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... In four chapters and an epilogue that span 1913 to 2019, Prof. Frazier documents how public debates over sexuality-including those over working women's behavior, the vulnerability of male prisoners of war, and socialist masculinities-have long shaped the body politic. Frazier unites ethnographic fieldwork, cultural criticism, and extensive archival research to highlight...
... In four chapters and an epilogue that span 1913 to 2019, Prof. Frazier documents how public debates over sexuality-including those over working women's behavior, the vulnerability of male prisoners of war, and socialist masculinities-have long shaped the body politic. Frazier unites ethnographic fieldwork, cultural criticism, and extensive archival research to highlight...
Research Interests: History, Cultural Studies, Latin American Studies, Gender Studies, Anthropology, and 15 moreFeminist Theory, Film Studies, Marxism, Ethnography, Catholic Studies, Queer Theory, Gender and Sexuality, Fascism, Nationalism, Latin American literature, Masculinities, Chile, Cultural Political Economy, Democracy, and Socialism
"Desired States provides a groundbreaking reading of the continuities of Chilean dictatorial ideology in private and domestic spheres, as well as of the ways in which masculinities shaped the country's politics through the 20th century.... more
"Desired States provides a groundbreaking reading of the continuities of Chilean dictatorial ideology in private and domestic spheres, as well as of the ways in which masculinities shaped the country's politics through the 20th century. The book redefines the relationship between gender and politics in ways that are not only paradigm-shifting for the study of Chile, but also suggestive and productive for Latin Americanists at large."-Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, author of Screening Neoliberalism: Transforming Mexican Cinema 1988-2012 Desired States challenges the notion that in some cultures, sex and sexuality have become privatized and located in individual subjectivity rather than in public political practices and institutions. Instead, the book contends that desire is a central aspect of political culture. Based on fieldwork and archival research, Frazier explores the gendered and sexualized dynamics of political culture in Chile, an imperialist context, asking how people connect with and become mobilized in political projects in some cases or, in others, become disaffected or are excluded to varying degrees. The book situates the state in a rich and changing context of transnational and localized movements, imperialist interests, geo-political conflicts, and market forces to explore the broader struggles of desiring subjects, especially in those dimensions of life that are explicitly sexual and amorous: free love movements, marriage, the sixties' sexual revolution in Cold War contexts, prostitution policies, ideas about men's gratification, the charisma of leaders, and sexual/domestic violence against women. LESSIE JO FRAZIER is an associate professor in the department of American studies and the department of gender studies at Indiana University in Bloomington. 260 pp 9 b/w images 6 x 9 978-0-8135-9721-8 paper $34.95S $24.47 978-0-8135-9722-5 cloth $120.
Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Cultural Geography, Latin American Studies, Queer Studies, Human Rights, and 15 moreMasculinity Studies, Herbert Marcuse, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Cold War and Culture, Gender and Sexuality, Political Culture, Fascism, History of Sexuality, Latin American literature, Latin American History, Studies On Men And Masculinity, Raul Ruiz, Prison Camps, Latin American Film and Cultural Production, and Latin American feminisms
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Research Interests: Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Latin American Studies, Anthropology, Feminist Theory, and 15 moreFilm Studies, Sexuality, Sexual Violence, Gender and Sexuality, Political Culture, Fascism, Marxist theory, Judith Butler, Latin American literature, Chile, Dictatorships, Labor History and Studies, Socialism, Nancy Fraser, and Raul Ruiz
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Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Latin American Studies, Feminist Theory, Marxism, Catholic Studies, and 15 moreHuman Rights, Masculinity Studies, Queer Theory, Herbert Marcuse, Gender and Sexuality, Democratization, Cold War, Fascism, Socialism, Luisa Valenzuela, Working-Class History, LGBTQ studies, Raul Ruiz, Concentration Camps, and Labor Organizing and Worker's Rights
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Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Latin American Studies, Gender Studies, Feminist Theory, Latin American and Caribbean History, and 15 moreFilm Studies, Ethnography, Queer Theory, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Revolutions, Gender and Sexuality, Democratization, Fascism, Marxist theory, Masculinities, Chile, Southern Cone (Area Studies), Socialism, Transnational Feminism, and History and anthropology
Research Interests: Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Latin American Studies, Anthropology, Feminist Theory, and 15 moreMarxism, Ethnography, Queer Theory, Gender and Sexuality, Political Culture, Fascism, Nationalism, History of Sexuality, Latin American literature, Social History, Cultural Political Economy, Democracy, Dictatorships, Socialism, and LGBT Studies
*Interdisciplinary: Cultural Criticism (poetry, film, literature) and History *Global and cross-cultural figures, movements, sources: French, Cuban, Czech, Mexican, US-ian. *Bridges counter-cultural and broader socio-cultural... more
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Research Interests: American History, European History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Social Movements, and 42 moreEuropean Studies, Latin American Studies, American Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Latin American and Caribbean History, French Studies, Women's History, Mexican Studies, Popular Culture, Masculinity Studies, Poetry, Cuban Studies, Revolutions, Gender and Sexuality, Countercultural Studies, Identity (Culture), Political Culture, History of Sexuality, Global Studies, Contemporary French Philosophy, Czech & Slovak Studies, The Sixties, Latin American literature, Global History, Vietnam War, Social movements and revolution, Studies On Men And Masculinity, Interdisciplinary Studies, Gay and Lesbian History, Mexican Literature, New Left and the 1960s, Cuban Cinema, Cuban Revolution, Film and Media Studies, Women and Gender Studies, Oral History and Memory, Mexican History, Mexican Cultural History, Sixties, Global Sixties, and History of the Sixties
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Research Interests: Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Social Movements, African Studies, American Studies, and 12 moreComparative Literature, Gender Studies, Film Studies, French Studies, Mexican Studies, Cuban Studies, Gender and Sexuality, Gay And Lesbian Studies, Czech & Slovak Studies, The Sixties, Masculinities, and LGBT Studies
Paperback Palgrave 2019 This unique volume brings together literary critics, historians, and anthropologists from around the world to offer new understandings of gender and sexuality as they were redefined during the upheaval of... more
Paperback Palgrave 2019 This unique volume brings together literary critics, historians, and anthropologists from around the world to offer new understandings of gender and sexuality as they were redefined during the upheaval of 1968.
"1968 is one of the most fiercely debated and misunderstood transformative years in global history. This extraordinarycollection takes us out of our comfort zones and brilliantly shifts the terms of discussion away from the cheerful celebration of sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll to the more terrifying and painful stories of brutal repression, agonized shame, and conflicted aspirations. It decenters the typical western tales told about 1968 by bringing in the vantage points of Havana, Mexico City, Prague, and Dakar, while offering utterly fresh accounts of developments in Paris and San Francisco as well. The beaten, burning, and yearning bodies evoked here withsensitivity and rigor change how we think about the intricate interconnections between emotions and politics." - Dagmar Herzog, author of Sex in Crisis: The New Sexual Revolution and the Future of American Politics
"1968, like 1789 and 1848, is a watershed year in the history of revolutionary movements, one whose events reshape everything that follows. Drawing on archival research, close readings of texts and images, and political analysis to reframe these events in a comparative global context, and foregrounding the hitherto neglected significance of gender and sexuality, Frazier and Cohen s new interdisciplinary collection proposes major revisions in how we think about 1968 and what has come since." - Andrew Hoberek, University of Missouri-Columbia
"Frazier and Cohen's collection considers the centrality of gender and sexuality in a year of global political ferment.Essays on events and social movements in Africa, Europe, and the Americas challenge conventional scholarship, raise new questions, and provoke new directions in our thinking about why 1968 mattered then, and why it still does today."-Lisa Duggan, author of Twilight of Equality: Neoliberalism,
CONTENTS
Cultural Politics and the Attack on Democracy
“Out Now!”: Antimilitarism and the Politicization of Homosexuality in the Era of Vietnam Justin David Suran
Los Duenos de Mexico: Power and Masculinity in ’68 Elaine Carey
“Your Sexual Revolution Is Not Ours”: French Feminist “Moralism” and the Limits of Desire Julian Bourg
Plus ça Change… Gender and Revolutionary Ideology in Cuban Cinema of 1968
Emily A. Maguire
Africa and 1968: Derepression, Libidinal Politics, and the Problem of Global Interpretation Steven Pierce
Spirit, Awakenings, Imaginaries, Beyond ’68
Talking Back to’ 68: Gendered Narratives, Participatory Spaces, and Political Cultures Deborah Cohen, Lessie Jo Frazier
Acts of Affection: Cinema, Citizenship, and Race in the Work of Sara Gomez
Susan Lord
The “Burning Body” as an Icon of Resistance: Literary Representations of Jan Palach
Charles Sabatos Ph.D.
Ambiguous Subjects: The Autobiographical Situation and the Disembodiment of 68
Michelle Joffroy
The Spirit of May 68 and the Origins of the Gay Liberation Movement in France
Michael Sibalis
Afterword Michele Zancarini-Fournel (Translated by Deborah Cohen and Lessie Jo Frazier)
"1968 is one of the most fiercely debated and misunderstood transformative years in global history. This extraordinarycollection takes us out of our comfort zones and brilliantly shifts the terms of discussion away from the cheerful celebration of sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll to the more terrifying and painful stories of brutal repression, agonized shame, and conflicted aspirations. It decenters the typical western tales told about 1968 by bringing in the vantage points of Havana, Mexico City, Prague, and Dakar, while offering utterly fresh accounts of developments in Paris and San Francisco as well. The beaten, burning, and yearning bodies evoked here withsensitivity and rigor change how we think about the intricate interconnections between emotions and politics." - Dagmar Herzog, author of Sex in Crisis: The New Sexual Revolution and the Future of American Politics
"1968, like 1789 and 1848, is a watershed year in the history of revolutionary movements, one whose events reshape everything that follows. Drawing on archival research, close readings of texts and images, and political analysis to reframe these events in a comparative global context, and foregrounding the hitherto neglected significance of gender and sexuality, Frazier and Cohen s new interdisciplinary collection proposes major revisions in how we think about 1968 and what has come since." - Andrew Hoberek, University of Missouri-Columbia
"Frazier and Cohen's collection considers the centrality of gender and sexuality in a year of global political ferment.Essays on events and social movements in Africa, Europe, and the Americas challenge conventional scholarship, raise new questions, and provoke new directions in our thinking about why 1968 mattered then, and why it still does today."-Lisa Duggan, author of Twilight of Equality: Neoliberalism,
CONTENTS
Cultural Politics and the Attack on Democracy
“Out Now!”: Antimilitarism and the Politicization of Homosexuality in the Era of Vietnam Justin David Suran
Los Duenos de Mexico: Power and Masculinity in ’68 Elaine Carey
“Your Sexual Revolution Is Not Ours”: French Feminist “Moralism” and the Limits of Desire Julian Bourg
Plus ça Change… Gender and Revolutionary Ideology in Cuban Cinema of 1968
Emily A. Maguire
Africa and 1968: Derepression, Libidinal Politics, and the Problem of Global Interpretation Steven Pierce
Spirit, Awakenings, Imaginaries, Beyond ’68
Talking Back to’ 68: Gendered Narratives, Participatory Spaces, and Political Cultures Deborah Cohen, Lessie Jo Frazier
Acts of Affection: Cinema, Citizenship, and Race in the Work of Sara Gomez
Susan Lord
The “Burning Body” as an Icon of Resistance: Literary Representations of Jan Palach
Charles Sabatos Ph.D.
Ambiguous Subjects: The Autobiographical Situation and the Disembodiment of 68
Michelle Joffroy
The Spirit of May 68 and the Origins of the Gay Liberation Movement in France
Michael Sibalis
Afterword Michele Zancarini-Fournel (Translated by Deborah Cohen and Lessie Jo Frazier)
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Duke 2007 Description: Salt in the Sand is a compelling historical ethnography of the interplay between memory and state violence in the formation of the Chilean nation-state. The historian and anthropologist Lessie Jo Frazier focuses on... more
Duke 2007 Description: Salt in the Sand is a compelling historical ethnography of the interplay between memory and state violence in the formation of the Chilean nation-state. The historian and anthropologist Lessie Jo Frazier focuses on northern Chile, which figures prominently in the nation’s history as a site of military glory during the period of national conquest, of labor strikes and massacres in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, and of state detention and violence during World War II and the Cold War. It was also the site of a mass-grave excavation that galvanized the national human rights movement in 1990, during Chile’s transition from dictatorship to democracy. Frazier analyzes the creation of official and alternative memories of specific instances of state violence in northern Chile from 1890 to the present, tracing how the form and content of those memories changed over time. In so doing, she shows how memory works to create political subjectivities mobilized for specific political projects within what she argues is the always-ongoing process of nation-state formation. Frazier’s broad historical perspective on political culture challenges the conventional periodization of modern Chilean history, particularly the idea that the 1973 military coup marked a radical break with the past.
Analyzing multiple memories of state violence, Frazier innovatively shapes social and cultural theory to interpret a range of sources, including local and national government archives, personal papers, popular literature and music, interviews, architectural and ceremonial commemorations, and her ethnographic observations of civic associations, women's and environmental groups, and human rights organizations. A masterful integration of extensive empirical research with sophisticated theoretical analysis, Salt in the Sand is a significant contribution to interdisciplinary scholarship on human rights, democratization, state formation, and national trauma and reconciliation.
“A path-breaking study of history and memory in Chile’s legendary nitrate north that ties together the massacres of miners in the early twentieth century and the human rights abuses of the Pinochet era. A highly original contribution to memory studies, gender studies, and Chilean history.” — Peter Winn, editor of Victims of the Chilean Miracle: Workers and Neoliberalism in the Pinochet Era, 1973–2002
“The hot winds of the Atacama desert in northern Chile have not succeeded in erasing what has become the territory of Lessie Jo Frazier’s Salt in the Sand, a book centered on the meanings of the deep memories of repression, massacres, and executions that contributed to the formation of Chilean popular identity. Well written and theoretically and historically original, Salt in the Sand reveals the continuous dialogue between events and subjectivities throughout the Chilean twentieth century.” — Francisco Zapata, El Colegio de México
“The modern Chilean state has been linked to violence since its inception, despite official historiography’s assertion that the 1973 coup and the Pinochet regime that followed were ‘aberrations’ in an otherwise democratic order favoring peace. Lessie Jo Frazier illuminates the competing uses of the past across cultural, racial, and class lines. Through her brilliant analysis of memory as a dynamic category employed by clashing collectivities, Frazier demonstrates how the use of memory in post-dictatorial regimes is not in and of itself liberating or new, but rather modeled on previous historical instances of remembering and forgetting.” — Licia Fiol-Matta, author of A Queer Mother for the Nation: The State and Gabriela Mistral
Analyzing multiple memories of state violence, Frazier innovatively shapes social and cultural theory to interpret a range of sources, including local and national government archives, personal papers, popular literature and music, interviews, architectural and ceremonial commemorations, and her ethnographic observations of civic associations, women's and environmental groups, and human rights organizations. A masterful integration of extensive empirical research with sophisticated theoretical analysis, Salt in the Sand is a significant contribution to interdisciplinary scholarship on human rights, democratization, state formation, and national trauma and reconciliation.
“A path-breaking study of history and memory in Chile’s legendary nitrate north that ties together the massacres of miners in the early twentieth century and the human rights abuses of the Pinochet era. A highly original contribution to memory studies, gender studies, and Chilean history.” — Peter Winn, editor of Victims of the Chilean Miracle: Workers and Neoliberalism in the Pinochet Era, 1973–2002
“The hot winds of the Atacama desert in northern Chile have not succeeded in erasing what has become the territory of Lessie Jo Frazier’s Salt in the Sand, a book centered on the meanings of the deep memories of repression, massacres, and executions that contributed to the formation of Chilean popular identity. Well written and theoretically and historically original, Salt in the Sand reveals the continuous dialogue between events and subjectivities throughout the Chilean twentieth century.” — Francisco Zapata, El Colegio de México
“The modern Chilean state has been linked to violence since its inception, despite official historiography’s assertion that the 1973 coup and the Pinochet regime that followed were ‘aberrations’ in an otherwise democratic order favoring peace. Lessie Jo Frazier illuminates the competing uses of the past across cultural, racial, and class lines. Through her brilliant analysis of memory as a dynamic category employed by clashing collectivities, Frazier demonstrates how the use of memory in post-dictatorial regimes is not in and of itself liberating or new, but rather modeled on previous historical instances of remembering and forgetting.” — Licia Fiol-Matta, author of A Queer Mother for the Nation: The State and Gabriela Mistral
Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Social Movements, Latin American Studies, Ethnography, Human Rights, and 11 moreSocial and Cultural Anthropology, History and Memory, Democratization, State Formation, Political Culture, Nationalism And State Building, Memory Studies, Latin American literature, Chile, Labor History and Studies, and Military Dictatorship
Research Interests: History, Cultural Studies, Latin American Studies, Anthropology, Political Theory, and 15 moreEthnography, Human Rights, History and Memory, Democratization, Political Culture, Nationalism, Transitional Justice, Memory Studies, Chile, Gramsci, Dictatorships, Labor History and Studies, Latin American Cultural Studies, Transitional justice and reconciliation processes, and State Violence
Palgrave 2002 This collection brings together key theoretical issues and rich ethnographic cases in the feminist anthropology of Latin America in order to explore the ways that 'place' - understood both geographically and metaphorically -... more
Palgrave 2002 This collection brings together key theoretical issues and rich ethnographic cases in the feminist anthropology of Latin America in order to explore the ways that 'place' - understood both geographically and metaphorically - can serve as a key vehicle for analyzing the cultural, social, and historical specificity of gender relations and ideologies. 'Gender's Place is a big rich collection that reminds us once again of how central gender is to a wide range of issues, and how important it is to look at gender in real times and places. Moving through many Latin American nations, and looking at everything from streets to states, from democratization to domestic violence, from borders to bodies, the book will be indispensable to feminist academics, activists, and audiences everywhere'. - Sherry B. Ortner, Columbia University
'A daring and creative proposal that opens new conceptual horizons in gender studies and breaks with the universalizing assumptions (machismo-marianismo, public-private, indigenous culture-dominant culture) that have to this day pervaded gender studies in Latin America'. - Norma Fuller, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
'...the result is an edited volume that successfully extends the importance of classrooms, homes, streets, factories, haciendas...' - K.S. Fine-Dare, Choice
'A daring and creative proposal that opens new conceptual horizons in gender studies and breaks with the universalizing assumptions (machismo-marianismo, public-private, indigenous culture-dominant culture) that have to this day pervaded gender studies in Latin America'. - Norma Fuller, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
'...the result is an edited volume that successfully extends the importance of classrooms, homes, streets, factories, haciendas...' - K.S. Fine-Dare, Choice
Research Interests: Latin American Studies, Gender Studies, Ethnography, Mexican Studies, Space and Place, and 12 moreSocial and Cultural Anthropology, Cuban Studies, Bolivia, Venezuela, Feminist Ethnography, Chile, Ecuador, Peruvian History, Andean Culture, Feminist studies, Nicaragua, and Gender, Space and Feminist Geography
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Research Interests: Latin American Studies, Gender Studies, Ethnography, Place and Identity, Space and Place, and 15 moreBrazil, Venezuela, Feminist Ethnography, Masculinities, Chile, Latin American History, Latin American culture, Feminist Geography, Cultural Anthropology, Feminist Research Methods, Mexico, Women and Gender Studies, Latin America, Andean studies, and Nicaragua
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Research Interests: Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Latino/A Studies, American Studies, Gender Studies, and 15 moreVisual Studies, Media Studies, Film Studies, Popular Culture, Heterotopia, Cultural Theory, Sexuality, Gender and Sexuality, Race and Ethnicity, Political Culture, American Culture, Jacques Rancière, Michel Foucault, Neoliberalism, and Benedict Anderson
Contributing to debates on the status of comparison in transnational American studies, this essay offers a morphologically comparative approach to memory’s cultural politics in conflict resolution, juxtaposing two histories — one... more
Contributing to debates on the status of comparison in transnational American studies, this essay offers a morphologically comparative approach to memory’s cultural politics in conflict resolution, juxtaposing two histories — one ‘geo-political’ (nation-state, transatlantic) and the other ‘micro-history’ (small-town, regional) — whose ensuing negotiations unsettle paradigms of silencing and forgetting, especially as these pertain to ‘reconciliation’. Offering an alternative to predominantly psychoanalytic treatments of cultural memory and power, this essay employs morphological analysis and queer theory to explore cultural amnesia through blending ethnographic and media sources on the politics of it in the assignment of accountability and belonging.
keywords transnational Americas, Chile, morphological comparison, ethnography, media, place, queer theory, Texas
keywords transnational Americas, Chile, morphological comparison, ethnography, media, place, queer theory, Texas
Thread: Journal of the Centre for Pan-African Media and Pan-Africa Today (Johannesburg), Issue One, Dec 2018 (inaugural issue).
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American Historical Review June 2018 Volume 123:3, 739-743.
https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/american-historical-review
https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/123.3.739
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Research Interests: Social Movements, Latin American Studies, Gender Studies, Mexican Studies, Latin American politics, and 13 moreHistory of Capitalism, Transnational History, Capitalism, The Sixties, Latin American History, Feminist history, 20th Century Mexico, Transnational Feminism, Mexican Politics, Mexico, Mexican History, Latin American feminisms, and Global Sixties
The 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
The 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.
Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Latin American Studies, British History, Mexican Studies, Mexico History, and 15 moreGlobal Studies, Transnational History, History of higher education, The Sixties, Global History, 1968, Latin America, US History, Indiana University, Columbia University, History of Students Movements, UNAM, History of Indiana, History of the Sixties, and London School of Economics and Political Science
This chapter explores scale and, specifically, global scale. Scale refers to the arenas in which political, economic, and social processes and practices are imagined and investigated as occurring; such processes and practices are scaler.... more
This chapter explores scale and, specifically, global scale. Scale refers to the arenas in which political, economic, and social processes and practices are imagined and investigated as occurring; such processes and practices are scaler. Global scale, then, is such an arena. Globalization —the term most conventionally associated with 1990s neoliberal rearrangements of a global scale—actually gained currency during the late 1960s; as the global became a critical category in the Cold War. Not only are these global rearrangements the critical context for understanding the global scale of 1968; understanding scale’s genesis helps explain why some phenomena, such as ’68, are deemed “global” in scope in ways that usually go unexamined.
This essay has three aims: a) to sketch debates around scale and its scholarly importance; b) to offer a historical understanding of the problem and use of scale in global studies; and c) to posit that sexual intimacy and political desire in the 60s became global in ways that further challenge how we as scholars use scale. Even as sociologist Saskia Sassen finds the global in the local, we posit a multi-directional methododology of scale where dynamics usually associated with the local are locatable as the global. The global parameters of late-1960s social movements suggest the multi-scalar re-orderings of the Cold War as both novel and fundamental to the attendant political, economic, and cultural changes that brought these movements to fruition.
This essay has three aims: a) to sketch debates around scale and its scholarly importance; b) to offer a historical understanding of the problem and use of scale in global studies; and c) to posit that sexual intimacy and political desire in the 60s became global in ways that further challenge how we as scholars use scale. Even as sociologist Saskia Sassen finds the global in the local, we posit a multi-directional methododology of scale where dynamics usually associated with the local are locatable as the global. The global parameters of late-1960s social movements suggest the multi-scalar re-orderings of the Cold War as both novel and fundamental to the attendant political, economic, and cultural changes that brought these movements to fruition.
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This state-of-the-field essay examines trends in the U.S. and Canadian literature on the sixties that uses gender and sexuality as lenses of analysis. This literature, as we see it, is strongest in looking at the counter-cultural aspects... more
This state-of-the-field essay examines trends in the U.S. and Canadian literature on the sixties that uses gender and sexuality as lenses of analysis. This literature, as we see it, is strongest in looking at the counter-cultural aspects of gender, sex, and sexuality, while those quite solid works that examine the attempts of social movements and activists to reshape institutions and state policies largely take for granted the ways in which protagonists were gendered --let alone the gendering of institutions, policies, and ideologies. By bringing these two strains of scholarship into the same conversation and highlighting the gendered and sexualized dynamics at the heart of these movements, institutions, and social relations, as well as the gendered transformations in political subjectivity of the activists themselves, new research, we contend, can show the multiple dimensions of political and cultural struggles of the sixties. In so doing, scholars will expand in critical ways notions of what constituted political struggle, protagonist, and polity.
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The concept of precarity invites scholars/activists to consider the persistent relational dynamics that make particular populations perpetually vulnerable. It particularly describes the ways in which early Twenty-first Century global... more
The concept of precarity invites scholars/activists to consider the persistent relational dynamics that make particular populations perpetually vulnerable. It particularly describes the ways in which early Twenty-first Century global capitalism produces marginality and compels states to abdicate the amelioration of dire marginality. Feminist scholar Judith Butler has proposed shared vulnerability as principle for community formations to mitigate precarity. As militarized capitalism renders larger populations precarious, asylum programs --once a bedrock of liberal capitalism’s politics of state recognition—are increasingly questioned. Once defined as merited by non-militant “political” action, asylum law has expanded definitions of oppressed social categories, membership in which can place a person at mortal peril. Kinship is ideally a shared vulnerability buffering precarity, however, asylum hearings have begun to consider ways in which membership in a family can also exacerbate precarity. This is especially crucial for non-gender/sexuality conforming persons.
Research Interests: Women's Studies, Feminist Theory, Democratization, Latin American literature, Chile, and 13 moreDictatorships, Southern Cone (Area Studies), Reconciliation, Literatura Latinoamericana, Estudios de Género, Estudios Culturales, Estudios sobre Violencia y Conflicto, Género, Transitional justice and reconciliation processes, Estudios Latinoamericanos, Memoria, Femicides, and Estudios De Género Y Feminismo
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página dedicada a la investigación cientifica pluridisciplinaria de la zona andina de america del sur (peru, bolivia, colombia y ecuador).
Slovakian redacted translation of Mexico '68. “Talking back to ‘68: Gendered Narratives, Participatory Spaces, and Political Cultures,” in Civic Agency and Political Subjectivity: Gender Implications of Actions and Representations, Zuzana... more
Slovakian redacted translation of Mexico '68. “Talking back to ‘68: Gendered Narratives, Participatory Spaces, and Political Cultures,” in Civic Agency and Political Subjectivity: Gender Implications of Actions and Representations, Zuzana Maďarová and Alexandra Ostertagova, eds. Aspekt Press (Bratislava, Slovakia). Frazier, L.J., Cohen, D. 2015. “Akoodvrávaťroku1968.Rodovošpecifickénaratívy,participatívnepriestoryapolitickékultúry” in Maďarová,Z.Ostertágová,A(Eds.):Politickáobčianskasubjektivitaaaktérstvo. Bratislava: ASPEKT. Redacted and translated.
Bonfiglioli, Chiara, "The gendered legacies of global 1968" review essay on Gender and Sexuality in 1968, Frazier & Cohen, eds. (Palgrave 2009; 2018paperback)
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¿Qué es la memoria política sino la continuidad de las insistencias, las reiteraciones, las certezas fulgurantes de logro o derrota, el amor a las vivencias que al evocarse suscitan ideas de nobleza propia y monstruosidad ajena? Carlos... more
¿Qué es la memoria política sino la continuidad de las insistencias, las reiteraciones, las certezas fulgurantes de logro o derrota, el amor a las vivencias que al evocarse suscitan ideas de nobleza propia y monstruosidad ajena? Carlos Monsiváis RESUMEN Este artículo indaga las coincidencias y diferencias entre la movilización de las mujeres en el movi-miento estudiantil de 68 y la de las jóvenes activistas feministas de hoy. Para ello revisa los primeros tex-tos sobre el movimiento estudiantil, en especial los escritos por los líderes, donde encuentra una ausencia de reflexiones sobre la participación de las mujeres. También recupera el trabajo de dos autoras que, inquietas por esa ausencia, investiga-ron las intervenciones de las mujeres, y registraron una variedad de acciones, incluso con actitudes feministas poco conocidas. Además, da cuenta del giro que algunos autores dieron posteriormente, al reconocer el papel de las mujeres. Por último, es-tablece cierta correlación entre las preocupaciones que impulsan la actual forma de movilización de las jóvenes feministas en un contexto de múltiples violencias y la de las activistas del 68. ABSTRACT This article explores the coincidences and differences between the mobilization of women in the 1968 student movement and activism by today young feminists. It examines the early works on the movement, especially those written by the leaders, and finds a lack of discussion regarding women's participation. Lamas recovers the works of two female authors who were concerned by this absence, and conducted some researches on women's mobilization, finding a variety of actions, including some barely known feminist stances. The article reveals as well the reassessment made by some authors later on, as they acknowledged the role of women. Finally, the author finds a certain correlation between some of the demands of today's young feminists vis-à-vis a violent social context and those of the female activists during the 1968 movement.
Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Social Movements, Gender Studies, Women's History, Mexican Studies, and 15 moreHistory and Memory, Political Culture, Mexico History, The Sixties, Memory Studies, Collective Memory, History of Feminism, Feminist history, Mexico's 1968 movement, Transnational Feminism, Public Culture, 1968, Women and Gender Studies, History of Students Movements, and History of the Sixties
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Publication View. 6376066. Memory and state violence in Chile : a historical ethnography of Tarapaca, 1890-1995 / (1998). Frazier, Lessie Jo. Abstract. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Michigan, 1998.. Includes bibliographical references... more
Publication View. 6376066. Memory and state violence in Chile : a historical ethnography of Tarapaca, 1890-1995 / (1998). Frazier, Lessie Jo. Abstract. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Michigan, 1998.. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 343-378).. Photocopy. ...
Este ensayo revisa las nuevas direcciones en la investigación sobre " enclaves extranjeros " en América Latina, centrándose particularmente en las regiones bananeras de la United Fruit Company (UFCO) en el Caribe y Centroamérica. Explora... more
Este ensayo revisa las nuevas direcciones en la investigación sobre " enclaves extranjeros " en América Latina, centrándose particularmente en las regiones bananeras de la United Fruit Company (UFCO) en el Caribe y Centroamérica. Explora las preguntas y aproximaciones que orientan la " nueva historia de los enclaves " producida en universidades norteamericanas en los últimos quince años, las críticas que han surgido a dichos estudios y el giro contemporáneo en la mirada a las luchas por los recursos naturales. Palabras clave: historiografía sobre los enclaves latinoamericanos, nueva historia de lo trasnacional, " United Fruit Company ". Este artigo revisa as novas direções na pesquisa sobre " encraves estrangeiros " na América Latina, centralizando-se particularmente nas regiões bananeiras da United Fruit Company (UFCO) no Caribe e na América Central. Explora as perguntas e aproximações que orientam a " nova história dos encraves " produzida em universidades norte-america-nas nos últimos quinze anos, as críticas que têm surgido com relação a tais estudos e o giro contemporâneo com vistas a lutas pelos recursos naturais. Palavras-chaves: historiografia sobre os encraves latino-americanos, nova história do transnacional, " United Fruit Company ". This essay reviews new directions in research on " foreign enclaves " in Latin America, focusing particularly on the banana-producing regions of the United Fruit Company (UFCO) in the Caribbean and Central America. It explores the questions and approaches that orient the " new history of enclaves " coming out of North American universities in the past fifteen years, criticisms raised of such studies, and the contemporary shift of focus to struggles over natural resources.
Explore the Hoosier Heartland and beyond as memorialized in American culture from music, to comedy, to sports, to political culture: John Mellencamp, Woodie Guthrie, Red Skelton, Mark Twain, Music Man, Hoosiers, and so much more. Ideals... more
Explore the Hoosier Heartland and beyond as memorialized in American culture from music, to comedy, to sports, to political culture: John Mellencamp, Woodie Guthrie, Red Skelton, Mark Twain, Music Man, Hoosiers, and so much more. Ideals about the American heartland-including the importance of common people, small towns, and local ideals of justice-have been expressed in American popular culture and political debate. We ask whether America still has a "heartland" and what role Indiana as heartland has played in American Culture.
