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).

This collection dives head-on into the central contradictions of 21st Century North America and beyond with cutting-edge approaches to conflict-driven social change. Diverse forms of social movement resistance from environmentalists, migrant communities and others are analyzed by distinguished critical sociologists.

Notes on Contributors 1. Writing the Relationship of Resistance and Social Change, Richard A. Dello Buono PART I. SOCIAL MOVEMENT FOR CHANGE 2. Environmentalism and the Family of Anti-Systemic Movements: Toward a Global Movement of Movements?, Matthew Kaneshiro & Kirk Lawrence 3. New Orleans and the Dialectics of Post-Katrina Reconstruction, A. Kathryn Stout 4. The Social Forum Process and the Praxis of Race, Class, Gender and Sexualities, Rose Brewer 5. A Bunch of Criminals? Analyzing Political Armed Violence as a Social Production Process, Simon Sottsas PART II. OPPOSITIONAL POLITICS IN MEXICO 6. Fifteen Years of NAFTA: The Impact on Rural Mexico, Irma Lorena Acosta Reveles 7. Power and resistance in post-NAFTA Mexico: Transformational and System-stabilizing NGOs, Krista Brumley 8. As Neoliberal Crises Persist, Indigenous-led Movements Resist: Examining the current social and political-economic conjuncture in Southern Mexico, Molly Talcott PART III. MIGRATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE 9. The Production of the "Illegal Subject", Nicole Trujillo-Pagan 10. Migration, Transnationalism and Post-Modernity, Alejandro I. Canales & Israel Montiel Armas 11. The Global Structuring of Gender, Race, and Class: Conceptual Sites of its Dynamics and Resistance in the Philippine Experience, Ligaya Lindio-McGovern 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 References Index