Kristin Ciupa

Dr. Kristin Ciupa teaches sociology of development and sociology of disaster. With a background in Sociology, Political Science and Law, her work is interdisciplinary and has focused on Venezuela, Latin America, Canada and the international. Her research explores natural resource extraction through an analysis of the interrelation between local and international development processes, markets and social relations. She has also written on how Canadian law and international law are shaped by relations of power between social actors in the neoliberal era.

Publications

Ciupa, K. (forthcoming). The Political Economy of Oil in Venezuela: Class Conflict, the State and the World Market. Brill.

Ciupa, K. (2021). Shifting Tides, Regional Reverberations: A Class-Relational Analysis of the ALBA-TCP. Globalizations. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2021.1991201

Ciupa, K. and Zalik, A. (2020). Enhancing Corporate Standing, Shifting Blame: An Examination of Canada’s Extractive Sector Transparency Measures Act. Extractive Industries and Society, 7(3), 826-834. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2020.07.018

Ciupa, K. (2017). The Promise of Rights: International Indigenous Rights in the Neoliberal Era. In: Neoliberal Legality: Understanding the Role of Law in the Neoliberal Project. H. Brabazon, ed. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Neoliberal-Legality-Understanding-the-Role-of-Law-in-the-Neoliberal-Project/Brabazon/p/book/9781138606135

Ciupa, K. (2017). Challenging the Dominance of Foreign Capital Requires Far Stronger Regional Integration. Jacobin. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/05/lessons-earned

Raddon, M-B. and Ciupa K. (2011). How to Write your Will in an Age of Risk: The Institutionalization of Individualism in Estate Planning in English Canada. Current Sociology, 59(6), 771-786. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0011392111419759