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Revolution and state transformation in Latin America: An analysis based on the examples of Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua and others.

Hans Luis Kliche Navas

Information for students

Modulprüfung im MA Lateinamerikastudien (SPO 2023) (Profil B): Hausarbeit (ca. 15 Seiten)

Additional information / Pre-requisites

Conocimientos de español indispensables; portugués optativo; Spanischkenntnisse unerlässlich; Portugiesisch optiona

Comments

Latin America has been associated for decades with the idea of revolution: the Mexican revolution, preceding the Russian revolution, opened the way to a series of revolutionary symbols, models of articulation and political horizons. Later, the Cold War and the intervention of the United States led to the formation of guerrillas in almost all the countries of the region. These armed groups, mostly of left-wing tendency, sought to achieve counter-hegemonic revolutions, however, only in the case of Cuba (1959) and Nicaragua (1979) did they succeed in taking power. On the other hand, the term “revolution” does not find a clear definition in Latin American political historiography: it has been used to refer to itself by processes as dissimilar as the Brazilian military dictatorship and the democratic and civilian socialist project of Chilean President Salvador Allende. In this seminar we will focus, on the one hand, on the transformations and continuities in the state apparatus and the political dimension of a society after the revolutionary triumph, using as case studies the historical examples of triumphant armed revolutions. On the other hand, we will critically and openly discuss the difference between revolution and state reform, based on the constituent process initiated in 1999 in Venezuela, which gave way to what is called the “fifth republic”, as well as referring to the Guatemalan Revolution of 1944 or the Bolivian Revolution of 1952. close

Suggested reading

Álvarez, A. M. & Puig, S. M. I. (2020). Repensar la insurgencia: movimientos sociales y vanguardias revolucionarias en América Central. Perfiles Latinoamericanos, 28(56). https://doi.org/10.18504/pl2856-003-2020 Salgado Bustillos, Flavio. (2020). Capitalismo rentístico, revolución bolivariana y la crisis del imaginario de clase media venezolana. Temas Sociales , (46), 66-96. Recuperado en 30 de octubre de 2023, de http://www.scielo.org.bo/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0040-29152020000100004&lng=es&tlng=es. Torres-Rivas, E. (2013). Revoluciones sin cambios revolucionarios: ensayos sobre la crisis en Centroamérica. close

Additional appointments

Tue, 2025-04-15 16:00 - 18:00

Lecturers:
Hans Luis Kliche Navas