Week 2: Latin America and the Global Politics of Human Rights
Week 2: Latin America and the Global Politics of Human Rights: Authoritarianism, insurgency, and counter insurgency.
Seminar Questions:
What was the nature of the authoritarian regimes in South America in the late twentieth century? What was the nature of the civil conflict in Central America and Colombia? What was the impact on state-society relations regarding the protection of rights? What was the impact of the Cold War and the international order? What was the civil society response to the regimes and what effect did this have on the development of a Latin American tradition of human rights? How did the Transnational Solidarity Movement develop?
TW: The material in this section includes accounts of abuse and torture.
Core Readings:
Frenz, Helmut. Dialog: A Journal of Theology, vol. 47, no. 3, Fall 2008, p. 251.
Patrick William Kelly. Cambridge University Press: 2018. (Introduction and conclusion and raid the contents and index for what you are interested in.)
Alexander Wilde. University of Notre Dame Press: 2015. (Esp Chapter 1-then a chapter on a region you are interested in from Part 1: Ch 4, Central America, Ch 5, Chile, Ch 8 Brazil)
For research on Colombia see:
Abbey Steele. Cornell University Press, 2017. (Chapters 2 and 3)
Background Reading:
Grandin, Greg. University of Chicago Press, 2011. (Introduction and Conclusion, esp. sections on the Cold War as revolution and counterrevolution)
Archival Research Activity:
Read the blog about the
Now look at the blog about the the origins of the archive,
How would knowing about the collection inform your research in the archive?
Using the MRC Digital Collection
Look at the
Why is knowing about the collection and who collected it important for your research?
Choose a document. How might it be useful for an essay on this subject? How might it be less useful?
See also the
Further Reading:
Andrews, George Reid. University of North Carolina Press, 2010. (Chapter 5: Dictatorship to Democracy).
Roddy Brett. 鈥淧olitical Violence and Terrorism in Colombia.鈥� The Cambridge History of Terrorism, edited by Richard English, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2021, pp. 387–419.
Roddy Brett. The origins and dynamics of genocide: political violence in Guatemala. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Greg Grandin and Gilbert Joseph, A Century of Revolution: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin America鈥檚 Long Cold War. Duke, 2010.
Grandin, Greg. University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Michael George Hanchard. Orpheus and Power: The Movimento Negro of Rio de Janeiro and S茫o Paulo, Brazil 1945-1988. Princeton University Press, 1994.
Mala Htun, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003)
Margaret E. Keck, and Kathryn Sikkink. Cornell University Press, 1998. (Chapter 3 and Chapter 5)
Grace Livingstone. , Springer International Publishing AG, 2018.
Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney, 鈥淔orging Feminisms under Dictatorship: Women鈥檚 International Ties and National Feminist Empowerment in Chile, 1973-1990.鈥� Women鈥檚 History Review, vol. 19, no. 4, Sept. 2010, pp. 613–630.
Diana Taylor Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina鈥檚 Dirty War. Duke, 1997.
Kenneth Serbin. Secret dialogues: church-state relations, torture, and social justice in authoritarian Brazil. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press 2000.
Kathryn Sikkink. Mixed Signals: U.S. Human Rights Policy and Latin America. (Cornell University Press, 2011)
William Michael Schmidli.The Fate of Freedom Elsewhere: Human Rights and U.S. Cold War Policy toward Argentina (Cornell, 2013).
Abbey Steele. Cornell University Press, 2017. (Chapters 2 and 3)
Steve J. Stern. Battling for Hearts and Minds: Memory Struggles in Pinochet's Chile, 1973-1988. Duke University Press, 2006.
Jessica Stites Mor (ed.) , University of Wisconsin Press, 2013.
Markarian, Vania. Routledge, 2005.
Jan Eckel, 鈥楾he Rebirth of Politics from the Spirit of Morality: Explaining the Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s鈥� in Moyn and Eckel (eds.), The Breakthrough: Human Rights in the 1970s (U Penn: 2013), 226-260.
Primary Sources:
Guatemala: Testimonio Rigoberta Mench煤, I Rigoberta (1984) Menchu, Rigoberta. edited by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray, Verso, 2010.
Chile:
Chile: Voices of Humanitarianism: British Responses to Refugees from Chile
Some films, podcasts and projects:
Patricio Guzm谩n's film series, La batalla de Chile. Chile, 1975-79.
The Official Story. Dir. Luis Puenzo. Argentina, 1985.
Machuca. Dir. Andr茅s Wood. Chile/ Spain, 2004.
Third Cinema Films. Cine Tercer Mundo
Playlist
The political musical genre, Nueva Cancion
Chile: Victor Jara, Violetta Parra
Tropicalia in Brazil
Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil