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Historias 155 – La seguridad alimentaria en Chile con Joshua Frens-String
Dr. Joshua Frens-String habla de su libro Hungry for Revolution: The Politics of Food and the Making of Modern Chile con Carmen.
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Historias 154 – The Chilean Election with Jenny Pribble
Our Fall season finale has arrived! Today, Steven and Dustin welcome Dr. Jenny Pribble to the program to explain Chile’s presidential election. Dr. Pribble is Associate Professor of Political Science and Global Studies at the University of Richmond, and the author of Welfare and Party Politics in Latin America. Join Read more…
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Historias 149 – James Lockhart on the CIA And Chile
Our ongoing series on Latin America’s Cold War continues, returning to Chile. Dustin sat down with Dr. James Lockhart, Assistant Professor of History at Zayed University, to talk about his book, Chile, the CIA and the Cold War: A Transatlantic Perspective (Edinburgh University Press, 2019). Lockhart explains the importance of Read more…
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Historias 140 – Food security and politics in Chile with Joshua Frens-String
Dr. Joshua Frens-String discusses with Dustin his new book Hungry for Revolution: The Politics of Food and the Making of Modern Chile.
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Historias 127 – Alyssa Bowen on the Chile Solidarity Movement in Europe
Steven welcomes Alyssa Bowen, a Ph.D. candidate in Global History at the University of North Carolina to the program to talk about her research into the Chile transnational solidarity movements of the 1970s and 1980s. The two chat about Bowen’s article, “”Taking in the Broad Spectrum’: Human Rights and Anti-Politics Read more…
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Historias 114 – El desempleo y la precaridad en chile con Ángela Vergara
La historiadora Ángela Vergara (@vergara_angela) habla de su nuevo libro sobre el desempleo y la precaridad en Chile hacia el siglo veinte con Carmen Soliz (@carmensurrutia) y Giovanni Bello. Historias Podcast · Historias 114 Angela Vergara
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Historias 112 – Ángela Vergara And Joshua Frens – String on the Chilean National Plebiscite
Drs. Ángela Vergara and Joshua Frens-String spoke with Dustin about Chile’s recent constitutional plebiscite. They talked about the nuts-and-bolts issues involved, and put the movement for constitutional change in a broader historical perspective. Enjoy! Joshua Frens-String, “Burying Pinochet” Follow Ángela Vergara on Twitter Follow Joshua Frens-String on Twitter
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Historias 110 – Harmer and Sippial on Revolutionary Women
Dustin spoke with Drs. Tanya Harmer and Tiffany Sippial about their new biographies on Beatriz Allende and Celia Sánchez Manduley. They discussed the significance of gender and the ways in which their subjects’ stories add to our collective understanding of politics and revolution during the mid-twentieth century. They also consider Read more…
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Historias 84 – La guerrilla en América Latina en los años 60 “globales”
El historiador uruguayo Aldo Marchesi analiza los procesos guerrilleros de los años 60 en Sudamerica. Aunque cada uno de estos procesos ha recibido algún grado de atención por parte de los historiadores en sus respectivos países, Marchesi rescata el carácter trasnacional de estos movimientos y la emergencia de una identidad Read more…
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The 2010 Haitian and Chilean Earthquakes and Echoes of the Past
By Quinn Dauer This year marks the tenth anniversary of the colossal Haitian and Chilean earthquakes. On 12 January 2010, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti just southwest of the capital of Port-au-Prince, killing at least 200,000 people. Only a month and a half later on 27 February 2010, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake Read more…