After completing the readings, a sense of inconclusiveness lingers over me. Honestly, it’s an impressive mix of feelings. From my…
First and foremost, I found this week’s lecture and readings really confusing, which is actually quite funny considering everything we’ve talked about regarding the crisis of representation. I watched the student video made by Anna Shannon and Nisa Brennan followed by a recommended CrashCourse video on Latin American revolutions–John and Hank Green have helped meContinue reading “week 4: independence narratives, past and present”
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I felt the description in this weeks lecture of 19th century post independence Latin America as [“Independent nations prolonging the colonial project”] to be interesting and apt. Bolivar and his contemporaries instigated a self serving independence in Latin America. It … Continue reading
I felt the description in this weeks lecture of 19th century post independence Latin America as [“Independent nations prolonging the colonial project”] to be interesting and apt. Bolivar and his contemporaries instigated a self serving independence in Latin America. It … Continue reading
Sometimes I’m taken aback by the lack of self awareness shown by those at the top of social and political hierarchy. If any group is going to be a group of oppressors it is this demographic. However oppressors practically never … Continue reading
Sometimes I’m taken aback by the lack of self awareness shown by those at the top of social and political hierarchy. If any group is going to be a group of oppressors it is this demographic. However oppressors practically never … Continue reading
Another course I am currently undertaking relates to the concept of nationalism (in the context of modern Asia), and suggests that nationalism is only a recent trend born from decolonisation movements. Previously, I had only really associated decolonisation with that … Continue reading →
History and the way that we use it as a society is so important. Everyone is familiar with the saying “history repeats itself”, a phrase that comes with a warning: no matter the consequences of events that have happened previously, it is inevitable that similar events will come to occur in the future. Between politiciansContinue reading “A Response to: Independence Narratives, Past and Present”
In order to successfully understand the Independence of the Countries within Latin America it is first important to understand the history of Latin America and why it needed to reclaim independence in the first place. It was interesting to be able to read three different people’s accounts from three different periods in time which depictedContinue reading “Week 4: Authentic vs. Aesthetic Representation”
