During the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, dictatorships in Latin America hastened the outward movement of intellectuals, academics, artists, and political and social activists to other countries. Following the coups that toppled democratically elected governments or curtailed parliamentary oversight, the incoming military or civilian-military administrations assumed that, by forcing those aligned with opposition movements out of the country, they would assure their control of politics and domestic public spheres. Yet, by enlarging a diaspora of co-nationals, the authoritarian rulers merely extrapolated internal dissent and conflicts, emboldening opposition forces beyond their national borders. Displaced individuals soon had a presence in many host countries, gaining the support of solidarity circles and advocacy networks that condemned authoritarianism and worked with exiles and internal resistance towards the restoration of electoral democracy. Exiles soon became vehicles for spreading cultural ideas from abroad, celebrating cosmopolitanism over nationalism, and emphasizing human rights and democracy in Latin American countries. Exile, Diaspora, and Return explores how Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay have been affected by post-exilic relocations, transnational migrant displacements, and diasporas. Specifically, this book provides the first comprehensive analysis of diasporic experiences and the impact of returnees on the public life, culture, institutions, and development of post-authoritarian politics in the Southern Cone of the Americas. Bringing together sociopolitical, cultural, and policy analysis with the testimonies of dozens of intellectuals, academics, political activists, and policy makers, the authors address the impact of exile on people's lives and on their fractured experiences; the debates and prospects of return; the challenges of dis-exile and post-exilic trends; and the ways in which those who experienced exile impacted democratized institutions, public culture, and discourse. Furthermore, the authors present new readings of the recent history of South America and the diasporas that emphasize the importance of regional, transnational or global dimensions over the national.

Exile, Diaspora, and Return: Changing Cultural Landscapes in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay

Roniger, Luis

Sznajder, Mario

Senkman, Leonardo

Sosnowski, Saúl

Legal Theory & Systems

Oxford University Press

This book is a systematic inquiry of conspiracy theories across Latin America. 
Conspiracy theories project not only an interpretive logic of reality that leads people to believe in sinister machinations, but also imply a theory of power that requires mobilizing and taking action. Through history, many have fallen for the allure of conspiratorial narratives, even the most unsubstantiated and bizarre. This book traces the main conspiracy theories developing in Latin America since late colonial times and into the present, and identifies the geopolitical, socioeconomic and cultural scenarios of their diffusion and mobilization. 
Students and scholars of Latin American history and politics, as well as comparatists, will find in this book penetrating analyses of major conspiratorial designs in this multi-state region of the Americas.

Conspiracy Theories and Latin American History

Reference

Routledge

Este libro reflexiona desde las ciencias sociales, la historia social y la historia de las ideas acerca de la amplia presencia de narrativas conspirativas en Am rica Latina. Los autores distinguen entre la existencia de complots --algunos exitosos, otros fracasados-- de otro fen meno paralelo: las teor as conspirativas que interpretan el mundo como objeto de siniestras maquinaciones e intrigas clandestinas. Se trata de una l gica epistemol gica, cuya visi n de mundo y narrativa argumentativa fungen de mito movilizador de fuerzas pol ticas y sociales.

América Latina tras bambalinas: Teorías conspirativas, usos y abusos (Spanish Edition)

History

Ubiquity Press (Latin America Research Commons)

El antisemitismo en la Argentina (Biblioteca Política argentina. Los Libros elegidos) (Spanish Edition)

Asia

Centro Editor de América Latina

Ires y venires: Antología heteróclita de escrituras migrantes latinoamericanas judías (Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

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