Jon Shefner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673211 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jon Shefner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jon |
| FAMILY NAME | Shefner |
| SIGNATURE | SHEFNER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 82 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
U.S. Climate Politics: Strategic Conditions and Interactions Among Actors and Structures
In the United States, the years following the Great Recession were pivotal to the advancement of sustainability solutions to current climate and inequality crises. Despite marked gains in renewables and energy efficiencies following the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), crises and warnings from the IPCC continue to grow direr. Drawing on James Jasper’s players and arenas strategic perspective, we examine how the context for sust…
Infrastructures of repression and resistance: How Tennesseans respond to the immigration enforcement regime
This paper addresses challenges faced by immigrants in two Tennessee locales, Nashville and Knoxville, focusing on Latino immigrant communities and the institutions to which they have responded during the period spanning the 2005 passage of the Sensenbrenner Bill and the Trump administration. We examine how the K-12 school system has reacted to draconian legislation and review the ways in which law enforcement affects the lives of immigrants and …
Struggles for Justice in Canada and Mexico: Themes and Theories about Social Mobilization
Global Agenda for Social Justice: Volume One
The Global Agenda for Social Justice provides accessible insights into some of the world's most pressing social problems and proposes international public policy responses to those problems. Chapters examine topics such as criminal justice, media concerns, environmental problems, economic problems, and issues concerning sexualities and gender.
How to Green: Institutional Influence in Three US Cities
The green economy holds the potential for addressing key dilemmas of sustainability by mitigating environmental degradation while reviving working and middle-class occupations. In effect, the green economy is a redevelopment practice that requires shifts in values and norms. We build on development scholars and others in our examination of institutions to determine the central roles played in fomenting vibrant green economies in three US cities: …
Agenda for Social Justice: Solutions for 2016
The Agenda for Social Justice: Solutions 2016 provides accessible insights into some of the most pressing social problems in the United States and proposes public policy responses to those problems. It offers recommendations for action around key issues for social justice
States and Citizens: Accommodation, Facilitation and Resistance to Globalization
Globalization has been subjected to a variety of analyses over the past thirty years, ranging from examinations of homogenizing cultural trends to the pressures of economic austerity and trade relations to the declining influence of states. This volume examines how states and citizens have been able to address globalization in different ways across the Global North and South. Authors examine the state as it forms policies in agro-production, cont…
Crisis Management and the Institutions of Austerity: A Comparison of Latin American and Greek Experiences
The proliferation of debt crises around the world since the 1980’s has generated debt-repayment negotiations prioritizing austerity in debtor countries. This forty-year history of debt crises in the Global South and North now allows comparison of these negotiations and their impacts. We examine the distinct and historically specific trajectories in Latin American and Greece, highlighting the foundations of each experience of debt crisis. We focus…
Austerity and Anti-Systemic Protest: Bringing Hardships Back In
This article explores the relationship between hardships and protest in the world-system. Despite the history of discussion of anti-systemic protest, there has been little work that differentiates world-systems contributions to social movement research from others who examine social movements. We contribute to a theory of anti-systemic protest by re-introducing hardships as a crucial element that defines inequalities in the world-system; one cons…
Opportunity, Context, and Action: Understanding the Divergent Strategies of Two Mexican Social Movement Coalitions in a Time of Tremendous Change
Evidence suggests collective action success is aided by organizations working in conjunction. Recent scholarship has refocused attention on what factors foster or impede coalition work. This article builds on the literature to show how the context in which coalitions emerge and act may be multiple and contradictory. Using data from extended field research, we examine two Mexican NGO coalitions to analyze how the intersection of national and local…
What is Politics For? Inequality, Representation, and Needs Satisfaction Under Clientelism and Democracy
This chapter examines the title question by counterposing democracy and clientelism. Long traditions of political theory have offered immense amounts of literature about processes, ideals, normative preferences, and institutional requisites of these systems that are sometimes perceived as polar opposites on continuums of inclusion and representation. Despite the importance of economics to both of these forms of politics—politics is in part a publ…
Development and Democracy in Mexico
Neoliberalism, Grievances, and Democratization: An Exploration of the Role of Material Hardships in Shaping Mexicos Democratic Transition
This article explores the relationship between neoliberalism and democratization in Mexico. For decades the Mexican state maintained the one-party rule of the PRI (Partido Revolucionario Institucional) through a complex arrangement involving corporatist and clientelist practices. The onset of neoliberalism including the 1982 peso crisis and the imposition of structural adjustment policies realigned state policies with the result that the Mexican …
Unequal Partners: The United States and Mexico
People, Place, and Time: How Structural Fieldwork Helps World-Systems Analysis
Some of the most insightful work in the political economy of the world-system area has been produced by researchers whose extensive fieldwork offers them deep familiarity with people and locales. Few other methods are as useful to understand the impacts of structural change on daily life and the ways agents resist, alter, and shape emerging structures. Yet such structural fieldwork is marginalized by the over-reliance of pedagogical materials on …
Rethinking Civil Society in the Age of Nafta: The Case of Mexico
This article offers an analysis and critique of the concept of civil society and its relationship to neoliberalism as an economic and political project. The author argues that the high level of imprecision in the usage of civil society has enabled both opponents and advocates of neoliberal policies to claim it. We forget that civil society must be understood as a stratified body whose members occupy specific class positions and, therefore, conten…
Sponsored Social Change in a Public Housing Project
Introduction: Current Trends in Latin American Social Movements
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jon Shefner; Introduction: Current Trends in Latin American Social Movements. Mobilization: An International Quarterly 1 October 2004; 9 (3): 219–222. doi: https://doi.org/10.17813/maiq.9.3.p1u61kq55r45410j Download citation file: Ris (Z…
Addressing Barriers to University-Community Collaboration: Organizing by Experts or Organizing the Experts
University-community partnerships, and COPC programs in particular, offer important opportunities for traditionally segregated groups to work together in collaborative relationships. The challenge of bringing people who possess distinct differences in background and social power together is a long-standing issue. Class, status, and organizational differences may impede collaboration. This article discusses the history of COPC as social policy and…
Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador
The Politics of Field Research: Lessons from Brazil and Mexico
Comparing two complementary experiences of fieldwork conducted in Brazil and Mexico, the authors examine how their own political sympathies influenced their studies prior to, during, and after their work in the field. Such sympathies and biases are common among students of Latin American social movements. Although this is the case, there is little discussion of the influence our political predispositions have on our study of the organized urban p…
Hierarchy and Partnership in New Orleans
Power at the top
Coalitions and clientelism in Mexico
Austerity and Neighborhood Politics in Guadalajara, Mexico
The literature on the politics of the urban poor in Latin America is largely bifurcated into two opposing schools. One of these interprets the political behavior of the poor as clientelist, and the other finds the poor engaging in insurgent political participation. In this paper I argue that examining the political economy of place offers us a way to understand these political behaviors on a continuum, rather than recreating a false dichotomy. I …
People, Place, and Time: How Structural Fieldwork Helps World-Systems Analysis
Some of the most insightful work in the political economy of the world-system area has been produced by researchers whose extensive fieldwork offers them deep familiarity with people and locales. Few other methods are as useful to understand the impacts of structural change on daily life and the ways agents resist, alter, and shape emerging structures. Yet such structural fieldwork is marginalized by the over-reliance of pedagogical materials on …
Addressing Barriers to University-Community Collaboration: Organizing by Experts or Organizing the Experts
University-community partnerships, and COPC programs in particular, offer important opportunities for traditionally segregated groups to work together in collaborative relationships. The challenge of bringing people who possess distinct differences in background and social power together is a long-standing issue. Class, status, and organizational differences may impede collaboration. This article discusses the history of COPC as social policy and…
Sponsors and the Urban Poor: Resources or Restrictions
Recent studies have discussed changes within the politics of the urban poor in Latin America. One perspective finds such politics limited to local material needs petitioning by isolated groups. By contrast, I found a community organization in urban Mexico that was sponsored by another group, and brought into national political efforts and debates by that sponsor. Sponsorship, as a form of relationship between allies, is linked to the grievances f…
Coalitions and clientelism in Mexico
Rethinking Civil Society in the Age of Nafta: The Case of Mexico
This article offers an analysis and critique of the concept of civil society and its relationship to neoliberalism as an economic and political project. The author argues that the high level of imprecision in the usage of civil society has enabled both opponents and advocates of neoliberal policies to claim it. We forget that civil society must be understood as a stratified body whose members occupy specific class positions and, therefore, conten…
Austerity and Anti-Systemic Protest: Bringing Hardships Back In
This article explores the relationship between hardships and protest in the world-system. Despite the history of discussion of anti-systemic protest, there has been little work that differentiates world-systems contributions to social movement research from others who examine social movements. We contribute to a theory of anti-systemic protest by re-introducing hardships as a crucial element that defines inequalities in the world-system; one cons…
Infrastructures of repression and resistance: How Tennesseans respond to the immigration enforcement regime
This paper addresses challenges faced by immigrants in two Tennessee locales, Nashville and Knoxville, focusing on Latino immigrant communities and the institutions to which they have responded during the period spanning the 2005 passage of the Sensenbrenner Bill and the Trump administration. We examine how the K-12 school system has reacted to draconian legislation and review the ways in which law enforcement affects the lives of immigrants and …
Hierarchy and Partnership in New Orleans
Opportunity, Context, and Action: Understanding the Divergent Strategies of Two Mexican Social Movement Coalitions in a Time of Tremendous Change
Evidence suggests collective action success is aided by organizations working in conjunction. Recent scholarship has refocused attention on what factors foster or impede coalition work. This article builds on the literature to show how the context in which coalitions emerge and act may be multiple and contradictory. Using data from extended field research, we examine two Mexican NGO coalitions to analyze how the intersection of national and local…
Introduction: Current Trends in Latin American Social Movements
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jon Shefner; Introduction: Current Trends in Latin American Social Movements. Mobilization: An International Quarterly 1 October 2004; 9 (3): 219–222. doi: https://doi.org/10.17813/maiq.9.3.p1u61kq55r45410j Download citation file: Ris (Z…
The Politics of Field Research: Lessons from Brazil and Mexico
Comparing two complementary experiences of fieldwork conducted in Brazil and Mexico, the authors examine how their own political sympathies influenced their studies prior to, during, and after their work in the field. Such sympathies and biases are common among students of Latin American social movements. Although this is the case, there is little discussion of the influence our political predispositions have on our study of the organized urban p…
Austerity and Neighborhood Politics in Guadalajara, Mexico
The literature on the politics of the urban poor in Latin America is largely bifurcated into two opposing schools. One of these interprets the political behavior of the poor as clientelist, and the other finds the poor engaging in insurgent political participation. In this paper I argue that examining the political economy of place offers us a way to understand these political behaviors on a continuum, rather than recreating a false dichotomy. I …
How to Green: Institutional Influence in Three US Cities
The green economy holds the potential for addressing key dilemmas of sustainability by mitigating environmental degradation while reviving working and middle-class occupations. In effect, the green economy is a redevelopment practice that requires shifts in values and norms. We build on development scholars and others in our examination of institutions to determine the central roles played in fomenting vibrant green economies in three US cities: …
Neoliberalism, Grievances, and Democratization: An Exploration of the Role of Material Hardships in Shaping Mexicos Democratic Transition
This article explores the relationship between neoliberalism and democratization in Mexico. For decades the Mexican state maintained the one-party rule of the PRI (Partido Revolucionario Institucional) through a complex arrangement involving corporatist and clientelist practices. The onset of neoliberalism including the 1982 peso crisis and the imposition of structural adjustment policies realigned state policies with the result that the Mexican …
Unequal Partners: The United States and Mexico
The damnificados of Guadalajara: The politics of domination and social movement protest
The damnificados of Guadalajara: The politics of domination and social movement protest
Moving in the wrong direction in social movement theory
Sponsors and the Urban Poor: Resources or Restrictions
Recent studies have discussed changes within the politics of the urban poor in Latin America. One perspective finds such politics limited to local material needs petitioning by isolated groups. By contrast, I found a community organization in urban Mexico that was sponsored by another group, and brought into national political efforts and debates by that sponsor. Sponsorship, as a form of relationship between allies, is linked to the grievances f…
Austerity and Neighborhood Politics in Guadalajara, Mexico
The literature on the politics of the urban poor in Latin America is largely bifurcated into two opposing schools. One of these interprets the political behavior of the poor as clientelist, and the other finds the poor engaging in insurgent political participation. In this paper I argue that examining the political economy of place offers us a way to understand these political behaviors on a continuum, rather than recreating a false dichotomy. I …
Coalitions and clientelism in Mexico
The Politics of Field Research: Lessons from Brazil and Mexico
Comparing two complementary experiences of fieldwork conducted in Brazil and Mexico, the authors examine how their own political sympathies influenced their studies prior to, during, and after their work in the field. Such sympathies and biases are common among students of Latin American social movements. Although this is the case, there is little discussion of the influence our political predispositions have on our study of the organized urban p…
Hierarchy and Partnership in New Orleans
Power at the top
Introduction: Current Trends in Latin American Social Movements
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jon Shefner; Introduction: Current Trends in Latin American Social Movements. Mobilization: An International Quarterly 1 October 2004; 9 (3): 219–222. doi: https://doi.org/10.17813/maiq.9.3.p1u61kq55r45410j Download citation file: Ris (Z…
Addressing Barriers to University-Community Collaboration: Organizing by Experts or Organizing the Experts
University-community partnerships, and COPC programs in particular, offer important opportunities for traditionally segregated groups to work together in collaborative relationships. The challenge of bringing people who possess distinct differences in background and social power together is a long-standing issue. Class, status, and organizational differences may impede collaboration. This article discusses the history of COPC as social policy and…
Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador
Sponsored Social Change in a Public Housing Project
Rethinking Civil Society in the Age of Nafta: The Case of Mexico
This article offers an analysis and critique of the concept of civil society and its relationship to neoliberalism as an economic and political project. The author argues that the high level of imprecision in the usage of civil society has enabled both opponents and advocates of neoliberal policies to claim it. We forget that civil society must be understood as a stratified body whose members occupy specific class positions and, therefore, conten…
People, Place, and Time: How Structural Fieldwork Helps World-Systems Analysis
Some of the most insightful work in the political economy of the world-system area has been produced by researchers whose extensive fieldwork offers them deep familiarity with people and locales. Few other methods are as useful to understand the impacts of structural change on daily life and the ways agents resist, alter, and shape emerging structures. Yet such structural fieldwork is marginalized by the over-reliance of pedagogical materials on …
Neoliberalism, Grievances, and Democratization: An Exploration of the Role of Material Hardships in Shaping Mexicos Democratic Transition
This article explores the relationship between neoliberalism and democratization in Mexico. For decades the Mexican state maintained the one-party rule of the PRI (Partido Revolucionario Institucional) through a complex arrangement involving corporatist and clientelist practices. The onset of neoliberalism including the 1982 peso crisis and the imposition of structural adjustment policies realigned state policies with the result that the Mexican …
Unequal Partners: The United States and Mexico
What is Politics For? Inequality, Representation, and Needs Satisfaction Under Clientelism and Democracy
This chapter examines the title question by counterposing democracy and clientelism. Long traditions of political theory have offered immense amounts of literature about processes, ideals, normative preferences, and institutional requisites of these systems that are sometimes perceived as polar opposites on continuums of inclusion and representation. Despite the importance of economics to both of these forms of politics—politics is in part a publ…
Development and Democracy in Mexico
Opportunity, Context, and Action: Understanding the Divergent Strategies of Two Mexican Social Movement Coalitions in a Time of Tremendous Change
Evidence suggests collective action success is aided by organizations working in conjunction. Recent scholarship has refocused attention on what factors foster or impede coalition work. This article builds on the literature to show how the context in which coalitions emerge and act may be multiple and contradictory. Using data from extended field research, we examine two Mexican NGO coalitions to analyze how the intersection of national and local…
States and Citizens: Accommodation, Facilitation and Resistance to Globalization
Globalization has been subjected to a variety of analyses over the past thirty years, ranging from examinations of homogenizing cultural trends to the pressures of economic austerity and trade relations to the declining influence of states. This volume examines how states and citizens have been able to address globalization in different ways across the Global North and South. Authors examine the state as it forms policies in agro-production, cont…
Crisis Management and the Institutions of Austerity: A Comparison of Latin American and Greek Experiences
The proliferation of debt crises around the world since the 1980’s has generated debt-repayment negotiations prioritizing austerity in debtor countries. This forty-year history of debt crises in the Global South and North now allows comparison of these negotiations and their impacts. We examine the distinct and historically specific trajectories in Latin American and Greece, highlighting the foundations of each experience of debt crisis. We focus…
Austerity and Anti-Systemic Protest: Bringing Hardships Back In
This article explores the relationship between hardships and protest in the world-system. Despite the history of discussion of anti-systemic protest, there has been little work that differentiates world-systems contributions to social movement research from others who examine social movements. We contribute to a theory of anti-systemic protest by re-introducing hardships as a crucial element that defines inequalities in the world-system; one cons…
Agenda for Social Justice: Solutions for 2016
The Agenda for Social Justice: Solutions 2016 provides accessible insights into some of the most pressing social problems in the United States and proposes public policy responses to those problems. It offers recommendations for action around key issues for social justice
Global Agenda for Social Justice: Volume One
The Global Agenda for Social Justice provides accessible insights into some of the world's most pressing social problems and proposes international public policy responses to those problems. Chapters examine topics such as criminal justice, media concerns, environmental problems, economic problems, and issues concerning sexualities and gender.
How to Green: Institutional Influence in Three US Cities
The green economy holds the potential for addressing key dilemmas of sustainability by mitigating environmental degradation while reviving working and middle-class occupations. In effect, the green economy is a redevelopment practice that requires shifts in values and norms. We build on development scholars and others in our examination of institutions to determine the central roles played in fomenting vibrant green economies in three US cities: …
Political science (28 works) · Sociology (21 works) · Law (19 works) · Politics (18 works) · Political economy (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Economics (8 works) · Politics and Society in Latin America (8 works) · Social movement (7 works) · Latin Americans (6 works)