Jennifer Burrell
Biographic Data
| ID | 133431 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Burrell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Burrell |
| SIGNATURE | BURRELL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Albany, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5166-3352 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
On Witnessing, Standing with, and Collaborating: Thoughts on Expertise, Knowledge Production, and the Ethics of Compensation
Anthropologists have struggled with the issue of how to "give back" to the people who have welcomed us, collaborated with us, and become our friends. Expert witnessing for the asylum cases of members of communities that have opened their doors to us is one way of addressing uneven relationships and power dynamics. I provide expertise for cases almost exclusively from a place where I have worked for decades in Guatemala, a site of intensive migrat…
Vigilantism and Security-Making
Vigilantism and security-making ask that we both acknowledge the importance of legal pluralism (and its lived, and often contradictory, experiences), and that we recognize its limits. They insist that we acknowledge statecraft as a process engaged in by state and non-state actors, and that we rethink the contours of the contemporary state and the role of law within it. In imagining how anthropologists, lawyers, and legal scholars might think thro…
The Anti/Corruption Continuum: Generation, Politics and Grassroots Anti-Corruption Mobilization in Guatemala
This article takes anticorruption activism as a starting point for analyzing how young activists unequally experience the inequalities produced by corruption, as well as the bureaucratic and financial weight of anticorruption and audit culture. Against the backdrop of Guatemala's now-defunct pioneering anticorruption commission, the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), we utilize the concept of the anti/corruption conti…
Generations and Change in Central America: An Introduction
In this introduction we consider generation and change in Central America as part of the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of this journal. We reflect on meanings of generation, starting with Salvador Allende's 1972 declaration: "To be young and not revolutionary may even be a biological contradiction." Karl Mannheim's theorization of generation as a cohort sharing formative experiences in particular historical moments, often requiring …
From Sparks and Embers: Concluding Reflections on Anthropology, Generation, and Central America
This conclusion to the In-Focus Issue on generation and politics in Central America places the concept of generation in dialogue with an intellectual genealogy emanating from JLACA's twenty-five years of publication, recent debates about decolonization within anthropology, and personal reflections from the coauthors
The Effect of Climate Change on Natural Disasters: A College Student Perspective
Climate change is currently a topic of debate that is discussed not only within the physical science community but also by those in policy. Outside of these communities lies the American public, often not seeking out climate change research, but rather ingesting information interpreted by a third party, most likely through a political lens. Given the increased attention to natural disasters, one area of concern is the possible relationship betwee…
The Post-Cold War Anthropology of Central America
This article reviews the recent and emerging post-Cold War sociocultural anthropology research on Central America, defined as the five countries that share a common colonial and postcolonial history: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Following a consideration of the foundational literature widely engaged by scholars to theorize regional processes, three sections reflect major themes of investigation in the area: politic…
Maya after War: Conflict, Power, and Politics in Guatemala
Guatemala's thirty-six-year civil war culminated in peace accords in 1996, but the postwar transition has been marked by continued violence, including lynchings and the rise of gangs, as well as massive wage-labor exodus to the United States. For the Mam Maya municipality of Todos Santos Cuchumatán, inhabited by a predominantly indigenous peasant population, the aftermath of war and genocide resonates with a long-standing tension between state te…
Reckoning: The Ends of War in Guatemala by Diane M. Nelson
In and Out of Rights: Security, Migration, and Human Rights Talk in Postwar Guatemala
Este artículo investiga las interconexiones entre la seguridad, la migración y los derechos humanos en una comunidad de Mam Maya en Guatemala durante la posguerra. Explora los así llamados "maras" (las pandillas, generalmente de jóvenes emigrantes de sueldo-trabajo regresados de EEUU) y los comités de seguridad que se han formado para controlarlos. En el nexo resultante de relaciones y contradicciones poderosas, los individuos mueven en y fuera d…
Migration and the Transnationalization of Fiesta Customs in Todos Santos Cuchumatán, Guatemala
In the past decade, wage-labor migration to the United States has accelerated in Todos Santos Cuchumatin, a Mam Maya town in northwestern Guatemala, to the point that almost every family can claim at least one member who is living elna (west, the Mam word used to refer to the United States).1 While this pattern is now common throughout much of Mexico and Central America, local reactions to it have been quite varied (Binford, 1998; De Hart, 2002; …
Science success, narrative theories of personality, and race self complexity: Is pace represented in the identity construction of African American adolescents
Narrative theories of personality help elucidate the complexity of success
Turning the Tables: State and Society in South America's Economic Integration
This article analyzes the politics of South American economic integration by considering the recent dynamics of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur). It focuses on the three most important countries in that process: Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. It demonstrates that contrary to received wisdom about the strength of states and societies in these three countries, the Mercosur process illustrates surprising strength on the part of states in Argenti…
Nexos: March 1999, Mexico City
Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs: Summer 1998, Miami
In and Out of Rights: Security, Migration, and Human Rights Talk in Postwar Guatemala
Este artículo investiga las interconexiones entre la seguridad, la migración y los derechos humanos en una comunidad de Mam Maya en Guatemala durante la posguerra. Explora los así llamados "maras" (las pandillas, generalmente de jóvenes emigrantes de sueldo-trabajo regresados de EEUU) y los comités de seguridad que se han formado para controlarlos. En el nexo resultante de relaciones y contradicciones poderosas, los individuos mueven en y fuera d…
The Post-Cold War Anthropology of Central America
This article reviews the recent and emerging post-Cold War sociocultural anthropology research on Central America, defined as the five countries that share a common colonial and postcolonial history: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Following a consideration of the foundational literature widely engaged by scholars to theorize regional processes, three sections reflect major themes of investigation in the area: politic…
Turning the Tables: State and Society in South America's Economic Integration
This article analyzes the politics of South American economic integration by considering the recent dynamics of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur). It focuses on the three most important countries in that process: Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. It demonstrates that contrary to received wisdom about the strength of states and societies in these three countries, the Mercosur process illustrates surprising strength on the part of states in Argenti…
Migration and the Transnationalization of Fiesta Customs in Todos Santos Cuchumatán, Guatemala
In the past decade, wage-labor migration to the United States has accelerated in Todos Santos Cuchumatin, a Mam Maya town in northwestern Guatemala, to the point that almost every family can claim at least one member who is living elna (west, the Mam word used to refer to the United States).1 While this pattern is now common throughout much of Mexico and Central America, local reactions to it have been quite varied (Binford, 1998; De Hart, 2002; …
The Anti/Corruption Continuum: Generation, Politics and Grassroots Anti-Corruption Mobilization in Guatemala
This article takes anticorruption activism as a starting point for analyzing how young activists unequally experience the inequalities produced by corruption, as well as the bureaucratic and financial weight of anticorruption and audit culture. Against the backdrop of Guatemala's now-defunct pioneering anticorruption commission, the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), we utilize the concept of the anti/corruption conti…
Generations and Change in Central America: An Introduction
In this introduction we consider generation and change in Central America as part of the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of this journal. We reflect on meanings of generation, starting with Salvador Allende's 1972 declaration: "To be young and not revolutionary may even be a biological contradiction." Karl Mannheim's theorization of generation as a cohort sharing formative experiences in particular historical moments, often requiring …
Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs: Summer 1998, Miami
Nexos: March 1999, Mexico City
Turning the Tables: State and Society in South America's Economic Integration
This article analyzes the politics of South American economic integration by considering the recent dynamics of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur). It focuses on the three most important countries in that process: Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. It demonstrates that contrary to received wisdom about the strength of states and societies in these three countries, the Mercosur process illustrates surprising strength on the part of states in Argenti…
Science success, narrative theories of personality, and race self complexity: Is pace represented in the identity construction of African American adolescents
Narrative theories of personality help elucidate the complexity of success
Migration and the Transnationalization of Fiesta Customs in Todos Santos Cuchumatán, Guatemala
In the past decade, wage-labor migration to the United States has accelerated in Todos Santos Cuchumatin, a Mam Maya town in northwestern Guatemala, to the point that almost every family can claim at least one member who is living elna (west, the Mam word used to refer to the United States).1 While this pattern is now common throughout much of Mexico and Central America, local reactions to it have been quite varied (Binford, 1998; De Hart, 2002; …
In and Out of Rights: Security, Migration, and Human Rights Talk in Postwar Guatemala
Este artículo investiga las interconexiones entre la seguridad, la migración y los derechos humanos en una comunidad de Mam Maya en Guatemala durante la posguerra. Explora los así llamados "maras" (las pandillas, generalmente de jóvenes emigrantes de sueldo-trabajo regresados de EEUU) y los comités de seguridad que se han formado para controlarlos. En el nexo resultante de relaciones y contradicciones poderosas, los individuos mueven en y fuera d…
Reckoning: The Ends of War in Guatemala by Diane M. Nelson
Maya after War: Conflict, Power, and Politics in Guatemala
Guatemala's thirty-six-year civil war culminated in peace accords in 1996, but the postwar transition has been marked by continued violence, including lynchings and the rise of gangs, as well as massive wage-labor exodus to the United States. For the Mam Maya municipality of Todos Santos Cuchumatán, inhabited by a predominantly indigenous peasant population, the aftermath of war and genocide resonates with a long-standing tension between state te…
The Effect of Climate Change on Natural Disasters: A College Student Perspective
Climate change is currently a topic of debate that is discussed not only within the physical science community but also by those in policy. Outside of these communities lies the American public, often not seeking out climate change research, but rather ingesting information interpreted by a third party, most likely through a political lens. Given the increased attention to natural disasters, one area of concern is the possible relationship betwee…
The Post-Cold War Anthropology of Central America
This article reviews the recent and emerging post-Cold War sociocultural anthropology research on Central America, defined as the five countries that share a common colonial and postcolonial history: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Following a consideration of the foundational literature widely engaged by scholars to theorize regional processes, three sections reflect major themes of investigation in the area: politic…
The Anti/Corruption Continuum: Generation, Politics and Grassroots Anti-Corruption Mobilization in Guatemala
This article takes anticorruption activism as a starting point for analyzing how young activists unequally experience the inequalities produced by corruption, as well as the bureaucratic and financial weight of anticorruption and audit culture. Against the backdrop of Guatemala's now-defunct pioneering anticorruption commission, the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), we utilize the concept of the anti/corruption conti…
Generations and Change in Central America: An Introduction
In this introduction we consider generation and change in Central America as part of the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of this journal. We reflect on meanings of generation, starting with Salvador Allende's 1972 declaration: "To be young and not revolutionary may even be a biological contradiction." Karl Mannheim's theorization of generation as a cohort sharing formative experiences in particular historical moments, often requiring …
From Sparks and Embers: Concluding Reflections on Anthropology, Generation, and Central America
This conclusion to the In-Focus Issue on generation and politics in Central America places the concept of generation in dialogue with an intellectual genealogy emanating from JLACA's twenty-five years of publication, recent debates about decolonization within anthropology, and personal reflections from the coauthors
Vigilantism and Security-Making
Vigilantism and security-making ask that we both acknowledge the importance of legal pluralism (and its lived, and often contradictory, experiences), and that we recognize its limits. They insist that we acknowledge statecraft as a process engaged in by state and non-state actors, and that we rethink the contours of the contemporary state and the role of law within it. In imagining how anthropologists, lawyers, and legal scholars might think thro…
On Witnessing, Standing with, and Collaborating: Thoughts on Expertise, Knowledge Production, and the Ethics of Compensation
Anthropologists have struggled with the issue of how to "give back" to the people who have welcomed us, collaborated with us, and become our friends. Expert witnessing for the asylum cases of members of communities that have opened their doors to us is one way of addressing uneven relationships and power dynamics. I provide expertise for cases almost exclusively from a place where I have worked for decades in Guatemala, a site of intensive migrat…
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