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camin-miracle.PDF | Aguilar Camín and Lorenzo Meyer, In the Shadow of the Mexican Revolution, University of Texas, Austin, 2002, Mexican miracle | PhDr. Mgr. Kryštof Přemysl Kozák, Ph.D. |
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dillon-1994.PDF | Sam Dillon, Julia Preston: Opening Mexico, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1999, chapter 8 | PhDr. Mgr. Kryštof Přemysl Kozák, Ph.D. |
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Panel 2 - Multiculturalism - Kymlicka.pdf | Text for November 29, Multicultural Canada | Mgr. Ing. Magdalena Fiřtová, Ph.D. |
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Poslední úprava: FIRTOVA (03.10.2008)
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Poslední úprava: FIRTOVA (29.09.2010)
Required Readings for US units: William H. Chafe: The Unfinished Journey: America Since World War II (New York and Oxford, 3rd ed. 1995 or later) Robert Reich: Dílo národů (Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21th-Century Capitalism), Praha 1995. Aditional materials will be provided by the teacher.
Required readings for Canada units: Excerpts or link to it are provided in the syllabus.
Additional readings: Will Kymlicka, Finding our way : rethinking ethnocultural relations in Canada, Toronto ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998. Valerie Knowles, Strangers at our gates : Canadian immigration and immigration policy, 1540-1997, Toronto, Oxford: Dundurn Press, 1992. Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Christina Gabriel, Selling diversity : immigration, multiculturalism, employment, equity, and globalization,Peterborough : Broadview Press, 2002.
Required readings for Mexico units: Excerpts will be provided in the finalized syllabus.
Additional readings (includes library sign if applicable):
The paradox of revolution : labor, the state, and authoritarianism in Mexico / Kevin J. Middlebrook, Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995, xiv, 463 s. ; 24 cm, [000583393], PL 6870
Mexico's politics and society in transition / edited by Joseph S. Tulchin, Andrew D. Selee, Boulder, Colo. : Rienner, 2003, vii, 373 s. : il. ; 24 cm, [000357641], PL5864
The Mexico reader : history, culture, politics / edited by Gilbert M. Joseph and Timothy J. Henderson, Durham : Duke University Press, 2002, x, 792 s. : il., mapy ; 25 cm, [000357657], DJ6073
Mexico : biography of power : a history of modern Mexico, 1810-1996 / Enrique Krauze ; translated by Hank Heifetz, New York, NY : HarperPerennial, 1998, xix, 872 s. : il., mapy ; 25 cm, [000583424], T63-20
Democratizing Mexico : public opinion and electoral choices / Jorge I. Domínguez, James A. McCann, Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998, xvi, 269 s. : il. ; 24 cm, [000583389], PL6868
Modern Latin America / Thomas E. Skidmore, Peter H. Smith, New York; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001, xi, 466 s., [000200783], T63 a[5]
Dillon, Sam and Preston, Julia, Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy, (New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004).
Camp, Roderic Ai, Politics in Mexico (Cambridge, Mass., Oxford University Press, 1999).
Life is not Easy: Mexico's Quest for Stability and Growth Author(s): Nora Lustig Source: The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Winter, 2001), pp. 85-106 Published by: American Economic Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2696542
Meyer, Maureen, At a Crossroads: Drug Trafficking, Violence and the Mexican State, Washington Office for Latin America, The Beckley Foundation Drug Policy Programme, Briefing Paper 13, November 2007, http://www.cfr.org/publication/15190/wolabfdpp.html?breadcrumb=%2Fregion%2F242%2Fmexico
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Poslední úprava: FIRTOVA (29.09.2010)
(A) Classroom participation (you may miss the maximum of 3 lectures per term), 30% of the grade (B) Reserach paper on US, Canada or Mexico(7 pages in length, i.e. 12600 characters). Topics will be specified by Oct 16, 70% of the grade 70-79% good, 80-89@ very good, 90-100% excellent.
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Poslední úprava: FIRTOVA (29.09.2010)
1. Introduction, Postwar economic and demographic boom (October 4) 2. Conformism of the 1950s, McCarthyism (October 11) 3. The Civil Rights Struggle (October 18) 4. The Vietnam War and students´ protests (October 25) 5. L.B. Johnson and the Great Society (November 1) 6. Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal (November 8) 7. The Reagan presidency: Reaganomics, conservatism, policy vis a vis the Soviet Empire (November 15) 8. The Clinton presidency: after the Cold War (November 22) 9. Trudeau's dream: Multicultural and Bilingual Canada (November 29) (text: Testing the Bounds of Liberal Multiculturalism?,Will Kymlicka, For distribution to the 2006 Trudeau Foundation?s Conference on Public Policy "Muslims in Western Societies", November 16-18, 2006).
10. Immigration policy: Since the Introduction of Selection Point system (December 6) (text: Jeffrey G. Reitz, Immigration and Canadian Nation-building in the transition to a knowledge economy, in Controlling Immigration: a Global Perspective, 2nd Edition,edited by Wayne A. Cornelius, Philip L. Martin, and James F. Hollifield, Stanford University Press, 2003.)
11. PRI one-party rule in Mexico (December 13)
Aguilar Camín and Lorenzo Meyer, In the Shadow of the Mexican Revolution, University of Texas, Austin, 2002, Mexican miracle (p.158-178). (scan available in the SIS system)
Questions: What is the Mexican miracle? Why did it happen? What was the Mexican economic system at that time? What were its advantages? What were its disadvantages? If we compare Mexico with U.S. in the same time period, what are the most obvious differences? Are there any similarities? What was Mexico's prevalent attitude to the outside world? How did politics look like in Mexico?
12. Political and economic transition in Mexico since 1988 (December 20)
(text: Sam Dillon, Julia Preston: Opening Mexico, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1994)
Questions: What major events happened in Mexico in 1994? How were they related to the process of transition? What were the dangers Mexico faced throughout the year?
Please note that Units 1 to 8 will be taught by Petr Anděl, Units 9 and 10 by Magdalena Fiřtová, Units 11 and 12 by Krystof Kozak. |