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Week 15 - Latin America, Looking Forward

WEEK 15 - Looking Forward (One segment only this week) Readings Bryan Pitts et al., “21st Century Golpismo: A NACLA Roundtable,”  NACLA  48(4), pp. 334-345 (2016) Barry Cannon, “Inside the Mind of Latin America’s New Right,”  NACLA  48(4), pp. 328-333 (2016) For an introduction to the recent trend toward right-leaning governments across Latin America, watch  this clip . Frequently, these political transformations take place through what critics call a “legislative coup” (“golpe” means coup in Spanish and Portuguese). You can find examples of these with Paraguay (watch  this clip ) and of course in Brazil (watch  this clip ). With Paraguay, Lugo was a Catholic bishop with strong ties to peasant organizations and NGOS. He was elected in 2008, ending 60 years of rule by Colorado Party, but then, in 2012, Paraguay’s Chamber of Deputies voted to impeach Lugo, ostensibly in response to the socialist president’s failure to prevent bloodshed at a confrontation between police and farmers. For r
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Week 12 - Brazil 1

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Segment 1. Introducing Brazil Associated Readings Peter Winn, “Capital Sins,” from Americas , pp. 165-199 (2006) Kees Koonings, “Introduction: Brazil under the Workers’ Party,” pp. 1–9 NOTE:  If you find yourself getting interested in Brazil, be aware that SUNY-New Paltz has an excellent study-abroad program in Rio, situated at a world-class university. Check out the details here .   (Draws from World Scholar/Latin America & the Caribbean, 2011) Introduction Brazil, the largest country in South America, contains twenty-six states and the federal district of Brasília (the nation's capital). Mostly tropical or semitropical in climate, the nation encompasses dense forests, including the Amazon Basin , as well a semiarid region in the northeast , mountains and plains in the southwest, midwestern savannas, a long Atlantic coastline, and a vast wetland area. Inhabited by numerous Amerindian groups, Brazil was first visited by the Portuguese in April 1500. Colo
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Week 11 - Chile

SEGMENT 1. The Legacies of Dictatorship Associated Readings 1.      Peter Winn, “Returning to Democracy,” selections 2.       Emily Achtenberg, “Elections in Chile: Confronting the Legacy of Dictatorship,” NACLA, pp. 20-22 (2016) 3.    Ximena de la Barra, “Chile: A Schizophrenic Country,” NACLA, pp. 23-27 (2016)   Handouts ("Course Documents" on Bb) Handout 6. Chile Key Moments Please work your way through slides on Blackboard ("Chile - Intro - Slides") in "Course Documents" content area. Then read the Winn, Achtenberg, and de la Barra articles. Keep the Chile handout (Handout 6 on Blackboard) handy, especially as you get to the Achtenberg article where you can make connections between the history she tells and the key moments on the handout. Be sure to watch the clips included on the handout as well. SEGMENT 2 - The October Uprisings (2019) Associated Readings 1.  Guest presentation (45 min.) from Prof. César Barros (SUN
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Week 10 - Venezuela

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PARTS 1 and 2. Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution Associated Readings Tom Chodor, "The Bolivarian Revolution as Counter-Hegemonic Project." In Neoliberal Hegemony and the Pink Tide in Latin America , pp. 91-120 Veronica Zubillaga, “The February Protests and the Unequal Experience of Violence — Cultural Anthropology” (2015) Iselin Åsedotter Strønen, “After the Bolivarian Revolution: What’s in Store for Margarita?” (2015) Key Content: My interview with Prof. Deyanira Rojas-Sosa from the SUNY New Paltz Dept. of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. Link here . Handouts ("Course Documents on Bb") Handout 5 ("Populism") I. Introduction to Venezuela (Draws from World Scholar/Latin America & the Caribbean, 2011) Venezuela, which shares borders with Colombia, Brazil, and Guyana, lies along the Caribbean Sea. Between the Andes Mountains in the northwest and the Guiana Highlands in the southeast lie central plains as well as a c
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Week 9 - Colombia

PART 1. Democracy and Violence; Experiences of Political Violence in Colombia: The FARC, The Paras, and Those In-Between Associated Readings Jan Knippers Black and William Godnick, “Colombia's split-level realities,” from Latin America: Its Problems and Its Promise , pp. 381-398 (2011) Gruner, Sheila. 2017. “Territory, Autonomy, and the Good Life: Afro-Colombian and Indigenous Ethno-Territorial Movements in Colombia’s Peace Process.” The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 22 (1): 174–182. Key Resource for this Week: Guest presentation from Prof. Ligia Aldana from the SUNY-NP Dept. of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. Here is the link to her presentation. The presentation lasts just over an hour and it jam-packed with information. I suggest you watch it in thirds, as you work your way through the content below, and the Gruner article. Don't get overwhelmed by the amount of detail - focus on the broad processes and key moments. Handouts ("Cou
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