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Fall/Winter 2014-2015
Tuesdays, 8:30-11:25
University College 377
HIST 4150
HIST 7240
The Social
State and
History of the
Society in
Latin American
Latin
State
American
History
JorgeNállim
405 Fletcher Argue
Office Hours: M, W, 2:30-3:30 or by appointment
[email protected]
(204) 474 6387
I-COURSE DESCRIPTION
In recent years, interdisciplinary studies from historians, political scientists,
anthropologists, and sociologists have challenged traditional narratives of state-building centered
at the national level. Instead, they have explored the different ways and means through which
social groups in Latin America—e.g., peasants, Indigenous groups, workers, women—organize
to take part in local and national politics, and the resulting consequences of these strategies for
state institutions and state policies. Also, scholars have paid attention to how state officials and
agencies create the conditions under which social movements take place, and the consequences
for those movements and for larger processes of state- and nation-building.
This course will introduce students to current debates on the history of state/society
relations in Latin America. After reviewing some theoretical approaches, the course will study
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those relations as represented in scholarly works by historians and social scientists for different
historical periods, countries, topics, and social actors.
II-ASSIGNMENTS AND EVALUATION
The class will meet once a week, on Tuesdays between 8:30 and 11:25, for the discussion
of assigned material. Given that the course is an upper-undergraduate/ Honours/ graduate
seminar, attendance and active participation are not only course requirements but also assumed
and highly expected by the instructor, and they will be seriously taken into account for the final
mark (see below on marking).
Each semester students will write three short, five-page papers, which will be based on
class readings and written in response to questions provided by the instructor. Please note a
slight difference between the two semesters:
-Fall semester: all students will be required to write their first paper on the
assigned theoretical readings. For the next two papers, students will have three options
for each paper.
-Winter semester: students will write three papers, with three options for each
paper.
Students will also write a final, longer paper (10-12 pages) at the end of the academic
year. The paper will demand the comparative analysis, organization and discussion of the
material covered in the course. It is due at the last class, when students will have to make a short
presentation. As an option to this final paper, graduate students or those interested in specific
topics related to the course may work on a research paper under the instructor’s supervision
throughout both semesters. Final papers/research papers will also be due at the course’s last
class.
Important note for graduate students: academic work for graduate students enrolled at the
7000-level is expected to have higher quality and deeper analysis. In addition, the length of their
papers should be 7 pages for the short papers and 13-15 pages for the final paper.
-Please note that late papers will not be accepted. Also, I will strictly enforce the
University’s regulations regarding plagiarism, cheating and impersonation found in the
section on “Academic Integrity” of the General Academic Regulations in the online Academic
Calendar, and Catalog and the Faculty of Arts regulation at:
http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/student/student_responsibilities.html) which reads:
The common penalty in Arts for plagiarism on a written assignment is a grade of
F on the paper and a final grade of F (DISC) (for Disciplinary Action) for the course.
For the most serious acts of plagiarism, such as purchase of an essay and repeat
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violations, this penalty can also include suspension for a period of up to five (5) years
from registration in courses taught in a particular department/program in Arts or from
all courses taught in this Faculty.
The Faculty also reserves the right to submit student work that is suspected of
being plagiarized to Internet sites designed to detect plagiarism or to other experts for
authentication.
The common penalty in Arts for academic dishonesty on a test or examination is F for the
paper, F (DISC) for the course, and a one-year suspension from courses acceptable for credit in
the Faculty. For more serious acts of academic dishonesty on a test or examination, such as
repeat violations, this penalty can also include suspension for a period of up to five years from
registration in courses taught in a particular department or program in Arts or from all courses
taught in or accepted for credit by this Faculty.
Students’ overall performance in the course will be evaluated as follows:
-Six short papers: 48% (8% each)
-Attendance and participation: 25%
-Final paper: 27%
Dates for each assignment are specified in the schedule listed below. Evaluation of term
work will be provided by the voluntary withdrawal (VW) date, March 19th, 2015. Students who
wish to appeal a grade given for term work must do so within 10 working days after the grade for
the term work has been made available to them. Uncollected term work will become the property
of the Faculty of Arts and will be subject to confidential destruction.
Grading scale
A+: 4.1 / 4.5
A: 3.8/ 4
B+: 3.3/ 3.7
B: 2.8/ 3.2
C+: 2.3/ 2.7
C: 1.8/ 2.2
D: 1/ 1.5
F: 0 / 0.9
III-READINGS
The core list of readings for the year-long course includes the following books, which are
available at the bookstore and will be on reserve at the library:
-Sinclair Thomson, We Alone Will Rule. Native Andean Politics in the Age of Insurgency.
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003.
- Joao Reis, Slave rebellion in Brazil. The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia. Baltimore: The
John Hopkins University Press, 1993.
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-Pilar González Bernaldo de Quirós, Civility and Politics in the Origins of the Argentine Nation.
Sociabilities in Buenos Aires, 1829-1862. UCLA Latin American Center Publication/University
of California Los Angeles, 2007.
- Elizabeth Dore and Maxine Molyneux, eds., Hidden Histories of Gender and State in Latin
America. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2000 (digital version accessible through
UofM’s library).
-Nancy Appelbaum, Anne Macpherson, and Karin Rosemblatt, eds., Race and Nation in Modern
Latin America. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 2003 (digital
version accessible through UofM’s library).
-Brooke Larson, Trials of Nation Making: Liberalism, Race, and Ethnicity in the Andes, 18101910. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004 (digital version accessible through UofM’s
library).
-Eileen J. Suárez Findlay, Imposing Decency. The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico,
1870-1920. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1999.
-Michael J. González, The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1940. Albuquerque: University of New
Mexico Press, 2002.
-Lauren Derby, The Dictator’s Seduction. Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of
Trujillo. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2009.
-Mala Htun, Sex and the State. Abortion, Divorce, and the Family Under Latin American
Dictatorships and Democracies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003
-Deborah Yashar, Contesting Citizenship in Latin America. The Rise of Indigenous Movements
and the Postliberal Challenge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005 (free digital
version accessible through UofM’s library).
Additional material in the form of specialized articles and book chapters will be available
on reserve at Dafoe library or distributed in class.
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IV-SHCHEDULE OF MEETINGS, READINGS, AND ASSIGNMENTS
FALL SEMESTER
Week 1
Sept. 9: Introduction
THEORY
Week 2
Sept. 16:
Philip Abrams, "Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the State." Journal of Historical
Sociology 1.1 (March 1988): 58-89 (available through JSTOR)
Theda Skocpol, “Bringing the State Back In.” Peter B. Evans et al., eds, Bringing the
State Back In, Cambridge, 1985, 58-89.
Karen Barkey and Sunita Parikh, “Comparative perspectives on the state.” Annual
Review of Sociology 17 (1991), 523-549 (available through JSTOR)
Joel Migdal et al., eds. State Power and Social Forces: Domination and Transformation
in the Third World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, 1-34.
Doug McAdam et al., eds., Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements. Political
Opportunities, Mobilizing Structures, and Cultural Framings. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1996, 1-20.
Paper 1: mandatory paper for all students.
TRANSITIONS: LATE COLONIAL PERIOD, INDEPENDENCE, AND NATION BUILDING
IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Week 3
Sept 23: Thomson, We Alone Will Rule, Introduction, chapters 1-4. Paper 2, Option 1
Week 4
Sept 30: Thomson, We Alone Will Rule, chapters 5-8, conclusion
Week 5
Oct. 7: Reis, Slave Rebellion in Brazil (entire) Paper 2, Option 2
Week 6
Oct 14: Bernaldo de Quirós, Civility and Politics, Introduction, chapters 1-4 Paper 2, Option 3
Week 7
Oct 21: Bernaldo de Quirós, Civility and Politics, chapter 5-8, conclusion
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Week 8
October 28th: Dore and Molyneux, Hidden Histories of Gender and State in Latin America, pp.
3-32, 85-146, 172-193. Paper 3–Option 1
Week 9
Nov. 4th: Larson, Trials of Nation Making (entire). Paper 3, Option 2
Week 10
Nov. 11th: no classes, Remembrance Day
Week 11
Nov. 18th: Appelbaum, Macpherson, and Rosemblatt, Race and Nation in Modern Latin
America, pp. VII-XVI, Chapters 1-4
Week 12
November 25th: Suárez Findlay, Imposing Decency (entire) Paper 3, Option 3
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND BEYOND: REVOLUTION, DICTATORSHIPS,
DEMOCRACY, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Week 13
Dec. 2: Michael González, The Mexican Revolution, chapters 1-6.
WINTER SEMESTER
January 6th: Gonzáles, The Mexican Revolution, chapter 7 to end. Skocpol?
Gerardo Rénique, “Race, Region and Nation. Sonora’s Anti-Chinese Racism and
Mexico’s Postrevolutionary Nationalism, 1920s-1930s, in Applebaum and Molyneux, pp, 211236.
Mary Kay Vaughan, “Modernizing Patriarchy: State Policies, Rural Households and
Women in Mexico, 1930-1940”, in Dore and Molyneux, pp. 194-214.
Paper 1, Option 1
Week 2
January 13th: Dore and Molyneux, Hidden Histories, pp. 33-81, 238-370.
Week 3
January 20th: Appelbaum, Macpherson, and Rosemblatt, Race and Nation in Modern Latin
America, Introduction, chapters 5, 6, 7, and 9. Paper 1, Option 2
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Week 4
January 27th: Lauren Derby, The Dictator’s Seduction, 1; Richard Lee Turits, “A World
Destroyed, a Nation Imposed: the 1937 Haitian Massacre in the Dominican Republic”, HAHR,
82.3 (2002). Paper 1, Option 3
Week 5
February 3rd: Mala Htun, Sex and the State (entire) Paper 2, Option 1
Week 6
February 10th: The military regimes Paper 2, Option 2
Selections from Marcia Esparza, Henry R. Huttenbach, and Daniel Feierstein, eds., State
violence and genocide in Latin America the Cold War years (London New York: Routledge
2010), digitally available through UofM’s library.
-Manuel Antonio Garretón, “Fear in Military Regimes-An Overview,” in Juan Corradi, Patricia
Weiss Fagen, and Manual Garretón, Fear at the Edge. State Terror and Resistance in Latin
America (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1992), pp. 13-25
-Ximena Bunster-Burotto, “Surviving Beyond Fear: Women and Torture in Latin America,” in
June Nash and Helen Safa, eds., Women and Change in Latin America (Bergin and Garvey
Publishers, 1985), pp. 298-325.
Week 7
February 17th: No Class. Mid-Term Break
Week 8
February 24th: Selections from Peter Winn’s Victims of the Chilean Miracle. Workers and
neoliberalism in the Pinochet Era. Durham: Duke University Press 2004. Paper 2, Option 3
Week 9
March 3rd: Selections from Wil G. Pansters, ed., Violence, Coercion, and State-Making in
Twentieth-Century Mexico [electronic resource] : the other half of the centaur. Stanford,
California : Stanford University Press, 2012. Paper 3, Option 1
Week 10
March 10th: Yashar, Contesting Citizenship, Introduction, chapters 1-4. Paper 3, Option 2
Week 11
March 17th: Yashar, Contesting Citizenship, chapters 5 to end
-Selections from A. Kim Clark and Mark Becker, eds., Highland Indians and the State in
Modern Ecuador (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007): Shannan Mattiace, “From Indigenismo
to Indigenous Movements in Ecuador and Mexico” (196-208); José Antonio Lucero, “Barricades
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and Articulations: Comparing Ecuadorian and Bolivian Indigenous Politics” (209-233), José
Antonio Lucero and María Elena García, “In the Shadows of Success: Indigenous Politics in
Peru and Ecuador (234-247)
Week 12
March 24th: Contemporary Social Movements Paper 3, Option 3; question for final paper
distributed today.
-Jeffrey W. Rubin, “Meanings and Mobilizations: A Cultural Politics Approach to Social
Movements and States.” Latin American Research Review, Volume 39, Number 3 (2004), 106142.
-Selections from Latin American Perspectives 38, no. 1 (January 2011):
-Introduction to volume, by Richard Stahler-Sholk and Harry E. Vanden, “A Second
Look at Latin American Social Movements: Globalizing Resistance to the Neoliberal Paradigm”,
pp. 5-13.
-Anthony Peter Spanakos, “Citizen Chávez: The State, Social Movements, and Publics”,
pp. 14-27.
-José Daniel Benclowicz, “Continuities, Scope, and Limitations of the Argentine
Piquetero Movement: The Cases of Tartagal and Mosconi”, pp. 74-87.
-Amory Starr, María Elena Martínez-Torres, and Peter Rosset, “Participatory Democracy
in Action: Practices of the Zapatistas and the Movimento Sem Terra”
Week 13
March 31s: instructor available for consultation for students working on their final papers
Week 14
April 10th: Last class, final papers due, student presentations