Human Rights and Transnational Solidarity in Cold War Latin America
(The University of Wisconsin Press, 2013)
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With the end of the global Cold War, the struggle for human rights has emerged as one of the most controversial forces of change in Latin America. Many observers seek the foundations of that movement in notions of rights and models of democratic institutions that originated in the global North. Challenging that view, this volume argues that Latin American community organizers, intellectuals, novelists, priests, students, artists, urban pobladores, refugees, migrants, and common people have contributed significantly to new visions of political community and participatory democracy. These local actors built an alternative transnational solidarity from below with significant participation of the socially excluded and activists in the Global South.
Edited by Jessica Stites Mor, this book offers fine-grained case studies that show how Latin America’s re-emerging Left transformed the struggles against dictatorship and repression of the Cold War into the language of anti-colonialism, socioeconomic rights, and identity.
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Editor
Jessica Stites Mor is an associate professor of History at The University of British Columbia (Okanagan). She received her PhD in history at Yale University in 2008. She was a visiting fellow at the Instituto Ravignani of the Universidad de Buenos Aires from 2004-2007. She currently serves as the editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. She is the author of Transition Cinema: Political Filmmaking and the Argentine Left since 1968 (Pittsburgh, 2012), co-editor of El Pasado que miramos (The Past We View, Paídos, 2009) with Claudia Feld, and editor of Human Rights and Transnational Solidarity in Cold War Latin America (Wisconsin, 2013). She has also co-edited a special issue on South-South Solidarity for the Journal of Latin American and Iberian Research (2014), and authored several other journal articles.
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Paper ISBN: 9780299291143
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