Admission requirements
To be in possession of a bachelor’s degree or equivalent. This course is open to master, research master and PhD students of Dutch universities working on topics related to Latin America.
Description
This course will be centred on the political crisis and the moral economy of rights in Chile. As in many other Latin American countries, the symptoms of democratic deterioration in Chile are manifold: backlash against liberal values, sectarism beyond party alignments, conspirative and provocative rhetoric, electoral instability and unpredictability, social antagonism and violence, authoritarian and uncivil attitudes, inter-group resentment, distrust in public institutions, and policy gridlock. The course aims to explore the moral dimension of Chile’s current democratic crisis by exploring the collision of normative worlds that crystallize around several struggles for the demarcation of rights. It focuses on the ways in which “rights” become paradoxical objects of contention across different spheres of social life such as “property”, “work”, “bodies”, “identities”, “security”, among others.
Course objectives
This course aims to shed light on the field of moral disputes shaping how democracy is lived, practiced, contested, and imagined in contemporary Chile. Students will learn to connect current theoretical debates on moral disputes in society with empirical resources coming from Chile. This course also aims to stimulate critical and analytical thinking in the students and to strengthen their oral communication and speaking skills by means of a lecture.
Timetable
Mode of instruction
Lectures and workgroups
Assessment method
Paper
Reading list
The reading list will be provided on Brightspace.
Registration
Enrolment through My Studymap is mandatory.
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Contact
For substantive questions, contact the Chili Visiting Chair coordinator Dr Soledad Valdivia Rivera (info at the top right).
For questions about enrolment, admission, etc, contact the Education Administration Office: Reuvensplaats
Remarks
Mandatory attendance (you are allowed to miss a maximum of three lectures. Depending on the extent to which this maximum is exceeded, the teacher may decide to impose additional assignments on the student.