Loose Space: Possibility and Diversity in Urban Life; Rethinking the Informal City: Critical Perspectives from Latin America; and Urbanismo na América do Sul: Circulaçao de Ideas e Constituiçao do Campo, 1920–1960

2010 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-151
Author(s):  
Patricio Del Real
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Critical Perspectives

Rethinking the Paradigm

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emile G. McAnany
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Government Project ◽  
Communication For Development ◽  
Dominant Paradigm ◽  
Dependency Approach ◽  
Critical Perspectives

This chapter focuses on the rise of the critical or dependency paradigm in Latin America and the success of its theories but somewhat limited applications over a period from the early 1970s through the mid-1980s. It first examines the context of the paradigm shift that paved the way for a new theory in the discourse of communication and social change, and how that may have affected practice. It then considers how the dependency approach to communication for development (c4d) first came into favor in Latin America. It also discusses the dependency paradigm in theory and practice and Everett Rogers's critique of the old or dominant paradigm, which he articulated in the book Communication and Development: Critical Perspectives (1976a). The chapter concludes by demonstrating how practice and critical theory came together in a government project in Tanzania's ujamaa villages.

scholarly journals Procesos y materialidad en el estudio del lenguaje en sociedad

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (267-268) ◽  
pp. 277-282
Author(s):  
Virginia Zavala
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Meaning Production ◽  
Material Conditions ◽  
Critical Perspectives

Abstract In this brief essay, and making use of my own research in Peru, I raise two issues that I have been reflecting on throughout my career and that I believe constitute challenges in addressing language in society. The first refers to the importance of studying the processes of meaning production from an ethnographic perspective, and the second, to the centrality of articulating the production of these meanings with the material conditions of existence that make them possible or difficult. These two points are committed to combining ethnographic sociolinguistics and glotopolitics, as critical perspectives that are enhancing sociolinguistics in Latin America.

scholarly journals Montevideo Crisscrossed. Two Novels by Mario Benedetti: The Truce and Thanks for the Fire

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 28-46
Author(s):  
Pedro Serrano
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Writing Strategies ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Military Regimes ◽  
The Military ◽  
Aesthetic Values ◽  
Critical Perspectives

This essay is a rereading of two novels by Mario Benedetti published first in Montevideo in the 1960’s and subsequently in Mexico around the 1970’s, receiving changing receptions over the years. Both have Montevideo as their setting, but the topographical perspectives and writing strategies are different. It traces the networks of writers, publishers and readers in Latin America developed during the 20th century and their obliteration by the military regimes in the 1970’s. Reviewing the fluctuating moods in Benedetti’s later reception, this essay compares opposite sets of aesthetic values developed during the second half of the last century, which are taken for granted even today, studying their initial hypotheses and showing how literary works are distorted by prejudiced sets of critical perspectives that pigeonhole works and authors in boxes established in advance.

scholarly journals 6 Feet Apart: Spaces and Cultures of Quarantine

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 216-220
Author(s):  
Rob Shields ◽  
Michael Schillmeier ◽  
Justine Lloyd ◽  
Joost Van Loon
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Public Places ◽  
The Public ◽  
Blind Review ◽  
Global Spread ◽  
Before And After

Introduction to Spaces and Cultures of Quarantine. This special issue assembles a set of short interventions selected by internal blind review from submissions in response to a call for papers. The contributors document the first phase of the pandemic from February to May 2020, reflect on and respond to the first few months of the global spread of COVID-19, its arrival in communities and its personal impacts and effects on the public realm, from travel to retail to work and civil society. They encompass many continents, from Latin America to Asia. Staying six feet apart provides a rubric for the spatial experience and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on urban life, our understanding of public interaction, crowd practice, and everyday life at home under self-isolation and lockdown. Time changed to a before and after of COVID-19. The temporality of pandemics is noted in its present and historical popular forms such as nursery rhymes (Ring around the Rosie). Place ballets of avoidance, passing by, long days under lockdown and hurried forays into public places and shops create a new social performativity and cultural topology of care at a distance.

scholarly journals Urban violence and public health in Latin America: a sociological explanatory framework

2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 1629-1648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Briceño-León
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Interpersonal Violence ◽  
Drug Market ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Urban Violence ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
American Cities ◽  
Social Level

Interpersonal violence has become one of the main public health issues in Latin American cities. This article presents a framework for sociological interpretation that operates on three levels, expressed in the factors that originate, foment, or facilitate violence. Macro-social factors include: social inequality due to the increase in wealth versus poverty; the paradox of more schooling with fewer employment opportunities; increasing expectations and the impossibility of meeting them; changes in family structure; and loss of importance of religion in daily life. At the meso-social level the analysis highlights: increased density in poor areas and urban segregation; masculinity cult; and changes in the local drug market. The micro-social level includes: an increase in the number of firearms; alcohol consumption; and difficulties in verbal expression of feelings. The article concludes with an analysis of how violence is leading to the breakdown not only of urban life but also of citizenship as a whole in Latin America.

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