scholarly journals La enseñanza de la historia en México, o la fabricación del ‘último mexicano’ (1993-2011) / The Teaching of History in Mexico or the Manufacture of the ‘Last Mexican’ (1993-2011)

2018 ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Sebastián Plá
Keyword(s):  
National Curriculum ◽  
Free Markets ◽  
End Of History ◽  
Narrative Structures ◽  
Francis Fukuyama ◽  
Narrative Constructions ◽  
The One ◽  
Narrative Forms ◽  
Analytical Tools ◽  
The Last Man

This article sheds light on the narrative constructions of the teaching of history in primary and secondary education reforms taken place in the last twenty years in Mexico. It examines the similarities between the theoretical position defended in The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama, on the one hand, and the proposals of narrative forms, historical events, and historical directionality implemented in the national curriculum, on the other. We shall argue that these meta-narrative structures imply a proposal of historical inevitability which leads to the idea of an end of history and to a model of competitive citizen based on the duality liberal democracy-free markets. Behind our hypothesis underlies the conviction that certain analytical tools of the theory of history are crucial to better understand the political uses of history, in this case, the teaching of history.Key wordsTeaching of history, curricular reform, political uses of history.ResumenEn el presente artículo se arroja luz sobre las construcciones narrativas de la historia escolar contenidas en las reformas de la educación básica de los últimos veinte años en México. Se discute las similitudes entre el posicionamiento teórico de Francis Fukuyama, en El fin de la historia y el último hombre, y las formas narrativas, la selección de acontecimientos históricos y la direccionalidad histórica propuestas en los programas de estudio. Sostenemos que dicha estructura de metarrelato implica una propuesta de inevitabilidad histórica que conduce a la idea de un fin de la Historia y a un modelo de ciudadano competitivo que se sustenta a la vez en la dualidad democracia liberal y libre mercado. Detrás de nuestra hipótesis, subyace la convicción de que ciertas herramientas analíticas de la teoría de la historia son fundamentales para entender mejor los usos políticos de historia, en este caso, la enseñanza de la historia.Palabras claveEnseñanza de la historia, reforma curricular, usos políticos de la historia.

Marxism and The End of History and the Last Man: A Critical Review

2000 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nuhu O. Yaqub
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Capitalist System ◽  
End Of History ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
Core Concepts ◽  
Democratic System ◽  
The End Of History ◽  
Last Man ◽  
The One ◽  
The Last Man

This review of The End of History and the Last Man sets out to achieve two major objectives: first, to establish whether or not the collapse of the Soviet state system and the alleged triumph as well as reconsolidation of liberal democracy have finally sounded the death knell of Marxism as a body of thought and a guide to action. The paper tries to achieve thisobjective by examining some of the core concepts of Marxism e.g., alienation and exploitation; inequality and freedom; the question of the state; and the nature of imperialism to see the extent to which they have been made otiose by the alleged triumph of liberal democratic system. The evidence emerging from their analyses, however, is not only the correctness and profundity of the position of Marx and his disciples Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Hoxher, Castro, Cabral, Fanon, Mao, Machel, etc. but that as long as Fukuyama attempts to mystify the insidiousness of the capitalist cum liberal democracy visavis alienation and exploitation of the worker on the one hand, and the predatoriness of imperialism over other peoples and lands on the other, so long shall the unscientific assertions and assumptions of the book continue to be subjected to critical pulverizations and attacks. Arising from this conclusion, the second and related objective is to exhort workers in both the advanced capitalist and the superexploited Third World countries towards greater and more focused struggles to bring down the moribund capitalist system, which is to be replaced with socialism/communism

Don’t leave me hanging on the mobile phone

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 19-21
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Content Type ◽  
End Of History ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Margaret Thatcher ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
The One ◽  
The Last Man ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings In the 1980s, the UK’s Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher caused controversy by stating that there was “no such thing as society”. This was understood to herald the end of socialist ideals as a sensible way to govern, and instead confirm capitalism as the one true way forward as people became more autonomous and governments less meddling. Whether she actually meant this in such black and white terms is perhaps a moot point, but together with Francis Fukuyama’s book The End of History and the Last Man declaring the end of communism as well, this was a period where some pretty sacred cows were being slaughtered. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

scholarly journals The Dual Lives of “The Emerging Right to Democratic Governance”

AJIL Unbound ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 112 ◽  
pp. 67-72
Author(s):  
Gregory H. Fox ◽  
Brad R. Roth
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
Democratic Governance ◽  
The Other ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
End Of History ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The One ◽  
The Last Man

Thomas M. Franck's The Emerging Right to Democratic Governance has lived a dual existence. On the one hand, it is almost universally cited as having brought international lawyers into the freewheeling debate of the early 1990s among scholars of international relations, comparative politics, and political theory about the so-called “Third Wave” of democratization. On the other hand, the article is not infrequently described as a legal avatar of post-Cold War Western triumphalism, often sharing a sentence or a footnote with Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man. From the standpoint of the two authors of this essay—one a long-time defender of Franck's thesis and the other a long-time critic—both of these broad-brush characterizations of the article contain elements of truth, but both are also woefully incomplete.

On the Relation Between Global Modernity and Nationalism: The Crisis of Hegemony and the Rise of (Islamic) Identity in Turkey

1995 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 93-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Fuat Keyman
Keyword(s):  
Free Market ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
Central Feature ◽  
Old Regime ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
End Of History ◽  
Global Modernity ◽  
The One ◽  
Cultural Homogenization ◽  
Made In

Turkey did not rise phoenix-like out of the ashes of the Ottoman Empire. It was ‘made’ in the image of the Kemalist elite which won the national struggle against foreign invaders and the old regime. Thereafter, the image of the country kept changing as the political elite grew and matured, and as it responded to challenges both at home and abroad. This process of ‘making’ goes on even today (Ahmad 1993, p.i).The process of contemporary globalization in its most general form involves a tension between universalism and particularism (see Robertson, 1992, pp. 8-61). On the one hand, with Francis Fukuyama’s “the end of history thesis” which suggests universalization of liberal democracy, along with the globalization of free market ideology, the dissolution of differences into sameness can be said to mark an emergence of cultural homogenization. On the other hand, it can be suggested that particularistic conflicts have begun to dictate the mode of articulation of political practices and ideological/discursive forms in global relations, which draws our attention to the tendency towards cultural heteroge-nization. Arjun Appadurai asserts in this context that “the central problem of today’s global interactions is the tension between cultural homogenization and cultural heterogenization”, or, as he puts it:the central feature of global culture today is the politics of the mutual effort of sameness and difference to cannibalize one another and thus to proclaim their successful hijacking of the twin Enlightenment ideas of the triumphantly universal and the resiliently particular (Appadurai, 1990, p. 17).

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