Jean Grugel
Biographic Data
| ID | 335235 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jean Grugel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jean |
| FAMILY NAME | Grugel |
| SIGNATURE | GRUGEL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3216-0335 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 63 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 539 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 58 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Visual Narratives of Care and Reproduction in Forced Migration
Migration is deeply gendered, yet little is known about the lived experiences of displaced women or how they manage their reproductive health challenges. Here, we explore the meaning of sexual and reproductive health for displaced Venezuelan women in Brazil, using photovoice. This methodology revealed that women interpret 'sexual and reproductive health' in ways that go beyond medicalised understandings and include concerns more usually associate…
Regional governance, gender and the Covid-19 pandemic in the global south
Do regional institutions promote more equitable governance in the global South and, in particular, do they enable more gender-equitable governance?We examine these questions in the light of regional governance actions and policies under COVID-19, drawing on evidence from Latin America and Africa.We argue that weak regional gender equality norms contributed to the downgrading of the rights of women and girls in policymaking during COVID-19, within…
Failing women and girls during Covid-19
How do we account for the ability or otherwise of regional organisations in the global South to enable equitable and inclusive responses to the COVID-19 pandemic? We answer this question with a focus on Africa and in relation to the rights of women and girls. Drawing on theoretical insights from Feminist Global Health Security and from data on the African Union, other regional organisations in Africa and from non-governmental organisations, local…
Securitisation, humanitarian responses and the erosion of everyday rights of displaced Venezuelan women in Brazil
This article explores the gendered securitisation of humanitarianism through the lens of Venezuelan women who have fled to Brazil, as part of the largest migration flow in South America. By the end of 2022, the number of displaced Venezuelans had grown to seven million, half of whom were women and girls. Alongside humanitarian programmes, measures of migration control, policing and deterrence are now routinely implemented. This article explores t…
State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain
Neoliberalism is often studied as a political ideology, a government program, and even as a pattern of cultural identities. However, less attention is paid to the specific institutional resources employed by neoliberal administrations, which have resulted in the configuration of a neoliberal state model. This accessible volume compiles original essays on the neoliberal era in Latin America and Spain, exploring subjects such as neoliberal public p…
Facing the Future
This virtual issue reviews the post-neoliberalism literature published in Development and Change between 2012 and 2018. It reflects on recent and ongoing, multiple experiences of resistance to speculative, extractive, inequitable and unsustainable development and the demands for alternatives that emerged in Latin America. The argument is developed through an analysis of the 18 most relevant articles published in this journal, that make a major co…
The human right to health, inclusion and essential health care packages in low income countries
Purpose Health in low-income countries has become associated with the provision of minimum guaranteed public health services though Essential Health Packages (EHPs). How far do EHPs deliver the human right to health for all? This study addresses this question through qualitative research into access to health care for vulnerable communities, using Malawi as a case study. This study shows that there are significant accountability gaps and percepti…
Imaginaries of Soy and the Costs of Commodity-led Development
Many developing countries continue to rely on export-oriented growth strategies based on primary commodities, despite the many limitations of such policies. The persistence of this model is inherently related to the dominance of 'commodity imaginaries'. This article focuses on Argentina, an emblematic case of commodity dependency, where the soybean imaginary has dominated for the past 30 years. This imaginary has framed mainstream understandings …
Depletion, intersectionality and the limits of social policy
This article makes a dual contribution. First, it adds an intersectional perspective to studies of depletion through social reproduction, examining the depletion experienced by children and adolescents caring for their younger siblings in Mexico City. The depletion that child carers experience is shaped by age, low income, other forms of work in and outside the home, and gender. Second, we explore the limitations of cash transfer welfare programm…
Human Rights and the Pink Tide in Latin America
Latin America witnessed the election of 'new Left' governments in the early 21stcentury that, in different ways, sought to open a debate about alternatives to paradigms of neoliberal development. What has this meant for the way that human rights are understood and for patterns of human rights compliance? Using qualitative and quantitative evidence, this article discusses how human rights are imagined and the compliance records of new Left governm…
The SDGs in middle-income countries
The expansion of middle-income countries in the global South is now widely acknowledged as significant for international development research and practice. But, as yet, scholars have not fully considered how middle-income countries are responding to the new global goals on international development (the Sustainable Development Goals – SDGs) outlined in Agenda 2030. Equally, insufficient attention has been paid to how – if at all – the SDGs shape …
Neoliberal disruption and neoliberalism’s afterlife in Latin America
The rejection of neoliberalism in Latin America at the time of the new millennium led to a wave of ‘post-neoliberal’ governments that sought to renegotiate the relationship between state and market and pioneer new forms of inclusive welfare. These governments attempted to implement a new economic model that bore some similarities to social democracy, alongside greater emphasis on recognition and identity politics. As this period gradually closes,…
New directions in welfare
What happens to the politics of welfare in the Global South when neoliberal values are questioned? How is welfare re-imagined and re-enacted when governments seek to introduce progressive change? Latin America provides an illustration and a valuable entry point to debates about ‘interruptions’ of neoliberalism and the changing nature of social policy. Drawing on examples of disability policies in Ecuador and care provision in Uruguay, we argue th…
Demanding Justice in The Global South
Demanding Justice in the Global South
The Palgrave Handbook of International Development
This chapter analyses the intuitively compelling assumption that violence is inimical to development. Ever since Marx argued that the development of Europe proceeded through "primitive accumulation", many writers from a wide range of theoretical perspectives have in fact regarded development as inherently reliant on coercion and force. The chapter provides a brief survey of arguments that violence is linked with development before outlining three…
Unaccompanied minors, migration control and human rights at the EU’s southern border
Civil society movements can play an important political role in advocating for human rights, including the rights of migrants and migrant children. But successfully asserting their rights is difficult in the domain of migration, even in democracies, and any victories that are achieved can be short-lived. This article examines an initially successful episode of civil society advocacy on behalf of unaccompanied child migrants, drawing on evidence f…
The Politics of Indigenous Participation Through “Free Prior Informed Consent”
To Eradicate or to Legalize? Child Labor Debates and ILO Convention 182 in Bolivia
International human rights agreements promote rights-based norms as a guide for policymaking. But the appropriateness and legitimacy of these norms is sometimes questioned in local contexts, where they can generate disagreement as to their meaning and implementation. Convention 182 of the International Labour Organization (ILO) led to a global commitment to eliminate the worst forms of child labor, but the agreement has been subject to intense cr…
Regional governance and legitimacy in South America
Over the last decade, rapid changes to development models and market rules have led—yet again—to a revision of the meaning of regionalism, bringing to the fore the role of regional organizations in anchoring democracy and supporting progressive social policies. This is particularly the case in South America, where the presence of regional organizations in public policy-making is a subject of increasing scrutiny. This article examines new forms of…
Protest, citizenship and democratic renewal
What is the significance of upsurge of protest and claims-making for how we understand citizenship in relatively new democracies? In Chile, some 20 years after a paradigmatically successful democratisation, student protests for a more equitable education system have re-politicised and transformed debates about what democracy and citizenship should mean. Claims are being staked not only for educational reform but also for a new model of citizenshi…
Democratization in Africa
Africa, especially sub-Saharan Africa, has had a troubled history of democratization since the 1980s. Many of the problems that the region faces are rooted in the broader development challenge and the practices of external governance that have shaped politics; others reflect the difficult encounter between a range of regional, national and local traditions and the narrow and normative understanding of what democratization should entail that domin…
Democratization
The second edition of this popular and authoritative text provides a truly global assessment of democratization in theory and practice in the contemporary world. It has been systematically revised and updated throughout to cover recent developments, from the impact of 9/11 and EU enlargement to the war in Iraq
Democratization
The European Commission as guardian angel
In 2006 the European Commission, under the leadership of Directorate General (DG) Justice, adopted a policy of promoting children's rights, a project that inevitably relied on the support of children's rights organizations. This article examines why the relationship between the Commission and the children's rights networks shifted from consensus to disenssus and how this has impacted on the children's rights agenda. We argue that the relationship…
Post-neoliberalism in Latin America
The idea that states should take on an enhanced role in the pursuit of development is once again becoming increasingly pronounced in the global South. In Latin America, the 'return of the state' is associated with neostructuralism or post-neoliberalism and the rise of the New Left. Post-neoliberal projects of governance seek to retain elements of the previous export-led growth model whilst introducing new mechanisms for social inclusion and welfa…
The Politics of Indigenous Participation Through “Free Prior Informed Consent”
The SDGs in middle-income countries
The expansion of middle-income countries in the global South is now widely acknowledged as significant for international development research and practice. But, as yet, scholars have not fully considered how middle-income countries are responding to the new global goals on international development (the Sustainable Development Goals – SDGs) outlined in Agenda 2030. Equally, insufficient attention has been paid to how – if at all – the SDGs shape …
Democratization and Ideational Diffusion
Policies in support of democratic transition aim to reconfigure the dominant norm set in previously authoritarian states and societies. The EU's commitment to such policies is well‐established. This article discusses what the EU does when it offers democratic support, using the example of Mercosur. The evidence presented here suggests that EU policy in Mercosur is premised on assumptions of a positive identity relationship with local governing el…
The return of the state in Argentina
Argentina's economic collapse in December 2001 is seen as perhaps the most emblematic evidence of the failure of neoliberalism to provide sustainable and equitable economic growth in the developing world. A new policy frame has gradually emerged in Argentina which relies on a more active statein the promotion of growth. This article examines what state-led growth can mean in the context ofopen markets. It explores in detail the policies implement…
New Regionalism and Modes of Governance — Comparing US and EU Strategies in Latin America
This article explores the extent to which it makes sense to see EU policies towards the developing world as distinctive. It does so through a comparative analysis of EU and US policies for the governance of Latin America, paying particular attention to Mercosur. The conceptual framework is drawn from theories of new regionalism. Despite some similarities in so far as issues of economic governance are concerned, I argue that there are important di…
Regionalist governance and transnational collective action in Latin America
New forms of regionalism are now a central element in global governance. It is sometimes suggested that new regionalism represents an opportunity for transnational civil society activism. I explore this argument through a comparison of processes of collective action in two emerging frames of regionalism governance in the Americas, the FTAA/Summit of the Americas and Mercosur. I show that, while civil society activism has regionalized to some exte…
Securitisation, humanitarian responses and the erosion of everyday rights of displaced Venezuelan women in Brazil
This article explores the gendered securitisation of humanitarianism through the lens of Venezuelan women who have fled to Brazil, as part of the largest migration flow in South America. By the end of 2022, the number of displaced Venezuelans had grown to seven million, half of whom were women and girls. Alongside humanitarian programmes, measures of migration control, policing and deterrence are now routinely implemented. This article explores t…
New directions in welfare
What happens to the politics of welfare in the Global South when neoliberal values are questioned? How is welfare re-imagined and re-enacted when governments seek to introduce progressive change? Latin America provides an illustration and a valuable entry point to debates about ‘interruptions’ of neoliberalism and the changing nature of social policy. Drawing on examples of disability policies in Ecuador and care provision in Uruguay, we argue th…
Regional governance and legitimacy in South America
Over the last decade, rapid changes to development models and market rules have led—yet again—to a revision of the meaning of regionalism, bringing to the fore the role of regional organizations in anchoring democracy and supporting progressive social policies. This is particularly the case in South America, where the presence of regional organizations in public policy-making is a subject of increasing scrutiny. This article examines new forms of…
Citizenship and governance in Mercosur
This paper examines a neglected dimension of the debate about post-national citizenship by focusing on the articulation of citizenship demands at the level of the region. More specifically, it analyses the pressures for, and the constraints on, the project of social citizenship within Mercosur. Drawing on primary research in Argentina, the article identifies a number of initiatives that attempt to infuse Mercosur with a social agenda. I argue tha…
Romancing Civil Society
European NGOs have reoriented their Latin American aid policy to embrace the notion of building citizenship, developing civil society, and promoting democratization as the keys to long-term development. Stimulated partly by the new aid policy agenda, this shift also reflects a sea change in the thinking that shapes European NGO strategies. This article explores the significance of the new emphasis on civil society for EU policies toward Latin Ame…
Do Rights Promote Development
Human rights of various sorts are now seen as central to the development process. We argue that rights claims can sometimes be effective in advocacy campaigns for some rights if those campaigns can find a way to resonate with the predominately liberal ideas that shape the global political economy. But this is not always possible and many `rights', especially economic rights or claims made by or on behalf of some social groups, are difficult to pu…
Global governance, economic migration and the difficulties of social activism
There has been a gradual shift towards greater global governance of labour migration, a development paralleled by the mushrooming of migrant and civil society associations concerned to uphold a rights-based approach to migration. Yet the emergent global governance structures offer few opportunities for advocacy by migrant and civil society organizations. This article explores the reasons why social activism by or on behalf of economic migrants re…
To Eradicate or to Legalize? Child Labor Debates and ILO Convention 182 in Bolivia
International human rights agreements promote rights-based norms as a guide for policymaking. But the appropriateness and legitimacy of these norms is sometimes questioned in local contexts, where they can generate disagreement as to their meaning and implementation. Convention 182 of the International Labour Organization (ILO) led to a global commitment to eliminate the worst forms of child labor, but the agreement has been subject to intense cr…
Human Rights and the Pink Tide in Latin America
Latin America witnessed the election of 'new Left' governments in the early 21stcentury that, in different ways, sought to open a debate about alternatives to paradigms of neoliberal development. What has this meant for the way that human rights are understood and for patterns of human rights compliance? Using qualitative and quantitative evidence, this article discusses how human rights are imagined and the compliance records of new Left governm…
Neoliberal disruption and neoliberalism’s afterlife in Latin America
The rejection of neoliberalism in Latin America at the time of the new millennium led to a wave of ‘post-neoliberal’ governments that sought to renegotiate the relationship between state and market and pioneer new forms of inclusive welfare. These governments attempted to implement a new economic model that bore some similarities to social democracy, alongside greater emphasis on recognition and identity politics. As this period gradually closes,…
Unaccompanied minors, migration control and human rights at the EU’s southern border
Civil society movements can play an important political role in advocating for human rights, including the rights of migrants and migrant children. But successfully asserting their rights is difficult in the domain of migration, even in democracies, and any victories that are achieved can be short-lived. This article examines an initially successful episode of civil society advocacy on behalf of unaccompanied child migrants, drawing on evidence f…
The European Commission as guardian angel
In 2006 the European Commission, under the leadership of Directorate General (DG) Justice, adopted a policy of promoting children's rights, a project that inevitably relied on the support of children's rights organizations. This article examines why the relationship between the Commission and the children's rights networks shifted from consensus to disenssus and how this has impacted on the children's rights agenda. We argue that the relationship…
Imaginaries of Soy and the Costs of Commodity-led Development
Many developing countries continue to rely on export-oriented growth strategies based on primary commodities, despite the many limitations of such policies. The persistence of this model is inherently related to the dominance of 'commodity imaginaries'. This article focuses on Argentina, an emblematic case of commodity dependency, where the soybean imaginary has dominated for the past 30 years. This imaginary has framed mainstream understandings …
Grounding Global Norms in Domestic Politics
How do global rights regimes promote compliance? Can they form the basis for effective advocacy campaigns at the domestic level? In this paper, we address these questions via a case study of the role played by the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Argentinian politics. We argue that ratification of the convention strengthened the coherence and leverage of rights-based domestic activists and ultimately led to the introduction of a new right…
Beyond the Washington Consensus? Asia and Latin America in search of more autonomous development
International economic power (the ability to shape rules of global economic conduct) needs to be understood in terms of the interactions between rule-makers and rule-takers in the global economy. Attempts to reshape development paradigms through interventions during financial crisis have been highly significant for the domestic political economy of the developing world. In the 1980s and early 1990s, the primary question was how much countries wou…
Populism and the Political System in Chile
Protest, citizenship and democratic renewal
What is the significance of upsurge of protest and claims-making for how we understand citizenship in relatively new democracies? In Chile, some 20 years after a paradigmatically successful democratisation, student protests for a more equitable education system have re-politicised and transformed debates about what democracy and citizenship should mean. Claims are being staked not only for educational reform but also for a new model of citizenshi…
Nationalist Movements and Fascist Ideology in Chile
The purpose of this article is to study the influence of fascist/neo-fascist ideo? logy in Chile, frequently termed nacionalismo,1 from the 1930s to the present day. I will concentrate especially on three distinct historical stages: the National Socialist Movement (Movimiento Nacionalista Chileno?MNS) in the 1930s; the group formed around Jorge Prat and the Estanquero magazine, 1946-54; and the years immediately preceding and following the milita…
Chile before and after Monetarism
When the Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende was overthrown in 1973, Chile was turned into a testing ground for monetarist economic theory. The tragic failure of that model, in political, social and economic terms, has recently prompted a chain reaction among the disciples of Milton Friedman, who have, in various degrees, denied responsibility, and expressed sympathy for the experiment's disappointing results. Although monetarism has bec…
Nationalist Movements and Fascist Ideology in Chile
The purpose of this article is to study the influence of fascist/neo-fascist ideo? logy in Chile, frequently termed nacionalismo,1 from the 1930s to the present day. I will concentrate especially on three distinct historical stages: the National Socialist Movement (Movimiento Nacionalista Chileno?MNS) in the 1930s; the group formed around Jorge Prat and the Estanquero magazine, 1946-54; and the years immediately preceding and following the milita…
Authoritarianism in Chile and the Role of the Opposition
Spain's socialist government and Central American dilemmas
Journal Article Spain's socialist government and Central American dilemmas Get access Jean Grugel Jean Grugel Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 63, Issue 4, autumn 1987, Pages 603–615, https://doi.org/10.2307/2619640 Published: 01 October 1987
The Civil Wars in Chile (Or the Bourgeois Revolutions That Never Were)
Chile, Spain and Latin America
In December 1938 an alliance of the Radical, Communist and Socialist parties took office in Chile, the first Popular Front to come to power in Latin America. A few months later, in Spain, the Nationalist forces under Generalísimo Franco occupied Madrid, bringing an end to the civil war. Shortly after, a serious diplomatic conflict developed between Spain and Chile, in which most of Latin America gradually became embroiled. It concerned the fate o…
La España del PSOE y América Latina ¿Hacia una nueva relación
Una de las pocas líneas coherentes de la política exterior española ha sido su ambición de desarrollar una relación especial con América Latina. Sin embargo, las justificaciones, los instrumentos y las metas de dicha política han cambiado radicalmente a lo largo de los años
Transitions from Authoritarian Rule
You yourself were only ... the tremor of some taciturn lips ... a comic tyrant who never knew where the reverse side of the coin was ... clinging to his fear ... and alien forever more to the music of liberation and the rockets of jubilation and the bells of glory that announced to the world the good news that the uncountable time of eternity had come to an end.1
Populism and the Political System in Chile
External Support for Democratization in Latin America
This article is part of a larger project on European and US support for democratization in Latín America coordinated by Christian Freres and Alberto Van Klaveren of AIETI, Spain. I would like to acknowledge the assistance of AIETI and CICYT in carrying out research on aspects of European support for Latín American democratization, and to thank Christian Freres for discussing some of the ideas in this article with me. 1 would also like to thank th…
Politics and Development in the Caribbean Basin
This wide ranging thematic and comparative text analyses the origins and nature of the developmental and political crises of the region and the reasons for their recent intensification. It covers all
Politics and Development in the Caribbean Basin
Journal Article Politics and Development in the Caribbean Basin: Central America and the Caribbean in the New World Order. By Jean Grugel. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. xii, 270 pp. Cloth, $39-95, ISBN 0-253-32683-4. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-253-20954-4.) Get access Kyle Longley Kyle Longley Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, V…
Politics and Development in the Caribbean Basin
Grugel... has produced a first-rate introduction to the development dilemmas confronting the peoples of the Caribbean and Central America.... The book will enlighten general readers with an interest in the politics of geopolitical and economic dependency. And for appreciating the remaining difficulties facing small nations attempting equitable and harmonious development, it will remind Caribbean and Central American specialists just how valuable …
Politics and Development in the Caribbean Basin
State and business in neo‐liberal democracies in Latin America
(1998). State and business in neo‐liberal democracies in Latin America. Global Society: Vol. 12, Democracy and Civil Society, pp. 221-235
Franco's Spain
Romancing Civil Society
European NGOs have reoriented their Latin American aid policy to embrace the notion of building citizenship, developing civil society, and promoting democratization as the keys to long-term development. Stimulated partly by the new aid policy agenda, this shift also reflects a sea change in the thinking that shapes European NGO strategies. This article explores the significance of the new emphasis on civil society for EU policies toward Latin Ame…
Regionalism across the North/South Divide
Democratisation Studies Globalisation
Democratization Studies
Democratization studies has tended to understand democracy a pro-Western political regime build around liberal norms and government. This approach provides clarity, but cannot explain the varied political experiences and outcomes within contemporary processes of ‘democratization’. At the same time, it fails to capture the range of meanings invested in the term ‘democracy’. Starting from the premise that democracy's appeal rests on its emancipator…
New Regionalism and Modes of Governance — Comparing US and EU Strategies in Latin America
This article explores the extent to which it makes sense to see EU policies towards the developing world as distinctive. It does so through a comparative analysis of EU and US policies for the governance of Latin America, paying particular attention to Mercosur. The conceptual framework is drawn from theories of new regionalism. Despite some similarities in so far as issues of economic governance are concerned, I argue that there are important di…
Citizenship and governance in Mercosur
This paper examines a neglected dimension of the debate about post-national citizenship by focusing on the articulation of citizenship demands at the level of the region. More specifically, it analyses the pressures for, and the constraints on, the project of social citizenship within Mercosur. Drawing on primary research in Argentina, the article identifies a number of initiatives that attempt to infuse Mercosur with a social agenda. I argue tha…
Regionalist governance and transnational collective action in Latin America
New forms of regionalism are now a central element in global governance. It is sometimes suggested that new regionalism represents an opportunity for transnational civil society activism. I explore this argument through a comparison of processes of collective action in two emerging frames of regionalism governance in the Americas, the FTAA/Summit of the Americas and Mercosur. I show that, while civil society activism has regionalized to some exte…
Democratization and Ideational Diffusion
Policies in support of democratic transition aim to reconfigure the dominant norm set in previously authoritarian states and societies. The EU's commitment to such policies is well‐established. This article discusses what the EU does when it offers democratic support, using the example of Mercosur. The evidence presented here suggests that EU policy in Mercosur is premised on assumptions of a positive identity relationship with local governing el…
Critical Perspectives on Global Governance
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