DAFF 25A41 - Contemporary Latin America

The main goal of this seminar is to propose an introduction to the contemporary Latin American politics. First, a general panorama of the historical trends will be presented with a focus in the regional's problems of democratization during the last century. Second, we will concentrate our attention on the public regional's agenda to study different topics like the violence, the crisis of the welfare state, the crisis of political representation, the populism phenomenon and the risks of an authoritarian regression in the continent
Dario RODRIGUEZ
Séminaire
English
The seminar is a general introduction of Latin American whit a focus in historical and political dimensions. A general knowledge of the region is demanded.
Spring 2024-2025
Oral Individual Presentation / Exposé (33%) Intermediate Writing paper (33%) Oral Group Presentation (33%)
BETHELL, Leslie (ed.), The Cambridge History of Latin America, 1995.
DABENE, Olivier, L'Amérique latine au XXe siècle, Paris, Armand Colin, 2003.
ROUQUIE, Alain, Amérique latine. Introduction à l'extrême occident, Paris, Seuil, 1987.
ARTIGAS, Alvaro, Amérique du sud : les démocraties inachevées, Paris, Armand Colin, 2005.
DABENE, Olivier, L'Amérique latine au XXe siècle, Paris, Armand Colin, 2003.
DABENE, Olivier, Amérique latine, la démocratie dégradée, Paris, Editions Complexe, 1997.