Whilst much ink has been spilt trying to grapple with where it all went wrong, Rowan Lubbock’s Cultivating Socialism: Venezuela, ALBA, and the Politics of Food Sovereignty offers a novel reading of the most vexatious case of Venezuela under Hugo Chávez.
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In my latest article (open access) for Review of International Studies I examine Indigenous resistance to neo-extractive development in Latin America and ask what this means for International Relations (IR). I contend that Indigenous resistance can disrupt traditional thinking in IR via an [...]
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Having written about the city’s austerity policies and their relation to insecurity and walking it as a researcher (and tourist), I was increasingly asking myself how people living in the city were actually dealing with the day-to-day effects of the insecurity-competitiveness nexus. I wanted to [...]
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In May 2011, 20,000 people took to the streets of San Cristóbal de Las Casas in Chiapas, Mexico. The Zapatista support movement had called for a ‘march of silence’ against the government’s so-called ‘war on drugs’. Women, children, and men walked in silence, holding up banners saying “no more [...]
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I visited Cananea Municipality and the Sonora River region in August 2018, as part of the academic project entitled Conversing with Goliath. Cananea has been an emblematic municipality in Mexican mining. Historically, it has been the cradle of labour rights that influenced the 1910 Mexican [...]
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Imagine. An indigenous woman in Mexico enters the Secretary of Foreign Affairs to apply for a passport. The bureaucrat asks, in addition to the legal requirements, for her to sing the national anthem. She was rejected. Another indigenous woman follows the same procedure, this time, the [...]
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In my latest (open access) article for Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space I explore the political economy of wind park development in Oaxaca, southern Mexico, and the struggles of Indigenous groups against such wind parks. Today, Juchitán (a municipality in the Isthmus of [...]
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In my new book, Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy, I trace patterns of Mexican advocacy for international economic reform to argue that Mexican experts played a surprising, and overlooked, role in shaping some of the twentieth century’s most important [...]
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