This week was a heavily packed one with lots of things to think about. Here’s a couple points I found…
This week we looked at populism and Argentinas’ first lady Evita. This week we learned of the concept of populism political representation. When I googled the definition of populism I got a vague answer; “A political approach that strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups”. […]
This week we looked at populism and Argentinas’ first lady Evita. This week we learned of the concept of populism political representation. When I googled the definition of populism I got a vague answer; “A political approach that strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups”. […]
This weeks reading I had more of an emotional response than an intellectual like that of the Columbus’s journal. As an Argentine, I hold Evita and Peron in very high regards due to what they accomplished and what they mean to us Argentines. Since them, we have always been searching, either consciously or unconsciously, for […]
This week, I was struck by the speech made by Evita Perón, and especially by the sheer contrast of each account of her renunciamiento. One thing that I noted was just how much Evita cherished the Argentine people. I don’t believe that politicians of the 21st Century have shown such compassion as she did in her renunciamiento,Continue reading “Week 10: Power to the People”
This week I will be looking at the influence of Evita and the renunciamento. I found it interesting how Evita would often conflate herself with the people, such as when she said: “my General, we the people, your vanguard of descamisados…”. Here she associates herself with the people by saying “we”, but at other times […]
I began this unit by listening to John Lennon. It would be inconceivable to read this week’s title and not…
This week we talked “populism” and I was really interested to hear what Jon had to say about the term in the lecture video. He said that it has become a “a term of abuse” and that ironically, “calling someone else a populist can in itself be a populist gesture”. One thing he said that […]
This week I will be focusing on “The Renunciamiento as Compiled from Newsreel and Archival Footage” and “Eva Perón’s Final Response”. What I first noticed was the repeated term “descamisados”, which means the shirtless. However, I had never heard the term used in this context before the speeches of Juan and Eva Peron. A quickContinue reading “Week 10: Power to the People”
Alec Dawson on populism (podcast)
