Dogmatism and Reading History w/ Alexander Aviña
Guerrilla History
Henry
4.8 • 669 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2024
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Guerrilla History, we have an informal discussion with our friend and comrade Alex Aviña about the dangers of dogmatism when reading history, and much more! We love these slightly more theoretical conversations, and we know many of you do too. This one fits very well with many of the Sources and Methods episodes we have released, so be sure to check those previous episodes out if you are new to the show!
Alexander Aviña is associate professor of Latin American history at Arizona State University and author of Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside. Alex's website is available at alexanderavina.com, and he can be followed on twitter @Alexander_Avina
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| 0:00.0 | You don't remember Den Van Boo? |
| 0:09.0 | No! |
| 0:10.0 | The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa. |
| 0:14.0 | They didn't have anything but a rank. |
| 0:17.0 | The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on. |
| 0:28.3 | Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of |
| 0:33.4 | global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. |
| 0:38.9 | I'm one of your co-hosts, Henry Huckmacki, joined as usual by my co-host, Professor Adnan |
| 0:43.8 | Hussein, historian and director of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. |
| 0:48.7 | Hello, Adnan. How are you doing today? |
| 0:51.2 | I'm doing well. It's been a long day. |
| 0:54.8 | It has been a long day. |
| 0:56.1 | This is the third episode that we have recorded without ending the recording. |
| 1:00.6 | So we have been recording for many hours at this point, but I'm still happy to see you here. |
| 1:06.6 | It's always a pleasure. |
| 1:08.2 | Our third conversation of the day. |
| 1:10.2 | Third conversation of the day, we're not getting tired yet. |
| 1:12.9 | I started tired, but I'm getting energy as we go. |
| 1:16.7 | We have a terrific guest again with us who's here for the second of these three conversations |
| 1:23.1 | that we've had today, Adnan. |
| 1:24.5 | But before I introduce him and the topic at hand, I'd like to remind the listeners that they can help support the show and allow us to continue making episodes like this by going to patreon.com forward slash gorilla history. That's G-U-E-R-R-I-L-A history. And you can keep up to date with everything that we put out individually and collectively by following the show on Twitter at Gorilla underscore Pod. |
| 1:46.5 | That's G-U-E-R-R-I-L-A-U-L-A-U-Pod. |
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