M Becker
Biographic Data
| ID | 13516 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Becker |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Becker |
| SIGNATURE | BECKER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Truman State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9082-2328 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Ecuador y las relaciones diplomáticas por la paz en el conflicto Cuba-Estados Unidos
In the early 1960s, as relations between Cuba and the United States rapidly deteriorated and the Caribbean conflict became intertwined with the global tensions of the Cold War, several Latin American countries initially sought to prevent an escalation of the conflict through mediation efforts and calls for the peaceful resolution of disputes in multilateral forums, particularly at the United Nations. These efforts coexisted with growing hemispher…
Red Internationalism: Anti-Imperialism and Human Rights in the Global Sixties and Seventies
Labor Education as an Arena of Ideological Dispute in Mid-Twentieth-Century Ecuador
Scholars have long understood the collaborative nature of US diplomats and labor unions as they sought to pull Latin American labor movements into a pro-US orbit. This article extends that discussion by delving into less-explored dimensions of US labor programs through an examination of activities in Ecuador during the late 1950s and early 1960s. It reveals a broad and extensive labor program, with US officials engaged in a variety of strategies …
Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the Ecuadorian State
This essay reviews the following works: Health in the Highlands: Indigenous Healing and Scientific Medicine in Guatemala and Ecuador . By David Carey Jr. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. Pp. viii + 384. $34.95 paperback, $85.00 hardcover, $34.95 e-book. ISBN: 9780520344792. Conjuring the State: Public Health Encounters in Highland Ecuador, 1910–1945 . By A. Kim Clark. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023. Pp. 200. $5…
The CIA and creole anticommunism in Cold War Ecuador
‘Creole’, or domestically birthed, anticommunisms came in many different flavours and are in need of deeper investigation to understand how they responded to local conditions. This study examines one case from Ecuador where political leaders eagerly manipulated an anticommunist agenda to advance their own partisan prospects in ways that were distinct from the United States government’s global geopolitical concerns. Conservatives had their own mot…
D7.3 - Evaluation of the bi Wave Method for Ultrasound Preload Determination in the Field with Machine Learning
251
Politicized Identities and Social Movements
This essay reviews the following works:Earth Politics: Religion, Decolonization, and Bolivia’s Indigenous Intellectuals. By Waskar Ari. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014. Pp. ix + 262. $95.00 cloth. ISBN: 9781137359032
Ecuador Shifts (Further) Right: The 2021 election cycle renewed debates about Left possibilities. Progressive movements now must navigate deep polarization to confront the right in power
Guillermo Lasso (SAMURAI JUAN/FLICKR)In a surprise victory, right-wing banker and Opus Dei adherent Guillermo Lasso won Ecuador’s presidential election on April 11. Lasso garnered 52.4 percent of t
The Ecuadorian Peace Committee
In April 1949 on the eve of the World Congress of Partisans of Peace in Paris, activists in the South American country of Ecuador distributed a small handbill titled “Queremos Paz” (we want peace)
A Souring Friendship, a Left Divided: In Ecuador, ideological differences, corruption allegations, and a wider debate over term limits and political control underscore a feud between President Lenín M…
On April 9, Ecuador’s Comptroller General Pablo Celi released an incendiary report that threatened to imprison former president Rafael Correa for his mismanagement of the country’s public debt. Cor
Factors influencing farmers’ decisions on nitrogen fertilizer application in the Liangzihu Lake basin, Central China
Ecuador: Slowing a Conservative Restoration
In a hotly contested presidential race, Rafael Correa’s protege and former vice president, Lenin Moreno, narrowly turned back a resurgent conservative resto-ration in Ecuador. In a run-off vote hel
Land-use changes and the invasion dynamics of shrubs in Baringo
In the semi-arid savannahs around Lake Baringo, Kenya, the recent spread of bush encroachment by the invasive alien species Prosopis juliflora and the native Dodonaea viscosa has changed human–environment interactions. This article suggests how the spread dynamics of Prosopis and Dodonaea have operated. It also describes the strategies Baringo's peoples have adopted in the face of this dramatic bush invasion, relates these dynamics to current inv…
Global surveys of reservoirs and lakes from satellites and regional application to the Syrdarya river basin
From Cattle to Corn: Attributes of Emerging Farming Systems of Former Pastoral Nomads in East Pokot, Kenya
Crop cultivation under rain-fed conditions is a recent innovation among the formerly pastoral-nomadic Pokot in north-central Kenya. We have examined the socioecological dynamics of land-use change from an interdisciplinary perspective. The patterns of transition to agropastoralism are closely related to both the biogeophysical attributes of the area and the economic characteristics of the households. While the use of advanced agronomic practices …
Building a Plurinational Ecuador: Complications and Contradictions
On August 5, 2011, Ecuadoran president Rafael Correa appointed long-time Indigenous leader Ricardo Ulcuango as ambassador to Bolivia. Typically the nomination of an Indigenous ambassador would have
Latinamericanism After 9/11 by John Beverley
The Children of 1990
In June 1990, the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) led a massive uprising against their social, economic, and political marginalization. The protest altered the political landscape of Ecuador and gave that country a reputation as home to some of the strongest and best-organized social movements in South America. Two decades later–-this year, 2010–-the children of the leaders of that historic uprising continued to lead…
Snubbing Davos: The Presidents at the World Social Forum
"Snubbing Davos: The Presidents at the World Social Forum." NACLA Report on the Americas, 42(3), pp. 4–5 Additional informationNotes on contributorsMarc Becker Becker is a historian of Latin America and author of Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador’s Modern Indigenous Movements (Duke University Press, 2008). He attended the World Social Forum with the Network Institute on Global Democratization (NIGD)
Mariátegui, the Comintern, and the Indigenous Question in Latin America
Victorio Codovilla, the leader of the Comintern's South American Secretariat, instructed José Carlos Mariátegui, a Peruvian Marxist who had gained a reputation as a strong defender of marginalized Indigenous peoples, to prepare a document for a 1929 Latin American Communist Conference analyzing the possibility of forming an Indian Republic in South America. This republic was to be modeled on similar Comintern proposals to construct Black Republic…
International review of social history: Popular Intellectuals and Social Movements: Framing Protest in Asia, Africa, and Latin America
All forms of popular protest include a specific category of 'popular intellectuals', who reflect on social reality, speak in the name of popular classes and who articulate ideas that inspire collective action. This volume focuses on these individuals from an original angle: it looks at the experiences of popular intellectuals in non-western societies, who operate within social-movement networks that link local, regional, and international arenas,…
Program and Conference Schedule
In Brief
Una Revolución Comunista Indígena: Rural Protest Movements in Cayambe, Ecuador
Newsbriefs
From Cattle to Corn: Attributes of Emerging Farming Systems of Former Pastoral Nomads in East Pokot, Kenya
Crop cultivation under rain-fed conditions is a recent innovation among the formerly pastoral-nomadic Pokot in north-central Kenya. We have examined the socioecological dynamics of land-use change from an interdisciplinary perspective. The patterns of transition to agropastoralism are closely related to both the biogeophysical attributes of the area and the economic characteristics of the households. While the use of advanced agronomic practices …
Mariátegui, the Comintern, and the Indigenous Question in Latin America
Victorio Codovilla, the leader of the Comintern's South American Secretariat, instructed José Carlos Mariátegui, a Peruvian Marxist who had gained a reputation as a strong defender of marginalized Indigenous peoples, to prepare a document for a 1929 Latin American Communist Conference analyzing the possibility of forming an Indian Republic in South America. This republic was to be modeled on similar Comintern proposals to construct Black Republic…
Land-use changes and the invasion dynamics of shrubs in Baringo
In the semi-arid savannahs around Lake Baringo, Kenya, the recent spread of bush encroachment by the invasive alien species Prosopis juliflora and the native Dodonaea viscosa has changed human–environment interactions. This article suggests how the spread dynamics of Prosopis and Dodonaea have operated. It also describes the strategies Baringo's peoples have adopted in the face of this dramatic bush invasion, relates these dynamics to current inv…
Building a Plurinational Ecuador: Complications and Contradictions
On August 5, 2011, Ecuadoran president Rafael Correa appointed long-time Indigenous leader Ricardo Ulcuango as ambassador to Bolivia. Typically the nomination of an Indigenous ambassador would have
The Children of 1990
In June 1990, the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) led a massive uprising against their social, economic, and political marginalization. The protest altered the political landscape of Ecuador and gave that country a reputation as home to some of the strongest and best-organized social movements in South America. Two decades later–-this year, 2010–-the children of the leaders of that historic uprising continued to lead…
Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the Ecuadorian State
This essay reviews the following works: Health in the Highlands: Indigenous Healing and Scientific Medicine in Guatemala and Ecuador . By David Carey Jr. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. Pp. viii + 384. $34.95 paperback, $85.00 hardcover, $34.95 e-book. ISBN: 9780520344792. Conjuring the State: Public Health Encounters in Highland Ecuador, 1910–1945 . By A. Kim Clark. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023. Pp. 200. $5…
Una Revolución Comunista Indígena: Rural Protest Movements in Cayambe, Ecuador
A new patient focused index for measuring quality of life in persons with severe and persistent mental illness
Abstracts of the contributed papers
Newsbriefs
Una Revolución Comunista Indígena: Rural Protest Movements in Cayambe, Ecuador
In Brief
Program and Conference Schedule
International review of social history: Popular Intellectuals and Social Movements: Framing Protest in Asia, Africa, and Latin America
All forms of popular protest include a specific category of 'popular intellectuals', who reflect on social reality, speak in the name of popular classes and who articulate ideas that inspire collective action. This volume focuses on these individuals from an original angle: it looks at the experiences of popular intellectuals in non-western societies, who operate within social-movement networks that link local, regional, and international arenas,…
Mariátegui, the Comintern, and the Indigenous Question in Latin America
Victorio Codovilla, the leader of the Comintern's South American Secretariat, instructed José Carlos Mariátegui, a Peruvian Marxist who had gained a reputation as a strong defender of marginalized Indigenous peoples, to prepare a document for a 1929 Latin American Communist Conference analyzing the possibility of forming an Indian Republic in South America. This republic was to be modeled on similar Comintern proposals to construct Black Republic…
Snubbing Davos: The Presidents at the World Social Forum
"Snubbing Davos: The Presidents at the World Social Forum." NACLA Report on the Americas, 42(3), pp. 4–5 Additional informationNotes on contributorsMarc Becker Becker is a historian of Latin America and author of Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador’s Modern Indigenous Movements (Duke University Press, 2008). He attended the World Social Forum with the Network Institute on Global Democratization (NIGD)
The Children of 1990
In June 1990, the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) led a massive uprising against their social, economic, and political marginalization. The protest altered the political landscape of Ecuador and gave that country a reputation as home to some of the strongest and best-organized social movements in South America. Two decades later–-this year, 2010–-the children of the leaders of that historic uprising continued to lead…
Building a Plurinational Ecuador: Complications and Contradictions
On August 5, 2011, Ecuadoran president Rafael Correa appointed long-time Indigenous leader Ricardo Ulcuango as ambassador to Bolivia. Typically the nomination of an Indigenous ambassador would have
Latinamericanism After 9/11 by John Beverley
From Cattle to Corn: Attributes of Emerging Farming Systems of Former Pastoral Nomads in East Pokot, Kenya
Crop cultivation under rain-fed conditions is a recent innovation among the formerly pastoral-nomadic Pokot in north-central Kenya. We have examined the socioecological dynamics of land-use change from an interdisciplinary perspective. The patterns of transition to agropastoralism are closely related to both the biogeophysical attributes of the area and the economic characteristics of the households. While the use of advanced agronomic practices …
Global surveys of reservoirs and lakes from satellites and regional application to the Syrdarya river basin
Land-use changes and the invasion dynamics of shrubs in Baringo
In the semi-arid savannahs around Lake Baringo, Kenya, the recent spread of bush encroachment by the invasive alien species Prosopis juliflora and the native Dodonaea viscosa has changed human–environment interactions. This article suggests how the spread dynamics of Prosopis and Dodonaea have operated. It also describes the strategies Baringo's peoples have adopted in the face of this dramatic bush invasion, relates these dynamics to current inv…
Factors influencing farmers’ decisions on nitrogen fertilizer application in the Liangzihu Lake basin, Central China
Ecuador: Slowing a Conservative Restoration
In a hotly contested presidential race, Rafael Correa’s protege and former vice president, Lenin Moreno, narrowly turned back a resurgent conservative resto-ration in Ecuador. In a run-off vote hel
A Souring Friendship, a Left Divided: In Ecuador, ideological differences, corruption allegations, and a wider debate over term limits and political control underscore a feud between President Lenín M…
On April 9, Ecuador’s Comptroller General Pablo Celi released an incendiary report that threatened to imprison former president Rafael Correa for his mismanagement of the country’s public debt. Cor
The Ecuadorian Peace Committee
In April 1949 on the eve of the World Congress of Partisans of Peace in Paris, activists in the South American country of Ecuador distributed a small handbill titled “Queremos Paz” (we want peace)
Ecuador Shifts (Further) Right: The 2021 election cycle renewed debates about Left possibilities. Progressive movements now must navigate deep polarization to confront the right in power
Guillermo Lasso (SAMURAI JUAN/FLICKR)In a surprise victory, right-wing banker and Opus Dei adherent Guillermo Lasso won Ecuador’s presidential election on April 11. Lasso garnered 52.4 percent of t
Politicized Identities and Social Movements
This essay reviews the following works:Earth Politics: Religion, Decolonization, and Bolivia’s Indigenous Intellectuals. By Waskar Ari. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014. Pp. ix + 262. $95.00 cloth. ISBN: 9781137359032
The CIA and creole anticommunism in Cold War Ecuador
‘Creole’, or domestically birthed, anticommunisms came in many different flavours and are in need of deeper investigation to understand how they responded to local conditions. This study examines one case from Ecuador where political leaders eagerly manipulated an anticommunist agenda to advance their own partisan prospects in ways that were distinct from the United States government’s global geopolitical concerns. Conservatives had their own mot…
D7.3 - Evaluation of the bi Wave Method for Ultrasound Preload Determination in the Field with Machine Learning
251
Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the Ecuadorian State
This essay reviews the following works: Health in the Highlands: Indigenous Healing and Scientific Medicine in Guatemala and Ecuador . By David Carey Jr. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. Pp. viii + 384. $34.95 paperback, $85.00 hardcover, $34.95 e-book. ISBN: 9780520344792. Conjuring the State: Public Health Encounters in Highland Ecuador, 1910–1945 . By A. Kim Clark. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023. Pp. 200. $5…
Red Internationalism: Anti-Imperialism and Human Rights in the Global Sixties and Seventies
Political science (16 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics and Society in Latin America (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Indigenous (5 works)