Passionate debates. Latin American political ideas in a century

• Microscopes, alluvial fans, mirrors, and complexes. The question of Latin America. Latin American societies under the microscope: positivists, Darwinists, hygienists. Raciologies and racialisms. Positivist ideology as a principle of political legitimacy. Order, Progress, Modernize, and Civilize. The Centennial essay: inventories, balance sheets, or the “swan song” of the oligarchic order. José Martí, “Our America.” José Enrique Rodó: “Ariel and Caliban.” Mirrors and complexes of Prospero. Latin America facing “Manifest Destiny.”
• Of Compasses of One's Own and Others: The Latin American 1920s. The Crisis of the Great War: Erosion of Europeanism and the Liberal Subject. The Student Movement and the “Critical Generation.” Discussing the “Others” of the Oligarchic Order: Blacks, Indigenous Peoples, Mestizos, Workers, Peasants. Thinking about Indigenous Peoples and Thinking for Indigenous Peoples. Polemics of Indigenism. The Fallacies of Mestizaje. The “Big Stick” and Constabulary Legacies in Central America and the Caribbean. Revolutionary Polemics: “Social,” “National,” “Socialist,” “Communist,” “Anti-Imperialist” Revolution. The Haya de la Torre-Mariátegui-Mella Debate.
•  Crisis, Availability, and Originality. Ideological and political rearticulations in the face of the 1929 crisis: reformism, popular fronts, revolution, dictatorships. The forms of “functional democracy.” Popular Fronts. State-centrism, domestic marketism, and inclusion. Populism or populisms? Populism, neopopulism, neo-neopopulism? Itineraries of a tenacious category. Citizenship: when women vote.
•  The Sixties: Latin America. Cuba: From Anti-Imperialism and the Anti-Dictatorial Revolution to the Second Declaration of Havana. “Socialism and Man in Cuba.” Casa de las Américas. Cuba and the Intellectuals. What is the Third World? “National Liberation” Projects and Socialist Projects. Youth Movements and Ethical, Aesthetic, and Political Challenges to the Bourgeois Order. Foco Movements and Political-Military Organizations. Dependency and Development. Ways of Problematizing Economic Dependency: From ECLAC to Dependency Theorists. “Alliance for Progress” and Developmentalist Proposals. The Latin American Church: From Medellín to Liberation Theology. Christianity and Marxism. Transitioning to Socialism Through Democracy: The Chilean Popular Unity.
•  Leading ideas. Institutional dictatorships of the Armed Forces. Defense of the “free world,” “hemispheric defense,” “internal war.” Construction of the “internal enemy.” The French School and counterinsurgency. The National Security Doctrine. The United States and Latin America. The School of the Americas. Genealogies and preceding political cultures: anti-communism and narratives of order in the Latin American right. The Chicago School and the Washington Consensus. Forms of representation of the recent past: History, Memory, and Biography.

The seminars are aimed at students from CLACSO Member Centers in Paraguay, Bolivia, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama, Costa Rica and Nicaragua.

The basic requirements for taking an intensive online seminar are:

• Availability of at least 4 hours per day (2 hours in the morning and 2 hours in the afternoon) for synchronous meetings during the first week of the course and 4 hours per week for asynchronous classes in the following 3 weeks
• Internet access.
• Reasonable handling of communication and computer tools.
• Language proficiency in the language in which the course will be taught. The official languages ​​are Spanish and Portuguese.

The seminars last four weeks, plus the completion of a final project. The first week will consist of five consecutive synchronous classes (one class per day) and three asynchronous classes (one per week).

The course consists of eight classes, each accompanied by required and/or supplementary readings, discussion forums, and learning activities proposed by the teaching team, as well as partial submissions and a final project. The course is offered online in a synchronous and asynchronous format. Five of the eight classes will be synchronous. In these cases, the sessions will be four hours long per day (two hours in the morning and two hours in the afternoon) and will take place during the first week of the course. To pass the seminar, participants must attend at least 80% of the activities and forums, complete all scheduled partial submissions, and pass the final project.