Pub Date : 2018-09-04DOI: 10.1525/california/9780520295469.003.0004
Daniel Renfrew
This chapter explores how long-time neighborhood activists helped build the CVSP into the nation’s most significant environmental-justice movement by mobilizing the radical histories, strong place attachment, and “socially thick” landscape of community organizing in the working-class neighborhood of La Teja. It examines the role of La Teja’s community media, the environmental-education efforts of teachers at a local special-needs school, and children’s creative-art projects in raising awareness of neighborhood lead poisoning and generating critical environmental consciousness. The chapter conveys the spirit and poetics of murga, a popular musical theater genre of Carnival. In paralleling the poetic structure of murga, the chapter seeks to capture the inventive, narrative, hopeful, and performative dimensions of environmental-justice movements.
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Pub Date : 2018-09-04DOI: 10.1525/california/9780520295469.003.0003
Daniel Renfrew
This chapter argues that lead poisoning acted as a metonym of a general social imaginary of crisis associated with the collapse of the neoliberal model while also being rooted in the legacies of the mid-twentieth-century Import Substitution Industrialization (ISI) period. The chapter counters Uruguay’s modern foundational myths of “exceptionalism” with social imaginaries anchored in the militant working-class history of La Teja. The chapter critically examines these foundational myths in relation to the all-encompassing socioeconomic crisis that began in 2002, arguing that activists interpreted the lead-poisoning epidemic within the working-class counter-narrative of Uruguayan national identity and history, politics and society, and in dialogue with a counter-imaginary of crisis linked to the material and symbolic fallout of the neoliberal order.
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