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Week 12: Speaking Truth to Power

With the recent elections in the United States, I felt like this week’s lecture was a little more relatable, especially in terms of the 1988 Chile plebiscite. Although we’re not living in a dictatorship like Pinochet’s in Chile, I think we can see some similarities between the “No” campaign and the campaigns that were heldContinue reading “Week 12: Speaking Truth to Power”

Posted in Blogs, Week 12 | Tagged with Chile, Music, No Campaign, pinochet

Week 9 – Commerce, Coercion, and America’s Empire

For this week I wanted to focus on Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart’s “From the Noble Savage to the Third World”, which I found particularly interesting. As someone whose watched several Disney propaganda cartoons produced during WWII, this document brought in familiar themes in many ways. The book represents a form of cultural colonialism that […]

Posted in Blogs, Week 9 | Tagged with ariel, armand, aztecland, censorship, Chile, Disney, disnify, Donald Duck, Mexico, pinochet, scrooge

Week Eleven: The Terror

A concept that Dawson discussed in the reading this week that stuck me was the “voyeuristic quality” of the testimonio, and the way in which third party readers on the outside looking in may assign Manichean dialogues in an attempt to … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Week 11 | Tagged with Chile, Extrajudicial killings, Fujimori, Peru, pinochet, Terror

Week Eleven: The Terror

A concept that Dawson discussed in the reading this week that stuck me was the “voyeuristic quality” of the testimonio, and the way in which third party readers on the outside looking in may assign Manichean dialogues in an attempt to … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Week 11 | Tagged with Chile, Extrajudicial killings, Fujimori, Peru, pinochet, Terror

Week 12 Response

This week, we read about the emergence of Human Rights groups in Latin America, and the reaction of governments and government officials. I found the reading a bit difficult to take in. It focused on quite a horrific subject matter, and it really touched me. I am very grateful to have read about this topic, […]

Posted in Blogs, Week 12 | Tagged with Argentina, disappearance, government, madres, murder, pinochet

Week 12 Response

This week, we read about the emergence of Human Rights groups in Latin America, and the reaction of governments and government officials. I found the reading a bit difficult to take in. It focused on quite a horrific subject matter, and it really touched me. I am very grateful to have read about this topic, […]

Posted in Blogs, Week 12 | Tagged with Argentina, disappearance, government, madres, murder, pinochet

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