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 Academic Year: | 2017/8 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies |
| Credits: | 6 [equivalent to 12 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 120 |
| Level: | Honours (FHEQ level 6) |
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| Assessment Summary: | CW 33%, ES 67% |
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| Aims: This unit will offer a comprehensive overview of contemporary social movements in Latin America, including analysis of the roles of workers, human rights, indigenous peoples, revolutionaries, students, the middle class and the unemployed. The unit will explore the process of formation, evolution and decline of aforementioned social movements over the 20th and 21st Century across different Latin American countries. Through the study social movements in context, the unit will address the following conceptual themes: socio-political conflict, political identity, private and public sphere, democracy, discourse, ideology, utopia, rebellion and insubordination. Learning Outcomes: Upon completing the unit students will: * be able to provide accurate knowledge on the evolution of social movements over time in Latin America * be have the analytical skills to able to identify specialised literature as independent learners * be able to understand key theoretical notions in political sociology * have developed analytical and critical skills in the field of social movements * have further developed their writing and speaking skills in Spanish. Skills: Critical analysis, independent learning, precision in written and spoken Spanish, presentational skills, reasoned argument, team work, research methods. Content: 1. Rebellion, utopia and popular struggles in Latin America: introductory notes 2. Workers' movements: from anarcho-syndicalism to the formation of corporatist trade unions. Case study: the CGT Argentina 3. Revolutionary movements: Guevarismo and anti-imperialist organisations. Case study: Sandinismo. 4. Student movements: universal education and claiming participation. Case study. 1968, the student movement in Mexico and present students' movement in Chile. 5. Human rights movements: challenging dictatorship and social codes. Case study: The mothers' of Plaza de Mayo. 6. The unemployed, the landless: neoliberal hegemony, crises of traditional forms of solidarity and the emergence of new collective organisational patterns. Case study: MST in Brazil. 7. Indigenous movements: forming new constituencies and claiming new rights. Case study: Zapatistas in Mexico and Buen Vivir in Ecuador. 8. Middle class movements: urban social protests and disillusioned youth. Case study: the anti-world cup protest movement in Brazil. 9. A critical assessment of popular struggles and democracy in contemporary Latin America: utopia, disappointment and social change. |
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PL30888 is Optional on the following programmes:Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies
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