28 research outputs found
The Spatial Politics of Radical Change, an Introduction
No full textIntroduction to the JTAS Special Forum entitled "Revolutions and Heterotopias," edited by Micol Seigel, Lessie Jo Frazier, and David Sartorius<br /
On the Global Hot Seat: University Presidents in the Global 1968
No full textThe claim that ’68 was global has become axiomatic. How so, for whom, with what impact? Scholars have productively pursued two scales of analysis: grassroots and geopolitical. While student movements have been the premier instance of the more socio-cultural scale, seldom has their mobilization been analyzed vis-à-vis the ostensibly more macro scale of supra-state entitie. Intermediaries between these sectors, leaders of major universities occupied an acutely uncomfortable, pivotal place. Through historical analysis based on archival research (on the biographies of university administrators, student movements, and media debates) the Global 1968 is here considered from the perspective of higher education administrators at elite universities of capitalist empire in the mid-twentieth century at metropoles/global cities – London and New York – and semi-periphery nodes – Bloomington (Indiana, USA) and Mexico City. For such elites, consternation over the turmoil of 1968 constituted a kind of global moral panic when universities presidents found themselves the objects of intense pressures on multiple fronts: from students, to relinquish much authority, and at the same time, from fellow elites and much of the public, to forcefully discipline students. In juxtaposing brief biographies of these university presidents, we highlight the experiences and visions of the global that these men brought to the table, in relation to the pressures that they faced from student movements on their campuses as well as from political powers and the general public. These multi-scaler pressures constituted 1968 as a global phenomenon and put administrators squarely on this conjunctural hot seat
State terror: ideology, protest and the gendering of landscapes
No full textPeer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/68892/2/10.1177_030913259301700101.pd
“You Can’t Always Get What You Want”: Mexico ’68 and the Winter of Revolutionary Discontent
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Memory and state violence in Chile: A historical ethnography of Tarapaca, 1890-1995.
No full textMemory and State Violence presents trends and transformations in the social, economic and political history of the Northern Chilean desert province of Tarapaca to frame a detailed study of specific moments of violence and struggles to recuperate a social memory of that violence. Specifically, I introduce a history of memory as praxis. Over the course of the twentieth century, Tarapaca has been a site of state violence and opposition to that violence part of which has taken the form of struggles over the constitution and representation of that history. There are three arenas for which Tarapaca is famous in Chilean history: (1) for the military glories of national conquest (the War of the Pacific) and the enforcement of national cohesion (the Civil War of 1891); (2) as the 'cradle of Chilean politics' in the context of labor struggles in the nitrate extraction era (1890-1930); and (3) as a specially marked site of state violence in the repression of the labor movement, in Cold War detention camps (1948, '56, '73, '84), and for the first excavation of a mass grave in the process of regime transition (1990). I have found that these competing memories can enable and inhibit action on the part of popular sectors as well as the exercise of power by the state. I offer a history of the ways in which memories of political violence inform the conjunctures of state policies of governance with the practices of social movements.PhDCultural anthropologyLatin American historySocial SciencesWomen's studiesUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/131203/2/9840535.pd
Genre, Methodology and Feminist Practice
No full textThe rainy season is not quite over although it has nearly spent itself. I drive leisurely along five miles of roller coaster highway, down and up, up and down again as I drink in the grandeur of the sunset. I come to the 'big hill', around and over which the road twines narrowly. From its summit I see at my left a deep purple canyon, green at the bottom with irrigated fields. At my right the sun is setting across a wide valley, the shadows replaced by roseate gold interrupted by the white resplendence of chalk cliffs. As if this were not sufficient, a light female rain like that which falls constantly over the home of the Corn gods, drops between me and the sun. I gasp in my inability to comprehend the sight fully as I turn my head forty-five degrees to behold a complete rainbow and behind it the thinnest slice of a new moon. (Gladys Reichard, 1934:122)Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/68113/2/10.1177_0308275X9301300405.pd
