scholarly journals Estudiantes radicales y choferes del transporte urbano en Sinaloa, México. El caso del movimiento camionero de octubre de 1972

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
pp. 129-163
Author(s):  
Arturo Sánchez Parra

Es la historia de unos estudiantes radicales: “los enfermos”, que conjuntamente con los trabajadores del transporte público de Sinaloa (México) se lanzaron a la lucha en contra de las autoridades gubernamentales exigiendo mejoras salariales para los segundos. El movimiento camionero trascendió esos objetivos. El presente ensayo pretende reconstruir la historia del principal movimiento social urbano desplegado en Sinaloa a fines del siglo XX. Basado en las propuestas de la historia social analizamos cuatro aristas fundamentales de una protesta popular que desembocó en que un grupo de estudiantes de la Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa se declararan en la clandestinidad y desde ahí lanzaran su lucha revolucionaria contra el Estado mexicano. Las vertientes aquí consideradas son: a) el ambiente sociopolítico estatal, b) orígenes y desarrollo del movimiento camionero, c) saldos de la lucha obrera estudiantil, y finalmente d) los efectos políticos que ejerció sobre “los enfermos” el desenlace final de la protesta.Palabras claves: izquierdismo, movimiento Social, Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, “enfermos”.Radical Students and Urban Bus Drivers: the Case of the Social Bus Movement Occurred  on October 1972AbstractIt is the story of a radical student "Los Enfermos", which together with public transport workers in Sinaloa (Mexico) took to the fight against government authorities demanding better wages for the latter. The bus driver movement transcended those goals. This paper aims to reconstruct the history of the main urban social movement Sinaloa deployed in late twentieth century. Based on the proposals of social history to analyze four fundamental edges of a popular protest that led a group of students from the Autonomous University of Sinaloa were declared in the underground and from there launched their revolutionary struggle against the Mexican state. The aspects considered here are: a) the state sociopolitical environment, b) movement origins and development of truck driver, c) balances student labor struggle, and finally d) the political effects exerted on "Los Enfermos" the final outcome of the protest.Keyword: leftism, social movement, Autonomous University of Sinaloa, “Enfermos”.

2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 99-118
Author(s):  
Samuel Fury Childs Daly

Abstract:The problem of armed crime in late twentieth-century Nigeria was closely connected to the events of the Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970). Legal records from the secessionist Republic of Biafra reveal how violent crime emerged as part of the military confrontation between Biafra and Nigeria. The wide availability of firearms, the Biafran state’s diminishing ability to enforce the law, and the gradual collapse of Biafra’s economy under the pressure of a Nigerian blockade made Biafran soldiers and civilians reliant on their weapons to obtain food and fuel, make claims to property, and settle disputes with one another. Criminal legal records illustrate how military technologies shape interactions and relationships in the places where they are deployed, and how those dynamics can endure after the war comes to an end. This speaks to larger theoretical questions about the symbolic and functional meanings of guns during and after wartime.


Mahjong ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Annelise Heinz

The Introduction provides an orientation to the book and its key questions: What did it mean to become “modern” in the early twentieth century? How did American ethnicities take shape in the years leading up to and after World War II? How did middle-class women experience and shape their changing roles in society, before the social revolutions of the late twentieth century? How are these things related? The Introduction also covers an overview of mahjong’s trajectory in the United States. It examines background related to the history of leisure, gender, and consumerism in addition to introducing key sources and methodologies. The introduction sets up the book to tell the story of mahjong’s role in the creation of identifiably ethnic communities, women’s access to respectable leisure, and how Americans used ideas of China to understand themselves.


2018 ◽  
pp. 162-184
Author(s):  
David Biggs

The environmental history of war, especially its impacts on landscape, encompasses a much broader scope than the conflicts and the historiography of the late twentieth century. Ideas on the social and environmental processes of conflict draw from a much longer, global discourse. This chapter uses the ancient-to-modern conflict landscape of central Vietnam to argue for a multi-layered, broader analysis of the environmental history of conflict.


Author(s):  
Anthony Kwame Harrison

Ethnography (Understanding Qualitative Research) provides a comprehensive guide to understanding, conceptualizing, and critically assessing ethnographic research and its resultant texts. Through a series of discussions and illustrations, utilizing both classic and contemporary examples, the book highlights distinct features of ethnography as both a research methodology and a writing tradition. It emphasizes the importance of training—including familiarity with culture as an anthropologically derived concept and critical awareness of the history of ethnography. To this end, it introduces the notion of ethnographic comportment, which serves as a standard for engaging and gauging ethnography. Indeed, ethnographic comportment issues from a familiarity with ethnography’s problematic past and inspires a disposition of accountability for one’s role in advancing ethnographic practices. Following an introductory chapter outlining the emergence and character of ethnography as a professionalized field, subsequent chapters conceptualize ethnographic research design, consider the practices of representing research methodologies, discuss the crafting of accurate and evocative ethnographic texts, and explain the different ways in which research and writing gets evaluated. While foregrounding interpretive and literary qualities that have gained prominence since the late twentieth century, the book properly situates ethnography at the nexus of the social sciences and the humanities. Ethnography (Understanding Qualitative Research) presents novice ethnographers with clear examples and illustrations of how to go about conducting, analyzing, and representing their research; its primary purpose, however, is to introduce readers to effective practices for understanding and evaluating the quality of ethnography.


1994 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 430-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gervase Rosser

In the history of medieval ideas about community, a prominent place must be accorded to the fraternity, or guild. This type of voluntary association, found throughout medieval Europe, frequently applied to itself the name of communitas. The community of the guild was not, however, a simple phenomenon; it invites closer analysis than it has yet received. As religious clubs of mostly lay men and (often) women, the fraternities of medieval Christendom have lately been a favored subject among students of spirituality. Less interest, however, has recently been shown in the social aspects of the guilds. One reason for this neglect may be precisely the communitarian emphasis in the normative records of these societies, which most late twentieth-century historians find unrealistic and, perhaps, faintly embarrassing. But allowing, as it must be allowed, that medieval society was not the Edenic commune evoked in fraternity statutes, the social historian is left with some substantial questions concerning these organizations, whose number alone commands attention: fifteenth-century England probably contained 30,000 guilds. Why were so many people eager to pay subscriptions—which, though usually modest, were not insignificant—to be admitted as “brothers” and “sisters” of one or more fraternities? Who attended guild meetings, and what did they hope to achieve by doing so? What social realities gave rise to the common language of equal brotherhood? This essay is intended to shed some light on these questions by focusing on what for every guild was the event which above all gave it visible definition: the annual celebration of the patronal feast day.


2002 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah M. Corse ◽  
Saundra Davis Westervelt

We use the reception history of Kate Chopin's The Awakening to study the social context in which and processes through which literary texts are evaluated. We explain The Awakening‘s ascendancy from an initial negative critical position in 1899 to its current canonical status by the emergence of new “interpretive strategies” for understanding and evaluating texts. The dominant interpretive strategies of nineteenth-century reviewers sentimentalized women as selfless wives and mothers responsible for moral purity, making it difficult to construct a valued or fruitful narrative from The Awakening. Late-twentieth-century feminist interpretive strategies, however, were highly productive tools for rereading The Awakening, generating a socially resonant narrative focused on the search for an independent female self. Most important, we show that analytic attention to interpretive strategies allows sociologists to analyze both the meanings constructed from texts and the differential judgments attached to them under varying interpretive strategies.


2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Asheesh Kapur Siddique

At a 2004 conference at Princeton University, the leading practitioners of two influential approaches to studying the history of texts—the “history of the book” and “intellectual” history—compared the underpinnings of their respective methods. Robert Darnton contended that while seemingly “made for each other,” book history and intellectual history had proceeded along parallel paths over the late twentieth century, with the latter focused on the analysis of discourse, while historians of the book concerned themselves with the diffusion of texts. Quentin Skinner responded to Darnton by elaborating on these “contrasts.” He characterized the history of the book as “a specialized form of inquiry into the production, diffusion and enjoyment of printed and scribally published material,” while describing intellectual historians as primarily concerned with the meanings that actors in the past have ascribed to concepts as they expressed them in language. Intellectual historians, Skinner suggested, had paid relatively little attention to the social histories of how texts were produced and received, including questions of their physical attributes.


2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecilia Melella

La revolución de las TIC de finales del siglo XX produjo transformaciones profundas que afectaron diversas prácticas sociales, entre ellas, las migraciones. En la Argentina, la presencia de las asociaciones de migrantes de países andinos en la Web ha provocado mayor visibilidad y ha contribuido al funcionamiento de las redes sociales de migrantes. El objetivo de este trabajo es el estudio de los sitios Web de estas asociaciones sobre dos casos diferenciales. Los ecuatorianos quienes representan una migración joven hacia el país y los peruanos que constituyen una más asentada.ASOCIACIONES DE MIGRANTES ANDINOS EN LA WEB . RELEVANCIA DE REDES VIRTUALES EN EL ESTABLECIMIENTO DE LAZOSS COMUNITARIOSResumen: La revolución de las TIC de finales del siglo XX produjo transformaciones profundas que afectaron diversas prácticas sociales, entre ellas, las migraciones. En la Argentina, la presencia de las asociaciones de migrantes de países andinos en la Web ha provocado mayor visibilidad y ha contribuido al funcionamiento de las redes sociales de migrantes. El objetivo de este trabajo es el estudio de los sitios Web de estas asociaciones sobre dos casos diferenciales. Los ecuatorianos quienes representan una migración joven hacia el país y los peruanos que constituyen una más asentada.Palabras clave: Internet, migraciones, países andinos, lazos comunitarios, asociacionesANDEAN MIGRANT ASSOCIATIONS ON WEB. THE RELEVANCE OF VIRTUAL NETWORKS IN ESTABLISHING COMMUNITY TIESAbstract: The revolution in ITC of the late twentieth century promoted deep changes in several social practices like migrations. The Web presence of Andean migrant associations in Argentina has contributed to the social networks of these groups. Thus, the objective of this work is the study of the websites of the associations of migrants from Andean countries in Argentina on two different cases. Ecuadorians who represent a younger migration to the country and Peruvians which are a more settled.Keywords:Internet, migration, Andean countries, community ties, associations


Author(s):  
Roger Davidson

Chapter 6 explores the life of Dora Noyce and her business enterprise at 17 and 17a Danube Street, Edinburgh, as a peg upon which to hang a broader review of how the law operated at the local level to regulate prostitution and brothel-keeping in late twentieth-century Scotland. Primarily based on oral history interviews and newspaper reports, the study reveals the social background and outlook of Dora Noyce before describing the operation of her brothel, including details of sexual transactions and the social status and motivation of the women employed as prostitutes. Thereafter, the history of the Danube Street brothel is located within a more general review of the law relating to brothel keeping in Scotland and its previous implementation prior to the Second World War. The study then focuses on the possible reasons for the degree of tolerance shown by the police authorities in Edinburgh to Dora Noyce from the 1950s through to the 1970s and the extent to which this signified a more complex and nuanced relationship between the law and the sexual underworld than is conventionally conveyed in police and court records.


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