AHA Session 243
Conference on Latin American History 53
Conference on Latin American History 53
Sunday, January 8, 2023: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM
Liberty Ballroom C (Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, 3rd Floor Headhouse Tower)
Chair:
James Sanders, Utah State University
Papers:
Comment:
James Sanders, Utah State University
Session Abstract
The purpose of this panel is to explore the most recent approaches to the study of citizenship in Latin America. The panelists will seek to question conventional views about citizenship and democratization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with two objectives in mind. The first, to explore how different political actors - urban elites, rural peasants, indigenous people, and the middle and working classes - shaped ideas and practices of citizenship in the region. By so doing, the panelist will test interpretations that have placed too much emphasis on the construction of citizenship from above and that have underestimated processes and practices of citizenship from other spaces and other voices. The second objective is to explore how the region’s political innovation and political practices in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries created, transformed, and consolidated modern ideas of citizenship and democracy. The latter, so as to question the place given to Latin America by studies of citizenship in the global and Atlantic world.
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