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13. Towards an Uncertain Future

13. Towards an Uncertain Future

week 13 lecture (video)

Posted in Featured Articles and Videos, Lecture Videos, Week 13 Lecture | Tagged with Bolivia, C20th, C21st, constituent power, Corruption, Ecuador, left turns, neoliberalism, resistance, state

11. The Terror

11. The Terror

Week 11 lecture (video)

Posted in Lecture Videos, Week 11 Lecture | Tagged with C20th, Che Guevara, Dirty Wars, memory, narrative, neoliberalism, state, testimonio, violence

The Dirty Wars

The Dirty Wars

Alec Dawson on the dirty wars of the 1970s and 1980s (podcast)

Posted in Podcasts, Week 11, Week 11 Podcasts | Tagged with Argentina, Mothers of the Disappeared, state, Terror, violence

Music and Nation in Latin America

Music and Nation in Latin America

Alec Dawson on musical traditions and national longing (podcast)

Posted in Podcasts, Week 10, Week 10 Podcasts | Tagged with Music, nation, state

Week 5 – Caudillos

Echeverria’s The Slaughterhouse was very hard to read. Not only was it told from the perspective of an elite with deeply rooted racist opinions, but the tone of the story is one of dejected acceptance of the inevitable loss of … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Week 5 | Tagged with barbarism, Capitalism, caudillos, Echeverría, independence, interlocutors, liberalism, Mexico, state

5- Caudillos Versus the Nation State

After this week’s video and readings, what come up most prominently in my head is political turmoil and social unrest. It seems to me that after having acquired their independence, the people of Latin American were directionless. I do not mean that individually they did not know where they wanted to go. Surely, each individual […]

Posted in Blogs, Week 5 | Tagged with caudillos, state, turmoil

5- Caudillos Versus the Nation State

After this week’s video and readings, what come up most prominently in my head is political turmoil and social unrest. It seems to me that after having acquired their independence, the people of Latin American were directionless. I do not mean that individually they did not know where they wanted to go. Surely, each individual […]

Posted in Blogs, Week 5 | Tagged with caudillos, state, turmoil

Week 4 – Independence

It’s not hard to imagine that after several generations following the mythical point of origin of Latin America, 1492, that residents of the Americas would begin to feel the itch for independence. I found it interesting to consider how the … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Week 4 | Tagged with Bolívar, europe, history, independence, rights, slavery, state

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