Lent Term 2026
During Lent 2026, we will continue exploring STS/HPS literature related to infrastructures in Latin America. We will meet in the Board Room on a biweekly basis on Thursdays at 1–2pm: 5 February, 19 February and 12 March.
For our first meeting, on 5 February, we will discuss:
- Blanc, Jacob. 'Itaipu's Forgotten History: The 1965 Brazil–Paraguay Border Crisis and the New Geopolitics of the Southern Cone'. Journal of Latin American Studies 50, no. 2 (2018): 383–409.
- Dias, Wilton. 'Infrastructure as a Diplomatic Tool: The Role of Itaipu in Brazilian Foreign Policy Discourse and Practice (1960–1979)'. Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional 68 (2025): e006.
- Folch, Christine. 'Surveillance and State Violence in Stroessner's Paraguay: Itaipú Hydroelectric Dam, Archive of Terror'. American Anthropologist 115, no. 1 (2013): 44–57.
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