Latin American Antifascism(s): National and Transnational Perspectives

AHA Session 20
Conference on Latin American History 3
Thursday, January 5, 2023: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Grand Ballroom Salon L (Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, 5th Floor)
Chair:
Sandra McGee Deutsch, University of Texas at El Paso
Comment:
David M. K. Sheinin, Trent University

Session Abstract

The literature on antifascism in Latin America has been frequently affected by a Eurocentric bias that has downplayed the role of local actors while overplaying the role of external factors. As contributors in the establishment of Latin American antifascism as a field of study in its own terms, presenters in this panel pay attention to how different groups, in different contexts, adopted and adapted antifascism, what this term meant to them, and for what purposes they deployed it. Among other issues, they explore the origins and evolution of antifascism in Latin America, its impact in several societies, and the legacies left by “classic” antifascism during the interwar period and World War II for later mobilization and resistance during the Cold War and beyond. While establishing comparisons across countries and time periods, contributors also highlight the networks in which antifascist groups operated or that they helped to create, looking at linkages and interactions across local, national, and transnational dimensions. The panel will be of interest to a broad audience interested in topics such comparative political and ideological history, transnational history, the interwar years and the Cold War, fascism/antifascism, and Latin American and world history.
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