{"id":120,"date":"2026-05-13T11:06:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jewishleft\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=120"},"modified":"2026-10-01T02:45:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T06:45:05","slug":"jeffrey-rubin","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jewishleft\/profile\/jeffrey-rubin\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Rubin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\">Jeffrey W. Rubin is the author of\u00a0<i>Decentering the Regime: Ethnicity, Radicalism, and Democracy in Juchit\u00e1n, Mexico\u00a0<\/i>(Duke 1997) and co-author of<i>\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<p class=\"p3\">Rubin\u2019s work is ethnographic, collaborative, interdisciplinary, and transnational.\u00a0 He is co-editor of\u00a0<i>Enduring Reform:\u00a0 Progressive Activism and Private Sector Responses in Latin America\u2019s Democracies\u00a0<\/i>(Pittsburgh 2015<i>),\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<i>.; Lived Religion and Lived Citizenship in Latin America\u2019s Zones of Crisis<\/i>, (a Special Issue of\u00a0<i>The Latin American Research Review,\u00a0<\/i>2014<i>),\u00a0<\/i>which grew out of a series of four international conferences involving social movement scholars and scholars of religion<i>;\u00a0<\/i>and<i>\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<i>.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22697,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jewishleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jewishleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jewishleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jewishleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jewishleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jewishleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/120\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jewishleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}