scholarly journals The Peasants as a Revolutionary Class: An Early Latin American View

1978 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry E. Vanden
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Third World ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Foundation Stone

We do not regard Marx's theory as something completed and inviolable; on the contrary, we are convinced that it has only laid the foundation stone of the science which socialists must develop in all directions if they wish to keep pace with life.V. I. Lenin (Our Program)The peasant is one of the least understood and most abused actors on the modern political stage. He is maligned for his political passivity and distrust of national political movements. Yet, most of the great twentieth-century revolutions in the Third World have, according to most scholars, been peasant based (Landsberger, 1973: ix; Wolf, 1969). In Latin America the peasant was once pictured as the archetypical parochial who was more suited for siestas under his sombrero than serious political activity. Stereotypes aside, the region has been no exception to the growing tendency of peasants to become involved in major revolutionary processes.

O CINEMA DO TERCEIRO MUNDO SOB O OLHAR DA ANTIGEOPOLÍTICA: DITADURA E RESISTÊNCIA NA AMÉRICA LATINA

GEOgraphia ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (42) ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
Rejane Cristina de Araujo Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Political Geography ◽  
Third World ◽  
Hollywood Film ◽  
The Third ◽  
World Cinema ◽  
America Latina ◽  
The Third World

Resumo: Filmes do Cinema de Hollywood são representativos de um imaginário geopolítico hegemônico. A este imaginário contrapõe-se uma antigeopolítica identificada nas representações de filmes do Cinema do Terceiro Mundo. Partindo de importantes contribuições da geografia política crítica que apontam para articulações entre as representações geopolíticas e os filmes, analisamos três filmes que retratam a América Latina em um dos períodos mais conturbados da sua história. Sua análise nos revela elementos característicos de uma geopolítica de resistência durante as ditaduras civil-militares implantadas no Brasil, no Chile e na Argentina.Palavras-chave: Antigeopolítica. Cinema. América Latina. Ditadura. THE THIRD WORLD CINEMA UNDER THE ANTIGEOPOLITICS VIEW: DICTATORSHIP AND RESISTANCE IN LATIN AMERICAAbstract: Hollywood film movies are representative of a hegemonic geopolitical imaginary. This imaginary contrasts with an antigeopolitics identified in the Third World Cinema representations. Based on important contributions from critical political geography that points to articulations between geopolitical representations and movies, we analyze three cinema productions that portray Latin America in one of the most troubled periods of its history. That analysis reveals elements of a geopolitics of resistance related to the civil-military dictatorships implanted in Brazil, Chile and Argentina.Keywords: Antigeopolitics. Movies. Latin America. Dictatorship. EL CINE DEL TERCER MUNDO BAJO LA VISIÓN ANTIGEOPOLÍTICA: DICTADURA Y RESISTENCIA EN AMÉRICA LATINAResumen: Películas del Cine de Hollywood son representativas de un imaginario geopolítico hegemónico. A este imaginario se contrapone una antigeopolítica identificada en las representaciones de películas del Cine del Tercer Mundo. A partir de importantes contribuciones de la geografía política crítica que apuntan para articulaciones entre las representaciones geopolíticas y las películas, analizamos tres películas que retratan la América Latina en uno de los períodos más revueltos de su historia. Su análisis nos revela elementos característicos de una geopolítica de resistencia durante las dictaduras implantadas en Brasil, en Chile y en Argentina.Palabras clave: Antigeopolítica. Cine. América Latina. Dictadura.

Politics and Dependency in the Third World: The Case of Latin America, Zed Press

1985 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 102
Author(s):  
David Skidmore ◽  
Ronaldo Munck ◽  
Gary Wynia
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Third World ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World

The Last Man's Culture--Revisited

1998 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-100
Author(s):  
Miloš Dokulil ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Third World ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Spiritual Quest ◽  
Civic Values ◽  
The Third ◽  
Fields Of Study ◽  
New Codes ◽  
The Third World

At the end of the second millennium, we seem to be somewhat nervous agairn. Twentieth-century scientific developments have opened up fascinating new fields of study both in the micro- and macrocosmos. Yet none of the new codes, paradigms, and ideologies appear to bring us nearer to some new and generally shared creed. Life without work for many, not only in the Third World, the successful integration of Europe, armed conflicts on local battlefields, as well as superficialities on TV screens, are our near-to-be contemporaneity. The seeming unlimited technical possibilities of artificial intelligence, the relativtatim of civic values, and a cartoon-like culture portend risks for the fiiture. Yet, while secular and lacking a binding sense of responsibility, postmodem society epitomizes spiritual hunger. Nurtured by good family traditions, the spiritual quest promises an open-ended, post-Godotian future.

Pluralist Democracy and the Third World

Worldview ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 21 (10) ◽  
pp. 37-41
Author(s):  
Raymond D. Gastil
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Third World ◽  
Opinion Leaders ◽  
Forced Labor ◽  
Food Energy ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
The Third World

In a century of unexampled economic and technological progress, with the most educated and sophisticated population ever known, much of the world still writhes under the torture, brutality, and forced labor exacted by tyrants of both Right and Left. In more than half the world's nations governments are masters and people are subjects, and to seriously criticize the masters is dangerous to both life and limb. This world needs a great many things, including a more adequate distribution of food, energy, and medical care, but surely a high priority must be given to the eradication of tyranny. The opinion leaders of the democracies must strive as dedicatedly to, end public enslavement in the twentieth century as their predecessors strove to end private enslavement in the nineteenth.

Surveying the Revolutionary Arc

2011 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 323-325
Author(s):  
Guy Laron
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Third World ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Population ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Cold War

In the last decade, influenced by current economic trends, Cold War historians have made an effort to de-center the story of the Cold War. They have shifted their gaze from the center of the conflict—the face-offs in Europe between the Soviet Union and the United States—and cast an observing eye on the Third World. Unlike many Middle East historians who seek to understand the Middle East in terms of its unique cultures, languages, and religions, Cold War historians treat that area as part of a revolutionary arc that stretched from the jungles of Latin America to the jungles of Vietnam. Rather than emphasizing the region's singularity, they focus on the themes that united guerilla fighters in the West Bank and the Makong Delta as well as leaders from Havana to Damascus: anticolonial and anti-imperial struggles, the yearning for self-definition, and the fight against what Third World revolutionaries perceived as economic exploitation. The sudden interest in what was considered, until recently, the periphery of the Cold War has undoubtedly been fueled by the zeitgeist of a new century in which the so-called peripheral regions are set to become more dominant economically. Southeast and Southwest Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East have a surplus of young skilled workers who are increasingly in demand by the global economy as the growth of world population slows and more prosperous countries in West Europe and North America are graying fast. The Third World consists today of the very regions where most of the economic growth in coming decades will take place. Dependency theory has gone topsy-turvy: leading economists now look with hope at countries such as China, India, Turkey, and Egypt and expect them to become the new engines of global growth. It is not surprising, then, that historians are now taking a stronger interest in the tangled history of the Cold War in the Third World and discovering the agency that these countries always had.

scholarly journals Teorias espaciais contemporâneas: o conceito de competitividade sistêmica e o paradigma da sustentabilidade ambiental

2004 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Lopes DINIZ FILHO ◽  
Yara VICENTINI
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Quality Indicators ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Third World ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
The Third ◽  
Sustainability Concept ◽  
Management Policies ◽  
America Latina ◽  
The Third World

O artigo aborda paradigmas da utopia ambiental da cidade sustentável, discutindo as definições de sustentabilidade, aliada à transferência economicista do termo competitividade, entendendo que as estratégias de desenvolvimento devem pautar-se em progressivos investimentos para a obtenção de melhores índices de qualidade de vida, conforme indicadores internacionais. Trata da assimilação de modelos definidos para grandes capitais mundializadas, em realidades diferenciadas na miséria metropolitana do terceiro mundo. Nesses termos, aos paradigmas presentes nas propostas de reorganização espacial e produtiva do território, assim como nas reformas urbanas contemporâneas em curso nas cidades mundiais, não correspondem possibilidades de investimento e renda geral da população na América Latina, resultando em assimilações incompletas de políticas de gestão urbana ou em cenários mal acabados de projetos urbanos. Contemporany spacial theories: the concept of competitiveness and the paradigm of environmental sustainability Abstract This paper deals with broaches the paradigms of the environmental utopia of the sustainability cities, arguing about the sustainability concept, allied with the economicist transference of the term competitiveness, understanding that development strategies must support themselves in progressive investiments on achieving better life quality indicators, based on internacional levels. It treats about the assimilation of models defined to world cities, in differing realities in the third world metropolitan misery. This way the paradigms of spacial and productive territory reorganization proposals, just like on the contemporary urban reforms going on the global cities, do not correspond to the possibilities of investment and general incoming of the Latin America population, resulting in incomplete assimilations of urban management policies or in badly finished urban projects scenaries.

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