University of Massachusetts Amherst

Department of Sociology

 

 

 

Xiaoshuo Hou

Education

  • Anything But Racism: How Social Scientists Minimize the Impact of Race. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Hayward D. Horton. forthcoming, Routledge Press, 2004.
  • 'The Party and the Multitude: The Workers' Party (PT) and the World Social Forum,' forthcoming in Journal of World Systems Theory, 2003/2004.
  • 'Lula and The Contradictions of the the Good Governance Road: The PT as Urban Manager,' forthcoming in Development Update, 2003.
  • 'The Dynamism of the Unorganized' in Chavez and Goldfrank (eds), The Left and the City. Forthcoming, Latin American Bureau: 2003.
  • 'Inequality and Innovation: Brazil's Decentralization as Opportunity Structure' forthcoming in Bardhan (ed), Decentralization in the Developing World.
  • ‘Emergent Public Spheres: Talking Politics in Participatory Governance.' In American Sociological Review, 2003.
  • Synergizing Civil Society: State-Civil Society Regimes in Porto Alegre, Brazil.' In Political Power and Social Theory 15 2003.
  • ‘Anything but Racism: How Sociologists minimize the importance of Race' with Eduardo Bonilla-Silva . In Race & Society ,2003.
  • Gianpaolo Baiocchi, ed. Radicals in Power: Experiments in Urban Democracy in Brazil (Zed Press, 2003).
  • ‘The Porto Alegre Experiment in Empowered Participatory Governance'in Fung and Wright, eds. Real Utopias IV (Verso, 2003).
  • 'The Pariahs of the Wonderful City; fear and the imagined geography of citizenship in in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1977-1982.' DisClosure: A Journal of Social Theory 11, 2002.
  • 'On Just Getting By: Temporary Work in San Diego's High Tech Economy.' With Paula Chakravartty, and Sundari Baru. Center for Policty Iniatives, 2002.
  • ‘Media Coverage of 9-11 in Brazil' in New Media and Society 3:2, 2002
  • 'Brazilian Cities in the Nineties and Beyond: New Urban Dystopias and Dystopias'in Socialism and Democracy 31, November 2001.
  • 'Participation, Activism, and Politics: Porto Alegre and Deliberative Democratic Theory.' in Politics and Society, September 2001.

Funded Projects

  • Principal Investigator, with Patrick Heller (Columbia University), Shubham Chauduri (Columbia University), 'Evaluating Participatory Budgeting in Brazil', a Research Grant funded by the Inter American Dialogue for 2003-2004.

 

 

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