Marieke Riethof

Bolsonaro’s conviction marks a historic moment in Brazil’s political history - University of Liverpool News Bolsonaro’s conviction marks a historic moment in Brazil’s political history

⚖️ Bolsonaro’s conviction marks a historic moment in Brazil’s political history

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Help celebrate Tallersol's 48th Anniversary on Saturday August 30th @ 8pm with poetry, theatre, music...

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Article submitted this morning! On to the next project: my plan for the summer is to revise an article and finish another one.

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I’m on holiday in Rome but I can’t help popping into an archive I’m planning to visit in the future! Solidarity with Brazilian women and activism against torture in Brazil.

Memorial for Chile Democrático - one of the international networks for Chilean exiles - in Rome. I had seen the address on many documents and it was great to see the plaque in person.

Colin Henfrey obituary Other lives: Sociology lecturer at Liverpool University who played a key role in establishing the anti-Pinochet campaign in Britain

Very sad to hear that Colin Henfrey has died, an iconic figure in Chile solidarity & Brazilian sociology. He gets an honourable mention in an article and a chapter I've written on Chile solidarity in Liverpool. I remember him as a very kind and passionate person.
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Lovely UKLAH social in Liverpool this evening. Hoping to pop my head in tomorrow to reconnect with old colleagues! @mariekeriethof.bsky.social @livuninews.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social

Before Chile: Vietnam War Protests and Solidarity in Liverpool The roots of international solidarity in student newspapers and local activism in 1960s Liverpool

My latest blog post - "Before Chile: Vietnam War Protests and Solidarity in Liverpool" - in which I investigate the roots of local solidarity.

Plot reveal: the rivalry with Manchester also matters in international solidarity!

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Nelsa Gadea Galán (on the right), an Uruguayan citizen, was almost 30 years when she was arrested in her workplace and then disappeared. www.londres38.cl/1937/w3-arti...

I've illustrated the book with photos I took at the Londres 38 memory site in Santiago. They show commemorations of disappeared female prisoners on international women's day in 2019.

Book review: 38 Londres Street by Philippe Sands The role of the Nazis who fled to Latin America has long been a fascinating topic, including how they influenced the Latin American dictatorships of the 1970s and 1980s.

My latest book review: 38 Londres Street by Philippe Sands.

The book brings together three storylines: General Augusto Pinochet's arrest in London in 1998; the Nazi Walther Rauff who fled to Chile; and the human rights violations under the 1973-1990 dictatorship.

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I went to the @livunilibrary.bsky.social to look at the @slaslatam.bsky.social archive in preparation for the Latin American History (UKLAH) conference next Friday. I found the very first conference programme from 1964, including a half-hour sherry break before lunch! Those were the days...

Visit Tallersol in Santiago or check out the archive online!

Learn more about our project Memories of Resistance, an online archive of dictatorship-era posters from Chile, and Tallersol, the graphic arts collective that created them.

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Old Technologies for Modern Times: Working with Microfilm The unglamorous realities of archival research

New blog post about the glamour of archival research: working with microfilm.

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Great event on anti-fascist solidarity and the Spanish Civil War in the League of Nations archives. Very inspiring to hear from the students who’ve been translating and analysing documents in Spanish & French.

And here's a link to the full article that resulted from this finding (free to read and download). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Blog title: Doing research on Latin America in the Ford Foundation archives. In the background, screenshot of a Ford Foundation memo.

New blog post on how I ended up doing research on Chile in the Ford Foundation archives. There's always so much we can't include in our academic publications, including the origins of our ideas and the obstacles you encounter along the way.

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I knew I had a copy in my office. Good reason to reread it!

Vietnam, 1965 by Chilean painter Roberto Matta (Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam).

Also check out this blog post on 1967 march for Vietnam in Chile by Javiera Manzi and Pablo Bivort (from the new and wonderful Modernismo Latinamericano website).
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And Quilapayún's album X/Por Vietnam (1968).

From the title song:
Águila negra ya caerás, águila negra ya caerás.
Las águilas negras rompen sus garras contra el heroico pueblo en Vietnam.

At the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War today, Latin American protests are often overlooked. Víctor Jara's El Derecho de Vivir en Paz (1971).

Indochina es el lugar
Más allá del ancho mar
Donde revientan la flor
Con genocidio y napalm
La luna es una explosión
Que funde todo el clamor

It’s a post-apocalyptic graphic novel set in Buenos Aires with an anti-authoritarian subtext. The adaptation is on Netflix and I’m very intrigued too!

Is anyone watching the new El Eternauta TV series? Let me know what you think!

Archives and Activism in Latin America: My Experience at PILAS and SLAS 2025 This April marked my first PILAS Conference and my second SLAS Conference, following my participation in the 2023 edition in Queen’s Belfast. Both events – held at the University of Bristol – have bee...

We invite you to read a new entry on our blog about #SLAS2025.

Claudio Ogass, PhD candidate at the University of Liverpool, shares his experiences presenting his research.

Follow the link to read more: www.slasbristol2025.com/post/archive...

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My focus is on the impact of the Pinochet dictatorship on Chilean universities, including support for academic refugees and debates on academic freedom and pluralism.

I wouldn't have predicted this when I started the research two years ago, but the topic is very relevant in our times.

Article title - Between Modernization and Human Rights: The Ford Foundation’s Response to the 1973 Coup in Chile - and abstract: This article examines the Ford Foundation’s response to the 1973 coup in Chile, analysing how this major philanthropic donor navigated the challenges of operating under authoritarianism in Latin America. While the Foundation’s modernization agenda aligned with US foreign policy priorities in the 1960s, its reaction to the coup represented a rupture. Drawing on the Ford Foundation Records, including internal correspondence, staff reports, and grant files, this article argues that the Foundation’s response was characterized by a fundamental ambiguity. While it presented its actions as humanitarian – particularly the refugee support programme – this response had significant political implications. The Foundation balanced preserving threatened academic networks with maintaining influence in Chile’s intellectual sphere, while navigating an increasingly repressive environment that undermined the central premise of its policy: that funding for academic and socio-economic modernization would help promote political moderation and development. This dual strategy shaped both the Foundation’s support for academic refugees and its wider approach to operating in authoritarian contexts with an increasing emphasis on human rights. However, rather than representing a clear break from modernization to human rights advocacy, the Foundation’s response shows how modernization principles were adapted in the Chilean case.

My latest article just out in the International History Review and it's free to download!

Between Modernization and Human Rights: The Ford Foundation’s Response to the 1973 Coup in Chile.

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If you haven't gotten around to sending us a paper proposal yet, we're extending the deadline by two weeks!

On the second day of the conference, we celebrated the SLAS AGM.

Thanks to Marieke Riethof for her work leading the society now that she has finished her term.

We welcome the new president, Sarah Bowskill (@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social), and vice-president, Paul Merchant (@bristoluni.bsky.social)