Radical AmericasPub Date : 2021-01-20DOI: 10.14324/111.444.RA.2021.V6.1.001
Alison J. Bruey
{"title":"Protest and the persistence of the past","authors":"Alison J. Bruey","doi":"10.14324/111.444.RA.2021.V6.1.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.RA.2021.V6.1.001","url":null,"abstract":"Protest has long been a motor of change in Chile. In October to December 2019 protesters in Santiago harnessed protest methods and memories of hope and change related to Salvador Allende’s Popular Unity government (1970–3), resistance to the Pinochet dictatorship (1973–90) and discontent with the subsequent decades of neoliberal democracy (1990–2019). The 2019 protests evoked this past in the struggle against the neoliberal system of today. In doing so, the protests offer a complex demonstration of temporal bridging that provides a window onto protest culture and the persistence of the past in contemporary Chile.","PeriodicalId":205578,"journal":{"name":"Radical Americas","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127183503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Radical AmericasPub Date : 2020-07-20DOI: 10.14324/111.444.ra.2020.v5.1.003
G. McGeoch
{"title":"From revolutionary texts to rebellious readers: What is Leitura Popular da Bíblia and is it really ‘popular’?","authors":"G. McGeoch","doi":"10.14324/111.444.ra.2020.v5.1.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ra.2020.v5.1.003","url":null,"abstract":"Inspired by Paulo’s Freire’s popular education for adults and liberation theology’s ‘option for the poor’, Leitura Popular da Bíblia (LPB) was pioneered among poor urban and rural communities throughout Latin America. It emphasised participatory methodologies, critical thinking and community solutions to problems interpreted as political. Importantly, in its early phase, it accompanied and was inserted into revolutionary political and social movements. This article addresses the methodology of LPB and asks critical questions about the notion of ‘popular’ deployed by some liberation theologies. It problematises the community-based presentation of popular in LPB and asks how LPB can transgress its traditional spaces – favelas, factories, student unions – into newly politicised territories that root emancipatory practices in gender, race and (inter-)religious experiences. The article draws on insights from the experiences of LPB currently used in popular movements in Brazil and Latin America, and considers the wider implications for LPB in light of changing popular experiences and changing practices in revolutionary political and social movements.","PeriodicalId":205578,"journal":{"name":"Radical Americas","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122201393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Radical AmericasPub Date : 2020-06-29DOI: 10.14324/111.444.ra.2020.v5.1.002
Gavin Arnall
{"title":"The missed encounter of turupukllay : Marxism, indigenous communities and Andean culture in Yawar Fiesta","authors":"Gavin Arnall","doi":"10.14324/111.444.ra.2020.v5.1.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ra.2020.v5.1.002","url":null,"abstract":"This article takes as its point of departure a discussion of José María Arguedas’s engagement with Marxism, the ideas of José Carlos Mariátegui and the journal Amauta . It argues that Arguedas’s distance from official party politics should not be confused with an abandonment of politics as such. It also underscores Arguedas’s reflections on the relationship between lived experience, socialist theory and literary writing. This sets the stage for an exploration of a core problem in Arguedas’s oeuvre: the missed encounter between Marxist organisations and indigenous communities, which is to say, the failure to form an alliance between these groups based on mutual understanding and reciprocal enrichment. The article turns to Arguedas’s first major novel, Yawar Fiesta (1941), and traces its portrayal of such a missed encounter as it occurs around the celebration of turupukllay , an Andean translation of a Spanish bullfight that commemorates Peru’s independence from colonial rule. The wager of the article is that Yawar Fiesta ’s capacity to illuminate key contributing factors of the missed encounter enables Arguedas to advance an immanent critique, a critique of a certain tendency of Marxism from within Marxism itself, and that, as a result, the novel supplements socialist theory by simultaneously exposing its limits and enhancing its claims.","PeriodicalId":205578,"journal":{"name":"Radical Americas","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130263451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Radical AmericasPub Date : 2019-11-21DOI: 10.14324/111.444.ra.2019.v3.1.003
K. Coffee
{"title":"The Oneida Community and the utility of liberal capitalism","authors":"K. Coffee","doi":"10.14324/111.444.ra.2019.v3.1.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ra.2019.v3.1.003","url":null,"abstract":"Historians studying the utopian Oneida Community have often located its demise in rising internal dissent and failing consensus among its members, with special emphasis on the personal jealousies and generational tensions that its practice of group marriage may have produced. Those studies step past the essential place of work and industry in communal life and especially the community’s theology, which equated economic prosperity with Christian virtue. This essay reframes our understanding of the political economy of the Oneida Community, with specific attention to their last decade, and the social tensions stoked by their reliance upon market capitalism and waged labour. While acknowledging the internal dissent that accompanied the structural demise of the commune, the present study asks how such discord arose from business-centred theology within the social environment of competition and a prolonged economic depression. The Community’s dependence upon the surrounding capitalist economy challenged their self-described ‘Bible communism’ and precipitated its demise.","PeriodicalId":205578,"journal":{"name":"Radical Americas","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134425147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Radical AmericasPub Date : 2019-03-13DOI: 10.14324/111.444.RA.2019.V4.1.002
L. Cordero
{"title":"Sex and revolution: Programme of feminist and sexed/gendered political memories at CeDInCI","authors":"L. Cordero","doi":"10.14324/111.444.RA.2019.V4.1.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.RA.2019.V4.1.002","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this article is to present the programme of Feminist and Sexed-Gendered Political Memories, known also by the name Sex and Revolution ( Sexo y Revolución ). This programme is part of the Centre for Documentation and Research on Leftist Culture ( Centro de Documentación e Investigación de la Cultura de Izquierdas or CeDInCI for its acronym in Spanish). CeDInCI is a documentation centre (library, newspaper collection and archive) located in Buenos Aires (Argentina) and devoted to the preservation, conservation, cataloguing and dissemination of political and cultural productions of Latin American lefts from its beginnings, in the second half of the 19th century, up to the present day. The programme has many objectives: to create visibility for the materials that CeDInCI has available for public consultation; to attract donations; to establish and consolidate cooperation relationships with other existing or potential archives that are especially devoted to political feminist and sexed-gendered memories; to develop the study of and debates about the relationship between women’s movements, feminist and sexed-gendered groups and the wide spectrum of left movements; and to become a concrete working space for critical thought on feminist and sexed-gendered memories, as well as a key promoter of activities connected with these areas of interest.","PeriodicalId":205578,"journal":{"name":"Radical Americas","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121945320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Radical AmericasPub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.14324/111.444.RA.2018.V3.1.015
Dan Willis
{"title":"Aguirre, Carlos and Paulo Drinot. The Peculiar Revolution: Rethinking the Peruvian Experiment Under Military Rule . Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017","authors":"Dan Willis","doi":"10.14324/111.444.RA.2018.V3.1.015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.RA.2018.V3.1.015","url":null,"abstract":"Review of ‘The Peculiar Revolution: Rethinking the Peruvian Experiment under Military Rule’ by Aguirre, Carlos and Paulo Drinot.","PeriodicalId":205578,"journal":{"name":"Radical Americas","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123154499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Radical AmericasPub Date : 2018-11-29DOI: 10.14324/111.444.RA.2018.V3.1.014
E. West
{"title":"Black power print","authors":"E. West","doi":"10.14324/111.444.RA.2018.V3.1.014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.RA.2018.V3.1.014","url":null,"abstract":"This photographic essay focuses on the cover art of a wave of black radical periodicals which emerged in the United States during the 1960s to shed light on the intersections between Black Power, graphic design and black print culture. By examining the graphic design and artwork employed by ‘little black magazines’ such as Liberator, Soulbook and Black America, we can see the origins of a Black Power visual aesthetic which was most memorably rendered through the work of Emory Douglas and the Black Panther community newspaper during the late 1960s and early 1970s. In turn, I argue that such cover art can be understood as just one example of the visual intersections which emerged between black radical activism and black print culture in the United States during the years following World War II.","PeriodicalId":205578,"journal":{"name":"Radical Americas","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114233050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Radical AmericasPub Date : 2018-11-29DOI: 10.14324/111.444.RA.2018.V3.1.010
John S. Huntington
{"title":"Taxation as tyranny: American Progress and the ultraconservative movement","authors":"John S. Huntington","doi":"10.14324/111.444.RA.2018.V3.1.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.RA.2018.V3.1.010","url":null,"abstract":"Willis E. Stone watched aghast as mid-century liberals expanded the size and power of the federal government. Stone, a former industrial engineer and unbending anti-statist, believed this liberal surge obfuscated and abetted an imminent red tide of communism. He founded the American Progress Foundation and its flagship periodical, American Progress, to spread a hardline libertarian message, hoping to spark conservative resistance against federal power. In the pages of American Progress, Stone and a coterie of other right-wingers published conspiratorial, anti-statist diatribes and promoted Stone’s proposal, the Liberty Amendment, to repeal the Sixteenth Amendment. Right-wing business owners joined the fray, sponsoring American Progress through advertisements, and over time Stone’s movement expanded to form a collaborative network with other far-right groups. This article illustrates how American Progress served as an activist and ideological nexus for the broader ultraconservative movement, which helped establish a hardline brand of libertarianism that reverberated throughout the modern American Right. Furthermore, by analysing the scope and influence of radical right-wing publications, this article provides a critical counterweight to the traditional left-wing focus of periodical studies.","PeriodicalId":205578,"journal":{"name":"Radical Americas","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131019565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Radical AmericasPub Date : 2018-11-29DOI: 10.14324/111.444.RA.2018.V3.1.016
Sinead Mceneaney
{"title":"Sex and the radical imagination in the Berkeley Barb and the San Francisco Oracle","authors":"Sinead Mceneaney","doi":"10.14324/111.444.RA.2018.V3.1.016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.RA.2018.V3.1.016","url":null,"abstract":"This paper looks specifically at two influential newspapers of the American underground press during the 1960s. Using the Berkeley Barb and the San Francisco Oracle, the paper proposes two arguments: first, that the inability of the countercultural press to envisage real alternatives to sexuality and sex roles stifled any wider attempt within the countercultural movement to address concerns around gender relations; and second, the limitation of the ‘radical’ imagination invites us to question the extent to which these papers can be considered radical or countercultural. The reinforcement of heterosexism, especially the primacy of the male gaze, gave little space for any radical challenge to gender norms.","PeriodicalId":205578,"journal":{"name":"Radical Americas","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122381408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Radical AmericasPub Date : 2018-11-29DOI: 10.14324/111.444.RA.2018.V3.1.018
Victoria Bazin, Susan Currell, E. West
{"title":"Reading the Radical American Periodical","authors":"Victoria Bazin, Susan Currell, E. West","doi":"10.14324/111.444.RA.2018.V3.1.018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.RA.2018.V3.1.018","url":null,"abstract":"This special issue probes our definitions and understandings of both the ‘radical’ and the ‘American’ in North American print and periodical culture. As many of the subsequent papers demonstrate, notions of radicalism as expressed in American periodicals often necessitate(d) looking beyond the nation state. Similarly, this issue highlights the fluidity of ‘radicalism’ as a temporal and technological concept; relatable not only to literary content, but also to graphic design, editorial control, foreign language use, subscription policies, and other aspects of production, dissemination and reception. Thematically and conceptually diverse, the articles collated here provide a judicious intervention into the developing field of periodical studies.","PeriodicalId":205578,"journal":{"name":"Radical Americas","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128475889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}