17.508 / 17.507 The Rise and Fall of Democracy/ Regime Change, Spring 2002 by Lawson, Chappell

“…You will review several broad explanations for regime change before turning to more detailed examination of some of history's most famous and theoretically interesting political transitions: the collapse of the Weimar Republic in Germany; democratic breakdown, the consolidation of military dictatorship, and re-democratization in Chile; the breakdown of British colonial rule in the Massachussets Bay Colony; and protracted political transition in Mexico. …”
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QUANDO GESTOS NÃO POLÍTICOS SÃO POLÍTICOS: A TRADUÇÃO BRASILEIRA DE GIOVANNI’S ROOM, DE JAMES BALDWIN, E A QUESTÃO DA HOMOSSEXUALIDADE by Lauro Amorim

“…The emphasis on aesthetics represented a seemingly "non-political" gesture that made it less shocking in the context of military dictatorship prevalent in the country at the time. …”
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ESCOLA e Nova Escola: faces de um velho sonho - ESCOLA and Nova Escola: faces of an old dream by Daniel Revah, Brasil

“…The first was issued during the military dictatorship, between October 1971 and April 1974, with a total of 27 numbers in the circulation. …”
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Lighting up: magical realism and resistance to dictatorships in Latin America by Gretha Leite Maia

“…This is a study that articulates the literary genre magical realism and the movement of resistance to military dictatorships in Latin America during the twentieth century. …”
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The construction of women and the situation of exile in Aves exóticas by Reina Roffé by Nadia Vannesa Mendez

“…The female characters that appear are crossed by different ways of exile, as the political exile caused by military dictatorships. It is also interesting as, in the second edition of Aves, Roffé raises a new reading of the play Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.…”
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Trauma e repetição: O sinistro e suas formas literárias em três momentos da nossa história by Daniela Birman

“…This article discusses the problematics of trauma, memory formation and the diverse forms of the uncanny (unheimlich) found in prison writings by Everardo Dias, Graciliano Ramos, Dyonelio Machado and Flávio Tavares, referring to different moments of suspension of rights and authoritarianism in twentieth century Brazil (the marshal law imposed in 1922-1926, followed by the Vargas and military dictatorships). In comparing these works, I reflect on questions crucial to the testimony of violence, such as the difficulty of its symbolization and the importance of the construction of memory and of the differential repetition through writing.…”
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History and History Teaching of Dictatorships in Brazil and Argentina by Juliana Pirola Balestra

“…This article approaches the relations between history and history teaching in the constructions of memories about the civil-military dictatorships of National Security in Brazil and Argentina, highlighting its potential to the understand the present and plan for the future supported by the studies of Reinhart Koselleck and Jörn Rüsen. …”
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Being a revolutionary woman and a woman writer in the southern cone during the past dictatorial governments – the gender in the literature by Ana Brancher

“…We investigate the life and work of some women writers from the Southern Cone who suffered setbacks as a result from the civil-military dictatorships, because of their novels written at the time or afterwards, that had the dictatorships as their theme, and presented some testimonies and interviews.…”
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Il Derg, Siad Barre e l’Ogaden. Due diverse concezioni di dittatura militare e il loro scontro in una guerra per procura by Francesco Maria Mengo

“…The aim of this article is to show the different conceptions of organization and management of power two military dictatorships of Eastern Africa had: the Derg government (Ethiopia, 1974-1987) and Siad Barre’s autocracy (Somalia, 1969-1991). …”
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The Mystical Foundation of Justice: Contributions of Skepticism in Montaigne, Hume, Foucault by Cristina Ambrosini

“…After suffering bloody military dictatorships in Latin America in the last decades, debates about the legitimacy of the rule of law and the mechanisms of administration of justice dominate the interest of the Philosophy of Law. …”
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How to Overcome an Anti-democratic Heritage by Mehmet Botan Kayhan, Nathália Mariel

“…In both countries, neoliberal policies were implemented through constitutions made under the shadow of military dictatorships. For the last half-century, the development of democratic culture in both countries was undermined by military coups and military governments using anti-democratic methods. …”
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Denunciando al estado. Los artistas como Campaneros en América Latina de los 60. by Alicja Fijałkowska-Myszyńska

“…In that decade, many Latin American countries experienced coups and military dictatorships, which oppressed the political opposition and censored the media. …”
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Os exílios dos intelectuais brasileiros e chilenos, na França, durante as ditaduras militares : uma história cruzada by Helenice Rodrigues da Silva

“…Applying the concept of « Histoire croisée », this text deals with the French exile of Brazilian and Chilean intellectuals during the respective military dictatorships in their countries. For a better apprehension of the complexity of interactive processes, we tried to emphasize the influence of French culture on these intellectuals, the Brazilians’ exile in Chile during Allende’s government, and then the relationships that both Brazilians and Chileans wove with their French counterparts in France. …”
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La invisibilización de la desaparición forzada. ¿Por qué nos cuesta tanto su reconocimiento social? by Andrés Fernando Suárez

“…A ghost runs through Latin America: enforced disappearance is a past that is perpetuated in the present, from the military dictatorships of the southern cone and the Central American civil wars to the Colombian armed conflict and the drug war in México. …”
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A THE CONVERSION OF THE AMAZON COOPERATION TREATY INTO AN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION by Eduardo Ernesto Filippi, Marcus Vinicius Macedo

“…Among the main circumstances that led to the conversion: the need for regional integration as a way to neutralize international pressures for the internationalization of the Amazon; the Cold War context, technological advances, the deepening of globalization, military dictatorships and the redemocratization process, led to the strengthening of supranational arrangements; the holding of the Rio 92 Conference held in Brazil strengthened the commitment to sustainable development and meeting the needs of future generations; moving the headquarters to Brazil, creating a permanent secretariat endowed with more autonomy, leading to the reengineering of the Institution, whose role is to protect the assets of transnational nature, conglomerates of nations, peoples and diversities integrated in the Amazon.…”
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Truth Commissions in Latin America. The hope of a new future by Nelson Molina Valencia

“…The Commissions of Truth received the assignment to investigate violations of Human Rights and breaches of International Humanitarian Law by military dictatorships, authoritarian regimes or internal armed conflicts. …”
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About the Triple A. Argentina 1973 - 1976 by Julieta Rostica

“…Why could this organization only exist in a democracy erected in the middle of two military dictatorships? Why did it exist during the very wished Peronist government? …”
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Les usages de la mémoire : rhétorique du témoignage, espaces de mémoire et rapports de genres dans les dictatures du Brésil et du Paraguay by Janine Gomes da Silva

“…Our intention here is to observe how the various feminist groups were formed, how they operated, their relations with the military dictatorships and the resistance movements, and their processes for establishing identification and difference, among other themes. …”
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Biting to live and writing to remember: Beatriz Leal’s Mulheres que mordem and the remembering of a time that cannot be forgotten in Latin America by Natasha Centenaro

“…My goal in this work is to analyze how both female characters and their relations to Latin American civil-military dictatorships are built in the book Mulheres que mordem (Women who bite), by Brazilian author Beatriz Leal. …”
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Les archives latino-américaines à la BDIC : principaux fonds et thématiques by Cécile Tardy

“…One can find in its collections archives from Latin-American associations, trade-unions, political parties or police authorities, or from associations in sympathy with Latin-American people when they were dominated by military dictatorships. These archives may have been donated to the library, or collected as microfilms or digitized copies thanks to preservation programs. …”
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