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4 books match the query 'Dislocation'

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Constituting Central American–Americans

Transnational Identities and the Politics of Dislocation

Cárdenas, Maritza E

Rutgers University Press, 2018

Central Americans are the third largest and fastest growing Latino population in the United States. And yet, despite their demographic presence, there has been little scholarship focused on this group. Constituting Central American-Americans is an exploration of the historical and disciplinary conditions that have structured U.S. Central American identity and of the ways in which this identity challenges how we frame current discussions of Latina/o, American ethnic, and diasporic identities. By focusing on the formation of Central American identity in the U.S., Maritza E. Cárdenas challenges us to think about Central America and its diaspora in relation to other U.S. ethno-racial identities.  
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Modernization, Dislocation, and Aprismo

Origins of the Peruvian Aprista Party, 1870-1932

By Peter F. Klarén

University of Texas Press, 1973

Since its founding in 1930 the Peruvian Aprista party (APRA) has occupied a place of signal importance in the Peruvian political spectrum, and it is one of the most important political parties to appear in twentieth-century Latin America. Modernization, Dislocation, and Aprismo is the first major analysis of the social and political bases of the Aprista movement. Previous studies of APRA had been chiefly descriptive in nature and did not utilize modern social science approaches in analyzing the movement.

Peter F. Klarén’s major thesis is that APRA emerged in the 1930s as a direct political response to the far-reaching dislocative impact of modernization within the Peruvian sugar industry, a process that unfolded over a period of about four decades beginning in the 1890s and that substantially upset and transformed the traditional structure of society along the north coast.

Jolted by the effects of modernization, elements of the old middle and lower sectors grew increasingly hostile to the existing order. Joined by the new proletariat that was beginning to voice its collective grievances by means of the unionization process, this large, alienated segment of northern society responded overwhelmingly in 1931 to the reformist appeal of the new Aprista party. APRA, many of whose leaders were products of this environment, best expressed politically the general mood of alienation and rebellion of the area’s discontented. The eruption of the bloody and abortive Trujillo Revolution of 1932 is considered as the culmination of this process of social and economic dislocation.

In addition to presenting a major new interpretation of the origins of the Aprista movement, this study places the Aprista party in the larger Latin American context by comparing APRA with other political movements in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, and Cuba that were responding to similar modernization phenomena.

This study is based not only on a large body of official party literature and local newspapers for the period, but also on the newly discovered records of the Archivo de la Cámara de Comercio, Agricultura e Industria of the Department of La Libertad for the years 1904–1932.

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Poetics of Dislocation

Meena Alexander

University of Michigan Press, 2009

Poetics of Dislocation sets the work of contemporary American poetry within the streams of migration that have made the nation what it is in the twenty-first century. There are few poets better qualified to muse on that context than Meena Alexander, who spent her life studying at prestigious institutions around the globe before settling in the United States to work on her acclaimed body of poetry.

Part of the University of Michigan Press's award-winning Poets on Poetry series, Poetics of Dislocation studies not only the personal creative process Alexander uses, but also the work of other prominent writers. Alexander discusses what it means to come to America as an adult to write poetry, and her place---and that of others---in the collection of cultures that makes up this country. She outlines the dilemmas that face modern immigrant poets, including how to make a place for oneself in a new society and how to write poetry in a time of violence worldwide.

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Survival

Dislocation and Repair in Burma

François Robinne

National University of Singapore Press, 2027

Captures the tenuous reality of daily life for those in and outside Burma.

In the wake of the military coup of February 2021, a new and unsettling reality has emerged in Burma. Unlike previous uprisings, this time the junta's reach extends beyond marginalized groups and ethnic territories to target the entire spectrum of civil society—urban and rural, young and old, across all groups, faiths, and social classes. The "Spring Revolution" sees Generation Z not only resisting authoritarian rule but also striving to forge a new societal vision.

In the face of totalitarian desocialization, a complex dance of dislocation and repair unfolds, within, outside, and along Burma's international borders. Survival takes a multi-sited approach to explore these dynamics: we hear from asylum seekers in France, the undocumented in Thailand, resistance leaders in constant motion, and, through the medium of the handphone, from within Burma. The result that emerges is a compelling picture of the individual struggle in an unforgiving situation, of interest to anyone who seeks a grounded understanding of the conflict—and what might emerge from it. Highly engaged yet academically rigorous, this compelling book also opens new spaces for understanding the complications of migration in today’s world.

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