Jeffrey Rubin

Jeffrey W. 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).  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.

Rubin’s work is ethnographic, collaborative, interdisciplinary, and transnational.  He is co-editor of Enduring Reform:  Progressive Activism and Private Sector Responses in Latin America’s Democracies (Pittsburgh 2015), 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’s Zones of Crisis, (a Special Issue of The Latin American Research Review, 2014), which grew out of a series of four international conferences involving social movement scholars and scholars of religion; and Beyond Civil Society:  Social Movements, Civic Participation, and Democratic Contestation (Duke, forthcoming 2016), the result of a hemisphere-wide collaboration among social movement scholars that compares disruptive activism “in the streets” with engagement in the participatory institutions developed by Latin America’s leftist governments.