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Week Eight: Signs of Crisis in a Guilded Age

The resonating theme for this week’s reading to me was ‘conflict’ – and it seems this has been the case for a great deal of the last few weeks’ readings. Conflict between Latin America and the encroaching imperialism of the … Continue reading →

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Week Eight: Signs of Crisis in a Guilded Age

The resonating theme for this week’s reading to me was ‘conflict’ – and it seems this has been the case for a great deal of the last few weeks’ readings. Conflict between Latin America and the encroaching imperialism of the … Continue reading →

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Smoke and Mirrors

This week I felt slightly caught up in what seemed to be a never ending cycle of revolution. Listening to…

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Smoke and Mirrors

This week I felt slightly caught up in what seemed to be a never ending cycle of revolution. Listening to…

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Week 8

This week’s reading helped answer many of my last week’s questions. One of which was: can we say that Latin America is truly modern? I found the notion of Hybridity in Latin Americans an interesting one in that a person can simultaneously have two different worldviews, an Ultramodern and a Deeply traditional one. The other … Continue reading Week 8

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