Summer Research Internship
with the Center for Global Justice, July 3-29, 2008

A four-week intercultural living and learning experience
in central Mexico for students from the U.S., Cuba and Mexico.

This unique internship brings together faculty and students from the U.S., Cuba and Mexico for participatory research into effects of globalization.  NAFTA, an early model for globalization, has made Mexico a laboratory where its economic effects on the global South  --  and oppositional democratic strategies  --  are both concentrated.

Participatory field research joins systematic observation to service in ongoing community projects. For the first half of the 4-week session undergraduate and graduate students will equip themselves with cutting-edge theory and method in San Miguel, a colonial city with a rich history.  In the second half interns will be placed with rural cooperativista families for participatory research requested by the communities.  Accompanied by faculty mentors, they will study how rural Mexicans live --  and creatively respond to  --  issues of immigration, land privatization, environmental degradation, and globalizing economic relations. Throughout, living with Mexican families will be a basis for concrete understandings.  Applicants are expected to have conversational ability in Spanish.

This singular combination of intensive study of globalization with action research into cooperative alternatives –all with multi-cultural perspectives –  affords participants a view of our historical epoch from below.

2008 Faculty and Staff

Gustavo Esteva (de-professionalized intellectual & founder of Universidad de la Tierra in Oaxaca – to be confirmed), Miguel Limia David ( Presidente, Consejo Ciences Sociales, Cuba – to be confirmed), Ross Gandy (sociology UNAM, Research Associate CGJ), Cliff DuRand ( philosophy, Research Associate CGJ), David Stea (geography, Research Associate CGJ), Bob Stone (philosophy, Research Associate CGJ), Betsy Bowman (Research Associate CGJ), Arturo Yarish (history, Research Associate CGJ), Silvia Elguea (environmental philosophy, Research Associate CGJ), Dawn McCarty (sociology, Research Associate CGJ), Yolanda Millan (field representative CGJ), Ilian Barrera Perez (field representative CGJ). 

Cost:  $1,500 USD will cover basic living expenses (housing and meals) and program costs.  To apply, send a letter of interest, a resume, and a letter of recommendation to intern@globaljusticecenter.org to arrive on or before April 15, 2008.