scholarly journals “Rigoberta's Listener”: The Significance of Sound in Testimonio

PMLA ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 135 (2) ◽  
pp. 393-400
Author(s):  
Tom McEnaney
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Culture War ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
Rigoberta Menchu ◽  
Hoover Institution ◽  
Labor Practices ◽  
The Government ◽  
Elisabeth Burgos Debray

“[LOS INDIOS SON] LOS VENCIDOS POR LA CONQUISTA ESPAÑOLA, LOS QUE SE EXPRESAN HOY EN LA VOZ DE RIGOBERTA-MENCHÚ” (“THE voice of Rigoberta Menchú allows the defeated to speak”; Burgos-Debray, Prólogo 8; Introduction xi). This statement introduces the testimonio recorded on cassette tapes and then edited into print by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray: Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú y asi me nació la conciencia (My Name is Rigoberta Menchú and This Is How My Consciousness Was Born), published in English as I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala. In order to hear that voice from January 1982, and to consider the important role of aurality in the text's production and later uptakes, one now has to visit the Hoover Institution, on the campus of Stanford University. Given that Menchú's testimonio, a genre defined by the work of personal witnessing on behalf of a collective struggling against injustice, tells the story of her community's socialist fight against exploitative labor practices and government-sponsored genocide, it might seem odd that her voice has been preserved in the archives of a right-wing think tank in the United States, some of whose fellows provided support for the government Menchú spoke against. However, the Hoover Institution has long dedicated itself to an archival counterrevolutionary practice, collecting the voices, newspapers, personal correspondence, and other documents associated with the ideological enemies of the institution's current and former fellows. Moreover, the location of Menchú's tapes makes some historical sense. Many today will recall that Stanford University, the Hoover Institution, and Menchú were at the center of what has since been called the Rigoberta Menchú controversy (Arias), in which the text galvanized culture war debates when progressive faculty members included I, Rigoberta Menchú on syllabi to diversify the curriculum. Right-wing pundits railed against the inclusion as an example of “affirmative action for books” (Dinesh D'Souza qtd. in Strauss) and denounced Menchú's testimonio after the Stanford PhD and anthropologist David Stoll revealed that it included several inaccurate statements.

Catalogue of Files and Microfilms of the German Foreign Ministry Archives, 1920-1945

1962 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 1026-1026
Author(s):  
E.H.F.
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Department ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
States Department ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
Hoover Institution ◽  
Foreign Ministry

The United States Department of State and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University are jointly publishing “A Catalog of Files and Microfilms of the German Foreign Ministry Archives, 1920-1945.”

Stanford University

1966 ◽  
Vol 9 (02) ◽  
pp. 25-34
Author(s):  
Peter Duignan
Keyword(s):  
Development Planning ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Parliamentary Debates ◽  
Hoover Institution ◽  
University Library ◽  
Food Research ◽  
Government Documents ◽  
The Government

The Africa collections at Stanford University are housed largely in the University Library, the library of the Food Research Institute, and the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace. Although the major portion of the material is found in the Hoover Institution, the other two libraries constitute important resources. Special collections are located in the Branner Library (Geology), the Cubberley Library (Education), the Lane Medical Library, and the Law Library. The curator of the Hoover Africa Collection assists all university libraries by recommending titles of old and new items so that the various collections develop in all fields. The University Library buys widely in the African field but accepts primary responsibility for all African material before 18 70 and in the areas of art, ethnography, geography, linguistics, literature, religion, sociology, statistics, and technical documents. The Government Documents Division receives general statistical annuals and bulletins from all African countries and statistical reports of foreign trade from most countries. An effort is made to acquire all census and development-planning material. Most departmental reports are also received. The Documents Division was long an official depository for British government documents and thus contains an outstanding collection of parliamentary debates, blue books, command papers, Foreign Office papers, and annual reports of the Colonial Office from the early nineteenth century. For France the debates of the Assemblée Nationale are held from 18 71 and the Journal Officiel from 1914; for Germany the Reichstag debates are complete from 1867. These together with the depository publications of the United Nations make a substantial collection of material relevant to Africa.

Brazil's relations with all key partners risk downturn

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Trading Partner ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Pragmatic Approach ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Government ◽  
Roll Out ◽  
Trump Administration

Significance Since taking office in January 2019, Bolsonaro's government has guided its international relations by its right-wing ideology. On the global stage, it has aligned itself closely with the Trump administration and had cordial relations with the government of former Argentine President Mauricio Macri, while initially maintaining a pragmatic approach to China, Brazil’s largest trading partner. Impacts Brazil is on a trajectory that will leave it at odds with the United States, China, Europe and Argentina simultaneously. Failure to roll out COVID-19 vaccines rapidly may inhibit Brazilian participation in international conferences when these resume. The agribusiness caucus in Congress will seek to diminish the government’s animosity towards China.

Venezuela drone attack highlights Maduro's frailties

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
The United States ◽  
Socialist Party ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Military Officers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Power Base ◽  
The Government

Significance The president was unhurt; a linked explosion injured seven military officers. Maduro has blamed outgoing Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and right-wing opposition groups in Venezuela for the ‘assassination’ attempt -- though not, unusually, the United States. This ended a week that saw the strengthening of Maduro’s power base within the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV). Impacts The panicky response to the drone attack undercut claims that the armed forces stand loyal in his defence. New currency plans will not address the country’s critical hyperinflation situation. The government has few economic options to placate loyal but discontented unions.

scholarly journals Independent but not indifferent: Partisan bias in monetary policy at the Fed

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
William R. Clark ◽  
Vincent Arel-Bundock
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Weighted Average ◽  
The United States ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
White House ◽  
Show Evidence ◽  
The Government ◽  
Central Bankers

Independent central banks are thought to be effective inflation hawks because they are run by technocrats with conservative monetary policy preferences. However, central bankers can only protect their independence by compromising with the elected officials who grant them their independence. Policy, therefore, is likely to be a weighted average of the preferences of the central bank and the government. Consequently, central bankers may be eager to help right‐wing governments stay in power and oppose the election of left‐wing governments. We show evidence from the United States that interest rates (a) decline as elections approach when Republicans control the White House, but rise when Democrats do; and (b) are sensitive to the inflation rate (output gap) when Democrats (Republicans) are in the White House. Thus, the Federal Reserve is a conditional inflation hawk. Since the Fed became operationally independent in 1951, the Republicans have exhibited a decided electoral advantage in presidential politics.

scholarly journals Intergenerational Mobility and Preferences for Redistribution

2018 ◽  
Vol 108 (2) ◽  
pp. 521-554 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Alesina ◽  
Stefanie Stantcheva ◽  
Edoardo Teso
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Intergenerational Mobility ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Polarization ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Preferences For Redistribution ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
The Government

Using new cross-country survey and experimental data, we investigate how beliefs about intergenerational mobility affect preferences for redistribution in France, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Americans are more optimistic than Europeans about social mobility. Our randomized treatment shows pessimistic information about mobility and increases support for redistribution, mostly for “equality of opportunity” policies. We find strong political polarization. Left-wing respondents are more pessimistic about mobility: their preferences for redistribution are correlated with their mobility perceptions; and they support more redistribution after seeing pessimistic information. None of this is true for right-wing respondents, possibly because they see the government as a “problem” and not as the “solution.” (JEL D63, D72, H23, H24, J31, J62)

Nazistowski mord na Żydach w prasie polskich komunistów (1942–1944).

2006 ◽  
pp. 54-75
Author(s):  
Klaus Peter Friedrich
Keyword(s):  
Shared Responsibility ◽  
The Political ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Social Democrats ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
Post War ◽  
Polish Government ◽  
The Right ◽  
Political Right

Facing the decisive struggle between Nazism and Soviet communism for dominance in Europe, in 1942/43 Polish communists sojourning in the USSR espoused anti-German concepts of the political right. Their aim was an ethnic Polish ‘national communism’. Meanwhile, the Polish Workers’ Party in the occupied country advocated a maximum intensification of civilian resistance and partisan struggle. In this context, commentaries on the Nazi judeocide were an important element in their endeavors to influence the prevailing mood in the country: The underground communist press often pointed to the fate of the murdered Jews as a warning in order to make it clear to the Polish population where a deficient lack of resistance could lead. However, an agreed, unconditional Polish and Jewish armed resistance did not come about. At the same time, the communist press constantly expanded its demagogic confrontation with Polish “reactionaries” and accused them of shared responsibility for the Nazi murder of the Jews, while the Polish government (in London) was attacked for its failure. This antagonism was intensified in the fierce dispute between the Polish and Soviet governments after the rift which followed revelations about the Katyn massacre. Now the communist propaganda image of the enemy came to the fore in respect to the government and its representatives in occupied Poland. It viewed the government-in-exile as being allied with the “reactionaries,” indifferent to the murder of the Jews, and thus acting ultimately on behalf of Nazi German policy. The communists denounced the real and supposed antisemitism of their adversaries more and more bluntly. In view of their political isolation, they coupled them together, in an undifferentiated manner, extending from the right-wing radical ONR to the social democrats and the other parties represented in the underground parliament loyal to the London based Polish government. Thereby communist propaganda tried to discredit their opponents and to justify the need for a new start in a post-war Poland whose fate should be shaped by the revolutionary left. They were thus paving the way for the ultimate communist takeover

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