Rachel A May
Biographic Data
| ID | 200347 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel A May |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel A |
| FAMILY NAME | May |
| SIGNATURE | MAY R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5746-252X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Women, Feminism, and the Construction of Collective Memory
The women who have participated in memory-building projects in Colombia have shaped the formation of collective memory in important ways in official and informal projects. They have emphasized and highlighted their gendered experiences of the Colombian conflict and gained valuable experience working with and inside organizations. These experiences have provided women with a sense of feminist empowerment. The case of Medellín is particularly inter…
The hybrid political role of feminism on Twitter during Covid-19
Twitter proved to be strategic for the dissemination of information, and for the activation of feminist social movements. This article identifies the patterns of representation around feminist movements on Twitter during the COVID-19 pandemic. We analyzed the discourse around a Colombian NGO known as Sisma Mujer, in a corpus of 4415 tweets posted during the first year of COVID-19. The results showed five significant topic categories: gender-based…
Caribbean Revolutions
This book provides both a historical introduction and a comparative analysis of the five most important guerrilla movements in the Caribbean Basin between 1959 and the 1990s, including Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Colombia, and Puerto Rico. The authors argue that the Cold War shaped and fueled the structure, tactics, and ideologies of the diverse movements taking place for the revolutionary cause, and address the particular impact that the …
This way to the Develephant
Surviving All Changes Is Your Destiny
Political violence in Central America gained international media attention during the 1980s because of the involvement of the United States in this conflictive region, and generation of activists and scholars has written prolifically about it. Now, in the wake of reconciliation efforts in the region, it is appropriate to revisit the question of why and how the tragedy of the past four decades occurred. As Robert Holden points out in his analysis …
Escape from Terror
Violence has permeated the Central American landscape for much of its history. Of the Central American republics, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua have suffered most from violence in recent decades, and they are also the countries that have received the most scholarly attention. Recent analyses of violence have emerged from an array of disciplines ranging from ethnohistory to political economy and have focused on subjects as divergent as col…
Surviving All Changes Is Your Destiny
Political violence in Central America gained international media attention during the 1980s because of the involvement of the United States in this conflictive region, and generation of activists and scholars has written prolifically about it. Now, in the wake of reconciliation efforts in the region, it is appropriate to revisit the question of why and how the tragedy of the past four decades occurred. As Robert Holden points out in his analysis …
Escape from Terror
Violence has permeated the Central American landscape for much of its history. Of the Central American republics, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua have suffered most from violence in recent decades, and they are also the countries that have received the most scholarly attention. Recent analyses of violence have emerged from an array of disciplines ranging from ethnohistory to political economy and have focused on subjects as divergent as col…
Surviving All Changes Is Your Destiny
Political violence in Central America gained international media attention during the 1980s because of the involvement of the United States in this conflictive region, and generation of activists and scholars has written prolifically about it. Now, in the wake of reconciliation efforts in the region, it is appropriate to revisit the question of why and how the tragedy of the past four decades occurred. As Robert Holden points out in his analysis …
This way to the Develephant
Caribbean Revolutions
This book provides both a historical introduction and a comparative analysis of the five most important guerrilla movements in the Caribbean Basin between 1959 and the 1990s, including Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Colombia, and Puerto Rico. The authors argue that the Cold War shaped and fueled the structure, tactics, and ideologies of the diverse movements taking place for the revolutionary cause, and address the particular impact that the …
The hybrid political role of feminism on Twitter during Covid-19
Twitter proved to be strategic for the dissemination of information, and for the activation of feminist social movements. This article identifies the patterns of representation around feminist movements on Twitter during the COVID-19 pandemic. We analyzed the discourse around a Colombian NGO known as Sisma Mujer, in a corpus of 4415 tweets posted during the first year of COVID-19. The results showed five significant topic categories: gender-based…
Women, Feminism, and the Construction of Collective Memory
The women who have participated in memory-building projects in Colombia have shaped the formation of collective memory in important ways in official and informal projects. They have emphasized and highlighted their gendered experiences of the Colombian conflict and gained valuable experience working with and inside organizations. These experiences have provided women with a sense of feminist empowerment. The case of Medellín is particularly inter…
Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Cuban History and Society (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · History (2 works) · Latin Americans (2 works) · Political violence (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work)