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Marieke Riethof
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Senior Lecturer in Latin American Politics. Amsterdam-Liverpool. Cold War solidarity in Latin America, Brazilian politics & IR/IPE. President Society for Latin American Studies @slaslatam.bsky.social in 2023-25.
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Marieke Riethof @mariekeriethof.bsky.social · Apr 22
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.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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.
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⚖️ Bolsonaro’s conviction marks a historic moment in Brazil’s political history

Read more in @liverpooluni.bsky.social's Dr @mariekeriethof.bsky.social's latest article written for
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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
news.liverpool.ac.uk
September 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Help celebrate Tallersol's 48th Anniversary on Saturday August 30th @ 8pm with poetry, theatre, music...

--> Compañia 2085 3er Piso, Plaza Brasil, Santiago
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August 29, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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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.
June 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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🔔 Neurodivergent archive accessibility 🔔
Are you a neurodivergent researcher using archives, an archivist interested in accessibility, or a neurodivergent archivist?
Applications are open for our 'Divergent Minds in the Archive' workshops in Cardiff, Liverpool and online - full details in thread!
June 18, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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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.
June 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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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.
June 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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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.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Colin Henfrey obituary
Other lives: Sociology lecturer at Liverpool University who played a key role in establishing the anti-Pinochet campaign in Britain
www.theguardian.com
June 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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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
June 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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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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Before Chile: Vietnam War Protests and Solidarity in Liverpool
The roots of international solidarity in student newspapers and local activism in 1960s Liverpool
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June 5, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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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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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.
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June 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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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...
May 31, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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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.

meap.library.ucla.edu/projects/mem...

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Visit Tallersol in Santiago or check out the archive online!
May 29, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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New blog post about the glamour of archival research: working with microfilm.

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Old Technologies for Modern Times: Working with Microfilm
The unglamorous realities of archival research
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May 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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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.
May 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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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....
May 8, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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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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Blog title: Doing research on Latin America in the Ford Foundation archives. In the background, screenshot of a Ford Foundation memo.
May 8, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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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
April 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Is anyone watching the new El Eternauta TV series? Let me know what you think!
April 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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slaslatam.bsky.social
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...

@mariekeriethof.bsky.social
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...
www.slasbristol2025.com
April 24, 2025 at 8:22 AM
mariekeriethof.bsky.social
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.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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.
April 22, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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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!
April 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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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)
April 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Another important contribution to the REF2029 debate raising concerns over portability, and the risks to fairness of decoupling outputs from the researchers who authored them, thanks to @mmdelgado.bsky.social @rentravailer.bsky.social @milespadgett.bsky.social.
Portability within REF remains key to fairness
Maria Delgado, Nandini Das, and Miles Padgett warn that separating research outputs from the researchers who created them in REF 2029 would undermine the integrity of the whole research environment
wonkhe.com
April 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Very impressive exhibition about the surrealist Chilean painter Roberto Matta at Ca’ Pesaro, Venice. These are some of his more political works.
December 15, 2024 at 2:27 PM
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Latest news from Brazil: General Braga Netto imprisoned for coup attempt against Lula in 2022. It’s interesting to see that Brazil’s democracy has survived relatively unscathed. Also affects Bolsonaro’s aspirations for the future, which rest on military support.
December 15, 2024 at 8:56 AM