Música Contestataria and Collective Resistance in Central America
with Paul Almeida & Luis Rubén González Márquez
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Starts at 12 PM
COB 2-295
RSVP here
For any questions please contact humanities@ucmerced.edu
About the speakers:
Professor Almeida is the Chair of the Section on Political Sociology of the American Sociological Association. His research centers on the efficacy of collective mobilization. He has documented dozens of large-scale campaigns whereby ordinary citizens and excluded social groups mobilized to protect themselves from the loss of vital necessities of health care, pensions, water/sewer services, utilities, environmental health, and social citizenship rights. These studies are driven by a larger concern for understanding the conditions under which societies and communities successfully maintain access to basic public goods and services. He currently has several studies on community level climate action.
Luis Rubén González earned a B.A. degree in History from the University of El Salvador and a master’s degree in Sociology from the Latin American Faculty of Social Science in Ecuador (FLACSO Ecuador). He worked as researcher in the National Teachers Training Institute (INFOD) of El Salvador and as Adjunct Professor in the Social Science School of the University of El Salvador. For his graduate studies in 2019-2021, he received a Fulbright-LASPAU scholarship for the development of higher education in the Americas. His research interests are historical sociology, popular mobilization, political violence, and global labor inequalities in Latin America.
