Social Change, Resistance And Social Practices

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).

• Notes on Contributors1. Writing the Relationship of Resistance and Social Change, Richard A. Dello BuonoPART I. SOCIAL MOVEMENT FOR CHANGE2. Environmentalism and the Family of Anti-Systemic Movements: Toward a Global Movement of Movements?, Matthew Kaneshiro & Kirk Lawrence3. New Orleans and the Dialectics of Post-Katrina Reconstruction, A. Kathryn Stout4. The Social Forum Process and the Praxis of Race, Class, Gender and Sexualities, Rose Brewer5. A Bunch of Criminals? Analyzing Political Armed Violence as a Social Production Process, Simon SottsasPART II. OPPOSITIONAL POLITICS IN MEXICO6. Fifteen Years of NAFTA: The Impact on Rural Mexico, Irma Lorena Acosta Reveles7. Power and resistance in post-NAFTA Mexico: Transformational and System-stabilizing NGOs, Krista Brumley8. As Neoliberal Crises Persist, Indigenous-led Movements Resist: Examining the current social andpolitical-economic conjuncture in Southern Mexico, Molly TalcottPART III. MIGRATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE9. The Production of the “Illegal Subject”, Nicole Trujillo-Pagan10. Migration, Transnationalism and Post-Modernity, Alejandro I. Canales & Israel Montiel Armas11. The Global Structuring of Gender, Race, and Class: Conceptual Sites of its Dynamics and Resistance in the Philippine Experience, Ligaya Lindio-McGovern12. Dismantling the Defensive Wall of the Colonized: The Veil and the French Law on Secularity and Conspicuous Religious Symbols in Schools, Mohammad A. Chaichian