Social and Political Problems in Latin America 3305-PSPAL-1U
In a historical perspective of long duree structures based on micro-historical school Italian and Mexican school of social anthropology, discusses the following topics:
The processes of conquest and colonization
-Caribbean Coast of the island of Tierra Firme
- Mesoamerica and Tawantinsuyu
- Northern and southern regions
- Actual processes of conquest.
The processes of formation of national states
- Nations, regions and nationalism
- Integration to the neocolonial order
- Crisis '29
- Mexico: Creating a new state. Development and crisis
- Argentina. Development of populism.
The crisis of the 80's and appearance of neo-liberalism
- Latin America. From dictatorship to democracy
- From indigenism to Neo-Indigenism
- From populism to post populism. (Cases of Cuba, Venezuela)
- Urban no-controlled growth
- Sociological basis of population growth
- National and transnational migration processes
- Geography of drugs in Latin America
- Latin America in the era of globalization.
Case studies:
Arises of a new "regionalism" (Bolivia, Venezuela, neozapatism)
Mexico: The problem of democracy
Cuba. Between Revolution and uncertainty
Colombia. Guerrilla, narco and development
Brazil. Birth national giant?
Type of course
Mode
Prerequisites (description)
Learning outcomes
Identify and understand the main problems in Latin American in the topics mentioned above.
Assessment criteria
An individual work about the topics discussed.
Bibliography
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Panorama Social de América Latina, CEPAL, 2014, (LC/G.2635-P), Santiago de Chile, 2014, URL:
http://repositorio.cepal.org/bitstream/handle/11362/37626/S1420729_es.pdf?sequence=6
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