Order my new book and get a 40% discount.

You can now order a copy of my new book on the Temple University Press website, and get a 40% discount. Use the code GLOCAR19 to receive the discount. It will be out in mid-July. 

Interview on the Caribbean & the Trump administration's policies toward the region

Here is a two-part video interview that I conducted with the listener-sponsored alternative media outlet The Real News Network.   We discuss current events in the Caribbean, focusing on the Trump administration’s new aggressive policies toward Cuba and its attempts to divide CARICOM.  The videos are posted below: 

Part One

Part Two

Global Capitalism in the Caribbean

The 2018 summer issue of NACLA Report on the Americas includes my new article: "Global Capitalism in the Caribbean".  Read the article here or download the PDF here. Here is a French and Spanish translation of the article.

Check out the new issue of the @NACLA , focusing on Capitalism, Colonialism, and Climate Change in Caribbean. Nearly a year after Hurricanes Irma and Maria rocked the Caribbean, what lessons can we glean as we approach the 2018 hurricane season? pic.twitter.com/aqIhf12ruv

— LAPerspectives (@LAPerspectives) June 19, 2018

Forthcoming book with Temple University Press

I am happy to announce that Temple University Press will publish in early-2019 my second sole-authored book.  It will be titled: Globalizing the Caribbean: Political Economy, Social Change, and the Transnational Capitalist Class.  

CFP: Global Capitalism in the Americas

Call For Papers: Global Capitalism in the Americas The 4th Biennial Conference of the Network for the Critical Study of Global Capitalism (NCSGC) November 1-3, 2017 Colegio Universitario San Geronimo de La Habana, Cuba Featuring keynote speakers Luis Suarez and William I. Robinson

Co-sponsored by the Universidad de La Habana

In today’s global political economy, we are witnessing a new era of integration and inequality, which is playing out through particular expressions of systemic crises. We are also witnessing the rise of a ultra-neoliberal authoritarian political project in the United States, in conjunction with the resurgence of right-wing political sectors across the Americas. What should we understand about the particularities of this globalization phase in the history of world capitalism, and in the context of these regions and their populations? How can working and popular classes, and their movements from below, effectively coordinate and struggle in a world of capitalist globalization? The purpose of this conference is to focus critical studies of global capitalism on Central, North, and South America, and on the Caribbean, to provide opportunities for interested scholars and activists to explore, discuss, and debate related issues occurring in these regions.  • The transnational capitalist class across the Americas. • Capitalist globalization, capital accumulation and development. • Trumpism: the rise of neo-liberal authoritarianism and its neo-fascist contingents. • Movements from below, activism, and the popular classes in the 21st century Americas. • Migration and crossing borders. • Transnational capital and the state. • State repression, militarization, soft power, & coup d’etats. • Class war on the marginalized and super-exploited. • Financialization and tax havens. • Education and other institutions. • Global corporate networks intersecting with Latin America and the Caribbean. • Capitalism, class and power relations in these regions. • Gendered and Racialized social relations in the Western Hemisphere. • Ideological formation in the global epoch. • Natural resource conflicts and environmental movements. All abstracts (100 words) must be submitted by August 15, 2017 to: Vladimir Pacheco Cueva, vpc@cas.au.dk CONFERENCE COST: $175.00 US    For more information on the Network for the Critical Study of Global Capitalism see: https://netglobalcapitalism.wordpress.com/about/ Conference Organizing Committee: William K. Carroll (Univ. of Victoria, Canada), Vladimir Pacheco Cueva (Aarhus Univ. Denmark), Anthony van Fossen (Griffith Univ. Australia), Jerry Harris (Global Studies Association, US), Marek Hrubec (Czech Academy of Sciences), Georgina Murray (Griffith Univ. Australia), Isaias R. Rivera (Univ. Autonoma de Chihuahua, Mexico), William I. Robinson (Univ. of California Santa Barbara, US), Leslie Sklair (London School of Economics, UK), and Jeb Sprague-Silgado (Univ. of California Santa Barbara, US).