A conversation with Max Cameron (video)
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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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Throughout the earlier political history of Latin America and more specifically Argentina, the power had been dictated by the few rather than the many. There was power held by the colonisers, the elites, and the governing bodies. With the rise of media being used to spread political messages across the nation, the ‘power’ was beingContinue reading “Week 10: Echoes of a Nation”
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Hi all. For this week’s post, I will be reflecting upon this week’s video lecture, entitled “Citizenship and Rights in the New Republics. More precisely, I will be discussing race and its importance in discourse. Stated in the lecture is that “race is a social construct, rather than a biological fact”. This is not true, […]
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Hi all. For this week’s post, I will be reflecting upon this week’s video lecture, entitled “Citizenship and Rights in the New Republics. More precisely, I will be discussing race and its importance in discourse. Stated in the lecture is that “race is a social construct, rather than a biological fact”. This is not true, […]
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In this week’s readings, we read about the Caudillo Era in the 19th Century in which once again, Indigenous people were being leveraged and used for the sake of the ‘superior’ classes (elites), after and during the Independence revolution spearheaded by those living in the colonies. The Caudillo Era was a point in Spanish Colonial …
Continue reading “Caudillismo: Indigenous In the Modern World”
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Up until taking this course, I did not realize how complex and somewhat confusing the hierarchies of the Spanish were at the beginning of the 19th Century. Most commonly, the Peninsulares (Spanish people born in Spain) viewed the Creoles (those born in the colonies) as inferior, the Creoles viewed the mixed populations (Mullatoes, Mestizos, etc.) …
Continue reading “Revolutionary Hypocrisy: 1815 to 2019”
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