Perspectives on Public History in Colombia

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amada Carolina Pérez Benavides ◽  
Sebastián Vargas Álvarez
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Public History ◽  
Peace Process ◽  
Political Context ◽  
American Perspective ◽  
The Social ◽  
Open Discussion

Abstract This article discusses the main characteristics of public history in Colombia, taking into account the challenges of the current political context. From a Latin American perspective of public practices of history, characterized by collaborative research and dialogue between diverse disciplines and knowledge, we analyze some of the experiences developed in Colombia in recent decades. We particularly study the ways in which public history has fostered an open discussion around the armed conflict, the recent peace process, and the social mobilizations of the last years.

scholarly journals Genealogy of a Mission

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 60-65
Author(s):  
Kirsten Hebert
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Historical Society ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
American Heritage

The Optometric HIstorical Society (OHS) was one of many similar public history organizations created during the third wave of the preservation movement in the United States. This article traces the genealogy of the OHS mission through American heritage resource law and delineates the social and political context that lead to its passage.

scholarly journals Langdon Winner’s Intellectual Trajectory and Political Engagement: A Latin-American Perspective from Ecuador

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-108
Author(s):  
María Belén Albornoz
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Social Studies Of Science ◽  
American Perspective ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Us ◽  
Virtual Conference

In the 2020 Prague Virtual Conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Langdon Winner was awarded the society’s John D. Bernal Prize jointly with Sharon Traweek. The Bernal Prize is awarded annually to individuals who have made distinguished contributions to the field of STS. Prize recipients include founders of the field of STS, along with outstanding scholars who have devoted their careers to the understanding of the social dimensions of science and technology. This response to Winner’s Bernal lecture considers his legacy beyond the US. The author traces Winner’s influence in Ecuador and Latin America more generally through a tracing back of Winner's politea which draws on Plato’s technē as a model for understanding inherently political artifacts.

scholarly journals Killing in the name of …? Types of ethnic groups and armed conflict

2017 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 537-552 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lasse Lykke Rørbæk
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Racial Boundaries ◽  
Ethnic Boundaries ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Content

This paper asks whether certain types of ethnic groups are particularly likely to take part in armed conflict. Several theoretical arguments indicate that this should be the case, often highlighting religious and racial boundaries as being more conflict-prone than, for instance, linguistic boundaries. However, the potential effects of groups being mobilized around these different boundary markers remain largely untested. The paper helps to fill this gap by analyzing conflict propensity across types of ethnic groups in a global sample for the period 1946–2009. At odds with common perceptions, the results show that the probability of armed conflict onset is not affected by whether ethnic groups are mobilized around religious, linguistic, racial, or regional markers. The effect of political discrimination on armed conflict is also not conditioned by these different boundary markers. The paper thus lends support to an inclusive conception of ethnicity and suggests that we need to focus on the social and political context rather than the specific cultural content of ethnic boundaries if we want to identify the conflicts that are most likely to escalate and turn violent.

scholarly journals Giro rural y memorias del conflicto armado en la novela colombiana del siglo XXI

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (15) ◽  
pp. 35-61
Author(s):  
Sebastián Saldarriaga Gutiérrez
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Current Literature ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Conceptual Development ◽  
Latin American Literature ◽  
Social Body ◽  
The Social ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The Relationship

The conceptual development of memory shows the need of constructing stories that confront grief without deactivating its political power. For this, following Rancière and Agamben, it’s necessary to promote dissent by making visible the “parts with no part” of the social body and the fissures of the present, which can be seen in some narratives of the "rural turn", a growing trend in Latin American literature. In the case of Colombia, this displacement, closely linked to the construction of memories of the armed conflict, vindicates stories that have been ignored by the main discourses about violence, such as damage to ecosystems and the dispossession of peasant and ancestral territories. In order to determine the relationship between the memories of the armed conflict and the rural turn, I analyze two novels: Los derrotados, by Pablo Montoya, and Elástico de sombra, by Juan Cárdenas. Starting from the similarities and differences between the two, I will outline at the end some general lines about the rural turn and its importance in current literature.

Action research

2004 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-73
Author(s):  
F. H. Eduardo Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
American Perspective ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject

This is a personal Latin American perspective on action research, as my contribution to the debate promoted by Werner Fricke on the subject. My discussion follows the main issues outlined by Davydd Greenwood in his article (CAT 7(2): 2002), which laid the ground for our exchanges. I argue that it is too early to dismiss all contributions from conventional research to the social sciences, and that action research’s main contribution is to really involve ordinary people in building knowledge, an endeavor that is not easy to achieve. In relation to unfulfilled promises and unmet challenges I discuss such issues by referring to my own practice.

Les études de genre et les mouvements ethnico-raciaux en Colombie

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 93-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mara Viveros Vigoya
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Political Context ◽  
English Abstract ◽  
Current Position ◽  
Mouvements Sociaux ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Movimientos Sociales

*Full forum is in FrenchEnglish abstract:This article presents the dilemmas faced in Colombian feminist and gender studies within the framework of the contemporary socio-political context in Colombia, which is characterized by the recognition of the multicultural nature of Latin American societies. The author first examines the process that Colombian feminism has gone through since the 1970s, developing its paradigms of action and refl ection, which have become increasingly diverse. Second, the author examines the current position of the social movements of autochthonous and Afro-descendant women in the Colombian feminist debates on the dilemmas and new perspectives that globalization has imposed on social movements.Spanish abstract:Este artículo se trata de una exposición de los dilemas que se enfrentan a los estudios femeninos colombianos y los que se centran en el género, en el contexto sociopolítico contemporáneo caracterizado por el reconocimiento de la multiculturalidad de las sociedades latinoamericanas. Para ello, primero examinaré el proceso que ha seguido el feminismo colombiano desde los años setenta, desarrollando sus paradigmas de acción y refl exión, cada vez más diversos. En segundo lugar, examinaré la posición actual de los movimientos sociales de mujeres indígenas y afrodescendientes en los debates feministas colombianos sobre los dilemas y las nuevas perspectivas que la globalización ha impuesto a los movimientos sociales.French abstract:Dans cet article, il s’agira d’exposer les dilemmes auxquels sont confrontées les études féministes colombiennes et celles portant sur le genre dans le contexte socio-politique contemporain caractérisé par la reconnaissance de la multiculturalité des sociétés latino-américaines. Pour ce faire, nous évoquerons d’abord les évolutions que le féminisme colombien a connues depuis les années 1970, en développant ses paradigmes d’action et de réflexion qui sont devenus de plus en plus diversifiés. Nous examinerons ensuite la position actuellement adoptée par les mouvements de femmes autochtones et afrodescendantes dans les débats féministes colombiens à propos des dilemmes et des nouvelles perspectives que la mondialisation a imposés aux mouvements sociaux.

scholarly journals Friendship in Latin American social comparative studies

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnaldo Garcia ◽  
Julia Sursis Nobre Ferro Bucher-Maluschke ◽  
Daniela Marisol Pérez-Angarita ◽  
Fábio Nogueira Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Economic Dimension ◽  
American Perspective ◽  
The Social ◽  
American Society ◽  
Latin American Society

Friendship has been traditionally investigated in the field of interpersonal relationships using different theoretical frameworks and approaches. This paper discusses the possibility of investigating friendship from a comparative Latin American perspective, based on a wide literature review on the subject. Based on the theoretical proposals of Hinde (1997) for the investigation of interpersonal relationships, the paper considers that friendship involves several levels of complexity and affects and is affected by distinct dimensions of Latin American society. The paper recognizes that comparative studies have placed the importance of friends and friendship in areas such as economy, health, education, and migration, among others. As expected, Latin American comparative studies are more frequent in some disciplines, mainly those based on censuses data, and theoretically related to social-economic and demographic concepts, including social networks and social capital. The possibility of developing a Latin American perspective for the study of friendship requires not only the need of empirical but also theoretical advances, as well as scientific cooperation and innovation. Friendship is seen as relevant for the constitution of the social tissue of Latin American society, being affected and affecting different areas and levels. In the social economic dimension, friends are relevant, specifically in Latin America, to themes such as poverty and social vulnerability. Some future possibilities for investigation are discussed.

scholarly journals The Falun Gong in China: A Sociological Perspective

2004 ◽  
Vol 179 ◽  
pp. 665-683 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheris Shun-ching Chan
Keyword(s):  
Political Context ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
Sociological Perspective ◽  
Falun Gong ◽  
Political Condition ◽  
American Perspective ◽  
The Social

This article offers a sociological perspective on the rise of and crackdown on the falun gong in relation to the social, cultural and political context of China. I specify from a sociological perspective that the falun gong is categorically not a sect but a cult-like new religious movement. Its popularity, I suggest, is related to the unresolved secular problems, normative breakdown and ideological vacuum in China in the 1980s and 1990s. Before the crackdown, the falun gong represented a successful new religious movement, from a Euro-American perspective. However, most of its strengths as a movement have become adversarial to its survival in the specific historical and political condition of China.

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