Tamara Lea Spira
Biographic Data
| ID | 93549 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tamara Lea Spira |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tamara Lea |
| FAMILY NAME | Spira |
| SIGNATURE | SPIRA T L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Shared Futures or Financialized Futures: Polygenic Screening, Reproductive Justice, and the Radical Charge of Collective Care
Polygenic screening is a new form of embryo testing that assesses the probability that an embryo will later develop a wide range of health conditions. This technology purports to help prospective parents choose which embryos to implant during in-vitro fertilization to ensure the “healthiest” baby. In this essay, we interrogate polygenic screening as part of the broader economy of finance capital–backed fertility technologies that are redefining n…
I Give You a World Incomplete: Pat Parker's Revolution and the Unfinished Legacy of 1970s Feminist Radicalisms
Immortalized in This Bridge Called My Back , Pat Parker's speech at the 1980 "BASTA! Women's Conference on Imperialism and Third World War" issued a clear call to feminist revolution. "Revolution: It's Not Neat, or Pretty, or Quick" was unabashed in its critique of feminist assimilation into US empire, sounding a bellwether for radical movements to come. Accompanying Parker's fiery nature, however, was also a quieter more reflective Parker, and o…
Postrevolutionary Affect and the Consolidation of Zionism: The Case of Mercedes Sosa
This essay traces the Zionist conversion of iconic revolutionary folk singer Mercedes Sosa to theorize the shifting forms of racial empire in the movement from the Dirty War to the War on Terror. I read Sosa’s story as emblematic of the thwarted revolutionary dreams of the late twentieth century and the subsequent forms of recolonization—and in this case Zionism as settler colonialism—that came to flourish in their stead. The arc of Sosa’s work s…
Neoliberal transitions: The Santiago general cemetery and the affective economies of counter-revolution
Anchored in the Santiago General Cemetery, this essay analyses the management of revolutionary memory under neoliberalism. Juxtaposing the gravesites of Salvador Allende and Víctor Jara, I theorise the gendered and racialised processes through which collective dreams for justice – and even radical politics themselves – come to be co-opted under neoliberal capitalism. If in Jara’s grave we see the state performing the part of the hyper-masculine d…
Intimate internationalisms: 1970S 'Third World' queer feminist solidarity with Chile
This article theorises the relationship between 1970s US Third World queer and feminist movements and Latin American anti-imperialist revolutions of the late twentieth century. I focus upon the historically occluded relationships between Third World feminists and queers in Chile and the United States throughout the transition to neoliberalism. My archive includes June Jordan's little-known writings on Chile, the writings of Audre Lorde, and, prim…
From the Fringes of Empire: U.S. Third World Feminists in Solidarity with Chile
In your country how / do you say copper / for my country? — June Jordan Additional informationNotes on contributorsTamara Lea SpiraTamara Lea Spira is a social justice activist and scholar of Latin American and Critical Race Feminist Studies who has held faculty positions at the University of Oregon and UC Santa Cruz, and fellowships including the UC Presidents Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Beatrice Bain Residency at UC Berkeley. She extends he…
Neoliberal Captivities
This article treats Pisagua prison in northern Chile, which intermittently served as a concentration camp for leftists and queer "sexual dissidents" throughout the twentieth century and was converted into a hotel after the transition to democracy in 1990. It proposes a theoretical formulation of neoliberal captivities, which the author defines as the process through which programs of counterrevolutionary backlash and war making become encrypted i…
Intimate internationalisms: 1970S 'Third World' queer feminist solidarity with Chile
This article theorises the relationship between 1970s US Third World queer and feminist movements and Latin American anti-imperialist revolutions of the late twentieth century. I focus upon the historically occluded relationships between Third World feminists and queers in Chile and the United States throughout the transition to neoliberalism. My archive includes June Jordan's little-known writings on Chile, the writings of Audre Lorde, and, prim…
Shared Futures or Financialized Futures: Polygenic Screening, Reproductive Justice, and the Radical Charge of Collective Care
Polygenic screening is a new form of embryo testing that assesses the probability that an embryo will later develop a wide range of health conditions. This technology purports to help prospective parents choose which embryos to implant during in-vitro fertilization to ensure the “healthiest” baby. In this essay, we interrogate polygenic screening as part of the broader economy of finance capital–backed fertility technologies that are redefining n…
Postrevolutionary Affect and the Consolidation of Zionism: The Case of Mercedes Sosa
This essay traces the Zionist conversion of iconic revolutionary folk singer Mercedes Sosa to theorize the shifting forms of racial empire in the movement from the Dirty War to the War on Terror. I read Sosa’s story as emblematic of the thwarted revolutionary dreams of the late twentieth century and the subsequent forms of recolonization—and in this case Zionism as settler colonialism—that came to flourish in their stead. The arc of Sosa’s work s…
Neoliberal Captivities
This article treats Pisagua prison in northern Chile, which intermittently served as a concentration camp for leftists and queer "sexual dissidents" throughout the twentieth century and was converted into a hotel after the transition to democracy in 1990. It proposes a theoretical formulation of neoliberal captivities, which the author defines as the process through which programs of counterrevolutionary backlash and war making become encrypted i…
Neoliberal Captivities
This article treats Pisagua prison in northern Chile, which intermittently served as a concentration camp for leftists and queer "sexual dissidents" throughout the twentieth century and was converted into a hotel after the transition to democracy in 1990. It proposes a theoretical formulation of neoliberal captivities, which the author defines as the process through which programs of counterrevolutionary backlash and war making become encrypted i…
From the Fringes of Empire: U.S. Third World Feminists in Solidarity with Chile
In your country how / do you say copper / for my country? — June Jordan Additional informationNotes on contributorsTamara Lea SpiraTamara Lea Spira is a social justice activist and scholar of Latin American and Critical Race Feminist Studies who has held faculty positions at the University of Oregon and UC Santa Cruz, and fellowships including the UC Presidents Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Beatrice Bain Residency at UC Berkeley. She extends he…
Neoliberal transitions: The Santiago general cemetery and the affective economies of counter-revolution
Anchored in the Santiago General Cemetery, this essay analyses the management of revolutionary memory under neoliberalism. Juxtaposing the gravesites of Salvador Allende and Víctor Jara, I theorise the gendered and racialised processes through which collective dreams for justice – and even radical politics themselves – come to be co-opted under neoliberal capitalism. If in Jara’s grave we see the state performing the part of the hyper-masculine d…
Intimate internationalisms: 1970S 'Third World' queer feminist solidarity with Chile
This article theorises the relationship between 1970s US Third World queer and feminist movements and Latin American anti-imperialist revolutions of the late twentieth century. I focus upon the historically occluded relationships between Third World feminists and queers in Chile and the United States throughout the transition to neoliberalism. My archive includes June Jordan's little-known writings on Chile, the writings of Audre Lorde, and, prim…
Postrevolutionary Affect and the Consolidation of Zionism: The Case of Mercedes Sosa
This essay traces the Zionist conversion of iconic revolutionary folk singer Mercedes Sosa to theorize the shifting forms of racial empire in the movement from the Dirty War to the War on Terror. I read Sosa’s story as emblematic of the thwarted revolutionary dreams of the late twentieth century and the subsequent forms of recolonization—and in this case Zionism as settler colonialism—that came to flourish in their stead. The arc of Sosa’s work s…
I Give You a World Incomplete: Pat Parker's Revolution and the Unfinished Legacy of 1970s Feminist Radicalisms
Immortalized in This Bridge Called My Back , Pat Parker's speech at the 1980 "BASTA! Women's Conference on Imperialism and Third World War" issued a clear call to feminist revolution. "Revolution: It's Not Neat, or Pretty, or Quick" was unabashed in its critique of feminist assimilation into US empire, sounding a bellwether for radical movements to come. Accompanying Parker's fiery nature, however, was also a quieter more reflective Parker, and o…
Shared Futures or Financialized Futures: Polygenic Screening, Reproductive Justice, and the Radical Charge of Collective Care
Polygenic screening is a new form of embryo testing that assesses the probability that an embryo will later develop a wide range of health conditions. This technology purports to help prospective parents choose which embryos to implant during in-vitro fertilization to ensure the “healthiest” baby. In this essay, we interrogate polygenic screening as part of the broader economy of finance capital–backed fertility technologies that are redefining n…
Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Economic Justice (3 works) · Empire (3 works) · History (3 works)