Dear all,
Please join us for this year's first session of the London Latin American
Anthropology Seminar Series
<https://anthropologyseminarilas.blogs.sas.ac.uk/> on *Thursday 26 October
at 17:30*. This session is jointly organized with the Centre for Integrated
Caribbean Research <https://cicr.blogs.sas.ac.uk/>.
*Opening session by Mette Louise Berg, UCL.* Followed by drinks.
*Schooling, Mobility and Belonging in Socialist Cuba and its Diaspora*
Based on an ethnographic study of transnational networks of alumni of an
academically selective boarding school in Havana known as *La Lenin*, this
paper explores the nexus between social and spatial mobilities and
belonging in the context of socialist Cuba and its diaspora. *La Lenin* was
founded on Ernesto Che Guevara’s ideal of the *Hombre Nuevo* or New Man,
and was part of the revolutionary project of constructing an independent,
modern, and socialist Cuba. Today, many alumni of *La Lenin* participate in
transnationally extended affective webs of belonging forged through family
links and friendships fostered at the school. These webs constitute not
only emotionally sustaining networks, but also provide material support for
those alumni who emigrate from Cuba. Through the networks, alumni embrace
belonging to the school but implicitly reject Cuban nationalism, and
intriguingly reproduce many of the cultural forms of nationalism and
nationhood in the process. The school has thus come to represent a site of
identification for a globally dispersed non-national diaspora. The paper
concludes by arguing for a fuller understanding of how different kinds of
mobilities are interlinked with each other and with the production of
migrant subjectivities, and that scholars of migration need to embed
international migration and its significance within people’s lives broadly
understood, including their pre-migration experiences.
This seminar will be held in *Room 246 at the Senate House *(South Block,
Malet St, London WC1E 7HU).
All are welcome. Attendance is free.
For more information about the seminar and future sessions, you can visit
our blog <http://anthropologyseminarilas.blogs.sas.ac.uk/>. Please Like and
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*Dr Ainhoa Montoya*Lecturer in Latin American Studies
ESRC Future Research Leaders Fellow
Institute of Latin American Studies
School of Advanced Study – University of London
https://sas.academia.edu/AinhoaMontoya
<https://ulondon.academia.edu/AinhoaMontoya>
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