Human rights and transnational solidarity in Cold War Latin America / edited by Jessica Stites Mor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stites Mor, Jessica.

Series:

Critical human rights.

Critical human rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights advocacy--Latin America--International cooperation--Case studies.

Human rights advocacy.

Solidarity--Latin America--Case studies.

Solidarity.

Cold War--Social aspects--Latin America.

Cold War.

Latin America--Politics and government--20th century.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

pt. 1. Critical precursors to transnational solidarity

pt. 2. Solidarity in action

pt. 3. The influence of transnational solidarity on postnational responsibilities.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780299291136

0299291138

9781299192249

1299192246

OCLC:

828621051