Podcast-Buying into the Regime: Grapes and Consumption in Cold War Chile and the United States
Listen to a lecture by Professor Heidi Tinsman (UC Irvine) on her new book Buying into the Regime.
Buying into the Regime explores the relationship between
Chile’s lucrative grape industry and Americans’ growing appetite for
fresh and healthy eating in the late 20th century. Almost all grapes
eaten in the U.S. during the winter have come from Chile. Debates over
“consumerism” became central to pro-democracy struggles against Pinochet
as well as to shifting relationships between women and men. As a
transnational history, Buying into the Regime connects the lives of
Latin American workers to the North Americans who bought their
products. It argues that consumption was a terrain of political
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Duration: 00:50:30
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Published: Friday, November 14, 2014