Start Date
12-6-2011 9:30 AM
End Date
12-6-2011 12:00 PM
Subject Areas
Latin American/Caribbean, activism, gender, politics
Abstract
Throughout the 1960s, a generation of Latin American youth gained access to the political world through a heroic vision of militancy that coexisted with new cultural patterns originated in Europe and the United States. Focussing on the Uruguayan student movement of 1968, my work looks at the effects of those ideas and practices of global circulation in the shaping of political identities at the local level. This papers presents discussions regarding the requirements of political struggle and the “paths towards revolution” and then moves towards examining the roles assigned to young women and men in those processes in order to understand a common mockery that radical leftists aimed at members of the communist youth organization. (Paper in Spanish)
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Pistas para entender una mofa entre los jóvenes uruguayos de izquierda de fines de los sesenta (Left-Wing Militancy, Political Violence, Youth Culture and Gender Identities in the '68 Uruguayan Student Movement)
Throughout the 1960s, a generation of Latin American youth gained access to the political world through a heroic vision of militancy that coexisted with new cultural patterns originated in Europe and the United States. Focussing on the Uruguayan student movement of 1968, my work looks at the effects of those ideas and practices of global circulation in the shaping of political identities at the local level. This papers presents discussions regarding the requirements of political struggle and the “paths towards revolution” and then moves towards examining the roles assigned to young women and men in those processes in order to understand a common mockery that radical leftists aimed at members of the communist youth organization. (Paper in Spanish)