Peter Mayo
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781526140920
- eISBN:
- 9781526146700
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7765/9781526140937
- Subject:
- Sociology, Education
In this broad sweep, Mayo explores dominant European discourses of Higher education, in the contexts of different globalisations and Neoliberalism, and examines its extension to a specific region. It ...
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In this broad sweep, Mayo explores dominant European discourses of Higher education, in the contexts of different globalisations and Neoliberalism, and examines its extension to a specific region. It explores alternatives in thinking and practice including those at the grassroots, also providing a situationally-grounded project of university-community engagement. Signposts for further directions for Higher Education LLL, with a social justice purpose, are provided.Less
In this broad sweep, Mayo explores dominant European discourses of Higher education, in the contexts of different globalisations and Neoliberalism, and examines its extension to a specific region. It explores alternatives in thinking and practice including those at the grassroots, also providing a situationally-grounded project of university-community engagement. Signposts for further directions for Higher Education LLL, with a social justice purpose, are provided.
Hernán Comastri
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781683401483
- eISBN:
- 9781683402152
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9781683401483.003.0010
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This chapter examines the dialogue initiated by the Argentine government of Juan Domingo Perón with the popular technical imagination, at a time when both state policies and a nascent mass culture ...
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This chapter examines the dialogue initiated by the Argentine government of Juan Domingo Perón with the popular technical imagination, at a time when both state policies and a nascent mass culture sought to adapt to the novelties and scientific and technological challenges of the second postwar period. Far from offering a passive reception to developments originating in local and foreign scientific centers, members of the popular classes (workers, students, retirees, hobbyists, inventors and self-taught thinkers) developed their own projects and sought to express them through an exchange of letters with Perón. This created a file of more than five hundred letters with inventions, projects and recommendations of a scientific-technological nature, which offer the historian a privileged opportunity to analyze ways of thinking, representing and experimenting with “the scientific” that characterized a social sector that cannot be considered alien to the problems they were attempting to solve.Less
This chapter examines the dialogue initiated by the Argentine government of Juan Domingo Perón with the popular technical imagination, at a time when both state policies and a nascent mass culture sought to adapt to the novelties and scientific and technological challenges of the second postwar period. Far from offering a passive reception to developments originating in local and foreign scientific centers, members of the popular classes (workers, students, retirees, hobbyists, inventors and self-taught thinkers) developed their own projects and sought to express them through an exchange of letters with Perón. This created a file of more than five hundred letters with inventions, projects and recommendations of a scientific-technological nature, which offer the historian a privileged opportunity to analyze ways of thinking, representing and experimenting with “the scientific” that characterized a social sector that cannot be considered alien to the problems they were attempting to solve.
Teishan A. Latner
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781469635460
- eISBN:
- 9781469635484
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469635460.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
Chapter Three explores Cuba’s image within the U.S. radical imaginary through the surge of airplane hijackings that occurred from the U.S. to Cuba between 1968 and 1973. Seeking political asylum, ...
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Chapter Three explores Cuba’s image within the U.S. radical imaginary through the surge of airplane hijackings that occurred from the U.S. to Cuba between 1968 and 1973. Seeking political asylum, sanctuary from criminal charges, contact with Third World revolutionary movements, and apolitical adventure, Americans who hijacked airplanes to Cuba often framed air piracy as an act of political protest. Cuban immigration officials were not always convinced, however, viewing many hijackers as criminals, not revolutionaries. Making ninety attempts to reach Cuba in commandeered aircraft, American air pirates ultimately forced the U.S. and Cuban governments into unprecedented high-level negotiations despite the nations’ lack of diplomatic relations. Viewing hijacking as a liability, the Cuban government moved to counter its outlaw mystique in the American popular imagination, with the two governments signing a bilateral agreement to curb hijacking in 1973.Less
Chapter Three explores Cuba’s image within the U.S. radical imaginary through the surge of airplane hijackings that occurred from the U.S. to Cuba between 1968 and 1973. Seeking political asylum, sanctuary from criminal charges, contact with Third World revolutionary movements, and apolitical adventure, Americans who hijacked airplanes to Cuba often framed air piracy as an act of political protest. Cuban immigration officials were not always convinced, however, viewing many hijackers as criminals, not revolutionaries. Making ninety attempts to reach Cuba in commandeered aircraft, American air pirates ultimately forced the U.S. and Cuban governments into unprecedented high-level negotiations despite the nations’ lack of diplomatic relations. Viewing hijacking as a liability, the Cuban government moved to counter its outlaw mystique in the American popular imagination, with the two governments signing a bilateral agreement to curb hijacking in 1973.
