{"id":29,"date":"2019-10-21T22:05:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T05:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/imkelsey\/?p=29"},"modified":"2019-10-21T22:05:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T05:05:20","slug":"week-eight-signs-of-crisis-in-a-guilded-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/imkelsey\/2019\/10\/21\/week-eight-signs-of-crisis-in-a-guilded-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Week Eight: Signs of Crisis in a Guilded Age"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dawson\u2019s definition of revolution is interesting. He states that \u201crevolution is a claim of ownership on history\u201d and \u201can attempt to shape a view of the past that organises power in the present\u201d through inheritance or attributing meaning. Before the American Revolution, \u201crevolution\u201d was a much more literal word. Revolutionaries would want to \u201crevolve\u201d or revert back to the old method of operations because they were unhappy with a new government. I\u2019d like to argue that American revolutionaries redefined this term as their government did not revert back to British rule pre-reforms that caused the revolution in the first place. This form of revolution took global hold, as France, Haiti, and eventually Latin America revolted under this new definition. To my understanding, in Latin America, the goal of revolutions was to create new governments that would better represent the population (or at least the population in power); whether they achieved this is a different question, but I\u2019d say in the context of Latin America, revolution is definitely more of a \u201cclaim of ownership on history,\u201d or on a time period in history where the revolution and its leaders is the most significant aspect, than Dawson\u2019s other argument.<\/span><\/p>\n

I believe some themes we brought up early in the term appear here again. Continuity vs change, for example, can be applied to revolutions. Earlier in the term we discussed if revolutions really change anything. Dawson argues in the lecture that politically, revolutionary governments often revert back to the past, but socially and economically a new order emerges. So perhaps both occur. The theme of \u201ca past that hasn’t passed\u201d appears here as well. Dawson\u2019s evidence for this argument is the Mexican PRI, which claims an ongoing revolution through a series of reforms. Dawson also doesn\u2019t want to outright state when the revolution happened, its beginning, its ending. He doesn\u2019t want to limit it to within a certain time-frame as the ideologies still exist even today. \u201cThe claim \u2018land and liberty\u2019 never goes away\u201d and is still a very dear part of many Latin American peoples\u2019 values and heritage, though we may tend to otherwise see it just as history. This brings us back to another question: what is a revolution? Is it bloody and violent? Is it sudden and significant? Or is it a less dramatic, constant process of bureaucracy, protests, and reform? Are revolutions more common than we think, if we give the term a less rigid definition?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dawson\u2019s definition of revolution is interesting. He states that \u201crevolution is a claim of ownership on history\u201d and \u201can attempt to shape a view of the past that organises power in the present\u201d through inheritance or attributing meaning. Before the American Revolution, \u201crevolution\u201d was a much more literal word. Revolutionaries would want to \u201crevolve\u201d or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1051437],"tags":[283866,1148,284553,709,130,2540,2663,44913],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-eight","tag-20th-century","tag-change","tag-continuity","tag-history","tag-latin-america","tag-mexico","tag-reform","tag-revolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/imkelsey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/imkelsey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/imkelsey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/imkelsey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/imkelsey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/imkelsey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/imkelsey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/imkelsey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/imkelsey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/imkelsey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}