The University Reform and the Student Movements in Latin America

MANZANO, VALERIA

Student Protests in the Global South

University of Cologne Press

Lugar: Colonia; Año: 2019; p. 23 - 29

This paper will focus on the relationships between the University Reform Movement and the student movements in several Latin American countries. In doing so, I will try not to naturalize that relation. On the one hand, throughout the twentieth century different university-based actors embraced the University Reform Movement, including professors, alumni, and researchers. On the other hand, not all the students who participated in politics did so in the frame of Reformist groups. This said, I will argue that, after its launching in 1918, the student movements in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Peru, and Cuba (among other countries) had to come to terms with the ideas, programs, and?then?memories of the Reform Movement, as it soon became the major landmark for positioning themselves vis-à-vis univesity politics in particular, and the relations between students and politics in general.