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, […]
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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
The modernity period for many countries in Latin America were composed of advancements in areas such as building infrastructure, roads, train rails, grand buildings in European fashion. But in other aspects the modernity period in Latin America was extremely different than the one experienced in other parts of the world at the time. The main […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 7 | Tagged with Mexico, modernity, Porfirio Díaz
Diaz’s proclamation, in 1908, that he would not run for the presidency opened the floodgates for countless marginalized groups to speak out against modernization. Groups that had for decades been silenced, displaced, repressed, and forced to work for the capitalist … Continue reading →
Posted in Blogs, Week 8 | Tagged with Capitalism, indigenous, Mexican Revolution, modernity, Porfirio Díaz, revolution, Zapata
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 →
Posted in Blogs, Week 11 | Tagged with crisis of representation, elites, final video project, identity, indigenous, modernity, Porfirio Díaz, Research Assignment, video project
The twentieth century brought a new international culture, a new dynamic to which Latin American nations and peoples would have to adjust to and engage in. In the stead of traditional European domination, a new ‘exchange’ emerged with the United States of America – one that would be contrasted with the old imperialist European hegemony. The USA described itself as anti-imperial, and insisted on a new kind of relationship with the ‘outside world’ for Latin America. However, as we have seen this week, this professed divergence between European and USA…read more
Posted in Blogs, Week 9 | Tagged with 20th century, continuity, empire, foreign affairs, globalization, international relations, legitimacy, modernity, Nation state, Nationalism, sovereignty, USA
The twentieth century brought a new international culture, a new dynamic to which Latin American nations and peoples would have to adjust to and engage in. In the stead of traditional European domination, a new ‘exchange’ emerged with the United States of America – one that would be contrasted with the old imperialist European hegemony. The USA described itself as anti-imperial, and insisted on a new kind of relationship with the ‘outside world’ for Latin America. However, as we have seen this week, this professed divergence between European and USA…read more
Posted in Blogs, Week 9 | Tagged with 20th century, continuity, empire, foreign affairs, globalization, international relations, legitimacy, media, modernity, Nation state, Nationalism, sovereignty, USA