Paul Almeida
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3619863 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Paul Almeida |
| NOMBRES | Paul |
| APELLIDO | Almeida |
| FIRMA | ALMEIDA P |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Merced |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6516-1660 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 387 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
African indigenous repertoires and the expansion of mobilization in repressive contexts
African traditional protest repertoires of contention are often effective in facilitating mass mobilization due to their symbolic resonance. The use of these indigenous repertoires in Africa has promoted their continued inclusion and use in contemporary protests across the continent. Despite their significant role in shaping the trajectories of mobilization in Africa, these repertoires have been understudied in the social movement literature. The…
The Role of Capacity-Building Organizations and Environmental Threat in Addressing Air Quality in Highly Polluted Regions
Involving residents in meaningful participation in heavily polluted regions faces many obstacles. This study focuses on the conditions that enhance individual involvement in civic initiatives against environmental hazards in one of the largest cities in the United States, facing chronic and heightened air pollution exposure. The work is based on a large-scale representative survey of 1950 residents in Fresno, California. The survey was carried ou…
The Glocal Foundations of Threat-Driven Labor Resistance to Authoritarian Capitalism
Labor has stood as a central actor in the waves of contention against authoritarian forms of pro-market development in the Global South. In this paper, we analyze the local-level conditions that foster the mobilization of labor groups under such contexts. We study how municipal-level repressive and economic threats from authoritarian forms of pro-market development models generate labor protest. We focus on a wave of labor protest in El Salvador.…
Profile
Climate Action Movements in Latin America
Social Movement Partyism and Congressional Opposition to Certifying the 2020 Presidential Election Results in the United States
At times, radicalized rightwing movements may influence political institutions to the point of weakening core democratic practices and promoting the tools of autocrats. We advance a theory of social movement partyism, arguing that formal political parties and social movements may forge an alliance through a relational opportunity-mobilization exchange, whereby the party provides political opportunities to the movement and the movement offers a hi…
The forms of climate action
Scientific research on the mechanisms to address global warming and its consequences continues to proliferate in the context of an accelerating climate emergency. The concept of climate action includes multiple meanings, and several types of actors employ its use to manage the crisis. The term has evolved to incorporate many of the suggested strategies to combat global warming offered by international bodies, states, nongovernmental organizations…
Incubator Campaigns and California’s Immigrant Rights Movement
One starting point for building a movement capable of unleashing multiple rounds of collective action is an incubator campaign—a period of widespread unrest around a particular issue that may last several months or longer. The mobilizing success of the incubator campaign provides the resource infrastructure for subsequent episodes of related movement activity in similar geographical locations, even years into the future. We test these assertions …
Interpreting Repressive and Economic Threats
Repressive and economic threats drive much of the popular mobilization in Central America, but those conditions need to be articulated to publics in a manner that emphasizes the need for collective action to ameliorate worsening harms. Examination of protest songs in both periods of heightened state repression (1970-1990) and heightened economic threats (1990-present) in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua demonstrates tha…
Collective Resistance to Neoliberalism
Civil society actors contested the fifty-year long transition to a global economy based on the principles of neoliberalism. Mobilization against neoliberal measures represents one of the most common forms of social-movement activity across the world. We explore the evolution of resistance to economic liberalization from the 1970s to the current period. Our study highlights several dimensions of civic opposition to the implementation of free marke…
Protest Waves and Social Movement Fields
The paper examines the individual-level building blocks of getting out the vote (GOTV) for electoral parties that represent subaltern sectors in resource scarce environments. Drawing on theories of protest waves, social movement fields, and threat-induced collective action, we examine the likelihood of campaigning in left party electoral mobilization and party identification. The study implements a modified version of the Caught in the Act of Pro…
Movimientos sociales
Este libro surge de una preocupación académica y política: las acciones colectivas de ciudadanos y ciudadanas comunes en las más diversas regiones del mundo podrían ser decisivas en la desaceleración del calentamiento global, en las luchas contra el racismo y la violencia de género, entre muchas otras formas de explotación de la sociedad y la naturaleza. En las páginas de Movimientos sociales... asoma una tesis: desde las formas cotidianas de res…
Global Struggles and Social Change
Social Movements
Reviewer: Jeff Goodwin, New York University Social scientists—mainly sociologists—have produced a vast literature on social movements over the past five decades. Several handbooks and encyclopedias have appeared in recent years which attempt to distill this research. And several sociologists—including Buechler, Jasper, Snow and Soule, and Staggenborg—have written primers that are meant to introduce wider audiences to the social movements field. P…
Social Movements
Honduras
Popular outrage boiled over again in Honduras in 2019 as diverse groups waged a major protest campaign against reforms aimed at privatizing the health care and education systems. The final straw ki
Climate justice and sustained transnational mobilization
Samir Amin’s final essay called for the creation of a new international organization of progressive social forces. Here I review evidence from twenty-first century transnational movements germane for understanding the likelihood of the emergence of such an international organization and the issues and sectors most likely to facilitate coalitional unity. More specifically, the ecological crises identified by Amin in the form of global warming and …
Climate Justice and Sustained Transnational Mobilization
Samir Amin’s final essay called for the creation of a new international organization of progressive social forces. This essay provides evidence from twenty-first century transnational movements on the likelihood of the emergence of such an international organization and the issues and sectors most likely to facilitate coalitional unity. More specifically, the ecological crises identified by Amin in the form of global warming and climate change cr…
Immigrant rights and social movements
The disciplinary fields of immigration and social movements have largely developed as two distinct subareas of sociology. Scholars contend that immigrant rights, compared to other movements, have been given less attention in social movement research. Studies of immigrant‐based movements in recent decades have reached a stage whereby we can now assess how immigrant movement scholarship informs the general social movement literature in several area…
Globalization and Social Movements
A growing body of scholarship acknowledges the increasing influence of global forces on social institutions and societies on multiple scales. We focus here on the role of globalization processes in shaping collective action and social movements. Three areas of global change and movements are examined: first, long-term global trends and collective action; second, research on national and local challenges to economic globalization, including backla…
Ritual Demonstrations versus Reactive Protests
Using an innovative survey of protest participants and nonparticipants from five major street demonstrations in Mexico City in 2011 and 2012, this study tests the assumption that influences on protest participation vary across different types of events; namely, ritual demonstrations and reactive protests. The comparison is based on two assumptions: that these are two of the dominant forms of protest in contemporary Latin America, and that specify…
"Dinámica de la protesta social en Honduras", de Eugenio Sosa
del libro "Dinámica de la protesta social en Honduras", de Eugenio Sosa
Authoritarian El Salvador
Authoritarian El Salvador offers a monumental historical account of the early years of modern El Salvador leading up to the martinato, the military regime dominated by Maximiliano Hernández Martínez from 1931 to 1944. Erik Ching marshals a massive collection of archival evidence to make his compelling case for a local- and national-level interpretation of Salvadoran politics. Namely, he draws from the Archivo General de la Nación, local municipal…
Unintended Consequences of State-led Development
The mass mobilizations against neoliberal reforms are rooted in the weakening of the state-led development model and the erosion of social citizenship rights. At the same time, infrastructures created by the developmental state provide the organizational capacity to resist market-driven globalization. The study develops a conceptual framework for understanding the major arenas of state-led development in the twentieth century in relation to the i…
Breaking Down the State
Recent years have seen an explosion of protest movements around the world, and academic theories are racing to catch up with them. This series aims to further our understanding of the origins, dealings, decisions, and outcomes of social movements by fostering dialogue among many traditions of thought, across European nations and across continents. All theoretical perspectives are welcome. Books in the series typically combine theory with empirica…
Opportunity Organizations and Threat-Induced Contention
The article combines two strands of political process theory (opportunity and threat) in a changing authoritarian context. Through the use of protest event, archival, and secondary sources on El Salvador between 1962 and 1981, the study examines the outbreak and forms of two protest waves that are generated by the temporal sequencing of political opportunity and threat environments. The specific opportunities of institutional access and competiti…
Political Opportunities and Local Grassroots Environmental Movements
This paper examines the Minamata mercury victims' grassroots movement. Our analysis demonstrates the value of using a political opportunity framework to understand local grassroot environmental movement (LGEM) outcomes. We explain the variation over time in a LGEM's ability to achieve successful outcomes across different political environments. Specifically, we show that the success of the Minamata LGEM hinged on its ability to employ nontraditio…
The Formation of State Actor-Social Movement Coalitions and Favorable Policy Outcomes
This study examines the role of loosely-coupled state actor-social movement coalitions in creating positive policy outcomes. It specifies the organizational locations within the state most conducive to state actor-social movement ties. Using the case of Japanese anti-pollution politics between 1956 and 1976, we demonstrate that favorable policy outcomes were the result of multiple coalitions between anti-pollution movements and state agencies, op…
Defensive Mobilization
In the current wave of defensive collective action across Latin America in response to neoliberal globalization, working-class groups appear most frequently in the documented protest events. The new wave of popular movement activity emerged in the region in the late 1990s and early twenty-first century and is driven by the erosion of the economic and social benefits previously available to the popular classes during the period of state-led develo…
The Sequencing of Success
In the 1990s and early 2000s, government privatization and austerity programs served as the cornerstone of free market reforms implemented throughout the developing world. The selling off of government utilities, resources, and services laid the groundwork for a highly contested battleground in the global South over social and economic distribution. This study examines the sequencing of campaigns against neoliberal reforms in Central America. Two…
To The Internet, From The Internet
We compare activist-based internet data with four other media sources—Lexis Nexis Academic Universe, The Seattle Times, Global Newsbank, and The New York Times—on their coverage of the local, national, and international protests that accompanied the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Third Ministerial Conference in Seattle, Washington in late 1999. Using the Media Sensitivity-Protest Intensity Model of event reporting, we find that activist-based w…
Globalization and Social Movements
A growing body of scholarship acknowledges the increasing influence of global forces on social institutions and societies on multiple scales. We focus here on the role of globalization processes in shaping collective action and social movements. Three areas of global change and movements are examined: first, long-term global trends and collective action; second, research on national and local challenges to economic globalization, including backla…
Climate justice and sustained transnational mobilization
Samir Amin’s final essay called for the creation of a new international organization of progressive social forces. Here I review evidence from twenty-first century transnational movements germane for understanding the likelihood of the emergence of such an international organization and the issues and sectors most likely to facilitate coalitional unity. More specifically, the ecological crises identified by Amin in the form of global warming and …
Immigrant rights and social movements
The disciplinary fields of immigration and social movements have largely developed as two distinct subareas of sociology. Scholars contend that immigrant rights, compared to other movements, have been given less attention in social movement research. Studies of immigrant‐based movements in recent decades have reached a stage whereby we can now assess how immigrant movement scholarship informs the general social movement literature in several area…
The network for environmental and economic justice in the Southwest
1994). The network for environmental and economic justice in the Southwest: Interview with Richard Moore. Capitalism Nature Socialism: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 21-54
Social Movement Partyism and Congressional Opposition to Certifying the 2020 Presidential Election Results in the United States
At times, radicalized rightwing movements may influence political institutions to the point of weakening core democratic practices and promoting the tools of autocrats. We advance a theory of social movement partyism, arguing that formal political parties and social movements may forge an alliance through a relational opportunity-mobilization exchange, whereby the party provides political opportunities to the movement and the movement offers a hi…
Ritual Demonstrations versus Reactive Protests
Using an innovative survey of protest participants and nonparticipants from five major street demonstrations in Mexico City in 2011 and 2012, this study tests the assumption that influences on protest participation vary across different types of events; namely, ritual demonstrations and reactive protests. The comparison is based on two assumptions: that these are two of the dominant forms of protest in contemporary Latin America, and that specify…
Protest Waves and Social Movement Fields
The paper examines the individual-level building blocks of getting out the vote (GOTV) for electoral parties that represent subaltern sectors in resource scarce environments. Drawing on theories of protest waves, social movement fields, and threat-induced collective action, we examine the likelihood of campaigning in left party electoral mobilization and party identification. The study implements a modified version of the Caught in the Act of Pro…
Grassroots Struggles for Sustainability in Central America
Neoliberal Forms of Capital and The Rise of Social Movement Partyism in Central America
Historical shifts in global economic formations shape the strategies of resistance movements in the global South. Neoliberal forms of economic development over the past thirty years in Central America have weakened traditional actors sponsoring popular mobilization such as labor unions and rural cooperatives. At the same time, the free market reforms produced new threats to economic livelihood and well-being throughout the region. The neoliberal …
El Salvador
This article examines the historic presidential elections in El Salvador in 2009.Special attention is given to the evolution of the FMLN political party in the post-civil war era and its relationship with social movements in civil society.The combined forces of democratization and neoliberal policy implementation in the 1990s and early 2000s assisted in strengthening the alliance between the leftwing political party and popular movements.The FMLN…
The forms of climate action
Scientific research on the mechanisms to address global warming and its consequences continues to proliferate in the context of an accelerating climate emergency. The concept of climate action includes multiple meanings, and several types of actors employ its use to manage the crisis. The term has evolved to incorporate many of the suggested strategies to combat global warming offered by international bodies, states, nongovernmental organizations…
Interpreting Repressive and Economic Threats
Repressive and economic threats drive much of the popular mobilization in Central America, but those conditions need to be articulated to publics in a manner that emphasizes the need for collective action to ameliorate worsening harms. Examination of protest songs in both periods of heightened state repression (1970-1990) and heightened economic threats (1990-present) in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua demonstrates tha…
The network for environmental and economic justice in the Southwest
1994). The network for environmental and economic justice in the Southwest: Interview with Richard Moore. Capitalism Nature Socialism: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 21-54
The Exploration of Technological Diversity and Geographic Localization in Innovation
Political Opportunities and Local Grassroots Environmental Movements
This paper examines the Minamata mercury victims' grassroots movement. Our analysis demonstrates the value of using a political opportunity framework to understand local grassroot environmental movement (LGEM) outcomes. We explain the variation over time in a LGEM's ability to achieve successful outcomes across different political environments. Specifically, we show that the success of the Minamata LGEM hinged on its ability to employ nontraditio…
Localization of Knowledge and the Mobility of Engineers in Regional Networks
Knowledge, once generated, spills only imperfectly among firms and nations. We posit that since institutions and labor networks vary by region, there should be regional variations in the localization of spillovers. We investigate the relationship between the mobility of major patent holders and the localization of technological knowledge through the analysis of patent citations of important semiconductor innovations. We find that knowledge locali…
Cutumay Camones
Between 1975 and 1992 El Salvador witnessed one of the largest Latin American revolutionary mobilizations in recent memory. While interpretations of the outcome of the Salvadoran national liberation struggle range from failed revolution (Wickham-Crowley, 1989; Foran, 1993) to democratic revolution (Villalobos, 1989), few have accounted for how the Salvadoran insurgents sustained mobilization for so long. This question becomes more puzzling when w…
Fighting to Learn
Learning–by–Hiring
To investigate the conditions under which learning-by-hiring (or the acquisition of knowledge through the hiring of experts from other firms) is more likely, we study the patenting activities of engineers who moved from United States (U.S.) firms to non-U.S. firms. Statistical findings from negative binomial regressions show that mobility is more likely to result in interfirm knowledge transfer when (1) the hiring firm is less path dependent, (2)…
Overcoming Local Search Through Alliances and Mobility
Recent research suggests that, due to organizational and relational constraints, firms are limited contextually—both geographically and technologically—in their search for new knowledge. But distant contexts may offer ideas and insights that can be extremely useful to innovation through knowledge recombination. So how can firms reach beyond their existing contexts in their search for new knowledge? In this paper, we suggest that two mechanisms—al…
After the Revolution
To The Internet, From The Internet
We compare activist-based internet data with four other media sources—Lexis Nexis Academic Universe, The Seattle Times, Global Newsbank, and The New York Times—on their coverage of the local, national, and international protests that accompanied the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Third Ministerial Conference in Seattle, Washington in late 1999. Using the Media Sensitivity-Protest Intensity Model of event reporting, we find that activist-based w…
Opportunity Organizations and Threat-Induced Contention
The article combines two strands of political process theory (opportunity and threat) in a changing authoritarian context. Through the use of protest event, archival, and secondary sources on El Salvador between 1962 and 1981, the study examines the outbreak and forms of two protest waves that are generated by the temporal sequencing of political opportunity and threat environments. The specific opportunities of institutional access and competiti…
Subsidiaries and knowledge creation
This paper studies the influence of external knowledge on innovation in subsidiaries of multinational firms. The focus on subsidiaries is especially interesting since they are simultaneously embedded in two knowledge contexts: (a) the internal multinational corporation (MNC) comprised of the headquarters and other subsidiaries; and (b) an external environment of regional or host country firms. We develop hypotheses to suggest that the extent of i…
The Formation of State Actor-Social Movement Coalitions and Favorable Policy Outcomes
This study examines the role of loosely-coupled state actor-social movement coalitions in creating positive policy outcomes. It specifies the organizational locations within the state most conducive to state actor-social movement ties. Using the case of Japanese anti-pollution politics between 1956 and 1976, we demonstrate that favorable policy outcomes were the result of multiple coalitions between anti-pollution movements and state agencies, op…
Defensive Mobilization
In the current wave of defensive collective action across Latin America in response to neoliberal globalization, working-class groups appear most frequently in the documented protest events. The new wave of popular movement activity emerged in the region in the late 1990s and early twenty-first century and is driven by the erosion of the economic and social benefits previously available to the popular classes during the period of state-led develo…
Waves of Protest
The Sequencing of Success
In the 1990s and early 2000s, government privatization and austerity programs served as the cornerstone of free market reforms implemented throughout the developing world. The selling off of government utilities, resources, and services laid the groundwork for a highly contested battleground in the global South over social and economic distribution. This study examines the sequencing of campaigns against neoliberal reforms in Central America. Two…
Grassroots Struggles for Sustainability in Central America
Social Movements, Political Parties, and Electoral Triumph in El Salvador
Globalization and Collective Action
El Salvador
This article examines the historic presidential elections in El Salvador in 2009.Special attention is given to the evolution of the FMLN political party in the post-civil war era and its relationship with social movements in civil society.The combined forces of democratization and neoliberal policy implementation in the 1990s and early 2000s assisted in strengthening the alliance between the leftwing political party and popular movements.The FMLN…
Mobilizing Democracy
Unintended Consequences of State-led Development
The mass mobilizations against neoliberal reforms are rooted in the weakening of the state-led development model and the erosion of social citizenship rights. At the same time, infrastructures created by the developmental state provide the organizational capacity to resist market-driven globalization. The study develops a conceptual framework for understanding the major arenas of state-led development in the twentieth century in relation to the i…
Breaking Down the State
Recent years have seen an explosion of protest movements around the world, and academic theories are racing to catch up with them. This series aims to further our understanding of the origins, dealings, decisions, and outcomes of social movements by fostering dialogue among many traditions of thought, across European nations and across continents. All theoretical perspectives are welcome. Books in the series typically combine theory with empirica…
Handbook of Social Movements across Latin America
Neoliberal Forms of Capital and The Rise of Social Movement Partyism in Central America
Historical shifts in global economic formations shape the strategies of resistance movements in the global South. Neoliberal forms of economic development over the past thirty years in Central America have weakened traditional actors sponsoring popular mobilization such as labor unions and rural cooperatives. At the same time, the free market reforms produced new threats to economic livelihood and well-being throughout the region. The neoliberal …
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