2014/2015 Janey Annual Workshop: Melissa Amezcua Yepiz and Emmanuel Guerisoli
Friday February 13th, 10am, History Conference Room 529
Janey Fellows Melissa Amezcua Yepiz and Emmanuel Guerisoli present their most recent work based on the 2014/2015 Janey Fellowship they were awarded. See titles of their presentations and abstracts below:
Melissa Amezcua Yepiz | Hombre del Pueblo: Lázaro Cardenas’ Journeys and the Reinvention of the Sovereign People in the 1930’s
Abstract: This paper examines Lazaro Cardenas’ unprecedented campaign tour throughout the Mexican Republic in the mid 1930’s as a momentous site for the staging of a democratic imaginary (mise-en-scene) that had two main functions: it enabled him to gain support toa tarnished presidential image, and constituted the breeding ground for the social construction of Cardenas as a leader identified as ‘the man of the people’. Drawing from newspapers, monographs and photographic material of the tour this paper seeks to distinguish the main elements at play in the discourse and practices that made him the embodiment of the democratic ideal.
Emmanuel Guerisoli | Three Shades of Grey: Legal, Extra-Legal, and Illegal Systems of Domination in Argentina’s Military Junta
Abstract: The paper contends that the military junta that ruled Argentina between 1976-1983 had a triple structure of power. Three systems of order cohabited and were interconnected during the regime. A normative, a prerogative and a parallel illegal ruled the socio-political order of the country. Besides describing how these three orders operated, the essay aims to offer a critique of the exclusivity of the rational-legal type of domination in modern societies by contending that the legal normative order operates next to extra legal and a no-legal ones.