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Record Nr.

UNINA9910137134403321

Autore

Read Peter

Titolo

Narrow but endlessly deep : the struggle for memoralisation in Chile since the transition to democracy / / Peter Read & Marivic Wyndham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Acton, Australia : , : Australian National University Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-76046-022-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 240 pages) : illustrations, portraits

Collana

Open Access e-Books

Knowledge Unlatched

Disciplina

321.8

Soggetti

Collective memory - Chile

Electronic books.

Chile Politics and government 1973-1988

Chile Politics and government 1988-

Chile History 1988-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: narrow but endlessly deep -- 2. Victor Jara, the State University of Technology and the Victor Jara Stadium -- 3. From state terror to state error: Patio 29, General Cemetery, Santiago -- 4. Carved cherubs frolicking in a sunny stream: the National Stadium -- 5. Last stand of the MIR: Londres 38 -- 6. The chosen one: 1367 José Domingo Cañas -- 7. A garden of horror or a park of peace: Villa Grimaldi -- 8. A memorial destroyed: Loyola, Quinta Normal -- 9. The memorials today and the advance of the state.

Sommario/riassunto

On 11 September 1973, the Chilean Chief of the Armed Forces Augusto Pinochet overthrew the Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende and installed a military dictatorship. Yet this is a book not of parties or ideologies but public history. It focuses on the memorials and memorialisers at seven sites of torture, extermination, and disappearance in Santiago, engaging with worldwide debates about why and how deeds of violence inflicted by the state on its own citizens should be remembered, and by whom. The sites investigated -- including the infamous National Stadium -- are among the most iconic



of more than 1,000 such sites throughout the country. The study grants a glimpse of the depth of feeling that survivors and the families of the detained-disappeared and the politically executed bring to each of the sites. The book traces their struggle to memorialise each one, and so unfolds their idealism and hope, courage and frustration, their hatred, excitement, resentment, sadness, fear, division and disillusionment.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798696403321

Autore

Chakravarti Leila Zaki

Titolo

Made in Egypt : gendered identities and aspirations on the globalised shopfloor  / / by Leila Zaki Chakravarti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-78533-078-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 pages) : illustrations (some color), photographs, maps, charts

Disciplina

331.4/8870962

Soggetti

Clothing trade - Egypt

Women clothing workers - Egypt

Clothing workers - Egypt

Organizational behavior

Organizational sociology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations, Maps and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Transliteration -- The Nile Delta -- Chapter 1 The factory as crucible -- Chapter 2 Firm as family – control and resistance -- Chapter 3 Shop floor as marketplace – love and consumption -- Chapter 4 Daughters of the factory – discipline and nurture -- Chapter 5 Globalised takeover – performance and resistance -- Chapter 6 Domination and resistance -- Appendix: The Fashion Express workforce -- Select Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index



Sommario/riassunto

This ground-breaking ethnography of an export-orientated garment assembly factory in Egypt examines the dynamic relationships between its managers – emergent Mubarak-bizniz (business) elites who are caught in an intensely competitive globalized supply chain – and the local daily-life realities of their young, educated, and mixed-gender labour force. Constructions of power and resistance, as well as individual aspirations and identities, are explored through articulations of class, gender and religion in both management discourses and shop floor practices. Leila Chakravarti’s compelling study also moves beyond the confines of the factory, examining the interplay with the wider world around it.