Social Change, Resistance and Social Practices

by Richard A. Dello Buono (Editor), David Fasenfest (Editor)

Overview

Critical sociologists of various nationalities focus on cutting-edge approaches to conflict-driven social change. By emphasizing the role played by contemporary social movements such as environmentalists, migrant organizations, world social forum activists, and others, these studies grapple with diverse forms of organized resistance in the twenty-first century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608461448
Publisher:	Haymarket Books
Publication date:	03/20/2012
Series:	Studies in Critical Social Sciences
Edition description:	First Trade Paper Edition
Pages:	268
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Richard Ricardo” A. Dello Buono, Ph.D. (Boston College, 1986) in Social Economy, is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology, Manhattan College. His research areas include comparative social problems and Latin American/Caribbean Studies. Recent works include Latin America after the Neoliberal Debacle, with Ximena de la Barra (Rowman and Littlefield, 2009), and Imperialism, Neoliberalism and Social Struggles in Latin America, with Jose Bell Lara (Brill, 2007).

David Fasenfest, PhD (University of Michigan, 1984) in Sociology, is Associate Professor of Sociology at Wayne State University, and Editor of the journal Critical Sociology. He has published widely on community development, income inequality and critical sociology. Most recently, he edited Engaging Social Justice: Critical Studies of 21st Century Social Transformation (Brill, 2009).

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors viii

1 Writing the Relationship of Resistance and Social Change Richard A. Dello Buono 1

Part I Social Movement for Change

2 Environmentalism and the Family of Anti-Systemic Movements: Toward a Global Movement of Movements? Matheu Kaneshiro Kirk Lawrence 13

3 New Orleans and the Dialectics of Post-Katrina Reconstruction A. Kathryn Stout 35

4 The Social Forum Process and the Praxis of Race, Class, Gender and Sexualities Rose Brewer 57

5 A Bunch of Criminals? Analyzing Political Armed Violence as a Social Production Process Simon Sottsas 73

Part II Contradictions and Resistance in Mexico

6 Fifteen Years of NAFTA: The Impact on Rural Mexico Irma Lorena Acosta Reveles 93

7 Power and Resistance in Post-NAFTA Mexico: Transformational and System-Stabilizing NGOs Krista M. Brumley 105

8 As Neoliberal Crises Persist, Indigenous-Led Movements Resist: Examining the Current Social and Political-Economic Conjuncture in Southern Mexico Molly Talcott 131

Part III Migrants as Social Change Agents

9 The Production of the "Illegal Subject" Nicole Trujillo-Pagan 151

10 Migration, Transnationalism and Post-Modernity Alejandro I. Canales Israel Montiel Armas 173

11 The Global Structuring of Gender, Race, and Class: Conceptual Sites of its Dynamics and Resistance in the Philippine Experience Ligaya Lindio-McGovern 191

12 Dismantling the Defensive Wall of the Colonized: The Veil and the French Law on Secularity and Conspicuous Religious Symbols in Schools Mohammad A. Chaichian 207

References 225

Name Index 247

Subject Index 252