Broadly speaking, I am interested in the sociology of crime. Much ofmy work revolves around understanding the correspondence between crime and dynamic social contexts and life circumstances. I examine how life course events and processes shape stability and change in criminal and...
Lisa Kowalchuk
Lisa Kowalchuk received her B.A. in Sociology at McMaster University, her M.A. in Sociology from McGill University, and her Ph.D. in Sociology from York University. She taught for four years at St. Mary’s University in Halifax before joining U of Guelph in July 2004.
Research Area(s):
One of her main research interests is social movements and collective action. She has done research on small and landless farmers’ efforts to deepen and defend land reform, and maintains an interest in the fate of existing land reforms under state efforts to unravel them. She is also interested in collective resistance to neoliberal globalization in Central America, particularly trade integration and privatization of public services. Issues of gender justice in the developing country context are another area of interest, and have been a theme of several courses she has taught. With funding from SSHRC she is currently carrying out research on the impact of neoliberal policies on the work conditions of nurses in El Salvador and Nicaragua.
Selected Publications:
“Mobilizing Resistance to Privatization: Communication Strategies of Salvadoran Health-Care Activists,” Social Movement Studies: Journal of Social, Cultural and Political Protest (2011) 10 (2): 151-173.
“Can Movement Tactics Influence Media Coverage: Healthcare Coverage in the Salvadorean News.” Latin American Research Review 44:2 (June 2009) (forthcoming)
“The Discourse of Demobilization: Shifts in Activist Priorities and the Framing of Political Opportunities in a Peasant Land Struggle”, The Sociological Quarterly 46:2 (Spring 2005), pp. 237-261.
Pierce, Jen with Lisa Kowalchuk “Faith, Activism, and the Churches in Canada: Lessons from the Canada-Guatemala Solidarity Movement”, Studies in Religion 34: 3&4 (Summer/Fall 2005).
“Peasant Struggle, Political Opportunities, and the Unfinished Agrarian Reform in El Salvador,” The Canadian Journal of Sociology 28:3 (September 2003), pp. 309-340.
“To Compete or Cooperate?: Conflict and Coalition in the Salvadorean Peasant Movement,” The European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 74 (April 2003), pp. 43-63.
“Asymmetrical Alliances, Organizational Democracy, and Peasant Protest in El Salvador”, The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 40:3 (September 2003), pp. 291-309.
Email:
lkowalch@uoguelph.ca Phone:
56789
Office Number:
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