Faculty Research
Dr. Chris O'Kane published "Reification and the Critical Theory of Contemporary Society" in Critical Historical Studies, Vol. 8, No. 1 (May 2021): 57–86.
In April 2021, Dr. Charles Olney published “Black Lives Matter and the Politics of Redemption,” in Philosophy & Social Criticism, https://doi.org/10.1177/01914537211009573.
Dr. Terence M. Garrett published “Kant’s Foedus Pacificum: Path to Peace or Prolegomena to Neoliberalism and Authoritarian Corporatist Globalization in Contemporary Liberal Democratic States?” in Annales. Ethics in Economic Life, Vol. 23, No. 2 (April 2021): 7-20.
Dr. Clyde W. Barrow published “Globalization and the Emergence of the Fortress State” in Science & Society, Vol. 85, No. 2 (March 2021): 170-177.
Dr. Kirstin Munro published “The Welfare State and the Bourgeois Family-Household” in Science & Society, Vol. 85, No. 2 (March 2021): 199-206.
Dr. Chris O’Kane published “Critical Theory and the Critique of Capitalism: An Immanent Critique of Nancy Fraser's ‘Systematic’ ‘Crisis-Critique’ of Capitalism as an ‘Institutionalized Social Order’” in Science & Society, Vol. 85, No. 2 (March 2021): 207-235.
In February 2021, Dr. Kirstin Munro and Dr. Chris O’Kane published “The Artisan Economy and the New Spirit of Capitalism” in Critical Sociology, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0896920521991195.
Dr. Dongkyu Kim, Dr. Mi-son Kim, and Dr. Natasha Altema McNeely in February 2021 published “Data on Race, Inequality, and Social Capital in the U.S. Counties” in Data in Brief, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2021.106717.
In December 2020, Dr. Mònica Clua-Losada (with co-author Olatz Ribera-Almandoz) published the article “Health Movements in the Age of Austerity: Rescaling Resistance in Spain and the United Kingdom” in Critical Public Health, https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2020.1856333.
Dr. Clyde W. Barrow's latest book The Dangerous Class: The Concept of the Lumpenproletariat was just published in November 2020 by the University of Michigan Press. Barrow argues that recent discussions about the downward spiral of the American white working class have reactivated the concept of the lumpenproletariat as a category of political analysis necessary to understanding the rise and appeal of right-wing populism in the United States and abroad.
Dr. Terence M. Garrett published “Border Security and Immigration Policy Management in South Texas by the Numbers: Perception, Stories and the Knowledge Analytic” in Public Voices, Vol. 17, No. 1 (October 2020): 4-20.
In September 2020, Dr. Kirstin Munro published “Solid Waste Management Practices and Their Meanings in Ecologically Conscious Households” in Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848620960410.
In September 2020, Dr. Chris O’Kane published “Capital, the State, and Economic Policy: Bringing Open Marxist Critical Political Economy Back into Contemporary Heterodox Economics” in Review of Radical Political Economics, https://doi.org/10.1177/0486613420940806.
Dr. Andrew M. Song, Dr. Owen Temby, Dr. Dongkyu Kim, and Dr. Gordon M. Hickey in September 2020 published “Assessing the Influence of International Environmental Treaty Secretariats Using a Relational Network Approach” in Earth System Governance, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2020.100076.
In September 2020, Dr. Mi-son Kim, Dr. Dongkyu Kim, and Dr. Natasha Altema McNeely published “Race, Inequality, and Social Capital in the U.S. Counties” in The Social Science Journal, https://doi.org/10.1080/03623319.2020.1799178.
In August 2020, Dr. Dongkyu Kim, Dr. Mi-son Kim, and Dr. Natasha Altema McNeely published “A Comparative Analysis of the Attitudes Toward the U.S.-Mexico Border Policy: Evaluating Perspectives on Border Security and Building a Wall in the Rio Grande Valley, National Hispanic and General U.S. Populations” in Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1177/0739986320953803.
Dr. Mònica Clua-Losada (with co-authors Nikolai Huke, David J. Bailey, and Olatz Ribera-Almandoz) published “Struggle, Resistance and Disruption in Austerity Europe” in The Routledge Handbook of Transformative Global Studies, which Routledge released in June 2020 and was edited by S. A. Hamed Hosseini, James Goodman, Sara C. Motta, and Barry K. Gills.
Dr. Alexandre Couture Gagnon published “Immigration Policy in Québec‐Canada as a Case Study of Incrementalism” in Canadian Public Administration/Administration publique du Canada, Vol. 63, No. 2 (June 2020): 247-270.
Dr. Dongkyu Kim, Dr. Mi-son Kim, and Cesar Villegas, a graduate student in our department, published “Organized Labor Strikes and Social Spending in Latin America: The Synchronizing Effect of Mass Protest” in Latin American Politics and Society, Vol. 62, No. 2 (May 2020): 99-109.
Dr. Charles Olney in May 2020 published “A New Metaphysics: Eternal Recurrence and the Univocity of Difference” in The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 34, No. 2 (2020): 179-200.
In May 2020, Dr. Andrew H. Smith published “The Effect of Ideology and Resource Advantages on Appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court” in Justice System Journal, DOI: 10.1080/0098261X.2020.1758978.
In April 2020, Dr. Terence M. Garrett published “COVID-19, Wall Building, and the Effects on Migrant Protection Protocols by the Trump Administration: The Spectacle of the Worsening Human Rights Disaster on the Mexico-U.S. Border” in Administrative Theory & Praxis, DOI:10.1080/10841806.2020.1750212.
Dr. Terence M. Garrett in April 2020 published the article “The Security Apparatus, Federal Magistrate Courts, and Detention Centers as Simulacra: The Effects of Trump's Zero Tolerance Policy on Migrants and Refugees in the Rio Grande Valley” in Politics & Policy, https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12348.
Dr. Alexandre Couture Gagnon, Filip Palda, and Katarzyna Sepielak published “Political Parties and Women’s Success in Municipal Elections in 2005 in Montérégie and Montréal (Québec, Canada)” in American Review of Canadian Studies, Vol. 49, No. 4 (2019): 497-510. This article was published online in March 2020 at DOI: 10.1080/02722011.2019.1714678.
Dr. Alexandre Couture Gagnon and Diane Saint-Pierre in February 2020 published “Identity, Nationalism, and Cultural and Linguistic Policies in Québec” in The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, DOI: 10.1080/10632921.2020.1720878.
Dr. Mònica Clua-Losada along with others published in February 2020 the article “Anti-Austerity Between Militant Materialism and Real Democracy: Exploring Pragmatic Prefigurativism” in Globalizations, DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2020.1722493.
Dr. Terence M. Garrett and Paul J. Pope published the chapter “Border Walls, DREAMers and Trump: Politics, Policy and the Banality of Evil” in Fresh Studies in Rio Grande Valley History, edited by M. Kearney, A. Knopp, A. Zavaleta, and T. D. Knight. This book was published in February 2020 by Texas Southmost College.
Dr. Alexandre Couture Gagnon and Carol A. Chapelle published “Opération Amérique: Québec’s Soft Power Applied to French Language Teaching in the United States” in American Review of Canadian Studies, Vol. 49, No. 3 (November 2019): 413-427.
Dr. Dongkyu Kim and others published “Trust and Influence in the Gulf of Mexico’s Fishery Public Management Network” in Sustainability, Vol. 11, No. 21 (November 2019): 6090.
Dr. Clyde W. Barrow published "Marxist Political Theory, Diversity of Tactics, and the Doctrine of the Long Civil War," in New Political Science: A Journal of Politics and Culture, Vol. 41, No. 4 (November 2019): 1-32.
Dr. William Sokoloff authored a book entitled Political Science Pedagogy: A Critical, Radical and Utopian Perspective, which Palgrave Macmillan published in October 2019.
Dr. Terence M. Garrett published the article “Policy Memo: Political Violence and Terrorism on the Mexico-US Border” in the journal Tiroteos en Estados Unidos y desafíos para la frontera con México. This journal was published in September 2019 by El Colegio de la Frontera Norte.