GORICA MAJSTOROVIC. Global South Modernities: Modernist Literature and the Avant-Garde in Latin America. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2021. 154 pp.

2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 544-546
Author(s):  
Juan G. Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Global South ◽  
Modernist Literature ◽  
Avant Garde

Reseña de Global South Modernities: Modernist Literature and the Avant-Garde in Latin America de Gorica Majstorovic.

Geographies of transport III

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 463-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Schwanen
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Classification Scheme ◽  
Global South ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Heuristic Classification

This third report in the series reviews recent research on the geographies of transport in Africa, Asia and Latin America to reflect on the spatialities of knowledge production and the question as to whether a post/decolonial turn is occurring in geographical scholarship on transport. A simple and heuristic classification scheme is developed and deployed to demonstrate that predominantly western worldviews, theories, concepts, methods and research practices continue to prevail in geographical scholarship on transport in the Global South. It is also shown that this hegemony is being reworked and resisted in various ways, and the report concludes with suggestions about how geographical scholarship on transport can be worlded and ultimately decolonized further.

Generative pedagogies from and for the social production of habitat: Learning from HIC-AL School of grassroots urbanism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Wesely ◽  
Adriana Allen ◽  
Lorena Zárate ◽  
María Silvia Emanuelli
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Popular Education ◽  
Global South ◽  
Generative Learning ◽  
Social Production ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Depth Interviews

Re-thinking dominant epistemological assumptions of the urban in the global South implies recognising the role of grassroots networks in challenging epistemic injustices through the co-production of multiple saberes and haceres for more just and inclusive cities. This paper examines the pedagogies of such networks by focusing on the experiences nurtured within Habitat International Coalition in Latin America (HIC-AL), identified as a ‘School of Grassroots Urbanism’ (Escuela de Urbanismo Popular). Although HIC-AL follows foremost activist rather than educational objectives, members of HIC-AL identify and value their practices as a ‘School’, whose diverse pedagogic logics and epistemological arguments are examined in this paper. The analysis builds upon a series of in-depth interviews, document reviews and participant observation with HIC-AL member organisations and allied grassroots networks. The discussion explores how the values and principles emanating from a long history of popular education and popular urbanism in the region are articulated through situated pedagogies of resistance and transformation, which in turn enable generative learning from and for the social production of habitat.

Paz, Juan Carlos (1897–1972)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Violeta Nigro-Giunta
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Chamber Music ◽  
Contemporary Music ◽  
New Music ◽  
Film Scores ◽  
Twelve Tone ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Press ◽  
Traditional Institutions

Juan Carlos Paz (1897–1972) was an Argentine composer, critic, writer, and self-described "compositional guide" who played a key role in twentieth-century Argentine contemporary music. Known for his rebellious attitude towards traditional institutions and academia, and as an advocate of avant-garde music throughout his life, Paz was a pioneer in the use of the twelve-tone technique in Latin America. Paz founded such groups as Grupo Renovación [Renovation Group] and Asociación Nueva Música [New Music Association], both devoted to promoting and performing new music. Paz wrote music for solo instruments, chamber music, orchestra, and theatre, as well as film scores. He published three important books dedicated to new music and three volumes containing his memoirs, and collaborated intensively with the press and magazines (Crítica, Reconquista, Acción de Arte, La Protesta, La Campana de Palo, Argentina Libre, among others).

‘A sort of guerrilla’: Che at the opera

2007 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBERT ADLINGTON
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Us Imperialism ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Dual Commitment ◽  
Che Guevara

ABSTRACTThe undoubted cause célèbre of the 1969 Holland Festival was the large-scale music theatre piece Reconstructie, jointly authored by a team of five young composers and two librettists. The work, which took as its subject ‘the struggle against US imperialism in Latin America’, and revolved around the figure of Che Guevara, embodied the authors’ dual commitment to political engagement and artistic experiment. My account examines the work through the lens of recent scholarship that stresses the politically reactionary function of avant-garde experimentation within the cultural Cold War. In the process, attention is given to broader factors affecting the work’s production and reception: these include contemporaneous debates about cultural popularising and the Holland Festival; the complex motives of the work’s governmental patrons; and the influence upon the authors of Cuba, Castro and Guevara himself.

Toward a fuller view: The effect of globalized theology on an understanding of health and healing

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-214
Author(s):  
Daniel William O’Neill
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Global South ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Mutual Learning ◽  
Missional Theology ◽  
Health And Healing ◽  
The Church

With the globalization of the church, a missional theology has emerged which addresses the universal quest for health and wholeness in various contexts of suffering and affliction. The spread of Christianity, particularly as it is occurring in the global South, has led to a fuller view of God, human health, and the church’s role in health and healing. The splendor of the nations which are brought into the repository of this kingdom includes the sanctified healing practices of the nations. Exploring perspectives from Latin America, Africa, and Asia, a physician-theologian proposes how we can see that as each culture and tradition interacts, not only is there mutual learning and correction of limited views, but a more comprehensive understanding of the God who heals and a more effective call of his people to actively participate in that healing for the nations.

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