Altha J Cravey
Biographic Data
| ID | 235987 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Altha J Cravey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Altha J |
| FAMILY NAME | Cravey |
| SIGNATURE | CRAVEY A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 120 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Indigenous Moves: Collaborative Multimedia and Decolonial Aesthetics
This article—a component of a multimedia series that includes academic papers, video documentaries, painting, poetry, dance, and song—documents and visualizes the continuities and contradictions inherent in diaspora and immigration for Indigenous Mexicans in the U.S. South. We argue for deployment of a decolonial aesthetics that calls into question long-standing colonial systems of meaning making, particularly racialized representations. We elabo…
Imagining the future from the margins: Cyborg labor in Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer
Desire, work and transnational identity
This article explores the daily lives of Latino/Latina transnational migrants in the United States South who live and breathe alternative discourses of globalization. I argue that regulatory regimes lower migrants' social reproduction costs (to employers) by ignoring, exporting and/or confining social reproduction to smaller geographical scales, while migrants undertake their own social reproduction at many different geographical sites and scales…
Placing man in the New West: Masculinities of The Last Picture Show
Students and the Anti‐Sweatshop Movement
Globalisation and Labour: The New 'Great Transformation
Toque una Ranchera, Por Favor
This paper explores the literal spaces of transnational social reproduction for Latinos and Latinas in central North Carolina and the US South. Examining these spaces and circuits of social reproduction can enhance our understanding of globalization by making globalization processes at once less abstract and less indisputable. Attention to social reproduction is important for understanding and theorizing globalization and, more significantly, for…
Operation Gatekeeper: The Rise of the “Illegal Alien” and the Making of the U.S.-Mexico Boundary
Key Words: boundaryboundary enforcementmigrationnationalism Additional informationNotes on contributorsAltha J. CraveyReviewed by
Spatiality, sweatshops and solidarity in Guatemala
Uneven development in Guatemala has been fuelled by international investment flows and a 1984 law that established a patchwork pattern of each factory as its own free-trade zone. The spatial and social flexibility of this form of labour regulation requires workers to be creative in defending their rights. Our paper explores the creative potential of transnational worker/consumer/student alliances, or mixed coalitions as we call them, to influence…
Developing socio-spatial knowledge networks
Toward Mentoring as Feminist Praxis: Strategies for ourselves and others
In this paper, we outline some strategies that we have found useful in our everyday practices as faculty members at a variety of universities in Canada and the USA. We first set a framework for being a mentor while engaging feminist praxis. We then discuss strategies that would be useful in choosing a mentor as well as being a mentor; for mentoring undergraduate students as well as graduate students. We conclude by suggesting that working toward …
Women and work in Mexico's maquiladoras
Engendering the Latin American state
Drawing on feminist theories of the state, this article critiques and extends the current usage of state theory in Latin Americanist geography. I argue that a nuanced mapping of social dynamics requires understanding the state as capitalist and patriarchal. Beginning with issues that are typically framed at the global scale, the review works progressively toward local and microscale analysis. Attention is given to distinct areas of scholarship wh…
Unionization in Tijuana maquiladoras, 1970-1988
Journal Article La sindicalización en las maquiladoras Tijuanenses, 1970–1988 (Unionization in Tijuana maquiladoras, 1970–1988). By Cirila Quintero Ramírez. (Mexico City: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 1990. 246 pp. Paper, ISBN 968-29-2687-4.) In Spanish Get access Altha J. Cravey Altha J. Cravey University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journa…
The Politics of Reproduction: Households in the Mexican Industrial Transition
A household‐level analysis helps to reveal the dynamics of a transition in Mexican industrial strategy from the state‐led import substitution strategy dominant from 1930 to 1976 to the neoliberal one dominant today. The results suggest that gender restructuring was a crucial element of industrial restructuring. The new industrial strategy, which relies on substantial foreign investment and adopts many of the norms of maquiladora production, has r…
Toward Mentoring as Feminist Praxis: Strategies for ourselves and others
In this paper, we outline some strategies that we have found useful in our everyday practices as faculty members at a variety of universities in Canada and the USA. We first set a framework for being a mentor while engaging feminist praxis. We then discuss strategies that would be useful in choosing a mentor as well as being a mentor; for mentoring undergraduate students as well as graduate students. We conclude by suggesting that working toward …
Spatiality, sweatshops and solidarity in Guatemala
Uneven development in Guatemala has been fuelled by international investment flows and a 1984 law that established a patchwork pattern of each factory as its own free-trade zone. The spatial and social flexibility of this form of labour regulation requires workers to be creative in defending their rights. Our paper explores the creative potential of transnational worker/consumer/student alliances, or mixed coalitions as we call them, to influence…
Toque una Ranchera, Por Favor
This paper explores the literal spaces of transnational social reproduction for Latinos and Latinas in central North Carolina and the US South. Examining these spaces and circuits of social reproduction can enhance our understanding of globalization by making globalization processes at once less abstract and less indisputable. Attention to social reproduction is important for understanding and theorizing globalization and, more significantly, for…
The Politics of Reproduction: Households in the Mexican Industrial Transition
A household‐level analysis helps to reveal the dynamics of a transition in Mexican industrial strategy from the state‐led import substitution strategy dominant from 1930 to 1976 to the neoliberal one dominant today. The results suggest that gender restructuring was a crucial element of industrial restructuring. The new industrial strategy, which relies on substantial foreign investment and adopts many of the norms of maquiladora production, has r…
Engendering the Latin American state
Drawing on feminist theories of the state, this article critiques and extends the current usage of state theory in Latin Americanist geography. I argue that a nuanced mapping of social dynamics requires understanding the state as capitalist and patriarchal. Beginning with issues that are typically framed at the global scale, the review works progressively toward local and microscale analysis. Attention is given to distinct areas of scholarship wh…
Developing socio-spatial knowledge networks
Desire, work and transnational identity
This article explores the daily lives of Latino/Latina transnational migrants in the United States South who live and breathe alternative discourses of globalization. I argue that regulatory regimes lower migrants' social reproduction costs (to employers) by ignoring, exporting and/or confining social reproduction to smaller geographical scales, while migrants undertake their own social reproduction at many different geographical sites and scales…
Students and the Anti‐Sweatshop Movement
Placing man in the New West: Masculinities of The Last Picture Show
Globalisation and Labour: The New 'Great Transformation
Unionization in Tijuana maquiladoras, 1970-1988
Journal Article La sindicalización en las maquiladoras Tijuanenses, 1970–1988 (Unionization in Tijuana maquiladoras, 1970–1988). By Cirila Quintero Ramírez. (Mexico City: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 1990. 246 pp. Paper, ISBN 968-29-2687-4.) In Spanish Get access Altha J. Cravey Altha J. Cravey University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journa…
The Politics of Reproduction: Households in the Mexican Industrial Transition
A household‐level analysis helps to reveal the dynamics of a transition in Mexican industrial strategy from the state‐led import substitution strategy dominant from 1930 to 1976 to the neoliberal one dominant today. The results suggest that gender restructuring was a crucial element of industrial restructuring. The new industrial strategy, which relies on substantial foreign investment and adopts many of the norms of maquiladora production, has r…
Women and work in Mexico's maquiladoras
Engendering the Latin American state
Drawing on feminist theories of the state, this article critiques and extends the current usage of state theory in Latin Americanist geography. I argue that a nuanced mapping of social dynamics requires understanding the state as capitalist and patriarchal. Beginning with issues that are typically framed at the global scale, the review works progressively toward local and microscale analysis. Attention is given to distinct areas of scholarship wh…
Toward Mentoring as Feminist Praxis: Strategies for ourselves and others
In this paper, we outline some strategies that we have found useful in our everyday practices as faculty members at a variety of universities in Canada and the USA. We first set a framework for being a mentor while engaging feminist praxis. We then discuss strategies that would be useful in choosing a mentor as well as being a mentor; for mentoring undergraduate students as well as graduate students. We conclude by suggesting that working toward …
Developing socio-spatial knowledge networks
Spatiality, sweatshops and solidarity in Guatemala
Uneven development in Guatemala has been fuelled by international investment flows and a 1984 law that established a patchwork pattern of each factory as its own free-trade zone. The spatial and social flexibility of this form of labour regulation requires workers to be creative in defending their rights. Our paper explores the creative potential of transnational worker/consumer/student alliances, or mixed coalitions as we call them, to influence…
Toque una Ranchera, Por Favor
This paper explores the literal spaces of transnational social reproduction for Latinos and Latinas in central North Carolina and the US South. Examining these spaces and circuits of social reproduction can enhance our understanding of globalization by making globalization processes at once less abstract and less indisputable. Attention to social reproduction is important for understanding and theorizing globalization and, more significantly, for…
Operation Gatekeeper: The Rise of the “Illegal Alien” and the Making of the U.S.-Mexico Boundary
Key Words: boundaryboundary enforcementmigrationnationalism Additional informationNotes on contributorsAltha J. CraveyReviewed by
Placing man in the New West: Masculinities of The Last Picture Show
Students and the Anti‐Sweatshop Movement
Globalisation and Labour: The New 'Great Transformation
Desire, work and transnational identity
This article explores the daily lives of Latino/Latina transnational migrants in the United States South who live and breathe alternative discourses of globalization. I argue that regulatory regimes lower migrants' social reproduction costs (to employers) by ignoring, exporting and/or confining social reproduction to smaller geographical scales, while migrants undertake their own social reproduction at many different geographical sites and scales…
Imagining the future from the margins: Cyborg labor in Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer
Indigenous Moves: Collaborative Multimedia and Decolonial Aesthetics
This article—a component of a multimedia series that includes academic papers, video documentaries, painting, poetry, dance, and song—documents and visualizes the continuities and contradictions inherent in diaspora and immigration for Indigenous Mexicans in the U.S. South. We argue for deployment of a decolonial aesthetics that calls into question long-standing colonial systems of meaning making, particularly racialized representations. We elabo…
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