Jeffrey L Gould
Biographic Data
| ID | 522313 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey L Gould |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey L |
| FAMILY NAME | Gould |
| SIGNATURE | GOULD J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Constructing Worlds Otherwise: Societies in Movement and Anticolonial Paths in Latin America
Raúl Zibechi has long been one of the leading leftist journalists in Latin America. He has gained unique and powerful perspectives through his accompaniment of “pueblos in movement,” ranging from the Zapatistas to the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST). He is also a major theorist of autonomismo, an antistatist current that over the past three decades has gained importance throughout the region.His new book offers a sustained crit…
From Popular to Insurgent Intellectuals: Peasant Catechists in the Salvadoran Revolution
Leigh Binford's monograph offers an in-depth portrait of peasant society in northern Morazán before and during the Salvadoran civil war (1980–92). He weaves his ethnographically informed history around the biography of Fabio Argueta, born in 1943 into a middle peasant family. Binford interviewed Argueta a dozen times over several years, and as a result the reader gains very rare access to the life of a Central American campesino. That level of de…
Huelgas democratizadoras: La rebelión estudiantil en el Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica (1980-1982)
To many scholars, journalists, and policymakers, Costa Rica stands apart from its northern neighbors as a shining democracy. Yet the cost of that democracy is often overlooked. Starting after the 1948 civil war with the bloody repression of the Partido Vanguardia Popular (the country's communist party, which was banned for nearly two decades) and union activists, Costa Rican democracy has been imperfect. Moreover, the social democracy that allowe…
Students of Revolution: Youth, Protest, and Coalition Building in Somoza-Era Nicaragua
I remember standing to the side of a crowd of angry Nicaraguans in OPEN 3 (now Ciudad Sandino) a few days after the triumph of the Sandinista Revolution in July 1979. A small group of Somocista orejas cowered inside a small jail. The crowd wanted to kill them for their complicity in the recent execution of neighborhood kids. Four armed muchachos stood in front of the door. One stepped forward and shouted, “We must create a new Nicaragua, and this…
Priest Under Fire: Padre David Rodríguez, the Catholic Church, and El Salvador’s Revolutionary Movement, written by Peter M. Sánchez
El Costo De La Solidaridad: El Movimiento Obrero Salvadoreño en Puerto Triunfo Y El Gran San Salvador en 1979 Y 1980
This essay analyzes the labor movement in Puerto Triunfo and Greater San Salvador during 1979 and 1980. The shared ideological foundation between both was a rudimentary form of syndicalism lacking formal organization at local or national levels. The evidence suggests that while these movements echoed some elements of classical syndicalism—such as attitude, technique, and strategy—they lacked its underlying hope. These ideological forms remained i…
Ignacio Ellacuría and the Salvadorean Revolution
This article focuses on the political thought and practice of the martyred Jesuit intellectual during the late 1970s. It employs the concept of desencuentros, probing the relationship between linguistic misunderstandings and political division. The article highlights Ignacio Ellacuría's novel analyses of the relationship between the ecclesial and the popular organisations, led by the radical Left. It discusses his political thought in relationshi…
Analytic Filmmaking as Social Scientific Research: A Response to Roy Germano
This article engages Germano’s film and essay. The author lauds the fundamental thrust of the essay towards achieving scholarly recognition for film projects based on scholarly research. At the same time, the author questions Germano’s sharp opposition between analytic and documentary films. He appraises The Other Side of Immigration very favorably, while pointing out that the aesthetic choices and the power of the testimonies do not fall neatly …
Notes on Costeño cultural politics
The Everyday Nation-State: Community and Ethnicity in Nineteenth-Century Nicaragua - by Wolfe, J
A Revolution for Our Rights: Indigenous Struggles for Land and Justice in Bolivia, 1880-1952
The Return of the Native: Indians and Myth-Making in Spanish America, 1810–1930
Solidarity under Siege: The Latin American Left, 1968
The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South
Book Review| May 01 2005 The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South Leon Fink Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003 xiii + 254 pp., $37.50 (cloth); $17.95 (paper) Jeffrey L. Gould Jeffrey L. Gould Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2005) 2 (2): 119–122. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2-2-119 Cite Icon Cite Share …
They Call Us Thieves and Steal Our Wage: Toward a Reinterpretation of the Salvadoran Rural Mobilization, 1929-1931
The basic facts of the January 1932 uprising in El Salvador are well known and largely undisputed. Thousands of workers and peasants in central and western El Salvador rose up on the night of January 22 and occupied various towns in the departments of Sonsonate and Ahuachapán.1 The Salvadoran Communist Party (PCS) had planned the insurrection two weeks earlier, but its key supporters in the army and many of its leaders were already either dead or…
Sandinista: Carlos Fonseca and the Nicaraguan Revolution
During the mid-1980s, while doing research for my dissertation in northwestern Nicaragua, I became increasingly skeptical of Sandinista rhetoric. The use of imperial aggression as an excuse for the flaws, failures, and excesses of the government was rapidly turning anti-imperialism from a righteous cry against the obscenity of U.S. policy into the butt of popular humor. Similarly, Comité de Defensa Sandinista meetings typically ended with the phr…
To Die in This Way: Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965
To Die in this Way: Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965
Challenging the widely held belief that Nicaragua has been ethnically homogeneous since the nineteenth century, To Die in This reveals the continued existence and importance of an officially forgotten indigenous culture. Jeffrey L. Gould argues that mestizaje--a cultural homogeneity that has been hailed as a cornerstone of Nicaraguan national identity--involved a decades-long process of myth building.Through interviews with indigenous peoples and…
Central American Historiography After the Violence
Now that Central America has ceased to be of serious interest in Washington, the deeper questions that plagued the region's politics during the 1970s and 1980s can finally be addressed with some degree of equanimity. One of the numerous problems bedeviling attempts at social and political analysis over the past two decades has been the weak historiographical tradition throughout the region. Even the most elementary questions that dominated such a…
Gender, Politics, and The Triumph of Mestizaje in Early 20th Century Nicaragua
The “ myth of Nicaragua mestizo ,” this Uncommon sense notion that Nicaragua had long been an ethnically homogenous society is one of the elite's most enduring hegemonic achievements. The creation of this nationalistic discourse in Nicaragua depended upon the increasing disarticulation of the Comunidades Indigenas . The delegitimization of indigenous authenticity, in turn, was related to the development of a democratic discourse of equal rights a…
Resistance and Contradiction: Miskitu Indians and the Nicaraguan State, 1894-1987
A mere eighteen months after the Sandinistas came to power in Nicaragua in 1979, Miskitu Indians engaged in a widespread and militant anti-government mobilization. In late 1984, after more than three years of intense conflict, a negotiated transition to peace and autonomy began. This study analyzes these contrasting moments in Nicaraguan ethnic politics, drawing on four years of field research in a remote Miskitu community and in the central town…
The Regime of Anastasio Somoza, 1936-1956
To Lead as Equals: Rural Protest and Political Consciousness in Chinandega, Nicaragua, 1912-1979
This book is a carefully argued study of peasants and labor during the Somoza regime, focusing on popular movements in the economically strategic department of Chinandega in western Nicaragua. Jeffrey Gould traces the evolution of group consciousness among peasants and workers as they moved away from extreme dependency on the patron to achieve an autonomous social and political ideology. In doing so, he makes important contributions to peasant st…
"Vana Ilusión!" The Highlands Indians and the Myth of Nicaragua Mestiza, 1880-1925
To Lead as Equals: Rural Protest and Political Consciousness in Chinandega, Nicaragua, 1912-1979
To Die in this Way: Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965
Challenging the widely held belief that Nicaragua has been ethnically homogeneous since the nineteenth century, To Die in This reveals the continued existence and importance of an officially forgotten indigenous culture. Jeffrey L. Gould argues that mestizaje--a cultural homogeneity that has been hailed as a cornerstone of Nicaraguan national identity--involved a decades-long process of myth building.Through interviews with indigenous peoples and…
"Vana Ilusión!" The Highlands Indians and the Myth of Nicaragua Mestiza, 1880-1925
To Lead as Equals: Rural Protest and Political Consciousness in Chinandega, Nicaragua, 1912-1979
Journal Article To Lead as Equals: Rural Protest and Political Consciousness in Chinandega, Nicaragua, 1912–1979. By Jeffrey L. Gould. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. xiv + 377 pp. Cloth, $47.50; paper, $14.95.) Get access Charles L. Stansifer Charles L. Stansifer University of Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 3, December 1991, Pag…
Ignacio Ellacuría and the Salvadorean Revolution
This article focuses on the political thought and practice of the martyred Jesuit intellectual during the late 1970s. It employs the concept of desencuentros, probing the relationship between linguistic misunderstandings and political division. The article highlights Ignacio Ellacuría's novel analyses of the relationship between the ecclesial and the popular organisations, led by the radical Left. It discusses his political thought in relationshi…
Priest Under Fire: Padre David Rodríguez, the Catholic Church, and El Salvador’s Revolutionary Movement, written by Peter M. Sánchez
They Call Us Thieves and Steal Our Wage: Toward a Reinterpretation of the Salvadoran Rural Mobilization, 1929-1931
The basic facts of the January 1932 uprising in El Salvador are well known and largely undisputed. Thousands of workers and peasants in central and western El Salvador rose up on the night of January 22 and occupied various towns in the departments of Sonsonate and Ahuachapán.1 The Salvadoran Communist Party (PCS) had planned the insurrection two weeks earlier, but its key supporters in the army and many of its leaders were already either dead or…
Resistance and Contradiction: Miskitu Indians and the Nicaraguan State, 1894-1987
A mere eighteen months after the Sandinistas came to power in Nicaragua in 1979, Miskitu Indians engaged in a widespread and militant anti-government mobilization. In late 1984, after more than three years of intense conflict, a negotiated transition to peace and autonomy began. This study analyzes these contrasting moments in Nicaraguan ethnic politics, drawing on four years of field research in a remote Miskitu community and in the central town…
Notes on Peasant Consciousness and Revolutionary Politics in Nicaragua 1955–1990
For an Organized Nicaragua: Somoza and the Labour Movement, 1944-1948
The historiography of the Nicaraguan workers' movement suffers from two basic problems: an extreme paucity and dispersion of primary sources and a tendency to compensate with analytic frameworks for what is lacking in substance. The triumph of a revolutionary movement in 1979, genuinely interested in allowing the Nicaraguan people to become 'dueños de su historia', has stimulated the search for primary source materials and has awakened the intere…
For an Organized Nicaragua: Somoza and the Labour Movement, 1944-1948
The historiography of the Nicaraguan workers' movement suffers from two basic problems: an extreme paucity and dispersion of primary sources and a tendency to compensate with analytic frameworks for what is lacking in substance. The triumph of a revolutionary movement in 1979, genuinely interested in allowing the Nicaraguan people to become 'dueños de su historia', has stimulated the search for primary source materials and has awakened the intere…
The Enchanted Burro, Bayonets and the Business of Making Sugar: State, Capital, and Labor Relations in the Ingenio San Antonio, 1912-1926
Since the 1920s, the San Antonio sugar mill in Chichigalpa, Nicaragua has been that country's largest manufacturing establishment. The ingenio (the sugar mill along with the plantation) employed close to 2,000 workers in 1920, and has since consistently employed far more workers than any other single enterprise. The owners of San Antonio were—and continue to be—the most economically powerful group within the Nicaraguan elite, In contemporary Nica…
Notes on Peasant Consciousness and Revolutionary Politics in Nicaragua 1955–1990
To Lead as Equals: Rural Protest and Political Consciousness in Chinandega, Nicaragua, 1912-1979
Journal Article To Lead as Equals: Rural Protest and Political Consciousness in Chinandega, Nicaragua, 1912–1979. By Jeffrey L. Gould. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. xiv + 377 pp. Cloth, $47.50; paper, $14.95.) Get access Charles L. Stansifer Charles L. Stansifer University of Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 3, December 1991, Pag…
To Lead as Equals: Rural Protest and Political Consciousness in Chinandega, Nicaragua, 1912-1979
Patriarch and Folk: The Emergence of Nicaragua, 1798-1858
To Lead as Equals: Rural Protest and Political Consciousness in Chinandega, Nicaragua, 1912-1979
This book is a carefully argued study of peasants and labor during the Somoza regime, focusing on popular movements in the economically strategic department of Chinandega in western Nicaragua. Jeffrey Gould traces the evolution of group consciousness among peasants and workers as they moved away from extreme dependency on the patron to achieve an autonomous social and political ideology. In doing so, he makes important contributions to peasant st…
"Vana Ilusión!" The Highlands Indians and the Myth of Nicaragua Mestiza, 1880-1925
Resistance and Contradiction: Miskitu Indians and the Nicaraguan State, 1894-1987
A mere eighteen months after the Sandinistas came to power in Nicaragua in 1979, Miskitu Indians engaged in a widespread and militant anti-government mobilization. In late 1984, after more than three years of intense conflict, a negotiated transition to peace and autonomy began. This study analyzes these contrasting moments in Nicaraguan ethnic politics, drawing on four years of field research in a remote Miskitu community and in the central town…
The Regime of Anastasio Somoza, 1936-1956
Gender, Politics, and The Triumph of Mestizaje in Early 20th Century Nicaragua
The “ myth of Nicaragua mestizo ,” this Uncommon sense notion that Nicaragua had long been an ethnically homogenous society is one of the elite's most enduring hegemonic achievements. The creation of this nationalistic discourse in Nicaragua depended upon the increasing disarticulation of the Comunidades Indigenas . The delegitimization of indigenous authenticity, in turn, was related to the development of a democratic discourse of equal rights a…
Central American Historiography After the Violence
Now that Central America has ceased to be of serious interest in Washington, the deeper questions that plagued the region's politics during the 1970s and 1980s can finally be addressed with some degree of equanimity. One of the numerous problems bedeviling attempts at social and political analysis over the past two decades has been the weak historiographical tradition throughout the region. Even the most elementary questions that dominated such a…
To Die in this Way: Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965
Challenging the widely held belief that Nicaragua has been ethnically homogeneous since the nineteenth century, To Die in This reveals the continued existence and importance of an officially forgotten indigenous culture. Jeffrey L. Gould argues that mestizaje--a cultural homogeneity that has been hailed as a cornerstone of Nicaraguan national identity--involved a decades-long process of myth building.Through interviews with indigenous peoples and…
To Die in This Way: Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965
Sandinista: Carlos Fonseca and the Nicaraguan Revolution
During the mid-1980s, while doing research for my dissertation in northwestern Nicaragua, I became increasingly skeptical of Sandinista rhetoric. The use of imperial aggression as an excuse for the flaws, failures, and excesses of the government was rapidly turning anti-imperialism from a righteous cry against the obscenity of U.S. policy into the butt of popular humor. Similarly, Comité de Defensa Sandinista meetings typically ended with the phr…
They Call Us Thieves and Steal Our Wage: Toward a Reinterpretation of the Salvadoran Rural Mobilization, 1929-1931
The basic facts of the January 1932 uprising in El Salvador are well known and largely undisputed. Thousands of workers and peasants in central and western El Salvador rose up on the night of January 22 and occupied various towns in the departments of Sonsonate and Ahuachapán.1 The Salvadoran Communist Party (PCS) had planned the insurrection two weeks earlier, but its key supporters in the army and many of its leaders were already either dead or…
The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South
Book Review| May 01 2005 The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South Leon Fink Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003 xiii + 254 pp., $37.50 (cloth); $17.95 (paper) Jeffrey L. Gould Jeffrey L. Gould Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2005) 2 (2): 119–122. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2-2-119 Cite Icon Cite Share …
A Revolution for Our Rights: Indigenous Struggles for Land and Justice in Bolivia, 1880-1952
The Return of the Native: Indians and Myth-Making in Spanish America, 1810–1930
Solidarity under Siege: The Latin American Left, 1968
The Everyday Nation-State: Community and Ethnicity in Nineteenth-Century Nicaragua - by Wolfe, J
Notes on Costeño cultural politics
Analytic Filmmaking as Social Scientific Research: A Response to Roy Germano
This article engages Germano’s film and essay. The author lauds the fundamental thrust of the essay towards achieving scholarly recognition for film projects based on scholarly research. At the same time, the author questions Germano’s sharp opposition between analytic and documentary films. He appraises The Other Side of Immigration very favorably, while pointing out that the aesthetic choices and the power of the testimonies do not fall neatly …
El Costo De La Solidaridad: El Movimiento Obrero Salvadoreño en Puerto Triunfo Y El Gran San Salvador en 1979 Y 1980
This essay analyzes the labor movement in Puerto Triunfo and Greater San Salvador during 1979 and 1980. The shared ideological foundation between both was a rudimentary form of syndicalism lacking formal organization at local or national levels. The evidence suggests that while these movements echoed some elements of classical syndicalism—such as attitude, technique, and strategy—they lacked its underlying hope. These ideological forms remained i…
Ignacio Ellacuría and the Salvadorean Revolution
This article focuses on the political thought and practice of the martyred Jesuit intellectual during the late 1970s. It employs the concept of desencuentros, probing the relationship between linguistic misunderstandings and political division. The article highlights Ignacio Ellacuría's novel analyses of the relationship between the ecclesial and the popular organisations, led by the radical Left. It discusses his political thought in relationshi…
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