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1 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 2 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 3 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. 4 -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. 5 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 6 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 7 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 8 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