INSTITUTIONS OF THE SPANISH-SPEAKING WORLD MOD. 2

This module belongs to the integrative training activities of the degree in Linguistic and Cultural Mediation and aims to provide students with the first methodological tools in the historical, political, social and cultural fields in relation to Latin America. Objectives of the course are to develop a capacity for reflection on the events that characterize five centuries of history of Latin America, starting from pre-Columbian societies up to the modernization and transition to democracy happened in the '80s and' 90s. During the module we will provide the basic methodological tools for the analysis of these events with an interdisciplinary methodological approach that will combine historical-political, cultural and literary analysis. The achievement of these objectives allows the student to have the basis for an understanding of the socio-political processes and the eventual subsequent deepening of the of the study of history. This module, plays an essential role in further development of cultural aspects that the degree course aims to provide to its students, by combining language studies with an essential knowledge of the political, economic, social and cultural contexts of the geographical areas of interest.

This course aims at introducing the history of Latin America, in particular that of Spanish speaking countries, through a thematic and chronological path, from the XIV to the XX Century, that is, from the Spanish conquest to the processes of democratization started after military dictatorships. It will analyse the development of Latin-American societies from a political, social, cultural, and territorial perspective.

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1. The Colonial Heritage and the Independence Movements
2. State and Nation in the Hispanic America: rise and fall of the liberal oligarchic regimes
3. Between populism and authoritarianism: the XXth Century in Latin America.
4. From the "Década Perdida" to the Third Way of the Progressive Governments

To the attendants:
1) M. CARMAGNANI, C. VANGELISTA, I nodi storici delle aree latino-americane, secoli XVI-XX, Otto s.r.l, Torino 2002. Il libro è acquistabile in formato e-book (Euro 9,90).Parti da studiare: PARTE I: capp. 1 e 4; PARTE II: tutta; PARTE III: capp. 4, 5, 6, 8, 12.
2)L. Zanatta, I sogni imperiali di Peron. Ascesa e crollo della politica estera peronista, Libreria Universitaria, Padova 2016.
3)Optional: Students will have the possibility to replace the books by Zanatta with F. Finchelstein, From Fascism to Populism in History, University of California Press, Oakland 2017.

To the non attendants:
1) M. CARMAGNANI, C. VANGELISTA, I nodi storici delle aree latino-americane, secoli XVI-XX, Otto s.r.l, Torino 2002. Il libro è acquistabile in formato e-book.Parti da studiare: PARTE I: capp. 1 e 4; PARTE II: tutta; PARTE III: capp. 4, 5, 6, 8, 12.
2)L. Zanatta, Storia Dell’ America Latina Contemporanea, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2017.
3)F. Finchelstein, Orígenes ideológicos de la “guerra sucia”: Fascismo, populismo y dictatura en la Argentina del siglo XX, Sudamericana, Buenos Aires 2016.Il libro è acquistabile in formato e-book.
4) Optional: Students will have the possibility to replace ONE of the books indicated in point 1 or 2 with F. Finchelstein, From Fascism to Populism in History, University of California Press, Oakland 2017.

To ALL students:
The evaluation will consist in and an oral exam.

To the attendants (student choice):
1. participation in class discussions and in others formative activities (10%).
2. oral group presentation, topics should be defined in consultation with the Professor, to analyse a topic of the class discussions (30%).

The classes will be carried out with frontal lectures, texts and documents lecture laboratory, a commented screening of documentaries related with the themes discussed in the course, group presentations and written exercises.

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