Faculty Scholarship
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 2000
Abstract
This Article places recent Lat-Crit scholarship in an institutional and inter-disciplinary context. It serves not just as an indictment of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) agenda of structural adjustment and liberalization. It also questions the positioning of Lat-Crit scholars to remain silent or complicit with the IMF's agenda. Canova provides a counter-narrative that is rich in historical revisionism, heterodox economics, and sociological conclusions. His recognition of the global unemployment crisis - made largely invisible by orthodox economics and flawed government measurements - is combined with existential insights about the nature of underemployment on the formation of individual identity and cultural pluralism. Originally entitled "Put the Crit Back Into Lat-Crit", but changed to its less controversial title due to pressure from leading Lat-Critters, the Article closes with a discussion that links the tension between acquiescence and critical distance among legal scholars to similar tensions within policymaking institutions such as the IMF and World Bank.
Publication Title
University of California Davis Law Review
Publication Title (Abbreviation)
U.C. Davis L. Rev.
First Page
1547
NSUWorks Citation
Timothy A. Canova,
Global Finance and the International Monetary Fund's Neoliberal Agenda: The Threat to the Employment, Ethnic Identity, and Cultural Pluralism of Latina/o Communities, 33
U.C. Davis L. Rev.
1547
(2000),
Available at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/law_facarticles/122