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Resistance Performances: (Re)Constructing Spaces Of Resistance And Contention In The 2010-2011 University Of Puerto Rico Student Movement, Alessandra M. Rosa
Resistance Performances: (Re)Constructing Spaces Of Resistance And Contention In The 2010-2011 University Of Puerto Rico Student Movement, Alessandra M. Rosa
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On the night of April 20, 2010, a group of students from the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), Río Piedras campus, met to organize an indefinite strike that quickly broadened into a defense of accessible public higher education of excellence as a fundamental right and not a privilege. Although the history of student activism in the UPR can be traced back to the early 1900s, the 2010-2011 strike will be remembered for the student activists’ use of new media technologies as resources that rapidly prompted and aided the numerous protests.
This activist research entailed a critical ethnography and a critical …