Across the world, protest has become a much-debated tactic in struggles against inequality, political corruption, and ecological disaster. In South Korea, protest is a ubiquitous and essential form of political expression. In 1987, mass protests forced reforms that led to democratizing government. In 2017, the Candlelight movement removed the ......
Across the world, protest has become a much-debated tactic in struggles against inequality, political corruption, and ecological disaster. In South Korea, protest is a ubiquitous and essential form of political expression. In 1987, mass protests forced reforms that led to democratizing government. In 2017, the Candlelight movement removed the ......
Children and Middle-Class Moralities in Transnational Senegal
An ethnography of Senegalese households in Paris and Dakar that analyzes ways families negotiate transnational kinship Selective Solidarity examines how global inequalities change the ways transnational families negotiate "economic moralities," or expectations about material obligations. Analyzing everyday exchanges in middle-class Senegalese ......
Children and Middle-Class Moralities in Transnational Senegal
An ethnography of Senegalese households in Paris and Dakar that analyzes ways families negotiate transnational kinship Selective Solidarity examines how global inequalities change the ways transnational families negotiate "economic moralities," or expectations about material obligations. Analyzing everyday exchanges in middle-class Senegalese ......
The Philippines is among the most successful migrant-sending nations in the world, both lauded and critiqued for exporting its own citizens to a global labor market. Yasmin Y. Ortiga brings readers beyond this popular image to explore questions often overlooked: What happens when workers who were encouraged to emigrate are suddenly unable to ......
The Philippines is among the most successful migrant-sending nations in the world, both lauded and critiqued for exporting its own citizens to a global labor market. Yasmin Y. Ortiga brings readers beyond this popular image to explore questions often overlooked: What happens when workers who were encouraged to emigrate are suddenly unable to ......
Exploring the sexual lives of the poor and working class in turn-of-the-century Mexico This social history explores the romantic and sexual lives of the poor and working class in Mexico City during the rule of dictator Porfirio Diaz from 1876 to 1911. By analyzing sexually based crime cases and stories in the penny press, Michael Matthews sheds ......
Exploring the sexual lives of the poor and working class in turn-of-the-century Mexico This social history explores the romantic and sexual lives of the poor and working class in Mexico City during the rule of dictator Porfirio Diaz from 1876 to 1911. By analyzing sexually based crime cases and stories in the penny press, Michael Matthews sheds ......
In the twenty-first century, the influence of neoliberalism, the belief that society benefits when both individuals and corporations are free to maximize their talents in the service of responding to social needs and problems, resonates through all domains of human life. And yet, little critical study has been given to the reproduction of a ......
