select one social movement from anywhere in Latin America and use course concepts to make an original argument about it.
Please submit your final papers below as a .doc or .pdf file. The goal is to hit 18-20 pages, plus a bibliography.
Regarding the self-evaluation, this is a one page, single-spaced assignment. You will submit the evaluation alongside your final paper (it should be in the same document, please). Here, you will assign yourself a grade and justify it.
-Honestly evaluate your effort in the course (reading, attendance, participation, final paper assignment).
-Evaluate your growth as a novice scholar. How did the experience fit into your overall aspirations and how can you build from these skills for what you hope to achieve inside and outside of academia?
-Evaluate your final essay itself. How did you approach the assignment? Do you think you came across any novel findings? How did you demonstrate growth as a writer?
Raul Zibechi, Territories in Resistance: A Cartography of Latin American Social Movements, AK Press, 2012
Susan Eckstein, Power and Popular Protest: Latin American Social Movements, University of California Press, 1989
Veronica Gago, Feminist International: How to Change Everything, Verso Press, 2020
Week 1: Introduction
Zibechi, Introduction through Chapter 5, Territories in Resistance, AK Press, 2012
Charles Tilly, Social Movements, 1768-2004, Paradigm Publishing, 2004, pp. 1-15; 95-123
Week 2:
Susan Eckstein, Introduction, Power and Popular Protest: Latin American Social Movements, UC Press, 1989, pp. 1-55
Week 3:
Zibechi, Chapter 6, Territories in Resistance, AK Press, 2012
Ximena de la Barra and Richard A. dello Buono, Chapters 2 & 3, Latin America after the Neoliberal Debacle: Another Region is Possible, Rowman and Littlefield, 2009
Week 4
Regis Debray, Revolution in the Revolution: Armed Struggle and Political Struggle in Latin America, Evergreen Black Cat, 1967
Timothy P Wickham-Crowley, “Winners, Losers, and Also-Rans: Toward A Comparative Sociology of Latin American Guerrilla Movements,” Power and Popular Protest: Latin American Social Movements, University of California Press, 1989
Luis Camnitzer, “The Tupamaros,” Conceptualism in Latin American Art: Didactics of Liberation, University of Texas Press, 2007
Week 5
Marysa Navarro, “The Personal Is Political: Las Madres de Plaza de Mayo,” Power and Popular Protest: Latin American Social Movements, University of California Press, 1989
Manuel Antonio Garreton M, “Popular Mobilization and the Military Regime in Chile: The Complexities of the Invisible Transition,” Power and Popular Protest: Latin American Social Movements, University of California Press, 1989
Maria Helena Moreira Alves, “Interclass Alliances in the Opposition to the Military in Brazil: Consequences for the Transition Period,” Power and Popular Protest: Latin American Social Movements, University of California Press, 1989
Week 6
Zibechi, Chapter 7-8, Territories in Resistance, AK Press, 2012
John Walton, “Debt, Protest, and the State in Latin America,” Power and Popular Protest: Latin American Social Movements, University of California Press, 1989
Ximena de la Barra and Richard A. dello Buono, Chapter 6, Latin America after the Neoliberal Debacle: Another Region is Possible, Rowman and Littlefield, 2009
Week 7
Zibechi, Chapter 15, Territories in Resistance, AK Press, 2012
Federico Rossi, “The Second Wave of Incorporation in Latin America: A Conceptualization of the Quest for Inclusion Applied to Argentina,” Latin American Politics and Society, 2015
Mia Dragnic and Pierina Ferretti, “Revolt In Chile: Life Against Capital,” Viewpoint, 2020
Week 8
Zibechi, Chapter 12, Territories in Resistance, AK Press, 2012
Susan Eckstein, “Poor People versus the state and Capital: Anatomy of a Successful Community Mobilization for Housing in Mexico,” Power and Popular Protest: Latin American Social Movements, University of California Press, 1989
Week 9
Zibechi, Chapters 9-11, Territories in Resistance, AK Press, 2012
Gustavo Verdesio, “Endless dispossession: the Charrua re-emergence in Uruguay in the light of settler colonialism,” Settler Colonial Studies, 2020
Veronica Gago, Feminist International: How to Change Everything, Verso Press, 2020 (First Half)
Week 10
Zibechi, Chapter 16, Territories in Resistance, AK Press, 2012
Veronica Gago, Feminist International: How to Change Everything, Verso Press, 2020 (Second Half)