REQUIRED READINGS
1.) Global Studies:
Latin America, Eleventh Edition “South America: An Imperfect Prism” pages
54-61.
“Argentina” pages
62-66. (to be provided)
2.) Poems on Argentine crisis (coming soon!- restricted access for registered participants only)
3.) Newspaper articles
“Argentina in state
of siege after deadly riots” December 19, 2001 CNN.com
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/americas/12/19/argentina.riots/index.html
“Argentina teeters on possible economic collapse” December 21, 2001 CNN.com http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/americas/12/20/argentina/index.html
“Rioters storm Argentina
congress” December 29, 2001 CNN.com
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/americas/12/29/argentina.riot.0531/index.html
“Calm restored after
Argentina protest turns violent” December 29, 2001 CNN.com
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/americas/12/29/argentina.riot/index.html
“Argentina May Be Down
But I Don't Plan to Get Out” Santiago O'Donnell, Washington Post, Sunday,
August 25, 2002
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A55988-2002Aug24¬Found=true
Once-Haughty Nation's Swagger Loses Its Currency,
By Anthony Faiola
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/argentina/swagger.htm
OPTIONAL/RECOMMENDED FOR FURTHER READING
Additional CNN Articles
“Argentina president
resigns” December 31, 2001
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/americas/12/30/argentina.resignation/index.html
“Argentina gets new
president for a day” January 1, 2002
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/americas/12/31/argentina.resign/index.html
“Argentine Congress picks latest president” January 2, 2002 http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/americas/01/01/argentina.presidency/index.html
“Cash crisis opens
class divide in Argentina” August 15, 2002
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/americas/08/15/argentina.otsc/index.html
“Argentina agrees to
new IMF deal.” September 10, 2003.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/BUSINESS/09/10/argentina.imf/index.html
Articles by Anthony
Faiola
“Argentina's Economic
Woes Devastate Its Middle Class” Washington Post, April 3, 2001.
http://www.mail-archive.com/pen-l@galaxy.csuchico.edu/msg54826.html
“Argentina Doubts
Market Wisdom” Washington Post, August 6, 2001.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A35890-2001Aug5
"Argentina To Suspend
Debt Payment” Washington Post, December 24, 2001.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A19188-2001Dec23?language=printer
“Argentina Gets a New
President—Again” Washington Post, January 2, 2002
http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/stop-imf/2002q1/000561.html
“Despair in Once-Proud
Argentina,” Washington Post, Aug. 6, 2002.
http://www.arena.org.nz/argdecl.htm
“The Reason to Cry
for Argentina,” Washington Post, Aug. 11, 2002.
http://www.networkideas.org/themes/inequality/aug2002/ie11_Reason_Cry_Argentina.htm
Other links
“Argentina in Revolt”
A page with links to many articles about the situation in Argentina
http://www.arena.org.nz/arevolt.htm
Scholarly studies
David Rock. “Racking
Argentina.” New Left Review 17 (Sep-Oct 2002): 55-86.
Meltdown and pauperization
in what was once Latin America’s wealthiest economy. David Rock analyses
the social and political longue durée of the largest sovereign default
in history, and worst casualty of doctrinal neoliberalism to date.
http://www.newleftreview.com/NLR25104.shtml#pagetop
Alexandra Spieldoch.
“When a Terrible Situation Gets Worse: Reflections on Argentina from a
Gender Perspective.” (24 pages) July 2002. Occasional Paper Series on Gender,
Trade and Development. International Gender and Trade Network – Secretariat
http://www.coc.org/pdfs/coc/Argentina.pdf