which is part of a larger project called “The Politics of Insecurity in Latin America.” Professor Nef also has a forthcoming book entitled Inter-American Relations in an Era of Globalization: Beyond Unilateralism?  

 

Liisa North (Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, York University) teaches a course on the “Political Economy of Latin American Development” in FLACSO’s Interdiciplinary Graduate Program in the Social Sciences in Ecuador. She also supervises students in both the MA and PhD programs, writes articles and reviews for FLACSO’s journal, Iconos, and collaborates on various research projects and conference programs, including the translation of her Rural Progress, Rural Decay (Kumarian Press, 2003) into Spanish for publication by the Corporación Editora Nacional, and collaboration in the preparation of a documentary film on the conflict between the Ascendant Copper Corporation of Canada and the communities of the Intag Valley in Northern Ecuador.

 

Viviana Patroni (Associate Professor, Division of Social Science, York University) was the Director of CERLAC until July 2007. She is Co-director for the CIDA-funded “Latin American Network on Human Rights Research and Education” (RedLEIDH, see p.1) and is Book Review Editor for the Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Her forthcoming publications include: “Economic Restructuring, Neoliberalism, and the Working Class in Latin America,” in Richard L. Harris and Jorge Nef (eds), Capital, Power, and Inequality in Latin America (Boulder, CO: Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming 2008) and “After the Collapse: Workers and Social Conflict in Argentina,” in M. Taylor (ed), Global Economy Contested (Routledge, forthcoming 2008).  

 

Linda Peake (Professor, Division of Social Science and School of Women’s Studies, York University) became the Director of the Centre for Feminist Research at York University in 2007 and was the Managing Editor of Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography from 2002–2007.  She is currently working on an Inter-American Development Bank-funded research project on Guyanese women’s reproductive health in addition to a number of articles that are the product of her most recent SSHRC-funded research on women and domestic violence in Guyana.

 

Ellie Perkins (Associate Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University) is the principal investigator of the Sisters Watershed Project, a capacity-building project in Brazil that will be completed in 2008. She is currently applying for funding to continue collaborating with partners in Brazil and possibly extend the work to Mozambique and South Africa.  In 2006, she launched the York/CERLAC Brazil Studies Seminar, a series of informal discussions about Brazil-related research.

 

Dwaine E. Plaza (Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Oregon State University) conducts his research on Caribbean studies, migration and settlement, race and ethnic relations, and qualitative and quantitative research.  In November 2007, he presented a paper titled “An Examination of Transnational Remittance Practices of Jamaican-Canadian Families” for the Parliamentarians for Global Action conference in Abuja, Nigeria.

 

Lynne Phillips (Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Windsor) is the principal investigator for the SSHRC Standard Research Grant on “Mobilizing Gender: The UN, Cultures of Accountability, and Changing Women’s Lives in Latin America.” 

 

Pilar Riaño-Alcalá (Assistant Professor, School of Social Work and Family Studies, University of British Columbia) continues to study memory, violence and witnessing, forced migration, and community public art. 

 

Danielle Robinson (Assistant Professor, Department of Dance, York University) is currently researching a book-length SSHRC Standard Research Grant project on Brazil’s Samba de Roda and its embodiment of “roots”, nostalgia, and histories of slavery with ethnomusicologist Dr. Jeff Packman and dance theorist Dr. Eliosa Domenici. She is also working on an article on post-colonial ethnographic field methods and preparing another on intercultural university dance education.

 

Cecilia Rocha (Associate Professor, School of Nutrition, Ryerson University) continues in her role as the Director of the Centre for Studies in Food Security and as a member of Toronto’s Food Policy Council. In 2005, she was awarded the GREET Award for excellence in teaching in the Faculty of Community Services, Ryerson University. 

 

Jim Rochlin (Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Okanagan University College) continues his research on Latin American security, Andean petroleum security, and insurgency.

 

Richard Roman (Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto) continues his research on the Mexican working class and unions, NAFTA, and labour and social and political change in Mexico.  He is currently completing two books with Edur Velasco Arregui, both on Mexican issues. 

 

Judith Rudakoff (Professor, Theatre Department, York University) is the principle investigator and primary artist for a SSHRC-funded project titled “Common Plants: Cross Pollinations in Hybrid Reality,” an international three-year transcultural multimedia/interdisciplinary project (www.yorku.ca/gardens). Her work includes both artist and student participants from four continents.

 

Veronica Schild (Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Western Ontario) is the Director of the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at the University of Western Ontario.  For the 2007/2008 winter semester, Professor Schild was a Visting Fellow at the Institute for Political Science, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.  In 2007/2008 she also received an International Research Award from the University of Western Ontario for her research project titled “Chile’s Women’s Policy Machinery Under President Michelle Bachelet.”

 

Frans Schryer (Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Guelph) returns to the Mexican context in his latest project, which examines the impact of globalization on the Nahuas of the Alto Balsas region in Guerrero.  This research involves fieldwork in Houston, Texas in order to study Nahua migratory workers currently living in the United States.

 

Daniel Schugurensky (Associate Professor, OISE, University of Toronto) is the Associate Director of the Centre for Urban and Community Studies, the Coordinator of the Graduate Programme in Adult Education and Community Development, and the Co-director of the Transformative Learning Centre at OISE.  He is currently coordinating a number of research projects on citizenship learning, participatory democracy, political participation of Latin and American immigrants, and informal learning among volunteer workers.

 

Yasmine Shamsie (Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University) was a Visiting Scholar at Trinity University in Washington D.C. from 2006-2007.  She is currently working on three forthcoming articles, all related to development and peacebuilding in Haiti.

 

Harry J. Smaller (Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, York University) is directing a national research project examining the material and social conditions of teachers’ work in Canada. 

 

David Szablowski (Assistant Professor, Law and Society Programme, York University) continues his research on law and globalization, regulation and governance, sustainable development, natural resource management, indigenous rights, public participation, legal and democratic theory, extractive industries, and project finance.

 

Patrick Taylor (Associate Professor, Division of Humanities, York University) is Chair of the Division of Humanities and is the co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Caribbean Religions.

 

Judith Teichman (Professor, Department of Social Sciences, University of Toronto at Scarborough and Department of Political Science, University of Toronto) was awarded the Connaught Research Fellowship in 2007 and continues her research on poverty and inequality in Mexico, Chile, and South Korea.

 

Alissa Trotz (Assistant Professor, Sociology & Equity Studies/Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto) is the Director of Caribbean Studies at New College, University of Toronto. In 2007, she received the award for Distinguished Contribution to Graduate Teaching from OISE, University of Toronto, in addition to receiving the Undergraduate Teaching Award from the University of Toronto Student’s Union/Association of Part-Time Undergraduate Students.  Currently, she is an Associate Faculty member of the Centre of Gender and Development, University of West Indies, Barbados, and the co-chair of the Women and Young Scholars Committee for the Caribbean Studies Association.  She is the associate editor of Wadabagei: A Journal of the Caribbean and its Diaspora and is on the board of a number of other journals.

Anna Zalik (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University) continues her research on the social regulation of petroleum extraction in the Niger Delta and Mexico’s Gulf Region, the political economy of the aid industry, post-coloniality, and community-based monitoring of the extractive industry.  She is currently working with the Extractive Industries Research Group at York University, the Ecological Producers Association of Tatexco and the Santo Tomas Ecological Association in Mexico.

 


 

Profiles on CERLAC Fellows, including contact information, research interests, and recent publications, can be found here.

 

CERLAC Fellows & Associates: Please share your news with us. Send us an e-mail at cerlac@yorku.ca

 

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Fellows' Book Publications

 

Barndt, Deborah (Ed.). Wild Fire: Art as Activism. Toronto: Sumach Press/London: Oxford University Press, 2006.

 

Rutas enmarañadas: Mujeres, trabajo y globalización en la senda del tomate. Mexico: Editorial de Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana (UAM-Xochimilco), 2007.

 

Tangled Routes: Women, Work and Globalization on the Tomato Trail, 2nd edition. Lahman: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007.

 

Birbalsingh, Frank. The People’s Progressive Party of Guyana, 1950-1992: An Oral History. London: Hansib, 2007.

 

Czerny, Michael and Bénézet Bujo. AIDS in Africa: Theological Reflections. Nairobi: Paulines Publications Africa, 2007.

 

Linked for Life: African Jesuit AIDS Network. Nairobi: Paulines Publications Africa, 2007

 

Fridell, Gavin. Fair Trade Coffee: The Prospects and Pitfalls of Market-Driven Social Justice. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007.

 

Gismondi, Michael and Josee Johnson. Nature’s Revenge: Reclaiming Sustainability in an Age of Ecological Exhaustion. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2006.

 

Goldring, Luin and S. Krishnamurti. (Eds.) Organizing the Transnational: Labour, Politics and Social Change. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007.

 

Grinspun, Ricardo and Yasmine Shamsie (Eds.). Whose Canada? Continental Integration, Fortress North America and the Corporate Agenda. Montreal, Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007.

 

Hellman, Judith Adler. The World of Mexican Migrants: The Rock and the Hard Place. New York: The New Press, 2008.

 

Henry, Frances. He Had the Power: Pa Neezer, The Orisha King of Trinidad. Lexicon Publishers. Trinidad. 2008.

 

Returning to the Source: The Final Stage of the Caribbean Migration Circuit. (co-edited with Dwaine Plaza). Jamaica. University of the West Indies Press. 2006.

 

Racial Profiling in Canada: Challenging the Myth of a ‘Few Bad Apples’ (with C. Tator), Toronto. University of Toronto Press. 2006.

 

Lovejoy, Paul E. and Rina Cáceres Gómez. Evolución, Independencia y Emancipación: La Lucha Contra la Esclavitud. San José: UNESCO, 2008.

 

North, Liisa, T. D. Clark, V. Patroni (Eds.). Community Rights and Corporate Responsibility: Canadian Mining and Oil Companies in Latin America. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2006.

 

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

 

Rochlin, Jim. Social Forces and the Revolution in Military Affairs: The Cases of Colombia and Mexico. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

 

Schryer, Frans. Farming in a Global Economy: A Case Study of Dutch Immigrant Farmers in Canada. Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006.

 

Schugurensky, Daniel and Jorge Ginieniewicz. Ruptures, Continuities and Re-learning: The Political Participation of Latin Americans in Canada. Toronto: Transformative Learning Centre, 2006 (second edition 2007).

 

_____ and A. Thompson (Eds). Haiti: Hope for a Fragile State. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006.

 

Solomon, Patrick and Dia Sekayi (Eds). Urban Teacher Education and Teaching: Innovative Practices for Diversity and Social Justice. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007.

 

Szablowski,  David. Transnational Law and Local Struggles: Mining, Communities and the World Bank. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2007.

 

Teichman,  Judith, Richard Sandbrook, Marc Edelman and Patrick Heller. Social Democracy in the Global Periphery: Origins, Challenges, Prospects. Cambridge University Press, 2007.

 

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Book Award

 

Teaching for Equity and Diversity: Research to Practice, co-authored by CERLAC Fellow and York University Professor Patrick Solomon and Queen’s University Professor Cynthia Levine-Rasky, was awarded the 2005 American Educational Studies Association (AESA) Critics’ Choice Award, which honours outstanding work in the area of educational studies. 

The authors explore teachers’ perspectives on race and ethno-cultural equity and identify potential solutions for pressing social justice and diversity issues facing educators in contemporary Canadian schools and society. The book draws on experience in the pioneering Urban Diversity Teacher Education model in York’s Faculty of Education and links the sensitive issues of race, ethnicity, and culture to broader equity, social justice, and diversity themes in Canadian society and institutions. 

 

Congratulations Patrick on this well-deserved honour!

 

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Fellows' Publications

 

Baranyi, Stephen. “Canadá en Haití: Aplicando el Enfoque 3D en un Estado Frágil.” In special volume co-edited with Andrés Serbín. Pensamiento Propio 25 (Enero-Junio 2007).

 

_____ and Viviane Weitzner. “Transforming Land-Related Conflict: Policy, Practice and Possibilities.” NSI Policy Brief. Ottawa: NSI, 2006.

 

_____ and David Mepham. “Report from a High-Level Symposium on Enhancing Capacities to Protect Civilians and Build Sustainable Peace in Africa.” Pretoria: Institute for Security Studies, 2006.

 

Barndt, Deborah. “Stories from Field to Table: Women in the Global Food System.” In Gendered Intersections: A Collection of Readings for Women and Gender Studies, edited by P. Downe and C.L. Biggs. Halifax: Fernwood Press, 2005.

 

_____ and C. McKenzie. “Whose Nicaragua? Popular Communications Across Eras, Regions, and Generations.” In Wild Fire: Art as Activism, edited by D. Barndt.  Toronto: Sumach Press/London: Oxford University Press, 2006.

 

Basok, Tanya. “Canada’s Temporary Migration Program: A Model Despite Flaws.” Migration Information Source, publication of the Migration Policy Institute (November 2007).

 

_____ and S. Ilcan. “In the Name of Human Rights: Global Organizations and Participating Citizens.” Citizenship Studies 10 (3) (2006): 309-328.

 

Bernhard, Judith K., C.F. Diaz and I. Algood. “Research-Based Teacher Education for Multicultural Contexts.” Intercultural Education 16 (3) (2005): 263–277.

 

Cameron, Maxwell. “Citizenship Deficits in Latin American Democracies.” Convergencia: Revista de Ciencias Sociales 44 (2007).

 

_____. “Endogenous Regime Breakdown: The Vladivideo and the Fall of Peru’s Fujimori.” In The Fujimori Legacy, edited by J. Carrión. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Penn State University Press, 2006.

 

_____ and Tulia Falleti.  “Federalism and the Subnational Separation of Powers.” Publius: The Journal of Federalism 35 (2) (Spring 2005): 245-271.

 

Crosby, Alison. “People on the Move: Challenging Migration Categorization.” Development 50 (4) (December 2007): 44-49.

 

_____. “The Boundaries of Belonging: Reflections on Migration Policies into the 21st Century.” Refugee Watch: A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration 29 (June 2007). Originally published as part of the Inter Pares Occasional Paper Series 7 (June 2006). (available in English, French and Spanish at www.interpares.ca).

 

Davis, Andrea. “A Feminist Exploration in African Canadian Literature.” In Multiple Lenses: Voices From the Diaspora Located in Canada, edited by D. Divine. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007.

 

_____. “Black Canadian Literature as Diaspora Transgression: The Second Life of Samuel Tyne.” TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 17 (Spring 2007): 31-49.

 

_____. “Translating Narratives of Masculinity Across Borders: A Jamaican Case Study.” Caribbean Quarterly 52 (2-3) (June-Sept. 2006): 22-38.

 

_____. “We Have Historically Been ‘Rooted’ in/Routed to This Place and We Are Here to Stay: Women’s Voices in Black Canadian Literature.”  NEW DAWN: Journal of Black Canadian Studies 1 (1) (Spring 2006): 68-74.

 

De Barros, Juanita, A. Diptee and D. Trotman. “Introduction.”  In Beyond Fragmentation: Perspectives on Caribbean History, edited by J. De Barros, A. Diptee, and D. Trotman. Princeton: Marcus Weiner Publishers, 2006.

 

Fridell, Gavin. “Fair Trade Coffee and Commodity Fetishism: The Limits of Market-Driven Social Justice.” Historical Materialism 15 (4) (2007): 79-104.

 

_____. Review of “Organic Coffee: Sustainable Development by Mayan Farmers.” (Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2006), by Maria Elena Martinez-Torres. Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 32 (64) (2007) 234-236.

 

_____. Review of “Canada in Haiti: Waging War on the Poor Majority.” (Halifax: Fernwood, 2005), by Yves Engler and Anthony Fenton. New Dawn: Journal of Black Canadian Studies 2 (1) (2007): 72-73.

 _____. “Fair Trade and Neoliberalism: Assessing Emerging Perspectives.” Latin American Perspectives 33 (6), (November 2006): 8-28.

 

_____. “Comercio justo, Neoliberalismo, y Desarrollo Rural: Una Valoración Histórica.” (Fair Trade, Neoliberalism, and Rural Development: An Historical Assessment) ÍCONOS 10 (1) (2006).

 

_____. “Fair Trade and the International Moral Economy: Within and Against the Market.” In Global Citizenship and Environmental Justice, edited by T. Shallcross and J. Robinson. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006.

 

Garcia, Fernando. “Coyuntura de las Relaciones Bilaterales Bolivia-Chile.” Observatorio de Bolivia, Centro Argentino de Estudios Internacionales (CAEI), Buenos Aires, 7 (2007).

 

_____. “Una Herejía Sobre la Gobernabilidad.” PULSO, La Paz (Diciembre 2005): 16–22.

 

_____. “El Federalismo Posible.” PULSO, La Paz (Agosto 2004).

 

_____. “Los Vericuetos del Presidente.” PULSO, La Paz (Septiembre 2004). 

 

_____. “¿Réquiem para el Neoliberalismo Boliviano?” PULSO, La Paz (Junio 2004).

 

Goldring, Luin, C. Berinstein, and J. Bernhard. “Institutionalizing Precarious Immigration Status in Canada.” Ceris Working Paper Series, Working Paper No. 61. Toronto: CERIS, (December 2007).

 

_____. “Latin American Transnationalism in Canada: Does It Exist, What Forms Does It Take and Where Is It Going?” In Transnational Identities and Practices in Canada, edited by V. Satzewich and L. Wong. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2006.

 

Gosine, Andil. “FOBs, Banana Boy and The Gay Pretenders: Queer Youth Cross Sex, ‘Race,’ Nation in Toronto, Canada.” In Queer Youth Cultures, edited by S. Driver. New York: SUNY, 2008.

 

_____. “Blonde to Brown at gay.com: Passing White in Queer Cyberspace.” In Queer Online, edited by K. O’Riordan and D.J. Phillips. New York: Peter Lang, 2007.

 

_____. “Marginalization Myths and the Complexity of ‘Men’: Engaging Critical Conversations About Irish and Caribbean Masculinities.” Journal of Men and Masculinities 9 (3) (2007): 337-357.

 

_____. “‘Race’, Culture, Power, Sex, Desire and Love: Writing in ‘Men Who Have Sex with Men.’” IDS Bulletin 37 (5) (2006): 27-33.

 

_____. “Dying Planet, Deadly People: ‘Race’-Sex Anxieties & Alternative Globalizations.” Social Justice 32 (4) (2006): 69-86.

 

Grinspun, D. “A Political Agenda for Building Medicare’s Next Stage.” In Medicare: Facts, Myths, Problems & Promise, edited by B. Campbell and G. Marchildon. Toronto: James Lorimer & Company, Ltd, 2007.

 

_____. Review of “Nursing Against the Odds: How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes and Medical Hubris Undermines Nurses and Patient Care.” (New York: ILR Press, 2005), by Suzanne Gordon. and “The Complexities of Care: Nursing Reconsidered.” (New York: ILR Press, 2006), by Sioban Nelson and Suzanne Gordon. Nursing Inquiry 14 (3) (2007): 263-264.

 

_____, Pearson, A., Srivastava, R., Craig D., Tucker, D., Bajnok, I., Griffin, P., Long, L., Porritt, K., Han, T., and A. Gi. “Systematic Review on Embracing Cultural Diversity for Developing and Sustaining a Healthy Work Environment in Healthcare.” Int J Evid Based Healthc 5 (2007): 54–91.

 

_____. “Healthy Workplaces: The Case for Shared Clinical Decision Making and Increased Full-Time Employment.” Healthcare Papers 7 (2007): 69-75.

 

_____, Griffin P, El-jardali, F., Tucker D., Bajnok I., and J. Shamian. “What’s the Fuss About? Why Do We Need Healthy Work Environments for Nurses Anyway?” HHR Resources (February 2006). http://www.longwoods.com/home.php?cat=110

 

Hellman, Judith Adler. “The World of a Mexican Migrant.” In Re-Imagining North America, edited by A. De La Garza and D. Hoerder. Phoenix: Arizona State University, 2008.

 

_____. “The Riddle of New Social Movements: Who They Are and What They Do.” In Capital, Inequality and Power in Latin America, 2nd Edition, edited by R. Harris and J. Nef. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2008.

 

_____. “The Migration Debate.” The North American Center Transborder Studies Quarterly, 2007.

 

_____. “A Bill Only Bush Could Love.” NACLA Report on the Americas 40 (5) (September/October 2007): 3.

 

_____. “Give or Take Ten Million: International Migration of Mexicans.”  In Turning the Tide?: Latin America After Neoliberalism, edited by E. Hershberg and F. Rosen. New York: The New Press, 2006.

 

Jubb, Nadine. OSAGI. Gender, Water, and Sanitation: Case Studies on Best Practices. New York: Office of the Special Advisor on Gender Issues and the Advancement of Women, 2005. (Co-editor; member of production team and technical assistance).

 

Kempadoo, Kamala. “The War on Human Trafficking in the Caribbean.” Race And Class 49 (2) (2007): 79-84.

 

_____. “Sex Work Migration and Human Trafficking: Problems and Possibilities.” In Inter-Regional Migration and Preventing Conflict in the Greater Caribbean. Port-of-Spain: Association of Caribbean States and the University of the West Indies, 2006.

 

Kopinak, Kathryn. “Counting the Environment In: Considerations of the Risk of Hazardous Maquiladora Waste.”  In Equity and Sustainable Development: Reflections From the U.S.-Mexico Border, edited by J. Clough-Riquelme and N. Bringas Rabago. La Jolla, CA: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, UCSD, 2006.

 

_____ and S. Guzmán García. “Hacia una Teoría de la Industria Maquiladora Mexicana que Considere los Impactos en el Medio Ambiente.” In El Medio Ambiente y la Maquila en México: Un Problema Ineludible, edited by J. Carrillo and C. Chatan. México: CEPAL, 2005.

 

Kowalchuk, Lisa with N. McLaughlin (first author) and K. Turcotte. “Why Sociology Does Not Need to Be Saved: Analytic Reflections on Public Sociologies.” The American Sociologist 36 (3–4) (2006): 133–151.

 

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

 

_____. “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 G. Yurdakul and M. Bodemann. New York City: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007.

 

_____. “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.

 

Lefeber, Louis and Thomas Vietorisz, “The Meaning of Social Efficiency.” Review of Political Economy 19 (2) (April 2007): 139-164.

 

Lovejoy, Paul E. “O Fator Iorubá no Tráfico Transatlântico de Escravos.” In Rotas Atlânticas da Diáspora Africana: os ‘Pretos Minas’ no Rio de Janeiro, Séculos XVIII-XX, edited by M. de Carvalho Soares. Rio de Janeiro, 2007.

 

_____ and Yacine Daddi Addoun “The Arabic Manuscript of Muhammad Kaba Saghanughu of Jamaica, c. 1820.” In Creole Concerns: Essays in Honour of Kamau Brathwaite, edited by A. Paul. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2006.

 

_____. “Civilian Casualties in the Context of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.” In Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Africa, edited by J. Laband. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006.

 

_____. “Identity and the Mirage of Ethnicity: Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua’s Journey in the Americas.” In African Re-Genesis: Confronting Social Issues in the Diaspora, edited by J.B. Haviser and K.C. MacDonald. London: Cavendish Publishing, 2006.

 

_____. “Mercadores e Carregadores das Caravanas do Sudão Central, Século XIX.” Tempo (Rio de Janeiro) 10 (20) (2006): 61-82.

 

_____, Mariza Soares, Jane Landers, and Andrew McMichael. “Slavery in Ecclesiastical Archives: Preserving the Records.” Hispanic American Historical Review 86 (2) (2006): 337-46.

 

_____. “Construction of Identity: Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa?” Historically Speaking 7 (3) (2006): 8-9.

 

_____. “Autobiography and Memory: Gustavus Vassa and the Abolition of the Slave Trade.” Slavery and Abolition 27 (3) (2006): 317-47.

 

_____. “The Children of Slavery: The Trans-Atlantic Phase.” Slavery and Abolition 27(2) (2006): 197-218.

 

Marcuzzi, Michael.  “A Comparative Examination of the Ìpanódù Ceremony and Its Implications for a Multilocal Approach to Constituting the History of the Orìsà People.” In Orisa: Yoruba Gods and Spiritual Identity, edited by T. Falola and A. Genova. Trenton, New Jersey: African World Press, 2005.

 

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

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

 

McAllister, Carlota. “Rural Markets, Revolutionary Souls, and Rebellious Women in Cold War Guatemala”. In In From the Cold: Latin America in the Cold War, edited by G. Joseph. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007.

 

_____. Review of “Worker in the Cane.” by Sidney Mintz. Íconos: Revista de Ciencias Sociales 29 (2007): 135-137.

 

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

 

_____, T. Boellstorf and K. Robinson (Eds. and authors). “East Indies-West Indies: Archipelagic Interchanges.” Special Issue of Critique of Anthropology 16 (3) (2006).

 

Nef, Jorge.  “Human Security and Insecurity: A Perspective from the Other America.” In Protecting Human Security in a Post 9/11 World:  Critical and Global Insights, edited by G. Shani, M. Sato, and M. Kamal Pasha. Hampshire, U.K.: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2006.

 

_____. “Globalization, Underdevelopment and Human Security: Some Theoretical and Ethical Reflections.” In Human Development and Globalization, edited by I. Chaturvedi.  New Delhi, India: Deep & Deep Publications, 2006.

 

_____. “Percepciones de las Elites Estadounidenses Frente al ‘Desafío Latinoamericano’: Una Tentativa de Ensayo Interpretativo.”  In América Latina a Comienzos del siglo XXI. Perspectivas Económicas, Sociales y Políticas, edited by G. Dupas.  Rosario, Argentina: Homo Sapiens Ediciones, 2005.

 

_____. “Third Systems, Human Security and Sustainable Development.” In Globalization and Sustainable Development. Issues and Applications, edited by R. Harris. Tampa: Dr. Kiran C.  Patel Center for Global Solutions: University of South Florida, 2006.

 

North, Liisa. “El Mundo Rural en los Andes.” Iconos, FLASCO-Ecuador 29 (Septiembre 2007).

 

_____. “Militares y Estado en Ecuador: Construcción Militar y Desmantelamiento Civil?”  Iconos, FLACSO-Ecuador 26 (Septiembre 2006): 85–95.

 

_____ and T.D. Clark. “Introduction.” In Community Rights and Corporate Responsibility: Canadian Mining and Oil Companies in Latin America, edited by L. North, T.D. Clark and V. Patroni. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2006.

 

Peake, Linda and Kobayashi, A. “Racism in Place: Another Look at Shock, Horror and Racialisation.” In Feminisms in Geography: Rethinking Space, Place, and Knowledges, edited by P. Moss and K. Falconer Al-Hindi. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007.

 

Perkins, Ellie. “Participation and Watershed Management: Experiences from Brazil.” In Natural Resource Management: A Participatory Approach. Kolkata: ICFAI (Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India) University Press, 2007.

 

_____ and Andrea Moraes. “Etica, Genero e Classe Social na Politíca Participativa de Agua.” In Etica, Pesquisa e Políticas Publicas, edited by G. Aparecida dos Santos.  São Paulo: Editora USP, 2005.

 

_____ and Andrea Moraes. “Women and Deliberative Water Management in Brazil.” . In Ecofeminism Today, edited by A. Salleh. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press.

 

_____ and Andrea Moraes. “Women, Equity and Participatory Water Management in Brazil.” International Feminist Journal of Politics, special issue on Women and Water 4 (Fall 2007): 485-493.

 

_____. “Feminist Ecological Economics and Sustainability.” Journal of Bioeconomics 9 (3) (2007): 227-244.

 

_____. Review of “The Wealth of Nature: How Mainstream Economics Has Failed the Environment.” (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003), by Robert L. Nadeau. Ecological Economics 55 (4) (December 2005): 610-611.

 

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

 

_____ and S. Ilcan.  “Circulations of Insecurity:  Globalizing Food Standards in Historical Perspective.” In Agricultural Standards: The Shape of the Global Food and Fiber System, edited by J. Bingen and L. Busch.  Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer Press, 2006.

 

_____. “Governing Peace: Rationalities of Security and UNESCO’s Culture of Peace Campaign.” Anthropologica 48 (2006): 59–71.

 

_____. “Food and Globalization.” Annual Review of Anthropology 35 (2006): 37–57.

 

_____. “Gender Mainstreaming: The Global Governance of Women?” Canadian Journal of Development Studies 26 (2005): 651–663.

Plaza, Dwaine. “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 Erlinda Gonzales-Berry. “‘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 J. Xing et al. Oregon State University Press, 2007.

 

_____, Erlinda Gonzales-Berry, 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 Caribbéene et Intégration au Canada: à la Poursuite du Rêve d’Ascension Sociale (1900-1998).” Terres D’Amérique 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 3 (2006): 207-230. 

 

_____ and Alan Simmons.“The Caribbean Community in Canada: Transnational Connections and Transformation.” In Negotiating Borders and Belonging: Transnational Identities and Practices in Canada, edited by L. Wong and V. Satzewich. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006. 

_____. 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).

 

Robinson, Danielle. “Oh, You Black Bottom!: Appropriation, Authenticity, and Opportunity in the Jazz Dance Teaching of 1920s New York.” Dance Research Journal 38(1/2) (2006): 19-42.

 

Rochlin, Jim. “Latin America’s Left Turn and the New Strategic Landscape: The Case of Bolivia.” Third World Quarterly 28 (7) (2007): 1327-1342.

 

Roman, Richard and Edur Velasco Arregui. “The Oaxaca Commune.” Socialist Register, edited by L. Panitch and C. Leys (2008).

 

_____ and Edur Velasco Arregui. “The Impact of Neoliberal Reforms and Mexican Emigration on the North American Labour Market.” In Across Borders: Diverse Perspectives on Mexico, edited by J. Perkins and K. Campbell. Toronto: ISC Mexico, 2007.

 

_____ and Edur Velasco Arregui. “Neoliberalism, the Metamorphosis of the State, and the New Political Regime in Mexico.” Relay (November-December 2006).

 

_____. “El México Bárbaro del Siglo XXI: A Doce Años del TLC, la Muerte Tiene Permiso.” Memoria 207 (May 2006).

 

_____.  “El Mundo del Trabajo Durante la Indecisa Transición Mexicana.”  In México 2006-2012: Neoliberalismo, Movimientos Sociales, y Politíca Electoral, edited by M. Tinker Salas and J. Rus. Mexico: Editorial Porrúa, 2006.

 

_____.  “State, Bourgeoisie and Unions: The Recycling of Mexico’s System of Labour Control.” Latin American Perspectives 33 (2) (March 2006): 95-103.

 

Schild, Veronica. “Empowering Consumer Citizens or Governing Poor Female Subjects? The Institutionalization of ‘Self-Development’ in the Chilean Social Policy Field.” Journal of Consumer Culture 7 (2) (2007): 179-203.

 

_____. Review of “The Politics of the Past in an Argentine Working-Class Neighbourhood.” (University of Toronto Press, 2005), by Lindsay DuBois. Labour/Travail (2006): 234-237.

 

Schryer, Frans. “Lengua, Trabajo y Migración.” Regiones (Suplemento de Antropología) 30 (10 de Julio) (2007): 9-12.

 

Schugurensky, Daniel and Josh Lerner. “La Dimensión Educativa de la Democracia Local: El Caso del Presupuesto Participativo.” Revista Temas y Debates 12 (August 2007).

 

_____. “Vingt Mille Lieues Sous les Mers: Les Quatre Défis de l’Apprentissage Informel.” Revue Française de Pédagogie (Summer 2007).

_____ and Jorge Ginieniewicz. “La Comunidad Latinoamericana en Canadá: Algunos Desafíos Pendientes.” Revista Diálogos 3 (Verano 2007). Also published in English as “The Latin American Community in Canada: Some Pending Challenges.” Diálogos Magazine 3 (Summer 2007).

 

_____, Fiona Duguid and Karsten Mündel. “Learning to Build Sustainable Communities through Volunteer Work in Urban and Rural Settings: Insights from Four Case Studies.” In Learning in Community. Proceedings of the Joint International Conference of the Adult Education Research Conference (AERC) and the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE), edited by L. Servage and T. Fenwick. Halifax, June 2007.

 

_____. “The Heteronomous University and the Question of Social Justice: In Search of a New Social Contract.” World Studies in Education 8 (1) (2007): 51-72.

 

_____. Review of “Exiliados, Emigrados y Retornados: Chilenos en América y Europa 1973-2004.” (Santiago de Chile: RIL Editores, 2006), by José del Pozo. Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CJLACS), 32 (63) (2007): 241-244.

 

_____ and Josh Lerner. “Who Learns What in Participatory Democracy? Participatory Budgeting in Rosario, Argentina.” In Democratic Practices as Learning Opportunities, edited by R. van der Veen, D. Wildemeersch, J. Youngblood & V. Marsick. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2007.

 

_____. “The Learning Society in Canada and the US.” In New Society Models for a New Millennium: The Learning Society in Europe and Beyond, edited by Michael Kuhn. New York: Peter Lang, 2007.

 

_____ and J. Ginieniewicz. “La Educación Informal de los Inmigrantes Latinoamericanos en Canadá: Una Mirada a los Aprendizajes Cívicos y Políticos.” In Perspectivas Críticas Desde el Siglo XXI Sobre la Educación en Argentina y Canadá, edited by S. Llomovate and J. Naidorf. Buenos Aires: Gráfica-G.Press, 2006.

 

_____. “The Political Economy of Higher Education in the Time of Global Markets: Whither the Social Responsibility of the University?” In The University, State and Market: The Political Economy of Globalization in the Americas, edited by R. A. Rhoads and Carlos A. Torres. Stanford University Press: California, 2006.

 

_____. “This is Our School of Citizenship: Informal Learning in Local Democracy.” In Learning in Hidden Places: The Informal Education Reader, edited by Z. Bekerman, N. Burbules and D. Silberman. Peter Lang: New York, 2006.

 

_____, Karsten Mundel and Fiona Duguid. “Learning from Each Other: Housing Cooperative Members’ Acquisition of Skills, Knowledge, Attitudes and Values.” Cooperative Housing Journal (Fall 2006): 2-15.

 

_____. “Preface: The Difficult Task of Learning Democratic Practices Through Partisan Politics in Times of Plutocracies.” In Learning Democratic Practices: Political Parties, Media, and American Political Development, edited by Janet Youngblood. Cambridge: Scholars Press, 2006.

 

Shamsie, Yasmine. “Moving Beyond Mediation: The OAS Transforming Conflict in Guatemala.” Global Governance 13 (3) (July-September 2007): 409-425.

 

_____. “The International Political Economy of Democracy Promotion: Lessons from Haiti and Guatemala.” In Promoting Democracy in the Americas, edited by D. Boniface, S. Lean and T. Legler. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

 

_____ and Ricardo Grinspun. “Canada, Free Trade and ‘Deep Integration’ in North America: Context, Problems, and Challenges.” In Whose Canada? Continental Integration, Fortress North America, and the Corporate Agenda, edited by R. Grinspun and Y. Shamsie. Montreal, Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007.

 

_____. Review of “Plunging into Haiti; Clinton, Aristide, and the Defeat of Diplomacy” (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2006), by Ralph Pezzullo. Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 32 (64) (Summer 2007): 225-227.

 

_____. “The Economic Dimension of Peacebuilding in Haiti: Drawing on the Past to Reflect on the Present.” In Haiti: Hope for a Fragile State, edited by Y. Shamsie and A. Thompson. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006.

 

_____ and Andrew Thompson. “Introduction: Haiti Hope for a Fragile State.” In Haiti: Hope for a Fragile State, edited by Y. Shamsie and A. Thompson. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006.

 

_____. “It’s Not Just Afghanistan or Darfur: Canada’s Peacebuilding Efforts in Haiti.” In Canada Among Nations 2006: Minorities and Priorities, edited by A. Cooper and D. Rowlands.  Montreal, Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006.

 

Smaller, Harry J. “Moving Beyond Institutional Boundaries in Inner-City Teacher Preparation.” In Innovations in Urban Teacher Education and Teaching, edited by R.P.Solomon & D.Sekayi. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006.

 

_____. “Gender and Class: State Formation and Schooling Reform in 1880s Toronto.” In New Directions in Women’s History in Honour of Alison Prentice, edited by E.M. Smythe and P. Bourne. Vancouver: Canadian Woman Studies/Les Cahiers de la Femme, 2006.

 

Szablowski, David, Melissa Marschke, and Peter Vandergeest. “2007 Indigenous Peoples Scoping Exercise.” Rural Poverty and Environment Program Working Paper No. 21. Ottawa: IDRC, 2007.

 

_____. “Developing Institutions for Corporate and Community Engagement in the Mining Sector.”  In Community Rights and Corporate Responsibilities, edited by L. North, T.D. Clark and V. Patroni. Toronto: Between the Lines Publishing, 2006.

 

_____. “Who Defines Displacement? The Operation of the World Bank Involuntary Resettlement Policy.”  In Development’s Displacements, edited by P. Vandergeest, P. Idahosa, and P. Bose.  Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006.

 

_____. “John Willis and the Challenges for Public Law Scholarship in a Neoliberal, Globalizing World.” University of Toronto Law Journal 55 (3) (Summer 2005): 869– 886. Special Issue: Administrative Law Today: Culture, Ideas, Institutions, Processes, Values. Essays in Honour of John Willis.

 

Taylor, Patrick. Review of “Religion, Culture and Tradition in the Caribbean.” (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), by Hemchand Gossai and Nathaniel Samuel Murrell. Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 29 (57-58) (2004): 335-337.

 

Teichman, Judith. “Economic Reform and Development Leadership in Latin America: Mexico and Chile” In Leadership for Development in a Globalizing Society: Challenges of Change in the Pacific Basin, edited by D.A. Rondinelli and J.M. Heffron, 2007.

 

_____. “Multilateral Lending Institutions and Transnational Policy Networks in Mexico and Chile.” Global Governance 13(4) (October-December, 2007): 557-573.

 

_____. “The Politics of Tackling Poverty and Inequality in Latin America,” In Building the Americas, edited by M. Rioux. Brussels: Bruylant Publishers, 2007.

 

_____, Richard Sandbrook, Marc Edelman and Patrick Heller. “Can Social Democracies Survive in the Global South?” Dissent (Spring, 2006): 53-60.

 

Trotz, Alissa D. “Red Thread: The Politics of Hope in Guyana.” Race & Class 49 (2) (2007): 71-78.

 

_____. “Going Global? Transnationality, Women/ Gender Studies, and Lessons from the Caribbean.” The Inaugural Issue of the Caribbean Review of Gender Studies (online journal, CGDS, University of the West Indies), (April 2007).

 

_____ and Aaron Kamugisha (eds). “Caribbean Trajectories: 200 Years On.” Race and Class 49 (2), (October-December 2007).  

 

_____. “Rethinking Caribbean Transnational Connections: Conceptual Itineraries,” Global Networks 6 (1) (2006): 41–59.

 

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