European and Latin American social scientists as refugees, émigrés and return migrants

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Christopher T. Husbands
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Return Migrants

Denaturalizing the Monroe Doctrine: The rise of Latin American legal anti-imperialism in the face of the modern US and hemispheric redefinition of the Monroe Doctrine

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 541-555
Author(s):  
Juan Pablo Scarfi
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Elastic Behaviour ◽  
Legal Tradition ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Monroe Doctrine ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
Pan Americanism

AbstractThe Monroe Doctrine was originally formulated as a US foreign policy principle, but in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries it began to be redefined in relation to both the hemispheric policy of Pan-Americanism and the interventionist policies of the US in Central America and the Caribbean. Although historians and social scientists have devoted a great deal of attention to Latin American anti-imperialist ideologies, there was a distinct legal tradition within the broader Latin American anti-imperialist traditions especially concerned with the nature and application of the Monroe Doctrine, which has been overlooked by international law scholars and the scholarship focusing on Latin America. In recent years, a new revisionist body of research has emerged exploring the complicity between the history of modern international law and imperialism, as well as Third World perspectives on international law, but this scholarship has begun only recently to explore legal anti-imperialist contributions and their legacy. The purpose of this article is to trace the rise of this Latin American anti-imperialist legal tradition, assessing its legal critique of the Monroe Doctrine and its implications for current debates about US exceptionalism and elastic behaviour in international law and organizations, especially since 2001.

scholarly journals Empowered objects, powerless subjects: citizenship, religion, and political representation in twentieth-century Cuba

2008 ◽  
Vol 80 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 245-252
Author(s):  
Olivia Maria Gomes da Cunha
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
North Carolina ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Chapel Hill

[First paragraph]Measures of Equality: Social Science, Citizenship, and Race in Cuba, 1902-1940. Alejandra Marina Bronfman. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xi + 234 pp. (Paper US$ 19.95)Afro-Cuban Religiosity, Revolution, and National Identity. Christine Ayorinde. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. ix + 283 pp. (Cloth US$ 59.95)In the last ten years, research topics such as race and nation have been privileged areas for the historical and anthropological understanding of Caribbean and Latin American societies. Regarding Cuba in particular, social scientists have dedicated important scholarship to these issues by mapping conceptions of citizenship and political representation, while situating them within a broader debate on the making of the new postcolonial and republican society at the beginning of the twentieth century. By pursuing different aims and following distinct approaches, Alejandra Bronfman and Christine Ayorinde have made contributions to this academic literature. Through divergent theoretical and methodological perspectives, both of their books explore alternative ways of interpreting the making of the nation founded upon a multiple and fluid rhetoric of race.

Recent Work on Latin American Women: A Review Essay

1975 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 497-516
Author(s):  
Susan A. Soeiro
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Dominant Male ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
American Women ◽  
Male Group ◽  
As If

The recent literature on women in Latin America as yet forms a minute part of a necessary revision aimed at achieving a balanced and multidimensional view of the Ibero-American reality, past and present. Men, as the traditional transmitters of culture in society, have conveyed what they knew, understood, and judged to be important. Since women's activities differed considerably from those of men, they were regarded as insignificant and unworthy of mention. Scholars have further perpetuated the patriarchal and sexist assumptions of their own societies or those they have studied. As a fesult, more than four and a half centuries of history and all of the important ongoing processes of modernization, urbanization, professionalization, and even propagation seem to have occurred without the participation or even the presence of women. It was simply assumed that what was said of men held equally true for women. Hence the conception of reality perpetrated by social scientists and historians was that perceived by a dominant male group, who represented a partial construct as if it were a more complex whole.

scholarly journals La práctica religiosa y los procesos migratorios: el caso del mormonismo en España.

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rocío De Diego Cordero ◽  
Juan Carlos Suárez Villegas
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church ◽  
Determining Factor

Introducción: La relación entre los flujos migratorios y las religiones es algo muy observado; haciendo un recorrido por la historia de la Iglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Últimos Días en España (SUD) se evidenciará esta relación en el grupo español.Método: Revisión de la literatura de los científicos sociales de la religión que han tratado la relación entre los flujos migratorios y los movimientos religiosos en los últimos años (2005-2016). También se han analizado los datos aportados por el movimiento de los Santos de los Últimos Días en España así como datos del Observatorio de Pluralismo religioso en España.Resultados: Se evidencia cómo la inmigración ha sido un factor determinante para la Iglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de lo Últimos Días, tanto en sus inicios a nivel mundial así también como determinante en el caso de la permanencia y crecimiento en la sociedad española.Conclusión: El fenómeno migratorio actúa como “salvador” del movimiento de los Santos en España ya que sólo una quinta parte de los bautizados en España son españoles y del idioma es un factor determinante en la procedencia de los miembros extranjeros, ocupando su mayoría la procedencia latinoamericana. Introduction: The relationship between migration and religions is very observed; making a tour of the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) in Spain this relationship will be evident in the Spanish group.Method: Review of the literature of social scientists of religion that have addressed the relationship between migration and religious movements in the last years (2005-2016). We have analyzed the data provided by the Latter Day Saint movement in Spain and data from the Observatorio de Pluralismo religioso in Spain. Results: There is evidence of how immigration has been a determining factor for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints him, both in their early world as well as determining level in the case of permanence and growth factor in Spanish society.Conclusion: The migration acts as a "savior" of the movement of the saints in Spain since only one fifth of the baptized in Spain are Spanish and the language is a determining factor in the origin of foreign members, occupying most of Latin American origin.

Unity and Diversity in Latin American History

1984 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Roxborough
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Explanatory Models ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Latin American History ◽  
Early Statement ◽  
Latin American Development

This article has its origins in a generalized feeling of dissatisfaction with current theories about political development trends in Latin America. It is an early statement of a series of arguments which will subsequently be developed in a forthcoming book.The veritable explosion of empirically grounded monographs in the last fifteen or twenty years has made the task of producing a synthetic account of Latin American development simultaneously more pressing and more difficult: more difficult because it has made simple explanatory models harder to sustain, and has opened up the accepted historiography to serious and widespread revisionist attack; more pressing because many, if not most, social scientists accept the need to develop a theory of social change which is historically grounded, capable of explaining large-scale social transformations. My concern in this article is with the methodological issues involved in the formulation of an adequate theory of Latin American development, rather than with establishing new facts. There is considerable historiographical controversy over many of the events discussed in this article, and in these cases I have made my own judgement about where, on balance, the evidence points.

The Indian and Mestizaje in Peru

1961 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Fried
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Indian Populations ◽  
Culture Transformation ◽  
Latin American Countries ◽  
Western Democracies

Political scientists in the Western democracies have long been alert to the semantic and general ideological significance of such terms as "the proletariat," "the Party," or "people's democracy." It is a common enough critical exercise to show how Marxist theory and Communist-bloc socioeconomic realities show interesting disparities. Similarly, social scientists interested in the process of class and culture transformation going on in Latin American countries with heavy Indian populations must concern themselves with the existence of powerful, emotionally charged image-compartments of the Indian and the Mestizo. Joined to these two symbolic terms (as contrasting nouns) is the verb mestizar, to mix. Mestizaje, or mixing, is a term very commonly used to denote the acculturation and final absorption of the Indian populations into the mainstream of Peruvian life.

Welcoming Remarks

2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 385-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Calhoun
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Latin American Studies ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Social

Charles Tilly was born in 1929, a year worryingly echoed in contemporary events. For all of his adult life, he studied the causes, patterns, cycles, changes, and continuities of such events. He focused most on social movements that responded to them and sometimes shaped them and on the states that often drove them and sometimes managed them. He studied the ways that states and others sought to coerce ordinary people and the ways that ordinary people mobilized to try to control their own lives and public affairs. He studied how capital and inequality figured in both the coercion and the struggles. And he studied how we study history, social structure, social action, and social change.Tilly was among the most distinguished of contemporary social scientists. The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is proud, accordingly, to award him its highest honor, the Albert O. Hirschman Prize. The prize isnamed after another of the greatest figures of our era. Hirschman is one of the formative influences on the economics of development, a key researcher in Latin American studies, and a remarkable intellectual historian and social theorist

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