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2007 Summer Internship
Preliminary Calendar
Sunday July 1
Students arrive in SMA; airport shuttle from Leon provided for students. During their first two weeks Interns will live with Mexican families.
Monday July 2
10:00 AM - Orientation Meeting at Quebrada 67.
Walking tour of San Miguel de Allende
WEEK ONE
Another World Is Necessary: the Center for Global Justice Agenda
Tuesday July 3
“El Norte: Migration Experiences in Mexico ”
9:30 – 10:00 a.m. Interns gather for conversation.
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM “Issues of Migration: Mexican Voices and Research Methodologies” Dr. Dawn McCarty, Assistant Professor of Social Work, University of Houston-Downtown, will discuss her research project and methods she has used for the study of women and migration. She and Dr. David Stea, Profressor Emertitus, Texas State University and Catedra Extraordinaria, Universidad Nacional Autonomo de México will discuss research methodologies in general.
Readings: Richard Vogel "Transient Servitude: The U.S. Guest Work Program for Exploiting Mexican and Central American Workers", two essays by Arturo Yarish, "A Brief History of Migration/Immigration" http://www.globaljusticecenter.org/studygroups/imm_feb15_yarish.htm and "Migration in the Context of Global Capitalism" http://www.globaljusticecenter.org/papers2006/yarishENG.htm
1:00 - 3:00 PM COMIDA
3:00-5:00 p.m. Arturo Yarish, "Migration"
Wednesday July 4
“The Price of Tortillas: the Future of Food in the Global Economy”
10:00-11:15 a.m. Dr. Ricardo Preciado Ortiz (from Celaya), regional expert on the question of Corn in Mexico, discusses recent changes in production and distribution of corn in Mexico
11:30 – 1:00 p.m. Film and Discussion: “The Future of Food”
2:00 p.m. – Picnic-party
Thursday July 5
“ABC’s of Neo-Liberalism: Its Patterns and Critique”
9:30 – 10:00 Students meet for conversation
10:00– 12 noon Dr. Cliff DuRand, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Morgan State University and co-founder of Center for Global Justice, discusses neo-liberalism as an ideology guiding corporate globalization from the point of view of the global South. This will include a contrast between neo-liberalism and welfare liberalism in historical context, neo-liberalism as a class project, the transformation of nation-states into globalized states, etc.-- all illustrated with reference to NAFTA.
Readings:
Cliff DuRand, “Neo-liberalism and Globalization” in English & Spanish at http://www.globaljusticecenter.org/papers/durand2.htm
Cliff DuRand, “State Against Nation” in English at http://www.globaljusticecenter.org/papers2006/durandENG.htm
David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism (Oxford University Press, 2005)
Jeff Faux, The Global Class War (John Wiley, 2006)
12 - 1 : brunch break
1:00-3:00 Dr. Mike Rivage-Seul, Professor of General Studies and Theology and Director of Peace and Justice Studies at Berea College, presents a model for thinking about the free trade economy. This analysis includes competing narratives for understanding the theory and practice of comparative advantage, the presence of multinational corporations in “third world” settings, resulting population problems, international debt and military policy.
Readings: Chapter 2 & 3 from A Kinder and Gentler Tyranny: Illustions of the New World Order (English only)
12:00 – 1:00 questions and discussion
3:00 pm. – 5:00 p.m. Film - "Life and Debt "
Friday July 6
Taller de Educación Popular
10:00 AM - 1:50 PM
2:00 - 3:00 PM - COMIDA
3:00 - 5:00 PM
Gloria Carmona, popular educator belonging to the women's collective COMALETZIN, leads a full day workshop on Popular Education. Gloria has worked with many civil organizations in Mexico, so interns will have an experiential opportunity to learn the methods for teaching social issues at the grassroots level.
Saturday and Sunday July 7-8
Fiesta de la Santa Cruz en el Charco del Ingenio Jardín Botánico
WEEK 2:
Mexican Responses to the Neo-liberal Economy
This week we will hear two different voices critique socio-economic policies in Mexico and Latin America: Enrique Dussel Peters and Gustavo Esteva.
On Monday and Tuesday, Dr. Enrique Dussel Peters, Professor of the Graduate School of Economics at UNAM, will discuss the topic of neo-liberalism, its origins, and "application" in Latin America and Mexico since the 1980s. In addition, he will review, in the context of NAFTA, the effects and impacts of the export-oriented strategy in Mexico with regard to employment, social issues (e.g., poverty and wages), among others) the increasing socioeconomic and territorial polarization in Mexico.
In Dr. Dussel Peters work, there is an attempt to be "critically-constructive" of neo-liberalism, arguing that it is mainly founded in the thought of von Hayek and Friedman, and that it has little to do with socioeconomic policies in Latin America since the 1980s, particularly for Mexico.
From Wednesday through Saturday, Gustavo Esteva, leading intellectual in Mexico, will discuss indigenous perspectives on globalization, including the Zapatista response and the current civil unrest in Oaxaca. Gustavo’s presentations will be devoted to creating an understanding Mexico’s current political dynamics around the exercise of democracy in the country’s electoral process, and the efforts to create radical democracies throughout Mexico.
Monday July 9
10:00 AM - 1 PM
Neoliberalismo y globalización
- Neoliberalismo e industrialización orientada hacia las exportaciones
- Globalización en espacio y tiempo: diversos debates en torno a la competitividad
- Implicaciones conceptuales y de política
- Discusión
Lecturas propuestas/referencias: Altvater y Mahnkopf (2002; 2006); Dussel Peters (2000*, 2006); Hinkelammert (1984)*; Rodrick (2006).
1:00 - COMIDA
Tuesday July 10
10:00 AM - 1 PM
Estrategia de la liberalización y efectos en la socioeconomía mexicana (1988-el presente)
- Estrategia de la liberalización y estrategia en México (1988- ) y el TLCAN
- Condiciones y retos de la socioeconomía mexicana (1988-2007)
- Discusión
Lecturas propuestas/referencias: Aspe Armella (1993)*; Dussel Peters (2000)*; Monitor de la Manufactura Mexicana 2007); Sojo Garza-Aldape (2005).
1:00 - COMIDA
Lecturas preparatorias
Gustavo Esteva, fragmento de “The Other Campaign and the Left” (“La Otra Campaña y la Izquierda), en Z Magazine, Internet
The Ecologist, “Reclaiming the commons” (“Recuperar los ámbitos de comunidad”), Whose Common Future, London: Earthscan, 1993 (El nuevo ecologismo, México: Editorial Posada, 1995).
W.Sachs, “Introduction” (“Introducción”) y G. Esteva, “Development” (“Desarrollo”), W. Sachs, The Development Dictionary, London: Zed Books, 1991 (Diccionario del desarrollo, México: Galileo Ediciones/Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, 2001).
Miércoles 11 de julio
LA TRANSICIÓN POLÍTICA
10:00-10:40 La transición política
El final del antiguo régimen y la disputa por la construcción del nuevo.
10:40-11:15 Discusión
11:15-11:30 Receso
11:30-12:30 La recuperación de los ámbitos de comunidad
La reacción de la gente ante el neoliberalismo – más allá del desarrollo.
12:30-1:00 PM Discusión
1:00-3:00 COMIDA
3:00-3:40 Naturaleza y alcances del zapatismo
Historia y carácter del zapatismo. Su dimensión internacional.
3:40-4:30 VIDEOS ON ZAPATISMO.
Lecturas preparatorias
Gustavo Esteva, Celebration of Zapatismo (Celebración del zapatismo), Oaxaca: Ediciones ¡Basta!, 2006.
Jueves 12 de julio
ZAPATISMO Y APPO
10:00-10:40 El zapatismo: los desafíos actuales
La Otra Campaña y las actividades en la zona zapatista
10:40-11:15 Discusión
11:15-11:30 Receso
11:30-12:15 Naturaleza y alcances de la Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca (APPO) Historia y carácter de la lucha actual en Oaxaca.
12:15-13:00 Discusión
1:00-3:00 COMIDA
15:00-16.00 VIDEOS sobre APPO
Lecturas preparatorias
Gustavo Esteva, “El camino de la democracia radical” (The path to radical democracy) En prensa.
Gustavo Esteva, “Mexico: Creating Your Own Path at the Grassroots” (“La construcción de un camino propio”), Verónica Bennholdt-Thomsen, Nicholas Faraclas and Claudia von Werlhof (Eds.), There is an Alternative: Subsistence and Worldwide Resistance to Corporate Globalization, London: Zed Books, 2001.
Viernes 13 de julio
NUEVAS INCIATIVAS
10:00-10:40 Iniciativas más allá del capitalismo en Oaxaca y Chiapas
Nuevas practices y actitudes – tecnolog{ias alternatives, nuevos sistemas de intercambio, etc., que implican un nuevo sistema de relaciones más allá del capitalismo y los límites de estas experiencias.
10:40-11:15 Discusión
11:15-11-30 Receso
11:30-12:15 Comida y alimento: dos maneras de estar en el mundo
La recuperación contemporánea de antiguos estilos de comer y los nuevos movimientos sociales
12:15-13:00 Discusión
13:00-15:00 COMIDA
15:00-15:40 Escapar de la educación
(La educación como la economización del aprendizaje. Cómo ir más allá de la economía.)
15:40-16:00 Discusión
16:00-18:00 Película: The gods Must Be crazy (Los Dioses Deben de Estar Locos)
Lecturas preparatorias
Gustavo Esteva, “Volver a la mesa”, José Lutzenberger y Franz-Theo Gottwald, Ernährung in der Wissensgesellschaft, Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2000, o “Reembedding Food into Agriculture”, Culture and Agriculture, 48, Winter, 1994
Gustavo Esteva, Madhu S. Prakash and Dana Stuchul, “From Pedagogy for Liberation to Liberation from Pedagogy” (“De la pedagogía de la Liberación a la liberación de la pedagogía”), C.A.Bowers and Frédérique Apffel-Marglin, Rethinking Freire: Globalization and the Environmental Crisis, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005.
Sábado 14 de julio
RETOS AL NIVEL LOCAL, NACIONAL E INTERNACIONAL
10:00-10:40 Desafíos políticos locales, nacionales e internacionales
Límites y potencialidades de la acción local. Movimientos sociales contemporáneos: El Foro Social Mundial, Vía Campesina, etc. La situación posterior al Consenso de Washington.
10:40-11:15 Discusión
11:15-11:30 Receso
11:30-1:00 PM Conversación abierta
1:00 - 3.00 COMIDA
3:00 - 5:00 Group evaluation in group of experiences to date; final preparations for field work in communities to take place the next two weeks. Dr. Dawn McCarty.
WEEKS 3 and 4:
Research/Learning in Rural Communities
July 16 – July 29
For these two weeks Interns will live with families in one of the following rural communities. They will conduct supervised field investigations and help in a community service project.
1. La Cieneguilla: This community is one of the bases of Mujeras Productoras, a cooperative of 104 women who make handicrafts.
2. Penon de los Banos: A dairy farm where the campesinos have held on to their ejido land while all around them others sold their land to a giant agribusiness.
3. El Batan: A riverside community where the locals work with the wild carrizo ("Mexican bamboo") plant for weaving of baskets and construction of thatch structures.
WEEK 5: Alternatives to Neo-Liberal Economies: Cuba and Argentina
The final week Interns will return to San Miguel to present their findings, write up their reports and consider alternatives to neo-liberalism. Miguel Limia David will be with us for this week to talk about the Cuban alternative. He is a leading Cuban social scientist and head of the Cuban Social Science Council.
Monday July 30
INTERNS REPORT, INTRO TO ISSUES IN CUBA
10:30 – 12:30 Intern's "enacted" report: Biblioteca Pública - Sala Quetzal
12:30 - 1:30 break (lunch in Cafe Santa Ana)
1:30 - 4 p.m. Miguel Limia, "What is the role of the State in social development?" Biblioteca Pública - Sala Quetzal
evening - Farewell party for Cuban investigators
Tuesday, July 31
CUBA
10:00 – 11:15 a.m. Miguel Limia "What is the role of the State in local development?" Quebrada 67
11:15-11:30 a.m. break
11:30 – 1:00 p.m. Questions and discussion: Quebrada 67
1:00 - COMIDA
afternoon: interns work on writing up their research projects
Wednesday, August 1
ARGENTINA & CUBA
10:00 -11:15 a.m. Betsy Bowman and Bob Stone: “The Solidarity Economy: Cooperatives in Mexico, Argentina, and Venezuela.” : Quebrada 67
11:15-11:30 a.m. break
11:30-12:15 Miguel Limia "ALBA: The Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas" Quebrada 67
12:15- 1:00 p.m. Questions and discussion: Quebrada 67
1:00 - COMIDA
3:00 -5:00 p.m. Film (optional): “The Greening of Cuba”: Quebrada 67
Thursday, August 2
10:00 - 12:00 (optional) Visit to GAIA-Ecological community in Sosnabar
afternoon: Interns work on writing up their research projects or
(optional) Interns attend sessions of the Working Groups, Center for Global Justice, Calzada de la Luz #42
Friday, August 3
(optional) Interns attend sessions of the Working Groups: Center for Global Justice, Calzada de la Luz #42
Written Reports due at 5:00 p.m.
5:00 PM - Evaluation of the program, Dra. Dawn McCarty & Dr. David Stea: Center for Global Justice, Calzada de la Luz #42
Evening - Farewell fiesta for Interns
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