By Robert Fairlie (UC Santa Cruz) June 2020 Social distancing restrictions and demand shifts from COVID-19 shuttered many small businesses and entrepreneurs in the first month of widespread shelter-in-place restrictions. Fairlie (2020) finds that 22 percent of small business owners were …
Publications
Q&A with Adriana Manago
Q&A with Adriana Manago Assistant Professor of Psychology at UC Santa Cruz Interviewed by: Darío León, Research and Community Coordinator Adriana Manago, assistant professor of psychology at UC Santa Cruz, is a cultural developmental psychologist interested in the proliferation of …
Youth Organizing Groups Empower Diverse Young Leaders in California’s Central Valley
By Veronica Terriquez (UC Santa Cruz) May 2020 Grassroots youth organizing groups, growing in number and influence over the last decade, have raised civic awareness and engagement among youth in California’s agricultural Central Valley. These non-partisan groups are making an important …
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Q&A with MariaElena de la Garza
Q&A with MariaElena de la Garza Executive Director of the Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County Interviewed by: Darío León, Research and Community Coordinator MariaElena De La Garza has over 29 years of experience in nonprofit work and is currently the Executive Director of the …
Contextualizing Coronavirus Geographically
By Matt Sparke and Dimitar Anguelov May 2020 This editorial introduces a special virtual issue aimed at providing online access to articles that can contribute to the work of coming to geographical terms with the COVID‐19 pandemic. It outlines seven sub‐themes of enquiry and …
On-Demand and on-the-edge: Ride-hailing and Delivery Workers in San Francisco
By: Chris Benner (UC Santa Cruz) with Erin Johansson (Jobs With Justice), Kung Feng (Jobs With Justice) and Hays Witt (Drivers Seat Cooperative) May 5, 2020 A new survey of app-based ride-hailing and food and grocery-delivery workers in San Francisco underscores the financial vulnerability of …
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The Challenge of Equity in California’s Municipal Climate Action Plans
By: Hillary Angelo (UC Santa Cruz), Key MacFarlane (UC Santa Cruz), and James Sirigotis (UC Santa Cruz) April 2020 In the face of intensifying environmental crisis, and the apparent failure of national politics to address it, municipal planning has become the leading frontier of climate …
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Solidarity Economics—for the Coronavirus Crisis and Beyond
By: Chris Benner, Manuel Pastor March 23, 2020 In the long term, not just in the current emergency, mutuality matters—not only morally but economically, too. An ethos of mutual caring and support not only leads to better health outcomes, but also helps to generate a more vibrant and …
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Beyond the Techlash: Silicon Valley and structures of inequality
By: Chris Benner July 25, 2019 Silicon Valley was once seen as the harbinger of a new information economy that would help spread prosperity. Dr. Chris Benner, Director of the Institute for Social Transformation, explores the growing public animosity towards Silicon Valley–based technology …
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