The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the NYU
Department of History hosts a presentation titled, _Hungry for
Revolution: Reconsidering Chile’s Democratic Road to Socialism at
50_ by Joshua Frens-String (the University of Texas at Austin), as a
part of the New Work in Latin American History Lecture Series.This
event is free and open to the public.
DESCRIPTION:
2020 marks the 50th anniversary of Chile’s Popular Unity revolution
(1970-1973), the first attempt anywhere in the hemisphere—and
arguably the world—to build socialism at the ballot box and on a
national level. This year (2020) is also likely to feature the
continuation of mass protests in Chile—what some have the estallido
social (social explosion)—after fare increases on the Santiago metro
system in late 2019 set off some of the largest public demonstrations
against inequality in modern Chilean history. This talk will
reconsider the legacies of Chile’s socialist experiment, led by
President Salvador Allende, in the context of this most recent wave of
social mobilizations. How did issues of everyday social and economic
inequality pave the road to democratic socialism in late 1960s and
early 1970s Chile? How did such concerns get addressed as the UP
sought attempt to build a new social and economic model under Allende?
What were the political and economic limitations of that new model? In
closing, the talk will consider what the unfinished project of the UP
might offer to Chileans who are trying to build a more equitable and
inclusive post-neoliberal future in contemporary Chile.
BIO:
Joshua Frens-String is an assistant professor of history at the
University of Texas at Austin where he teaches classes on modern Latin
America, US-Latin American relations, and revolution in 20th century
Latin America, among other topics. As a visiting scholar at Columbia
University’s Institute of Latin American Studies this year, he is
currently completing a book manuscript entitled “Hungry for
Revolution: The Politics of Food and the Making of Modern Chile”
(under advance contract with the University of California Press),
which considers the role that food played in the rise and fall of
Chile’s Popular Unity revolution. From 2015-2017, Frens-String
served as managing editor of the NACLA Report on the Americas (based
at CLACS-NYU). He received his Ph.D. in Latin American History at NYU
in 2015.
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