Special Journal Issue Is Outcome of Pardee Center and CURA Program
A recent special issue of the journal Latin American Research Review co-edited by Boston University Prof. Jeffrey Rubin (History) is based on a 2012 project co-sponsored by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs (CURA).
Titled “Lived Religion and Lived Citizenship in Latin America’s Zones of Crisis,” the special issue is an outcome of an April 2012 conference called “Religion, Social Movements, and Zones of Crisis in Latin America,” coordinated by Prof. Rubin and co-sponsored by CURA and the Pardee Center. Prof. Rubin subsequently co-authored a Pardee Center Issues in Brief of the same name published in November 2012. His co-authors on the Issues in Brief, Profs. David Smilde of Tulane University and Benjamin Junge of the State University of New York-New Paltz, are also co-editors for the LARR special issue. The trio also co-authored the introductory article.
Jeffrey W. Rubin is Associate Professor of History and Research Associate at the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs at Boston University. He received his A.B in Social Studies and Ph.D. in Political Science at Harvard University. In 2015, he is a Visiting Scholar at Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
A specialist on social movements, Prof. Rubin is the author of Decentering the Regime: Ethnicity, Radicalism, and Democracy in Juchitán, Mexico (Duke 1997) and co-author of Sustaining Activism: A Brazilian Women’s Movement and a Father-Daughter Collaboration (Duke 2013). He is co-editor of Enduring Reform: Progressive Activism and Private Sector Responses in Latin America’s Democracies (Pittsburgh 2014); “Lived Religion and Lived Citizenship in Latin America’s Zones of Crisis,” (Special Issue of LARR, 2014); and Beyond Civil Society: Social Movements, Civic Participation, and Democratic Contestation (forthcoming, Duke). His current project, “Citizen Subjectivities Reconfigured” examines how social movements, business, and religion have reshaped the ways people understand themselves as citizens and act politically in Latin America’s democracies.
Link to special issue:
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/latin_american_research_review/toc/lar.49.S.html