Jeffrey W. Rubin is the author of\u00a0Decentering the Regime: Ethnicity, Radicalism, and Democracy in Juchit\u00e1n, Mexico\u00a0<\/i>(Duke 1997) and co-author of\u00a0Sustaining Activism: A Brazilian Women\u2019s Movement and a Father-Daughter Collaboration\u00a0<\/i>(Duke 2013).\u00a0 A specialist on social movements in Latin America, Rubin combines innovative methodological approaches with the study of democratic possibility in Latin America over the past thirty years.<\/p>\n
Rubin\u2019s work is ethnographic, collaborative, interdisciplinary, and transnational.\u00a0 He is co-editor of\u00a0Enduring Reform:\u00a0 Progressive Activism and Private Sector Responses in Latin America\u2019s Democracies\u00a0<\/i>(Pittsburgh 2015),\u00a0<\/i>a project that brought together teams of Latin America- and U.S.-based researchers to study the responses of businesspeople to progressive reform initiatives in five Latin American cities.; Lived Religion and Lived Citizenship in Latin America\u2019s Zones of Crisis<\/i>, (a Special Issue of\u00a0The Latin American Research Review,\u00a0<\/i>2014),\u00a0<\/i>which grew out of a series of four international conferences involving social movement scholars and scholars of religion;\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0Beyond Civil Society:\u00a0 Social Movements, Civic Participation, and Democratic Contestation\u00a0<\/i>(Duke, forthcoming 2016), the\u00a0result\u00a0of a hemisphere-wide\u00a0collaboration among social movement scholars\u00a0that\u00a0compares disruptive activism \u201cin the streets\u201d with engagement in the participatory institutions developed by Latin America\u2019s leftist governments.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/i>Rubin\u2019s current project,\u00a0Seeing and Not Seeing:\u00a0 Essays on Democratic Possibility in Latin America and Beyond<\/i>, argues that in order to understand the dynamic and unstable mixes of democracy and violence, economic expansion and continuing exclusions, that characterize Latin America today \u2013 and to discern possibilities for and limits to progressive reform in this context \u2013 it is essential to conceptualize historical forces and political actors not as coherent and bounded, but rather as made up of multiple and changing forces, strands, and cultures.<\/p>\n
Rubin has received fellowships and grants from the MacArthur Foundation, The Open Society Foundations, The Ford Foundation, The American Philosophical Society, The Mellon-LASA Seminars, and the Fulbright Program. \u00a0He has also held Fellowships at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard, the Boston University Center for the Humanities, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, The\u00a0Center for Latino, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst,<\/span>\u00a0The Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture at Rutgers, The Program in Culture and Politics at UNICAMP, Brazil, and the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n\n
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