Youth Political Activism Under Dictatorship: Abstract
During my semester abroad in La Plata, Argentina, one of the questions people asked me most often was, “What do people from the U.S. know about Argentina?” It was always hard for me to answer, “not...
View ArticleMy dad told me not to go to strangers’ houses alone, but he doesn’t read this...
I arrived in La Plata, Argentina about a week ago to start my project, which is a collection of histories of high school students who were “disappeared” – kidnapped, illegally detained, and in most...
View ArticleWelcome home Guido Montoya Carlotto!!! And I’m back in the US
I got back to the US yesterday, and now I’m starting to put together all the information I’ve collected in Argentina. In the end, I was only able to do three interviews. My goal was to do around four...
View ArticleGuerras Civiles y Sucias Abstract: Projects of Historical Memory in Spain and...
“Without memory of injustice, justice is not possible” –Manuel-Reyes Mate The twentieth century has been marked by dictatorships and human rights abuses in nearly every part of the world, affecting...
View ArticleHunger Policy in Latin America–Weeks 1 & 2!
Hey all! These first couple of weeks have absolutely flown by (except for being in swem daily for hours on end, that part is a little less exciting). It’s crazy though that I only have a couple of days...
View Articleno llores por mi Argentina (já para o Brasil!)
Going into week 4, I’m still adjusting and refining my research and methods a little but I do feel like things are coming together nicely. I spent entirely too long reading a book about the history of...
View ArticleUsing cultural and political studies to understand Spanish and Argentine Memory
The beginning of my research project has required me to better define my topic of study within the very broad heading of ‘memory of 20th century dictatorships in Spain and Argentina.’ I now plan to...
View ArticleExploring Prior Scholarship Linking Authoritarian Regimes in Argentina and Spain
The similarities in the oppressive practices of the Spanish and Argentine regimes have been well explored in historical, political, and cultural scholarship, and hence a side-by-side study of their...
View ArticlePolitical Opposition to Memory in Spain at the National Level
In this post I analyze the opposition of the ruling national Spanish political party, el Partido popular (PP), to proposed changes to the Valle de los Caídos (Valley of the Fallen) outside Madrid. The...
View ArticlePoliticized Memories Summary Post : Historical Memory and Human Rights in...
“The forty million Argentine people must guarantee the respect for human rights, memory, truth, and justice” –Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner “Let the dead rest in peace for once”...
View ArticleFirst Post, Long Overdue – overview and some preliminary issues, Argentina side
Well, this post is late – it is recapping what began about a month and a half ago. Having lived in Argentina since mid-February, I began working on my Monroe project at the start of W&M’s summer...
View ArticleStill catching up – initial experiences with politics in Argentina
Although I did not put it on my list per se, one of my priorities in Argentina was to experience firsthand how Argentines related to politics, especially students. One of my first experiences in that...
View Article(still re-capping) Research in Argentina cont. – surveys and challenges
The main difficulty I had with the Argentine side of my research was with the surveys. The university I was involved with in Argentina was the National University of La Plata (UNLP is the acronym in...
View ArticleArgentine and U.S. interviews – interesting discussions with student...
Besides surveys, the other primary component of my Monroe project is interviews with students who lead or have led (if the new leaders have not yet assumed their responsibilities) student political...
View ArticleIllegal Abortion in Argentina: Understanding the Underlying Factors – Abstract
Argentina is one of the seventy-five countries in the world that prohibit abortion in most cases, and Latin America contains one-fourth of all countries with such restrictions. Even though there are...
View ArticleUpdate 1 | Illegal Abortion in Argentina
I am taking a strong critical feminist viewpoint of illegal abortion in Argentina, so, therefore, I chose to start my research with a survey of feminist literature on the topics of abortion and...
View ArticleUpdate 2 | Illegal Abortion in Argentina
The past two weeks I have been diving deeper into specific issues pertaining to illegal abortion in Argentina, specifically the intersections of religion and abortion and same-sex marriage and...
View ArticleResearch Conclusions
Our research team has undergone a lot of changes over the course of the semester and into this summer. Although the content and our research themes have remained the same, we’ve both welcomed and said...
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