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Rodolfo Torres

Dr. Rodolfo D. Torres was born and raised in East Los Angeles. He is Director of Urban Studies and Professor of Urban Planning, Chicano/Latino Studies, Political Science and Culture and Theory. He is a recipient of the prestigious Adam Smith Foundation Fellowship, University of Glasgow, Scotland. His current research areas include: Latino Urbanism, Direct Economic Democracy and Atlernative Futures, Mexican American politics, and Marxist and anarchist inspired political economy. More recently, Torres’ research, and that of those he works with, involves movement-based theorizing, which means that the issues and questions being pursued emerge out of communities in resistance, in creation, in joy, in struggle, and have meaning in and for those communities.