For this post I want to focus on Augusto Sandino’s Manifesto. From what I understand, Sandino’s primary objective was to rid Nicaragua of the U.S. occupation, and he was less concerned about the parochial battles between Liberals and Conservatives. The one word that immediately came to mind when I reflected on this text was: pride. […]
After watching the lecture and reading “Caudillos Versus the Nation State”, I could see some of the appeal behind a caudillismo system. The Caudillos could appeal to the marginalized, as it is claimed that Guatemalan caudillo Rafael Carrera did when he restrained the state and vouched for the peasant’s rural autonomy. With the power vacuum […]
After watching the lecture and reading the articles, I was most inclined to write about Latin Americans’ “anxious identity” as well as the Casta paintings. “Latin America is a place where identity seems to come into focus, but also where identity always threatens to dissolve” This particular phrase from the lecture really stood out toContinue reading “week 3: the colonial experience”
Week 3 lecture (video)
Independence of a nation state implies freedom and hope for a more unified future for the people. However in reality it is always more complicated than that. Breaking free from the colonial power, ‘The Spanish Royals’, proved to derail much of the central authority in Latin America. Since it was the Creole elites who leadContinue reading “Week 5: Same Same but Different”
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 →
Summary of Hybridity of Its Discontents: Considering Visual Culture in Colonial Spanish America by Carolyn Dean and Dana Leibsohn The article connects to my groups theme of ”The Casta Paintings” in colonial latin america through its content. The article discusses the concepts of ”mixing’, ‘hybridity” (5) and how these concepts were implemented during the colonial period. The […]
Group: The Export Boom as Modernity Symbolism, solitude and modernity: science and scientists in Porfirian Mexico Author: Natalia Priego Priego, Natalia. (2008). Symbolism, solitude and modernity: science and scientists in porfirian Mexico. História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos, 15(2), 473-485. https://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0104-59702008000200016 Natalia Priego begins by … Continue reading →
This week we learned about how the US grew to become such a neo-colonial power in the early twentieth century with a focus on its military and economic relationships with Latin America. On the military side of things, I found it really interesting how the US used political unrest within a nation for its own […]
This week we learned about how the US grew to become such a neo-colonial power in the early twentieth century with a focus on its military and economic relationships with Latin America. On the military side of things, I found it really interesting how the US used political unrest within a nation for its own […]
