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- Cool but Correct: Humanitarian Discourse and the US Justification for Intervention in Chile.
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Forehand, Kristen D., Department of History
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Intervening to supposedly protect human rights constitutes a potent justification for foreign involvement, but how humanitarian discourse became critical to the United States' (US) foreign policy remains poorly studied. I argue that humanitarian discourse, while present in the Spanish-American War of 1898, became essential to the US during the Cold War. Rationalizing the 1973 overthrow of the democratically elected socialist Chilean President Salvador Allende, the US relied on anticommunist...
Show moreIntervening to supposedly protect human rights constitutes a potent justification for foreign involvement, but how humanitarian discourse became critical to the United States' (US) foreign policy remains poorly studied. I argue that humanitarian discourse, while present in the Spanish-American War of 1898, became essential to the US during the Cold War. Rationalizing the 1973 overthrow of the democratically elected socialist Chilean President Salvador Allende, the US relied on anticommunist rhetoric joined with accusations that Allende violated Chileans' rights. However, the overthrow led to a brutal dictatorship. Thus, the thesis interrogates primary sources such as declassified government documents, speeches, memoirs, films, murals and music to discover hidden meanings. It employs the methodology of subaltern history as articulated by Ranajit Guha to investigate sources contrapuntally. Therefore, the thesis sheds light on the vaguely understood connection between imperialism and humanitarian intervention. The thesis utilizes a theoretical prism informed by Walter Benjamin, Slavoj Žižek and David Smith to understand how language can justify humanitarian intervention. Finally, the thesis adds to Latin American history and the history humanitarian intervention, specifically the scholarly works of Peter Kornbluh, Steve J. Stern and James Peck. I argue that the US manufactured rhetoric to gain approval for policies that would have otherwise been opposed. Following the Cold War, anticommunist justifications for intervention became less prevalent. However, humanitarian discourse continues. In many cases, the language becomes a façade for less noble reasons to intervene. Thus, Chile continues to provide a model for intervention in the name of protecting human rights.
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- 2015
- Identifier
- FSU_migr_uhm-0556
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- Thesis
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- Culture, Healing, and Medicine in Amazonian Ecuador.
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Gopal, Punam, Department of Anthropology
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The intention of this paper is to shed light on the cultural practices utilized by Napo Kichwa people of Amazonian Ecuador, and how these practices contribute to their overall views of health. As I will show, Kichwa speakers view their cultural practices as integral to leading a healthy life that is achieved by combining Western medicine, Kichwa values and healing practices. Napo Kichwa people, as I will show, follow a pragmatic approach to maintaining health and well-being.
- Date Issued
- 2014
- Identifier
- FSU_migr_uhm-0406
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- Thesis
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- Making Development Discourse Work in Latin American Indigenous Communities.
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Meyer, Dominique, Program in International Affairs
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This paper examines the discourse of development from the perspective of indigenous communities, and discusses the challenges related to achieving development goals within indigenous communities. This paper provides a critique and background on development discourse, an analysis on the indigenous experience, and discusses ways to implement alternative development strategies in indigenous communities.
- Date Issued
- 2012
- Identifier
- FSU_migr_uhm-0074
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- Thesis
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- Reasons for the Dark to Be Afraid.
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Ruiz, Daniel, Department of English
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The poems and translations in this thesis explore the "three strong voices" that poet Federico García Lorca believes the artist should heed: "the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art." The sequence of these poems is meant to reflect the poetic speaker's interactions with these voices. Three of the four sections are named after iconic paintings by Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso, and the poems in each of these sections indirectly reflect the concepts...
Show moreThe poems and translations in this thesis explore the "three strong voices" that poet Federico García Lorca believes the artist should heed: "the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art." The sequence of these poems is meant to reflect the poetic speaker's interactions with these voices. Three of the four sections are named after iconic paintings by Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso, and the poems in each of these sections indirectly reflect the concepts these works present in an attempt to create a dialogue between the written and visual arts. The two works by Dali are The Persistence of Memory and The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory, and the development from the former, which is the second section, to the latter, which is the fourth, is supposed to suggest the interaction between a poet and his or her influences as they work to develop their own unique style, playing at the binary between originality and influence. The title section of the collection is an exploration into the search for truth and originality within this binary—the "irreconcilable feud" between a young artist and a poetic tradition that began thousands of years ago.
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- 2014
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- FSU_migr_uhm-0332
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- Thesis
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- Regional Integration in South America: A Comprehensive Analysis Towards a New Wave of Integration.
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Acosta, Jesid, Program in International Affairs
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This thesis deals with regional integration in South America. The intent of this thesis is to help explain the new wave of integration in the region through an internal perspective of its particular circumstances. Utilizing integration theories, historical analyses and institutional comparisons through the use of standardized methods of fair evaluation we investigate the important characteristics of South American regionalism. To give the reader a greater understanding of the complexity of...
Show moreThis thesis deals with regional integration in South America. The intent of this thesis is to help explain the new wave of integration in the region through an internal perspective of its particular circumstances. Utilizing integration theories, historical analyses and institutional comparisons through the use of standardized methods of fair evaluation we investigate the important characteristics of South American regionalism. To give the reader a greater understanding of the complexity of regional integration attempts in the region we take a comprehensive approach to the many sub-regional attempts in the past: how they started, their goals and their current status. From this approach we draw some lessons for the future of regional integration in South America.
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- 2013
- Identifier
- FSU_migr_uhm-0156
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