Buying into the Regime: Grapes and Consumption in Cold War Chile and the United States
A lecture by Professor Heidi Tinsman (UC Irvine).
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
4:00 PM - 6:00 PMRolfe Hall 4302
Lydeen Library, UCLA
Abstract:
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 struggle and transformation on both sides of the Equator.
Bio:
Heidi Tinsman is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Partners in Conflict: The Politics of Sexuality, Gender, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950–1973 and a coeditor of Imagining Our Americas: Toward a Transnational Frame, both also published by Duke University Press.
Cost: Free and open to the public
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Sponsor(s): Program on Southern Cone Studies, UCLA Center for Argentina, Chile and the Southern Cone and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.