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Social Justice & Social Change

Marina Karides

Associate Professor of Sociology

Telephone
(954) 236-1053




Research and teaching interests:

Undergraduate courses:
Caribbean Inequalities
Class, Status, Power
Globalization and Fashion
Globalization and Social Movements
Qualitative and Comparative Historical
Methods
Global Cities
Global Perspectives on Racism and Sexism
Sexuality and Social Change
Urban Community

Graduate courses:
Gender and Sexuality
Globalism and the Post-Colonial Condition
Seminar in Advance Qualitative Methods
Seminar in Urbanization


Selected Publications:
2008
Judith Blau and Marina Karides (editors). A Better World is Possible, Necessary: The World and US Forums. Leiden, Boston, Tokyo: Brill Publishers.

2007
Jackie Smith, Marina Karides, Marc Becker, Christopher Chase Dunn, Dorval Brunelle, Donnatella Della Porta, Rosalba Icaza, Jeffrey Juris, Lorenzo Mosca, Ellen Reese, Jay Smith, Rolando Vasquez. The World Social Forums and the Challenges for Global Democracy. Paradigm Publishers: Boulder, CO.

2007
Marina Karides. “Informal Sector Workers, Gender, and Income Inequality in the Caribbean: The Case of Trinidad and Tobago.” Social Development Issues: Alternative Approaches to Global Human Needs 29:1: 42-64.

2007
Marina Karides. “Macro-economics and Micro-entrepreneurs: Comparing Two Island Nations’ Responses to Neo-liberalism and It’s Impact on Women’s Lives.” Pp. 73-85 in The Wages of Empire: Neo-liberal Policies, Repression, and Women’s Poverty, edited by Amalia Cabezas, Marguerite Waller, and Ellen Reese. Paradigm Publishers: Boulder, Colorado.

2007
John Cross and Marina Karides. “Modernity Challenged: Street Vendors in the Global Economy.” Pp. 19-35 in Street Entrepreneurs: People, Place, & Politics in Local and Global Perspective, edited by John Cross and Alfonso Morales. Routledge Press.

2007
Marina Karides. “Working Off the Books: Women and the Informal Economy in New Orleans.” Chapter in Socio-Economic Development and Social Cohesion. Papazisis: Athens, Greece. (published in Greek)

2005
Marina Karides. “Whose Solution Is It? Development Ideology and the Work of Micro-entrepreneurs in Caribbean Context.” International Sociology and Social Policy 25:1/2:30-62.

2007
Marina Karides. “Gender Makes the World Go Around” Contemporary Sociology. (Invited Featured Essay) 36:4:22-36.

Forthcoming:
Marina Karides and Thomas Ponniah. “The Achievements of WSF VII.” SocietiesWithout Borders 3:1.

Marina Karides. “Human Rights and the WSF.” Chapter for The Leading Rogue State: The US and Human Rights? Edited by Judith Blau, Cathy Zimmer, and David Brunsma.   Boulder,               CO: Paradigm Publishers.

Marina Karides and Judith Blau. “Introduction.” Chapter in A Better World is Possible, Necessary: The World and US Forums. Leiden, Boston, Tokyo: Brill Publishers.

Judith Blau and Marina Karides. “Introduction.” Societies Without Borders 3:1.

Farshad Araghi, Mark Frezzo, and Marina Karides. “Fracturing the Consensus: Popular Unrest and the Decline of Neo-Liberalism.” Chapter for Contested Futures: the World-System in Crisis, edited by Joya Misra and Agustin Lao-Montes. Boulder CO: Paradigm Publishers.

Service:
Dr. Karides has been active in the professional organizations of Sociologists Without Borders, Sociologists for Women in Society, Southern Sociological Society, the American Sociological Association, and more recently the Society for the Study of Social Problems. She is a member of the Political Economy of the World Systems Council and sits on the National Planning Committee of the United States Social Forum. In particular, she has worked to include US sociologists participation in the World Social Forum process.

FAU Campuses: Boca Raton/Davie/Dania Beach/Fort Lauderdale/Jupiter/Treasure Coast Boca Raton Campus Danie Beach Campus Davie Campus Fort Lauderdale Campus Harbor Branch Campus Jupiter Campus Treasure Campus


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