Please see Professor Alvarez's CV for a complete list of publications, including translations and reprints.
BOOKS
Translocalities/Translocalidades: Feminist Politics of Translation in the Latin/a Américas, co-edited with Claudia de Lima Costa, Verónica Feliu, Rebecca Hester, Norma Klahn, and Millie Thayer, with the assistance of Cruz C. Bueno. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014.
Cultures of Politics/Politics of Cultures: Re-visioning Latin American Social Movements, co-edited with Evelina Dagnino and Arturo Escobar. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998.
The Making of Social Movements in Latin America: Identity, Strategy, and Democracy, co-edited with Arturo Escobar. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992.
Engendering Democracy in Brazil: Women's Movements in Transition Politics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990.
EDITED ISSUES OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS
Guest co-editor, “Política Feminista de Tradução nas Américas Latinas” [Feminist Politics of Translation in the Latin/a Américas], with Claudia de Lima Costa. Revista Estudos Feministas (Brazil), Vol. 17, No. 3, 2009.
Editor, LASA Forum, six issues, Winter 2005-Spring 2006.
Guest co-editor, “Dossiê Fórum Social Mundial e Feminismos [World Social Forum and Feminisms Dossier],” with Nalu Faria and Miriam Nobre. Revista Estudos Feministas (Brazil), Vol. 11, No. 2, 2003.
Guest co-editor, “Dossiê Advocacy Feminista [Feminist Advocacy Dossier],” with Marlene Libardoni and Vera Soares.Revista Estudos Feministas (Brazil), Vol. 8, No. 2, 2000.
ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS
“Dislocating the Sign: Towards a Translocal Feminist Politics of Translation,” with Claudia de Lima Costa (lead author). Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society, fall 2014.
[Feminisms and Anti-racism: Obstacles and Intersections: An Interview with Luiza Bairros, Minister for the Secretariat of Policies for the Promotion of Racial Equality, Brazil]. Revista Estudos Feministas 20, 3 (Sept./Dec. 2012).
“Re-Visioning Latin American Studies,” with Arturo Arias and Charles R. Hale. Cultural Anthropology, 26, 2 (May 2011): 225-246.
“Translocalidades: Por uma política feminista da tradução” [Translocalities: Towards a Feminist Politics of Translation], with Claudia de Lima Costa. Revista Estudos Feministas (Brazil), Vol. 17, No. 3, 2009.
“Constituindo uma Política Feminista Translocal de Tradução ” [Enacting a Translocal Feminist Politics of Translation],Revista Estudos Feministas (Brazil), Vol. 17, No. 3, 2009.
“Beyond NGOization? Reflections on Latin America.” Development 52, 2. June 2009.
“Introdução: Um Outro Mundo [Também Feminista...] É Possível: Construindo Espaços Transnacionais e Alternativas Globais desde os Movimentos” [Introduction: Another World (also Feminist...) is Possible: Movements Building Transnational Spaces and Global Alternatives],” Revista Estudos Feministas (Brazil), Vol. 11, No. 2, 2003.
“Encountering Latin American and Caribbean Feminisms,” Lead/coordinating author in collaborative article with Elisabeth Jay Friedman, Ericka Beckman, Maylei Blackwell, Norma Chinchilla, Nathalie Lebon, Marysa Navarro, and Marcela Ríos-Tobar. Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society Vol. 28, No. 2 (Winter 2003).
“Os Movimentos Sociais, a Sociedade Civil e o 'Terceiro Setor' na América Latina: Reflexões Teóricas e Novas Perspectivas [Social Movements, Civil Society, and the 'Third Sector' in Latin America: Theoretical Reflections and New Perspectives],” with Evelina Dagnino. Primeira Versão (Brazil), Unicamp-IFCH. October 2001.
“Introdução: Dossiê Advocacy Feminista [Introduction: Feminist Advocacy Dossier],” with Marlene Libardoni and Vera Soares. Revista Estudos Feministas (Brazil), Vol. 8, No. 2, 2000.
“Translating the Global: Effects of Transnational Organizing on Latin American Feminist Discourses and Practices.”Meridians: A Journal of Feminisms, Race, Transnationalism, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2000.
“En Qué Estado está el Feminismo? Reflexiones Teóricas y Perspectivas Comparativas [What State Is Feminism In? Theoretical Reflections and Comparative Perspectives].” Estudios Latinoamericanos (México), vol. 12, 1999-2000.
“Advocating Feminism: The Latin American Feminist NGO 'Boom'.” International Feminist Journal of Politics, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1999.
“Feminismos Latinoamericanos [Latin American Feminisms].” Revista Estudos Feministas (Brazil), vol. 6, no. 2, 1998.
“Articulación y Transnacionalización de los Feminismos Latinoamericanos [The Articulation and Transnationalization of Latin American Feminisms].” Debate Feminista (México), Año 8, vol. 15, April 1997.
“Feminisms in Latin America: from Bogota to San Bernardo,” with Nancy Saporta Sternbach, Patricia Chuchryk, and Marysa Navarro, Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Vol. 17, no. 2, Dec.1992-Feb. 1993.
“Women's Participation in the Brazilian 'People's Church': A Critical Appraisal,” Feminist Studies, vol. 16, no. 1, Summer 1990.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
“Ambivalent Engagements, Paradoxical Effects: Latin American Feminist and Women’s Movements and/in/against Development.” In Sous le développement, le genre, edited by Isabelle Guérin, Hélène Guétat, and Christine Verschuur. Paris: IRD, 2014.
Translation: Palgrave, forthcoming.
“Enacting a Feminist Politics of Translation.” In Translocalities/Translocalidades: Feminist Politics of Translation in the Latin/a Américas, edited by Sonia E. Alvarez, Claudia de Lima Costa, Verónica Feliu, Rebecca Hester, Norma Klahn, and Millie Thayer, with the assistance of Cruz C. Bueno. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014.
“Beyond the NGO Boom? Reflections from Latin America.” In Theorizing NGOs: Feminist Struggles, States and Neoliberalism, edited by Victoria Bernal and Inderpal Grewal. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014.
“Globalised Localisms: The Travels and Translations of the World Social Forum Process”. World Social Forum: Critical Explorations, edited by Jai Sen and Peter Waterman. Volume 3–Challenging Empires series. New Delhi : OpenWord Books, 2013.
“Los Viajes de los Feminismos hacia Otros Movimientos Sociales,” with Equipo ‘Sidestreaming Feminisms’. In Movimientos Sociales: Entre la Crisis y Otros Saberes, edited by Gina Vargas, Raphael Hoetmer, and Mar Quintanilla. Lima: Programa Democracia y Transformación Global; Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2011.
“Disciplinamento ou radicalização dos feminismos no século XXI: Experiências Latino-americana” [Disciplining or Radicalization of Feminisms in the 21st Century: Latin American Experiences]. In Actas Congresso Feminista 2008, edited by Maria José Magalhães. Lisbon, Portugal, 2010.
“Repensando la Dimensión Política y Cultural desde los Movimientos Sociales Latinoamericanos: Algunas Aproximaciones Teóricas” [Rethinking the Cultural and the Poltical in Latin American Social Movements: Some Theoretical Reflections]. InRepensar la Política desde América Latina: Cultura, Estado y Movimientos Sociales, edited by Raphael Hoetmer. Lima: Programa Democracia y Transformación Global; Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2009.
“Afterword: The Politics of Place, the Place of Politics.” In Women and the Politics of Place, edited by Wendy Harcourt and Arturo Escobar. London: Kumarian Press, 2005.
“Introduction: The Cultural and the Political in Latin American Social Movements,” with Evelina Dagnino and Arturo Escobar. In Cultures of Politics/Politics of Cultures: Re-visioning Latin American Social Movements, edited by Sonia E. Alvarez, Evelina Dagnino and Arturo Escobar. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998.
“Latin American Feminisms 'Go Global': Trends of the 1990s, Challenges for the New Millennium.” In Cultures of Politics/Politics of Cultures: Re-visioning Latin American Social Movements, edited by Sonia E. Alvarez, Evelina Dagnino and Arturo Escobar. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998.
“Reweaving the Fabric of Collective Action: Social Movements and Challenges to 'Actually Existing Democracy' in Brazil.” In Between Resistance and Revolution: Cultural Politics and Social Protest, edited by Richard Fox and Orin Starn. Rutgers, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997.
“Para uma 'Coreografia' Democrática: Cultura, Política e Cidadania [Towards a Democratic Coreography: Culture, Politics and Citizenship].” In Trabalho, Cultura e Cidadania: Um Balanço da História Social Brasileira, edited by Angela M. C. Araújo. São Paulo: Scritta, 1997.
“'Redrawing' the Parameters of Gender Struggle: Concluding Reflections.” In Emergences: Latin American: Women's Struggles for a Livelihood, edited by John Freidman, Rebecca Abers and Lilian Autler. Los Angeles: Center for Latin American Studies, 1996.
“The Trans/formation of Feminism(s) and Gender Politics in Democratizing Brazil.” In The Women's Movement in Latin America: Participation and Democracy, edited by Jane S. Jaquette. Revised, updated 2nd edition. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994.
“'Deepening Democracy'“: Social Movement Networks, Constitutional Reform, and Radical Urban Regimes in Brazil.” InMobilizing the Community: Local Politics in the Era of the Global City, edited by Robert Fischer and Joseph Kling. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1993.
“Introduction: Theory and Protest in Latin America Today,” with Arturo Escobar. In The Making of Social Movements in Latin America: Identity, Strategy, and Democracy, edited by Arturo Escobar and Sonia E. Alvarez. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992.
“Conclusion-Social Movements in Contemporary Latin America: Theoretical and Political Horizons of Change,” with Arturo Escobar. In The Making of Social Movements in Latin America: Identity, Strategy and Democracy. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992.
“Contradictions of a 'Women's Space' within a Male-Dominant State: The Political Role of the Commissions on the Status of Women in Brazil.” In Women, International Development, and Politics: The Bureaucratic Mire, edited by Kathleen Staudt. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990; second edition, 1997.
“Women's Movements and Gender Politics in the Brazilian Transition.” In The Women's Movement in Latin America: Feminism and the Transition to Democracy, edited by Jane Jaquette. Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989.
“Politicizing Gender and Engendering Democracy.” In Democratizing Brazil, edited by Alfred Stepan. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.