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Putting the Environment into Law: Chile's 1980 Constitution and the Rise of Environmentalism during the Free-Market "Silent Revolution," 1970s and 1980s.

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Tuesday, April 28  12:20pm  Uris Hall, G-08                                 Thomas Miller Klubock is a historian of modern Latin America with research specialties in social and working-class history, environmental history, and the history of gender and sexuality.  His most recent book, Ránquil: Rural Rebellion, Political Violence, and Historical Memory in Chile (Yale University Press, 2022), a history of Chile’s most important peasant rebellion, examines issues of rural labor and land relations, political violence, law, and historical memory.   Ránquil was awarded the 2023 Whitaker book prize from the Mid-Atlantic Conference of Latin American Studies (MECLAS).