Lecture Slides

Questions

Why has violence increasingly accompanied democratization in Latin America?

Where do human rights fit into activism in contemporary Latin America?

How has 'civil society' organising changed? How do civil society organisations relate to NGOs and Inter-Governmental Organizations?

How has the War on Drugs impacted some regions?

Required Reading

• Enrique Arias and Daniel Goldstein, “Introduction,” in Violent Democracies in Latin America eds. Enrique Arias and Daniel Goldstein (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010) (E-book at Library)

• Agustín Láo-Montes, “Mapping the Field of Afro-Latin American Politics: In and Out of the Civil Society Agenda.”

  In Sonia E. Alvarez, et al (eds.) Beyond Civil Society: Activism, Participation, and Protest in Latin America., Duke University Press, 2017, 103-120- (Read especially from 107). 

Additional Reading

• Sonia E. Alvarez, et al (eds.) Beyond Civil Society: Activism, Participation, and Protest in Latin America, Duke University Press, 2017,
• Enrique Arias. Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: Trafficking, Social Networks and Public Security. UNC Press, 2006.
• Alfredo Corchado, Midnight in Mexico
• Thomas L Friedman, “How Mexico Got Back in the Game,” New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/opinion/sunday/friedman-how-mexico-got-back-in-the-game.html
• Goodale, Mark, and Nancy Postero. Neoliberalism, Interrupted : Social Change and Contested Governance in Contemporary Latin America, Stanford University Press, 2013.
• Ioan Grillo, El Narco
• Mark Edberg, “Drug traffickers as social bandits: culture and drug trafficking in northern Mexico and the border region.” Journal of Contemporary Criminology, 2001;17(3):259-77
• Adrian Gurza Lavalle and Natalia S. Bueno. "Waves of Change Within Civil Society in Latin America: Mexico City and São Paulo". Politics & Society, 2011: 39(3), 415-450.
• Julien Mercille, “Violent Narco-Cartels or US Hegemony,” in Third World Quarterly, (201
• Francisca Márquez "Anthropology and Chile's Estallido social." World Anthropologies 112: 3:2020.
• Caro Quintero in Borderland Beat, http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2013/08/convicted-of-dea-agents-murder-caro.html
• Mary Roldan, “Colombia: Cocaine and the Miracle of Modernity in Medellin” in Gootenburg (ed.), Cocaine: Global Histories
• Dominic Streatfield, Cocaine, chapters 9-11
• Francisco E. Thoumi, Illegal Drugs, Economy and Society in the Andes
• Francisco E Thoumi, “Why the Illegal Psychoactive Drugs Industry Grew in Colombia,” Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs (1992)
• Michael Taussig, Law in a Lawless Land
• David Treece "The Challenges for Anti-racists in Bolsonaro’s Brazil", Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, 27:2:2021 213-233.
• Kees Koonings and Kirk Kruijt, (eds.) Fractured Cities. Zed Books, 2006.
• Sidney Zabludoff, “Colombian Narcotics Organizations as Business Enterprises,” Transnational Organized Crime, 3.2 (1997), 20-49

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