Publicado 02-06-10
Thursday 24 and Friday 25 June 2010
Venue: Council Chamber, ground floor, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR
This intensive workshop takes a broad comparative and historical perspective on the roots of social exclusion and on the formation of the social contract in post-Independence Latin America.
The papers selected draw from a broad range of multidisciplinary perspectives, including economic and social history, geography, politics, sociology and anthropology, with a view toward exploring the role played by pre-Columbian and imperial institutions in setting the parameters for social structures in the region, and in the formation of the social contract. Among the questions we seek to explore are:
* In which ways did the new constitutions mark a significant break from the pre-Independence status quo?
* To what extent did the new constitutions articulate a new social contract?
* What scope was there for upward mobility, for whom, and how permanent?
The workshop closes with comparative perspectives: the experience of other regions in the Western Hemisphere (namely Canada); and the implications for economic exclusion during the 20th century.
For programme and registration details:
http://americas.sas.ac.uk/events/programmes/social_exclusion.html
Convenor: Ame Bergés, Tel: +44 (0)20 7862 8973, email
ame.berges
sas.ac.uk
Sponsored by the Economic History Society Conferences and Initiatives Fund and the Society for Latin American Studies
Dr Ame Bergés
Lecturer in Latin American Political Economy
Institute for the Study of the Americas
School of Advanced Study
University of London
Senate House
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HU
Tel: +44 (0)20 7862 8973
http://americas.sas.ac.uk
