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Paul Almeida
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Social Movements, Climate Action, UC Merced, Community Surveys, Civic Engagement, Environmental Sociology, Central America, Rocksteady, Nueva Canción

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Paul Almeida @fast-reggae.bsky.social · Aug 7
19th Central American Sociological Association Meetings held this week at the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH). Conference theme highlights the role of sociology in addressing the climate crisis @clacso.bsky.social

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UC Merced Political Science @ucmpolisci.bsky.social · Jul 7
@ucmerced.bsky.social Ph.D. candidates Eliana Fonsah and our own Nihan Karagul are recipients of the competitive dissertation fellowship from the @ucigcc.bsky.social.

Congratulations to both! 👏

Read more: ucm.edu/3ocptd
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Paul Almeida @fast-reggae.bsky.social · Jun 8
New PhD in our sociology department at UCM:
sociology.ucmerced.edu/news/2025/dr...
Dr. Luis Rubén González Completes Ph.D. | Sociology
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Paul Almeida @fast-reggae.bsky.social · May 3
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Sociology Graduate Program Debuts Strongly in U.S. News Rankings | Newsroom
Only 10 years after it began, the Ph.D. program in UC Merced’s Department of Sociology made an impressive debut in U.S. News & World Report’s latest rankings of graduate-level offerings. The Sociology...
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Paul Almeida @fast-reggae.bsky.social · May 3
ucm.edu/81aqqr Grad Program recognized @ucmerced.bsky.social
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Paul Almeida @fast-reggae.bsky.social · Apr 25
New article on music and trauma in El Salvador...https://online.ucpress.edu/jams/article-abstract/78/1/53/206678/Faith-Trauma-Resistance-and-Resilience-in-the?redirectedFrom=fulltext
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Tulane Political Science @tulanepolisci.bsky.social · Apr 23
A recently published volume of The Oxford Handbook of Climate Action includes contributions from Tulane Political Science's own Professor Moises Arce, Assistant Professor Joshua Basseches (@joshuabasseches.bsky.social), and PhD Student Zoe Sullivan:

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The Oxford Handbook of Climate Action
Abstract. This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot ad
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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · Mar 26
Pleased to share this new collab piece, "Ecologically Unequal Exchange as a Catalyst for Climate Action", available as part of the The Oxford Handbook of Climate Action. It is freely available on on ResearchGate too. doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
#climate #ClimateJustice #ClimateCrisis #sociology
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UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation @ucigcc.bsky.social · Mar 24
A new article from 2023-24 IGCC Fellow Luis Rubén González Márquez—alongside @ucmerced.bsky.social professor Paul Almeida—analyzes how local economic threats from authoritarian forms of pro-market development models generate labor protest. Now available online: bit.ly/4iB20uT
The Glocal Foundations of Threat-Driven Labor Resistance to Authoritarian Capitalism
Labor has stood as a central actor in the waves of contention against authoritarian forms of pro-market development in the Global South. In this paper, we analyze the local-level conditions that foste...
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Benjamin H. Bradlow @bhbradlow.bsky.social · Mar 24
Very useful new handbook chapter by @hochstet.bsky.social, analyzing how, and to what extent we can think of "green transitions as climate action." Necessarily, she shows how this requires a much more global view than is typical.

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Tiago Carvalho @tiagomlcarvalho.bsky.social · Mar 21
Our chp (w/ P. Gardner) on Extinction Rebellion with
@OUPAcademic it's out. We look into one of the most influential climate movements of our time.
Published in Oxford Handbook of Climate Action (ed. Paul Almeida
Link: t.co/q0mNtd4XZz
https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/59772/chapter-abstract/508733082?redirectedFrom=fulltext
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