LAS 325 Latin America in the Age of Globalization

This course intends to give the student a view of contemporary Latin America, balancing a perspective between its traditional political and social paradigms as well as proposing a set of approaches to the concept of globalization. This will be carried out by mixing both the concept of mestizo culture derived from its joint Spanish and local cultural origin as well as the contemporary perspectives and views of the phenomenon of globalization.
The course will start proposing a short perspective about Latin American contemporary history and particularly relating to its ideological paradigms of the cold war period. Then, it will revise the concepts and state of the art related to the debate about globalization as a cultural phenomenon. Finally, it will go into the different approaches and processes that have tainted the relation between Latin America and globalization since the late 1980s and the end of the cold war, providing special attention to the proactive approaches such as those espoused by Chile, Mexico and Peru, and the negative or pessimistic ones related to the Bolivarian and indigenes approaches as well as the prevalence of the Cuban revolutionary model and its impact in the antiglobal regional perspectives.