Digital Resources: Housing and Urban Development in Latin American History

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Yee
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Digital Resources ◽  
Latin American History ◽  
The Public ◽  
Rich History

Beginning in the 1880s, the modern foundations for architecture as a profession and academic discipline were established in Latin America’s major cities. Soon thereafter, urban planning (urbanismo) began to emerge as a distinct discipline in a period of scientific and technological innovation. This rich history has been compiled, digitized, and made available to the public by two key institutions: the Facultad de Arquitectura of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (FA-UNAM) in Mexico and the Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo of the Universidad de Buenos Aires in Argentina (FADU). Collectively, these two digital projects contain a wealth of information for scholars to research the cultural and intellectual histories of cities in both Argentina and Mexico. The primary resources available on both platforms provide valuable insights into how Latin America’s leading architects and planners analyzed, debated, and envisioned urban life in the 20th century.

Introduction to Anthropology and The Public Good: Environment, Health Care and Diversity

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 2-3
Author(s):  
Jayne Howell ◽  
Ronald Loewe
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Virginia Tech ◽  
State University ◽  
Latin American History ◽  
The Public ◽  
Western Washington ◽  
Good Environment ◽  
Washington University

In this, the penultimate issue of the Howell/Loewe editorship, we pause to welcome Professor Anita Puckett of Virginia Tech as the incoming editor of Practicing Anthropology. Dr. Puckett will assist us in the production of our final issue and will assume the helm of Practicing Anthropology for the Spring 2012 issue. Our next and final issue will be a themed issue focusing on Mayas living in the Diaspora. It will be guest edited by James Loucky, a professor of anthropology at Western Washington University at Bellingham, and Alan LeBaron, a professor of Latin American History at Kennesaw State University.

Digital Resources: The H-LatAm Listserv

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Schwaller
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Latin American Studies ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Digital Resources ◽  
Latin American History ◽  
Research Collaborations ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

H-LatAm, short for History-Latin America, is an electronic list that has served the scholarly community since the late 20th century as a forum in which important issues facing Latin American history can be debated. It has served as a means of spreading information about publications, a channel for soliciting research and research collaborations, and an instrument that links historians of Latin America who are spread throughout the world. A review of this resource allows for a look at the history of Latin American studies on the Internet—useful for understanding and researching early threads—and some of the specific contributions of H-LatAm to the profession.

scholarly journals Valoración de la Calidad Visual del Paisaje Urbano de Interés Patrimonial = Valuation of the visual quality of the urban landscape of patrimonial interest

2020 ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Josué Eliseo Llanque Chana
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Visual Quality ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
Psychological Attributes ◽  
American Heritage ◽  
The City

ResumenLos centros históricos latinoamericanos, unas de las creaciones más interesantes de nuestra cultura, se enfrentan a profundas mutaciones físicas, sociales, funcionales, medioambientales y sobre todo paisajísticas. El paisaje del espacio público como lugar descubierto, generalmente rodeado de edificios, decorado por estatuas, fuentes, áreas de estancia, vegetación, etc., y destinado al embellecimiento de una ciudad, ha sido concebido para que los ciudadanos se reúnan a percibir la ciudad y a observar el espectáculo arquitectónico de sus principales edificios monumentales. El objetivo de la presente investigación es proponer una nueva metodología para la valoración de la calidad visual del paisaje urbano en áreas de interés patrimonial, considerada desde la visión, que se complementa con otros atributos físico-ambientales, visual-estéticos y socio-psicológicos. Adicionalmente, la calidad visual constituye un componente de la calidad ambiental y de la vida urbana que fomenta el sentido de pertenencia de las personas con su medio natural y construido. Su aplicación a los espacios patrimoniales latinoamericanos lo convierten en una nueva herramienta metodológica para su adaptación.AbstractThe historical centers of Latin America, some of the most interesting creations of our culture, face profound physical, social, functional, environmental and especially landscape changes. The landscape of the public space as a discovered place, generally surrounded by buildings, decorated by statues, fountains, living areas, vegetation, etc., and intended to beautify a city, has been conceived so that citizens come together to perceive the city and to observe the architectural spectacle of its main monumental buildings. The objective of this research is to propose a new methodology for the assessment of the visual quality of the urban landscape in areas of heritage interest, considered from the perspective, which is complemented with other physical-environmental, visual-aesthetic and socio-psychological attributes. Additionally, visual quality constitutes a component of environmental quality and urban life that fosters people's sense of belonging to their natural and built environment. Its application to Latin American heritage spaces make it a new methodological tool for its adaptation.

Digital Resources: The Essex Collection of Art from Latin America

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne Harwood ◽  
Valerie Fraser ◽  
Sarah J. Demelo
Keyword(s):  
Full Article ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
American Art ◽  
Latin American Art ◽  
Forthcoming Article ◽  
Digital Resources ◽  
Latin American History ◽  
The University ◽  
Year 2000

This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. Please check back later for the full article. The Essex Collection of Art from Latin America (ESCALA) was originally founded as the University of Essex Collection of Latin American Art (UECLAA) in 1993, but, with no permanent display space, a versatile online presence has been essential to its success as a resource for students, curators, and researchers. By about the year 2000 it comprised around 400 works from about 10 different countries. While it is important to remember that viewing a work of art onscreen is no substitute for viewing it firsthand, the digital catalogue is an essential aspect of ESCALA’s activities. It can offer resources that a paper catalogue cannot (it can provide a record of an artist’s performance, for example), it serves as a versatile resource for teaching and research, and it generates interest in the field among those who happen upon it through random searches.

scholarly journals The unequal lag in Latin American schooling since 1900: follow the money

2010 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 375-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter H. Lindert
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
High Income ◽  
Market Demand ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Public Money ◽  
Rich History

AbstractFocusing on education–income anomalies, in which a richer country delivers less education than a poorer country, seems a promising way to harvest a part of the rich history that does not lend itself to econometrics. To test the chain of alleged causation from unequal power and wealth to poor schooling, one must follow the public money, or lack of it, in as many contexts as the data will allow. Public funding for mass schooling is the hitherto untested middle link in the chain. The key to Latin America’s poor schooling was the failure to supply tax money, not gender discrimination or any shortfall in market demand for skills. The most glaring anomalies were the Venezuelan and Argentine failures to supply the levels of tax support for mass schooling that their high income could have afforded.

Buddy, Can you Spare a Paradigm?: Reflections on Generational Shifts and Latin American History

2001 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 453-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Weinstein
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
American History ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Young Girl ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Latin American History ◽  
Airline Passengers

“So, just how did you get interested in Latin America anyway?” Latin Americanists who don't have a recognizably Spanish or Portuguese surname are routinely asked this question by acquaintances, distant relatives, recently hired colleagues, and even by that most dreaded of airline passengers, the garrulous fool in the next seat. I don't have a convenient response—I can't claim to be the daughter of missionaries (my last name is a dead giveaway on that account), nor of diplomats or corporative executives posted to São Paulo when I was a young girl. I did have two great aunts from Minsk who took a boat to “America” and ended up in Buenos Aires, but that's a rather slim biographical reed on which to rest my decision to become a Latin Americanist.

scholarly journals Materiales educativos digitales para periodistas sobre gestión de riesgo de desastres: avances y limitaciones = Digital Educational Materials for journalist on disaster risk management. Advances and limitations

2019 ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Edna Margarita Manotas Salcedo ◽  
Marta Milena Barrios ◽  
Jesus Arroyave ◽  
Lina Vega ◽  
Josslyn García
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Disaster Risk Management ◽  
Educational Materials ◽  
Digital Resources ◽  
The Public ◽  
International Agencies ◽  
Prospective Risk

Resumen: A partir de un análisis de contenido realizado a 28 materiales educativos digitales para formar periodis­tas de Latinoamérica sobre el cubrimiento de la Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres entre 2012 y 2018, el presente artículo pretende establecer si el enfoque de dichos recursos pedagógicos es coherente con los lineamientos de las agencias internacionales para la formación de los reporteros, en el sentido de propiciar una cobertura adecuada del tema. De manera que corresponda al cambio de paradigma de la atención de desastres a la gestión del riesgo, en el cual se busca propiciar el conocimiento de los riesgos, la reducción y el manejo de los desastres. Los resultados del análisis identificaron avances y limitaciones en la construcción de los manuales, tanto en lo que tiene que ver con su pertinencia pedagógica como en la inclusión de temas centrales para la GRD. A partir de los hallazgos se ofrecen reflexiones para que se fortalezcan la formación de los periodistas en la GRD, con el fin de que favorezca una gestión prospec­tiva del riesgo y fortalezca el desarrollo social.Palabras clave: Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres; Recursos educativos digitales; Periodistas; Formación.Abstract: This article carried out a content analysis on 28 digital educational materials published between 2012 and 2018, to train Latin American journalists in Disaster Risk Management (DRM). The aim of the study was to establish whether the focus of these pedagogical resources was consistent with the guidelines of the international agencies for the education of the reporters. This, by generating a change in the way they are covering this issue. The main goal of this courses should be that the public journalistic discourse changes their traditional centrality on disasters and their attention to emergencies, as well as to start communica­ting prevention. The results of the analysis identified progress and limitations in the construction of the resources, both in what concerns their pedagogical relevance and in the inclusion of central themes for DRM. Based on the findings, reflections are offered on how these resources could be improved to fulfill their objective of contributing to a collective mobilization that favors prospective risk management and strengthens social development.Keywords: Disaster Risk Management; Educational Digital Resources; Journalists; Training.

Municipal Politics and Government in Buenos Aires, 1918-1930

1974 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard J. Walter
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Municipal Government ◽  
Municipal Politics ◽  
Latin American History ◽  
Politics And Government ◽  
Slum Dwellers ◽  
Large Sector ◽  
National Life ◽  
First Time

Urban growth has been one of the most striking characteristics of twentieth-century Latin American history and the focus of considerable scholarly interest (Morse, 1971, 1965). For the most part the main academic concentration has been on the social and economic aspects of this phenomenon. Political considerations have been confined to speculations on the potential radicalism of slum dwellers or the spontaneous self-governing institutions of new communities. Little attention has been paid to the role of municipal politics and government in national life.With these considerations in mind, the purpose of this paper is to trace the development of politics and the governmental process in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina between 1918 and 1930. This discussion will focus on a period when electoral reform opened up city politics for the first time to a large sector of the electorate and allowed, also for the first time, participation in municipal government of parties representing new social and economic groups.

Pablo Neruda's Transnational Modernist Networks: Colombo-Madrid-London-Buenos Aires (1927–1933)

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-225
Author(s):  
Patricia Novillo-Corvalán
Keyword(s):  
Chamber Music ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Complex Composition ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
The One ◽  
Composition Process ◽  
In Transit ◽  
Standing Question

This article positions Pablo Neruda's poetry collection Residence on Earth I (written between 1925–1931 and published in 1933) as a ‘text in transit’ that allows us to trace the development of transnational modernist networks through the text's protracted physical journey from British colonial Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) to Madrid, and from José Ortega y Gasset's Revista de Occidente (The Western Review) to T. S. Eliot's The Criterion. By mapping the text's diasporic movement, I seek to reinterpret its complex composition process as part of an anti-imperialist commitment that proposes a form of aesthetic solidarity with artistic modernism in Ceylon, on the one hand, and as a vehicle through which to interrogate the reception and categorisation of Latin American writers and their cultural institutions in a British periodical such as The Criterion, on the other. I conclude with an examination of Neruda's idiosyncratic Spanish translation of Joyce's Chamber Music, which was published in the Buenos Aires little magazine Poesía in 1933, positing that this translation exercise takes to further lengths his decolonising views by giving new momentum to the long-standing question of Hiberno-Latin American relations.

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