Lynn Horton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3686229 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lynn Horton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lynn |
| FAMILY NAME | Horton |
| SIGNATURE | HORTON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chapman University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8175-7640 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Zoonati’ vs. ‘epistemic tresspasers’: Science identity in contentious online advocacy campaigns on the origins of Sars-CoV-2
This article explores how science is mobilized as a collective identity, normative ideal, and instrumental tactic in contentious online global advocacy campaigns on the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. It incorporates qualitative analysis of over 2300 public Twitter postings by core zoonosis and lab origin proponents who identify as scientists. These online exchanges provide a real-time window into how the collective identity of scientist is cons…
Making qualitative data more visible in policy: A Critical Appraisal of Meta-Synthesis
This article explores meta-synthesis, the systematic review, and integration of qualitative findings, as a tool to advance the visibility, accessibility, and policy and programmatic relevance of quantitative data in applied fields like international development. I draw on my experiences of synthesizing 30 qualitative cases for a book on microfinance and women's empowerment to examine the benefits and challenges of this approach and to provide pra…
From Collectivism to Capitalism: Neoliberalism and Rural Mobilization in Nicaragua
This article draws on longitudinal, ethnographic data gathered in rural Nicaragua over a two-decade period to examine the ideological and political implications of neoliberalism in the prefigurative, grassroots stages of social mobilization. It contrasts divergent path-dependent processes of accommodation and resistance to neoliberalism as Nicaraguan peasants have moved from collectivism to individual farming, with an emphasis on interpretive pro…
After the earthquake: Gender inequality and transformation in post-disaster Haiti
This paper explores gender inequalities and transformations following Haiti's devastating 2010 earthquake. Post-disaster experiences of women are located in a wider context of a longer term gender crisis. The paper argues that patterns of gender exclusion occur on multiple levels from the transnational to the local, and identifies gender-specific obstacles in the recovery and reconstruction period. In Haiti, these include meeting family survival …
Is World Bank 'Good Governance' Good for the Poor? Central American Experiences
This paper explores the World Bank's concept of 'good governance' as applied in rural Central America. It argues that World Bank good governance seeks to constrain unequal accumulation and privilege in the public sector, but leaves largely unaddressed structural inequalities in the private sector and the conflation of economic and political power in the public sector. This paper suggests that the World Bank analysis does not adequately consider m…
Who Can Stop the Drums: Urban Social Movements in Chávez's Venezuela
Defenders of Nature and the Comarca: Collective Identity and Frames in Panama
This article examines collective identities as both a resource and constraint in framing processes of social mobilization through a case study of Panama's Kuna Indians, one of Latin America's most effectively organized indigenous peoples. It highlights tensions between movement nurturance of distinct indigenous identity as intrinsically valuable and to a degree counterhegemonic and instrumental use of an environmental frame to advance indigenous …
Buying Up Nature: Economic and Social Impacts of Costa Rica's Ecotourism Boom
From a range of diverse political perspectives, proponents have presented ecotourism as a market-based activity that will provide income and empowerment to local communities while promoting environmental conservation. The experiences of Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula, where relative isolation has limited the presence of transnational corporate capital, suggest that the impacts of community-based ecotourism expansion are far from certain and are the o…
Social Movements for Global Democracy
After Democracy: Advances and Challenges for Women's Movements in Latin America
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Contesting State Multiculturalisms: Indigenous Land Struggles in Eastern Panama
This article examines the implications of Latin America's recent wave of state-embraced multiculturalism for the region's indigenous peoples, arguing that state recognition of indigenous difference is not inevitably empowering for indigenous groups or transformative of nation-states. It utilises data from fieldwork with the Kuna Indians of eastern Panama in order to delineate more precisely the contexts and strategies of indigenous peoples which …
Constructing Conservative Identity: Peasant Mobilization Against Revolution In Nicaragua
This article explores the centrality of conservative "peasant" identity in the large-scale armed mobilization of rural Nicaraguans to oppose revolutionary change in the 1980s. Drawing on fieldwork in the municipio of Quilali, an epicenter of rural resistance, I argue that the construction of a grassroots "peasant" identity, its content and boundaries, was a contested process strongly influenced by dynamics of social class and shifting concentrati…
The Real Contra War: Highlander Peasant Resistance in Nicaragua
In Nicaragua’s civil war of the 1980s, peasants from the mountainous interior formed the bulk of the armed Contra opposition and from 1990 onward contributed to continuing electoral defeats of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). A large body of literature has examined the formation of U.S. government policies of low intensity warfare toward Nicaragua and support for the Contras. There has been a relative dearth of historical works, h…
After the earthquake: Gender inequality and transformation in post-disaster Haiti
This paper explores gender inequalities and transformations following Haiti's devastating 2010 earthquake. Post-disaster experiences of women are located in a wider context of a longer term gender crisis. The paper argues that patterns of gender exclusion occur on multiple levels from the transnational to the local, and identifies gender-specific obstacles in the recovery and reconstruction period. In Haiti, these include meeting family survival …
Defenders of Nature and the Comarca: Collective Identity and Frames in Panama
This article examines collective identities as both a resource and constraint in framing processes of social mobilization through a case study of Panama's Kuna Indians, one of Latin America's most effectively organized indigenous peoples. It highlights tensions between movement nurturance of distinct indigenous identity as intrinsically valuable and to a degree counterhegemonic and instrumental use of an environmental frame to advance indigenous …
Contesting State Multiculturalisms: Indigenous Land Struggles in Eastern Panama
This article examines the implications of Latin America's recent wave of state-embraced multiculturalism for the region's indigenous peoples, arguing that state recognition of indigenous difference is not inevitably empowering for indigenous groups or transformative of nation-states. It utilises data from fieldwork with the Kuna Indians of eastern Panama in order to delineate more precisely the contexts and strategies of indigenous peoples which …
Buying Up Nature: Economic and Social Impacts of Costa Rica's Ecotourism Boom
From a range of diverse political perspectives, proponents have presented ecotourism as a market-based activity that will provide income and empowerment to local communities while promoting environmental conservation. The experiences of Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula, where relative isolation has limited the presence of transnational corporate capital, suggest that the impacts of community-based ecotourism expansion are far from certain and are the o…
From Collectivism to Capitalism: Neoliberalism and Rural Mobilization in Nicaragua
This article draws on longitudinal, ethnographic data gathered in rural Nicaragua over a two-decade period to examine the ideological and political implications of neoliberalism in the prefigurative, grassroots stages of social mobilization. It contrasts divergent path-dependent processes of accommodation and resistance to neoliberalism as Nicaraguan peasants have moved from collectivism to individual farming, with an emphasis on interpretive pro…
Making qualitative data more visible in policy: A Critical Appraisal of Meta-Synthesis
This article explores meta-synthesis, the systematic review, and integration of qualitative findings, as a tool to advance the visibility, accessibility, and policy and programmatic relevance of quantitative data in applied fields like international development. I draw on my experiences of synthesizing 30 qualitative cases for a book on microfinance and women's empowerment to examine the benefits and challenges of this approach and to provide pra…
Constructing Conservative Identity: Peasant Mobilization Against Revolution In Nicaragua
This article explores the centrality of conservative "peasant" identity in the large-scale armed mobilization of rural Nicaraguans to oppose revolutionary change in the 1980s. Drawing on fieldwork in the municipio of Quilali, an epicenter of rural resistance, I argue that the construction of a grassroots "peasant" identity, its content and boundaries, was a contested process strongly influenced by dynamics of social class and shifting concentrati…
Is World Bank 'Good Governance' Good for the Poor? Central American Experiences
This paper explores the World Bank's concept of 'good governance' as applied in rural Central America. It argues that World Bank good governance seeks to constrain unequal accumulation and privilege in the public sector, but leaves largely unaddressed structural inequalities in the private sector and the conflation of economic and political power in the public sector. This paper suggests that the World Bank analysis does not adequately consider m…
Who Can Stop the Drums: Urban Social Movements in Chávez's Venezuela
Constructing Conservative Identity: Peasant Mobilization Against Revolution In Nicaragua
This article explores the centrality of conservative "peasant" identity in the large-scale armed mobilization of rural Nicaraguans to oppose revolutionary change in the 1980s. Drawing on fieldwork in the municipio of Quilali, an epicenter of rural resistance, I argue that the construction of a grassroots "peasant" identity, its content and boundaries, was a contested process strongly influenced by dynamics of social class and shifting concentrati…
The Real Contra War: Highlander Peasant Resistance in Nicaragua
In Nicaragua’s civil war of the 1980s, peasants from the mountainous interior formed the bulk of the armed Contra opposition and from 1990 onward contributed to continuing electoral defeats of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). A large body of literature has examined the formation of U.S. government policies of low intensity warfare toward Nicaragua and support for the Contras. There has been a relative dearth of historical works, h…
Contesting State Multiculturalisms: Indigenous Land Struggles in Eastern Panama
This article examines the implications of Latin America's recent wave of state-embraced multiculturalism for the region's indigenous peoples, arguing that state recognition of indigenous difference is not inevitably empowering for indigenous groups or transformative of nation-states. It utilises data from fieldwork with the Kuna Indians of eastern Panama in order to delineate more precisely the contexts and strategies of indigenous peoples which …
After Democracy: Advances and Challenges for Women's Movements in Latin America
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Buying Up Nature: Economic and Social Impacts of Costa Rica's Ecotourism Boom
From a range of diverse political perspectives, proponents have presented ecotourism as a market-based activity that will provide income and empowerment to local communities while promoting environmental conservation. The experiences of Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula, where relative isolation has limited the presence of transnational corporate capital, suggest that the impacts of community-based ecotourism expansion are far from certain and are the o…
Social Movements for Global Democracy
Defenders of Nature and the Comarca: Collective Identity and Frames in Panama
This article examines collective identities as both a resource and constraint in framing processes of social mobilization through a case study of Panama's Kuna Indians, one of Latin America's most effectively organized indigenous peoples. It highlights tensions between movement nurturance of distinct indigenous identity as intrinsically valuable and to a degree counterhegemonic and instrumental use of an environmental frame to advance indigenous …
Who Can Stop the Drums: Urban Social Movements in Chávez's Venezuela
After the earthquake: Gender inequality and transformation in post-disaster Haiti
This paper explores gender inequalities and transformations following Haiti's devastating 2010 earthquake. Post-disaster experiences of women are located in a wider context of a longer term gender crisis. The paper argues that patterns of gender exclusion occur on multiple levels from the transnational to the local, and identifies gender-specific obstacles in the recovery and reconstruction period. In Haiti, these include meeting family survival …
Is World Bank 'Good Governance' Good for the Poor? Central American Experiences
This paper explores the World Bank's concept of 'good governance' as applied in rural Central America. It argues that World Bank good governance seeks to constrain unequal accumulation and privilege in the public sector, but leaves largely unaddressed structural inequalities in the private sector and the conflation of economic and political power in the public sector. This paper suggests that the World Bank analysis does not adequately consider m…
From Collectivism to Capitalism: Neoliberalism and Rural Mobilization in Nicaragua
This article draws on longitudinal, ethnographic data gathered in rural Nicaragua over a two-decade period to examine the ideological and political implications of neoliberalism in the prefigurative, grassroots stages of social mobilization. It contrasts divergent path-dependent processes of accommodation and resistance to neoliberalism as Nicaraguan peasants have moved from collectivism to individual farming, with an emphasis on interpretive pro…
Making qualitative data more visible in policy: A Critical Appraisal of Meta-Synthesis
This article explores meta-synthesis, the systematic review, and integration of qualitative findings, as a tool to advance the visibility, accessibility, and policy and programmatic relevance of quantitative data in applied fields like international development. I draw on my experiences of synthesizing 30 qualitative cases for a book on microfinance and women's empowerment to examine the benefits and challenges of this approach and to provide pra…
Zoonati’ vs. ‘epistemic tresspasers’: Science identity in contentious online advocacy campaigns on the origins of Sars-CoV-2
This article explores how science is mobilized as a collective identity, normative ideal, and instrumental tactic in contentious online global advocacy campaigns on the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. It incorporates qualitative analysis of over 2300 public Twitter postings by core zoonosis and lab origin proponents who identify as scientists. These online exchanges provide a real-time window into how the collective identity of scientist is cons…
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Social movement (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)