Dr. Junge's Blog (Fall 2020)

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...

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...

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...