In the aftermath of the Helsinki Summit, human rights emerged as a crucial perspective in the international agenda of Western States, among intellectuals, and in the public opinion: related to Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, but also to the Latin American military regimes. During the 1970s human rights started to be invoked across the world than ever before and influenced Latin American liberationists. This paper focuses on the transnational networks against the human rights violations in Chile and Argentina, which Progressive Italian Catholicism contributed to build during the years 1973-1978. In the transnational activism between Italy and Latin America – I argue – human rights became a dominant framework to understand and act in favor of political change, a minor utopia, just as the pillars of the twentieth century’s maximal utopias appeared to be collapsing.
Ceci, L. (2019). Italian Catholicism and human rights activism: transnational networks against violations committed during the military regimes in Chile and Argentina. ??????? it.cilea.surplus.oa.citation.tipologie.CitationProceedings.prensentedAt ??????? Progressive Catholicism in Latin America and Europe, 1950s–1980s, Social Movements and Transnational Encounters, Leuven (Belgium).
Italian Catholicism and human rights activism: transnational networks against violations committed during the military regimes in Chile and Argentina
Ceci Lucia
2019-01-01
Abstract
In the aftermath of the Helsinki Summit, human rights emerged as a crucial perspective in the international agenda of Western States, among intellectuals, and in the public opinion: related to Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, but also to the Latin American military regimes. During the 1970s human rights started to be invoked across the world than ever before and influenced Latin American liberationists. This paper focuses on the transnational networks against the human rights violations in Chile and Argentina, which Progressive Italian Catholicism contributed to build during the years 1973-1978. In the transnational activism between Italy and Latin America – I argue – human rights became a dominant framework to understand and act in favor of political change, a minor utopia, just as the pillars of the twentieth century’s maximal utopias appeared to be collapsing.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.