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Human rights and transnational solidarity in Cold War Latin America

Stites Mor, Jessica

2013

Overview

With the end of the global Cold War, the struggle for human rights has emerged as one of the most controversial forces of change in Latin America. Many observers seek the foundations of that movement in notions of rights and models of democratic institutions that originated in the global North. Challenging that view, this volume argues that Latin American community organizers, intellectuals, novelists, priests, students, artists, urban pobladores, refugees, migrants, and common people have contributed significantly to new visions of political community and participatory democracy. These local actors built an alternative transnational solidarity from below with significant participation of the socially excluded and activists in the global South. Edited by Jessica Stites Mor, this book offers fine-grained case studies that show how Latin America's re-emerging Left transformed the struggles against dictatorship and repression of the Cold War into the language of anti-colonialism, socioeconomic rights, and identity.

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Subject: 20th century / Advocacy / Case studies / Cold War / Cold War -- Social aspects -- Latin America / HISTORY / Human rights / Human rights advocacy / Human rights advocacy -- Latin America -- International cooperation -- Case studies / International cooperation / Latin America / Latin America -- Politics and government -- 20th century / Politics and government / Social aspects / Solidarity / Solidarity -- Latin America -- Case studies
• ISBN: 9780299291143, 0299291146, 9780299291136, 0299291138