Life and the Pedagogy of Counterinsurgency, 1961–64
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12910561 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Molly Geidel (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 219-238 |
| Publication date | 2016-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Photography and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1751-4517 • E-ISSN: 1751-4525 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17514517.2016.1269514 |
| OpenAlex | W2587218846 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
This article investigates the role Life magazine played in explaining Cold War counterinsurgency ventures to its readers. After examining Life’s general strategy for emotionally enlisting readers in Third World counterinsurgency, the article focuses on how two photo essays about Bolivia—Dmitri Kessel’s 1961 “A Tormented, Grim Land” and Michael Rougier’s 1964 “Hostages of a Mob of Miners"—formulated these counterinsurgency tactics. The first set of photographs portrays rural indigenous Bolivians performing an ideal of national belonging through developmentalist striving, while excluding militant miners from the narrative of national incorporation and progress. The second essay reincorporates the economically disempowered miners back into the nation while imagining Indians and women as threatening their peaceful reincorporation. Together these photo spreads secure the division between miners and their indigenous neighbors, framing the Bolivian state’s U.S.-sponsored attempts to fracture old left-wing revolutionary peasant-worker coalitions as altruistic pedagogical measures designed to help the country modernize
Art · Cold war · Framing (construction · Indigenous · Militant · Narrative · Peasant · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture · Gender Studies · History · Law · Military History and Strategy · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis
Modernization from the Other Shore
Hearts and Minds
The Global Cold War
The Right to Look
Waves of Decolonization
The Great American Mission
The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development
Development, Modernization, and the Social Sciences in the Era of Decolonization
The United States and Bolivia
Encountering Development
Seeing Like a State
Subtle Means and Enticing Carrots
| Highly cited | No |
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