Human Rights and Transnational Solidarity in Cold War Latin America
Edited by Jessica Stites Mor
Critical Human Rights
Steve J. Stern and Scott Straus, Series Editors
“An excellent, cutting-edge volume that provides new insight into Latin American thought and forms of transnational organizing during the period of the Cold War.”
—Catharine C. LeGrand, coeditor of Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.–Latin American Relations
With the end of the global Cold War, the struggle for human rights has emerged as one of the most controversial forces of change in Latin America. Many observers seek the foundations of that movement in notions of rights and models of democratic institutions that originated in the global North. Challenging that view, this volume argues that Latin American community organizers, intellectuals, novelists, priests, students, artists, urban pobladores, refugees, migrants, and common people have contributed significantly to new visions of political community and participatory democracy. These local actors built an alternative transnational solidarity from below with significant participation of the socially excluded and activists in the Global South.
Edited by Jessica Stites Mor, this book offers fine-grained case studies that show how Latin America’s re-emerging Left transformed the struggles against dictatorship and repression of the Cold War into the language of anti-colonialism, socioeconomic rights, and identity.
 Jessica Stites Mor is assistant professor of history at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, and was research affiliate of the Instituto de Historia Emilio Ravignani of the University of Buenos Aires. She is author of Transition Cinema and coeditor (with Claudia Feld) of El pasado que miramos.
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Of Related Interest:
 Beyond Displacement
Campesinos, Refugees, and Collective Action in the Salvadoran Civil War
Molly Todd
“Draws from the best of historical and anthropological methods to document the ways in which courageous individuals and heroic families forged deeper ties of solidarity and built humane communities. Written with great passion and analytic precision, this book contributes to our understanding of an often overlooked facet of El Salvador’s civil war and fitful democratic resurgence.”—Greg Grandin, author of The Last Colonial Massacre |
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PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
March 2013
LC: 2012013284 JC
318 pp. 6 x 9
Contributors:
Alison J. Bruey
Ernesto Capello
Russell Cob
Brenda Elsey
James N. Green
Christine Hatzky
Margaret Power
Sara Katherine Sanders
Jessica Stites Mor
Molly Todd
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