Week 1: Social Justice
Week 1: Social Justice, Solidarity, Liberation and Anti-Imperialism during the Cold War
Seminar Questions:
How did decolonisation in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean impact ideas of social justice and human rights? How has religious thinking on social issues, social justice and human rights changed over time? How did Liberation Theology contribute to the tradition of human rights in Latin America? What were the issues involved in legislating on women's rights and gender rights in Latin American states and the inter-American system? How did activists engage with national and international legislation?
Core Readings:
Robert J.C. Young. Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction, Anniversary Edition. 2016 London: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2016. (Latin America 2 Fidel Castro, Che Guevarra and the Tricontinental.)
Blanca Mar Leon, 'Revolutionary Diplomacy and the Third World: Historicizing the Tricontinental Conference from the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs' in Tanya Harmer, and Alberto Martín Álvarez (eds) Toward a Global History of Latin America's Revolutionary Left.
Jocelyn Olcott. “Cold War Conflicts and Cheap Cabaret: Sexual Politics at the 1975 United Nations International Women’s Year Conference Gender & History.” Gender & History, vol. 22, no. 3, Nov. 2010, pp. 733–754.
Primary Source:
Read either
Gustavo Gutierrez, A Theology of Liberation, 1974, 21-42. (Chapter 2 "Liberation and Development")
or
Che Guevarra, The Debate at Punta del Este, 1961
Background Reading:
Kathryn Sikkink. "Latin America's Protagonist Role in Human Rights." Sur International Journal on Human Rights 12.22 (2015): 207-19.
Further Reading:
Manuel Barcia (2009) ‘Locking horns with the Northern Empire’: anti-American imperialism at the Tricontinental Conference of 1966 in Havana', Journal of Transatlantic Studies, 7:3, 208-217.
Pablo Bradbury, "Marxism in the Emergence and Fragmentation of Liberationist Christianity in Argentina." Journal of Latin American Studies, 53(2), 2021, 323-348.
John Burdick, Blessed Anastacia: women, race, and popular Christianity in Brazil. 1998.
Burdick, John, Looking for God in Brazil: The Progressive Catholic Church in Urban Brazil’s Religious Arena. University of California Press, 1993.
John Burdick. “Why is the Black Evangelical Movement Growing in Brazil?”, Journal of Latin American Studies, 37:2, May 2005, pp. 311-32.
Eduardo Batalha Viveiros de Castro. From the Enemy’s Point of View: humanity and divinity in an Amazonian society. 1992.
Andrew Chesnut, Born Again: The Pentecostal Boom and the Pathogens of Poverty. 1997.
Edward L. Cleary and Steigenga, Timothy J. Steigenga (eds.), Conversion of a Continent : Contemporary Religious Change in Latin America,Rutgers University Press, 2007.
Blanca Mar Leon, 'Revolutionary Diplomacy and the Third World: Historicizing the Tricontinental Conference from the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs' in Tanya Harmer, and Alberto Martín Álvarez (eds) Toward a Global History of Latin America's Revolutionary Left.
Mahler, Anne Garland. From the Tricontinental to the Global South : Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity, Duke University Press, 2018.
Guerra, L. “Gender policing, homosexuality and the new patriarchy of the Cuban Revolution, 1965–70”, Social History, 35:3, 2010, 268-289.
Richard L. Harris “Cuban Internationalism, Che Guevara, and the Survival of Cuba's Socialist Regime.” Latin American Perspectives, vol. 36, no. 3, 2009, pp. 27–42.
Elizabeth Dore and Maxine Molyneux (eds.) Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin America. Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2000.
Lombera, Juan Manuel. “The Church of the Poor and Civil Society in Southern Mexico: Oaxaca: 1960s -2010” Journal of Contemporary History 2018.
Mariano Mestman, “Third Cinema/Militant Cinema: At the Origins of the Argentinian Experience (1968-1971).” Third Text, 25:1, 2011, 29-40.
Maxine Molyneux. Women's Movemnents in International Perspective: Latin America and Beyond. Palgrave Macmillan, 2000.
Maxine Molyneux, and Shahra Razavi (ed.), Gender Justice, Development, and Rights. Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2003.
Kathryn M. Marino. Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement. Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press, 2019.
Robin Nagle and Jill Nagle, Claiming the Virgin: The Broken Promise of Liberation Theology in Brazil. 1997.
Anthony Ratcliff, "Black Writers of the World, Unite!" Negotiating Pan-African Politics of Cultural Struggle in Afro-Latin America.” Black Scholar. 37:4, 2007, 27-38. Alexander Wilde. Religious Responses to Violence: Human Rights in Latin America Past and Present. University of Notre Dame Press: 201Robert J.C. Young. Postcolonialism: An
Historical Introduction, Anniversary Edition. 2016 London: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2016. (Latin America 1 Mariátegui and Latin America 2 Fidel Castro, Che Guevarra and the tricontinental.)
Primary Sources:
Development
International Covenant of Social, Economic and Cultural Rights, (1966).
Che Guevarra, The Debate at Punta del Este, 1961.
Short clip of Guevara's speech at Punta del Este
Che Guevara's Statement to the UN, 11 December, 1964
Liberation Theology
Medellin Document CELAM II, 1968
Documents of the Second Vatican Council, 1962
Prof. Simon. S. Maimela. Report on the Second General Assembly of the Ecumenical Council of Third World Theologians (EATWOT) held in Oaxtepec, Mexico, December 7-17, 1986. DISA Archive, South Africa.
Tricontinental
US Government Security Report on the Tricontinental Conference of African, Asian, and Latin American peoples, 1966 http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/tricontinental.htm
Tricontinental Institute of Social Research (Especially the History Section)
Warwick University Library and the MRC hold print copies of the journal and bulletin published in Havana, Cuba by the Executive Secretariat of the Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America Tricontinental from 1966-1980
Third Cinema
Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino. “TOWARD A THIRD CINEMA.” Cinéaste, vol. 4, no. 3, 1970, pp. 1–10.
Film: The Hour of the Furnaces Dir. Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino. Argentina, 1968.