Kevin A Young
Biographic Data
| ID | 129733 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin A Young |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin A |
| FAMILY NAME | Young |
| SIGNATURE | YOUNG K A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4960-1144 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
From moral motivations to material interests: Building a mass climate movement through transformative adaptation
Global heating is accelerating, but climate mobilization remains too limited to stop climate breakdown and protect people from its impacts. We draw on the history of social movements, the social science of collective action, and our experience in the climate movement to make concrete suggestions for increasing climate mobilization. While moral motivations are important for some participants, they have proven inadequate; here we urge a focus on pe…
The Long Shadow of Extraction: The Origins of Indigenous Autonomy Demand
Social movement targeting and policy outcomes: Black mobilization and the war on poverty in the U.S. south, 1965–68
What role do social movements play in the implementation of public policy? Using funding allocations by the U.S. federal government during the War on Poverty, we argue that pressures applied by social movements are a pivotal factor in policy enforcement. Further, where most scholars and activists emphasize the importance of targeting government actors, we instead demonstrate the efficacy of disrupting the business opponents of progressive reform …
Varieties of Economic Elites? Preliminary Results From the World Elite Database (WED)
The strategies, decisions and beliefs of those who occupy prominent positions of economic power have influence on very large corporations and the markets they dominate, on vast amounts of economic resources, and on the rules of the game. However, the sociology of elites faces a dual challenge: divergent conceptualisations of what can be considered as a position of economic power and internationally incompatible sources of information hinder compa…
What the climate movement’s debate about disruption gets wrong
The recent debate about whether climate activists should employ disruptive tactics tends to conflate all forms of disruption. The debate typically focuses on the public’s reaction to protesters, yet the more important question is whether a given tactic imposes disruption on elite decision makers. Most external analysts, and many activists themselves, fail to specify what approaches are most disruptive of elite interests and which elite institutio…
Keeping the March Alive: How Grassroots Activism Survived Trump's America
Democracy on the Ground: Local Politics in Latin America's Left Turn
The Latin American Pink Tide did not simply aim to reduce poverty and inequality. Equally important were the promises of popular participation, which arose out of disillusion with the hollow democracies established after the military dictatorships. More radical voices within the Pink Tide demanded both workers’ self-management of enterprises and participatory control of government policy. Gabriel Hetland's Democracy on the Ground addresses the la…
De la hegemonía a la comuna: Filosofía Política Del Poder Popular
En el presente artículo se esbozan algunos de los hitos más representativos de la historia del concepto de hegemonía y su relación con la comuna. Surgida al calor del paradigma de la lucha de clases, la concepción moderna de la hegemonía ha dado lugar, entre otras cosas, a una teoría general del poder, que excede el concepto de soberanía (vinculado a la tradición jurídico-política de Occidente) y de la cual el legado de Gramsci constituye un peri…
The Impasse of the Latin American Left
A quarter century after Hugo Chávez's first election inaugurated Latin America's Pink Tide, there is broad agreement that Pink Tide governments made important advances but failed to deliver on their more ambitious promises. Most of the major reforms were enacted in the 2000s, after which the initial dynamism faded. Economic troubles and a widespread sense of desgaste facilitated the Right's resurgence in the 2010s.The Impasse of the Latin America…
South-South Solidarity and the Latin American Left
Most studies of international solidarity focus on movements connecting the global North and South, sidelining the vital connections within the South. While revolutionaries have long prioritized both North-South and South-South relationships, academics have been slower to catch on. Only recently have we begun to give “South-South solidarity” the attention it merits.Jessica Stites Mor's study examines South-South solidarity movements involving the …
Beyond the Comandantes: Revolutions and Revolutionaries since 1959
This essay reviews the following works: The Revolution from Within: Cuba, 1959–1980 . Edited by Michael J. Bustamante and Jennifer L. Lambe. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. Pp. viii + 332. $28.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781478002963. The Guerrilla Legacy of the Cuban Revolution. By Anna Clayfield. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2019. Pp. xii + 204. $85.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9781683400899. Exile within Exiles: Herbert Daniel, Gay Brazi…
Our Social Conquests Will Be Respected: Peasants and Military Dictatorship in Cochabamba, Bolivia
Peasant support was a crucial factor in the Bolivian military's assault on labor and the Left in the 1960s and 1970s. Analysts have offered diverse explanations for the so-called Military-Peasant Pact, ranging from the bribery of peasant leaders to rank-and-file conservatism. These interpretations tend to be methodologically superficial and often reflect elitist prejudices about peasant behavior. Archival evidence and oral histories from Cochabam…
Toward a Global History of Latin America's Revolutionary Left
This volume is the latest contribution to a growing literature on the Latin American revolutionary Left, defined by Tanya Harmer and Alberto Martín Álvarez as antireformist forces who supported or engaged in armed struggle starting in the late 1950s and 1960s. The book traces some of the global connections that shaped Latin American revolutionary groups as well as those groups' global impacts. The contributors' use of seldom-tapped archives in Be…
El FMLN de El Salvador y las restricciones sobre el gobierno de izquierda
Los acuerdos de paz de 1992 en El Salvador trajeron una versión superficial de la democracia que seguía sin responder en gran medida a la población. En el 2009, el partido de oposición de izquierda, el FMLN, ganó las elecciones presidenciales. Sin embargo, a pesar de ganar algunas reformas progresivas notables, no buscó, ni mucho menos logró, una ruptura radical de las políticas neoliberales de las administraciones anteriores. Con base en entrevi…
Letting Latin Americans Live: Listening to the needs and demands of those affected by U.S. empire is central to forging a just democratic paradigm of equitable and cooperative relations
“Let us live!” That was Venezuelan Jorge Tarazona’s message to the U.S. government and public when we interviewed him in June 2019. He was demanding an end to a murderous policy: the economic sanct
Sport, Violence and Society
In this fully updated and revised new edition of his landmark study of violence in and around contemporary sport, Kevin Young offers a comprehensive sociological analysis of an issue of central importance within sport studies. The book explores organised and spontaneous violence, both on the field and off, and calls for a much broader definition of ‘sports-related violence’, to include issues as diverse as criminal behaviour by players, abuse wit…
Oil and Nation: A History of Bolivia's Petroleum Sector
Hydrocarbons have been Bolivia's most important exports since the 1980s, yet there are few historical studies of the sector in English. Stephen Cote's Oil and Nation is thus most welcome. The overarching argument is that hydrocarbons have been central to both economic development and national consciousness, from the early nationalist debates of the 1910s and 1920s to the 2003 gas war and the quasi-nationalization of natural gas by the Evo Morales…
Capital Strikes as a Corporate Political Strategy: The Structural Power of Business in the Obama Era
The importance of overt levers of business political influence, notably campaign donations and lobbying, has been overemphasized. Using executive branch policymaking during the Obama administration as a case study, this article shows that those paths of influence are often not the most important. It places special emphasis on the structural power that large banks and corporations wield by virtue of their control over the flow of capital and the c…
The Future of Financial Regulation: Who Should Pay for the Failure of American and European Banks
Johan Lybeck’s The Future of Financial Regulation is a superb resource for political scientists studying the financial crisis and its varied regulatory responses, even for those who might not agree with the conclusions reached. The book’s controversial argument concerns the ability of governments to effectively manage banking crises. While there has been considerable public consternation over taxpayer-funded government bailouts of banks, this boo…
From Open Door to Nationalization: Oil and Development Visions in Bolivia, 1952-1969
After the 1952 Bolivian Revolution, oil assumed an increasingly important role in Bolivia's economy and popular consciousness. Oil nationalists were deeply divided, however. While the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR) regime sought economic modernization, labor and the Left also demanded major redistribution. These divisions influenced the multiple changes in hydrocarbon policy after 1952. An aversion to radicalization contributed to M…
Rhythms of the Pachakuti: Indigenous Uprising and State Power in Bolivia
Of the many studies of Bolivia’s popular uprisings of 2000–2005, Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar’s participatory-observer account stands out. In addition to furnishing an innovative framework for understanding the “rhythms” of social struggle during those years, the book grapples with some of the tensions and dilemmas common to diverse emancipatory struggles. This translation of the 2008 original (with a helpful new foreword by Sinclair Thomson) makes t…
Corporate Social Responsibility in a Globalizing World
The making of an interethnic coalition: Urban and rural anarchists in La Paz, Bolivia, 1946-1947
The 1947 upheavals on haciendas outside La Paz, Bolivia, were facilitated by an interethnic coalition between indigenous peasants and urban anarchists, most of whom were mestizos and cholos (thus ‘non-indigenous’ by official definition). Three sets of factors were essential to this alliance. First, the urbanites’ own politics – their libertarian socialist vision, their attentiveness to both ‘ethnic’ and ‘class’ demands, and their organizational f…
A Neglected Mechanism of Social Movement Political Influence: The Role of Anticorporate and Anti-Institutional Protest in Changing Government Policy
Studies of the impact of social movements on government policy usually assume that the most effective strategy to win a reform is to directly pressure the elected politicians responsible for its legislation and implementation. We highlight an alternative, less intuitive way in which movements can exert political influence: by targeting the corporate and institutional adversaries of their proposed reforms. Such targeting can undermine their advers…
Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: How Corporate Power Shaped the Affordable Care Act
for working people and the uninsured
Capital Strikes as a Corporate Political Strategy: The Structural Power of Business in the Obama Era
The importance of overt levers of business political influence, notably campaign donations and lobbying, has been overemphasized. Using executive branch policymaking during the Obama administration as a case study, this article shows that those paths of influence are often not the most important. It places special emphasis on the structural power that large banks and corporations wield by virtue of their control over the flow of capital and the c…
Varieties of Economic Elites? Preliminary Results From the World Elite Database (WED)
The strategies, decisions and beliefs of those who occupy prominent positions of economic power have influence on very large corporations and the markets they dominate, on vast amounts of economic resources, and on the rules of the game. However, the sociology of elites faces a dual challenge: divergent conceptualisations of what can be considered as a position of economic power and internationally incompatible sources of information hinder compa…
Can prefigurative politics prevail? The implications for movement strategy in John Holloway's Crack Capitalism
The desire to overcome the alienated labor of capitalism manifests itself in the daily actions of people everywhere. John Holloway argues that social movements must build upon this liberatory impulse, challenging not only the rate of exploitation but also workers' loss of control over the process of production and allocation (and, by implication, the loss of control in other arenas of life). Revolutionary change, in turn, will result from these m…
A Neglected Mechanism of Social Movement Political Influence: The Role of Anticorporate and Anti-Institutional Protest in Changing Government Policy
Studies of the impact of social movements on government policy usually assume that the most effective strategy to win a reform is to directly pressure the elected politicians responsible for its legislation and implementation. We highlight an alternative, less intuitive way in which movements can exert political influence: by targeting the corporate and institutional adversaries of their proposed reforms. Such targeting can undermine their advers…
The Good, the Bad, and the Benevolent Interventionist: U.S. Press and Intellectual Distortions of the Latin American Left
U.S. journalists and commentators have helped popularize the image of two distinct Latin American lefts: a "bad" left that is politically authoritarian and economically erratic and a "good" left that is democratic and committed to free-market economics. This binary image oversimplifies the Latin American left in three ways: by overstating the contrast between the two alleged camps, by ignoring complex realities within each camp, and by exaggerati…
From Open Door to Nationalization: Oil and Development Visions in Bolivia, 1952-1969
After the 1952 Bolivian Revolution, oil assumed an increasingly important role in Bolivia's economy and popular consciousness. Oil nationalists were deeply divided, however. While the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR) regime sought economic modernization, labor and the Left also demanded major redistribution. These divisions influenced the multiple changes in hydrocarbon policy after 1952. An aversion to radicalization contributed to M…
Our Social Conquests Will Be Respected: Peasants and Military Dictatorship in Cochabamba, Bolivia
Peasant support was a crucial factor in the Bolivian military's assault on labor and the Left in the 1960s and 1970s. Analysts have offered diverse explanations for the so-called Military-Peasant Pact, ranging from the bribery of peasant leaders to rank-and-file conservatism. These interpretations tend to be methodologically superficial and often reflect elitist prejudices about peasant behavior. Archival evidence and oral histories from Cochabam…
The making of an interethnic coalition: Urban and rural anarchists in La Paz, Bolivia, 1946-1947
The 1947 upheavals on haciendas outside La Paz, Bolivia, were facilitated by an interethnic coalition between indigenous peasants and urban anarchists, most of whom were mestizos and cholos (thus ‘non-indigenous’ by official definition). Three sets of factors were essential to this alliance. First, the urbanites’ own politics – their libertarian socialist vision, their attentiveness to both ‘ethnic’ and ‘class’ demands, and their organizational f…
Restoring Discipline in the Ranks: The United States and the Restructuring of the Bolivian Mining Industry, 1960-1970
The Triangular Plan of the 1960s was a key moment in the rightward shift of the Bolivian Revolution (1952-1964). Billed by the United States, West Germany, and the Inter-American Development Bank as a generous loan program to "rehabilitate" the Bolivian tin mines, the plan also gave its architects a chance to discipline Bolivian workers, further privatize the Bolivian economy, and test the usefulness of conditional economic aid in containing revo…
Global Olympics: Historical and sociological studies of the modern games
Colombia and Venezuela: Testing the Propaganda Model
Central Banking Governance in the European Union: A Comparative Analysis – By Lucia Quaglia
Discrediting Alternatives to Neoliberalism
Additional informationNotes on contributorsKevin YoungKevin Young is a graduate student in history at Stony Brook University. His articles are available at zcommunications.org/zspace/kyoung
Restoring Discipline in the Ranks: The United States and the Restructuring of the Bolivian Mining Industry, 1960-1970
The Triangular Plan of the 1960s was a key moment in the rightward shift of the Bolivian Revolution (1952-1964). Billed by the United States, West Germany, and the Inter-American Development Bank as a generous loan program to "rehabilitate" the Bolivian tin mines, the plan also gave its architects a chance to discipline Bolivian workers, further privatize the Bolivian economy, and test the usefulness of conditional economic aid in containing revo…
Can prefigurative politics prevail? The implications for movement strategy in John Holloway's Crack Capitalism
The desire to overcome the alienated labor of capitalism manifests itself in the daily actions of people everywhere. John Holloway argues that social movements must build upon this liberatory impulse, challenging not only the rate of exploitation but also workers' loss of control over the process of production and allocation (and, by implication, the loss of control in other arenas of life). Revolutionary change, in turn, will result from these m…
The Bolivian Revolution and the United States, 1952 to the Present ‐ by Siekmeier, James F
Washing U.S. Hands of the Dirty Wars: News Coverage Erases Washington’s Role in State Terror
Additional informationNotes on contributorsKevin YoungKevin Young is a PhD candidate in history at SUNY Stony Brook. His writing is available at http://kyoung1984.wordpress.com
The Good, the Bad, and the Benevolent Interventionist: U.S. Press and Intellectual Distortions of the Latin American Left
U.S. journalists and commentators have helped popularize the image of two distinct Latin American lefts: a "bad" left that is politically authoritarian and economically erratic and a "good" left that is democratic and committed to free-market economics. This binary image oversimplifies the Latin American left in three ways: by overstating the contrast between the two alleged camps, by ignoring complex realities within each camp, and by exaggerati…
A Neglected Mechanism of Social Movement Political Influence: The Role of Anticorporate and Anti-Institutional Protest in Changing Government Policy
Studies of the impact of social movements on government policy usually assume that the most effective strategy to win a reform is to directly pressure the elected politicians responsible for its legislation and implementation. We highlight an alternative, less intuitive way in which movements can exert political influence: by targeting the corporate and institutional adversaries of their proposed reforms. Such targeting can undermine their advers…
Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: How Corporate Power Shaped the Affordable Care Act
for working people and the uninsured
Corporate Social Responsibility in a Globalizing World
The making of an interethnic coalition: Urban and rural anarchists in La Paz, Bolivia, 1946-1947
The 1947 upheavals on haciendas outside La Paz, Bolivia, were facilitated by an interethnic coalition between indigenous peasants and urban anarchists, most of whom were mestizos and cholos (thus ‘non-indigenous’ by official definition). Three sets of factors were essential to this alliance. First, the urbanites’ own politics – their libertarian socialist vision, their attentiveness to both ‘ethnic’ and ‘class’ demands, and their organizational f…
The Future of Financial Regulation: Who Should Pay for the Failure of American and European Banks
Johan Lybeck’s The Future of Financial Regulation is a superb resource for political scientists studying the financial crisis and its varied regulatory responses, even for those who might not agree with the conclusions reached. The book’s controversial argument concerns the ability of governments to effectively manage banking crises. While there has been considerable public consternation over taxpayer-funded government bailouts of banks, this boo…
From Open Door to Nationalization: Oil and Development Visions in Bolivia, 1952-1969
After the 1952 Bolivian Revolution, oil assumed an increasingly important role in Bolivia's economy and popular consciousness. Oil nationalists were deeply divided, however. While the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR) regime sought economic modernization, labor and the Left also demanded major redistribution. These divisions influenced the multiple changes in hydrocarbon policy after 1952. An aversion to radicalization contributed to M…
Rhythms of the Pachakuti: Indigenous Uprising and State Power in Bolivia
Of the many studies of Bolivia’s popular uprisings of 2000–2005, Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar’s participatory-observer account stands out. In addition to furnishing an innovative framework for understanding the “rhythms” of social struggle during those years, the book grapples with some of the tensions and dilemmas common to diverse emancipatory struggles. This translation of the 2008 original (with a helpful new foreword by Sinclair Thomson) makes t…
Oil and Nation: A History of Bolivia's Petroleum Sector
Hydrocarbons have been Bolivia's most important exports since the 1980s, yet there are few historical studies of the sector in English. Stephen Cote's Oil and Nation is thus most welcome. The overarching argument is that hydrocarbons have been central to both economic development and national consciousness, from the early nationalist debates of the 1910s and 1920s to the 2003 gas war and the quasi-nationalization of natural gas by the Evo Morales…
Capital Strikes as a Corporate Political Strategy: The Structural Power of Business in the Obama Era
The importance of overt levers of business political influence, notably campaign donations and lobbying, has been overemphasized. Using executive branch policymaking during the Obama administration as a case study, this article shows that those paths of influence are often not the most important. It places special emphasis on the structural power that large banks and corporations wield by virtue of their control over the flow of capital and the c…
Sport, Violence and Society
In this fully updated and revised new edition of his landmark study of violence in and around contemporary sport, Kevin Young offers a comprehensive sociological analysis of an issue of central importance within sport studies. The book explores organised and spontaneous violence, both on the field and off, and calls for a much broader definition of ‘sports-related violence’, to include issues as diverse as criminal behaviour by players, abuse wit…
El FMLN de El Salvador y las restricciones sobre el gobierno de izquierda
Los acuerdos de paz de 1992 en El Salvador trajeron una versión superficial de la democracia que seguía sin responder en gran medida a la población. En el 2009, el partido de oposición de izquierda, el FMLN, ganó las elecciones presidenciales. Sin embargo, a pesar de ganar algunas reformas progresivas notables, no buscó, ni mucho menos logró, una ruptura radical de las políticas neoliberales de las administraciones anteriores. Con base en entrevi…
Letting Latin Americans Live: Listening to the needs and demands of those affected by U.S. empire is central to forging a just democratic paradigm of equitable and cooperative relations
“Let us live!” That was Venezuelan Jorge Tarazona’s message to the U.S. government and public when we interviewed him in June 2019. He was demanding an end to a murderous policy: the economic sanct
Beyond the Comandantes: Revolutions and Revolutionaries since 1959
This essay reviews the following works: The Revolution from Within: Cuba, 1959–1980 . Edited by Michael J. Bustamante and Jennifer L. Lambe. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. Pp. viii + 332. $28.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781478002963. The Guerrilla Legacy of the Cuban Revolution. By Anna Clayfield. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2019. Pp. xii + 204. $85.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9781683400899. Exile within Exiles: Herbert Daniel, Gay Brazi…
Our Social Conquests Will Be Respected: Peasants and Military Dictatorship in Cochabamba, Bolivia
Peasant support was a crucial factor in the Bolivian military's assault on labor and the Left in the 1960s and 1970s. Analysts have offered diverse explanations for the so-called Military-Peasant Pact, ranging from the bribery of peasant leaders to rank-and-file conservatism. These interpretations tend to be methodologically superficial and often reflect elitist prejudices about peasant behavior. Archival evidence and oral histories from Cochabam…
Toward a Global History of Latin America's Revolutionary Left
This volume is the latest contribution to a growing literature on the Latin American revolutionary Left, defined by Tanya Harmer and Alberto Martín Álvarez as antireformist forces who supported or engaged in armed struggle starting in the late 1950s and 1960s. The book traces some of the global connections that shaped Latin American revolutionary groups as well as those groups' global impacts. The contributors' use of seldom-tapped archives in Be…
De la hegemonía a la comuna: Filosofía Política Del Poder Popular
En el presente artículo se esbozan algunos de los hitos más representativos de la historia del concepto de hegemonía y su relación con la comuna. Surgida al calor del paradigma de la lucha de clases, la concepción moderna de la hegemonía ha dado lugar, entre otras cosas, a una teoría general del poder, que excede el concepto de soberanía (vinculado a la tradición jurídico-política de Occidente) y de la cual el legado de Gramsci constituye un peri…
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