L Kowalchuk
Biographic Data
| ID | 13612 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Kowalchuk |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Kowalchuk |
| SIGNATURE | KOWALCHUK L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Guelph |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0410-1119 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Patriarchy, New Left Post-Neoliberalism, and the Valuing of Care Work
This article examines how the labor conditions of nurses in Nicaragua have evolved through twenty-five years of health care policy and regime transition, focusing on the period since the return to power in 2007 of the Frente Sandinista de la Liberación Nacional (FSLN). I ask whether the deterioration in nurses’ work-related well-being that were imposed by neoliberal health care restructuring have been redressed by the FSLN. I connect findings fro…
Some Complexities of Seeking Access for Ethnographic Research in Health-Care Institutions
A growing body of scholarship reflects on the complexities and challenges of attaining access for ethnographic research. Some of these are particular to formal organizations, including the understudied gatekeeping role of institutional review boards (IRBs) in organizations that provide state services to vulnerable populations. This article examines access challenges encountered in a project to conduct observation and photography of the work routi…
Obstacles to Nurses’ Labor Militancy in Central America
This paper seeks to understand the low level of nurses’ labor militancy in El Salvador and Nicaragua compared with many other countries. Key to the analysis is the concept of oppositional consciousness, which was developed for the study of how oppressed groups convert anger over unjust treatment into vocal and even disruptive demands for change. I use data collected through interviews and focus groups to argue that while nurses in El Salvador and…
Nurses' Labor Conditions, Gender, and the Value of Care Work in Post-Neoliberal El Salvador
Neoliberal cut-backs in health-care spending have had numerous negative impacts on nurses, but we know less about how they fare when governments move from neoliberal austerity to reinvestment in their health-care systems. El Salvador is an apt case to examine for how a post-neoliberal health-care reform, launched in 2010 by the newly elected FMLN government, addresses the deterioration in nurses' work conditions caused by austerity policies. Base…
Why Sociology Does Not Need to Be Saved
This chapter outlines the basic critique of public sociologies developed by mainstream and radical sociologists, with a particular focus on the perspective developed in the "save sociology" website. It discusses the problem with the use of the notion of reflexivity in Michael Burawoy's model, the ambiguities of what he means by "critical sociology", and the need to develop a model that will work for both comparative researches on various national…
Mobilizing Resistance to Privatization
In September 2002, unions representing public health-care employees in El Salvador – doctors, nurses, blue-collar workers, and clerical staff – began a strike that would last for over 9 months, in protest of government plans to privatize medical services in the Salvadoran Social Security Institute. This paper focuses on the methods that the unions and their allies used to communicate their policy arguments and the motivations for the strike to th…
Can Movement Tactics Influence Media Coverage
This article analyzes Salvadoran newspaper coverage of a social movement struggle that emerged in 2002 to prevent the privatization of the health-care system. Movement groups pursued their policy goals through both extrainstitutional protest and formal legislative channels. Through an analysis of news content, this article examines whether these different components of the movement's claims-making repertoire influenced the portrayal of the moveme…
Multisectoral Movement Alliances and Media Access
Focusing on the social movement that resisted the privatization of health care in El Salvador in 2002–3, this article asks how the movement's multisectoral composition influenced news coverage of the health care policy debate. Specifically, it examines whether the diversity of perspectives in the alliance was reflected in the media's source selection and framing of the policy issues. A content analysis of Salvadoran newspapers' coverage shows tha…
Mapping the Social Space of Opinion
This special issue of CJS illustrates the international spread of an empassioned debate among sociologists about the future direction of their discipline ignited by Michael Burawoy's call to elevate the presence and status of public sociology. Burawoy's program entails a greater engagement by sociologists with civil society (non-governmental organizations, communities, movements) in the development of their research agenda, and the production of …
Why sociology does not need to be saved
Faith, activism and the churches in Canada
This essay examines the contributions made by Kathryn Anderson's book, Weaving Relationships: Canada-Guatemala Solidarity (2003), to an understanding of the role of religion in social and political activism and to current debates on how the churches in Canada can be revitalized. A key insight the book offers is that people are drawn to support justice struggles in other countries by a combination of commitment to religious values and communities …
The Discourse of Demobilization
This paper integrates the political opportunity and framing paradigms to analyze the discursive processes that were involved in the demobilization of a peasant land struggle in El Salvador. The framing paradigm provides a basis for analyzing how activist rhetoric shapes interpretations of opportunities and grievances among social movement participants to alter the goals and intensity of grassroots protest. As the land struggle demonstrates, leade…
Asymmetrical Alliances, Organizational Democracy and Peasant Protest in El Salvador
Les coalitions de mouvements ne sont pas avantageuses pour tous. Au Salvador, des paysans à la recherche de terres furent marginalisés dans une coalition qui représentait à la fois des paysans sans terre et des bénéficiaires de réformes agraires passées. Lorsque des leaders ont démobilisé leur lutte, ils ont aussi entraîné les sans‐terre dans des activités protestataires dont ils ne pouvaient que peu profiter. Ce problème provient de la faiblesse…
From Competition to Cooperation
This paper examines the relationships between two peasant coalitions struggling for the cancellation of debts acquired by beneficiaries of El Salvador’s various land reform programs. In particular, the paper seeks to explain why, during much of the period of struggle for debt cancellation (1995 to 1997), the two main protagonists of the movement worked separately instead of joining forces, despite the fact that their goals and tactics were nearly…
Peasant Struggle, Political Opportunities, and the Unfinished Agrarian Reform in El Salvador
Lisa Kowalchuk, Peasant Struggle, Political Opportunities, and the Unfinished Agrarian Reform in El Salvador, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Summer, 2003), pp. 309-340
Community Development, Peace and Canadian Bilateral Aid in El Salvador
Why sociology does not need to be saved
Mapping the Social Space of Opinion
This special issue of CJS illustrates the international spread of an empassioned debate among sociologists about the future direction of their discipline ignited by Michael Burawoy's call to elevate the presence and status of public sociology. Burawoy's program entails a greater engagement by sociologists with civil society (non-governmental organizations, communities, movements) in the development of their research agenda, and the production of …
The Discourse of Demobilization
This paper integrates the political opportunity and framing paradigms to analyze the discursive processes that were involved in the demobilization of a peasant land struggle in El Salvador. The framing paradigm provides a basis for analyzing how activist rhetoric shapes interpretations of opportunities and grievances among social movement participants to alter the goals and intensity of grassroots protest. As the land struggle demonstrates, leade…
Peasant Struggle, Political Opportunities, and the Unfinished Agrarian Reform in El Salvador
Lisa Kowalchuk, Peasant Struggle, Political Opportunities, and the Unfinished Agrarian Reform in El Salvador, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Summer, 2003), pp. 309-340
From Competition to Cooperation
This paper examines the relationships between two peasant coalitions struggling for the cancellation of debts acquired by beneficiaries of El Salvador’s various land reform programs. In particular, the paper seeks to explain why, during much of the period of struggle for debt cancellation (1995 to 1997), the two main protagonists of the movement worked separately instead of joining forces, despite the fact that their goals and tactics were nearly…
Mobilizing Resistance to Privatization
In September 2002, unions representing public health-care employees in El Salvador – doctors, nurses, blue-collar workers, and clerical staff – began a strike that would last for over 9 months, in protest of government plans to privatize medical services in the Salvadoran Social Security Institute. This paper focuses on the methods that the unions and their allies used to communicate their policy arguments and the motivations for the strike to th…
Obstacles to Nurses’ Labor Militancy in Central America
This paper seeks to understand the low level of nurses’ labor militancy in El Salvador and Nicaragua compared with many other countries. Key to the analysis is the concept of oppositional consciousness, which was developed for the study of how oppressed groups convert anger over unjust treatment into vocal and even disruptive demands for change. I use data collected through interviews and focus groups to argue that while nurses in El Salvador and…
Nurses' Labor Conditions, Gender, and the Value of Care Work in Post-Neoliberal El Salvador
Neoliberal cut-backs in health-care spending have had numerous negative impacts on nurses, but we know less about how they fare when governments move from neoliberal austerity to reinvestment in their health-care systems. El Salvador is an apt case to examine for how a post-neoliberal health-care reform, launched in 2010 by the newly elected FMLN government, addresses the deterioration in nurses' work conditions caused by austerity policies. Base…
Can Movement Tactics Influence Media Coverage
This article analyzes Salvadoran newspaper coverage of a social movement struggle that emerged in 2002 to prevent the privatization of the health-care system. Movement groups pursued their policy goals through both extrainstitutional protest and formal legislative channels. Through an analysis of news content, this article examines whether these different components of the movement's claims-making repertoire influenced the portrayal of the moveme…
Community Development, Peace and Canadian Bilateral Aid in El Salvador
Asymmetrical Alliances, Organizational Democracy and Peasant Protest in El Salvador
Les coalitions de mouvements ne sont pas avantageuses pour tous. Au Salvador, des paysans à la recherche de terres furent marginalisés dans une coalition qui représentait à la fois des paysans sans terre et des bénéficiaires de réformes agraires passées. Lorsque des leaders ont démobilisé leur lutte, ils ont aussi entraîné les sans‐terre dans des activités protestataires dont ils ne pouvaient que peu profiter. Ce problème provient de la faiblesse…
From Competition to Cooperation
This paper examines the relationships between two peasant coalitions struggling for the cancellation of debts acquired by beneficiaries of El Salvador’s various land reform programs. In particular, the paper seeks to explain why, during much of the period of struggle for debt cancellation (1995 to 1997), the two main protagonists of the movement worked separately instead of joining forces, despite the fact that their goals and tactics were nearly…
Peasant Struggle, Political Opportunities, and the Unfinished Agrarian Reform in El Salvador
Lisa Kowalchuk, Peasant Struggle, Political Opportunities, and the Unfinished Agrarian Reform in El Salvador, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Summer, 2003), pp. 309-340
Why sociology does not need to be saved
Faith, activism and the churches in Canada
This essay examines the contributions made by Kathryn Anderson's book, Weaving Relationships: Canada-Guatemala Solidarity (2003), to an understanding of the role of religion in social and political activism and to current debates on how the churches in Canada can be revitalized. A key insight the book offers is that people are drawn to support justice struggles in other countries by a combination of commitment to religious values and communities …
The Discourse of Demobilization
This paper integrates the political opportunity and framing paradigms to analyze the discursive processes that were involved in the demobilization of a peasant land struggle in El Salvador. The framing paradigm provides a basis for analyzing how activist rhetoric shapes interpretations of opportunities and grievances among social movement participants to alter the goals and intensity of grassroots protest. As the land struggle demonstrates, leade…
Mapping the Social Space of Opinion
This special issue of CJS illustrates the international spread of an empassioned debate among sociologists about the future direction of their discipline ignited by Michael Burawoy's call to elevate the presence and status of public sociology. Burawoy's program entails a greater engagement by sociologists with civil society (non-governmental organizations, communities, movements) in the development of their research agenda, and the production of …
Can Movement Tactics Influence Media Coverage
This article analyzes Salvadoran newspaper coverage of a social movement struggle that emerged in 2002 to prevent the privatization of the health-care system. Movement groups pursued their policy goals through both extrainstitutional protest and formal legislative channels. Through an analysis of news content, this article examines whether these different components of the movement's claims-making repertoire influenced the portrayal of the moveme…
Multisectoral Movement Alliances and Media Access
Focusing on the social movement that resisted the privatization of health care in El Salvador in 2002–3, this article asks how the movement's multisectoral composition influenced news coverage of the health care policy debate. Specifically, it examines whether the diversity of perspectives in the alliance was reflected in the media's source selection and framing of the policy issues. A content analysis of Salvadoran newspapers' coverage shows tha…
Mobilizing Resistance to Privatization
In September 2002, unions representing public health-care employees in El Salvador – doctors, nurses, blue-collar workers, and clerical staff – began a strike that would last for over 9 months, in protest of government plans to privatize medical services in the Salvadoran Social Security Institute. This paper focuses on the methods that the unions and their allies used to communicate their policy arguments and the motivations for the strike to th…
Why Sociology Does Not Need to Be Saved
This chapter outlines the basic critique of public sociologies developed by mainstream and radical sociologists, with a particular focus on the perspective developed in the "save sociology" website. It discusses the problem with the use of the notion of reflexivity in Michael Burawoy's model, the ambiguities of what he means by "critical sociology", and the need to develop a model that will work for both comparative researches on various national…
Obstacles to Nurses’ Labor Militancy in Central America
This paper seeks to understand the low level of nurses’ labor militancy in El Salvador and Nicaragua compared with many other countries. Key to the analysis is the concept of oppositional consciousness, which was developed for the study of how oppressed groups convert anger over unjust treatment into vocal and even disruptive demands for change. I use data collected through interviews and focus groups to argue that while nurses in El Salvador and…
Nurses' Labor Conditions, Gender, and the Value of Care Work in Post-Neoliberal El Salvador
Neoliberal cut-backs in health-care spending have had numerous negative impacts on nurses, but we know less about how they fare when governments move from neoliberal austerity to reinvestment in their health-care systems. El Salvador is an apt case to examine for how a post-neoliberal health-care reform, launched in 2010 by the newly elected FMLN government, addresses the deterioration in nurses' work conditions caused by austerity policies. Base…
Some Complexities of Seeking Access for Ethnographic Research in Health-Care Institutions
A growing body of scholarship reflects on the complexities and challenges of attaining access for ethnographic research. Some of these are particular to formal organizations, including the understudied gatekeeping role of institutional review boards (IRBs) in organizations that provide state services to vulnerable populations. This article examines access challenges encountered in a project to conduct observation and photography of the work routi…
Patriarchy, New Left Post-Neoliberalism, and the Valuing of Care Work
This article examines how the labor conditions of nurses in Nicaragua have evolved through twenty-five years of health care policy and regime transition, focusing on the period since the return to power in 2007 of the Frente Sandinista de la Liberación Nacional (FSLN). I ask whether the deterioration in nurses’ work-related well-being that were imposed by neoliberal health care restructuring have been redressed by the FSLN. I connect findings fro…
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Politics (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Health care (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Social movement (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (4 works)