Power, Dialogue, and the Subject

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"Power, Dialogue, and the Subject: From the Conquest to Postcoloniality in Latin American Political Thought" This course will develop issues of culture and race, class, and gender in Latin America by bringing together genealogical and critical-theoretic approaches, as well as the paradigms that were developed by the Latin American philosophy of liberation and dependency theory. We will begin with the first globalization brought about by the conquest of America, and end with the processes of globalization and exclusion that intensified after the collapse of Soviet socialism. Central issues will implicate the problem of the distribution of power and wealth, the question of autonomy, the rise and the fall of the modern individual, postmodern fragmentations, the "dispositifs" through which colonial and postcolonial populations have been disciplined for the sake of stability and subordination, and the transmodern interruptions of oppression (resistance, sabotage, rebellions, revolutions, and democratic transformations).