Week 9. Democratisation
Week 9. Democratisation: Violence, inequality, migrant rights and children鈥檚 rights.
Seminar Questions:
How have the processes of democratisation in Latin America effected human rights discourses of both the state and civil society? Why has democratisation been accompanied by an escalation of violence in some places and how has this effected human rights claims? What effect have indigenous rights movements had on democratisation? What impact does migration have on rights?
Core Readings:
Read one and something from the further readings that interests you.
John Gledhill, 鈥渞鈥� in Sam Hickley and Diana Mitlin (eds.) Rights-based approaches to development. Stirling VA: Kumarian Press, 2009.
Amy Risley. London: Routledge, 20019. (Chapters 5 and/or 7)
Further Reading:
Sonia E. Alvarez, et al (eds.) Duke University Press, 2017.
Desmond Arias and Daniel M. Goldstein (eds.) Violent Democracies in Latin America Durham/London: Duke,2010.
Jason De Leon. The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015.
Javier Ayuero, 鈥溾�� Ethnography. 1:1 (2000), 93-116.
Brinks, Daniel. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Alexandra de Brito, , Oxford University Press, 1997.
Teresa P.R. Caldeira, 鈥楾he Paradox of Police Violence in Democratic Brazil鈥� Ethnography. 3:3, 235-263. 2002
Javier Couso, Alex Huneeus and Rachel Sieder (eds.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Enrique Desmond Arias and Daniel M. Goldstein eds. Violent Democracies in Latin America. Duke University Press, 2011.
Tom Farer (ed.) Beyond Sovereignty: Collectively Defending Sovereignty in the Americas. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
Janice Fine and Allison Petrozziello, 鈥楬aitian Migrant Workers in the Dominican Republic: Organising at the Intersection of Informality and Illegality鈥�, in Adrienne Eaton, Susan Schurman and Martha Chan (eds.), Informal Workers and Collective Action: A Global Perspective, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2017.
Brodwyn Fischer, et al. (eds.) Cities from Scratch : Poverty and Informality in Urban Latin America, edited by Brodwyn Fischer, et al., Duke University Press, 2014.
Joe Foweraker, 鈥�.鈥� Journal of Latin American Studies. 33:4, 839-865.
Juan Pablo Ferrero. Democracy against Neoliberalism in Argentina and Brazil: a move to the left. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Rosa-Linda Fregoso and Cynthia Bejarano, eds. Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Am茅ricas. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010.
Paulina Garc铆a-Del Moral. 鈥�Transforming Feminicidio: Framing, Institutionalization and Social Change.鈥� Current Sociology, vol. 64, no. 7, Nov. 2016, p. 1017.
Goldstein, Daniel M. Outlawed: Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian City. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012.
Goodale, Mark, and Sally Engle Merry, editors. Cambridge University Press, 2007. (Chapters by Speed, Goodale and Jackson)
Mark Goodale (ed.) Oxford University Press USA, 2012.
Michael Hanchard (ed.), Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil. 1999.
Tobias Hecht, At Home in the Street: street children of Northeast Brazil. 1998.
Kees Koonig, 鈥楴ew Violence, Insecurity and the state; Comparative Reflections on Latin America and Mexico鈥� in Pansters, W G. ed., 2012. Violence, Coercion and State-Making in Twentieth-Century Mexico: The Other Half of the Centaur. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.
Sian Lazar and Maxine Molyneux, Doing the rights thing: Rights-based development and Latin American NGOs. London: ITDG Publishing, 2003.
Viviana Beatriz Macmanus, 鈥樷��We are not Victims, we are Protagonists of this History鈥� Latin American Gender Violence and the Limits of Women鈥檚 Rights as Human Rights鈥�, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 17:1 (2015), 40-57.
David Lehman (ed.) London: Palgrave Studies in the Americas, 2019.
Julieta Lemaitre. (2019). "Feminist Legalism: Colombian Constitution-Making in the 1990s." In R. Rubio-Mar铆n & H. Irving (eds.), Women as Constitution-Makers: Case Studies from the New Democratic Era. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, 234-269.
Richard MacLure (ed.) International Journal of Children's Rights, 22: 2 (2014), 235-240
Cecilia McCallum, "Women Out of Place? A Micro-Historical Perspective on the Black Feminist Movement in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil." Journal of Latin American Studies, 39:1 (2007): 55-80.
Julia Paley. Marketing Democracy: Power and Social Movements in Post-Dictatorship Chile. Berkley: University of California Press, 2001.
Carolina Robledo Silvestre, 鈥楥ombing History Against the Grain: The Search for Truth Amongst Mexico鈥檚 Hidden Graves鈥� in Pansters, Will.G, Smith, Benjamin T., and Watt, Peter (eds.), Beyond the Drug War in Mexico: Human Rights, the Public Sphere and Justice, London: Routledge, 2018.
Carolina Robledo Silvestre, 鈥楲ooking for el Pozolero鈥檚 Traces: Identity and Liminal Condition in the War on Drug鈥檚 Disappearances鈥�, Frontera Norte, 26:52, 2014.
Hillel Sofier and Alberto Vergara. Politics after Violence: Legacies of the Shining Path Conflict in Peru, New York, USA: University of Texas Press, 2021.
Barbara Sutton. Bodies in Crisis: Culture, Violence and Women鈥檚 Resistance in Neoliberal Argentina. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2010.
Kathryn Sikkink. 1996. 鈥淩econceptualizing Sovereignty in the Americas: Historical Precursors and Current Practices.鈥� Houston Journal of International Law 19(3): 705-724.
Javier Trevino-Rangel, 鈥楽ilencing Grievance: Responding to human rights violations in Mexico鈥檚 war on drugs鈥�, Journal of Human Rights,17:4 2018.
Let铆cia Veloso, 鈥淯niversal citizens, unequal childhoods: Children鈥檚 Perspectives on Rights and Citizenship in Brazil,鈥� Latin American Perspectives, 35:4 (July 2008): 45-59.
Primary Sources:
A traveller's account of police brutality in Brazil in:
Akala. Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire. London: Two Roads, 2018. 54-57.
Before the Seminar:
Look at this website about contemporary issues of migration from central America. Find something that interests you.
You'll find some more information about the project in Diana Taylor. Duke University Press, 2020. (Chapter 1)