| Journal: | Diálogos (San José) |
| Database: | CLASE |
| System number: | 000496779 |
| ISSN: | 1409-469X |
| Authors: | Chaves Zamora, Randall Andrés1 |
| Institutions: | 1Universidad de Costa Rica, San José. Costa Rica |
| Year: | 2020 |
| Season: | Ene-Jun |
| Volumen: | 21 |
| Number: | 1 |
| Pages: | 1-36 |
| Country: | Costa Rica |
| Language: | Español |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Histórico |
| Spanish abstract | En abril de 1970, miles de estudiantes de colegio y de la Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR) protagonizaron el movimiento estudiantil más recordado en el país desde ese momento y hasta la actualidad. La cadena de protestas, motivada por la oposición estudiantil a la empresa transnacional Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa), generó una amplia cobertura mediática y ha sido conmemorada por sus líderes y protagonistas durante medio siglo. Las páginas siguientes son una interpretación histórica de las memorias públicas sobre esa coyuntura. En primer lugar, se explica la forma en que los universitarios se incluyeron en la discusión legislativa |
| English abstract | In April 1970, thousands of high school students and students from the University of Costa Rica (UCR) were the protagonists of the most remembered student movement in the country ever since. The chain of protests, which was driven by the student opposition against the transnational company Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa), generated widespread media coverage and has been commemorated by its leaders for half a century. The following pages are a historical interpretation of public memories about these protests. The first part of this paper explains how the university students were included in the legislative discussion on Alcoa, while the second part analyzes the series of protests that were carried out in opposition to the project. Both sections use a variety of written, oral, and audiovisual sources from different media outlets to study the public memories of the protagonists of the student movement. This paper concludes with a review of the most significant interpretations made known by the generation of Alcoa, and it proposes that this memory was characterized by oblivions, omissions, and silences motivated by the gender of those who remembered their youth, resulting in the formation of a masculinized memory |
| Disciplines: | Sociología, Historia, Ciencia política |
| Keyword: | Historia, Masculinidades, Alcoa Aluminio, Jóvenes, Movimientos sociopolíticos, Protestas estudiantiles, Protesta social, Análisis político, Costa Rica |
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