After an overview of early Latin American independence struggles from the slave revolution in Haiti (1791-1803), immortalised by C.L.R. James in The Black Jacobins, we examine in this course on Modern Revolutions in Latin America at WEA Sydney the history and influence of seven iconic twentieth-century revolutions in chronological order: Mexico (1910-1920), Bolivia (1952), Cuba (1959-present), Chile…
Continue readingAfter an overview of early Latin American independence struggles from the slave revolution in Haiti (1791-1803), immortalised by C.L.R. James in The Black Jacobins, we examine in this course on Modern Revolutions in Latin America at WEA Sydney the history and influence of seven iconic twentieth-century revolutions in chronological order: Mexico (1910-1920), Bolivia (1952), Cuba (1959-present), Chile…
Continue readingAfter an overview of early Latin American independence struggles from the slave revolution in Haiti (1791-1803), immortalised by C.L.R. James in The Black Jacobins, we examine in this course on Modern Revolutions in Latin America at WEA Sydney the history and influence of seven iconic twentieth-century revolutions in chronological order: Mexico (1910-1920), Bolivia (1952), Cuba (1959-present), Chile…
Continue readingExamine the history and influence of six iconic revolutions: Mexico (1910-1920), Bolivia (1952), Cuba (1959-continuing), Chile (1970-73), Grenada (1979-83) and Nicaragua (1979-1990), and finally the “Pink Tide” movement led by the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela from 1998-present at the WEA Sydney. In addressing themes such as popular culture, women revolutionaries, internationalism, imperialism, neocolonialism and indigenous…
Continue reading[jumbotron heading=”Modern Colonial Geographies in Latin America: The Mirage of the Civilising City and the Archaic Countryside”] “Wanting to be modern seems crazy: we are condemned to be so, given that the future and the past are prohibited” — Octavio Paz (1966: 5) Invitation to International Workshop The production of colonial landscapes has affected the ways…
Continue readingThe 36th International Labour Process Conference, 2018 ‘CLASS AND THE LABOUR PROCESS’ Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, 21-23 March 2018 Call for Streams The International Labour Process Conference (ILPC) is broadly focused on work and employment relations in the context of the broader political economy, with an emphasis on workers perspectives and…
Continue readingAlan Knight (Oxford University), ‘The great depression in Latin America, 1930-1940’ This is the eighth and final instalment of the semester two seminar series organised by the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, in association with the Institute of Latin American Studies, La Trobe University. Date Monday 28 November 2016 (note different day…
Continue reading[jumbotron heading=”Building Alternatives to Neoliberalism in Latin America: Roundtable with Marta Harnecker, Michael Lebowitz and Luis Angosto-Ferrández ‘”] Date and Location: 13 May 2016, University of Sydney, Quadrangle Lecture Theatre [N205], 12:30pm – 2.00pm All welcome! [/jumbotron]
Continue reading[jumbotron heading=”Rodrigo Acuña (Macquarie University), ‘Venezuelan Foreign Policy and Latin American Unification’”] This is the third seminar in the Semester 1 series of 2016 organised by the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. Date and Location: 7 April 2016, Darlington Centre Boardroom, 4:00pm – 5.30pm All welcome! [/jumbotron]
Continue readingThe role of the indigenous population in the formation of the Bolivarian revolution is one of Latin America’s most important untold stories. Considered a beacon of twenty-first century Socialism by many, Venezuela is the scenario of ongoing global struggles for the definition of democracy and multicultural rights. Venezuela Reframed takes an unprecedented and revealing angle…
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