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By Margaret Randall
Published: 07 April 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7296-7
... cultural blockade Stalinism repression intellectual freedom Cuban Revolution ...
Book Chapter

By Margaret Randall
Published: 07 April 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822372967-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7296-7
... Revolution and shows how the Revolution capitalized on this reality, making values of excellence, professionalism, sacrifice, and generosity hallmarks of a small nation under siege. cultural blockade Stalinism repression intellectual freedom Cuban Revolution ...
Book Chapter

By Margaret Randall
Published: 20 July 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375272-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7527-2
... own torturers and remained silent. After the war, she was assigned an important job in the restructuring of society, that of founding and running an arts institution with the goal of shattering the cultural blockade. She was enormously successful, but plagued by periodic bouts of depression...
Series: The World Readers
Published: 01 January 2010
DOI: 10.1215/9780822392583-087
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9258-3
Series: Power Play: Games, Politics, Culture
Published: 05 April 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059264-020
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9396-1
... a deserted island. For Hong Kong protesters, however, this game has not just been a distraction from an unpleasant reality but also a way to keep up their fight without physical clashes with the riot police through a blockaded and networked play with trusted protesters, and to make public their voices within...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-098
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... to disperse their road blockades in the Cochabamba towns of Tolata and Epizana. The massacre shattered the legitimacy of the pact among highland Aymara peasants influenced by katarista radicalism, although the pact retained more force in other peasant sectors. ...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-144
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... regardless of local indigenous opposition, indigenous groups insisted on their constitutional right to be consulted before any such project could be undertaken, and coca-growing settlers who had migrated into the tipnis and were now allies of the government mounted a blockade in the town of Yucumo (Beni...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-134
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... to stage protests in response. During a military operation to clear road blockades in the historic town of Warisata, on the altiplano of La Paz, an errant bullet took the life of an eight-year-old girl, Marlene Nancy Rojas Ramos, on 20 September. The repression in Warisata generated popular fury...
Series: Power Play: Games, Politics, Culture
Published: 05 April 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9396-1
... shuttering, the Next Level arcade in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, as well as the NYC-based Twitch channel “Team Spooky.” The chapter ultimately argues that a specific brand of the Blerd as an identity was formed by the combination of New York City’s local hip-hop culture and the Japanese otaku as a consumer...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-124
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... and space, a transformation of the political and natural world. In this period, Evo Morales and the Mallku maintained a perennial tug-of-war for leadership within the social movements. In January 2001, after powerful waves of rural road blockades in April and September 2000, Quispe was interviewed...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-120
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... as a painter, weaver, storyteller, poet, and singer-songwriter. As a researcher and writer, she has also collaborated on studies of Aymara culture, based on her knowledge of Qaqachaka. Given her remarkable trajectory, she became the director of the National Museum of Ethnography and Folklore in La Paz in 2013...
Book Chapter

By Kathleen Diffley
Published: 03 April 2002
DOI: 10.1215/9780822385967-026
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8596-7
... study, especially as the voluminous scholarship on the Civil War, ambient culture, and wartime literature continues to grow. What follows is an effort to “walk chalk,” as Twain’s Aunt Rachel might say, from the war’s prelude to its aftermath. For the antebellum clash at homesteads like “The Cabin...
Book Chapter

By Kathleen Diffley
Published: 03 April 2002
DOI: 10.1215/9780822385967-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8596-7
... study, especially as the voluminous scholarship on the Civil War, ambient culture, and wartime literature continues to grow. What follows is an effort to “walk chalk,” as Twain’s Aunt Rachel might say, from the war’s prelude to its aftermath. For the antebellum clash at homesteads like “The Cabin...
Book Chapter

By Kathleen Diffley
Published: 03 April 2002
DOI: 10.1215/9780822385967-033
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8596-7
... study, especially as the voluminous scholarship on the Civil War, ambient culture, and wartime literature continues to grow. What follows is an effort to “walk chalk,” as Twain’s Aunt Rachel might say, from the war’s prelude to its aftermath. For the antebellum clash at homesteads like “The Cabin...
Book Chapter

By Kathleen Diffley
Published: 03 April 2002
DOI: 10.1215/9780822385967-016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8596-7
... study, especially as the voluminous scholarship on the Civil War, ambient culture, and wartime literature continues to grow. What follows is an effort to “walk chalk,” as Twain’s Aunt Rachel might say, from the war’s prelude to its aftermath. For the antebellum clash at homesteads like “The Cabin...
Book Chapter

By Kathleen Diffley
Published: 03 April 2002
DOI: 10.1215/9780822385967-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8596-7
... study, especially as the voluminous scholarship on the Civil War, ambient culture, and wartime literature continues to grow. What follows is an effort to “walk chalk,” as Twain’s Aunt Rachel might say, from the war’s prelude to its aftermath. For the antebellum clash at homesteads like “The Cabin...
Published: 03 April 2002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8596-7
..., especially as the voluminous scholarship on the Civil War, ambient culture, and wartime literature continues to grow. What follows is an effort to “walk chalk,” as Twain’s Aunt Rachel might say, from the war’s prelude to its aftermath. For the antebellum clash at homesteads like “The Cabin at Pharaoh’s...
Book Chapter

By Kathleen Diffley
Published: 03 April 2002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8596-7
..., especially as the voluminous scholarship on the Civil War, ambient culture, and wartime literature continues to grow. What follows is an effort to “walk chalk,” as Twain’s Aunt Rachel might say, from the war’s prelude to its aftermath. For the antebellum clash at homesteads like “The Cabin at Pharaoh’s...
Book Chapter

By Kathleen Diffley
Published: 03 April 2002
DOI: 10.1215/9780822385967-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8596-7
... further study, especially as the voluminous scholarship on the Civil War, ambient culture, and wartime literature continues to grow. What follows is an effort to “walk chalk,” as Twain’s Aunt Rachel might say, from the war’s prelude to its aftermath. For the antebellum clash at homesteads like...
Book Chapter

By Kathleen Diffley
Published: 03 April 2002
DOI: 10.1215/9780822385967-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8596-7
..., especially as the voluminous scholarship on the Civil War, ambient culture, and wartime literature continues to grow. What follows is an effort to “walk chalk,” as Twain’s Aunt Rachel might say, from the war’s prelude to its aftermath. For the antebellum clash at homesteads like “The Cabin at Pharaoh’s...