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Fall/Winter 2011-2012
Tuesdays, 8:30-11:25
300 Tier Building
HIST 4150
HIST 7240
The Social History of
State and Society in
the Latin American
Latin American
State
History
Jorge Nállim
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 inquired on 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 specific theoretical
approaches, the course will study those relations as represented in scholarly works by
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historians and social scientists for different historical periods (transition from colonial to
independent states, nation-building, and twentieth century), countries, issues (race,
gender, labor, imperialism), and social actors.
II-ASSIGNMENTS AND EVALUATION
The class will meet once a week, on Tuesdays between 8:30 and 11:30, 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
strictly taken into account for the final mark (see below on marking).
Each semester students will write three short papers (4-5 pages). Students will
have two options for each paper, which will be based on class readings and written in
response to questions provided by the instructor.
Students will also write a final, longer paper (10-12 pages) at the end of the
academic year, which will be due at the last class and will demand the analytical
organization and discussion of the material covered in the course. As an option to this
final paper, students in the Honours program or 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 be due at the course’s last meeting.
Important:
Graduate students: academic work for graduate students enrolled at the 7000-level
is expected to have a higher and deeper quality. In addition, the length of their papers
should be 6-7 pages for the short papers and 13-15 pages for the final paper.
Late papers will not be accepted. Please note that I will strictly enforce the
University’s regulations regarding plagiarism, cheating and impersonation found in
Section 8 of the General Academic Regulations in the online Academic Calendar and
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 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
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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/Research 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 16th, 2012.
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
IV-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.
University of Wisconsin Press, 2003.
- Elizabeth Dore and Maxine Molyneux, eds., Hidden Histories of Gender and State in
Latin America. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2000 (free digital version
accessible through UofM’s library).
-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.
- 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.
-Brooke Larson, Trials of Nation Making: Liberalism, Race, and Ethnicity in the Andes,
1810-1910. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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-Eileen J. Suárez Findlay, Imposing Decency. The Politics of Sexuality and Race in
Puerto Rico, 1870-1920. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999.
-Michael 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: Duke University Press, 2009.
-Peter Winn, Weavers of Revolution: The Yarur Workers and Chile’s Road to Socialism.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
-Maria Elena Garcia, Making Indigenous Citizens: Identities, Education, and
Multicultural Development in Peru. Stanford University Press, 2005.
-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 will be available on reserve
at Dafoe library or distributed in class.
V-SHCHEDULE OF MEETINGS, READINGS, AND ASSIGNMENTS
FALL SEMESTER
Week 1
Sept. 13: Introduction
THEORY
Week 2
Sept. 20: Selected readings on theory
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, Option 1
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TRANSITIONS: LATE COLONIAL PERIOD, INDEPENDENCE, AND NATION
BUILDING
Week 3
Sept 27: Thomson, We Alone Will Rule, 1 Paper 1, Option 2
Week 4
Oct. 4: Thomson, We Alone Will Rule, 2
Week 5
Oct. 11: Bernaldo de Quirós, Civility and Politics, 1 Paper 2, Option 1
Week 6
Oct 18: Bernaldo de Quirós, Civility and Politics, 2
Week 7
Oct 25: Dore and Molyneux, Hidden Histories of Gender and State in Latin America, pp.
3-32, 85-146, 172-193. Paper 2–Option 2
Week 8
Nov. 1: Larson, Trials of Nation Making, Introduction and chapters 1-3. Paper 3, Option
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Week 9
Nov. 8: Larson, Trials of Nation Making, chapters 4-5 and Conclusion.
Week 10
Nov. 15: Appelbaum, Macpherson, and Rosemblatt, Race and Nation in Modern Latin
America, pp. VII-XVI, Chapters 1-4
Week 11
Nov 22: Suárez Findlay, Imposing Decency, Introduction and chapters 1-3 Paper 3,
Option 2
Week 12
Nov 29: Suárez Findlay, chapters 4-6 and Conclusion.
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND BEYOND: REVOLUTION, DICTATORSHIPS,
DEMOCRACY, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Week 13
Dec. 6: Michael González, The Mexican Revolution, chapters 1-6.
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SPRING SEMESTER
Week 1
January 10th: Gonzáles, The Mexican Revolution, chapter 7 to end.
Gerardo Rénique, “Race, Region and Nation. Sonora’s Anti-Chinese Racism and
Mexico’s Postrevolutionary Nationalism, 1920s-1930s, in Applebaum and Molyneux, pp,
211-236.
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 17th: Dore and Molyneux, Hidden Histories, pp. 33-81, 238-370.
Week 3
January 24th: Appelbaum, Macpherson, and Rosemblatt, Race and Nation in Modern
Latin America, Introduction, chapters 5, 6, 7, and 9. Paper 1, Option 2
Week 4
January 31st: 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 2, Option 1
Week 5
February 7th: Derby, The Dictator’s Seduction, 2.
Week 6
February 14th: Peter Winn, Weavers of Revolution, pp. 3-245 Paper 2, Option 2
Week 7
February 21st: No Class. Mid-Term Break.
Week 8
February 28th : The military regimes (selections)
-Winn, Weavers of Revolution, pp. 246-256 and “The Pinochet Era,” in P. Winn, Victims
of the Chilean Miracle. Workers and Neoliberalism in the Pinochet Era, 1973-2002
(Duke, 2004), pp. 14-70
-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 9: Paper 3, Option 1
March 6th: Maria Elena Garcia, Making Indigenous Citizens (entire)
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Week 10
March 13th: Yashar, Contesting Citizenship, chapters 1-4. Paper 3, Option 2
Week 11
March 20th: 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 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 27th: Contemporary Social Movements
-Jeffrey W.Rubin, “Meanings and Mobilizations: A Cultural Politics Approach to Social
Movements and States.” Latin American Research Review, Volume 39, Number 3, 2004,
106-142.
-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
April 3rd: Last Class. Final papers/research papers due today