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LATINAM 200 : Special Topic: Latin American Icons

Undergraduate course

Project description

The focus of this course is on icons that represent Latin America. We will review visual and narrative icons that create an interpretative field of diverse and competing histories of places, peoples and relationships. Over time, some representations become hegemonic in narrating this region�s history. We offer historical, social and cultural memory to challenge the ways in which Latin America as a place and a people has often served as a site of otherness and exoticism, providing economic and symbolic capital for the consumption and pleasure of colonial, neo-colonial, and neoliberal powers. These representations are always contested and repeatedly challenged in ways we refer to as decolonising or decolonial.

Year 2022

Location New Zealand

Organization University of Auckland

Project aims

Project outcome

By the end of this course, students will be able to: Demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of Latin American social, historical and political processes through the study of some of the regions most identifiable figures and historic-political landmarks. (Capability 1.1, 2.1 and 6.1) Identify the central differences between Latin American stereotypes and icons, and their sociopolitical implications within the region and abroad. (Capability 2.1 and 3.1)