Scholarly Colloquia and Events

  • 1/30 Eduardo Moncada on Protection Rackets

     

    Resisting Protection? Variations in Forms of Resistence to Protection Rackets

    Eduardo Moncada

     

    Assistant Professor

    Department of Political Science

     Barnard College – Columbia University

     

    About the Speaker: Professor Moncada’s research agenda focuses on the political factors that shape the dynamics and consequences of urban violence and local democracy and development. His first book, Cities, Business and the Politics of Urban Violence in Latin America, analyzes and explains the ways in which major developing world cities respond to the challenge of urban violence. His talk will focus on the question: Do the victims of protection rackets resist?

     

    Monday, January 30th

    12:15pm–1:30pm | Oak 438

    Free and Open to the Public

    For more information, contact: Tom Hayes at thomas.hayes@uconn.edu