Anti-Colonial Texts from Central American Student Movements 1929–1983 (Key Texts in Anti-Colonial Thought) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474403697 ISBN 13: 9781474403696

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2017

Synopsis

Collects more than sixty foundational documents from student protest from the frontlines of revolution Few people know that student protest emerged in Latin America decades before the infamous student movements of Western Europe and the U.S. in the 1960s. Even fewer people know that Central American university students authored colonial agendas and anti-colonial critiques. In fact, Central American students were key actors in shaping ideas of nation, empire, and global exchange. Bridging a half-century of student protest from 1929 to 1983, this source reader contains more than sixty texts from Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and Costa Rica, including editorials, speeches, manifestos, letters, and pamphlets. Available for the first time in English, these rich texts help scholars and popular audiences alike to rethink their preconceptions of student protest and revolution. The texts also illuminate key issues confronting social movements today: global capitalism, dispossession, privatization, development, and state violence. Key Features
Makes available for the first time to English-language readers a diverse archive of more than sixty foundational documents and ephemera accompanied by an introduction, section introductions and further readingExpands the geographic scope of anti-colonial movement scholarship by presenting anti-colonial thought in the most contentious decades of the 20th century from a region peripheral even within anti-colonial and postcolonial studiesAdvances anti-colonial and postcolonial studies by taking urban students as critical actors and so recasting thematics of the peasantry, the rural/urban divide, and religionSuggests a new social movement chronology beyond the so-called "Global 1968," or the common notion that student movements peaked in May 1968 in Paris, New York City, Berkeley, and Mexico City

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About the Author

Heather Vrana is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Florida. She is also the author of This City Belongs to You: A History of Student Activism in Guatemala, 1944-1983 (University of California Press). Her articles and reviews have appeared in the Radical History Review, Journal of Genocide Research, Ethnohistory, e-misférica, and Journal of Latin American Geography. She is co-editor of Revisiting the Guatemalan Revolution (forthcoming). Her new research is on disability in Central America.

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‘This anthology is an exceedingly important contribution to the scholarship and in particular the pedagogy of Central American history. Vrana has done an excellent job of digging through a number of often difficult archives in order to present this wide array of well-translated texts from the five Central American republics.’Jeffrey L. Gould, Indiana University BloomingtonCollects more than sixty foundational documents of student protest from the frontlines of revolutionFew people know that student protest emerged in Latin America decades before the renowned student movements of Western Europe and the US in the 1960s. Even fewer people know that Central American university students authored colonial agendas and anti-colonial critiques. In fact, Central American students were key actors in shaping ideas of nation, empire and global exchange. Bridging a half-century of student protest from 1929 to 1983, this source reader contains more than sixty texts from Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and Costa Rica, including editorials, speeches, manifestos, letters and pamphlets. Available for the first time in English, these rich texts help scholars and popular audiences alike to rethink their preconceptions of student protest and revolution. The texts also illuminate key issues confronting social movements today: global capitalism, dispossession, privatisation, development and state violence.Key Features•Makes available a diverse archive of more than sixty foundational documents and ephemera translated into English for the first time;•Expands the geographic scope of anti-colonial movement scholarship by presenting anti-colonial thought from a peripheral region in the most contentious decades of the 20th century;•Advances anti-colonial and postcolonial studies by taking urban students as critical actors and so recasting thematics of the peasantry, the rural/urban divide, and religion;•Suggests a new social movement chronology beyond the so-called ‘Global 1968’, or the common notion that student movements peaked in major cities in May 1968.Heather Vrana is Assistant Professor of History at Southern Connecticut State University. She is the author of This City Belongs to You: A History of Student Activism in Guatemala, 1944-1996 (forthcoming).Cover image: Students protest, Tela RailRoad Company, Tegucigalpa, August 1949. From the collection of Kevin ColemanCover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN [cover] 978-1-4744-0369-6ISBN [PPC] 978-1-4744-0368-9Barcode

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474403697
• ISBN 13: 9781474403696
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Vrana Heather A