- Political Science, International Relations, Human Rights, Critical Theory, Political Theory, Social Movements, and 14 morePolitical Sociology, Social Policy, Intersectionality Theory, Public Policy, Gender Studies, Transnationalism, Latino/A Studies, Chicana/o Studies, Second Wave Feminism, Black Studies Or African American Studies, Puerto Rican Studies, Global Financial Crisis, Latin American Studies, and Student movementsedit
- Fernando Tormos is a Scholars Strategy Network Postdoctoral Fellow with specializations in social movements, the politics of social groups, and transnational politics.edit
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Intersectionality has gone global. The application and adoption of the concept cuts across disciplinary and territorial boundaries. How can intersectionality inform the work of social justice in the 21 st century? This essay focuses on... more
Intersectionality has gone global. The application and adoption of the concept cuts across disciplinary and territorial boundaries. How can intersectionality inform the work of social justice in the 21 st century? This essay focuses on the practical implications of intersectionality for social movements. First, this essay reviews prominent definitions of intersectionality, identifies a series of tenets, and presents a brief history of the notion of intersectionality. Second, the essay reviews extant explanations of solidarity. This review ends with a proposal for enacting solidarity that is viable for articulating intersectionally-conscious forms of solidarity—intersectional solidarity—suitable for scholars of global politics.
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This short blogpost discusses the challenges that climate justice and indigenous peoples groups have faced throughout the first week of negotiations at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 21st Conference of Parties... more
This short blogpost discusses the challenges that climate justice and indigenous peoples groups have faced throughout the first week of negotiations at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 21st Conference of Parties (UNFCCC COP21) held in Paris from November 30 until December 12, 2015.
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A review of William Robinson's most recent book, Global capitalism and the crisis of humanity.
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The pieces in this special issue evidence the making of not-so-natural disasters in the Caribbean and propose alternative scenarios for resilient recovery. Alternative community organisations and grassroots movements demonstrated to be... more
The pieces in this special issue evidence the making of not-so-natural disasters in the Caribbean and propose alternative scenarios for resilient recovery. Alternative community organisations and grassroots movements demonstrated to be complementary actors to the limited and slow state- of market-relief response. The historical prioritization of Caribbean government towards perpetual economic growth in their development agendas, evidence the marginalization of space in the region. A space that could be used to grow subsistence crops, which is not only essential to mitigate starvation after a natural disaster but reduces the dependency on food imports. The hurricanes also demonstrated to be an opportunity for implementing neoliberal policies that previous governments were not able to be put in place due to internal resistance from interest groups or the general population. The Caribbean will continue to be a hurricane-receiving area because of its geographical situation, but as these articles argue, political, economic and social reforms can reduce the human suffering caused by the natural and not-so-natural disasters.