Ms Amanda Latimer
Faculties, departments and locations
- Faculty of Business and Social Sciences
- Department of Criminology, Politics and Sociology
- School of Law, Social and Behavioural Sciences
- Penrhyn Road
Senior Lecturer
- Email:
- [email protected]
About
Since joining Kingston in 2011, I've taught modules on the politics and sociology of development (with a focus on the global South), human rights and social justice movements, and been awarded two student-led learning and teaching awards. I am a social anthropologist whose work focuses on transnational labour and social movements against neoliberal free trade and investment agreements, and current debates around underdevelopment and imperialism. My main interests are the ways in which working people (broadly defined) cut across lines of difference, nation and region to combat the race to the bottom facing working people everywhere, albeit in very particular, historically-grounded ways. In 2022, together with my co-editor Jaime Osorio, I was the winner of the Paul A Baran-Paul M. Sweezy Memorial Award for the publication of The Dialectics of Dependency, a classic work on the roots of Latin American underdevelopment by the Brazilian sociologist Ruy Mauro Marini. I am currently completing a doctorate at York University in Toronto, Canada.
Qualifications
- BMus (minor in History), McGill University, Canada
- BA in Anthropology (minor in Development Studies), McGill University, Canada
- MA in Social Anthropology, York University, Canada
- PhD candidate in Social Anthropology, York University, Canada (current)
Domains
I completed the HEA Fellowship in 2019, and have delivered undergraduate modules in politics, sociology, anthropology and international relations in Canada and the UK since 2002.
Qualifications
- HEA Fellowship
My research generally examines the way working people understand and organize to oppose falling work and living conditions, often with unexpected allies. I've done ethnographic research into transnational social movements opposing neoliberal free trade agreements in Latin America and the Caribbean. I'm also interested in the intellectual life of social movements mobilized around such issues from the Caribbean and Latin American during the mid-20th century, including in the writings of Ruy Mauro Marini and Walter Rodney.
Specialisms
- Work, exploitation and oppression
- Labour and social movements
- Global governance
- Critical political economy
- Emancipatory thought from the Global South
Publications
The dialectics of dependency
Marini, Ruy Mauro, Latimer, Amanda and Osorio, Jaime (2022). New York, U.S.: (Monthly Review Press)
The future of work: super-exploitation and social precariousness in the 21st century
Sotelo Valencia, Adrian and Latimer, Amanda (2015). Leiden, The Netherlands: (Brill)
Education should be a right for all
Agnew, Eadaoin, Alliez, Eric, Auerbach, Paul, Blackburn, Robert, Botting, Fred, Brady, Mary, Caygill, Howard, Chadwick, Howard, Chanter, Tina, Choat, Simon, Chu, Jonathan, Cinpoes, Radu, Coultas, Valerie, Dines, Martin, Dixon, Paul, Favretto, Ilaria, Finn, Peter, Giaxoglou, Korina, Goldsmith, Carlie, Hallward, Peter, Hawkins, Sue, Haywood, Peter, Higginbottom, Andrew, Ichijo, Atsuko, Isaac, Marina, Jensen, Meg, Kayyali, Reem, Kettyle, Ann, Lambrou, Marina, Latimer, Amanda, Linton, Marisa, Lipsedge, Karen, Malabou, Catherine, O Maoilearca, John, McQuillan, Martin, Micklethwaite, Paul, Morgan Wortham, Simon, O'Brien, Catherine, Osborne, Peter, Pinnock, Winsome, Piper, Jason, Ponto, Maria, Raphael, Sam, Reid, Trish, Roberts, Mike, Rogers, David, Sandford, Stella, Searby, Michael, Siddiki, Jalal Uddin, Smart, Jackie, Spencer, Philip, Stockhammer, Engelbert, Stuart, John, Suess, Eleanor, Swift, Allan, Upstone, Sara, Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, Wells, Julian and Wilson, Scott, 2014, The Guardian
The Free Trade Area of the Americas in the long crisis of Brazilian labour
Latimer, Amanda, 2014, Globalizations (11), 1, pp 83-93
States of sovereignty and regional integration in the Andes.
Latimer, Amanda, 2012, Latin American Perspectives (39), 1, pp 78-95
Before Intersectionality : difference, exploitation and emancipation in Ruy Mauro Marini, Walter Rodney and Andaiye
Latimer, Amanda (2023). In: D'Souza, Radha, (eds.) and Thobani, Sunera, (eds.), Decolonizing Knowledge : Looking Back, Moving Forward. Bloomsbury Publishing
Situando a Ruy Mauro Marini (1932-1997) movimientos, luchas y comunidades intelectuales
Latimer, Amanda (2023). In: Osorio, Jaime, (eds.) and Luce, Mathias Seibel, (eds.), Dialéctica de la dependencia : a cincuenta años. Buenos Aires, Argentina: CLACSO, pp 391-474
Situating Ruy Mauro Marini (1932-1997) : movements, struggles, and intellectual communities
Latimer, Amanda (2022). In: Latimer, Amanda, (eds.) and Osorio, Jaime, (eds.), The dialectics of dependency. New York, U.S.: Monthly Review Press, pp 21-105
Superexploitation, the race to the bottom and the missing international
Latimer, Amanda (2016). In: Ness, Immanuel, (eds.) and Cope, Zak, (eds.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism.. Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, pp 1136-1150
The Free Trade Area of the Americas in the long crisis of Brazilian labour
Latimer, Amanda (2015). In: Bieler, Andreas, (eds.), Ciccaglione, Bruno, (eds.), Hilary, John, (eds.) and Lindberg, Ingemar, (eds.), Free trade and transnational labour. Abingdon, U.K.: Routledge, pp 83-94
Labour segmentation and the unity of the working class in Walter Rodney and Ruy Mauro Marini
Latimer, Amanda(2012). In: Ninth Historical Materialism Conference, 08 - 11 Nov 2012 :London, U.K.
A modernidade da superexploracao : segmentacao laboral e a luta pela unidade no movimento brasileiro contra ALCA = The modernity of Superexploitation : labour segmentation and the struggle for unity in the Brazilian movement against the FTAA
Latimer, Amanda(2012). In: 1st International Conference on Labor Theory of Value and Social Sciences., 18 - 19 Oct 2012 :Brasilia, Brazil
The Free Trade Area of the Americas in the long crisis of Brazilian labour : lessons for building North-South responses to the current crisis
Latimer, Amanda(2011). In: Trade Unions, Free Trade and the Problem of Transnational Solidarity, 02 - 03 Dec 2011 :Nottingham, U.K.
Challenges of network politics in the transnational movement against the FTAA
Latimer, Amanda(2006). In: Interdisciplinary Studies for the Faculty and Graduate Students, March 2006 :Florianopolis, Brazil