Everyday Revolution: Grassroots Movements, the Revolutionary Left (MIR) and the Making of Socialism in Chile, 1964-1973
1227 F St.
Davis, CA 95616
Gilbert M. Joseph
My dissertation traces the trajectory of Chile’s Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) as it grew from student protests in the 1960s into a grassroots movement for revolution in the 1970s. My central claim is that the MIR’s contribution came not from violence but through empowering marginalized individuals to participate in the political system. I argue that these subjective transformations—or “everyday revolutions”—mark the lasting legacy of revolutionary politics in Chile. More broadly, my work contributes to studies of social movements globally by asking why people join movements for social change and how, decades later, they make sense of their participation.
Colony, Nation, Diaspora: Cuba and Puerto Rico (Teaching Fellow)
Early Modern Latin America (Teaching Fellow)
Publications:
Steven S. Volk and Marian E. Schlotterbeck, “Gender, Order, and Femicide. Reading the Popular Culture of Murder in Ciudad Juárez,” Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 32:1 (Spring 2007): 53-86. Essay revised and published in Making a Killing: Femicide, Free Trade, and La Frontera, ed. Alicia Gaspar de Alba (Austin, TX: UT Austin Press, 2010) and The Chicano Studies Reader: An Anthology of Aztlán. 2nd ed. (UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press, 2010).
Conference Papers:
“‘The MIR gave me more than it took away’: Narratives of Militancy and Transformation in Chile’s Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR), 1965-1973,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting 2013.
“Poder Popular in the Province of Concepción, 1968-1973,” Latin American Studies Association Congress, 2012.
“The University Reform Movement in Concepción and the Rise of the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) in Chile, 1964-1969,” Conference on Latin American History at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting, 2012.
“El MIR desde las bases: los casos de Coronel y Tomé,” XIX Jornadas de Historia de Chile in Santiago and the III Jornadas de Historia Política in Montevideo, 2011.
“Everyday Revolution: Grassroots Movements and the Making of Socialism in Chile, 1960-1973,” Columbia University Summer Institute on Oral History, 2010.
SSRC International Dissertation Research Fellowship
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship
Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Writing Fellowship (Yale)
Smith-Richardson Foundation Fellowship (Yale)
MacMillan Center Pre-Dissertation Grant (Yale)
Tinker Foundation Field Research Grant (Yale)
Rotary Academic-Year Ambassadorial Scholarship to Concepción, Chile
Phi Beta Kappa
Founder and coordinator, Yale Latin American Studies Graduate Working Group
Research Associate, Chile and Cuba Documentation Projects, National Security Archive, Washington DC