Week 1: Social Justice
Week 1: Social Justice, Solidarity, Liberation and Anti-Imperialism during the Cold War
Seminar Questions:
How did decolonisation in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean impact ideas of social justice and human rights? How has religious thinking on social issues, social justice and human rights changed over time? How did Liberation Theology contribute to the tradition of human rights in Latin America? What were the issues involved in legislating on women's rights and gender rights in Latin American states and the inter-American system? How did activists engage with national and international legislation?
Core Readings:
Robert J.C. Young. Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction, Anniversary Edition. 2016 London: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2016. (.)
Blanca Mar Leon, '' in Tanya Harmer, and Alberto Mart铆n 脕lvarez (eds) Toward a Global History of Latin America's Revolutionary Left.
Jocelyn Olcott. 鈥淐old War Conflicts and Cheap Cabaret: Sexual Politics at the 1975 United Nations International Women鈥檚 Year Conference Gender & History.鈥� Gender & History, vol. 22, no. 3, Nov. 2010, pp. 733–754.
Primary Source:
Read either
Gustavo Gutierrez, A Theology of Liberation, 1974, 21-42. (Chapter 2 "")
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Background Reading:
Kathryn Sikkink. "" Sur International Journal on Human Rights 12.22 (2015): 207-19.
Further Reading:
Manuel Barcia (2009) 鈥楲ocking horns with the Northern Empire鈥�: anti-American imperialism at the Tricontinental Conference of 1966 in Havana', Journal of Transatlantic Studies, 7:3, 208-217.
Pablo Bradbury, "Marxism in the Emergence and Fragmentation of Liberationist Christianity in Argentina." Journal of Latin American Studies, 53(2), 2021, 323-348.
John Burdick, Blessed Anastacia: women, race, and popular Christianity in Brazil. 1998.
Burdick, John, Looking for God in Brazil: The Progressive Catholic Church in Urban Brazil鈥檚 Religious Arena. University of California Press, 1993.
John Burdick. 鈥淲hy is the Black Evangelical Movement Growing in Brazil?鈥�, Journal of Latin American Studies, 37:2, May 2005, pp. 311-32.
Eduardo Batalha Viveiros de Castro. From the Enemy鈥檚 Point of View: humanity and divinity in an Amazonian society. 1992.
Andrew Chesnut, Born Again: The Pentecostal Boom and the Pathogens of Poverty. 1997.
Blanca Mar Leon, '' in Tanya Harmer, and Alberto Mart铆n 脕lvarez (eds) Toward a Global History of Latin America's Revolutionary Left.
Mahler, Anne Garland. From the Tricontinental to the Global South : Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity, Duke University Press, 2018.
Guerra, L. 鈥淕ender policing, homosexuality and the new patriarchy of the Cuban Revolution, 1965–70鈥�, Social History, 35:3, 2010, 268-289.
Richard L. Harris 鈥淐uban Internationalism, Che Guevara, and the Survival of Cuba's Socialist Regime.鈥� Latin American Perspectives, vol. 36, no. 3, 2009, pp. 27–42.
Elizabeth Dore and Maxine Molyneux (eds.) Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin America. Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2000.
Lombera, Juan Manuel. 鈥淭he Church of the Poor and Civil Society in Southern Mexico: Oaxaca: 1960s -2010鈥� Journal of Contemporary History 2018.
Mariano Mestman, 鈥溾�� Third Text, 25:1, 2011, 29-40.
Maxine Molyneux. Palgrave Macmillan, 2000.
Maxine Molyneux, and Shahra Razavi (ed.), . Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2003.
Kathryn M. Marino. Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement. Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press, 2019.
Robin Nagle and Jill Nagle, Claiming the Virgin: The Broken Promise of Liberation Theology in Brazil. 1997.
Anthony Ratcliff, 鈥� Black Scholar. 37:4, 2007, 27-38. Alexander Wilde. Religious Responses to Violence: Human Rights in Latin America Past and Present. University of Notre Dame Press: 201Robert J.C. Young. Postcolonialism: An
Historical Introduction, Anniversary Edition. 2016 London: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2016. (Latin America 1 Mari谩tegui and Latin America 2 Fidel Castro, Che Guevarra and the tricontinental.)
Primary Sources:
Development
Liberation Theology
DISA Archive, South Africa.
Tricontinental
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/tricontinental.htm
Tricontinental Institute of Social Research
糖心TV University Library and the MRC hold print copies of the journal and bulletin published in Havana, Cuba by the Executive Secretariat of the Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America
Third Cinema
Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino. 鈥溾�� 颁颈苍茅补蝉迟别, vol. 4, no. 3, 1970, pp. 1–10.
Film: The Hour of the Furnaces Dir. Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino. Argentina, 1968.