HISTORY AND INSTITUTIONS OF LATIN AMERICA

This course is meant for students who have chosen the track of study “Americas” in the Master Degree Program in Comparative International Relations and “Iberistica” in the Master Degree Program in European, American and Postcolonial Languages and Literatures. It tries to analyze the Latin American world from a political and sociocultural perspective, collaborating in the construction of specific historical skills for the students. Specifically, it intends to offer a glance on the historical process that participated in the construction, rebuilding and invention of the debate on the rights o men in the subcontinent and on the different facets of the Latin American identity. In this way, the course seeks to broaden the student skills in the analysis of the transformations in the Atlantic and Latin American space from the Atlantic revolutions to the independence processes: slavery, domination and forms of black resistance, political mobilization and constitutionalism.

- general knowledge about the last two Centuries Latin American Intellectual debate;
- knowledge of the change process intervened in Latin America about the Latin American people, regarding the impact of the human right debate;
- awareness about the relationship among slavery, human rights and constitutionalism of the Latin American States;
- capacity to analyze critically the Latin American politics building, considering his historical process;
- ability to identify the dynamics that had involved the debate about the Latin American political projects and their relationship with the racial issue;
- capacity to adopt the conceptual instruments studied in class in the interpretation of the Latin American political models and the evolution of the racial issue (in a synchronic and diachronic way) as well as in the comprehension of the contemporary political and sociocultural reality;
- know to propose and argue autonomously political-economic and social-cultural actions, considering the elements of complexity present in the Latin American realty.

Basic knowledge in Latin American History or read a textbook about the Latin America History

1. Human rights in Latin America
2. Slavery and the building of an Latino American space
3. Liberty, revolution and constitution in Latino American space

1) Alessandra Facchi, "Breve storia dei diritti umani. Dai diritti dell'uomo ai diritti delle donne", Bologna, il Mulino, 2013
2) Marco Fioravanti, "Il pregiudizio del colore. Diritto e giustizia nelle Antille francesi durante la Restaurazione", Roma, Carocci, 2012
3) Giancarlo Rolla, "L’evoluzione del costituzionalismo in America latina e l'originalità delle esperienze di giustizia costituzionale", https://journals.uniurb.it/index.php/studi-A/article/view/109

For attending students, assessment of learning can take two forms (at their discretion): in itinere with a paper (2.500 words) tu discuss in class and "short" final exam, or by "long" final exam. For those students who do not attend classes regularly, only the "long" final exam is available. In any case, both modes require writing and discussing a paper (2.500 words) on a topic to be agreed upon with the professor well in advance of the examination dates.

The classes will be carried out with frontal lectures, seminars, oral presentations, texts and documents lecture laboratory.

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This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development