Human rights and transnational solidarity in Cold War Latin America
By: edited by Jessica Stites Mor
Series: Critical human rights; Critical human rights
Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Madison
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780299291143; 9780299291136
Subjects: Politics and government; Case studies; Cold War; Human rights advocacy; International cooperation; Solidarity
Description: "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"--provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.