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What Democracy Sounds Like

What Democracy Sounds Like

Alec Dawson on the soundscapes of democracy (podcast)

Posted in Podcasts, Week 13, Week 13 Podcasts | Tagged with democracy, politics

Back to the Barracks

Back to the Barracks

Alec Dawson on the end of military rule in Argentina and Chile (podcast)

Posted in Podcasts, Week 12 Podcasts | Tagged with Argentina, Chile, democracy, military, transitions

Dictatorship and Resistance

Dictatorship and Resistance

A conversation with Rita De Grandis (video)

Posted in Interview Videos, Week 12 Videos | Tagged with Argentina, C20th, democracy, dictatorship, gender, neoliberalism, resistance, Rita De Grandis, violence, women

Peru’s Civil War

Peru’s Civil War

A conversation with Max Cameron (video)

Posted in Interview Videos, Week 11 Videos | Tagged with Andes, C20th, democracy, Fujimori, land, land reform, Maoism, peasantry, Peru, politics, revolution, violence, war

Week 7: The Export Boom as Modernity

  Modernity can be defined as the belief in the universal freedom and rationality of humanity, and is often posed as the conduit for teleological progress. I think the integration of modernity depends on a lot of factors. One of these is topographical. For example, as Dawson states: “Latin Americans lacked the resources needed to […]

Posted in Blogs, Week 7 | Tagged with apu, Barasana, Capitalism, democracy, Descartes, dominant, emergent, Huaorani, Locke, modernity, residual, West

Laughing like Mafalda

Through our discussions we have come to recognize that the countries in Latin America are not completely independent, culturally, economically…

Posted in Blogs, Week 5 | Tagged with caudillo, democracy, hope, Jair Bolsonaro, liberalism, Mafalda

Chávez in Context

Chávez in Context

A conversation with Max Cameron (video)

Posted in Interview Videos, Week 4 Videos | Tagged with Bolivarianism, C19th, Chávez, democracy, history, inclusion, independence, politics, populism, revolution, Venezuela

Week Ten: Power to the People

This week, I was able to see the effect that technology had to move the people into the forefront of the political game. As it has been noted multiple times thus far in this course, one of the things that … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Week 10 | Tagged with democracy, imagined narratives, Perón, personality cult, populism, propaganda, radio, technology

Reflections Week 7: Modernization of Modernity

Happy Thanksgiving, all. Since there was no video lecture given by our professor for this week, I will be comenting on a related video, entitled “Modernity and Modernization in Mexico”. The first thought that caught my eye were the disconcerting similarities between the definition given of modernity and that which is understood of progress. Especially, […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with democracy, France, Laicity, modernity, progress, Quebec, secularism, United States

Towards an Uncertain Future: The Case of Venezuela

Of course no one can possibly predict the future, but in the case of Venezuela, it seems that the Latin American country could very well become the next Soviet Union, at least when it comes to its collapse[1]. Considering the recent drop in the price of oil, and given that oil exports remains to this … Continue reading “Towards an Uncertain Future: The Case of Venezuela”

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with authoritarianism, Bolivarian revolution, democracy, dictatorship, future, opposition, protests, uncertainty, Venezuela

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