Ronaldo Munck
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 113546 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ronaldo Munck |
| PRENOMES | Ronaldo |
| SOBRENOME | Munck |
| ASSINATURA | MUNCK R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Dublin City University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7117-1099 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 153 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 536 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 147 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 6 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1979 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Eileen Boris, Heidi Gottfried, Julie Greene, and Joo-Cheong Tham
Article Eileen Boris, Heidi Gottfried, Julie Greene, and Joo-Cheong Tham: Global Labor Migration: New Directions (Studies of World Migrations) was published on April 1, 2025 in the journal New Global Studies (volume 19, issue 1)
Transiciones o transformación? Socialismo, capitalismo y ecología desde una perspectiva polanyiana
El presente artículo propone repensar los debates en torno a la actual «transición ecológica» retomando y reexaminando las transiciones clásicas al capitalismo y al socialismo, analizadas desde un marco teórico polanyiano. En contraposición a la teoría de la modernización y a los marxismos etapistas, se sostiene que las transiciones no constituyen pasajes lineales entre sistemas, sino luchas políticas recurrentes en torno a la mercantilización y …
Migration and Social Transformation
This chapter seeks to unpack the many ‘migration myths’ which float around in official discourse, feeding prejudice and misinformation. It takes migration to be part of a broader process of social transformation and not something self-contained. It foregrounds the mobility of labour as an integral element of the capitalist mode of production in the era of globalization. It also places in a central position the uneven nature of capitalist developm…
Understanding migration
The introduction to the special issue Migrations and Globalizations: Transdisciplinary and Transnational Perspectives highlights the need to understand migration as a complex, multidimensional, and dynamic process embedded within broader social, political, and economic transformations. Drawing on Sayad’s concept of migration as a “total social fact,” the authors emphasize that mobility cannot be reduced to linear models or simplistic explanations…
Comprender la migración
La introducción del dossier Migraciones y globalizaciones: perspectivas transdisciplinarias y transnacionales plantea la necesidad de comprender la migración como un fenómeno complejo y dinámico, profundamente imbricado en los procesos históricos y estructurales del capitalismo global. Retomando la idea de Abdelmalek Sayad de la migración como un “hecho social total”, los autores destacan que la movilidad humana no puede explicarse mediante model…
Global Futures
Global Futures: Key Concepts for Social Transformation provokes us to rethink some of the key words and concepts which define the current global order. Prompted by crises around the world, it seeks to re-energise our desire for a better future. The book takes seven key concepts from the new global studies and considers how they are used and whether they are adequate for addressing the twenty-first century's increasingly complex global order. The …
Democracy on the Ground
Handbook on Migration and Development
This Handbook presents a comprehensive overview of the interaction between migration and development from a range of critical and counter-hegemonic perspectives. Exploring the strengths and weaknesses of existing practices connected with the migration and development nexus, contributing authors provide a clear understanding of their complex dynamics.
Migración y sindicatos
This essay highlights the issue of human agency, arguing that migrant and established workers should make choices rather than accepting the divisions created by capital and the state, which exacerbate processes of exploitation and dispossession. Based on these considerations, the essay argues that migration and labour studies should collaborate to analyse the challenges and opportunities facing trade unions that organise migrant workers. Traditio…
Ciclos de lucha de clases y la formación de la clase trabajadora en Argentina, 1890–1920
Actualmente hay un renovado interés en la relación entre las fluctuaciones económicas y los movimientos de huelga, que remite a un artículo de Eric Hobsbawm (1984) y a un texto polémico aún más antiguo de León Trotsky (1984). Este artículo ofrece una contribución a la creciente literatura, centrándose, a diferencia de la mayoría de los otros estudios, en un país del Tercer Mundo. También refleja la creciente influencia de la historia social en la…
A reply to ‘Human security, sustainable livelihoods and development
New perspectives on development
This thematic issue, 'New perspectives on development', aims to critically interrogate the continued resonance and relevance of ideas about development and how these can be elucidated by bringing into dialogue a range of theoretical, thematic and regional perspectives. We highlight the continued relevance of development in light of pressing and deepening challenges, including the climate crisis, environmental degradation, conflict and displacemen…
Lorenza B Fontana, Recognition Politics
Populism and Socio-Political Transformation in Latin America
Through the concept of "populism" Ronaldo Munck offers a series of approaches to the various methodological and theoretical perspectives that have studied it for decades. The article highlights both the complexity of this concept and its ambiguity. Through the concept of «populism» Ronaldo Munck offers a series of approaches to the various methodological and theoretical perspectives that have studied it for decades. The article highlights both th…
Exploring an innovative method for objectively assessing the social value of university-community engagement and research
There is increasing recognition regarding the potential of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to be significant Anchor institutions capable of impacting the wellbeing of the local communities where they are situated. Subsequently, more universities are prioritising their social and civic responsibility by embedding a research ethos based on closer engagement with their locality, within their key institutional processes. However, demonstrating t…
Marxism, Capitalism and Socialism
Buen Vivir
Jan Lucassen, The Story of Work. A New History of Humankind and Andrea Komlosy, Work. The Last 1,000 Years
Marxismo, desarrollo y subdesarrollo
This article follows the substantial shift in the position of Karl Marx from a somewhat evolutionist conception of development to one that aligns more with our understanding of combined and uneven development. Lenin’s epistemological break from an orthodox or evolutionist view of development, to a view of the global economy via the hinge of imperialism then ushers in a new view of capitalism as non-homogenous, where part of the world develops and…
Development and Marxism
Development and Marxism are both discourses with a complex and not-always-consistent genealogy. This article seeks to (re)set the dialogue between them through a process of deconstruction. It shows the substantial shift in the position of Karl Marx from a somewhat evolutionist conception of development to one that aligns more with our understanding of combined and uneven development. It outlines Lenin’s epistemological break from an orthodox or e…
Sociología Global
The project to (re)construct a global sociology is one where there is no agreed paradigm or even a shared understanding of the main issues that would be needed to secure a new robust and credible paradigm. What I seek to do here is to simply clarify the terms of the debate so as to establish whether we might pursue the quest for an alternative paradigm with some conviction. I first consider the ‘strong case’ for a global sociology based on the as…
Marxism, development and under-development
This article follows the substantial shift in the position of Karl Marx from a somewhat evolutionist conception of development to one that aligns more with our understanding of combined and uneven development. Lenin’s epistemological break from an orthodox or evolutionist view of development to a view of the global economy via the hinge of imperialism then ushers in a new view of capitalism as non-homogenous, where part of the world develops and …
José Carlos Mariátegui and Twenty-first-Century Socialism
As Latin America entered the turn to the left, there was a recovery and renewal of the work of José Carlos Mariátegui. The “practical socialism” that he advocated and led in the course of a short but brilliant political career (basically, the 1920s) has much to teach us today if set in its proper historical context and not reduced to catchphrases. Mariátegui was, arguably, the first Marxist in Latin America, and his open, imaginative, transgressi…
The Difficult Dialogue
The world that Latin America created
The Precariat
The term 'precariat'-a precarious proletariat-has achieved considerable prominence in recent years and is probably now ripe for critical deconstruction. It also needs to be situated in terms of a genealogy that includes the marginality debates of the 1960s, the later informal sector problematic and the 'social exclusion' optic that became dominant in the 1980s. I will argue that the concept is highly questionable both as an adequate sociology of …
Reframing Latin American Development
Globalization, Labor and the 'Polanyi Problem
Globalisation, Governance and Migration
Migration exposes a central inconsistency in neoliberal globalisation because, if capital, money, information and knowledge should all flow freely across the globe, then why not people? This broad introductory survey begins with a critical review of perspectives that pose migration as a global governance problem and the migrant as a potential terrorist. It then moves on to interrogate the sometimes facile declarations that we are living in the ag…
Globalization and Democracy
The relationship between democracy and development is (re)considered to set the scene for the pressing contemporary issue of how globalization might affect democracy and vice versa. To move beyond simplistic binary oppositions, we turn to the work of Karl Polanyi who famously posited a dual movement of market expansion on one hand matched by increasing social control over it on the other hand. We see how globalization, at one and the same time, c…
Middle Classes in Dependent Countries
A sequel to the first volume in this series, Class and Social Development: A New Theory of the Middle Classes (SAGE 1982), this integrated collection of essays offers a refreshingly critical, comprehensive picture of the middle classes' role in world development. It deserves serious examination by researchers specializing in Third World regions, as well as by students and teachers in fields such as political development, rural sociology, and Marx…
Globalization and contestation
The Polanyian problematic presents us with a unified, complex, and dialectical means to interpret globalization and its social contestation by diverse social and political forces. For Karl Polanyi (1886–1964), globalization as we know it would probably be conceived of as an extension of the ‘one big self-regulating market’ he discerned in his day, while his belief that ‘simultaneously a counter-movement was afoot’ provides an interpretative lens …
Global Civil Society
Is the concept of “global civil society” a Sorelian-type myth that captures intuitively an emergent political project? Or is it, rather, a discursive political terrain open to many interpretations, not all of which might be progressive? A radical democratic content would be one way of filling out the “empty signifier, ” which “global civil society” is, but not the only one
Migration, Work, and Citizenship in the New World Order
Race, Nation, Class. Ambiguous Identities
Global Civil Society
Global civil society has become an important paradigm for progressive social change at a planetary level. It posits a bold new ethical project for global democratization. For its critics, though, it is just the social wing of neoliberal globalization diverting social movements from their tasks. It is also seen as irredeemably Eurocentric in its assumptions and orientation. A third option, proposed here, is to understand global civil society as a …
Cycles of class struggle and the making of the working class in Argentina, 1890-1920
There is currently a renewed interest in the relationship between economic fluctations and strike movements which refers back to an article by Eric Hobsbawm1 and an even earlier polemical piece by Leon Trotsky.2 This article offers a contribution to the growing literature, focusing, unlike most other studies, on a Third.World country. It also reflects the increasing influence of social history in Latin American research on the making of the worki…
Resistance and Integration
Labour and Globalisation
Andrew Herod (ed.), Organizing the Landscape. Geographical Perspectives of Labor Unionism, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998, £15.95, xix+372 pp.Eric Lee, The Labour Movement and the Internet. The New Labour Internationalism, London: Pluto Press, 1997, £14.99, xi+212 pp.Gregory Mantsios (ed.), A New Labour Movement for the New Century, New York: Monthly Review Press, 1998, $24.00, xix+353 pp.Kim Moody, Workers in a Lean World. Unio…
Neoliberalism, necessitarianism and alternatives in Latin America
Taking as its point of departure the position that there are or must be alternatives to neoliberalism, this article explores the issue in relation to some examples from Latin America. The 2001-02 virtual collapse of the economy of Argentina and the recent victory of Workers Party candidate, Lula, in Brazil highlight, in very different ways, the need for a viable alternative democratic economic strategy for Latin America. Many progressive analysts…
Argentina
The October 2019 Indigenous and Citizens' Uprising in Ecuador
Once again the indigenous movement in Ecuador has shown its considerable capacity for mobilization and the creation of social alliances for change. Media coverage of the October 2019 uprising has been both weak and openly biased, giving credence to a mythical "enemy within." A chronology of events from the social movements themselves shows that this insurgent event and the aftereffects now being felt have changed the political map of Ecuador and …
Afterword
The 'new' international labour studies set out some 30 years ago to define a new object of study and a new trans-disciplinary methodological approach. How does that project translate into present day concerns with globalisation and labour? The achievements and limitations of this paradigm are surveyed here, taking up many of the insights of this collection and charting some options for the future. I would argue that current attention to gender is…
Argentina
State and Capital in Dependent Social Formations
The economic intervention of the state has been particularly important in Brazil, and is an integral element of the so-called "economic model" which has been initiated by the bourgeoisie of other semi-colonial countries. This paper explores the issues posed by the "associated-dependent" form of development in Brazil, with particular attention to the role of the capitalist state in the economic process. It then takes up the political implications …
The world that Latin America created
Global Sociology
Mutual Benefit Societies in Argentina
In the 'pre-history' of Argentina's labour movement lie the mutual-benefit societies. Although these associations embraced almost half of the workers of Buenos Aires at the time of the Centenario (1910) little is known about them. The article explores the main parameters shaping the development of the mutual benefit societies, their relationship to the immigrant communities and their role in relation to social security. It traces, finally, the am…
State Intervention in Brazil
Great Britain is a crypto-capitalist country with a socialist rhetoric, and Brazil crypto-socialist country with a capitalist rhetoric (Campos 1 in Visão, October 3, 1977
Introduction
State Intervention in Brazil
Great Britain is a crypto-capitalist country with a socialist rhetoric, and Brazil crypto-socialist country with a capitalist rhetoric (Campos 1 in Visão, October 3, 1977
State and Capital in Dependent Social Formations
The economic intervention of the state has been particularly important in Brazil, and is an integral element of the so-called "economic model" which has been initiated by the bourgeoisie of other semi-colonial countries. This paper explores the issues posed by the "associated-dependent" form of development in Brazil, with particular attention to the role of the capitalist state in the economic process. It then takes up the political implications …
Angola — 1980
State,Capital and Crisis in Brazil
Imperialism and Dependency
Thus concludes Thesis 15 of recent Nineteenth Congress of Mexican Communist Party. Whether this is representative of current relation between Marxism and and whether an adequate of imperialism has superseded now soundly criticized tenets of theorists are questions I will try to answer a review of recent (and not so recent) contributions to dependency debate. Latin American Perspectives opened its pages with a thorough balance sheet of studies by …
Argentina
This article examines the high cost of the failure of the military face of capital - its disastrous and brutal pro-imperialist economic policies at home, its 'anti-imperialist' adventures overseas and the backlash to both. The author asks whether the civilian face of capital under the recently elected Radical Party will succeed any better, particularly in the first test of its 'anti-imperialist' foreign policy - not the Malvinas issue but the IMF
Marx and Latin America
Politics and Dependency in the Third World
The "Modern" Military Dictatorship in Latin America
Argentina is the anchor of the continent, and more specifically of the Inter-American system. This country is necessarily important for any one who studies the strategy of the Free World. Argentina is the battlefront of the hemisphere [General Gordon Summer, President of the Inter-American Defence Council, October 1977
Revolutionary Trends in Latin America, Centre for Developing-Area Studies
Democratization and Demilitarization in Argentina, 1982-1985
In December 1983 Raul Alfonsin assumed the Presidency of Argentina. The new constitutional government was pledged to a complete and permanent democratization of the political system, which had suffered six major military interventions since 1930. In this respect it is necessary to distinguish between demilitarization, defined as the negative task of rolling back military inter? vention in the economic, political and social life of the country, an…
Middle Classes in Dependent Countries
A sequel to the first volume in this series, Class and Social Development: A New Theory of the Middle Classes (SAGE 1982), this integrated collection of essays offers a refreshingly critical, comprehensive picture of the middle classes' role in world development. It deserves serious examination by researchers specializing in Third World regions, as well as by students and teachers in fields such as political development, rural sociology, and Marx…
Labor Studies in Argentina
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Movimiento obrero, economía y política en Argentina
Una revista científica, con revisión por pares, que publica investigación empírica y contribuciones teóricas en sociología, antropología, sociodemografía, y disciplinas afines. Nuestra misión es presentar los resultados de la investigación de la más alta calidad, con énfasis en América Latina, pero con proyección y alcance global
Marxism and Nationalism
Argentina 1516-1982
Cycles of class struggle and the making of the working class in Argentina, 1890-1920
There is currently a renewed interest in the relationship between economic fluctations and strike movements which refers back to an article by Eric Hobsbawm1 and an even earlier polemical piece by Leon Trotsky.2 This article offers a contribution to the growing literature, focusing, unlike most other studies, on a Third.World country. It also reflects the increasing influence of social history in Latin American research on the making of the worki…
Revolutionary Trends in Latin America
Argentina
Argentina
Resistance and Integration
Farewell to Socialism
The revalorization of by the left has led many to bid farewell to socialism, at least in its present forms. The antagonism between authoritarianism (of all forms) and has largely superseded that posited between capitalism and socialism. Or rather, it is widely argued that this is the case. This note does not attempt to set out a socialist project for Latin America but simply seeks to demonstrate the continued relevance of to the contintent, in sp…
Labour Autonomy and the State in Latin America
Argentina
U.S. Hegemony under Siege. Class Politics and Development in Latin America
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