World Regions: Latin America and the Caribbean

3 credits · Undergraduate

Struggles for land, labour, and resources are central themes in Latin American and the Caribbean. We examine this diverse region as a landscape of inequality with extremes in poverty and wealth dating from the European invasion. Uneven development across time and space is characterized by growing hunger, narco-trafficking, agro-exports, resource extraction, organized crime, undocumented migration, and environmental degradation, as well as resilience and grassroots mobilization for positive change. Prerequisite(s): None