Spinning the Conductors of an Indigenous Tradition

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Valentina Montero ◽  
Sandra De Berduccy
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Media Art ◽  
Technological Paradigms ◽  
Selection Of

Over the last decades, there has been an unusual global interest in vindicating the knowledge and practices of indigenous communities. In Latin America one can see this particularly in numerous demands regarding anti-colonial politics, history, anthropology, and aesthetics. Based on interviews and analyses of a selection of aruma-Sandra De Berduccy's artworks, this paper explores aesthetic, material, and conceptual aspects of her work, focusing on her use of the Andean loom as a highly complex technological and social compound. It further puts her art in dialogue with nature and media archaeological debates, suggesting that her work invites us to explore a different path for media art outside hegemonic scientific and technological paradigms.

Candidate Recruitment and Selection in Latin America: A Framework for Analysis

2008 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 27-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter M. Siavelis ◽  
Scott Morgenstern
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Incentive Structure ◽  
Institutional Variables ◽  
Selection Processes ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
Political Recruitment ◽  
Subsequent Behavior ◽  
Recruitment And Selection ◽  
Selection Of

AbstractThis article provides a theoretical framework for analyzing the recruitment and selection of legislative candidates in Latin America. It argues that political recruitment and candidate selection are undertheorized for Latin America yet have determinative impacts on political systems, often overriding the influence of more commonly studied institutional variables. The article elucidates a typology of legislative candidates based on the legal and party variables that lead to the emergence of particular selection methods, as well as the patterns of loyalty generated by those methods. It analyzes the recruitment and selection processes as independent and dependent variables, underscoring the significant effect these procedures have on the incentive structure and subsequent behavior of legislators. Those factors, in turn, have important consequences for democratic governability and the performance of presidentialism.

Constitutional reform calls mount across Latin America

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Constitutional Reform ◽  
Constitutional Change ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Constitutional Reforms ◽  
The Status

Significance The debate over constitutional reform will be enlivened by the upcoming election of a constituent convention in Chile on the same day as the Peruvian elections. Impacts Constitutional change may become a banner for the left elsewhere in Latin America. Future constitutional reforms may reconsider the status of indigenous communities in the Amazon. Workers’ rights, include labour stability, may be strengthened.

scholarly journals Surveillance Aesthetics in Latin America: Work in progress

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernanda Bruno ◽  
Paola Barreto ◽  
Milena Szafir
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Satellite Images ◽  
Surveillance Culture ◽  
The Usa ◽  
On Line ◽  
And Control ◽  
Selection Of

This on line curatorship presents a selection of 11 works by Latin American artists who incorporate in their creations technologies traditionally linked to surveillance and control processes. By Surveillance Aesthetics we understand a compound of artistic practices, which include the appropriation of dispositifs such as closed circuit video, webcams, satellite images, algorithms and computer vision among others, placing them within new visibility, attention and experience regimes. The term referred to in the title of this exhibition is intended more as a vector of research rather than the determination of a field, as pointed by Arlindo Machado under the term “surveillance culture”. (Machado 1991) In this sense, a Latin America Surveillance Aesthetics exhibition is a way to propose, starting from the works presented here, a myriad of questions. How and to what extent do the destinies of surveillance devices reverberate or are subverted by market, security and media logics in our societies? If, in Europe and in the USA, surveillance is a subject related to the war against terror and border control, what can be said about Latin America? What forces and conflicts are involved? How have artistic practices been creating and acting in relation to these forces and conflicts? Successful panoramas of so called Surveillance Art already take place in Europe and North America for at least three decades, the exhibition “Surveillance”, at the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions being one of the first initiatives in this domain. In Latin America however, art produced in the context of surveillance devices and processes is still seen as an isolated event. Our intention is to assemble a selection of works indicating the existence of a wider base of production, which cannot be considered eventual.The online exhibition can be accessed here.http://www.pec.ufrj.br/surveillanceaestheticslatina/

Electronic Civil Disobedience

2020 ◽  
pp. 205-222
Author(s):  
Ricardo Domínguez
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Civil Disobedience ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Politics Of Fear ◽  
Tactical Media ◽  
Media Work

This chapter discusses the Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT), a group that developed virtual sit-in technologies in solidarity with the Zapatistas communities in Chiapas, Mexico, in 1998. EDT, like many artivist groups, understood that the “politics of fear” set-off by 9/11 would be used by governments to establish almost everything under the signs of cyberwar, cyberterrorism, and cybercrime in order stop the development of Digital Zapatismo, electronic civil disobedience, hacktivism, and tactical media work across the arcs of Latin America and beyond. This essay establishes the conditions that were navigated by EDT and artivists working across digital platforms to establish new network gestures that would connect and amplify new visions of social formations emerging across Latin America, especially from the indigenous communities that were not deterred by the establishment of post-9/11 planetary war.

scholarly journals Apropiación territorial y construcción de identidad colectiva frente al despojo de recursos. el caso del geoparque mundial mixteca alta, Oaxaca, México

2020 ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Efrén Orozco López
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Popular Education ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
The Third ◽  
Mixteca Alta ◽  
Indigenous Lands ◽  
Communal Land

Una discusión reciente en México es la posesión territorial. Este artículo comprende cuatro apartados que discuten tal fenómeno. El primero refiere al despojo como proceso histórico que se da por la disputa de recursos naturales, se ejemplifican dos casos de México y se plantean a los geoparques mundiales como alternativas de apropiación territorial de comunidades originarias. El segundo analiza fundamentos de los geoparques, y su situación en Latinoamérica, especificando al Geoparque Mundial Mixteca Alta (GMA). El tercero aborda la Educación Popular como paradigma de análisis, enfatizando al taller como herramienta de reflexión y acción en temas como la defensa del territorio. finalmente se da cuenta de dos talleres realizados a guías del GMA y los resultados referentes a la apropiación territorial. An actual discussion in Mexico has been the possession of land by the indigenous communities. The article is organized into four sections. The first refers to territorial evictions as a relevant historical process in Latin America due to the dispute over natural resources. In this same section the attention is focused in two cases of the activities developed in two mexican indigenous lands and the importance of the existence of geoparks as an alternative to land possession. The second section analyzes the characteristics of geoparks, their situation in Latin America, particularly in the case of the Mixtec World Geopark (GMA) in Mexico. The third part refers to methodologies that are based on Popular Education. It emphasizes the implementation of workshops as a tool that intends to generate reflection and action on issues such as the defense of the communal land. The final section represents the testimonies of two workshops conducted with GMA guides and their results regarding territorial management and property.

From Basic Rights to Full Access: Elements of Current Accessibility Practice in Developing Countries

2003 ◽  
Vol 1848 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoffel J. Venter ◽  
Thomas E. Rickert ◽  
David A. C. Maunder
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Significant Progress ◽  
Least Developed Countries ◽  
Generalized Framework ◽  
Selection Of

Improving access to transport systems and mobility of people with disabilities is a necessary element of alleviating poverty in developing countries. A selected overview of the progress made toward achieving improved access is provided. It is based on an ongoing 3-year research program on access needs and approaches in a selection of developing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. A generalized framework is suggested for describing the progress made across different countries. Many least developed countries are at the bottom of a continuum of activities in which issues of human rights and access to basic mobility are still paramount. Others, such as countries in Latin America, have made significant progress on access issues in major cities and are faced with challenges of expanding improvements to noncore areas and to less well-regulated modes. The framework is used to suggest some critical priorities for countries at various levels of development.

Selection of the components of a synthetic variety of Andropogon gayanus

1986 ◽  
Vol 106 (3) ◽  
pp. 629-633
Author(s):  
B. Grof
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Personal Communication ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Research Station ◽  
Northern Nigeria ◽  
Andropogon Gayanus ◽  
Bunch Grass ◽  
San Martín ◽  
Selection Of

Andropogon gayanus Kunth var. bisquamulatus Hack, is a polymorphic bunch grass, widely distributed throughout most of the tropical and subtropical savannahs of Africa, south of the Sahara in areas with a long dry season. This grass was introduced into the Colombian Llanos from the Shika Agricultural Research Station, northern Nigeria, in 1974. Subsequent to its introduction, a series of agronomic trials were initiated by Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT) at the Carimagua Research Centre and various national research institutions in Latin America to evaluate the potential of A. gayanus, primarily in the vast Ultisol and Oxisol savannah regions of the continent. As a result of further evaluation at a number of locations, accession A. gayanus var. bisquamulatus CIAT 621 was released in 1980 in Brazil as cv. Flanaltina and in Colombia as cv. Carimagua 1. During 1982–3 Peru, Venezuela and Panama subsequently released the same accession under the cultivar names of San Martin, Sabanero and Veranero, respectively. It is estimated that 168000 ha have been sown with A. gayanus in Brazil since 1982 (J. E. Ferguson, C. Sere and R. de Andrade, personal communication). Smaller areas have been established in other countries.

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