From Latin America

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-69
Author(s):  
Consuelo Chapela
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
American Universities ◽  
American Perspective ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Latin American Universities ◽  
The Right

I present a Latin American perspective of the rise of the right in the world, how this affects the qualitative academy and Latin American universities, and the resistance possibility of hope. To further resistance, I propose we need to put together the efforts of researchers who are adherent to different methodologies, with the unifying condition that each has critical intentions and has the aim of creating communities conformed as immunitary democracies where we find ways to place our listening, knowledge, and instruments in the hands of the people.

scholarly journals Latin American Universities: Stuck in the Twentieth Century

2017 ◽  
pp. 26-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelo Knobel ◽  
Andrés Bernasconi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
American Universities ◽  
Economic Progress ◽  
Flagship Universities ◽  
Latin American Universities

The higher education sector in Latin America has fallen short of its promise of spearheading cultural, social, and economic progress for the region. As higher education changes to meet the challenges on the new century, the few flagship universities of Latin America are called upon to lead. However, these universities face both internal and external obstacles that hinder their full modernization, threatening their leadership.

World visions in dispute in contemporary Latin America: development x harmonic life

Organization ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Ceci Misoczky
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Multiple Scales ◽  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Colonial Studies ◽  
American Perspective ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
The World

The aim of this article paper is to offer a Latin-American perspective on the field of post-colonial studies. Following the modernity/coloniality/de-coloniality approach it is possible to recognize how the complicity between modernity and rationality has worked to homogenize knowledge throughout this part of the world. Such an approach makes it possible to reflect on how this process towards homogeneity has been resisted, as seen in the current indigenous struggles against extractive development policies. These struggles show that the various critiques of development need to be articulated and renewed in order to account for processes such as these, incorporating multiple scales perspectives and knowledge produced from the epistemic colonial difference. The critique of managerialism also needs further developments to account for the new roles of management in contexts of open conflict. It is defended that the re-consideration of Marxist Theory of Dependency could enrich the way we understand global capitalism and that at least part of OS could be liberated from the hegemony of management, opening possibilities for multiple interdisciplinary and intercultural dialogues.

scholarly journals The Modern Way to Menstruate in Latin America: Consolidation and Fractures in the Twenty-First Century

2020 ◽  
pp. 813-831
Author(s):  
Eugenia Tarzibachi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Educational Materials ◽  
American Perspective ◽  
The World ◽  
Mainstream Culture

Abstract The introduction of commercialized disposable pads and tampons during the twentieth century changed the experience of the menstrual body in many (but not all) countries of the world. From a Latin-American perspective, this new way to menstruate was also understood to be a sign of modernization. In this chapter, Tarzibachi describes and analyzes how the dissemination and proliferation of disposable pads and tampons have unfolded first in the United States and later in Latin America, with a particular focus on Argentina. She pays particular attention to how the Femcare industry shaped the meanings of the menstrual body through discourses circulated in advertisements and educational materials. Tarzibachi explores how the contemporary meanings of menstruation are contested globally, as the traditional Femcare industry shifts its rhetoric in response to challenges from new menstrual management technologies, new forms of menstrual activism, and the increasing visibility of menstruation in mainstream culture.

scholarly journals Ubiquitous Educational Use of Mobile Digital Devices. A General and Comparative Study in Spanish and Latin America Higher Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esteban Vázquez Cano ◽  
M.ª Luisa Sevillano-García
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Nonparametric Tests ◽  
American Universities ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
American Students ◽  
Latin American Universities ◽  
Latin American Students

This study conducted a general and comparative analysis of how university students use mobile digital devices for educational purposes in various places and spaces both inside and outside university facilities in Spain and Latin America. It analyses a total sample of 886 students (442 Spanish and 444 Latin American) corresponding to five Spanish and five Latin American universities. The research methodology was based on factorial analysis and comparison between groups with parametric and nonparametric tests. The results show that educational use of mobile digital devices in the Hispanic world concentrates on the use of smartphones and tablets inside university facilities; primarily in college cafeterias, corridors, classrooms and libraries. Spanish and Latin American students used tablets in and out of University facilities for storing and retrieving information, and smartphones for sharing educational information and content. 

Populism, Universalism, and Democracy in Latin America

2019 ◽  
pp. 503-524
Author(s):  
George Ciccariello-Maher
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Universal Logic ◽  
Ernesto Laclau ◽  
Political Dynamics ◽  
American Perspective ◽  
The People ◽  
Enrique Dussel

This chapter approaches populism by first outlining the impasses surrounding the concept in political science debates and then turning attention to two Latin American theorists of populism and the people: Ernesto Laclau and Enrique Dussel. While both approach populism from a Latin American perspective, Laclau refuses to be contained by this context and instead formulates a universal logic of populism as no less than the logic of politics itself. Dussel, by contrast, resists this leap to the universal by grounding the people in Latin America and filling it with specifically Latin American content, only maintaining the universal as a distant horizon under permanent construction. With this disagreement in hand—which has powerful implications for the question of democracy itself—the piece then turns to Venezuela as an example of both the potential and the tensions of populist mobilization. While Chavismo is often treated as the epitome of Laclau’s populism, the chapter argues that both political dynamics and theorizations of the people by Venezuelan intellectuals exceed and contradict Laclau in key ways, bearing closer affinity to Dussel’s work and pointing toward the radically expansive democratic potential of the people.

Latin American satellite campuses grow despite risks

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Study Abroad ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Content Type ◽  
American Universities ◽  
Satellite Campus ◽  
Internationalisation Of Higher Education ◽  
Global Trend ◽  
Latin American Universities

Subject The internationalisation of higher education in Latin America. Significance Several US universities are in the process of opening, or have announced plans for, campuses in Latin America. This is part of a broader global trend in higher education. However, the process of opening a satellite campus is fraught with risks and there are a number of other ways for universities to advance an international agenda. Impacts Staffing satellite campuses will be a key challenge for US universities. Academically strong students will opt for top Latin American universities rather than looking further afield. Latin American universities will offer study abroad opportunities, potentially as part of dual award arrangements.

The Prophetic Text and the Literature of Dissent in Latin America: Amos, Garcia Marquez, and Cabrera Infante Dismantle Militarism

1996 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-100
Author(s):  
M. Daniel CARROLL R
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Gabriel Garcia Marquez ◽  
Guillermo Cabrera Infante ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
People Of God ◽  
Latin American History ◽  
Protest Literature ◽  
The People ◽  
The World

AbstractThis article attempts a reading of the final form of Amos within the framework of the literary tradition of the novels of dissent in Latin America. Works by the Colombian Gabriel Garcia Márquez and the Cuban Guillermo Cabrera Infante are presented in order to demonstrate how literary strategies can take apart the pretense and cruelty of the militarism so endemic to Latin American history and society. The reading of Amos shows how pervasive militarism is in the world of the prophetic text and highlights how that text ridicules and condemns it through literary technique. Amos, therefore, echoes many of the concerns of Latin American texts. As the scripture of the Christian church, however, Amos not only can be read alongside of other protest literature but can also make a particular contribution to help the people of God on that continent confront the harsh realities of life.

scholarly journals U-Multirank and Latin American Universities

2016 ◽  
pp. 7-9
Author(s):  
Ana García De Fanelli
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
American Universities ◽  
International Ranking ◽  
Latin American Universities ◽  
Near Future

The first U-Multirank launched in 2014, a multi-dimensional and user-driven approach to international ranking in higher education, included only a few Latin American universities. I address whether more Latin American universities will be able to participate in this interesting initiative in the near future. I first describe similar projects in Latin America and then discuss whether some of the data the U-Multirank requests in the institutional questionnaires can feasibly be collected from LA universities. 

scholarly journals La gran dama: Science Patronage, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Mexican Social Sciences in the 1940s

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 829-854 ◽  
Author(s):  
Álvaro Morcillo Laiz
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Rockefeller Foundation ◽  
The State ◽  
Cultural Hegemony ◽  
American Universities ◽  
Plausible Hypothesis ◽  
Latin American Universities

AbstractIf Latin America's public universities are considered part of the state, then it seems plausible to characterise them as similar to the state, i.e. as clientelistic. However, this plausible hypothesis has never been examined by the literature on twentieth-century Mexican social sciences. Just like clientelism, science patrons such as US philanthropic foundations have similarly been neglected. In this article I argue that, as an alternative to what the Rockefeller Foundation perceived as clientelism and amateurism at Latin American universities, it claimed to patronise liberal scholarship, practised according to formal rational criteria. While foundations have been frequently considered part of a US imperialistic drive towards cultural hegemony in Latin America, they were not unitary actors and frequently failed to predict the actual impact of their grants. In Mexico in the 1940s, the Rockefeller Foundation boosted the humanities, but missed the opportunity to support a local take on social science teaching and research.

scholarly journals The COPHELA (Cooperation in Quality Assurance for Pharmacy Education and Training between Europe and Latin America) Project

Pharmacy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Antonio Sánchez-Pozo ◽  
Afonso Cavaco ◽  
Paolo Blasi ◽  
Mariana Reynoso ◽  
Carlos Quirino-Barreda ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Pharmacy Education ◽  
The European Union ◽  
American Universities ◽  
Master Degree ◽  
Latin American Universities ◽  
And Training

COPHELA (Cooperation in Quality Assurance for Pharmacy Education and Training between Europe and Latin America), a collaborative project between the European Union (EU) and Latin America, will produce on-line courses for the master degree in pharmacy. The program runs from 2019 through 2021. It is funded by the Erasmus+ program of the Education, Audio-visual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) of the European Commission. The partners are EU and Latin American universities. These are accompanied by associated partners from EU and Latin American universities, as well as from governmental and non-governmental organizations, such as pharmacy chambers and educational associations. The project is coordinated by the University of Granada, Spain (first author of this paper). It will produce distance learning master degree courses in a dozen fields of specialized pharmaceutical science education and practice, ranging from patient care to industrial pharmacy. This paper describes the design of the project and is intended to evoke constructive comments. It also represents a call for the recruitment of additional associated partners.

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