Joshua Frens-String
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 702022 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Joshua Frens-String |
| NOMBRES | Joshua |
| APELLIDO | Frens-String |
| FIRMA | FRENS-STRING J |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Cultivating Socialism
Monitor, Produce, Distribute
Objective/Context: This article reconstructs the struggle that consumers and the state waged to contain inflation and consumer scarcity in mid-twentieth-century Chile. Methodology: Drawing on records from Chile’s Ministry of Economy and print media, it first assesses how in the 1930s, mobilized consumers and Chile’s national price control office worked together to create an expectation that a strong interventionist state could prevent inflation a…
Natural Partners
This article examines how Chilean nitrate fertilizer producers and their international marketing agents persuaded farmers in the US South to use nitrogen-rich mineral fertilizers mined from the Atacama Desert, even as cheaper synthetic fertilizers flooded agricultural markets in the early decades of the twentieth century. At the same time, it explores how agricultural experts working in the United States on behalf of Chile's nitrate industry (and…
After Apruebo’s Defeat
A ‘popular option’ for development? Reconsidering the rise and fall of Chile’s political economy of socialism
As Salvador Allende and his supporters forged a democratic path towards socialism, the task of building a more sovereign and egalitarian national economy became one of the Popular Unity (UP) revolution’s first priorities. To that end, Allende’s coalition promoted a massive downward redistribution of income during its first months in office while also extending state control over many of the country’s most essential industries. Chile’s food econom…
Fifty years after Popular Unity
In this article, the co-editors introduce key themes and contributions of this special issue of Radical Americas , particularly as they pertain to the 50th anniversary of Chile’s Popular Unity revolution (1970–3) and the more recent estallido social (social uprising), which began in Santiago de Chile in October 2019. They underline the historical context for contemporary events, arguing the need to recognise the influence, memory and significance…
Bread, Justice, and Liberty
Historian Alison J. Bruey's new work offers a rich analysis of grassroots resistance to the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in the shantytowns surrounding Chile's capital of Santiago. The book's narrative centers around two of the city's most iconic bastions of popular mobilization, the communities of La Legua and Villa Francia. The book moves chronologically through the history of these two neighborhoods by first reconstructing their ea…
Communists, Commissars, and Consumers
This article examines the politics of food during Chile's Popular Unity (UP) revolution (1970-73). Organized around the rise and fall of the Juntas de Abastecimiento y Precios (Price and Supply Committees, JAPs), a state-backed network of collectively managed stores and ad hoc food distribution sites, the article explores how the UP revolution expanded long-standing practices of community-led price monitoring and food distribution to make the pro…
BlackLivesMatter Across the Hemisphere
In the summer of 2014, as protests raged following the deaths of innocent Black men by police in Ferguson, New York, and Baltimore, the righteous indignation of thousands in the streets came togeth
Wall Off Trump
Months after his inauguration, Donald Trump’s election continues to reverberate worldwide, with perhaps special intensity in Latin America and the Latinx U.S. From his early broadsides against Mexi
Drugs, Wars, and Capitalisms
Right Turn
Free Trade 2.0
Locals from the community of Xesana line up on October 26, 2014, to vote in a community consultation on extractive and energy industries in Santa Maria Chiquimula, Guatemala. JAMES RODRIGUEZ.The ye
Nacla Returns to Print
A New Politics for a New Chile
Communists, Commissars, and Consumers
This article examines the politics of food during Chile's Popular Unity (UP) revolution (1970-73). Organized around the rise and fall of the Juntas de Abastecimiento y Precios (Price and Supply Committees, JAPs), a state-backed network of collectively managed stores and ad hoc food distribution sites, the article explores how the UP revolution expanded long-standing practices of community-led price monitoring and food distribution to make the pro…
A New Politics for a New Chile
Drugs, Wars, and Capitalisms
Right Turn
Free Trade 2.0
Locals from the community of Xesana line up on October 26, 2014, to vote in a community consultation on extractive and energy industries in Santa Maria Chiquimula, Guatemala. JAMES RODRIGUEZ.The ye
Nacla Returns to Print
BlackLivesMatter Across the Hemisphere
In the summer of 2014, as protests raged following the deaths of innocent Black men by police in Ferguson, New York, and Baltimore, the righteous indignation of thousands in the streets came togeth
Wall Off Trump
Months after his inauguration, Donald Trump’s election continues to reverberate worldwide, with perhaps special intensity in Latin America and the Latinx U.S. From his early broadsides against Mexi
Communists, Commissars, and Consumers
This article examines the politics of food during Chile's Popular Unity (UP) revolution (1970-73). Organized around the rise and fall of the Juntas de Abastecimiento y Precios (Price and Supply Committees, JAPs), a state-backed network of collectively managed stores and ad hoc food distribution sites, the article explores how the UP revolution expanded long-standing practices of community-led price monitoring and food distribution to make the pro…
Bread, Justice, and Liberty
Historian Alison J. Bruey's new work offers a rich analysis of grassroots resistance to the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in the shantytowns surrounding Chile's capital of Santiago. The book's narrative centers around two of the city's most iconic bastions of popular mobilization, the communities of La Legua and Villa Francia. The book moves chronologically through the history of these two neighborhoods by first reconstructing their ea…
A ‘popular option’ for development? Reconsidering the rise and fall of Chile’s political economy of socialism
As Salvador Allende and his supporters forged a democratic path towards socialism, the task of building a more sovereign and egalitarian national economy became one of the Popular Unity (UP) revolution’s first priorities. To that end, Allende’s coalition promoted a massive downward redistribution of income during its first months in office while also extending state control over many of the country’s most essential industries. Chile’s food econom…
Fifty years after Popular Unity
In this article, the co-editors introduce key themes and contributions of this special issue of Radical Americas , particularly as they pertain to the 50th anniversary of Chile’s Popular Unity revolution (1970–3) and the more recent estallido social (social uprising), which began in Santiago de Chile in October 2019. They underline the historical context for contemporary events, arguing the need to recognise the influence, memory and significance…
After Apruebo’s Defeat
Monitor, Produce, Distribute
Objective/Context: This article reconstructs the struggle that consumers and the state waged to contain inflation and consumer scarcity in mid-twentieth-century Chile. Methodology: Drawing on records from Chile’s Ministry of Economy and print media, it first assesses how in the 1930s, mobilized consumers and Chile’s national price control office worked together to create an expectation that a strong interventionist state could prevent inflation a…
Natural Partners
This article examines how Chilean nitrate fertilizer producers and their international marketing agents persuaded farmers in the US South to use nitrogen-rich mineral fertilizers mined from the Atacama Desert, even as cheaper synthetic fertilizers flooded agricultural markets in the early decades of the twentieth century. At the same time, it explores how agricultural experts working in the United States on behalf of Chile's nitrate industry (and…
Cultivating Socialism
Political science (14 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Politics (9 obras) · Economics (8 obras) · History (6 obras) · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America (6 obras) · Political economy (6 obras) · Communism (4 obras) · Economy (4 obras) · Sociology (4 obras)