CERLAC Fellows’ Publications

BOOKS

Stephen Baranyi and Steve Kibble.  Making Advocacy Effective: Northern Voluntary Organizations, Policy Advocacy and the Search for Peace in Angola and East Timor.  CIIR, 1997.

Maxwell A. Cameron, Robert J. Lawson, and Brian W. Tomlin (eds.). To Walk Without Fear: The Global Movement to Ban Landmines. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Kim Clark.  ‘The Redemptive Work’: Railway and Nation in Ecuador, 1895-1930.  Book Series “Latin American Silhouettes: Studies of History and Culture”.  Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1997.

John Kirk and Peter McKenna.  Canada-Cuba Relations: The Other Good Neighbor Policy. Ganesville: Florida University Press, 1997.

Paul Lovejoy and A.S. Kanya Forstner (eds.).  Pilgrims, Interpreters and Agents: French Reconnaissance: Reports on the Sokoto Caliphate and Borno, 1891-1895.  African Studies Program, Madison: Univerity of Wisconsin, 1997.

____and Pat Ama Tokunbo Williams (eds.).  Displacement and the Politics of Violence in Nigeria.  International Studies in Sociology and Anthropology, Brill, Leiden, 1997.

Laura Macdonald. Supporting Civil Society: The Political Role of Non-Governmental Organizations in Central America.  Basingstoke, U.K. and New York: Macmillan and St. Martin’s Press, 1997.

Lynne Phillips and Susan Ilcan (eds.). Transgressing Borders: Critical Perspectives on Gender, Household, and
Culture. Westport: Bergin & Garvey, 1998.

Jim Rochlin. Redefining Mexican ‘Security’: Society, State and Region.  Lynne Reinner, 1997.

Paul Wilkinson.  Tourism Policy and Planning: Case Studies from the Commonwealth Caribbean.  Elmsford, New York: Cogniznat Communications Corporation, 1997.

FOCUS ON BOOKS

Synopsis of
Desert Capitalism: What are the Maquiladoras?

Written by Kathryn Kopinak, this book was published  in 1997 by Black Rose Books in both paperback and hardcover, making it available at affordable prices in Canada one year after it was published in the U.S.  Unfortunately, the economics of Canadian publishing made it impossible to appear in Canada first.

The work is written  from the perspective of the sociology of work and also addresses issues of how new industrial regions may be forming on the US-Mexico border. The author wanted to give readers a sense of where industries that have left Canada and the US. for Mexico have gone, and how they operate there.

It is a rigorously empirical work, analyzing a wide range of data. The focus is the autoparts industry in Nogales, Imuris and  Sonora, comparing these with other locations such as Hermosillo, where the Ford-Mazda joint venture has been so often studied. The author surveyed 10 percent of all workers, 60 percent of managers, and sampled newspaper advertisements for all maquila  jobs throughout the eighties to come up with an outline of the labour  force. She highlights the literature by Mexican scholars, previously available only in Spanish, and reviews much of the journalistic literature in Mexico and the U.S., summarizing it in an accessible manner.

Data was collected in the early nineties when NAFTA was being debated and those in favour of the treaty argued that Mexican maquilas, especially those in the auto sector, were modernizing and would be the wave of the future.
 

The Third Wave of Modernization in Latin America: Cultural Perspectives on Neoliberalism

 'The Third Wave of Modernization in Latin America: Cultural Perspectives on Neoliberalism," edited by Lynne Phillips, is composed of eleven original essays that take an anthropological look at the changes currently occurring in Latin America.  This book examines at the impact of neoliberalism on communities typically excluded from the process of economic decision making.

Philips’ work illustrates how anthropology has come to recognize the multi-directional relationship between the “local” and the “global”.  She discusses the value of anthropology in relation to the debates over issues that emerge during discussions of neoliberalism throughout the social sciences.  The first section, “Changing  Rural Lives”, offers an account of Liberalism, Salinismo, and Indigenous peasants in Mexico; economic development and the origins of the cocaine industry in Bolivia; and contemporary production practices in a Mayan community in Guatemala.

The second section, “Transforming Urban  Enterprises”, follows the discussion of neoliberalism in the areas of survival politics and the movement of market women in Peru; the financing of small-scale enterprises in Bolivia; and the neoliberal turn in postrevolutionary Nicaragua.

The final section, “Restructuring Society and Nature”, examines neoliberalism and public education in Bolivia; the dynamics of folk medicine in northwestern Argentina; environmental policy in Mexico; and the transformation of agency in the Amazon.

Other Publications

Judith Bernhard M.L. Lefebvre, K. Murphy, G. Chud, and R. Lange.  “Troubled relationships in early childhood education: Parent-teacher interactions in ethnoculturally diverse settings.”  Early Education and Development, Vol. 9. No. 1. 1998

____, Marlinda Freire and V. Pacini. “A Latin American Parents’ Group Participates in Their Children’s Schooling: Parent Involvement Reconsidered”, Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal, Vol. 30, No. 3, 1998.

____, ____, F. Torres, and S. Nirdosh  “Latin Americans in a Canadian Primary School: Perspectives of Parents, Teachers, and Children on Cultural Identity and Academic Achievement” Journal of Regional Studies, Vol. 19, No. 3, 1998: 217-236.

____. “Caring for and teaching the children of refugee families.”  In K. Murphy Kilbride (ed.), Include Me Too.  Toronto: Harcourt Brace, 1997: 177-196.

Maxwell Cameron.  “Nesting NAFTA in APEC: The Political Economy of Open Sub-regionalism”.  In V.K. Aggarwal and C. Morrison (eds.). Institutionalizing the Asia-Pacific: Regime Creation and the Future of APEC.  New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998.

___ “North American Trade Negotiations: Liberalization Games Between Asymmetric Players.” European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 3. No. 1. 1997.

Kim Clark. “Población Indígena, Incorporación Nacional y Procesos Globales: Del Liberalismo al Neo-Liberalismo (Ecuador 1895-1995).”  In Andrés Pérez (ed.), Globalización, Ciudadanía y Política Social en América Latina. Caracas: Nueva Sociedad, 1997.

Margarita Feliciano. “L’exil au Canada: Le cas des écrivains hispano-américains”. In Peter Klaus (ed.). Neue Romania. Berlin: Instituts Romanishche Philologie der Freier Universitat Berlin, 1997.

Ricardo Grinspun and Robert Kreklewich. “Institutions, Power Relations, and Unequal Integration in the Americas: NAFTA as Deficient Institutionality,” chapter 1 in Kirsten Appendini and Sven Bislev (eds.). Economic Integration in NAFTA and the European Union: Deficient Institutionality. London: Macmillan, 1999.

____. “Tratado de Libre Comercio de la América del Norte: Análisis del Modelo Económico,” chapter in Participación de la Sociedad Civil en los Procesos de Integración, CEFIR and ALOP, Montevideo, 1998: 163-
175.

Judith Adler Hellman.  “Continuity and Change in the Mexican Political System: New Ways of Knowing a New Reality”.  European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Vol. 63.  December 1997: 9-18.

____. “Towards a Comparative Framework for the Analysis of Women’s Movements”.  International Issues, Vol. 40.  No. 6.  December 1997: 11-20.

____. “Immigrant ‘Space’ in Italy: When an Emigrant Sending Becomes an Immigrant Receiving Society”.  Modern Italy, Vol. 3. No. 1. 1997: 34-51.

Kathryn Kopinak. "Industrial Exchanges Across the U.S.-Mexico Border: the Export Platform Thesis Reconsidered in Tijuana and San Diego" in Frontera Norte.

____“The Post-NAFTA Impact of Mexican Export Processing Industries on Migration,” Labour, Capital and Society.  November, 1997.

Tanya Korovkin.  “Commodity Production and Ethnic Culture: Otavalo, Northern Ecuador”, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 47, No. 1, October 1998: 125-154.

Louis Lefeber. “Políticas Agrícolas y Desarrollo Rural en el Ecuador,” Ecuador Debate. April 1998; and in: Luciano Martínez (ed.),  Antología de las Ciencias Sociales:  Estudios Rurales.  Quito, FLACSO, Ecuador, 1998.

____. “Trade, Employment and the Rural Economy”. In M. Yamada (ed.). Ciudad y Campo en América Latina.  Osaka: The Japan Centre for Area Studies, 1997.

Jaime Llambías-Wolff. “Los desafíos de la salud y de la modernidad para una época de transformaciones paradigmáticas.”  Revista Salud Problema,  Mexico, Spring 1997.

Lynne Phillips and Ricardo Trumper.  “Give Me Discipline or Give Me Death: Neoliberalizing Health in Chile”.  International Journal of Health Sciences, Vol. 27. No. 1. 1997: 41-55.

Althea Prince. “Contextualizing Cultural Festivals”. In REVISIONING: Canadian Perspectives on the Education of Africans in the Late Twentieth Century.  Captus Press, 1998.

____. “Divining A Grounded Theory For The Study of Anansi, and Authenticity in African-Caribbean Fiction: A Case for Ethnographic Fiction”. In Marronnage or Resistance: Myth and Reality. Bernard Delpeche et al (eds.). The Canadian Scholars Press, 1998.

Cecilia Rocha and R. Pushchack. “Falling to Site Hazardous Waste Facilities Voluntarily:  Implications for the Production of  Sustainable Goods.”  Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Vol. 41. No. 1. January 1998.

Richard Roman and Edur Velasco.  “Zapatistas and the Workers Movement in Mexico at the End of the Century,”  Monthly Review,  July-August 1997.

Paul Wilkinson.  “Jamaican Tourism: From Dependency Theory to a World-Economy Perspective.”  In D. G. Lockhart and D. Drakakis-Smith (eds.). Island Tourism.  London: Mansell, 1997: 181-204.

____.“El Futuro del Turismo, Una Vez Más.” En L. Chang Chang Fun y C.

Pereyra Plasencia (eds.), Foro de Desa-rrollo Turístico: Agenda para la Excelencia.  Lima, Peru: Ministerio de Industria, Turismo, Integración y Negociaciones Comerciales Internacionales, 1997: 34-44.

CERLAC WORKING PAPERS

Alison Crosby. To Whom shall the Nation Belong? The Gender and Ethnic Dimensions of Refugee Return and Struggles for Peace in Guatemala, December 1996.

Cathy Blacklock. Democratization and Popular Women’s Political Organizations, January 1997.

Judith Adler Hellman. Structural Adjustment in Mexico and the Dog That Didn’t Bark, April 1997.

Louis Lefeber. Agricultural Policies and Rural Development in Ecuador: A Critique of Establishmentarian Policies, March 1998.
 

CERLAC / CARIBBEAN RELIGIONS PROJECT WORKING PAPERS

Juanita de Barros. Congregationalism and Afro-Guianese Autonomy, July 1998.

Sean Lokaisingh-Meighoo.  The Diasporic Mo(ve)ment: Indentureship and Indo-Caribbean Identity, July 1998.

Frank Scherer.  Sanfrancón: Orientalism, Confucianism and the Construction of Chineseness in Cuba, 1847-1997, July 1998.
 

CERLAC COLLOQUIA PAPERS

Tom Legler and Carlos Torres. Toward the Santiago Summit: A Consultation with Civil Society on Democracy, Human Rights and Economic Integration. A Report on the Workshop Proceedings, October 1997.

Alejandra Roncallo. The CERLAC-OAS Internship Program: Pre-Internship Workshop Report. October 1998.
 

CERLAC REPORTS

Liisa North and Ruth Abramson. Major Institutional Linkages of CERLAC in Latin America and the Caribbean, April 1996.

Wan K. Li and Laura Norris. Handbook of Researchers in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at York University and CERLAC Fellows. Published on CERLAC’s website 1999.

Wan K. Li and Laura Norris. CERLAC Research and Institutional Development Projects. Published on CERLAC’s website 1999.

Wan K. Li and Laura Norris. Graduate Theses on Latin American and Caribbean Topics at York University. Published on CERLAC’s website 1999.

Marshall Beck. List of LAC-Related Course Offerings in Undergraduate Studies at York University. Published on CERLAC’s website 1999.

Marshall Beck. List of LAC-Related Course Offerings in Graduate Studies at York University. Published on CERLAC’s website 1999.