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21802065 HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICA
in International Relations LM-52 NESSUNA CANALIZZAZIONE STABILI MARIA ROSARIA
(syllabus)
2° Semester
AIMS
The course aims to offer the students, in the perspective of the most recent historiographical trends, the essential coordinates of the processes that characterize the Latin American Twentieth Century. Particular attention is dedicated to issues related to Political Transitions, Peace processes and Human Rights in the New Millennium.
REQUIREMENTS
Basic knowledge of contemporary history and the history of Latin America
COURSE CONTENT
The course is organized into two parts. The first will refer to the events that characterize the history of contemporary Latin America in the light of the most recent historiographical perspectives. In the second part, in the more general context of the international debate, after referring to military dictatorships and internal armed conflicts in the second half of the Last Century, will be analyzed the following topics: a) Political Transition Processes; b) Peace processes in Central America; c) Transitional Justice; d) the Memory of the victims.
ACTIVITIES AND RESOURCES
Lectures, seminars, projection of audiovisual material, group work
ASSESSMENT
For students who attend the course, there will be three pieces of assessment:
1 – Written test at half term to assess general knowledge,
2 – Oral group work presentation,
3 – Final essay on a topic agreed with the professor to bel submitted one week before the exam registration.
Students who don’t attend the course will have to sit an oral examination during the exam registration session.
TEXTS:
Required reading:
a) For the first part:
Loris Zanatta, Storia dell’America Latina contemporanea, Bari, Laterza, 2017.
b) For the second part:
Maria R. Stabili, Le Verità Ufficiali. Transizioni Politiche e Diritti umani in America Latina, Roma, Nuova Cultura, 2008;
Maria R. Stabili, - Il Paraguay della transizione politica. L’ombra lunga di Stroessner, in “Thule. Rivista di studi americanistici”, n. 36-37, aprile/ottobre 2014, pubblicato nel 2016, pp. 95-122.
Plus one, chosen among the following list:
- Noberto Bellini, Emboscada. Le lotte contadine contro la dittatura in Paraguay, Modena, Infinito Ed., 2008;
- Norma Berti, Donne ai tempi dell’oscurità. Voci di detenute politiche nell’ Argentina della dittatura militare, Tornino, Ed.SEB27, 2009;
- Gianni La Bella, Perù. Il tempo della vergogna, Bologna, EMI, 2004.
- Scott Mainwaring, Guillermo O'Donnell, J. Samuel Valenzuela (ed. by), Issues in Democratic Consolidation: the new South American Democracies in Comparative Perspectives. Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, 1992;
- Roberto Morozzo della Rocca, Primero Dios. Vita di Oscar Romero, Milano, Mondadori, 2005;
- Marcos Novaro, La dittatura argentina, Roma, Carocci, Roma 2005;
- Frank Safford – Marcos Palacios, Colombia: fragmented land, divided society, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002;
- William C. Smith (ed. by), Latin American Democratic Transformations. Institutions, Actors, and Processes, University of Miami: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
- Maria R. Stabili (a cura di), Violenze di genere. Storie e memorie nell’ America Latina di fine
Novecento, Nuova Cultura Edizioni, Roma 2009;
- Peter Tompkins-Maria Luisa Forenza, La CIA in Guatemala. Orrori di un genocidio, Roma, Odradeck, 2000;
- Giuliano Urbani e Francesco Ricciu, Dalle armi alle urne: economia, società e politica nell'America Latina degli anni Novanta, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1991;
- Loris Zanatta, La nazione cattolica. Chiesa e dittatura nell'Argentina di Bergoglio, Bari-Roma, Laterza 2014.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Students who don’t plan to attend the course and those who will be attending on an irregular basis are strongly encouraged to meet the course leader during office hours at the beginning of the course. To arrange a meeting outside of office hours please send an email to the professor. The meeting is important in order to obtain more detailed information on what to study and about the oral examination.
(reference books)
Required reading:
a) For the first part:
Loris Zanatta, Storia dell’America Latina contemporanea, Bari, Laterza, 2017.
b) For the second part:
Maria R. Stabili, Le Verità Ufficiali. Transizioni Politiche e Diritti umani in America Latina, Roma, Nuova Cultura, 2008;
Maria R. Stabili, - Il Paraguay della transizione politica. L’ombra lunga di Stroessner, in “Thule. Rivista di studi americanistici”, n. 36-37, aprile/ottobre 2014, pubblicato nel 2016, pp. 95-122.
Plus one, chosen among the following list:
- Noberto Bellini, Emboscada. Le lotte contadine contro la dittatura in Paraguay, Modena, Infinito Ed., 2008;
- Norma Berti, Donne ai tempi dell’oscurità. Voci di detenute politiche nell’ Argentina della dittatura militare, Tornino, Ed.SEB27, 2009;
- Gianni La Bella, Perù. Il tempo della vergogna, Bologna, EMI, 2004.
- Scott Mainwaring, Guillermo O'Donnell, J. Samuel Valenzuela (ed. by), Issues in Democratic Consolidation: the new South American Democracies in Comparative Perspectives. Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, 1992;
- Roberto Morozzo della Rocca, Primero Dios. Vita di Oscar Romero, Milano, Mondadori, 2005;
- Marcos Novaro, La dittatura argentina, Roma, Carocci, Roma 2005;
- Frank Safford – Marcos Palacios, Colombia: fragmented land, divided society, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002;
- William C. Smith (ed. by), Latin American Democratic Transformations. Institutions, Actors, and Processes, University of Miami: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
- Maria R. Stabili (a cura di), Violenze di genere. Storie e memorie nell’ America Latina di fine
Novecento, Nuova Cultura Edizioni, Roma 2009;
- Peter Tompkins-Maria Luisa Forenza, La CIA in Guatemala. Orrori di un genocidio, Roma, Odradeck, 2000;
- Giuliano Urbani e Francesco Ricciu, Dalle armi alle urne: economia, società e politica nell'America Latina degli anni Novanta, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1991;
- Loris Zanatta, La nazione cattolica. Chiesa e dittatura nell'Argentina di Bergoglio, Bari-Roma, Laterza 2014.
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