Don Mitchell, Distinguished Professor of Geography at Syracuse University, gave a lecture titled Prospect: Organized Resistance, Persistent Landscape, and Sculpted Futures at the End of the Bracero Program, on January 22nd, at 5pm at the Great Hall, UC San Diego. The Bracero program ( manual laborer) was a series of diplomatic agreements and laws between the United States and Mexico for the importation of temporary contract laborers from Mexico to the US. Mitchells talk provided a theoretically rich and informative discussion about how the Bracero agreement began, expanded and formally ended in 1964, though still continued to be practiced informally into the 80s under Reagans administration. His notion of agricultural landscape as discourse materialized can be found in his other works, including The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space, where he examines the relationship between struggles over public space and movements for social justice in urban America. A fascinating talk by a major social theorist. More to come in the Social Justice Series, co-sponsored by the Third World Studies Program (UCSD), Friday Social Justice and the Arab Spring.
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 08:05:19 +0000
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