Contributors
- Contributors
Lisa Baldez is an associate professor of government and Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Why Women Protest: Women’s Movements in Chile (2002). Her research on gender and politics in Latin America and the United States has appeared in numerous journals, including Comparative Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and the Journal of Legal Studies. She is a founding editor, with Karen Beckwith, of the journal Politics & Gender.
Sarah A. Blue is an assistant professor of geography at Northern Illinois University. Her research broadly focuses on how international migration and changes in the global political economy affect local socioeconomic dynamics in Latin America and the United States. Her current research addresses systems of labor recruitment and subcontracting of Latino immigrants in post-Katrina New Orleans; gender, race, and transnationalism; and socioeconomic change in Cuba. Her recent articles have been published in Latin American Perspectives (2005), Economic Geography (2004), and Urban Affairs Review (2004).
Sujatha Fernandes is an assistant professor of sociology at Queens College of the City University of New York. Her research interests include gender and social movements, state-society relations, and the politics of culture in revolutionary and postrevolutionary countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. She is the author of Cuba Represent! Cuban Arts, State Power, and the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures (2006). Her current project studies urban social movements in Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela.
Claudia Heiss is a Ph.D. candidate at the New School for Social Research. Her dissertation research focuses on states of exception in Latin America. Her published writing includes “John Rawls más allá del estado” in Revista de Ciencias Sociales (2007) and the chapter “Sociedad civil y democracia: ¿Qué podemos aprender de las experiencias de incidencia ciudadana?” (coauthored, in La Propuesta Ciudadana, Catalonia, 2006).
Patricio Navia is a “master teacher” of global cultures in the General Studies Program and adjunct assistant professor in the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University. He is also a researcher and professor at the Instituto de Investigación en Ciencias [End Page iii] Sociales at Universidad Diego Portales in Chile. He has written on democratization, electoral rules, and democratic institutions in Latin America for numerous academic journals. His books include Las grandes alamedas: el Chile post Pinochet (2004) and Que gane el más mejor. Mérito y competencia en el Chile de hoy (with Eduardo Engel, 2006).
Barbara Sutton is an assistant professor of women’s studies at the State University of New York at Albany. She holds the Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Oregon and a law degree from the National University of Buenos Aires, where she was born and raised. Her scholarly interests include globalization, body politics, human rights, women’s and global justice movements, and intersections of inequalities based on gender, class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and nation, particularly in Latin American contexts.
Jeffery R. Webber is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of Toronto. His dissertation is titled Red October: Indigenous Nationalism, Popular Class Formation, and the New Left in Bolivia, 2000–2007. He is also the author of “Left-Indigenous Struggles in Bolivia: Searching for Revolutionary Democracy,” Monthly Review (September 2005) and “Struggles Against Accumulation by Dispossession in Bolivia: The Political Economy of Natural Resource Contention” (with Susan Spronk), Latin American Perspectives (March 2007).
Leon Zamosc is an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, San Diego. He has written on rural development, peasant political participation, and indigenous movements in Colombia and Ecuador. His latest book is The Struggle for Indigenous Rights in Latin America (co-edited with Nancy Postero, 2004). He is the founding editor of the journal Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies.
