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B.A. University of Virginia Contact Information:
Chair, Department of Political Science |
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Short Biography:
Jeffrey Ayres, Professor and Chair in the Department of Political Science, teaches and specializes in international relations focusing especially on global and regional governance and globalization, transnational social movements and global political economy. Additional research interests include Canadian and North American politics. He is the co-editor of Contentious Politics in North America: National Protest and Transnational Collaboration under Continental Integration (Palgrave Macmillan) and the author of Defying Conventional Wisdom: Political Movements and Popular Contention Against North American Free Trade (Toronto 1998), as well as articles, chapters and reviews on the above topics. |
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"Civil Society Organizing Under Continental Integration: The Promise and Limits of Community-Building 'From Below'," pp. 423-440 in Yasmeen Abu-Laban et al eds. North American Politics: Globalization and Culture (Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2008). "Divergent Campaigns towards Global Health Governance: Canadian and U.S. approaches to the Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic," with Patricia Siplon, Canadian-American Public Policy 69 (January 2007). "Deep Integration and Shallow Governance: the Limits to Civil Society Engagement Across North America," with Laura Macdonald, Policy and Society 25(6) 2007: 23-42. Available at http://www.policyandsociety.org/archive/vol25no3/PS%2025-3%20AYRES%20&%20MACDONALD.pdf "Do Social Movements Offer Viable Alternatives," in Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of Third World Studies, special issue on social movements, 2(2) 2006: 135-141. "Civil Society Participation in Canadian Foreign Policy: Expanded Consultation in the Chretien Years," pp. 491-512 in Patrick James and Marc O'Reilly, eds., Handbook on Canadian Foreign Policy (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006). "Transnational Activism in the Americas: the Internet and Innovations in the Repertoire of Contention," Research on Social Movements, Conflicts and Change 26 (Fall 2005): 35-61. "Global Governance and Civil Society Collective Action: the Challenge of Complex Transnationalism," in a special issue of International Journal of Political Economy, "Current Crises at the World Trade Organization," 33(4) (Winter 2003-4): 84-100. "Political Economy, Civil Society and the Deep Integration Debate in Canada," American Review of Canadian Studies 34(4) (Winter 2004): 621-647. "Power Relations Under NAFTA: Reassessing the Efficacy of Contentious Transnationalism," Studies in Political Economy 74 (Autumn 2004): 101-123. "Framing Collective Action Against Neoliberalism: the Case of the 'Anti-Globalization' Movement," in Journal of World System's Research: Special Issue on Global Social Movements Before and After 9-11 (Winter 2004) 10(1): 2-26, available at: http://jwsr.ucr.edu/archive/vol10/number1/pdf/jwsr-v10n1-ayres.pdf "Globalization and Transnational Protest: No Swan Song Yet for the State," pp. 25-42 in Gordon Laxer and Sandra Halperin eds. Global Civil Society and Its Limits (London: Palgrave, 2003) "Contesting Neoliberalism: the Political Economy of Transnational Protest," pp. 80-104 in Marjorie Cohen and Stephen McBride eds. Global Turbulence: Social Activists' and State Responses to Globalization (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003). "The Shifting Grounds for Transnational Civic Activity," After September 11: Perspectives from the Social Sciences, with Sidney Tarrow, available at http://www.ssrc.org/sept11, (Spring 2002). "Transnational Political Processes and Contention Against the Global Economy," in Mobilization: an International Journal 6 (Spring 2001): 55-69. |
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