The Export Boom as Modernity (LAST100 wk 7)
Channel: UBC Latin American Studies
Date: 2020-10-04

Modernity comes in different flavors or forms. It is not a process that affects all societies in the same way, or even all parts of the same society equally. In Latin America, this mixture has been (and still is) particularly complex, in large part because of the region’s relationship to the rest of the world. This is a modernity that has come in bits and pieces: in Dawson’s terms, innovation without emancipation, or secularization without universalism. The future can be hard to see, even when it is close at hand.

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Video by Jon Beasley-Murray for the University of British Columbia course, LAST100, "Introduction to Latin American Studies." (Updated). See https://last100.arts.ubc.ca/syllabus/week-7/.