The Struggles of Solidarity: Chicana/o-Mexican Networks, 1960s–1970s

“Under Western Eyes” Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles

Struggles with the Continuum

Is spacetime really a continuum, with points being described—at least locally— by lists of real numbers? Or is this description, though immensely successful so far, just an approximation that breaks down at short distances? Rather than trying to answer this hard question, let’s look back at the struggles with the continuum that mathematicians and physicists have had so far. The worries go back ...

The Concept of Solidarity:

Trafficking Networks and the Mexican Drug War∗

Drug trade-related violence has escalated dramatically in Mexico since 2007, and recent years have also witnessed large-scale efforts to combat trafficking, spearheaded by Mexico’s conservative PAN party. This study examines the direct and spillover effects of Mexican policy towards the drug trade. Regression discontinuity estimates show that drug-related violence increases substantially after ...

Tuberculosis—the Face of Struggles, the Struggles We Face, and the Dreams That Lie Within

word for consumption), was named by the father of allopathic medicine, Hippocrates (c. 460–370 BCE), because the disease appeared to consume the affected person through substantial weight loss and wasting (1). Hippocrates warned his students against treating persons in late stages of tuberculosis, because nearly all of their patients would die, which would likely tarnish their reputations as he...