Week 1: Democratisation and Rights. Rights-based Development
Democratisation and Rights/ Rights-based Development: Migrant rights and rights to security.
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? How has multicultural constitutionalism affected Afro-Latin Americans?
Primary Sources and Projects
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.
Core Readings:
John Gledhill, 鈥渞鈥� in Sam Hickley and Diana Mitlin (eds.) Rights-based approaches to development. Stirling VA: Kumarian Press, 2009.
Pierre-Michelle Fontaine. in Rahier J.M. (eds) Black Social Movements in Latin America. Palgrave Macmillan, New York., 2012. and/or a chapter from the same volume on a country that you are interested in.
Further Reading:
Sonia E. Alvarez, et al (eds.) Duke University Press, 2017.
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.
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.
Ferrero, Juan Pablo. Democracy against Neoliberalism in Argentina and Brazil: a move to the left. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Garc铆a-Del Moral, Paulina. 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.
Sikkink, Kathryn. 1996. 鈥淩econceptualizing Sovereignty in the Americas: Historical Precursors and Current Practices.鈥� Houston Journal of International Law 19(3): 705-724.
Sian Lazar and Maxine Molyneux, Doing the rights thing: Rights-based development and Latin American NGOs. London: ITDG Publishing, 2003.
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.
Guillermo O鈥橠onnel The (Un)Rule of Law and New Democracies in Latin America (1999)
Julia Paley. Marketing Democracy: Power and Social Movements in Post-Dictatorship Chile. Berkley: University of California Press, 2001.
David Lehman (ed.) London: Palgrave Studies in the Americas, 2019.
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.
Leandro Vergara-Camus, 鈥淭he Politics of the MST: Autonomous Rural Communities, the State, and Electoral Politics,鈥� Latin American Perspectives, 36:4 (July 2009): 178-91
Winant, Howard, 鈥淩ethinking Race in Brazil,鈥� Journal of Latin American Studies, 24:1, Feb. 1992; see also article by Reid Andrews in same issue.
Frances Winddance Twine, Racism in a Racial Democracy: The Maintenance of White Supremacy in Brazil (1997)