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Seminar
WiSe 19/20: Dictatorships in Latin America in a Global Context: the Case of Chile (1973-1990)
Manuel Bastias Saavedra
Information for students
Blockveranstaltung; Modulprüfung im MA Lateinamerikastudien (Modul A1): Hausarbeit (ca. 15 Seiten); Spanischkenntnisse von Vorteil.
Comments
While the Latin American dictatorships of the 1970s and 1980s have often been studied as a regional phenomenon, recent scholarship has begun to focus more on the global context in which they took place. The obvious starting point is the Cold War context and the support dictators received from the United States to stave off the rise of communist and socialist governments in the region. More recent literature has also begun to focus on the international networks that arose out of the dictatorial experience, either through the collaboration of churches, exiles, political parties, and other kinds of organizations. The Latin American dictatorships, for example, were catalysts for the development of the human rights movement on a global scale. This seminar seeks to explore the history of the Latin American dictatorships taking a global perspective. While the course will focus on the experience of the Chilean dictatorship, students are encouraged to critically engage with this and other cases in the region. close
Suggested reading
Manuel Bastias Saavedra, Sociedad Civil en Dictadura. Relaciones Transnacionales, Organizaciones y Socialización Política (1973-1993), Ediciones Universidad Alberto Hurtado, 2013. - Kim Christiaens, Idesbald Goddeeris, and Magaly Rodriguez (eds.), European Solidarity with Chile. 1970s–1980s, Peter Lang, 2014. - Patrick W. Kelly, “The 1973 Chilean Coup and the Origins of Transnational Human Rights Activism”, Journal of Global History, 8:1, 2013, pp. 165–186. - Iosif Korvas, Grassroots Activism and the Evolution of Transitional Justice. The Families of the Disappeared, Cambridge University Press, 2017.
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Additional appointments
Fri, 2019-11-29 10:00 - 18:00 Sat, 2019-11-30 10:00 - 18:00 Fri, 2020-01-31 10:00 - 18:00 Sat, 2020-02-01 10:00 - 18:00