The course aims to offer to the students, within the framework of the latest historiographical trends, the essential coordinates of the processes that characterize the Nineteenth, Twentieth centuries and the new Latin
American millennium. Particular attention will be devoted, on the one hand, to the theme of the memory of human rights violations during internal armed conflicts and military dictatorships of the second half of the twentieth century and, on the other, to the relations between Italy and Latin America.
American millennium. Particular attention will be devoted, on the one hand, to the theme of the memory of human rights violations during internal armed conflicts and military dictatorships of the second half of the twentieth century and, on the other, to the relations between Italy and Latin America.
Curriculum
teacher profile teaching materials
The first part of the course will focus on the events characterizing the history of contemporary Latin America in light of the most recent historiographical debates, particularly as related to relations between Latin America and the United States and Euro-Latin American relations.
In the second part, the course will focus on the issue of internal repression and human rights violations that occurred during military dictatorships and internal armed conflicts of the second half of the twentieth century.
In particular, it will analyze practices aimed at creating terror, propaganda and repressive strategies, internal and external "enemy" construction processes, and the development, from the 1970s, of movements and organizations committed to the protection of human rights.
Beside material provided by the instructor, students attending classes will have to refer to the texbooks suggested by the instructor.
Students not attending classes will have to submit a paper on topic previously approved by the instructor and refer to the following textbooks for the oral exam:
- Loris Zanatta, Storia dell’America Latina contemporanea, Laterza, 2017
- Un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:
Maria R. Stabili, Le Verità Ufficiali. Transizioni Politiche e Diritti umani in America Latina, Nuova Cultura
Raffaele Nocera, Stati Uniti e America Latina dal 1823 ad oggi, Carocci
Programme
The course focuses on the analysis of the processes that characterized the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Latin America, with the aim of providing students tools for understanding the dynamics currently underway in the area. Particular attention will be paid to the memory of human rights violations during internal armed conflicts and military dictatorships in the second half of the twentieth century, to peace processes and transitional justice in Central America and to relations between Latin America and the United States and between Latin America and Europe.The first part of the course will focus on the events characterizing the history of contemporary Latin America in light of the most recent historiographical debates, particularly as related to relations between Latin America and the United States and Euro-Latin American relations.
In the second part, the course will focus on the issue of internal repression and human rights violations that occurred during military dictatorships and internal armed conflicts of the second half of the twentieth century.
In particular, it will analyze practices aimed at creating terror, propaganda and repressive strategies, internal and external "enemy" construction processes, and the development, from the 1970s, of movements and organizations committed to the protection of human rights.
Core Documentation
Texbooks and materialsBeside material provided by the instructor, students attending classes will have to refer to the texbooks suggested by the instructor.
Students not attending classes will have to submit a paper on topic previously approved by the instructor and refer to the following textbooks for the oral exam:
- Loris Zanatta, Storia dell’America Latina contemporanea, Laterza, 2017
- Un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:
Maria R. Stabili, Le Verità Ufficiali. Transizioni Politiche e Diritti umani in America Latina, Nuova Cultura
Raffaele Nocera, Stati Uniti e America Latina dal 1823 ad oggi, Carocci
Reference Bibliography
Orientation Bibliography - Loris Zanatta, Storia dell’America Latina contemporanea, Laterza, 2017 - Massimo De Giuseppe, Gianni La Bella, Storia dell'America Latina contemporanea, il Mulino, 2019 - D. Pompejano, Storia dell'America Latina, Mondadori, 2012 - T. Bertaccini, Le Americhe Latine nel Ventesimo Secolo, Feltrinelli, 2014 - Raffaele Nocera-Angelo Trento, America Latina, un secolo di storia, Carocci, 2013 - B. Keen – K. Haynes, A History of Latin America, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2009 - C. Malamud, Historia de América, Alianza Editorial, 2007. - Maria Rosaria Stabili, Le Verità Ufficiali. Transizioni Politiche e Diritti umani in America Latina, Nuova Cultura, 2008 - Raffaele Nocera, Stati Uniti e America Latina dal 1823 a oggi, Carocci, 2009 - Maria Rosaria Stabili (a cura di), Violenze di genere. Storie e memorie nell’ America Latina di fine Novecento, Nuova Cultura Edizioni, Roma 2009 - Loris Zanatta, Eva Perón. Una biografia politica, Rubbettino, 2009 - Benedetta Calandra, La Guerra Fredda Culturale. Esportazione e ricezione Dell’ American Way of Life In America Latina, Ombre Corte, 2011 - Massimo De Giuseppe, La rivoluzione messicana, Il Mulino, 2013Type of delivery of the course
The course includes class discussions on assigned readings and the screening of documentaries and two art films on particularly relevant topics: La Notte delle Matite Spezzate (La noche de los lápices), by Héctor Olivera (1986); Salvador, by Oliver Stone (1986). In the last part of the course students will write paper on topics proposed by the instructor.Attendance
Students who are not attending and those who will attend from time to time are invited to arrange a meeting with the teacher at the beginning of the course to receive more in-depth information on the topics of the course and how the examination will take place. The teacher receives by appointment, depending on the day in room 2.5B (2nd floor) or in the teachers' room (4th floor). Students who will not be able to attend due to the overlapping of lesson times with those of another course active at the Department are invited to inform the teacher in good time.Type of evaluation
Assessment criteria Students attending classes will be evaluated according to the following criteria: 25% participation in class discussions 25% oral reports 50% the final exam. Students non-attending classes will only take an oral exam. teacher profile teaching materials
The first part of the course will focus on the events characterizing the history of contemporary Latin America in light of the most recent historiographical debates, particularly as related to relations between Latin America and the United States and Euro-Latin American relations.
In the second part, the course will focus on the issue of internal repression and human rights violations that occurred during military dictatorships and internal armed conflicts of the second half of the twentieth century.
In particular, it will analyze practices aimed at creating terror, propaganda and repressive strategies, internal and external "enemy" construction processes, and the development, from the 1970s, of movements and organizations committed to the protection of human rights.
Beside material provided by the instructor, students attending classes will have to refer to the texbooks suggested by the instructor.
Students not attending classes will have to submit a paper on topic previously approved by the instructor and refer to the following textbooks for the oral exam:
- Loris Zanatta, Storia dell’America Latina contemporanea, Laterza, 2017
- Un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:
Maria R. Stabili, Le Verità Ufficiali. Transizioni Politiche e Diritti umani in America Latina, Nuova Cultura
Raffaele Nocera, Stati Uniti e America Latina dal 1823 ad oggi, Carocci
Mutuazione: 21802065 STORIA DELL'AMERICA LATINA CONTEMPORANEA in Relazioni internazionali LM-52 NESSUNA CANALIZZAZIONE FOTIA LAURA
Programme
The course focuses on the analysis of the processes that characterized the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Latin America, with the aim of providing students tools for understanding the dynamics currently underway in the area. Particular attention will be paid to the memory of human rights violations during internal armed conflicts and military dictatorships in the second half of the twentieth century, to peace processes and transitional justice in Central America and to relations between Latin America and the United States and between Latin America and Europe.The first part of the course will focus on the events characterizing the history of contemporary Latin America in light of the most recent historiographical debates, particularly as related to relations between Latin America and the United States and Euro-Latin American relations.
In the second part, the course will focus on the issue of internal repression and human rights violations that occurred during military dictatorships and internal armed conflicts of the second half of the twentieth century.
In particular, it will analyze practices aimed at creating terror, propaganda and repressive strategies, internal and external "enemy" construction processes, and the development, from the 1970s, of movements and organizations committed to the protection of human rights.
Core Documentation
Texbooks and materialsBeside material provided by the instructor, students attending classes will have to refer to the texbooks suggested by the instructor.
Students not attending classes will have to submit a paper on topic previously approved by the instructor and refer to the following textbooks for the oral exam:
- Loris Zanatta, Storia dell’America Latina contemporanea, Laterza, 2017
- Un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:
Maria R. Stabili, Le Verità Ufficiali. Transizioni Politiche e Diritti umani in America Latina, Nuova Cultura
Raffaele Nocera, Stati Uniti e America Latina dal 1823 ad oggi, Carocci
Reference Bibliography
Orientation Bibliography - Loris Zanatta, Storia dell’America Latina contemporanea, Laterza, 2017 - Massimo De Giuseppe, Gianni La Bella, Storia dell'America Latina contemporanea, il Mulino, 2019 - D. Pompejano, Storia dell'America Latina, Mondadori, 2012 - T. Bertaccini, Le Americhe Latine nel Ventesimo Secolo, Feltrinelli, 2014 - Raffaele Nocera-Angelo Trento, America Latina, un secolo di storia, Carocci, 2013 - B. Keen – K. Haynes, A History of Latin America, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2009 - C. Malamud, Historia de América, Alianza Editorial, 2007. - Maria Rosaria Stabili, Le Verità Ufficiali. Transizioni Politiche e Diritti umani in America Latina, Nuova Cultura, 2008 - Raffaele Nocera, Stati Uniti e America Latina dal 1823 a oggi, Carocci, 2009 - Maria Rosaria Stabili (a cura di), Violenze di genere. Storie e memorie nell’ America Latina di fine Novecento, Nuova Cultura Edizioni, Roma 2009 - Loris Zanatta, Eva Perón. Una biografia politica, Rubbettino, 2009 - Benedetta Calandra, La Guerra Fredda Culturale. Esportazione e ricezione Dell’ American Way of Life In America Latina, Ombre Corte, 2011 - Massimo De Giuseppe, La rivoluzione messicana, Il Mulino, 2013Type of delivery of the course
The course includes class discussions on assigned readings and the screening of documentaries and two art films on particularly relevant topics: La Notte delle Matite Spezzate (La noche de los lápices), by Héctor Olivera (1986); Salvador, by Oliver Stone (1986). In the last part of the course students will write paper on topics proposed by the instructor.Attendance
Students who are not attending and those who will attend from time to time are invited to arrange a meeting with the teacher at the beginning of the course to receive more in-depth information on the topics of the course and how the examination will take place. The teacher receives by appointment, depending on the day in room 2.5B (2nd floor) or in the teachers' room (4th floor). Students who will not be able to attend due to the overlapping of lesson times with those of another course active at the Department are invited to inform the teacher in good time.Type of evaluation
Assessment criteria Students attending classes will be evaluated according to the following criteria: 25% participation in class discussions 25% oral reports 50% the final exam. Students non-attending classes will only take an oral exam. teacher profile teaching materials
The first part of the course will focus on the events characterizing the history of contemporary Latin America in light of the most recent historiographical debates, particularly as related to relations between Latin America and the United States and Euro-Latin American relations.
In the second part, the course will focus on the issue of internal repression and human rights violations that occurred during military dictatorships and internal armed conflicts of the second half of the twentieth century.
In particular, it will analyze practices aimed at creating terror, propaganda and repressive strategies, internal and external "enemy" construction processes, and the development, from the 1970s, of movements and organizations committed to the protection of human rights.
Beside material provided by the instructor, students attending classes will have to refer to the texbooks suggested by the instructor.
Students not attending classes will have to submit a paper on topic previously approved by the instructor and refer to the following textbooks for the oral exam:
- Loris Zanatta, Storia dell’America Latina contemporanea, Laterza, 2017
- Un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:
Maria R. Stabili, Le Verità Ufficiali. Transizioni Politiche e Diritti umani in America Latina, Nuova Cultura
Raffaele Nocera, Stati Uniti e America Latina dal 1823 ad oggi, Carocci
Mutuazione: 21802065 STORIA DELL'AMERICA LATINA CONTEMPORANEA in Relazioni internazionali LM-52 NESSUNA CANALIZZAZIONE FOTIA LAURA
Programme
The course focuses on the analysis of the processes that characterized the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Latin America, with the aim of providing students tools for understanding the dynamics currently underway in the area. Particular attention will be paid to the memory of human rights violations during internal armed conflicts and military dictatorships in the second half of the twentieth century, to peace processes and transitional justice in Central America and to relations between Latin America and the United States and between Latin America and Europe.The first part of the course will focus on the events characterizing the history of contemporary Latin America in light of the most recent historiographical debates, particularly as related to relations between Latin America and the United States and Euro-Latin American relations.
In the second part, the course will focus on the issue of internal repression and human rights violations that occurred during military dictatorships and internal armed conflicts of the second half of the twentieth century.
In particular, it will analyze practices aimed at creating terror, propaganda and repressive strategies, internal and external "enemy" construction processes, and the development, from the 1970s, of movements and organizations committed to the protection of human rights.
Core Documentation
Texbooks and materialsBeside material provided by the instructor, students attending classes will have to refer to the texbooks suggested by the instructor.
Students not attending classes will have to submit a paper on topic previously approved by the instructor and refer to the following textbooks for the oral exam:
- Loris Zanatta, Storia dell’America Latina contemporanea, Laterza, 2017
- Un testo a scelta tra i seguenti:
Maria R. Stabili, Le Verità Ufficiali. Transizioni Politiche e Diritti umani in America Latina, Nuova Cultura
Raffaele Nocera, Stati Uniti e America Latina dal 1823 ad oggi, Carocci
Reference Bibliography
Orientation Bibliography - Loris Zanatta, Storia dell’America Latina contemporanea, Laterza, 2017 - Massimo De Giuseppe, Gianni La Bella, Storia dell'America Latina contemporanea, il Mulino, 2019 - D. Pompejano, Storia dell'America Latina, Mondadori, 2012 - T. Bertaccini, Le Americhe Latine nel Ventesimo Secolo, Feltrinelli, 2014 - Raffaele Nocera-Angelo Trento, America Latina, un secolo di storia, Carocci, 2013 - B. Keen – K. Haynes, A History of Latin America, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2009 - C. Malamud, Historia de América, Alianza Editorial, 2007. - Maria Rosaria Stabili, Le Verità Ufficiali. Transizioni Politiche e Diritti umani in America Latina, Nuova Cultura, 2008 - Raffaele Nocera, Stati Uniti e America Latina dal 1823 a oggi, Carocci, 2009 - Maria Rosaria Stabili (a cura di), Violenze di genere. Storie e memorie nell’ America Latina di fine Novecento, Nuova Cultura Edizioni, Roma 2009 - Loris Zanatta, Eva Perón. Una biografia politica, Rubbettino, 2009 - Benedetta Calandra, La Guerra Fredda Culturale. Esportazione e ricezione Dell’ American Way of Life In America Latina, Ombre Corte, 2011 - Massimo De Giuseppe, La rivoluzione messicana, Il Mulino, 2013Type of delivery of the course
The course includes class discussions on assigned readings and the screening of documentaries and two art films on particularly relevant topics: La Notte delle Matite Spezzate (La noche de los lápices), by Héctor Olivera (1986); Salvador, by Oliver Stone (1986). In the last part of the course students will write paper on topics proposed by the instructor.Attendance
Students who are not attending and those who will attend from time to time are invited to arrange a meeting with the teacher at the beginning of the course to receive more in-depth information on the topics of the course and how the examination will take place. The teacher receives by appointment, depending on the day in room 2.5B (2nd floor) or in the teachers' room (4th floor). Students who will not be able to attend due to the overlapping of lesson times with those of another course active at the Department are invited to inform the teacher in good time.Type of evaluation
Assessment criteria Students attending classes will be evaluated according to the following criteria: 25% participation in class discussions 25% oral reports 50% the final exam. Students non-attending classes will only take an oral exam.