Human Rights And Transnational Solidarity In Cold War Latin America

Author : Jessica Stites Mor
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299291138
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights and Transnational Solidarity in Cold War Latin America written by Jessica Stites Mor and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2013-03-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the end of the global Cold War, the struggle for human rights has emerged as one of the most controversial forces of change in Latin America. Many observers seek the foundations of that movement in notions of rights and models of democratic institutions that originated in the global North. Challenging that view, this volume argues that Latin American community organizers, intellectuals, novelists, priests, students, artists, urban pobladores, refugees, migrants, and common people have contributed significantly to new visions of political community and participatory democracy. These local actors built an alternative transnational solidarity from below with significant participation of the socially excluded and activists in the global South. Edited by Jessica Stites Mor, this book offers fine-grained case studies that show how Latin America’s re-emerging Left transformed the struggles against dictatorship and repression of the Cold War into the language of anti-colonialism, socioeconomic rights, and identity.

Author : Jessica Stites Mor
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299336107
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South-South Solidarity and the Latin American Left written by Jessica Stites Mor and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transnational solidarity movements often play an important role in reshaping structures of global power. Jessica Stites Mor looks at four in-depth case studies in the Global South, which act as a much-needed road map to navigate our current political climate and show us how solidarity movements might approach future struggles.

Author : Jessica Stites Mor
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 147731640X
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Solidarity written by Jessica Stites Mor and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cold War claimed many lives and inflicted tremendous psychological pain throughout the Americas. The extreme polarization that resulted from pitting capitalism against communism held most of the creative and productive energy of the twentieth century captive. Many artists responded to Cold War struggles by engaging in activist art practice, using creative expression to mobilize social change. The Art of Solidarity examines how these creative practices in the arts and culture contributed to transnational solidarity campaigns that connected people across the Americas from the early twentieth century through the Cold War and its immediate aftermath. This collection of original essays is divided into four chronological sections: cultural and artistic production in the pre–Cold War era that set the stage for transnational solidarity organizing; early artistic responses to the rise of Cold War polarization and state repression; the centrality of cultural and artistic production in social movements of solidarity; and solidarity activism beyond movements. Essay topics range widely across regions and social groups, from the work of lesbian activists in Mexico City in the late 1970s and 1980s, to the exchanges and transmissions of folk-music practices from Cuba to the United States, to the uses of Chilean arpilleras to oppose and protest the military dictatorship. While previous studies have focused on politically engaged artists or examined how artist communities have created solidarity movements, this book is one of the first to merge both perspectives.

Author : Sonia Cardenas
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812221524
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights in Latin America written by Sonia Cardenas and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-01-14 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook gives a comprehensive overview of the human rights issues facing more than half of the Western Hemisphere. Cardenas synthesizes a large volume of research and incorporates primary documents, wide-ranging cases, images, and supplementary student resources, to explore basic themes of terror and hope.

Author : Patrick William Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316730220
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sovereign Emergencies written by Patrick William Kelly and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-10 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concern over rising state violence, above all in Latin America, triggered an unprecedented turn to a global politics of human rights in the 1970s. Patrick William Kelly argues that Latin America played the most pivotal role in these sweeping changes, for it was both the target of human rights advocacy and the site of a series of significant developments for regional and global human rights politics. Drawing on case studies of Brazil, Chile, and Argentina, Kelly examines the crystallization of new understandings of sovereignty and social activism based on individual human rights. Activists and politicians articulated a new practice of human rights that blurred the borders of the nation-state to endow an individual with a set of rights protected by international law. Yet the rights revolution came at a cost: the Marxist critique of US imperialism and global capitalism was slowly supplanted by the minimalist plea not to be tortured.

Author : Thomas C. Field Jr.
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469655705
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Latin America and the Global Cold War written by Thomas C. Field Jr. and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-04-08 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin America and the Global Cold War analyzes more than a dozen of Latin America's forgotten encounters with Africa, Asia, and the Communist world, and by placing the region in meaningful dialogue with the wider Global South, this volume produces the first truly global history of contemporary Latin America. It uncovers a multitude of overlapping and sometimes conflicting iterations of Third Worldist movements in Latin America, and offers insights for better understanding the region's past, as well as its possible futures, challenging us to consider how the Global Cold War continues to inform Latin America's ongoing political struggles. Contributors: Miguel Serra Coelho, Thomas C. Field Jr., Sarah Foss, Michelle Getchell, Eric Gettig, Alan McPherson, Stella Krepp, Eline van Ommen, Eugenia Palieraki, Vanni Pettina, Tobias Rupprecht, David M. K. Sheinin, Christy Thornton, Miriam Elizabeth Villanueva, and Odd Arne Westad.

Author : Steve Striffler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781786801913
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Solidarity written by Steve Striffler and published by . This book was released on with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward L. Cleary
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Struggle for Human Rights in Latin America written by Edward L. Cleary and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1997-08-26 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 6. Transnational networking for human rights protection

Author : Gilbert M. Joseph
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822341215
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In from the Cold written by Gilbert M. Joseph and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-11 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVReexamines the Cold War in Latin America by shifting the focus away from superpower decision-making and exploring the many ways in which Latin American leaders and ordinary people used, manipulated, shaped, and were victimized by the Cold War./div

Author : Tanya Harmer
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 1683402839
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toward a Global History of Latin America’s Revolutionary Left written by Tanya Harmer and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume showcases new research on the global reach of Latin American revolutionary movements during the height of the Cold War, mapping out the region’s little-known connections with Africa, Asia, and Europe. Toward a Global History of Latin America’s Revolutionary Left offers insights into the effect of international collaboration on the identities, ideologies, strategies, and survival of organizers and groups. Featuring contributions from historians working in six different countries, this collection includes chapters on Cuba’s hosting of the 1966 Tricontinental Conference that brought revolutionary movements together; Czechoslovakian intelligence’s logistical support for revolutionaries; the Brazilian Left’s search for recognition in Cuba and China; the central role played by European publishing houses in disseminating news from Latin America; Italian support for Brazilian guerrilla insurgents; Spanish ties with Nicaragua’s revolution; and the solidarity of European networks with Guatemala’s Guerrilla Army of the Poor. Through its expansive geographical perspectives, this volume positions Latin America as a significant force on the international stage of the 1960s and 1970s. It sets a new research agenda that will guide future study on leftist movements, transnational networks, and Cold War history in the region. Contributor:s José Manuel Ágreda Portero | Van Gosse | James G. Hershberg | Gerardo Leibner | Blanca Mar León | Eduardo Rey Tristán | Arturo Taracena Arriola | Michal Zourek