Preface to the Special Issue dedicated to the X Latin-American Congress of Environmental Mutagenesis, Carcinogenesis and Teratogenesis Association (X ALAMCTA Meeting)

Author(s):  
Wilner Martínez-López
Author(s):  
Luis E. Chiesa

As the contributions to this two-part special issue demonstrate, Spanish and Latin American criminal theory has attained a remarkable degree of sophistication. Regrettably, Anglo-American scholars have had limited access to this rich body of literature. With this volume, the New Criminal Law Review has taken a very important first step toward rectifying this situation. Although the articles written for this special issue cover a vast range of subjects, they can be divided into four main categories: (1) the legitimacy of the criminal sanction, (2) the punishability of omissions, (3) the challenges that international criminal law and the fight against terrorism pose to criminal theory, and (4) the theory of justification and excuse. The articles pertaining to the first two categories will appear in the first half of this special issue (Volume 11, Number 3) and the pieces belonging to the third and fourth categories will be published in the upcoming second half (Volume 11, Number 4). In accordance with this general structure, in the pages that follow I will provide a brief summary and critique of the pieces contained in both parts.


ILUMINURAS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (52) ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillermo Stefano Rosa Gómez ◽  
Felipe Rodrigues ◽  
Manoel Cláudio da Rocha

Resumo: Como parte do dossiê “Antropologias do Trabalho: Desafios Latino-Americanos”, apresentamos a entrevista realizada com o professor da UFPR, Jaime dos Santos Junior que, refletindo sobre sua trajetória biográfica e acadêmica, ressalta a importância de uma Ciência Social atenta às “zonas cinzentas” dos mundos do trabalho, convidando a um olhar para os interstícios e os não-ditos. Suas pesquisas sobre trabalhadores do corte de cana em Sergipe, sobre operários migrantes no ABC paulista ou, ainda, memórias operárias relacionados à ciclos de greves em Pernambuco e São Paulo – realizadas sempre em interlocução com uma rede de pesquisadoras e pesquisadores – destacam a importância do estudo do cotidiano. A interpretação do cotidiano, no trajeto intelectual de Jaime, sugere uma atenção sociológica complexa para as resistências, as configurações familiares, os movimentos sociais, relações patronais, entre outros fenômenos. A narrativa do entrevistado enfatiza um esforço de propor uma sociologia do trabalho “que não quer ser apenas uma sociologia da denúncia.”Palavras-chave: Antropologia do Trabalho; Trajetória Intelectual; Setor Sucroalcooleiro; Memória Operária  THE FORGOTTEN DIMENSION OF WORK:INTERVIEW WITH JAIME SANTOS JÚNIORAbstract: As part of the special issue “Anthropologies of Work: Latin-American challenges” we present the interview with professor Jaime Santos Junior of Federal University of Paraná. He speaks about his intellectual and biographical trajectory highlighting the importance of a social science who looks to the “grey areas” of the worlds of work: the unspoken and the interstitial. His researches about cane workers in Sergipe, migrant workers in “ABC Paulista”, or even worker’s memories of strikes cycles in Pernambuco and São Paulo evidence the importance of study the quotidian. The interpretations of the ordinary life in the intellectual path of professor Jaime suggest a complex sociological attention to resistances, family settings, social movements, employer relations and other phenomena. The interviewee’s narrative emphasizes and effort of propose a sociology of work that “don’t want to be just a sociology of denunciation”.Keywords: Anthropology of Work. Intellectual Trajectory. Sugar and Alcohol Sector. Memory of Work


2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 393-414
Author(s):  
Laura Merla ◽  
Majella Kilkey ◽  
Loretta Baldassar

In this article, we introduce the key themes of our Special Issue on "Transnational care: families confronting borders". Central to this collection is the question of how family relations and solidarities are impacted by the current scenario of closed borders and increasingly restrictive migration regimes. This question is examined more specifically through the lens of care dynamics within transnational families and their (re-)configurations across diverse contexts marked by "immobilizing regimes of migration". We begin by presenting a brief overview of key concepts in the transnational families and caregiving literature that provides a foundation for the diverse cases explored in the articles, including refugees and asylum seekers in Germany and Finland, Polish facing Brexit in the UK, Latin American migrants transiting through Mexico, and restrictionist drifts in migration policies in Australia, Belgium and the UK. Drawing on this rich work, we identify two policy tools; namely temporality and exclusion, which appear to be particularly salient features of immobilizing regimes of migration that significantly influence care-related mobilities. We conclude with a discussion of how immobilizing regimes are putting transnational family solidarities in crisis, including in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, gripping the globe at the time of writing.


2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-8
Author(s):  
Dolores Tierney

This introduction to a Special Issue of Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinema charts the shift in Alejandro González Iñárritu's directorial persona from transnational auteur to mainstream figure over the course of his six feature films and virtual reality installation: Amores perros (2000), 21 Grams (2003), Babel (2006), Biutiful (2010), Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014), The Revenant (2015) and the installation Carne y arena (Virtually Present, Physically invisible) (2017). It argues that this shift into a (predominantly Anglo) mainstream is reflected in the different ways in which his last names (apellidos) are used, abbreviated or even excised altogether, and in the differing approaches to him as auteur employed by the authors of the different articles, but that Iñárritu’s persona and creative collaborators continue to be primarily determined by his Mexican and Latin American identity.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-6
Author(s):  
Carlos Azzoni ◽  
Patricio Aroca
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1998 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 483-489
Author(s):  
Kimberly S. Hanger

The genesis for this special issue on "Words and Deeds" was a panel discussion held in conjunction with the January 1997 joint meeting of the Conference on Latin American History and the American Historical Association in New York City. Participants Richard Boyer, Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, Kimberly Hanger, and Jane Landers presented the papers included in this volume. The essays all flowed together so nicely and initiated such a lively exchange among panelists and the audience that the editors of The Americas asked us to prepare them for publication, incorporating some of the commentary offered at the session. What you read in the following pages is a result of that process, although we still think it rather ironic that a journal produced by the Academy of American Franciscan History should want to include articles with so many off-color words and references to sexual conduct and violence!The fact that these essays generated such interest as conference papers and appear in this special issue of The Americas confirms the value cultural historians are placing on the study of insults, conflicts, and other confrontational behavior to reconstruct societal norms and worldviews and assess challenges to them. What constituted an insult or defined anti-social behavior reveals much about what the community considered each person's position in it; resistance to one's assigned role and identity or objection to someone else misconstruing this identity unmasked a sense of injustice that community members, especially its leaders, had to rectify in order to maintain social order.


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