POS 316416 Latin American Politics 09272004

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POS 316/416 Latin American Politics - 09/27/2004

• http//faculty.roosevelt.edu/erickson/courses/pos3
  16-416/
• Next Week
• Paper topic description assignment due next week
  (October 4).
• E-mail top three choices for presentation week by
  next week (October 4).
• No written assignment this week except paper
  topic description assignment.
• Lecture/Discussion.
• Historical overview completed - independence to
  globalization.
• Society, Gender and Political Culture.
• Religion and Politics.
• Videos (approx. 28 minutes).
• Chile Defeat of a Dictator. 2000. WETA(PBS).
• Part of series A Force More Powerful.
• Subjects
• Catholic Church and transitional politics.
• Class, Gender, Public Space and Political
  Culture.
• Post video lecture/discussion.
• Written assignment.
• Video questions.

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POS 316/416 Latin American Politics - 09/27/2004

• Readings for the Week Political Culture
  Hierarch, Gender and Religion.
• Vanden and Prevost, Chapters 5 and 6.
• Chapter 5 Society, Gender and Political Culture.
• Chapter 6 Religion in Latin American.
• Political culture.
• Shaped by European, Indigenous, and Slave nexus.
• Culture has evolved but is defined by certain
  fixed features.
• Social pyramids dynamic yet legacy of Conquest
  is quite evident.
• Definition of political culture.
• attitudes and beliefs that affect the way we
  think about, engage in, and evaluate politics and
  political events (Vanden and Prevost).
• basic values, ideas, beliefs, and behavioral
  patterns that predominate in a given society,
  distinguishes one political society from
  another.
• Wiadra and Kline. 2001. An Introduction to Latin
  American Politics and Development. Westview
  Press.

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POS 316/416 Latin American Politics - 09/27/2004

• Developmental Trajectories of Latin and North
  America.
• Dimensions of Comparison.
• Variations in Impact of Conquest on Indigenous
  Population.
• Colonial Origins and Political Legacy/Culture.
• Land Holdings.
• Geographic Features.
• Patterns of Urbanization and Population Density.
• Class Structure and Mode of Production.
• Preconquest.
• Colonial.
• Independence.
• Industrial.
• Post-Industrial.

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POS 316/416 Latin American Politics - 09/27/2004

• Comparison Latin America/North America
  Foundations. Wiadra and Kline.

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POS 316/416 Latin American Politics - 09/27/2004

• Family and Gender Roles.
• Cultural representations Like Water For
  Chocolate, etc.
• Government pensions systems unreliable
  (underdevelopment).
• Matter of temporal difference or permanent
  cultural difference between developing states of
  Latin American and advanced industrial states?
• Patriarchy.
• Patria potestas and pater familias.
• Machismo.
• Marianismo.
• Private Space/Public Space division.
• Emergence into public space for exercise of
  political power by women.
• Los Madres de los Desaparecidos (Argentina).
• Video will show heavy representation of women in
  protests against Pinochet regime.
• Participation in revolutionary movements.
• Nicaragua (Chamoro).
• Mexico - EZLN.
• Peru - Sendero Luminoso.

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POS 316/416 Latin American Politics - 09/27/2004

• Key Political Concepts (Vanden and Prevost, p.
  119).
• Independence movement imposition of democratic
  frameworks on very authoritarian political
  culture.
• Non-consensual political culture clash of
  individualism and collective approaches to
  political culture.
• Elitism.
• Personalism/personalismo.
• Strong Man
• caudillo, cacique, coronel.
• Military tradition of intervention.
• Cuartel, Cuartelazo, Golpe de Estado, Junta.
• Evidenced in video Pinochet regime.
• Politicos.
• Corporatism.
• Patron-Client relations.
• Pátron and peon.
• Godparents compadres comadres.

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POS 316/416 Latin American Politics - 09/27/2004

• Religion in Latin America.
• Overwhelming importance of Catholic Church.
• Another obvious legacy of Conquest.
• Complex relationship to political dynamics.
• Reactionary.
• Revolutionary.
• Moderating
• Assists in democratization as demonstrated in
  video re role of Catholic Church in supporting
  peaceful resistance to Pinochets rule.
• Independence.
• Catholic church slow to recognize independence
  tradition bound institution.
• Late 19th early 20th.
• Competition from Protestant missionaries and
  secular mass movements.
• 1960s 1980s Liberation Theology.

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POS 316/416 Latin American Politics - 09/27/2004

• Religion in Latin America.
• Vatican II.
• Catholic Church embraces more active role concern
  with inequality.
• Merely dominant faction of Catholic Church,
  conservative elements attempt to regain control.
• 1960s 1980s Liberation Theology.
• CEBs.
• Comunidad Eclesial De Base - Ecclesiastical Base
  Communities.
• Vatican II and Marxism fused or hybridized.
• Church Military relations.
• Both institutions claim to be apolitical yet
  deeply involved in political struggle.
• Institutions must be disaggregated.
• Supposed to be normatively noninvolved (Di
  Tella Latin American Politics A Theoretical
  Approach 2001 UT Austin Press).

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POS 316/416 Latin American Politics - 09/27/2004

• Videos (approx. 28 minutes).
• Chile Defeat of a Dictator. 2000. WETA(PBS).
• Part of series A Force More Powerful.
• Lecture/discussion.
• Written assignment in light of videos.
• Crisis, Military Intervention, Aperatura, Church
  and Civil Society.