I began this unit by listening to John Lennon. It would be inconceivable to read this week’s title and not…
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Learning about Evita this week made me think back to a comment that Professor Jon shared in one of our…
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Macón, Cecilia. “Santa Evita Montonera: Envious, therefore Empowered.” Journal of Romance Studies, vol. 15, no. 1, 2015, pp. 1-28. In the article “Santa Evita Montonera: Envious, therefore empowered”(2015), Cecilia Macón examines the characteristics that made Eva Perón both a saint and a villain, and the difficulties of female political agency in terms of affects. AccordingContinue reading “Writing Research Assignment Pt II”
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Macón, Cecilia. “Santa Evita Montonera: Envious, therefore Empowered.” Journal of Romance Studies, vol. 15, no. 1, 2015, pp. 1-28. In the article “Santa Evita Montonera: Envious, therefore empowered”(2015), Cecilia Macón examines the characteristics that made Eva Perón both a saint and a villain, and the difficulties of female political agency in terms of affects. AccordingContinue reading “Writing Research Assignment Pt II”
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Primary source: Evita’s renouncement speech “Eva Perón’s last speech (1951).” Youtube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr7ymWtnHWc It was 1951, and from the top of a scaffolding built on Avenida Nueve de Julio in Buenos Aires stood the Spiritual Leader of the Nation, Argentina’s first lady, Eva Perón. Beneath her, a crowd of peronistas relentlessly demanded Evita to declare her candidacy toContinue reading “Writing Reasearch Assignment Pt I”
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Primary source: Evita’s renouncement speech “Eva Perón’s last speech (1951).” Youtube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr7ymWtnHWc It was 1951, and from the top of a scaffolding built on Avenida Nueve de Julio in Buenos Aires stood the Spiritual Leader of the Nation, Argentina’s first lady, Eva Perón. Beneath her, a crowd of peronistas relentlessly demanded Evita to declare her candidacy toContinue reading “Writing Reasearch Assignment Pt I”
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In The Press and Classical Populism in Argentina and Brazil (2018), Ariel Alejandro Goldstein explains to readers the way in which the media was used by the government in the populist regimes of Peronism and Vargism, from the 1930s to the 1950s. Since our project will focus primarily on the the Peronist regime in ArgentinaContinue reading “Power to the People and “The Press and Classical Populism in Argentina and Brazil””
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Hi all. For this week’s reflections, I will be commenting on a video, entitled ’’Power to the People: Peronism’’, as well as on the broader Peronist movement. Firstly, the first part of the video outlines Peron as an opportunist who only saw this rise of the labour movement as an opportunity for him to gain […]
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Hi all. For this week’s reflections, I will be commenting on a video, entitled ’’Power to the People: Peronism’’, as well as on the broader Peronist movement. Firstly, the first part of the video outlines Peron as an opportunist who only saw this rise of the labour movement as an opportunity for him to gain […]
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Contrasting the political leaders who favoured the middle-class or elites, populist leaders appeal to the working class. These people often felt forgotten by repressive regimes and were empowered by leaders who respected them. Dawson argues that populism’s massive influence in Latin America came about at a time of social and technological change that inspired populists […]
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