MARCEL PARET portrait
  • Associate Professor, Sociology Department
801-581-6153

Publications

  • Zachary Levenson & Marcel Paret (2023). The Three Dialectics of Racial Capitalism: From South Africa to the U.S. and Back Again. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race. Vol. 20, 333-351. Published, 12/2023.
  • Zachary Levenson & Marcel Paret (2023). The South African Tradition of Racial Capitalism. Ethnic and Racial Studies. Vol. 46, 3403-3424. Published, 06/2023.
    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419...
  • Marcel Paret & Maurizio Atzeni, Dario Azzellini, Alessandra Mezzadri, Phoebe Moore, and Ursula Apitzsch (2023). The Power and Politics of Precarious Resistance. Vol. Handbook of Research on the Gl, Edward Elgar. Published, 05/2023.
  • Marcel Paret & Carin Runciman (2023). Voting Decisions in South Africa’s Metropolitan Municipalities: Racialized Fluidity. African Affairs. Published, 04/2023.
  • Marcel Paret (2023). South Africa’s Community Trenches: Limitations and Possibilities for Democracy from Below. South African Review of Sociology. Accepted, 01/2023.
    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21528...
  • Marcel Paret & Michael Levien (2022). Redistribution and social exclusion in the United States and Germany. (pp. 316-332). Vol. The Great Polarization: How Id, Columbia University Press. Published, 12/2022.
    http://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-great-polarizatio...
  • Marcel Paret (2022). Resistance within South Africa’s Passive Revolution: From Racial Inclusion to Fractured Militancy. International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society. Published, 12/2022.
    https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformat...
  • Marcel Paret (2022). Fragmenting Urban Movements: Political Parties and Popular Resistance in Johannesburg’s Informal Settlements. Sociology of Development. Published, 09/2022.
    https://online.ucpress.edu/socdev/article-abstract...
  • Marcel Paret (2022). Fractured Militancy: Precarious Resistance in South Africa after Racial Inclusion. Cornell University Press. Published, 02/15/2022.
    https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/97815017...
  • Marcel Paret (2021). The Persistent Protest Cycle: A Case Study of Contained Political Incorporation. Current Sociology. Vol. 69, 861-878. Published, 10/2021.
    https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00113...
  • Marcel Paret (2021). Apartheid, Migrant Labor and Precarity in Comparative Perspective. (pp. 113-130). Rutgers University Press. Published, 06/2021.
  • Marcel Paret (2020). The Community Strike: From Precarity to Militant Organizing. International Journal of Comparative Sociology. Vol. 61, 159-177. Published, 04/01/2020.
    https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00207...
  • Marcel Paret, Sofya Aptekar & Shannon Gleeson (2020). Capitalism and the Immigrant Rights Movement in the United States. Socialism and Democracy. Vol. 34, 180-205. Published, 01/2020.
    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/088543...
  • Marcel Paret (2019). Building Labor Solidarity in Precarious Times: The Danger of Union Paternalism. Labor Studies Journal. Vol. 44, 314-332. Published, 12/2019.
    https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01604...
  • Marcel Paret (2018). Beyond Post-Apartheid Politics? Cleavages, Protest, and Elections in South Africa. Journal of Modern African Studies. Vol. 56, 471-496. Published, 09/2018.
    https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of...
  • Marcel Paret (2018). Critical Nostalgias in Democratic South Africa. The Sociological Quarterly. Vol. 59, 678-696. Published, 08/2018.
    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/003802...
  • Marcel Paret (2018). Citizenship and Work in Global Capitalism: From Domination to Aspiration. Sociology Compass. Vol. 12, 1-13. Published, 07/2018.
    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/s...
  • Marcel Paret (2018). The Politics of Local Resistance in Urban South Africa: Evidence from Three Informal Settlements. International Sociology. Vol. 33, 337-356. Published, 05/2018.
    https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/02685...
  • Marcel Paret (2018). Migration Politics: Mobilizing Against Economic Insecurity in the United States and South Africa. International Journal of Comparative Sociology. Vol. 59, 3-24. Published, 02/2018.
    http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00207...
  • Paret, Marcel. 2017. “South Africa’s Divided Working-Class Movements.” Current History 116(790): 176-182. Published, 05/2017.
    http://www.currenthistory.com/Article.php?ID=1411
  • Paret, Marcel. 2017. “South Africa’s Divided Working-Class Movements,” Pp. 46-52 in Labor Shifts: A Current History Anthology, edited by Joshua Lustig. Philadelphia: Current History. Published, 05/2017.
  • Paret, Marcel, and Shannon Gleeson. 2017. “Precarity and Agency through a Migration Lens,” Pp. 1-18 in Building Citizenship From Below: Precarity, Migration, and Agency, edited by Marcel Paret and Shannon Gleeson. New York: Routledge. Published, 05/2017.
    https://www.routledge.com/Building-Citizenship-fro...
  • Paret, Marcel, and Guadalupe Aguilera. 2017. “Golden State Uprising: Migrant Protest in California, 1990-2010,” Pp. 83-102 in Building Citizenship From Below: Precarity, Migration, and Agency, edited by Marcel Paret and Shannon Gleeson. New York: Routledge. Published, 05/2017.
    https://www.routledge.com/Building-Citizenship-fro...
  • Paret, Marcel. 2017. “Working Class Fragmentation, Party Politics, and the Complexities of Solidarity in South Africa’s United Front.” The Sociological Review 65(2): 267-284. Published, 05/2017.
    http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9...
  • Paret, Marcel, and Shannon Gleeson (eds). 2017. Building Citizenship From Below: Precarity, Migration, and Agency. New York: Routledge. Published, 05/2017.
    https://www.routledge.com/Building-Citizenship-fro...
  • Paret, Marcel. 2017. “Southern Resistance in Critical Perspective,” Pp. 1-15 in Southern Resistance in Critical Perspective: The Politics of Protest in South Africa’s Contentious Democracy, edited by Marcel Paret, Carin Runciman, and Luke Sinwell. New York: Routledge. Published, 04/2017.
    https://www.routledge.com/Southern-Resistance-in-C...
  • Paret, Marcel. 2017. “Postcolonial Politics: Theorizing Protest from Spaces of Exclusion,” Pp. 55-70 in Southern Resistance in Critical Perspective: The Politics of Protest in South Africa’s Contentious Democracy, edited by Marcel Paret, Carin Runciman, and Luke Sinwell. New York: Routledge. Published, 04/2017.
    https://www.routledge.com/Southern-Resistance-in-C...
  • Paret, Marcel, Carin Runciman, and Luke Sinwell (eds). 2017. Southern Resistance in Critical Perspective: The Politics of Protest in South Africa’s Contentious Democracy. New York: Routledge, The Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest, and Culture. Published, 04/2017.
    https://www.routledge.com/Southern-Resistance-in-C...
  • Paret, Marcel, and Carin Runciman. 2016. “The 2009+ South African Protest Wave.” WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society 19(3): 301-319. Published, 09/2016.
    http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/wusa.12...
  • Paret, Marcel. 2016. “Contested ANC Hegemony in the Urban Townships: Evidence from the 2014 South African Election.” African Affairs 115(460): 419-442. Published, 07/2016.
    http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/content/115/460/41...
  • Paret, Marcel. 2016. “Politics of Solidarity and Agency in an Age of Precarity.Global Labor Journal 7(2): 174-188. Published, 05/2016.
    https://escarpmentpress.org/globallabour/article/v...
  • Paret, Marcel. 2016. “Towards a Precarity Agenda.Global Labor Journal 7(2): 111-122. Published, 05/2016.
    https://escarpmentpress.org/globallabour/article/v...
  • Paret, Marcel, and Guadalupe Aguilera. 2016. “Golden State Uprising: Migrant Protest in California, 1990-2010.” Citizenship Studies 20(3-4): 359-378. Published, 04/2016.
    http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1362102...
  • Paret, Marcel. 2016. “Precarious Class Formations in the United States and South Africa.” International Labor and Working Class History 89(Spring): 84-106. Published, 04/2016.
    https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/internatio...
  • Paret, Marcel, and Shannon Gleeson. 2016. “Precarity and Agency through a Migration Lens.” Citizenship Studies 20(3-4): 277-294. Published, 04/2016.
    http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/136210...
  • Paret, Marcel. 2015. “Failed Redistribution or Failed Administration? Official Union Narratives of Community Protest in South Africa.” Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies 42(3): 345-366. Published, 11/27/2015.
    http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/025893...
  • Paret, Marcel. 2015. “COSATU and Community Struggles: Assessing the Prospects for Solidarity,” in COSATU in Crisis: The Fragmentation of an African Trade Union Federation, edited by Vishwas Satgar and Roger Southall. Sandton: KMM Review. Published, 11/2015.
  • Paret, Marcel. 2015. “Labor and Community Struggles, 1994-2014,” in New South African Review 5: Beyond Marikana, edited by Gilbert M. Khadiagala, Prishani Naidoo, Devan Pillay, Roger Southall. Johannesburg: Wits University Press. Published, 09/2015.
    http://witspress.co.za/catalogue/new-south-african...
  • Paret, Marcel. 2015. “Apartheid Policing: Examining the US Migrant Labor System Through a South African Lens.” Citizenship Studies. 19(3-4):317-334. Published, 07/2015.
    http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1362102...
  • Paret, Marcel. 2015. “Precarious Labor Politics: Unions and the Struggles of the Insecure Working Class in the United States and South Africa.” Critical Sociology 41(4-5):757-784. Published, 06/2015.
    http://crs.sagepub.com/content/41/4-5/757
  • Paret, Marcel. 2015. “Is Global Governance the Solution for Labor?” New Labor Forum 24(2): 125-128. (Review of Jamie K. McCallum, Global Unions, Local Power: The New Spirit of Transnational Labor Organizing, Cornell University Press, 2013). Published, 05/2015.
    http://nlf.sagepub.com/content/24/2/125.extract
  • Paret, Marcel. 2015. “Violence and Democracy in South Africa's Community Protests.” Review of African Political Economy 42(143): 107-123. Published, 03/2015.
    http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0305624...
  • Paret, Marcel. 2014. “Legality and Exploitation: Immigration Enforcement and the US Migrant Labor System.” Latino Studies 12(4):503-526. Published, 12/2014.
    http://www.palgrave-journals.com/lst/journal/v12/n...
  • Levien, Michael, and Marcel Paret. 2012. “A Second Double Movement? Polanyi and Shifting Global Opinions on Neoliberalism.” International Sociology 27(6): 724-744. Published, 08/2012.
    http://iss.sagepub.com/content/27/6/724
  • Paret, Marcel. 2011. “Borders and Exploitation: Migrant Labor Systems in California and South Africa.” Berkeley Journal of Sociology 55:57-96.. Published, 09/2011.
  • Penner, Andrew and Marcel Paret. 2008. “Gender Differences in Mathematics Achievement: Exploring the Early Grades and the Extremes.” Social Science Research 37: 239-253. Published, 03/2008.
    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S...
  • Paret, Marcel, and Shannon Gleeson. 2006. “International Migration in Macro-Stratification Perspective: Bringing Power Back In.” Berkeley Journal of Sociology 50: 120-146. Published, 09/2006.
    http://www.jstor.org/stable/41035614
  • Paret, Marcel. 2006. Language Background and Early Academic Achievement: Disentangling Language-Minority Status, Social Background, and Academic Engagement. CSE Technical Report 679. National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing. Los Angeles: University of California. Published, 05/2006.
    http://marcelparet.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/par...
  • Lucas, Samuel R., and Marcel Paret. 2005. “Law, Race, and Education in the United States.” Annual Review of Law and Social Science 1: 203-231. Published, 01/2005.
    http://www.annualreviews.org/eprint/znK7y9nbHQND7h...

Research Keywords

  • immigration and citizenship
  • Social Movements
  • Labor and working-class history
  • Capitalism

Presentations

  • Paret, Marcel. 2017. “Localized Resistance in Urban South Africa,” Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Montreal, August 14, 2017. Conference Paper, Presented, 08/2017.
  • Paret, Marcel. 2016. “Engaging Precarity.” Non-citizenship seminar series, Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture, University of California-Santa Cruz, December 2, 2016. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 12/2016.
  • Paret, Marcel. 2016. “Surplus Populations and Localized Resistance in Urban South Africa,” Sociology of Development Conference, Cornell University, October 8, 2016. Conference Paper, Presented, 10/2016.
  • Paret, Marcel. 2016. “Resistance in an Era of Precarity: The Community Strike in South Africa,” Precarious Work: Domination and Resistance in the US, China, and the World, Seattle, August 19, 2016. Conference Paper, Presented, 08/2016.
  • Paret, Marcel. 2016. “Cellular Protest: Community Organizing and Party Politics in Post-Apartheid South Africa,” Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Seattle, August 21, 2016. Conference Paper, Presented, 08/2016.
  • Paret, Marcel. 2016. “Apartheid and Precarity in Comparative Perspective,” Rethinking Migration Conference, University of California-Santa Cruz, May 6-7, 2016. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 05/2016.
  • Paret, Marcel. 2016. “Apartheid Nostalgia: Trends and Articulations of Economic Insecurity,” Invited presentation to the South African Research Chair in Social Change, University of Johannesburg, May 27, 2016. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 05/2016.
  • Paret, Marcel. 2016. “The Dark Side of Post-Apartheid Nationalism” Emerging Immigration Scholars Conference, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, February 26-27. Conference Paper, Presented, 02/26/2016.
  • Paret, Marcel. 2015. “From Fractured Militancy to Social Movement Unionism?” Invited presentation to the Labor Relations/International and Comparative Labor Workshop Series, ILR School, Cornell University, October 27. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/27/2015.
  • Paret, Marcel. 2015. “Apartheid Nostalgia: The Politics of Longing and Frustration in Contemporary South Africa.” Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, August 22-25. Conference Paper, Presented, 08/22/2015.
  • Paret, Marcel. 2015. “The Community Strike in Gauteng Province,” Pushing Back the Boundaries, Annual Conference of the South African Research Chair in Social Change, Limpopo, South Africa, June 24-26. Conference Paper, Presented, 06/25/2015.
  • Paret, Marcel. 2015. “Xenophobic Antagonism in Post-Apartheid South Africa.” Annual Meetings of the Law and Society Association, Seattle, May 28-31. Conference Paper, Presented, 05/30/2015.
  • Paret, Marcel. 2015. “Revitalizing the South African Labor Movement? NUMSA and the United Front.” Annual Sociology of Development Conference, Providence, March 13. Conference Paper, Presented, 03/13/2015.
  • Paret, Marcel. 2014. “Immigrant Rights Protests Versus Xenophobic Attacks? Divergent Working Class Struggles in a Context of National Exclusion.” Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, August 16-19. Conference Paper, Presented, 08/18/2014.
  • Paret, Marcel. 2014. “Postcolonial Politics: Developing a Theory of Protest for South Africa.” Invited Presentation to the Center for Indian Studies in Africa, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, July 30. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 07/30/2014.
  • Paret, Marcel. 2014. “Critical Reflections on Guy Standing’s A Precariat Charter.” International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama, Japan, July 12-19. Conference Paper, Presented, 07/13/2014.
  • Paret, Marcel. 2014. “Post-Liberation Electoral Politics: Results From an Exit Poll of Voters in the 2014 South African Elections.” Putting Politics into Social Change and Social Change into Politics, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, July 2-4. Conference Paper, Presented, 07/03/2014.
  • Paret, Marcel. 2014. “From Political Opportunity to Political Society: Postcolonial Politics in Post-Apartheid South Africa.” Conference on Contentious Politics, Capitalism, and Social Movement Theory, Johannesburg, May 22. Conference Paper, Presented, 05/22/2014.

Geographical Regions of Interest

  • South Africa