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The U.S.-Mexico Border Region is among the poorest geographical
areas in the United States. The region has been long characterized
by dual development, poor infrastructure, weak schools, health
disparities and low-wage employment. More recently, the region has
been affected by the violence associated with a drug and crime war
in Mexico. The premise of this book is that the U.S.-Mexico Border
Region is subject to systematic oppression and that the so-called
social pathologies that we see in the region are by-products of
social and economic injustice in the form of labor exploitation,
environmental racism, immigration militarism, institutional sexism
and discrimination, health inequities, a political economy based on
low-wage labor, and the globalization of labor and capital. The
chapters address a variety of examples of injustice in the areas of
environment, health disparity, migration unemployment, citizenship,
women and gender violence, mental health, and drug violence. The
book proposes a pathway to development.
The U.S.-Mexico Border Region is among the poorest geographical
areas in the United States. The region has been long characterized
by dual development, poor infrastructure, weak schools, health
disparities and low-wage employment. More recently, the region has
been affected by the violence associated with a drug and crime war
in Mexico. The premise of this book is that the U.S.-Mexico Border
Region is subject to systematic oppression and that the so-called
social pathologies that we see in the region are by-products of
social and economic injustice in the form of labor exploitation,
environmental racism, immigration militarism, institutional sexism
and discrimination, health inequities, a political economy based on
low-wage labor, and the globalization of labor and capital. The
chapters address a variety of examples of injustice in the areas of
environment, health disparity, migration unemployment, citizenship,
women and gender violence, mental health, and drug violence. The
book proposes a pathway to development.
Fronteras No Mas treats the U.S.-Mexico border as an opportune space in which residents address their common interests in a clean environment, better wages and trade, and respect for human rights. Since NAFTA, more transnational institutions and policies have emerged, facilitating the growth of civil society, such as community-based and nonprofit organizations. Yet cross-border organizing remains a challenging and complex version of local politics: residents live and work within a region of vast economic equalities and markedly different governments. The authors offer a civic blueprint on ways to enhance cooperation, given the continuing interdependence of this North American space at the border.
Fronteras No Mas treats the U.S.-Mexico border as an opportune space in which residents address their common interests in a clean environment, better wages and trade, and respect for human rights. Since NAFTA, more transnational institutions and policies have emerged, facilitating the growth of civil society, such as community-based and nonprofit organizations. Yet cross-border organizing remains a challenging and complex version of local politics: residents live and work within a region of vast economic equalities and markedly different governments. The authors offer a civic blueprint on ways to enhance cooperation, given the continuing interdependence of this North American space at the border.
More than forty years have passed since President Richard Nixon
described illegal drugs as "public enemy number one" and declared a
"War on Drugs." Recently the United Nations Global Commission on
Drug Policy declared that "the global war on drugs has failed with
devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the
world." Arguably, no other country has suffered as much from the
War on Drugs as Mexico. From 2006 to 2012 alone, at least sixty
thousand people have died. Some experts have said that the actual
number is more than one hundred thousand. Because the war was
conceived and structured by US policymakers and officials, many
commentators believe that the United States is deeply implicated in
the bloodshed."
A War that Can't Be Won" is the first book to include
contributions from scholars on both sides of the US-Mexico border.
It provides a unique breadth of perspective on the many dimensions
of the societal crisis that affects residents of both
nations--particularly those who live and work in the borderlands.
It also proposes practical steps toward solving a crisis that shows
no signs of abating under current policies. Each chapter is based
on well-documented data, including previously unavailable evidence
that was obtained through freedom-of-information inquiries in
Mexico. By bringing together views from both sides of the border,
as well as from various academic disciplines, this volume offers a
much wider view of a complex problem--and possible solutions.
Much political oratory has been devoted to safeguarding America's
boundary with Mexico, but policies that militarize the border and
criminalize immigrants have overshadowed the region's widespread
violence against women, the increase in crossing deaths, and the
lingering poverty that spurs people to set out on dangerous
northward treks. This book addresses those concerns by focusing on
gender-based violence, security, and human rights from the
perspective of women who live with both violence and poverty.
From the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico, scholars from both sides
of the 2,000-mile border reflect expertise in disciplines ranging
from international relations to criminal justice, conveying a more
complex picture of the region than that presented in other studies.
Initial chapters offer an overview of routine sexual assaults on
women migrants, the harassment of Central American immigrants at
the hands of authorities and residents, corruption and
counterfeiting along the border, and near-death experiences of
border crossers. Subsequent chapters then connect analysis with
solutions in the form of institutional change, social movement
activism, policy reform, and the spread of international norms that
respect human rights as well as good governance.
These chapters show how all facets of the border
situation--globalization, NAFTA, economic inequality, organized
crime, political corruption, rampant patriarchy--promote gendered
violence and other expressions of hyper-masculinity. They also show
that U.S. immigration policy exacerbates the problems of border
violence--in marked contrast to the border policies of European
countries.
By focusing on women's everyday experiences in order to understand
human security issues, these contributions offer broad-based
alternative approaches and solutions that address everyday violence
and inattention to public safety, inequalities, poverty, and human
rights. And by presenting a social and democratic international
feminist framework to address these issues, they offer the
opportunity to transform today's security debate in constructive
ways.
Texas-based affiliates in the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF)
offer a strong, mature organizing model compared with other
community organizations. In Hope for Justice and Power, Kathleen
Staudt examines the twenty-first-century activities of the Texas
IAF in multiple cities and towns around the state, drawing on forty
years of academic teaching and on twenty years of active leadership
experiences in the IAF. She identifies major contradictions,
tensions, and their resolutions in IAF organizing related to
centralism versus local control, reformist versus radical goals,
stable revenue generation, greater gender balance in leadership,
and evolving IAF principles.To analyze the Texas IAF, Staudt draws
on participant observation in El Paso, statewide meetings and
training, on interviews, and on archival documents and media
coverage. This book will appeal to those interested in
community-based organizing and leadership, Mexican American and
women's politics, civic-capacity building in education, political
socialization, and both Texas and urban politics.
Ciudad Juarez has recently become infamous for its murder rate,
which topped 3,000 in 2010 as competing drug cartels grew
increasingly violent and the military responded with violence as
well. Despite the atmosphere of intimidation by troops, police, and
organized criminals, women have led the way in civil society
activism, spurring the Juarez Resistance and forging powerful
alliances with anti-militarization activists.
An in-depth examination of la Resistencia Juarense, Courage,
Resistance, and Women in Ciudad Juarez draws on ethnographic
research to analyze the resistance's focus on violence against
women, as well as its clash with the war against drugs championed
by Mexican President Felipe Calderon with the support of the United
States. Through grounded insights, the authors trace the
transformation of hidden discourses into public discourses that
openly challenge the militarized border regimes. The authors also
explore the advocacy carried on by social media, faith-based
organizations, and peace-and-justice activist Javier Sicilia while
Calderon faced U.S. political schisms over the role of border trade
in this global manufacturing site.
Bringing to light on-the-ground strategies as well as current
theories from the fields of sociology, political anthropology, and
human rights, this illuminating study is particularly significant
because of its emphasis on the role of women in local and
transnational attempts to extinguish a hot zone. As they overcome
intimidation to become game-changing activists, the figures
featured in Courage, Resistance, and Women in Ciudad Juarez offer
the possibility of peace and justice in the wake of seemingly
irreconcilable conflict.
Initially, research in border studies relied mainly on
generalizations from cases in the US-Mexico borderlands before
subsequently burgeoning in Europe. Border Politics in a Global Era
seeks to expand the study further to include the post-colonial
South in response to the major challenge of interdisciplinary
border studies: to explore borderlands in many contexts, with and
across a variety of states, including the so-called developing,
post-colonial states. Culled from decades of firsthand observations
of borders from around the world and written with a critical and
gender lens, the text is framed with attention to history,
geography, and the power of films and travelogues to represent
people as "others." Professor Kathleen Staudt advances border
concepts, categories, and theories to focus on trade, migration,
and security highlighting the importance of states, their length of
time since independence, and border bureaucrats' discretionary
practices. Drawing on her Border Inequalities Database for a global
perspective, Staudt calls for reducing inequalities and building
institutions in the common grounds of borderlands. The book
features maps and other visuals with lists of links at the close of
most chapters. Broadly comparative in nature, Border Politics in a
Global Era will appeal not only to students of border studies; it
will also stimulate attention in comparative politics,
international studies, and political geography.
Initially, research in border studies relied mainly on
generalizations from cases in the US-Mexico borderlands before
subsequently burgeoning in Europe. Border Politics in a Global Era
seeks to expand the study further to include the post-colonial
South in response to the major challenge of interdisciplinary
border studies: to explore borderlands in many contexts, with and
across a variety of states, including the so-called developing,
post-colonial states. Culled from decades of firsthand observations
of borders from around the world and written with a critical and
gender lens, the text is framed with attention to history,
geography, and the power of films and travelogues to represent
people as "others." Professor Kathleen Staudt advances border
concepts, categories, and theories to focus on trade, migration,
and security highlighting the importance of states, their length of
time since independence, and border bureaucrats' discretionary
practices. Drawing on her Border Inequalities Database for a global
perspective, Staudt calls for reducing inequalities and building
institutions in the common grounds of borderlands. The book
features maps and other visuals with lists of links at the close of
most chapters. Broadly comparative in nature, Border Politics in a
Global Era will appeal not only to students of border studies; it
will also stimulate attention in comparative politics,
international studies, and political geography.
Much political oratory has been devoted to safeguarding America's
boundary with Mexico, but policies that militarize the border and
criminalize immigrants have overshadowed the region's widespread
violence against women, the increase in crossing deaths, and the
lingering poverty that spurs people to set out on dangerous
northward treks. This book addresses those concerns by focusing on
gender-based violence, security, and human rights from the
perspective of women who live with both violence and poverty.
From the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico, scholars from both sides
of the 2,000-mile border reflect expertise in disciplines ranging
from international relations to criminal justice, conveying a more
complex picture of the region than that presented in other studies.
Initial chapters offer an overview of routine sexual assaults on
women migrants, the harassment of Central American immigrants at
the hands of authorities and residents, corruption and
counterfeiting along the border, and near-death experiences of
border crossers. Subsequent chapters then connect analysis with
solutions in the form of institutional change, social movement
activism, policy reform, and the spread of international norms that
respect human rights as well as good governance.
These chapters show how all facets of the border
situation--globalization, NAFTA, economic inequality, organized
crime, political corruption, rampant patriarchy--promote gendered
violence and other expressions of hyper-masculinity. They also show
that U.S. immigration policy exacerbates the problems of border
violence--in marked contrast to the border policies of European
countries.
By focusing on women's everyday experiences in order to understand
human security issues, these contributions offer broad-based
alternative approaches and solutions that address everyday violence
and inattention to public safety, inequalities, poverty, and human
rights. And by presenting a social and democratic international
feminist framework to address these issues, they offer the
opportunity to transform today's security debate in constructive
ways.
The text is illustrated with many development cases, hypothetical
situations, examples, and role-playing exercises. The book is well
researched and well written. It will be useful to students and
teachers of development administration. --RISA "Staudt's very
readable text is peppered with numerous illustrative examples from
throughout the world (including the United States and other
developed countries) that bring potentially esoteric issues to
life. Also included are brief case studies, role-playing exercises,
and staggered assignments for individual projects that can be used
by imaginative instructors to promote hands-on involvement. An
appendix lists other useful sources for case materials and the book
contains numerous valuable references to the recent literature on
development." --Gregory D. Schmidt, Northern Illinois University
"This book offers interesting features at both the pedagogical and
analytical levels. . . . The author's interdisciplinary approach as
well as her macro and micro perspectives give valuable insight into
the highly complex world of the management of development."
--International Review of Administrative Sciences "This is a superb
text, one that will be required reading by all scholars in the
field of development. It is particularly important for its
contribution to recent scholarship, and its use of new, innovative
approaches to development. This book is a breath of fresh air in a
field full of platitudes and old ideas. It will improve both
thinking and teaching about development management." --Jane L.
Parpart, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada "Long
overdue...This text is not only gender sensitive, but
interdisciplinary, theoretically grounded, policy relevant and,
best of all, interesting to read." --Sue Ellen Charlton, Colorado
State University "While theoretically aware and non-aligned (to any
official agency), Staudt's approach to development management is
essentially practical and pragmatic. Her concern for grassroots
participation is combined with a full appreciation of the
significance of national and international levels of decision
making and implementation, and of the roles of both governmental
and non-governmental organizations. In a style that is both direct
and clear, she informs, but does not prescribe, about the contexts,
the techniques, the institutions and the sectors in which, and with
which, management operates, providing in the process a variety of
challenging and realistic case studies. She also succeeds admirably
in integrating gender--as a matter of common sense--into the
mainstream of international development management concerns."
--David Hirschmann, The American University, Washington D.C. "This
text provides a brilliant juxtaposition of interrelated but
hitherto isolated fields in the complex and controversial political
economy of 'development.' The author brings unique, timely insights
and formats to bear, especially from indigenous Third World
activists, authors and scholars as well as practitioners. She
bridges the local and global, the political and the technical. Her
book is particularly welcome at the start of the 1990s as a truly
radical departure from the diversions and disappointments of
orthodox development administration and structural adjustment.
Hopefully, public policy will not be the same once this text is
distributed, digested and debated!" --Timothy W. Shaw, Dalhousie
University, Nova Scotia, Canada "Staudt presents a multifaceted
comprehensive analysis, with illustrative examples drawn from a
wide range of countries....a worthwhile contribution to recent
literature reporting on and assessing the record of governmentally
sponsored developmental efforts, with a focus on issues of
management and administration....Woven throughout the text are
commendable references to persistent deficiencies such as the
dearth of participation by women in development activities and the
frequency of a feeling of alienation and distance between
institutional staff members and the people they should be serving.
Another praiseworthy feature is inclusion of many teaching aids
such as cases, role playing sessions, and 'staggered assignments'
related to the preparation of individual projects....outstanding
source for bibliographical information about recent literature on
development." --Public Adminstration Review "A useful book for
those involved in development work, it moves beyond politics and
policy-making into organization for action and studies political
relationships between people, their organizations, and the state in
development projects. Case studies, examples and role-play
exercises are used to build analytic skills." --Intermediate
Technology Bookshop The complexities facing development managers
are vast. The enormous challenges to understanding the breadth and
depth of development transformation are apparent in each level of
this process and demand attention. Answering the need for a
comprehensive introductory resource is Managing Development. This
fresh perspective on development management analyzes both
international and national development agencies and shows the
widely differing cultural contexts in which to plan, manage, and
evaluate development programs. Stressing political context and
process throughout, the focus, nevertheless, in Managing
Development is on bureaucratic politics and political relationships
between people, their organizations, and the state in development
programs and projects. The chapters examine development programs in
agriculture and health, particularly reproductive health, and
provide hypothetical situations, examples, and roleplay exercises.
A well integrated treatment of development teaching, learning, and
applications, this volume shows that much can be learned from the
analysis of both successful and unsuccessful development programs.
Managing Development is the essential resource for courses in
development studies, political science, comparative politics, urban
studies, and policy studies, as well as for planners and
researchers in development management.
The text is illustrated with many development cases, hypothetical
situations, examples, and role-playing exercises. The book is well
researched and well written. It will be useful to students and
teachers of development administration. --RISA "Staudt's very
readable text is peppered with numerous illustrative examples from
throughout the world (including the United States and other
developed countries) that bring potentially esoteric issues to
life. Also included are brief case studies, role-playing exercises,
and staggered assignments for individual projects that can be used
by imaginative instructors to promote hands-on involvement. An
appendix lists other useful sources for case materials and the book
contains numerous valuable references to the recent literature on
development." --Gregory D. Schmidt, Northern Illinois University
"This book offers interesting features at both the pedagogical and
analytical levels. . . . The author's interdisciplinary approach as
well as her macro and micro perspectives give valuable insight into
the highly complex world of the management of development."
--International Review of Administrative Sciences "This is a superb
text, one that will be required reading by all scholars in the
field of development. It is particularly important for its
contribution to recent scholarship, and its use of new, innovative
approaches to development. This book is a breath of fresh air in a
field full of platitudes and old ideas. It will improve both
thinking and teaching about development management." --Jane L.
Parpart, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada "Long
overdue...This text is not only gender sensitive, but
interdisciplinary, theoretically grounded, policy relevant and,
best of all, interesting to read." --Sue Ellen Charlton, Colorado
State University "While theoretically aware and non-aligned (to any
official agency), Staudt's approach to development management is
essentially practical and pragmatic. Her concern for grassroots
participation is combined with a full appreciation of the
significance of national and international levels of decision
making and implementation, and of the roles of both governmental
and non-governmental organizations. In a style that is both direct
and clear, she informs, but does not prescribe, about the contexts,
the techniques, the institutions and the sectors in which, and with
which, management operates, providing in the process a variety of
challenging and realistic case studies. She also succeeds admirably
in integrating gender--as a matter of common sense--into the
mainstream of international development management concerns."
--David Hirschmann, The American University, Washington D.C. "This
text provides a brilliant juxtaposition of interrelated but
hitherto isolated fields in the complex and controversial political
economy of 'development.' The author brings unique, timely insights
and formats to bear, especially from indigenous Third World
activists, authors and scholars as well as practitioners. She
bridges the local and global, the political and the technical. Her
book is particularly welcome at the start of the 1990s as a truly
radical departure from the diversions and disappointments of
orthodox development administration and structural adjustment.
Hopefully, public policy will not be the same once this text is
distributed, digested and debated!" --Timothy W. Shaw, Dalhousie
University, Nova Scotia, Canada "Staudt presents a multifaceted
comprehensive analysis, with illustrative examples drawn from a
wide range of countries....a worthwhile contribution to recent
literature reporting on and assessing the record of governmentally
sponsored developmental efforts, with a focus on issues of
management and administration....Woven throughout the text are
commendable references to persistent deficiencies such as the
dearth of participation by women in development activities and the
frequency of a feeling of alienation and distance between
institutional staff members and the people they should be serving.
Another praiseworthy feature is inclusion of many teaching aids
such as cases, role playing sessions, and 'staggered assignments'
related to the preparation of individual projects....outstanding
source for bibliographical information about recent literature on
development." --Public Adminstration Review "A useful book for
those involved in development work, it moves beyond politics and
policy-making into organization for action and studies political
relationships between people, their organizations, and the state in
development projects. Case studies, examples and role-play
exercises are used to build analytic skills." --Intermediate
Technology Bookshop The complexities facing development managers
are vast. The enormous challenges to understanding the breadth and
depth of development transformation are apparent in each level of
this process and demand attention. Answering the need for a
comprehensive introductory resource is Managing Development. This
fresh perspective on development management analyzes both
international and national development agencies and shows the
widely differing cultural contexts in which to plan, manage, and
evaluate development programs. Stressing political context and
process throughout, the focus, nevertheless, in Managing
Development is on bureaucratic politics and political relationships
between people, their organizations, and the state in development
programs and projects. The chapters examine development programs in
agriculture and health, particularly reproductive health, and
provide hypothetical situations, examples, and roleplay exercises.
A well integrated treatment of development teaching, learning, and
applications, this volume shows that much can be learned from the
analysis of both successful and unsuccessful development programs.
Managing Development is the essential resource for courses in
development studies, political science, comparative politics, urban
studies, and policy studies, as well as for planners and
researchers in development management.
More than forty years have passed since President Richard Nixon
described illegal drugs as "public enemy number one" and declared a
"War on Drugs." Recently the United Nations Global Commission on
Drug Policy declared that "the global war on drugs has failed with
devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the
world." Arguably, no other country has suffered as much from the
War on Drugs as Mexico. From 2006 to 2012 alone, at least sixty
thousand people have died. Some experts have said that the actual
number is more than one hundred thousand. Because the war was
conceived and structured by US policymakers and officials, many
commentators believe that the United States is deeply implicated in
the bloodshed.
"A War that Can't Be Won" is the first book to include
contributions from scholars on both sides of the US-Mexico border.
It provides a unique breadth of perspective on the many dimensions
of the societal crisis that affects residents of both
nations--particularly those who live and work in the borderlands.
It also proposes practical steps toward solving a crisis that shows
no signs of abating under current policies. Each chapter is based
on well-documented data, including previously unavailable evidence
that was obtained through freedom-of-information inquiries in
Mexico. By bringing together views from both sides of the border,
as well as from various academic disciplines, this volume offers a
much wider view of a complex problem--and possible solutions.
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