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Party Proliferation and Political Contestation in Africa
This book analyzes several components of democratization and party competition in West Africa focusing on Senegal – a country with one of the longest histories of multiparty elections. It does so in service of examining the origins and consequences of the proliferation of political parties, a trend that has taken hold in Senegal and a variety of other African countries. The author uses novel sources of data to illuminate the economic and political roots of party functions and trajectories by placing party formation, opposition, ruling party loyalty, and presidential turnover into local and regional contexts. This work will appeal to African Studies scholars, professors, graduate students, and policy makers.
The Struggle to Be Gay—in Mexico, for Example
Being gay is not a given. Through a rigorous ethnographic inquiry into the material foundations of sexual identity, The Struggle to Be Gay makes a compelling argument for the centrality of social class in gay life—in Mexico, for example, and by extension in other places as well. Known for his writings on the construction of sexual identities, anthropologist and cultural studies scholar Roger N. Lancaster ponders four decades of visits to Mexican cities. In a brisk series of reflections combining storytelling, ethnography, critique, and razor-edged polemic, he shows, first, how economic inequality affects sexual subjects and subjectivities in ways both obvious and subtle, and, second, how what it means to be de ambiente—“on the scene” or “in the life”—has metamorphosed under changing political-economic conditions. The result is a groundbreaking intervention into ongoing debates over identity politics—and a renewal of our understanding of how identities are constructed, struggled for, and lived.
COVID-19 and Migration: Understanding the Pandemic and Human Mobility
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted every domain of life. Migration and human mobility in general are not exceptions. Since March 2020, researchers, policy makers and many others have channelled their efforts to understand this new coronavirus, its impact and prospects. Many scholars were thinking and writing on the pandemic from its onset and many blog essays quickly appeared. One of the earliest peer-reviewed research articles Sirkeci and Yucesahin (2020) is reproduced here. This article and its focus on mobility and travel data showed that it was possible to predict the spatial spread and concentration of COVID-19 cases. Not only was this finding crucial to developing appropriate policies...
Remittances Review - Volume 5 Issue 2 - October 2020
REMITTANCES REVIEW | ISSN: 2059-6588 | e-ISSN: 2059-6596 | Volume 5 | Number 2 | October 2020 Editorial by Ibrahim Sirkeci - 97 | Epistemic Challenges in the Studies of Remittances: Denomination and Ostensive Definition in the Exploratory Research on Informal Value Transfer System by Fernando César Costa Xavier - 99 | Remittances Inflows and Fiscal Space in Receiving Countries by Sèna Kimm Gnangnon - 115 | Remittances from Mexican migrants in the United States during the time of COVID-19 by Rodolfo Garcia Zamora and Selene Gaspar Olvera - 143
Así no es
¿El pobre es pobre porque quiere? ¿Los jóvenes son más flojos que antes y por eso ganan menos? ¿Quienes reciben programas sociales los gastan en tonterías? ¿Los estados del norte trabajan más que los del sur? ¿Tu jefe ya no te puede subir el sueldo? NO, ASÍ NO ES Asíno es desmitifica conceptos equivocados y devela verdades incómodas que demasiados mexicanos creen, pero que son falsas.Ideas que asumimos sobre meritocracia, clase media, clasismo, salarios e impuestos, pero que son escandalosamente erradas. Burdas mentiras que sirven para justificar las más grandes injusticias de México. Con datos, evidencia científica e información, Viri Ríos y Ray Campos —dos destacadosacadémicos— te llevarán a desafiar tus propias creencias, desmontando cada prejuicio de la mano de relatos cautivadores.
Mexico and the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda
This book explores how and why Mexico’s approach to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) implementation with the López Obrador administration is unsustainable and non-transformative, overshadowed by his vision of Mexico’s “Fourth Transformation”. Approached as a super mantra revolving around “Republican Austerity” and “First, the poor”, it provides original analysis of structural and conjunctural challenges facing Mexico as regards People-, Planet-, and Peace-centered development. The book reveals the promise “First, the poor” is inconsistent with data on Mexico’s poverty reduction (SDG1). Despite record-high spending on s...
The Way That Leads Among the Lost
Based on over a decade of research, a powerful, moving work of narrative nonfiction that illuminates the little-known world of the anexos of Mexico City, the informal addiction treatment centers where mothers send their children to escape the violence of the drug war. The Way That Leads Among the Lost reveals a hidden place where care and violence are impossible to separate: the anexos of Mexico City. The prizewinning anthropologist Angela Garcia takes us deep into the world of these small rooms, informal treatment centers for alcoholism, addiction, and mental illness, spread across Mexico City’s tenements and reaching into the United States. Run and inhabited by Mexico’s most marginaliz...
Territorio, ciudad y vivienda
Los asentamientos humanos del mundo se enfrentan hoy a una de las crisis más atroces de la historia. Millones de personas viven en condiciones inadecuadas y cientos de miles carecen de un techo para cobijarse. La crisis sanitaria del covid-19, los efectos del cambio climático, el capitalismo rampante, los genocidios y el resurgimiento de la extrema derecha en todo el mundo, entre otros fenómenos, han agravado esta crisis y puesto de relieve la urgencia de imaginar más y mejores soluciones. En una época de muchas preguntas y pocas respuestas, este libro es el testimonio de un esfuerzo sin precedentes encabezado por el Instituto del Fondo de la Vivienda para los Trabajadores (Infonavit) y la Secretaría de Desarrollo Agrario, Territorial y Urbano (Sedatu) de México, que demuestra que sí hay alternativa y que, con voluntad política, es posible imaginar y construir una mejor realidad urbana, más humana, justa y democrática.
Presidenta: Más de 100 mujeres te escriben
A lo largo de más de doscientos años de existencia como país, México ha sido gobernado por una larga sucesión de presidentes varones, jamás una mujer. Eso, sin embargo, está por cambiar: el 2 de junio de este 2024, los mexicanos nos iremos a dormir con la noticia de quién será la primera presidenta de nuestra historia. Ante este parteaguas en la vida nacional y sus potenciales repercusiones para todos los habitantes, pero muy especialmente para las mujeres de nuestro país, la periodista Yuriria Sierra seleccionó a un grupo de 112 mexicanas destacadas en su área —políticas, periodistas, intelectuales, activistas, artistas, científicas, influencers, todas de distintas edades y ...
