Glen David Kuecker
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 706601 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Glen David Kuecker |
| NOMBRES | Glen David |
| APELLIDO | Kuecker |
| FIRMA | KUECKER G D |
| AFILIACIONES | DePauw University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5522-2821 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Resisting Capitalist Reproduction In The Liminal State
World-systems theory is known for innovative approaches to understanding resistance to forms of oppression, especially as it pertains to anti-capitalist and environmental social movements. This article invites world-systems theorists to rethink resistance by recognizing that the modern world-system is in a soft collapse driven liminal state of transition to a new world-system. The provocation challenges conventional world-system understandings of…
The Perfect Storm’s Pandemic-driven Soft Collapse
This essay builds from my previous essay, "The Perfect Storm," in this journal, to argue we have entered a period of soft collapse to the modern system caused by the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic. This essay explores the process of system transition by attempting to better define the meaning of soft collapse. While the 2007 essay argued we had entered a collapse, it did not specify whether the collapse was soft or hard. With the pandemic, this essay arg…
How Smart Cities Became the Urban Norm
In this article we ask why smart cities have emerged within the international development community as the normative urban logic for confronting systemic global crises. This phenomenon is exemplified by the embrace of smart cities as an implementation tool for UN Habitat’s aspirational New Urban Agenda. Our analysis deploys two theoretical approaches in novel combination. First, we reinterpret Foucault’s governmentality concept through the lens o…
From the Alienation of Neoliberal Globalization to Transmodern Ways of Being
Oil in the Soil
Martin, Pamela L. ( 2011) Oil in the Soil: The Politics of Paying to Preserve the Amazon, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers Inc. ( New York, NY), xii + 147 pp. £44.95 hbk. As the global community continues on the path of increased carbon emissions and subsequent climate change, it faces international norms that prevent a timely change of course. Pamela Martin delivers a significant analysis of this predicament through a case study of Ecuador's il…
Oil in the Soil
Oil Injustice
Widener, Patricia (2011) Oil Injustice: Resisting and Conceding a Pipeline in Ecuador, Rowman and Littlefield (Lanham, MD), vii + 374 pp. £59.95 hbk. In 2000, the Ecuadorian government announced its decision to build a second oil pipeline from the Amazon to the Pacific; known as OCP, it would cross some of the most fragile ecological zones in Latin America. Despite becoming a centre of local, national and international protest, OCP was completed …
Made in Mexico
Resilience and Community in the Age of World-System Collapse
In this essay we explore how humans might face systemic collapse and/or entry into a dark age through forms of community resilience. We also note that nature, types of communities, and degrees of resilience differ in core, peripheral, and semiperipheral areas of the contemporary world-system. Core or global north or first world communities have all but disintegrated due to neoliberal policies. However, communities in peripheral and semiperipheral…
Here in this Year
"Here in this Year: Seventeenth Century Náhuatl Annals of the Tlax-cala-Puebla Valley. Edited and translated by Camilla Townsend.." Canadian Journal of History, 46(3), pp. 718–719
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Subcommander Marcos
As the Zapatista rebellion of 1994 becomes history, several substantive problems are coming into definition. Among them is the issue of how historians will position the movement relative to those that came before. Will historians see it as a matter of continuity or change? Do the Zapatistas constitute a new movement that departs from the vanguardism of past revolutions? Is their strategy driven by a reform agenda defined by the goal of inclusion …
Public Health, Yellow Fever, and the Making of Modern Tampico
This essay uses the Mexican port city of Tampico as a case study of the relationship between nation-state formation, urban transformation, and public health policy during the late nineteenth century. It examines a virulent yellow fever epidemic in 1898 to illustrate how Tampico's urban transformation generated conditions for the epidemic, and how public health officials addressed the challenge of combating the epidemic. Special emphasis is placed…
The Ecology of Oil
Changing National Identities at the Frontier
The story of how Mexico lost half its territory to the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century has been told numerous times. Andrés Reséndez’s contribution aims to advance our understanding by adding the question of national identity formation to the analysis. The author succeeds in this goal, and his focus on identity leads to new interpretations about how the Mexican north became the U.S. Southwest.The author maintains tha…
The Perfect Storm
This paper utilizes complex systems theory to argue that we are currently living in catastrophic collapse of the global system. It focuses on topics like climate chance, ecological destruction, pandemics, fuel shortages, warfare, and global hunger to illustrate the interconnections between multiple points of failure within the global system. The argument maintains that sustainability perspectives miss the fundamental reality of the global crisis
Globalizing Resistance
Fighting for the Forests
The history of a grassroots struggle against proposed mining projects in the Ecuadorian community of Junín reveals the centrality to its development of a "colono mentality" augmented by the conscientization of liberation theology. Links established between local organizers and NGOs in Ecuador and elsewhere helped the community to raise the costs of development sufficiently to drive the mining company away. A subsequent rise in the price of copper…
Welcome to Colombia. Directed by Catalina Villar. Brooklyn, NY
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Hidden in Plain Sight. Directed by John Smihula. Produced by Vivi Letsou and John H. Smihula. San Francisco
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Latin American Resistance Movements in the Time of the Posts 1
This article examines the flood of resistance movements in today's Latin America. It places them in the context of the great economic changes that have swept the world since the end of the Cold War, what is often called “globalization.” Analysis focuses on the “newness” of our contemporary period, especially the importance of the transnational political and economic order. This essay illustrates how social scientists attempt to understand this mo…
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How Smart Cities Became the Urban Norm
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The Perfect Storm
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The Making of the Mexican Border
The process of how the frontier became a border serves as the unifying concept for Juan Mora-Torres’s analysis of nineteenth-century Nuevo León. Mora-Torres expands upon historical understandings of 1848 by illustrating its long-term implications for Nuevo León. The border’s formation brought about a process of political centralization that led to Nuevo León’s successful but uneven integration into global capitalism by the end of the Porfiriato. …
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An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Latin American Resistance Movements in the Time of the Posts 1
This article examines the flood of resistance movements in today's Latin America. It places them in the context of the great economic changes that have swept the world since the end of the Cold War, what is often called “globalization.” Analysis focuses on the “newness” of our contemporary period, especially the importance of the transnational political and economic order. This essay illustrates how social scientists attempt to understand this mo…
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Welcome to Colombia. Directed by Catalina Villar. Brooklyn, NY
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Perfect Storm
This paper utilizes complex systems theory to argue that we are currently living in catastrophic collapse of the global system. It focuses on topics like climate chance, ecological destruction, pandemics, fuel shortages, warfare, and global hunger to illustrate the interconnections between multiple points of failure within the global system. The argument maintains that sustainability perspectives miss the fundamental reality of the global crisis
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Fighting for the Forests
The history of a grassroots struggle against proposed mining projects in the Ecuadorian community of Junín reveals the centrality to its development of a "colono mentality" augmented by the conscientization of liberation theology. Links established between local organizers and NGOs in Ecuador and elsewhere helped the community to raise the costs of development sufficiently to drive the mining company away. A subsequent rise in the price of copper…
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This essay uses the Mexican port city of Tampico as a case study of the relationship between nation-state formation, urban transformation, and public health policy during the late nineteenth century. It examines a virulent yellow fever epidemic in 1898 to illustrate how Tampico's urban transformation generated conditions for the epidemic, and how public health officials addressed the challenge of combating the epidemic. Special emphasis is placed…
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Changing National Identities at the Frontier
The story of how Mexico lost half its territory to the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century has been told numerous times. Andrés Reséndez’s contribution aims to advance our understanding by adding the question of national identity formation to the analysis. The author succeeds in this goal, and his focus on identity leads to new interpretations about how the Mexican north became the U.S. Southwest.The author maintains tha…
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Subcommander Marcos
As the Zapatista rebellion of 1994 becomes history, several substantive problems are coming into definition. Among them is the issue of how historians will position the movement relative to those that came before. Will historians see it as a matter of continuity or change? Do the Zapatistas constitute a new movement that departs from the vanguardism of past revolutions? Is their strategy driven by a reform agenda defined by the goal of inclusion …
Resilience and Community in the Age of World-System Collapse
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Here in this Year
"Here in this Year: Seventeenth Century Náhuatl Annals of the Tlax-cala-Puebla Valley. Edited and translated by Camilla Townsend.." Canadian Journal of History, 46(3), pp. 718–719
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Oil Injustice
Widener, Patricia (2011) Oil Injustice: Resisting and Conceding a Pipeline in Ecuador, Rowman and Littlefield (Lanham, MD), vii + 374 pp. £59.95 hbk. In 2000, the Ecuadorian government announced its decision to build a second oil pipeline from the Amazon to the Pacific; known as OCP, it would cross some of the most fragile ecological zones in Latin America. Despite becoming a centre of local, national and international protest, OCP was completed …
Oil in the Soil
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This essay builds from my previous essay, "The Perfect Storm," in this journal, to argue we have entered a period of soft collapse to the modern system caused by the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic. This essay explores the process of system transition by attempting to better define the meaning of soft collapse. While the 2007 essay argued we had entered a collapse, it did not specify whether the collapse was soft or hard. With the pandemic, this essay arg…
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Resisting Capitalist Reproduction In The Liminal State
World-systems theory is known for innovative approaches to understanding resistance to forms of oppression, especially as it pertains to anti-capitalist and environmental social movements. This article invites world-systems theorists to rethink resistance by recognizing that the modern world-system is in a soft collapse driven liminal state of transition to a new world-system. The provocation challenges conventional world-system understandings of…
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