Week 10: Social Rights from above and below: Socialism, nationalism, populism 聽
Week 10: Social Rights from above and below: Socialism, nationalism, populism
How did the nature of rights afforded by Latin American states change in the twentieth century? What impact did the twentieth century revolutions have on rights discourses? What was the contribution of Latin American states to the international human rights system? When did ideas of social rights emerge in Latin America? How did social rights become part of the international Human Rights system? Who benefited from the rights afforded by the twentieth century states? Who was left out?
Core Reading:
Secondary sources:
Alan McPherson, and Yannick Wehrli (eds.) , University of New Mexico Press, 2015. (Part 2: Labour-chapter of your choice)
AND
Kathryn M. Marino. Feminism for the Americas: The Making of and International Human Rights Movement. Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press, 2019. (Introduction and Conclusion and raid according to your interest.)
OR either of the following depending on your interest
Okezi Otovo, University of Texas Press, 2016. (Especially and Introduction if it helps).
Guy, Donna J.Duke University Press, 2009.
Primary sources:
What do the primary sources tell us about mid-twentieth-century populist governments relationship with labour and their approach to social rights?
(Argentina 1951), .
Look at this trade union leaflet about social security from Brazil. What are the limitations as a source for you as a researcher? Are there any ways that you could use it despite the limitations? What other information would you need to find in order to use the source?
Background Reading:
Robert M Levine, Father of the Poor? Vargas and his Era (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998) chapter 3, 鈥淭he Estado Novo,鈥� pp 50-74 a
Relevant Chapters of Matthew Brown or Alexander Dawson's readers.
Further Reading:
Carlos Aguirre and Paulo Drinot. The Peculiar Revolution: Rethinking the Peruvian Experiment Under Military Rule. University of Texas Press, 2017.
Paulina Alberto. University of North Carolina Press, 2011, Chapters 2 and 3.
Mashood Baderin and Robert McCorquodale (eds.), Oxford: OUP, 2007. (Especially Chapter 8 by Veronica Gomez)
Carmagnani, Marcello. , University of California Press, 2011. Chapter 5.
Angela N Casta帽eda, 鈥楶erforming the African Diaspora in Mexico鈥� in Comparative Perspectives on Afro-Latin America, edited by Kwame Dixon, and John Burdick, University Press of Florida, 2012.
Matthew Craven, The International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: A Perspective on Its Development. Oxford, 1995.
Jerry D谩vila. Diploma of whiteness: race and social policy in Brazil, 1917-1945. 2003.
Paolo Drinot, ' Hispanic American Historical Review, 92:4, 2012 703-736.
Susan Eva Eckstein and Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley. , Routledge, 2002. [e-book in the Library]
Eduardo Elena, E. "" In P. Alberto & E. Elena (Eds.), Rethinking Race in Modern Argentina . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016, 184-210.
Paulo Fontes, Migration and the Making of Industrial S茫o Paulo. Duke University Press, 2016.
Linda Fuller, Work and Democracy in Socialist Cuba. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992.
Roberto Garagella. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. (Chapters 6 and 7)
Donna J. Guy. , Duke University Press, 2009. (Chapter 6)
Brodwyn M. Fischer. A poverty of rights: citizenship and inequality in twentieth-century Rio de Janeiro. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008.
Marcela Garc铆a Sebastiani, 鈥楾he Other Side of Peronist Argentina: Radicals and Socialists in the Political Opposition to Per贸n (1946–1955)鈥�, Journal of Latin American Studies, 35 (2003), 311–339.
Jaymie Patricia Heilman. Stanford University Press, 2010. (Relevant Chapters)
Kaitlyn Henderson. Race, Discrimination, and the Cuban Constitution of 1940. Hispanic American Historical Review 1 May 2020; 100 (2): 257–284.
Daniel James, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Alan Knight. 鈥淧opulism and Neo-Populism in Latin America, Especially Mexico.鈥� Journal of Latin American Studies, vol. 30, no. 2, 1998, p. 223.
Lawrence J. Le Blanc. 鈥淓conomic, Social, and Cultural Rights and the Interamerican System鈥�, , February 1977 , pp. 61-82.
Florencia E. Mallon. . Princeton, 2014.
Ian Roxborough. 鈥�.鈥� The Cambridge History of Latin America, edited by Leslie Bethell, vol. 6, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995, pp. 305–378. The Cambridge History of Latin America.
Snodgrass, Michael. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Juan Pablo Scarfi and Andrew Tillman (eds.) Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. (Tanya Harmer and Mark Jeffrey Peterson's Chapters).
Magdalena Sep煤lveda. The Nature of the Obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (Antwerp, 2003).
Ernesto Seman. Ambassadors of the Working Class: Argentina's International Labor Activists and Cold War Democracy in the Americas. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017.
Alberto Spektorowski, 'The Ideological Origins and Right and Left Nationalism in Argentina, 1930-1943', Journal of Contemporary History , Vol. 29, No. 1 (1994), pp. 155-184.
William Suarez Potts, 鈥淭he Ambiguity of Labor Justice in Mexico, 1907-1931,鈥� in Leon Fink and Juan Manuel Palacio, eds., Labor Justice across the Americas University of Illinois Press, 2018.
Cheryl B. Welch, 鈥楲iberalism and Social Rights鈥� in Murray Milgate and Cheryl B. Welch (eds.), Critical Issues in Social Thought (London, 1989).
Barbara Weinstein, The Colour of Modernity: S茫o Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil. Duke University Press, 2015.
Cliff Welch. The seed was planted: the S盲o Paulo roots of Brazil's rural labor movement, 1924-1964. 1999.
Daryle Williams, Culture wars in Brazil: the first Vargas regime, 1930-1945. 2001.
Joel Wolfe, Working Women, Working Men: S茫o Paulo and the Rise of Brazil's Industrial Working Class, 1900–1955. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1993.
Daniel J. Whelan, Indivisible Human Rights – A History (Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2010).
Primary Sources:
(Argentina 1951), .
Daniel James " Peron and the People" and Tomas Eloy Martinez "Santa Evita" in Gabriela Nouzeilles and Graciela Montaldo (eds.) The Argentina Reader: History Culture and Politics. Duke, 2002, pp. 273-303.
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