{"id":6701,"date":"2015-11-10T16:19:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T00:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cllas.uoregon.edu\/?p=6701"},"modified":"2016-02-15T09:09:17","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T17:09:17","slug":"a-transnational-war-on-poverty-the-us-peace-corps-in-south-america-during-the-1960s-fernando-purcell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cllas.uoregon.edu\/a-transnational-war-on-poverty-the-us-peace-corps-in-south-america-during-the-1960s-fernando-purcell\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cA Transnational War on Poverty: The US Peace Corps in South America during the 1960s,\u201d Fernando Purcell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cllas.uoregon.edu\/a-transnational-war-on-poverty-the-us-peace-corps-in-south-america-during-the-1960s-fernando-purcell\/purcell_waronpoverty-peacecorpssouthamerica_lecture_thurs_11feb2016\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6702\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6702\" src=\"http:\/\/cllas.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Purcell_WarOnPoverty-PeaceCorpsSouthAmerica_Lecture_Thurs_11Feb2016.gif\" alt=\"Purcell_WarOnPoverty-PeaceCorpsSouthAmerica_Lecture_Thurs_11Feb2016\" width=\"274\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a>Global Scholars Hall 117<br \/>\nUO\u00a0campus<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Transnational War on Poverty: The US Peace Corps in South America\u00a0during the 1960s\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Professor Fernando Purcell (History, Pontificia Universidad Cat\u00f3lica de Chile)<\/p>\n<p>Instead of conceiving of the Peace Corps as the exportation of the\u00a0United States&#8217; Great Society to the world, Purcell discusses how Peace\u00a0Corps volunteers embodied more than US intervention; they also connected\u00a0different visions of community development and had to adapt themselves\u00a0to notions and programs of development originated in their host\u00a0countries. 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