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Dr. Richard “Ricardo” Alan Dello Buono

Dr. R. A. Dello Buono

Dr. R. A. Dello Buono

Associate Professor of Sociology

Department Chairperson

 

Education:

  • Ph.D., Social Economy and Social Justice, Boston College, 1986
  • M.A., Sociology, University of Maryland, 1980
  • B.A., Sociology and Anthropology, 1978

Research and Scholarly Interests:

Contemporary Social Problems, Sociology of Development, Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Publications, Conference Papers, and Special Lectures (2000-2009):

Books:

2009    Latin America after the Neoliberal Debacle: Another Region is Possible, (with Ximena de la Barra), Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

2007    Un Continente en la Encrucijada: Nuestra América en Transformación, (with Marco A. Gandásegui, Jr., eds.), Panama City, CELA / Universidad de Panama.

2007    Neoliberalismo y Luchas Sociales en América Latina (with José Bell Lara, eds.), Bogotá: Editorial Antropos.

2006    Imperialism, Neoliberalism and Social Struggles in Latin America (with José Bell Lara, eds.), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers; 2009, Second Paper Edition, Haymarket Publishers, Chicago.

2006    Diálogo Sudamericano: Otra Integración Es Posible (ed.),  Lima, Peru: PCS/ Bellido Ediciones.  (Second Edition, 2006, Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar, Quito, Ediciones Tierra; Third edition, 2007, Editorial Universidad Bolivariana, Santiago de Chile.)

2005    Cuba in the Twenty-First Century: Realities and Perspectives, (with José Bell Lara, ed.), La Habana: Ediciones José Martí.

2004    Social Problems, Law and Society (with William J. Chambliss and A. Kathryn Stout, eds.), Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Pubs.

Articles / Book Chapters / Book Reviews

2009    “North American Free Trade Agreement,” Historical Encyclopedia of American Business and Finance, Salem Press, forthcoming.

2009    “Immigration and North American Free Trade Agreement,” Historical Encyclopedia of American Business and Finance, Salem Press, forthcoming.

2008    “‘Natural’ Disasters are Social Problems: Learning from Katrina,” (with A. Kathryn Stout), in Agenda for Social Justice: Solutions 2008, Knoxville: Society for the Study of Social Problems, pp. 23-27.

2008    “Guatemalan Peace Accords End Civil War,” in Great Events from History: The Twentieth Century, Robert F. Gorman, ed., Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, Inc., pp. 3010-3012.

2008    “Transnational Activism,” in Encyclopedia of Social Problems, Vincent N. Parrillo, ed., Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2: 955-957.

2008    “FARC Offensive Intensifies the Guerrilla War in Colombia,” in Great Events from History: The Twentieth Century, Robert F. Gorman, ed., Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, Inc., pp. 3008-3010.

2007    “Another Democracy is Possible: Reflections on Blau and Moncada’s “Substantive Democracy” (with A. Kathryn Stout), in Sociological Analysis, Vol. 1 (Autumn): 50-53.

2007    “Integrar para Transformar: Estrategias Emergentes de Nuestra América,” (with Ximena de la Barra), in Marco A. Gandásegui, Jr. y R.A. Dello Buono, eds, Un Continente en la Encrucijada, Panama City: CELA/University of Panama, pp.211-233.

2007    “El rediseño de América Latina: ALCA, MERCOSUR y ALBA,” (Claudio Katz), review in Critical Sociology, 33: 767-774. [Spanish version published in Tareas, Panama City, Panama, No. 127, pp. 105-115.]

2007    “The Changing Face of Latin America’s Political Parties,” in Imperialism, Neoliberalism and Social Struggles in Latin America, R.A. Dello Buono and José Bell Lara, eds., pp. 277-300.

2007    “Political Movements and Violence in Central America,” (Charles D. Brockett), review in Contemporary Sociology, 36 (2):173-75.

2006    “Sudamérica: entre la integración realmente existente y la otra integración posible,” in Diálogo Sudamericano: Otra Integración Es Posible, R.A. Dello Buono, ed., Lima, Peru: PCS/ Bellido Ediciones, pp. 13-26.

2006    “The Changing Face of Latin America’s Political Parties,” in Imperialism, Neoliberalism and Social Struggles in Latin America, R.A. Dello Buono and José Bell Lara, eds., pp. 277-300.

2006    Neoliberal Crises and the Resurgent Left in Latin America, (Special Issue of Critical Sociology, Vol 32(1), translated and edited with José Bell Lara, with Introductory Article and Memoriam to Andre Gunder Frank), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers Inc., 216pp.

2005    “El protagonismo de la sociedad civil contra el CAFTA y el TLC-Andina”,  Anuario de Integracion Latinoamericana y Caribeña, Buenos Aires: REDIALC/AUNA, pp.120-125.

2005    “Changing Tides of Cuban-US Relations,” in Cuba in the Twenty-First Century: Realities and Perspectives, José Bell Lara and R. A. Dello Buono, eds., p. 233-260.

2005    “Latin America in the Twenty-First Century: Toward a New Sociopolitical Matrix,” (Garretón, Manuel Antonio, Marcelo Cavarozzi, Peter S. Cleaves, Gary Gereffi, & Jonathan Hartiyn), review in Contemporary Sociology 34 (3):301-303.

2004    “2003- Otro año de lucha por definir una integración popular en el Gran Caribe”, Anuario de Integracion Latinoamericana y Caribeña, Buenos Aires: REDIALC/AUNA, pp.111-117.

2004    “Contextualizar el ALCA en la política exterior estadounidense: aportes para un análisis crítico”, in De la Integración al Sometimiento, Quito: Ediciones La Tierra, pp. 168-185

2004    “Critical Perspectives on Law and Society: A Social Problems Approach,” in Social Problems, Law and Society, eds. A. Kathryn Stout, William J. Chambliss and Richard A. Dello Buono, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Pubs.

2003    "Latin America at the End of Politics," review in Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 32(5): 621-23.

2003    "¿Concertación o Vietnamización? La reacción regional frente al Plan Colombia", Interlocuciones: Revista del Instituto UNIJS, No. 1 (Oct.), Bogotá, Colombia: pp. 124-43.

2003    Where Now for New Labour? review in SSSP FORUM 34(1):6-8.

2003    (Prologue) América Latina, el Caribe y Cuba en el contexto global, ed. by Carlos Oliva & Andrés Serbin, Editorial de FCL, Araraquara, SP Brazil, pp. 5-13.

2002    Preface (and complete English translation), Globalization and the Cuban Revolution by Jose Bell Lara, La Habana, Cuba: Editorial Jose Marti.

2002    "El plan colombia / la iniciativa regional andina: ¿hacia la guerra o la concertación?, Anuario de Integracion, REDIR, Morevallado Editores, Mexico, págs. 210-237.

2002    "¿Por qué la crisis de los partidos políticos latinoamericanos," Cuadernos de Nuestra America, No. 30 (julio-diciembre), págs. 31-54.

2002    "Las crisis sociales y el cambiante panorama de los partidos políticos,"  Tareas No. 112, CELA, Panama.

2002     "Los partidos politicos en la encrucijada: aspectos que contribuyen a explicar la crisis política en América Latina y el Caribe," in América Latina y el Caribe: Realidades Sociopolíticas e Identidad Cultural, El Salvador, Ediciones Heinrich Böll Stiftung, págs. 87-142.

2001    "Uncivil Movements: The Armed Right Wing and Democracy in Latin America" (Leigh A. Payne), review in Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 30, No. 3 (May), pp. 278-279.
2001    "War Crimes: Brutality, Genocide, Terror and the Struggle for Justice" (Aryeh Neier), review in Contemporary Justice Review,  Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 245-249.

Public Lectures / Conference Papers (since 2005, selected):

“The Class Character of Regional Integration in Latin America,” Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego, CA, April 9, 2009.

“Global Economic Crisis and the Upsurge in Transnational Criminal Activity,” invited public lecture at Department of Criminal Justice, Southern University at New Orleans (SUNO), New Orleans, LA, April 3, 2009. 

“Critical Sociological Theories Contributions to Understanding the Directions of Post-Katrina Reconstruction,” Southern Sociological Association, New Orleans, LA, April 4, 2009.

“Is Another Integration Possible? Lessons from Latin America,” invited public lecture at Wayne State University, Department of Sociology and the Center for Chicano-Boricua Studies, Detroit, Michigan, April 10, 2008.

“SOUTH-North Dialogue, session co-chair and organizer, co-sponsored by the American Sociological Association, Project Counseling Service (PCS) and the SSSP Global Division, New York City, August 11, 2007.

 “Globalization and Neoliberal Crises: Social Problems and Social Struggles,” symposium organizer, co-sponsored/funded by International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Ottawa; Rights and Democracy, Montréal;  Inter Pares, Ottawa; CRITICAL SOCIOLOGY (Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands); Programme of International Development Studies, Dalhousie University, Halifax; and the SSSP Global Division. Symposium convened at Hilton Montréal Bonaventure. Montreal, Canada, August 13, 2006. (Presentation: “South American Dialogue: Another Integration is Possible,” with Diana Avila, PCS-Peru, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 13, 2006.)

“Broadening the South American Dialogue: Is Another Integration Possible?” invited public lecture at the International Development Studies Programme, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, October 20, 2005.

Other Activities:

Book Series Editor, Critical Global Studies, Brill Academic  Publishers, Leiden,  The Netherlands.

Latin American and Caribbean Editor, Critical Sociology, Sage Publications.

Board Member,  Diálogo Sudamericano  (South American Dialogue)

Courses Taught:

  • SOC 201: Introduction to Sociology
  • LLRN 122: Roots of Social Science
  • SOC 301: Social Problems
  • SOC 416: Senior Seminar

 

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Page last updated: September 22, 2009