Ervin Beck
Biographic Data
| ID | 700654 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ervin Beck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ervin |
| FAMILY NAME | Beck |
| SIGNATURE | BECK E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7674-5282 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Violence against Women and Specialized Justice in Guatemala
This article provides the first detailed account of the structure, functioning, and impact of Guatemala’s Femicide and Other Forms of Violence against Women Criminal Courts. I assess the achievements and limitations of these courts from two views: a bird’s eye view, which explores how cases proceed through these specialized courts, and an insiders’ view, which explores the perspectives and practices of their judges. Combined, these views demonstr…
The Long-Term Struggle for Violence against Women Legislation
A scholarly consensus depicts strong, autonomous domestic women's movements as critical for the passage of gender equality reforms, alongside openings in domestic and international political contexts. What, then, is a nascent women's movement seeking gender equality reforms to do if it lacks strength or a history of autonomous organizing? A long-term analysis of the Guatemalan women's movement's push for reforms to address violence against women …
The Uneven Impacts of Violence against Women Reform in Guatemala
In 2008 Guatemala passed legislation criminalizing various forms of violence against women and mandating the creation of courts that would specialize in such violence. This article demonstrates that these reforms’ impacts were unevenly felt, with the most marginalized benefiting the least. It explains this gap by drawing on a historical intersectional analysis, and reveals the importance of including place alongside more commonly studied categori…
From Legislation to Everyday Practices in Guatemala's Violence against Women Courts
We explore how formal mandates associated with Guatemala's 2008 'Law against Femicide and Other Forms of Violence against Women' and with specialised violence against women (VAW) courts have encountered significant challenges due to state-imposed constraints. Drawing on courtroom observations, analyses of case files, and interviews, we find that while formal mandates incorporated feminist understandings of violence against women, which were often…
Who Benefits? The Interactional Determinants of Microfinance’s Varied Effects
Since its emergence as a development tool, scholars and practitioners have questioned microfinance’s short- and long-term impacts but have had insufficient empirical evidence to assess them. To address this gap, this paper draws on mixed method research to assess the effects of microfinance loan and educational services over time. It explores why, even within the same microfinance institution (MFI), some borrowers benefit from microfinance servic…
Tracing Microfinancial Value Chains
The global expansion of the microfinance sector demands new conceptual work that recognizes microfinance's simultaneous imbrication in profit-oriented global finance and socially oriented development programs. Drawing from our respective areas of specialization in Latin America and South Asia, and an extensive review of the literature, we posit here that microfinance is best understood as a global industry, with traceable value chains. Microfinan…
Reconsidering Women’s Empowerment
What a Feminist Curiosity Contributes to the Study of Development
Repopulating Development
Countering Convergence
The proliferation of nongovernmental organizations across the developing world has sparked discussions of the "NGOization" of civil society and concern that NGOs have become increasingly uniform and internally homogenous. This article explores the evolution of NGOs in Guatemala since the 1960s and finds that NGOs historically and currently respond in diverse ways to external pressures-adjusting their strategies and actively attempting to shape th…
Language Rights and Turkish Children in Germany
Beck explores the question of linguistic rights within the context of Turkish children in the Federal Republic of Germany. The most recent debate over language education in Germany has raised the question whether immigrant children should receive education in their mother-tongue. Because education provides sole access to social and financial success in Germany, Beck argues that, especially in the case of Turkish children in Germany, a right to bi…
Socializing Customs in the Castle Market Community
DURING the past fifteen years, notes in Folklore and other journals have called attention to interesting pre-wedding customs perpetuated by occupational folk groups in urban England.' In addition, feature photographs in daily papers regularly call attention to still more instances of wedding customs observed outside of official ceremonies and receptions.2 Enough evidence now exists to suggest that such customs are to be found-to some degree-in mo…
Trickster on the Threshold
boy was sitting with a guy. A girl was running round with a turnip lantern saying, 'Spare a penny for the Guy, mister?' Is Hallowe'en now merging with Bonfire Night?' The answer to that question apparently is yes, although whether this is a new development and whether children would agree that two really different things are 'merging' are additional questions that should be asked. Perhaps Hallowe'en and Guy Fawkes activities have always been conn…
The Hutterites
Children's Guy Fawkes Customs in Sheffield
AS Homer Sykes observes, Guy Fawkes Day is, 'apart from religious festivals, the one annual celebration that continues to be widely practised in Great Britain. Yet despite the importance and widespread celebration of this day, almost no attempt has been made to document and analyse its contemporary observance. The Opies' work, which is well documented, comes closest to doing so. However, their very brief discussion offers a report of scattered, f…
Belizean Creole Folk Songs
(1983). Belizean Creole Folk Songs. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 29, Caribbean Traditional Music, pp. 44-65
The Meat That Never Spoils
A big piece of rump roast assumed to be 146 years old still hangs in the stall of A. P. Smith and Brothers in the fish and meat room of Castle Market in downtown Sheffield (see Fig. I). Although its owners claim it to be ‘the only thing of its kind’, it actually has counterparts in a similarly aged sirloin preserved elsewhere in Sheffield and a leg of lamb, now destroyed, in Bourne, Lincolnshire. Considered together, the local legends that have d…
Telling the Tale in Belize
FOLKTALES FROM BELIZE (formerly British Honduras) differ little from those of other English-speaking Caribbean cultures. Animal-trickster tales and Mdrchen abound. But the manner of traditional tale-telling in Belize seems to be special, both in the formulas used and in the aggressive participation by the audience in the storytelling event. This essay describes general tendencies in Belizean Creole folk narration, and the transcribed performance …
Repopulating Development
The Long-Term Struggle for Violence against Women Legislation
A scholarly consensus depicts strong, autonomous domestic women's movements as critical for the passage of gender equality reforms, alongside openings in domestic and international political contexts. What, then, is a nascent women's movement seeking gender equality reforms to do if it lacks strength or a history of autonomous organizing? A long-term analysis of the Guatemalan women's movement's push for reforms to address violence against women …
Reconsidering Women’s Empowerment
Countering Convergence
The proliferation of nongovernmental organizations across the developing world has sparked discussions of the "NGOization" of civil society and concern that NGOs have become increasingly uniform and internally homogenous. This article explores the evolution of NGOs in Guatemala since the 1960s and finds that NGOs historically and currently respond in diverse ways to external pressures-adjusting their strategies and actively attempting to shape th…
From Legislation to Everyday Practices in Guatemala's Violence against Women Courts
We explore how formal mandates associated with Guatemala's 2008 'Law against Femicide and Other Forms of Violence against Women' and with specialised violence against women (VAW) courts have encountered significant challenges due to state-imposed constraints. Drawing on courtroom observations, analyses of case files, and interviews, we find that while formal mandates incorporated feminist understandings of violence against women, which were often…
What a Feminist Curiosity Contributes to the Study of Development
Language Rights and Turkish Children in Germany
Beck explores the question of linguistic rights within the context of Turkish children in the Federal Republic of Germany. The most recent debate over language education in Germany has raised the question whether immigrant children should receive education in their mother-tongue. Because education provides sole access to social and financial success in Germany, Beck argues that, especially in the case of Turkish children in Germany, a right to bi…
Socializing Customs in the Castle Market Community
DURING the past fifteen years, notes in Folklore and other journals have called attention to interesting pre-wedding customs perpetuated by occupational folk groups in urban England.' In addition, feature photographs in daily papers regularly call attention to still more instances of wedding customs observed outside of official ceremonies and receptions.2 Enough evidence now exists to suggest that such customs are to be found-to some degree-in mo…
Trickster on the Threshold
boy was sitting with a guy. A girl was running round with a turnip lantern saying, 'Spare a penny for the Guy, mister?' Is Hallowe'en now merging with Bonfire Night?' The answer to that question apparently is yes, although whether this is a new development and whether children would agree that two really different things are 'merging' are additional questions that should be asked. Perhaps Hallowe'en and Guy Fawkes activities have always been conn…
Children's Guy Fawkes Customs in Sheffield
AS Homer Sykes observes, Guy Fawkes Day is, 'apart from religious festivals, the one annual celebration that continues to be widely practised in Great Britain. Yet despite the importance and widespread celebration of this day, almost no attempt has been made to document and analyse its contemporary observance. The Opies' work, which is well documented, comes closest to doing so. However, their very brief discussion offers a report of scattered, f…
Telling the Tale in Belize
FOLKTALES FROM BELIZE (formerly British Honduras) differ little from those of other English-speaking Caribbean cultures. Animal-trickster tales and Mdrchen abound. But the manner of traditional tale-telling in Belize seems to be special, both in the formulas used and in the aggressive participation by the audience in the storytelling event. This essay describes general tendencies in Belizean Creole folk narration, and the transcribed performance …
Belizean Creole Folk Songs
(1983). Belizean Creole Folk Songs. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 29, Caribbean Traditional Music, pp. 44-65
The Meat That Never Spoils
A big piece of rump roast assumed to be 146 years old still hangs in the stall of A. P. Smith and Brothers in the fish and meat room of Castle Market in downtown Sheffield (see Fig. I). Although its owners claim it to be ‘the only thing of its kind’, it actually has counterparts in a similarly aged sirloin preserved elsewhere in Sheffield and a leg of lamb, now destroyed, in Bourne, Lincolnshire. Considered together, the local legends that have d…
Children's Guy Fawkes Customs in Sheffield
AS Homer Sykes observes, Guy Fawkes Day is, 'apart from religious festivals, the one annual celebration that continues to be widely practised in Great Britain. Yet despite the importance and widespread celebration of this day, almost no attempt has been made to document and analyse its contemporary observance. The Opies' work, which is well documented, comes closest to doing so. However, their very brief discussion offers a report of scattered, f…
Trickster on the Threshold
boy was sitting with a guy. A girl was running round with a turnip lantern saying, 'Spare a penny for the Guy, mister?' Is Hallowe'en now merging with Bonfire Night?' The answer to that question apparently is yes, although whether this is a new development and whether children would agree that two really different things are 'merging' are additional questions that should be asked. Perhaps Hallowe'en and Guy Fawkes activities have always been conn…
The Hutterites
Socializing Customs in the Castle Market Community
DURING the past fifteen years, notes in Folklore and other journals have called attention to interesting pre-wedding customs perpetuated by occupational folk groups in urban England.' In addition, feature photographs in daily papers regularly call attention to still more instances of wedding customs observed outside of official ceremonies and receptions.2 Enough evidence now exists to suggest that such customs are to be found-to some degree-in mo…
Language Rights and Turkish Children in Germany
Beck explores the question of linguistic rights within the context of Turkish children in the Federal Republic of Germany. The most recent debate over language education in Germany has raised the question whether immigrant children should receive education in their mother-tongue. Because education provides sole access to social and financial success in Germany, Beck argues that, especially in the case of Turkish children in Germany, a right to bi…
Countering Convergence
The proliferation of nongovernmental organizations across the developing world has sparked discussions of the "NGOization" of civil society and concern that NGOs have become increasingly uniform and internally homogenous. This article explores the evolution of NGOs in Guatemala since the 1960s and finds that NGOs historically and currently respond in diverse ways to external pressures-adjusting their strategies and actively attempting to shape th…
Repopulating Development
Tracing Microfinancial Value Chains
The global expansion of the microfinance sector demands new conceptual work that recognizes microfinance's simultaneous imbrication in profit-oriented global finance and socially oriented development programs. Drawing from our respective areas of specialization in Latin America and South Asia, and an extensive review of the literature, we posit here that microfinance is best understood as a global industry, with traceable value chains. Microfinan…
Reconsidering Women’s Empowerment
What a Feminist Curiosity Contributes to the Study of Development
Who Benefits? The Interactional Determinants of Microfinance’s Varied Effects
Since its emergence as a development tool, scholars and practitioners have questioned microfinance’s short- and long-term impacts but have had insufficient empirical evidence to assess them. To address this gap, this paper draws on mixed method research to assess the effects of microfinance loan and educational services over time. It explores why, even within the same microfinance institution (MFI), some borrowers benefit from microfinance servic…
The Uneven Impacts of Violence against Women Reform in Guatemala
In 2008 Guatemala passed legislation criminalizing various forms of violence against women and mandating the creation of courts that would specialize in such violence. This article demonstrates that these reforms’ impacts were unevenly felt, with the most marginalized benefiting the least. It explains this gap by drawing on a historical intersectional analysis, and reveals the importance of including place alongside more commonly studied categori…
From Legislation to Everyday Practices in Guatemala's Violence against Women Courts
We explore how formal mandates associated with Guatemala's 2008 'Law against Femicide and Other Forms of Violence against Women' and with specialised violence against women (VAW) courts have encountered significant challenges due to state-imposed constraints. Drawing on courtroom observations, analyses of case files, and interviews, we find that while formal mandates incorporated feminist understandings of violence against women, which were often…
The Long-Term Struggle for Violence against Women Legislation
A scholarly consensus depicts strong, autonomous domestic women's movements as critical for the passage of gender equality reforms, alongside openings in domestic and international political contexts. What, then, is a nascent women's movement seeking gender equality reforms to do if it lacks strength or a history of autonomous organizing? A long-term analysis of the Guatemalan women's movement's push for reforms to address violence against women …
Violence against Women and Specialized Justice in Guatemala
This article provides the first detailed account of the structure, functioning, and impact of Guatemala’s Femicide and Other Forms of Violence against Women Criminal Courts. I assess the achievements and limitations of these courts from two views: a bird’s eye view, which explores how cases proceed through these specialized courts, and an insiders’ view, which explores the perspectives and practices of their judges. Combined, these views demonstr…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · History (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · History (6 works) · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion (6 works) · Social science (5 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (4 works)