Informal workers—those laborers who, by definition, are "employed in enterprises that use power and employ fewer than 10 people or do not use power and employ fewer than 20 people "— comprise a …
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire: Honduras, Bolivia, and Executive Aggrandizement in 2017. By Amalia Perez @ Brown University.
Honduras, the will of the Honduran people, and the state of the country's democracy are — as we speak — under attack by the country's president, Juan Orlando Hernández Alvaro. A 6 PM curfew has been …
The Sisyphean Constraints of a Polarization-Era Protest. By Amalia Perez @ Brown University.
The steps of Rhode Island's state house rung electric on Sept 7, 2016, as hundreds gathered in protest against restrictive immigration policy and in support of DACA-mented individuals. The feverish …
Is the U.S. in the throngs of totalitarianism? According to history (and Arendt), not yet. By Amalia Perez at Brown University.
More than half a century after being written, Hannah Arendt's hypotheses explaining the roots and contours of totalitarianism remain, unequivocally, a preeminent theoretical framework. The Origins of …