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“You Cannot Slaughter Ideas”: Liberalism And The State Of Exception In Argentina, Arlo Elliott Jul 2020

“You Cannot Slaughter Ideas”: Liberalism And The State Of Exception In Argentina, Arlo Elliott

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

Existing historiography of Latin America has highlighted the role of liberalism in the 19th century formation of modern states, but it is typically viewed as historically discontinuous with the subsequent violence of the 20th century. Narrowing the focus to Argentina, we see historians like Jeremy Adelman asserting that the promise and successes of the early liberal republics were historically isolated from the brutal military rule that would emerge following the Peronist era. More intellectual histories of Argentina like David Rock's Authoritarian Argentina also focus on the prominence of conservative nationalists in this period of violence. Incorporating the work of the …


Recovery After The Rupture: Linking Colonial Histories Of Displacement With Affective Objects And Memories, Aarzoo Singh Dec 2019

Recovery After The Rupture: Linking Colonial Histories Of Displacement With Affective Objects And Memories, Aarzoo Singh

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

The notion of home and belonging, specifically in the context of South Asian postcolonial diasporas, is connected to past traumas of colonization and displacement. This paper addresses how trauma, displacement, and colonialism can be understood through and with material culture, and how familial objects and items emit and/ or carry within them, emotional narratives. I turn to the affective currency that emit and are transferred on and down from objects, by diasporic subjects, to access the possible reclamation of otherwise silenced narratives within colonial and postcolonial histories. By following the events of the Partition of India in 1947 as a …


Categories As Archives: From Silence To Social Justice: An Interview With Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Sophonie Bazile, Juan Fernandez Cantero, Jess Linz Jul 2018

Categories As Archives: From Silence To Social Justice: An Interview With Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Sophonie Bazile, Juan Fernandez Cantero, Jess Linz

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

Dr. Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra is the Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of several books, including How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-century Atlantic World (2001), Puritan Conquistadors: Iberianizing the Atlantic, 1550-1700 (2006), and Nature, Empire, and Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World (2007). Cañizares-Esguerra is currently working on two book-length projects: Categories as Prisons, which explores how historiographical categories organize what questions about the past are permissible and therefore how archives and narratives are …


Seeking Glimpses: Reflections On Doing Archival Work, Alex Hanson, Stephanie Jones, Thomas Passwater, Noah Wilson Jul 2018

Seeking Glimpses: Reflections On Doing Archival Work, Alex Hanson, Stephanie Jones, Thomas Passwater, Noah Wilson

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

This article explores the role of archival research in understanding and generating social histories from the perspectives of four different doctoral students as they reflect on their archival research experiences. We argue that archival research is complex, subjective, contextual, and at times, incomplete. Our various perspectives address ideas of privilege, representation, what it means to remember (or forget), how archives are constituted and reconstituted, and where we can make meaning in archival spaces. This article demonstrates that although archival research has had a presence in Composition and Rhetoric for some time, that presence is continually shifting, and even when embarking …


The Next Time The World Is Going Downhill: America And The 1983 Ethiopian Famine, Bethany Sharpe May 2015

The Next Time The World Is Going Downhill: America And The 1983 Ethiopian Famine, Bethany Sharpe

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

In 1983, a massive famine struck Ethiopia. Bred by a complex array of factors, thousands of men, women, and children experienced the painful effects of this humanitarian disaster as bodies weakened and widespread death took place. Throughout the famine, an unlikely partnership took place between the Communist leader Chairman Mengistu Haile Mariam and the staunchly anti-Communist White House.[1] The partnership allowed each nation to pursue strategic foreign policy goals; the United States sought to undermine the socialist PMGSE through humanitarian aid while Mengistu attempted to salvage his government’s international reputation. Soon, global attention swirled around the issue and unlikely …


Capitalism And "Blithedale": Exploring Hawthorne's Response To 19th Century American Capitalism, Kyle G. Phillips May 2015

Capitalism And "Blithedale": Exploring Hawthorne's Response To 19th Century American Capitalism, Kyle G. Phillips

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With the intensive migration of the American public from rural to urban settings in the mid-nineteenth century came many logistical problems. Chief among them was the contention that the city was a place fundamentally void of, or else lax with morals. The examination into these issues explores why Americans felt the city was a catalyst for immorality, specifically examining prostitution and the exploitation of the working poor. It seeks to answer these questions within the framework of the anchor text, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Blithedale Romance”.


Consumption And The Construction Of Community In Jacques Tati’S Mon Oncle, Jennifer Spohrer Apr 2010

Consumption And The Construction Of Community In Jacques Tati’S Mon Oncle, Jennifer Spohrer

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

No abstract provided.


The State Of Exception In Film: Cloverfied And 24, Jeff Griffin Apr 2009

The State Of Exception In Film: Cloverfied And 24, Jeff Griffin

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

No abstract provided.


Interrogating 'Experience': Phenomenology, Architecture And Erudition. Disclosure Interviews Mark Jarzombek., Mathias Detamore, Lauren Martin Apr 2007

Interrogating 'Experience': Phenomenology, Architecture And Erudition. Disclosure Interviews Mark Jarzombek., Mathias Detamore, Lauren Martin

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

No abstract provided.


Memory, War, And Emotion; Disclosure Interviews Jay Winter. January 27, 2006, Brandon Absher, George Phillips Apr 2007

Memory, War, And Emotion; Disclosure Interviews Jay Winter. January 27, 2006, Brandon Absher, George Phillips

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No abstract provided.


History And Nations In The Postmodern Era. Disclosure Interviews Geoff Eley, Brandon Claycomb, Jeffery Nicholas, Laurel Smith Apr 1999

History And Nations In The Postmodern Era. Disclosure Interviews Geoff Eley, Brandon Claycomb, Jeffery Nicholas, Laurel Smith

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No abstract provided.


Constituting White Identities. Disclosure Interviews David Roediger, Pat Jennings, Meredith Redlin Apr 1998

Constituting White Identities. Disclosure Interviews David Roediger, Pat Jennings, Meredith Redlin

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No abstract provided.