Dear teams,
A selection of our upcoming events, for your information and dissemination.
Thanks,
Oscar
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Book presentation: 'A Cultural History of Underdevelopment'<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/ia-events/underdevelopment>
May 8, 2017 5:30:00 PM
A Radical Americas Network event with John Patrick Leary (Wayne State University) to present his new book 'A Cultural History of Underdevelopment' (University of Virginia Press, 2016) , chaired by William Booth. This book explores the changing place of Latin America in U.S. culture from the mid-nineteenth century to the recent U.S.-Cuba détente. In doing so, it uncovers the complex ways in which Americans have imagined the global geography of poverty and progress, as the hemispheric imperialism of the nineteenth century yielded to the Cold War discourse of "underdevelopment." John Patrick Leary examines representations of uneven development in Latin America across a variety of genres and media, from canonical fiction and poetry to cinema, photography, journalism, popular song, travel narratives, and development theory. More...<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/ia-events/underdevelopment>
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Book launch: Intermediation and Representation in Latin America: Actors and Roles beyond Elections<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/ia-events/actors-roles-beyond-elections>
May 9, 2017 5:30:00 PM
Dr. Gisela Zaremberg (FLACSO Mexico) and Dr. Valeria Guarneros-Meza (De Montfort Univeristy) - Debates on democratisation in Latin America have considered participatory democracy as a complementary approach to the shortfalls of representative democracy to overcome problems on elitism, corruption and clientelism. However, they overlook other types of political relationships that fall in between these pure extremes. The seminar will bring forward the concept of political intermediation, considered a role that requires ingeniousness and which is not designed simply to act on the best interests of the represented, but also to transform the world of those represented.
More...<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/ia-events/actors-roles-beyond-elections>
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Book launch: 'The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Latin America'<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/ia-events/multiculturalism-crisis>
May 10, 2017 5:30:00 PM
David Lehmann (Cambridge; book's editor), Véronique Boyer (EHESS Paris) and Andrew Canessa (Essex); discussant: Par Engstrom<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/people/academic-staff/DrParEngstrom> (UCL Americas) - This book presents a challenging view of the adoption and co-option of multiculturalism in Latin America from six scholars with extensive experience of grassroots movements and intellectual debates. It raises serious questions of theory, method, and interpretation for both social scientists and policymakers on the basis of cases in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, and Ecuador. Multicultural policies have enabled people to recover the land of their ancestors, administer justice in accordance with their traditions, provide recognition as full citizens of the nation, and promote affirmative action to enable them to take the place in society which is theirs by right.
More...<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/ia-events/multiculturalism-crisis>
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Book launch: 'The Hidden History of International Law in the Americas: Empire and Legal Networks'<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/ia-events/empire-legal-networks>
Starts: May 15, 2017 5:30:00 PM
Juan Pablo Scarfi (CONICET, Argentina) - International law has played a crucial role in the construction of imperial projects. Yet within the growing field of studies about the history of international law and empire, scholars have seldom considered this complicit relationship in the Americas. The Hidden History of International Law in the Americas offers the first exploration of the deployment of international law for the legitimization of U.S. ascendancy as an informal empire in Latin America. This book explores the intellectual history of a distinctive idea of American international law in the Americas, focusing principally on the evolution of the American Institute of International Law (AIIL). This organization was created by U.S. and Chilean jurists James Brown Scott and Alejandro Alvarez in Washington D.C. for the construction, development, and codification of international law across the Americas. More...<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/ia-events/empire-legal-networks>
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Book launch: 'Peru: Elite Power and Political Capture'<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/ia-events/peru-elite-power>
May 19, 2017 5:30:00 PM
John Crabtree (Oxford) - As a result of the liberalising reforms of the 1990s and the commodity super-cycle that followed, Peru's business elites have accumulated very substantial political power which they have deployed through a number of mechanisms to maintain an effective control over the key workings of the state. At the same time, the country's once powerful left has been marginalised as a consequence of the economic and political debacles of the 1980s; as such Peru has seen no 'pink tide' in recent years.
More...<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/ia-events/peru-elite-power>
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City in Common: Culture and Community in Buenos Aires<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/ia-events/city-in-common>
May 31, 2017 5:30:00 PM
James Scorer (Manchester) - Using Buenos Aires as his case study, James Scorer traces the figure and practice of 'the commons' in Argentine cultural production to explore how communities are variously shaped and contested within urban imaginaries. Exploring a diverse set of works, including literature, film, and comics, and engaging with urban theory, political philosophy, and Latin American cultural studies, he paints a portrait of a city caught between the opposing forces of commoning and fragmentation. Scorer argues that, beyond the prevailing depictions of Buenos Aires as segregated and divided, urban imaginaries can and often do offer visions of more open communities and more inclusive urban futures. Discussants: Dr Niall Geraghty (ILAS/SAS) and Dr Chandra Morrison (LSE).
More...<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/ia-events/city-in-common>
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Black Pedagogues and Resistance to the Segregation of "Coloured People" in the Panama Canal Zone (1904-1954)<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/ia-events/Black-Pedagogues>
May 31, 2017 5:30:00 PM
Rolando de la Guardia Wald (LAC, Oxford) - In 1903, the Republic of Panama signed the Hay-Bunau Varilla Treaty with the United States, an agreement to facilitate the construction of the Panama Canal. The contract stated that, in order to build, manage and protect the Canal, the United States would, perpetually, control a territory of 5 miles along each bank of the transoceanic route as if they were their 'sovereign'. This territory came to be known as the Panama Canal Zone (PCZ). Since 1904, U.S. authorities began to organise an education system for the PCZ. Soon segregation was imposed. Schools for 'white people' and others for 'people of colour' were established. These had different budgets, quality of infrastructure, and curricula. More...<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/ia-events/Black-Pedagogues>
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The Future of Work: Issues, Tendencies and Public Policy Challenges in Latin America<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/ia-events/future-of-work>
Jun 1, 2017 6:00:00 PM
A UCL Institute of Advanced Studies event with Graciela Bensusán (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochmilco and FLACSO Mexico) - One of the principal concerns in the world of work in both developed and developing countries is the expansion of non-standard or atypical employment, including temporary and part-time work, so-called 'zero-hour contracts', and work from the digital platforms. This is not always a new phenomenon, and it does not affect all economic sectors, countries or regions in the same way. However, across a range of academic, political and social spheres, there is vigorous debate as to whether accelerating technological change will lead independent work to predominate, and, in that case, what regulatory model will replace the traditional one based on wage employment. More information on this event here<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/ias-events/the_future_of_work_issues_tendencies_and_public_policy_challenges_in_latin_america>.
More...<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/ia-events/future-of-work>
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Oscar Martinez
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