Latin America Tuesday Lates with Anna Grimaldi: From Silver to Soy: Latin America's Export Story
This session traces Latin America’s journey in the global marketplace through a series of commodities, from the colonial era's silver mines to today’s booming agribusiness.
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The course shows how exports brought wealth and change, but also created challenges around inequality, politics, and the environment. It examines the lasting impact of export dependency on national development and everyday life, exploring wider debates around contemporary development challenges.
What will we cover?
As above
What will I achieve? By the end of this course you should be able to...
Evaluate the significance of key export commodities on LA society
Assess Environmental impacts
Explain how commodity exports changed over time
What level is the course and do I need any particular skills?
This is a one-off introductory lecture, and no prior knowledge is required. As with all of our humanities courses, a willingness to engage respectfully with the tutor and your classmates is essential.
How will I be taught, and will there be any work outside the class?
Interactive lecture with opportunities for discussion/Q & A. No homework.
Are there any other costs? Is there anything I need to bring?
No other costs.
When I've finished, what course can I do next?
You may wish to join Anna for another Tuesday Late - please see the Americas area on our website for further details.
Anna Grimaldi is a lecturer in politics and international relations at the University of Leeds. Her work focuses on themes of dictatorship, political resistance, and transnational solidarity. She has written on exile and solidarity activism in the context of Brazil's military dictatorship of 1964 to 1985, some of which has been published in her recent book - Brazil and the Transnational Human Rights Movement. Anna's more recent research examines solidarity activism and social movements across and between Latin America and the "Global South", particularly the ways in which social movements and political projects of the past are called upon by activists in the present through artistic and cultural production. Anna has taught at City Lit for three years and is keen to teach despite now living in Leeds.
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