Arthur Leigh Binford
Biographic Data
| ID | 667382 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arthur Leigh Binford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arthur Leigh |
| FAMILY NAME | Binford |
| SIGNATURE | BINFORD A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1999-5872 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Assessing temporary foreign worker programs through the prism of Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program: Can they be reformed or should they be eliminated
Reply to Commentators (Leigh Binford)
DA Forum: De eso que llaman Anthropología Mexicana
Revisiting the El Mozote massacre: Memory and politics in postwar El Salvador
In December 1981, the Salvadoran Atlacatl Battalion massacred more than a thousand men, women and children in and around the rural hamlet of El Mozote in Morazán Department during a scorched earth operation at the beginning of the Salvadoran civil war. The main massacre site has been the setting for commemorations, memorials and murals and attracts large numbers of national and international tourists. This article explores the way in which the hi…
Robin Maria DeLugan, Reimagining national belonging: Post-civil war El Salvador in a global context
A perfect storm of neglect and failure: Postwar capitalist restoration in Northern Morazán, El Salvador
This essay addresses economic relationships in northern Morazán, El Salvador, as they transitioned from a wartime subsistence regime to postwar integration into national and international capitalist circuits of production and exchange. It critically analyses the economic discourses and actions employed by the state, NGOs, and others to discipline the vagrant subjectivities of former FMLN insurgents, their social base, and ex-refugees. Much of the…
Stoneworkers, Masons and Maids: Neoliberal Crisis, Social Fields and Proletarianization in Peri-urban Mexico
■ Following William Roseberry, this article treats `local facts as world historical facts' in order to discuss the contours of a conflictive and contradictory process of proletarianization among stoneworkers, masons and maids in one peri-urban community of central Mexico. We analyze the dialectic of internal and external relationships that, over time, shaped social struggles on an uneven field of power in Santo Tomás Chautla (Puebla) before and a…
Landscapes of Struggle: Politics, Society, and Community in El Salvador
Landscapes of Struggle: Politics, Society, and Community in El Salvador
A Generation of Migrants Why They Leave, Where They End Up
(2005). A Generation of Migrants Why They Leave, Where They End Up. NACLA Report on the Americas: Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 31-39
Holloway's Marxism
Contract Labour in Canada and The United States: A Critical Appreciation of Tanya Basok'sTortillas and Tomatoes: Transmigrant Mexican Harvesters in Canada
Between the mid 1960s and mid 1970s the Canadian government entered into agreements with Mexico and various Caribbean nations the largest being Jamaica to supply contract workers to farmers in Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, and Manitoba. The government was responding to powerful agricultural lobbies that had pushed for years to secure something more than stop-gap measures to rectify what they claimed was a chronic labour shortage. The program made it …
Migrant Remittances and (Under)Development in Mexico
This article examines two heuristically defined positions regarding the relationship between international migration and rural economic development in Mexico: the `structuralist' or `historical structuralist' position of the 1970s and early 1980s that argued that remittances do not lead to rural economic development; and the `functionalist' position of the 1990s that argued the opposite. The author critiques systematically the functionalist posit…
Social and Economic Contradictions of Rural Migrant Contract Labor Between Tlaxcala, Mexico and Canada
Violence in El Salvador: A Rejoinder to Philippe Bourgois's `The Power of Violence in War and Peace
This article engages Philippe Bourgois's analysis of the continuum of violence from wartime to post-war El Salvador in Ethnography (2:1). Acknowledging the utility of the violence model proposed by Bourgois, it contends that a general theory of structural relations and everyday violence requires mediating concepts in order to be usefully applied in any concrete situation, and that Bourgois has not supplied them. As a consequence, Bourgois's appli…
Empowered speech: Social fields,testimonio,and the stoll-menchú debate
This article employs Pierre Bourdieu's approach to the analysis of social fields in order to dispute David Stoll's critique of Rigoberta Menchú in his book, Rigoberta Menchú and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans. Stoll argues that Menchú's testimonio was a politically charged document that inaccurately portrays Menchú's own history and incorrectly represents it as representative of the experience of most rural Guatemalan indigenous peasants. Binf…
Revolution: The Central American War: Photography of Susan Meiselas and Adam Kufeld
Barring the conflict in Chiapas, which has been portrayed more like theater (though deadly serious theater) than as warfare, the Central American civil wars of the 1980s and 1990s have ended, at least for the foreseeable future
Hegemony in the Interior of The Salvadoran Revolution: The Erp in Northern Morazán
This article offers a nuanced explanation of the internal politics of guerilla relations. It uses the conce; ts of hegemony, fields of power and habitus to aralyze the dynamics of guerilla strategies and efforts to implement them in the Peoples Revolutionary Army (ERP) in northern Morazaa El Salvador. The author argues that the guerrilla strategies involved them in a double process of hegemony construetion: hegemony over civilians and hegemony ov…
Hegemony in the Interior of The Salvadoran Revolution: The Erp in Northern Morazan
The El Mozote Massacre: Anthropology and Human Rights
Graciela Iturbide: Normalizing Juchitán
Graciela Iturbide's photographs of Zapotec women from Juchitán, Oaxaca (Mexico) enjoy a wide audience. They have been displayed at major international photography exhibitions in Paris, New York and elsewhere, as well as via a travelling exhibit that has toured the university and museum circuit. Of equal importance as regards exposure and financial return, some of the photographs in the collection circulate on postcards, sold at a dollar each or m…
The Continuing Conflict over Land in Postwar El Salvador
The Continuing Conflict over Land in Postwar El Salvador
Endangered Cultures
Endangered Cultures. Miguel Leon‐Portilla. Dallas, TX: Southern Methodist University Press, 1990. 265 pp., glossary, notes, bibliography. $9.95 (paper). ISBN 0‐87074‐311‐2
Endangered Cultures: Endangered Cultures
Migrant Remittances and (Under)Development in Mexico
This article examines two heuristically defined positions regarding the relationship between international migration and rural economic development in Mexico: the `structuralist' or `historical structuralist' position of the 1970s and early 1980s that argued that remittances do not lead to rural economic development; and the `functionalist' position of the 1990s that argued the opposite. The author critiques systematically the functionalist posit…
Violence in El Salvador: A Rejoinder to Philippe Bourgois's `The Power of Violence in War and Peace
This article engages Philippe Bourgois's analysis of the continuum of violence from wartime to post-war El Salvador in Ethnography (2:1). Acknowledging the utility of the violence model proposed by Bourgois, it contends that a general theory of structural relations and everyday violence requires mediating concepts in order to be usefully applied in any concrete situation, and that Bourgois has not supplied them. As a consequence, Bourgois's appli…
A perfect storm of neglect and failure: Postwar capitalist restoration in Northern Morazán, El Salvador
This essay addresses economic relationships in northern Morazán, El Salvador, as they transitioned from a wartime subsistence regime to postwar integration into national and international capitalist circuits of production and exchange. It critically analyses the economic discourses and actions employed by the state, NGOs, and others to discipline the vagrant subjectivities of former FMLN insurgents, their social base, and ex-refugees. Much of the…
Contract Labour in Canada and The United States: A Critical Appreciation of Tanya Basok'sTortillas and Tomatoes: Transmigrant Mexican Harvesters in Canada
Between the mid 1960s and mid 1970s the Canadian government entered into agreements with Mexico and various Caribbean nations the largest being Jamaica to supply contract workers to farmers in Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, and Manitoba. The government was responding to powerful agricultural lobbies that had pushed for years to secure something more than stop-gap measures to rectify what they claimed was a chronic labour shortage. The program made it …
Revisiting the El Mozote massacre: Memory and politics in postwar El Salvador
In December 1981, the Salvadoran Atlacatl Battalion massacred more than a thousand men, women and children in and around the rural hamlet of El Mozote in Morazán Department during a scorched earth operation at the beginning of the Salvadoran civil war. The main massacre site has been the setting for commemorations, memorials and murals and attracts large numbers of national and international tourists. This article explores the way in which the hi…
Holloway's Marxism
DA Forum: De eso que llaman Anthropología Mexicana
Stoneworkers, Masons and Maids: Neoliberal Crisis, Social Fields and Proletarianization in Peri-urban Mexico
■ Following William Roseberry, this article treats `local facts as world historical facts' in order to discuss the contours of a conflictive and contradictory process of proletarianization among stoneworkers, masons and maids in one peri-urban community of central Mexico. We analyze the dialectic of internal and external relationships that, over time, shaped social struggles on an uneven field of power in Santo Tomás Chautla (Puebla) before and a…
Empowered speech: Social fields,testimonio,and the stoll-menchú debate
This article employs Pierre Bourdieu's approach to the analysis of social fields in order to dispute David Stoll's critique of Rigoberta Menchú in his book, Rigoberta Menchú and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans. Stoll argues that Menchú's testimonio was a politically charged document that inaccurately portrays Menchú's own history and incorrectly represents it as representative of the experience of most rural Guatemalan indigenous peasants. Binf…
The El Mozote Massacre: Anthropology and Human Rights
Petty Commodity Production, Capital Accumulation, and Peasant Differentiation: Lenin vs. Chayanov in Rural Mexico
The movement of peasant-artisan household enterprises from petty commodity production to petty capitalism may be significantly affected by family demographic and life-cycle factors through their impact upon productive capacity, capital accumulation and material wealth. This finding supports Lenin's thesis that family cooperation is the foundation of capitalist cooperation, and negates Chayanov's labor-consumer balance theory of the peasant family…
Return to Aztlan: The Social Process of International Migration from Western Mexico
Return to Aztlan: The Social Process of International Migration from Western Mexico. Douglas S. Massey. Rafael Alarcon, Jorge Durand, and Humberto Gonzales. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. + 335 pp., maps, figures, tables, bibliography, index. $37.50 (cloth). ISBN0‐520‐06079‐2
Return to Aztlan: The Social Process of International Migration from Western Mexico:Return to Aztlan: The Social Process of International Migration from Western Mexico
Todos Santos: The Survivors
Todos Santos: The Survivors. 1989. Produced and directed by Oliva Carrescia. 58 minutes, color. Purchase $450.00 (video), $895.00 (16 mm); rental $125.00 (16 mm), from First Run/Icarus Films. 153 Waverly Place, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10014. (800‐876‐1710 or 212‐727‐1711
Todos Santos: The Survivors:Todos Santos: The Survivors
Endangered Cultures
Endangered Cultures. Miguel Leon‐Portilla. Dallas, TX: Southern Methodist University Press, 1990. 265 pp., glossary, notes, bibliography. $9.95 (paper). ISBN 0‐87074‐311‐2
Endangered Cultures: Endangered Cultures
The Continuing Conflict over Land in Postwar El Salvador
The Continuing Conflict over Land in Postwar El Salvador
Graciela Iturbide: Normalizing Juchitán
Graciela Iturbide's photographs of Zapotec women from Juchitán, Oaxaca (Mexico) enjoy a wide audience. They have been displayed at major international photography exhibitions in Paris, New York and elsewhere, as well as via a travelling exhibit that has toured the university and museum circuit. Of equal importance as regards exposure and financial return, some of the photographs in the collection circulate on postcards, sold at a dollar each or m…
Revolution: The Central American War: Photography of Susan Meiselas and Adam Kufeld
Barring the conflict in Chiapas, which has been portrayed more like theater (though deadly serious theater) than as warfare, the Central American civil wars of the 1980s and 1990s have ended, at least for the foreseeable future
Hegemony in the Interior of The Salvadoran Revolution: The Erp in Northern Morazán
This article offers a nuanced explanation of the internal politics of guerilla relations. It uses the conce; ts of hegemony, fields of power and habitus to aralyze the dynamics of guerilla strategies and efforts to implement them in the Peoples Revolutionary Army (ERP) in northern Morazaa El Salvador. The author argues that the guerrilla strategies involved them in a double process of hegemony construetion: hegemony over civilians and hegemony ov…
Hegemony in the Interior of The Salvadoran Revolution: The Erp in Northern Morazan
The El Mozote Massacre: Anthropology and Human Rights
Empowered speech: Social fields,testimonio,and the stoll-menchú debate
This article employs Pierre Bourdieu's approach to the analysis of social fields in order to dispute David Stoll's critique of Rigoberta Menchú in his book, Rigoberta Menchú and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans. Stoll argues that Menchú's testimonio was a politically charged document that inaccurately portrays Menchú's own history and incorrectly represents it as representative of the experience of most rural Guatemalan indigenous peasants. Binf…
Social and Economic Contradictions of Rural Migrant Contract Labor Between Tlaxcala, Mexico and Canada
Violence in El Salvador: A Rejoinder to Philippe Bourgois's `The Power of Violence in War and Peace
This article engages Philippe Bourgois's analysis of the continuum of violence from wartime to post-war El Salvador in Ethnography (2:1). Acknowledging the utility of the violence model proposed by Bourgois, it contends that a general theory of structural relations and everyday violence requires mediating concepts in order to be usefully applied in any concrete situation, and that Bourgois has not supplied them. As a consequence, Bourgois's appli…
Migrant Remittances and (Under)Development in Mexico
This article examines two heuristically defined positions regarding the relationship between international migration and rural economic development in Mexico: the `structuralist' or `historical structuralist' position of the 1970s and early 1980s that argued that remittances do not lead to rural economic development; and the `functionalist' position of the 1990s that argued the opposite. The author critiques systematically the functionalist posit…
Contract Labour in Canada and The United States: A Critical Appreciation of Tanya Basok'sTortillas and Tomatoes: Transmigrant Mexican Harvesters in Canada
Between the mid 1960s and mid 1970s the Canadian government entered into agreements with Mexico and various Caribbean nations the largest being Jamaica to supply contract workers to farmers in Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, and Manitoba. The government was responding to powerful agricultural lobbies that had pushed for years to secure something more than stop-gap measures to rectify what they claimed was a chronic labour shortage. The program made it …
A Generation of Migrants Why They Leave, Where They End Up
(2005). A Generation of Migrants Why They Leave, Where They End Up. NACLA Report on the Americas: Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 31-39
Holloway's Marxism
Landscapes of Struggle: Politics, Society, and Community in El Salvador
Landscapes of Struggle: Politics, Society, and Community in El Salvador
Stoneworkers, Masons and Maids: Neoliberal Crisis, Social Fields and Proletarianization in Peri-urban Mexico
■ Following William Roseberry, this article treats `local facts as world historical facts' in order to discuss the contours of a conflictive and contradictory process of proletarianization among stoneworkers, masons and maids in one peri-urban community of central Mexico. We analyze the dialectic of internal and external relationships that, over time, shaped social struggles on an uneven field of power in Santo Tomás Chautla (Puebla) before and a…
A perfect storm of neglect and failure: Postwar capitalist restoration in Northern Morazán, El Salvador
This essay addresses economic relationships in northern Morazán, El Salvador, as they transitioned from a wartime subsistence regime to postwar integration into national and international capitalist circuits of production and exchange. It critically analyses the economic discourses and actions employed by the state, NGOs, and others to discipline the vagrant subjectivities of former FMLN insurgents, their social base, and ex-refugees. Much of the…
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