Notes on the Contributors
- Notes on the Contributors
Ernesto Friedrich de Lima Amaral is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. He holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests focus on issues related to evaluation of public policies, economic development, and demographic transition.
Helene Balslev Clausen es doctora por Copenhagen Business School, Centro de Estudios de las Américas, México. Es editora y autora de varias antologías y artículos sobre identidad, turismo y poder. De las antologías recientes destacan Projections of Power in the Americas en colaboración con Jan Gustafsson y Niels Bjerre-Poulsen (2012); “Las comunidades norteamericanas en ciudades turísticas de México” (en colaboración con Mario Alberto Velázquez García), en Construir una nueva vida: Los espacios del turismo y la migración residencial, editado por Tomás Mazón, Raquel Huete y Alejandro Mantecón (2011); y “La posición social y espacial en una ciudad: Las luchas simbólicas de Álamos, Sonora” (con Mario Alberto Velázquez García), en Pasos: Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural (2010).
Marcela Menezes Costa is an undergraduate student of public management in the Department of Political Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Malcolm Deas is an emeritus fellow of St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, where he was a founder and later director of the Latin American Centre. He has worked on the history and politics of Colombia, and a number of his essays are collected in Del poder y la gramática (2006). Among his works on violence and security are Intercambios violentos (1999) and Reconocer la guerra para construir la paz (coedited with María Victoria Llorente, 1999). For a decade he was the editor of the Cambridge University Press series Latin American Studies.
Lucas González holds a PhD in political science from the University of Notre Dame. In his dissertation, he studied the struggles for the distribution of federal fiscal transfers between the central government and subnational units in Argentina and Brazil. His thesis adviser was Guillermo O’Donnell. His most recent research interests are federalism, redistribution, and the political economy of redistributive transfers. He is currently adjunct professor and researcher at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín, and professor at Universidad de San Andrés, Universidad Católica Argentina, and Católica de Córdoba. He has coauthored two books and written articles in edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals, the most recent two of which were published in the Journal of Politics and Publius: The Journal of Federalism.
Jorge Heine is Centre for International Governance (CIGI) Chair in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, professor of political science at Wilfrid Laurier University, and a distinguished fellow of CIGI in Waterloo, Ontario. His most recent books are Fixing Haiti: MINUSTAH and Beyond (coedited with Andrew S. Thompson, 2011), The Dark Side of Globalization (coedited with [End Page 230] Ramesh Thakur, 2011), and Which Way Latin America? Hemispheric Politics Meets Globalization (coedited with Andrew F. Cooper, 2009). A past vice president of the International Political Science Association, he chairs the international jury for the Luciano Tomassini Latin American International Relations Book Award established by the Latin American Studies Association in 2011. He has been a visiting fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC; and he will be a visiting professor of political science at the University of Konstanz in Germany in 2012.
Silvio Salej Higgins é professor adjunto do Departamento de Sociologia e Antropologia da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG-Brasil). PhD em sociologia pela Université Paris Dauphine e pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brasil). A sua pesquisa se concentra em arranjos produtivos locais, dimensão organizacional das microfinanças e na aplicação da metodologia da análise de redes sociais a socio-economia. Atualmente coordena o programa de pós-graduação em sociologia da UFMG.
Simón Pedro Izcara Palacios is professor of rural sociology at the Department of Sociology, Autonomous University of Tamaulipas, Mexico, and...
