History in Person: Enduring Struggles, Contentious Practice, Intimate Identities

by Dorothy Holland, Paul Willis, Jean Lave, Begona Aretxaga, Steven Gregory

Overview

Extended conflict situations in Northern Ireland or South Africa, the local effects of the rise of multinational corporations, and conflicts in workplaces, households, and academic fields are all crucibles for the forging of identities. In this volume, the authors bring their research to bear on enduring struggles and the practices of identity within those struggles. This collection of essays explores the innermost, generative aspects of subjects as social, cultural, and historical beings and raises serious questions about long-term conflicts and sustained identities in the world today. Nine ethnographers address such topics as the politically sexualized transformation of identities of women political prisoners in Northern Ireland; the changing character of political activism across generations in a Guatemala Mayan family; the cultural forms that mediate the struggles of working-class men on shop floors in England; and class and community struggles between the state and grassroots activists in New York.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781930618015
Publisher:	School for Advanced Research Press
Publication date:	04/01/2001
Series:	School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	408
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

	List of Illustrations	ix
1	History in Person: An Introduction	3
Part 1	Struggles in Transformation
2	Engendering Violence: Strip-Searching of Women in Northern Ireland	37
3	Indigenous Activism across Generations: An Intimate Social History of Antiracism Organizing in Guatemala	63
4	From Women's Suffering to Women's Politics: Reimagining Women after Nepal's 1990 Pro-Democracy Movement	93
Part 2	Practices of Identity in Enduring Struggles
5	Placing the Politics of Black Class Formation	137
6	"Tekin' the Piss"	171
7	The Identity Path of Eduardo Mori	217
Part 3	Futures in Contest
8	Class and Identity: The Jujitsu of Domination and Resistance in Oaxacalifornia	247
9	Getting to Be British	281
10	Figures of the Future: Dystopia and Subjectivity in the Social Imagination of the Future	325
	References Cited	349
	Index	375