scholarly journals Silent Conflict in High-profile Cities. Latin America and Beyond

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-171
Author(s):  
Krystian Darmach
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Capital Cities ◽  
Mass Tourism ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Potential Source

This anthropological essay provides a meditation on mass tourism while analysing the mechanisms of conflict between the needs of mass tourism and the local urban environment, extraterritorial spaces that fit into the universal heritage of humanity. Historical districts/ entertainment districts in capital cities are discussed as extraterritorial areas treated as ambivalent, bypassed, business bases. The tourists themselves constitute thoroughly ambivalent figures as tame strangers, treated simultaneously as a potential source of maximum earnings and intruders.

scholarly journals Urban environment interventions linked to the promotion of physical activity: A mixed methods study applied to the urban context of Latin America

2015 ◽  
Vol 131 ◽  
pp. 18-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis F. Gomez ◽  
Rodrigo Sarmiento ◽  
Maria Fernanda Ordoñez ◽  
Carlos Felipe Pardo ◽  
Thiago Hérick de Sá ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Promotion Of Physical Activity

Indigenous Politics and Resistance in Latin America: Continuity and Change

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascal Lupien
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Indigenous Movements ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Political Autonomy ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Indigenous Groups ◽  
Indigenous Social Movements

Indigenous social movements have become influential political actors in Latin America over the past three decades. Indigenous peoples continue to experience higher than average political, social and economic marginalization throughout the region. The powerful organizations created by Indigenous groups and the positive outcomes they have achieved despite these barriers have produced a body of research that examines how these social movements emerged, why some have succeeded in influencing policy, the construction of collective identity, and the strategies and tactics used. Indigenous movements have made claims based on their status as pre-colonial peoples; their demands include land rights, control over natural resources, cultural recognition, and political autonomy. Indigenous movements in countries such as Bolivia, Ecuador, and Mexico have used disruptive tactics such as marches and roadblocks to demand the attention of governments, the public and media. They have also strategically participated in building alliances across borders, supporting political parties, and undertaking legal action against powerful actors including the state and extractive industries. The high-profile Indigenous protest cycle that marked the 1990s and early 2000s across Latin America began to wind down during the first decade of the 21st century, but Indigenous movements continue to engage in both politics and protest. In the digital age, they have adapted their tactics to include social media and other technologies.

Panama’s China shift may threaten Taiwanese diplomacy

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Central America ◽  
Panama Canal ◽  
Content Type ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Diplomatic Recognition

Significance The visit follows Panama’s June 12 announcement that it had cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan in favour of establishing official relations with China -- the first such change in the region since Costa Rica switched diplomatic allegiances in 2007. Panama’s switch reflects China’s increasing economic links with Central America more generally and raises questions regarding the diplomatic stances of other countries in the Latin America/Caribbean (LAC) region, which is home to more than half of Taiwan’s remaining diplomatic partners. Impacts Taiwan will be more interested in unofficial but substantive ties than in retaining formal diplomatic recognition at high cost. Funding issues and domestic opposition to Nicaragua’s canal project could dissuade Ortega from any high-profile moves on China or Taiwan. Improved relations between China and Panama may concern Washington, given the level of US investment in the Panama Canal.

‘Public’ Security and Patron–Client Exchanges in Latin America

2013 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 548-569 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus-Michael Müller
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Public Security ◽  
The Political ◽  
Authoritarian Rule ◽  
Local Police ◽  
Local Politicians ◽  
Changing Patterns

Notwithstanding the democratization processes that have taken place since the 1980s, clientelism continues to be an important political practice throughout contemporary Latin America. By offering an analysis of the changing patterns of patron–client exchanges in Mexico City, this article demonstrates how the repercussions of the local democratization process expanded clientelist practices to the realm of public security provision. This expansion, it is argued, is related to efforts of the local government to regain previous levels of political control over the local police forces that had been undermined by the fragmentation of long-standing national patron–client structures under authoritarian rule. Additionally, it is demonstrated that in an increasingly insecure urban environment, local politicians and brokers realized the political gains to be derived from expanding clientelist exchanges to the realm of security provision.

scholarly journals La Gestión Urbana Ambiental En América Latina, 1970 - 2017

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (30) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
David J. Edelman ◽  
Micaela Schuster ◽  
Janett Said
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
English Language ◽  
Professional Work ◽  
International Attention ◽  
America Latina ◽  
Urban Environmental Management ◽  
Scientific Fields ◽  
Language Literature

While Urban Environmental Management has received increasing worldwide attention in the last 50 years, much of the international attention to this growing field has focused, as is the case with most scientific fields, on the English language literature. Nevertheless, much professional work of interest has been taking place in Latin America, where the problems of the urban environment have been identified early and considered major difficulties in the development of this heavily urbanised region. Consequently, the purpose of the research that this article summarises is to address the Spanish and Portuguese language literature written in Latin America on Latin America itself to identify the trends in the field that have emerged, and are continuing to emerge, there and, eventually, to determine what lessons they offer to other regions.

The general plan of Yerevan 1937 as the implementation of the architectural and urban paradigm on the two foundations - the idea of Sotsgorod and the idea of Capitality

2021 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 48-56
Author(s):  
E.Yu. Bagina ◽  
◽  
M.A. Arustamyan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Reference Point ◽  
Garden City ◽  
National Unity ◽  
Capital Cities ◽  
High Rise ◽  
General Plan ◽  
The 19Th Century

The general plan of Yerevan, developed in 1937 by «LenGiprogor», was created based on the general plan of 1924 (architects A. Tamanyan, N. Buniatyan). Tamanyan's idea was significantly revised, since in the mid-30s the architectural and urban planning paradigm changed. If the general plan of 1924 was based on the idea of a «garden city», then in 1937 the idea of a «social city» became dominant. The idea of how the capital of Armenia should look like has also changed significantly. If the ideas of Tamanyan and Buniatyan were based on the images of European capital cities reconstructions in the second half of the 19th century, then for the architects of «Giprogor» Moscow as the capital of the socialist world became a reference point. The orientation of the main urban planning axes towards Ararat, as a symbol of national unity, changed to the opposite direction - towards the monuments to Lenin and Stalin, which became the new high-rise dominants of Yerevan in the 1930s and 1950s. The paradigm changes also initiated the emergence of micro and macro architectural and urban planning conflicts in the urban environment, most of which have not been overcome to this day.

Latin American Cities

2018 ◽  
pp. 39-51
Author(s):  
Carles Crosas
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Caribbean Sea ◽  
Capital Cities ◽  
Urban Imaginary ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
New Generation ◽  
American Cities

During the nineteenth century, capital cities in Latin America established a new generation of “green” grids, inherited from the tradition of Hispanic colonization that introduced new elements of modernity: technique, transport, and ecology. From hundreds of cases, it is worth paying attention to those that are most outstanding for embodying a number of characteristics: certain isolated condition, perfect geometrical layout, tram connection, “hygienist” inspiration, innovative engineering, new urban imaginary, etc. The brief presentation of some cases in Buenos Aires, México DF, Montevideo, and Sao Paolo leads the authors to assess the outstanding case of El Vedado in La Habana (1859) within its contemporary panorama. This is a canonical grid district settled in a vast and privileged area near the Caribbean Sea, with its quiet tree-lined streets and notable for its exquisite buildings. After 150 years, reviewing the transformation of this unique grid allows one to gain insight regarding the flexibility of urban grids, appreciate the splendour of its past, and explore the potential for its future.

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