Tardanico, Richard Graduate Faculty

Positions
Community-based faculty/student collaborative digital photography publication: "Little Haiti Confronts Gentrification, Dislocation, and Evictions"
Community-based faculty/student collaborative photography project video: "Little Haiti Confronts Gentrification"

biography

  • Education
    1973-1979 Johns Hopkins University, Ph.D., Sociology
    1970-1972 University of California at Berkeley, A.B., Psychology
    1968-1970 San Diego Mesa Community College

    Professional Experience
    1995-present, Associate Professor, Florida International University
    2008-2009, Founding Chair, Department of Global & Sociocultural Studies, Florida International University
    2001-2008, Chair, Department of Sociology/Anthropology and Department of Global & Sociocultural Studies, Florida International
    University
    1987-1995, Assistant Director, Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University
    1985-1987, Fulbright Visiting Professor, Universidad de Costa Rica and Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales
    1978-1985, Assistant Professor, Tulane University
    1977-1978, Visiting Research Fellow, Centro de Estudios Internacionales, El Colegio de México, Mexico, D.F.
    1976-1977, Instructor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Towson State University, Towson, Maryland
    1972-1973, Vista Volunteer, Teaching & Community Relations, Service & Rehabilitation in Addiction (SERA), Bronx, New York
    1972, Research Assistant, Model Cities Program, Police-Community Conflict in the Inner City, Pittsburg, California; Department of Psychology, University of California at Berkeley


    Ongoing research
    * the local/global political economy of community responses to speculative urbanism, focusing on accommodation and resistance to the Magic City Innovation District in Miami's Little Haiti
    * the politico-spatial economy of households in Greater Miami's communities of color


    Current grant funding
    * The Community Justice Project
    * The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (to FIU's School of International and Public Affairs: "Race, Risk, and Resilience: Toward a Local-Global Commons")



    Creative Works, Faculty/Student Community-based Video & Photography Collaborations
    * Video, "Little Haiti Confronts Gentrification" (A Mellon Foundation funded project: Humanities Edge, FIU: https://vimeo.com/407678089) (https://news.fiu.edu/2020/from-behind-the-lens-combatting-gentrification-and-creating-a-sense-of-community) (https://panthernow.com/2020/06/16/fiu-photography-project-captures-little-haitis-community-and-culture-at-risk-of-gentrification/)


    My current research articles are under review with the following peer-reviewed journals:
    * The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
    * Critical Housing Studies


    Publications
    Tardanico, Richard & Ulrich Oslender. “Dividing a City: Mega-speculation and Contention in Miami, Florida.” Astrágalo: Cultura de la Arquitectura y de la Ciudad. 2021 (29). https://dx.doi.org/10.12795/astragalo.2021.i29.05.

    Tardanico, Richard. “Post-Civil War San Salvador: Social Inequalities of Household and Basic Infrastructure in a Central American City.” Journal of Development Studies, vol. 44, no. 1 (2008), 127-152.

    Tardanico, Richard. “Employment Transformations and Social Inequality: A Comparison of Costa Rica, Guatemala, and the Dominican Republic.” Social and Economic Studies, vol. 52, no. 3 (2003), 119-141.

    Tardanico, Richard. “Globalization and Latin American Cities: Employment and Social Inequality in Transition.” sinn-haft, special issue on “Monopolis. Globalization and Urban Studies” (IFK International Research Center for Cultural Studies,Vienna, Austria), 14/15 (Spring 2003), 94-99.

    Tardanico, Richard. “De la Crisis a la Reestructuración: Las Transformaciones de América Latin y el Empleo Urbano en la Perspectiva Mundial.” Cuadernos de Ciencias Sociales-FLACSO. San José, Costa Rica: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, 2001.

    Tardanico, Richard & Mark B. Rosenberg, eds. Poverty or Development: Global Restructuring and Regional Transformations in the U.S. South and the Mexican South. New York: Routledge, 2000.

    Tardanico, Richard & Mark B. Rosenberg. “Two Souths in the New Global Order.” Pp. 3-19, 281-83 in Poverty or Development: Global Restructuring and Regional Transformations in the U.S. South and the Mexican South, eds. Richard Tardanico & Mark B. Rosenberg. New York: Routledge, 2000.

    Roberts, Bryan & Richard Tardanico. “Employment Transformations in Mexican and U.S. Gulf Cities.” Pp. 219-53, 293-96, in Poverty or Development: Global Restructuring and Regional Transformations in the U.S. South and the Mexican South, eds. Richard Tardanico & Mark B. Rosenberg. New York: Routledge, 2000.

    Tardanico, Richard. “Poverty or Development?” Pp. 257-80, 295-96, in Poverty or Development: Global Restructuring and Regional Transformations in the U.S. South and the Mexican South, eds. Richard Tardanico & Mark B. Rosenberg. New York: Routledge, 2000.

    Tardanico, Richard & Rafael Menjivar Larin, eds. Global Restructuring, Employment, and Social Inequality in Urban Latin America. Coral Gables, FL: North-South Center at the University of Miami; Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publications, 1997.

    Tardanico, Richard. “From Crisis to Restructuring: Latin American Transformations and Urban Employment in Contemporary World Perspective.” Pp. 1-45 in Global Restructuring, Employment, and Social Inequality in Urban Latin America, eds. Richard Tardanico & Rafael Menjivar Larin. Coral Gables, FL: North-South Center at the University of Miami; Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publications, 1997.

    Tardanico, Richard & Mario Lungo. “Continuities and Discontinuities in Costa Rican Urban Employment.” Pp. 95-141 in Global Restructuring, Employment, and Social Inequality in Urban Latin America, eds. Richard Tardanico & Rafael Menjivar Larin. Coral Gables, FL: North-South Center at the University of Miami; Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publications, 1997.

    Tardanico, Richard & Rafael Menjivar Larin. “Restructuring, Urban Employment, and Social Inequality: Comparative Patterns and Policy Implications.” Pp. 233-79 in Global Restructuring, Employment, and Social Inequality in Urban Latin America, eds. Richard Tardanico & Rafael Menjivar Larin. Coral Gables, FL.: North-South Center at the University of Miami; Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publications, 1997.

    Tardanico, Richard, "Restructuring, Employment, and Gender: The Case of San José, Costa Rica.” Studies in Comparative International Development, vol. 31, no.3 (1996), 85-122.

    Tardanico, Richard. "From Crisis to Restructuring: The Nexus of Global and National Transformations in the Costa Rican Labor Market." Review (Fernand Braudel Center), vol. 19, no. 2 (1996), 155-196.

    Tardanico, Richard, & Mario Lungo. "Local Dimensions of Global Restructuring: Changing Labour-Market Contours in Urban Costa Rica." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (1995).

    Tardanico, Richard. "Dimensions of Structural Adjustment: Gender and Age in the Costa Rican Labour Market." Development and Change, vol. 24, no. 3 (1993), 511-539.

    Tardanico, Richard. "Transiciones de mercado laboral: Costa Rica en perspectiva comparativa." Revista Occidental, vol. 10, no. 2 (1993), 187-214.

    Tardanico, Richard. "Economic Crisis and Structural Adjustment: The Changing Labor Market of San José, Costa Rica." Comparative Urban & Community Research, vol. 4 (1992), 70-104.

    Tardanico, Richard. "Género, edad y mercado laboral: el caso de Costa Rica." Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos, vol. 17, no. 2 (1991), 31-46.

    Tardanico, Richard. "Crisis económica y ajuste estructural: el mercado laboral en San José, Costa Rica, 1979-1987." Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos, vol. 16, no. 2 (1990)/vol. 17, no. 1 (1991), 93-115.

    Smith, Michael Peter & Richard Tardanico. "Urban Theory Reconsidered: Production, Reproduction and Collective Action.” Pp. 87-110 in The Capitalist City: Global Restructuring and Community Politics, eds. Michael Peter Smith & Joe R. Feagin. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987.

    Tardanico, Richard, ed. Crises in the Caribbean Basin, ed. Richard Tardanico, vol. 10, Political Economy of the World-System Annuals. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.

    Tardanico, Richard. “Issues in the Study of Caribbean Crises." Pp. 9-28 in Crises in the Caribbean Basin, ed. Richard Tardanico, vol. 10, Political Economy of the World-System Annuals. Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage Publications.

    Tardanico, Richard. "State Responses to the Great Depression, 1929-1934: Toward a Comparative Analysis of 'Revolutionary' Mexico and 'Non-Revolutionary' Colombia." Pp. 113-140 in Crises in the Caribbean Basin, ed. Richard Tardanico, vol. 10, Political Economy of the World-System Annuals. Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage Publications.
    Spanish version: "Respuestas de diferentes estados a la gran depresión, 1929-1934: hacia un análisis comparativo de México 'revolucionario' y Colombia 'no-revolucionaria'." Revista Occidental, vol. 8, no. 1 (1991), 49-76.

    Tardanico, Richard. "The Mexican State and the World Crisis, 1929-1934." Review (Fernand Braudel Center), vol. 9, no. 3 (1986), 453-480.
    Smith, Michael Peter, & Richard Tardanico. "Reactions locales a la crise economique: les villes americaines et al nouvelle division internacionale du travail.” Anthropologie et Societes , Special Issue on Local Power and Economic Crisis, vol. 9, no. 2, (1985), 7-24.

    Tardanico, Richard. "Revolutionary Mexico and the World Economy: The 1920s in Theoretical Perspective." Theory and Society, vol. 13, no. 6 (1984), 757-772.
    Spanish version: "El México revolucionario y la economía mundial: los años veinte vistos desde una perspectiva teórica." Revista Occidental, vol. 5, no. 3 (1988), 275-294.

    Tardanico, Richard. "México revolucionario, 1920-1928: capitalismo transnacional, luchas locales y formación de nuevo estado." Revista Mexicana de Sociología, vol. 45, no. 2 (1983), 375-405.

    Tardanico, Richard. "State, Dependency, and Nationalism: Revolutionary Mexico, 1924-1928." Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 24, no. 3 (1982), 400-423.

    Tardanico, Richard. "Perspectives on Revolutionary Mexico: The Regimes of Obregon and Calles." Pp. 69-88 in Dynamics of World Development, ed. Richard Rubinson, vol. 4, Political Economy of the World-System Annuals. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1981.
    Tardanico, Richard. "Revolutionary Nationalism and State Building in Mexico, 1917-1924." Politics and Society, vol. 10, no. 1, 59-86.

    Tardanico, Richard. "Revolutionary Nationalism and State Building in Mexico, 1917-1924." Politics and Society, vol. 10, no. 1, 59-86.

research interests

  • Local/global political economy; urban/regional studies; politico-spatial economy of households; Latin America, Caribbean, Miami

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