scholarly journals Posmorriña in Ángel Rama’s Tierra sin mapa

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 461-488
Author(s):  
Gustavo San Román
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Angel Rama

The Uruguayan Ángel Rama (1926-1983) is widely recognized as a pioneer in the development of cultural studies in Latin America. This article proposes that there was a lesser-known side to the socially conscious, historicist Rama that was expressed mostly in intimate writings: a romantic, essentialist Rama. The focus is a semi-fictional work, Tierra sin mapa (1959), which recounts the stories Rama’s inmigrant mother told him in Montevideo about her childhood in rural Galicia. In retelling her reminiscences, which were triggered by the homesickness that in Galician is termed morriña, Rama relives his mother’s experiences as his own. This process is here called posmorriña, in an echo of the term ‘postmemory’, coined by Marianne Hirsch to denote the experience of children of victims of trauma. The article argues that this maternal Galicia left a mark on the young intellectual that played a key role in his understanding of Latin American cultural identity. It further suggests that Rama’s experience may be paradigmatic of those of other writers in his time and place.

scholarly journals The Memetic Evolution of Latin American Architectural Design Culture

Buildings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 288
Author(s):  
İlknur Akıner ◽  
İbrahim Yitmen ◽  
Muhammed Ernur Akıner ◽  
Nurdan Akıner
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Architectural Theory ◽  
Design Language ◽  
Cultural Theorist

Architecture is an evolutionary field. Through time, it changes and adapts itself according to two things: the environment and the user, which are the touchstones of the concept of culture. Culture changes in long time intervals because of its cumulative structure, so its effects can be observed on a large scale. A nation displays itself with its culture and uses architecture as a tool to convey its cultural identity. This dual relationship between architecture and culture can be observed at various times and in various lands, most notably in Latin American designers. The geographical positions of Latin American nations and their political situations in the twentieth century leads to the occurrence of a recognizable cultural identity, and it influenced the architectural design language of that region. The nonlinear forms in architecture were once experienced commonly around Latin America, and this design expression shows itself in the designers’ other works through time and around the world. The cultural background of Latin American architecture investigated within this study, in terms of their design approach based upon the form and effect of Latin American culture on this architectural design language, is examined with the explanation of the concept of culture by two leading scholars: Geert Hofstede and Richard Dawkins. This paper nevertheless puts together architecture and semiology by considering key twentieth century philosophers and cultural theorist methodologies. Cultural theorist and analyst Roland Barthes was the first person to ask architects to examine the possibility of bringing semiology and architectural theory together. Following an overview of existing semiological conditions, this paper analyzed Roland Barthes and Umberto Eco’s hypothesis of the semiological language of architectural designs of Latin American designers by examining their cultural origin. The work’s findings express the historical conditions that enabled the contemporary architecture and culture study of Latin America between 1945 and 1975 to address the “Latin American model” of architectural modernism.

A mapping of JLASSS: The academic consolidation of the socio-cultural studies of sport in Latin America

2020 ◽  
pp. 101269021989365
Author(s):  
Leonardo do Couto Gomes ◽  
Leticia Cristina Lima Moraes ◽  
Wanderley Marchi Júnior ◽  
Marcelo Moraes e Silva
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Latin American ◽  
American Association ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Sports Science ◽  
Human And Social Sciences ◽  
Under Construction

The present study aims to map the research published in the Journal of the Latin American Socio-cultural Studies of Sport (JLASSS) in order to provide a panorama of the development of socio-cultural sports science research within the Asociación Latinoamericana de Estudios Socioculturales del Deporte (ALESDE—Latin-American Association of Socio-Cultural Studies of Sport). In order to accomplish this aim, we catalogued the journal papers from the first edition (2011) to the last (2018), which comprised a total of 91 papers written by 153 different researchers and published in 14 issues. The most recurrent themes were related to social, cultural, and historical aspects, corresponding to 48.35% of the publications. However, despite the predominance of these themes, the thematic plurality of the journal is expressive. Therefore, it is evident that JLASSS presents an interdisciplinary approach to the human and social sciences when scientifically addressing the sports phenomenon. As a conclusion, this paper indicates that the field related to the socio-cultural studies of sport in Latin America is under construction and that ALESDE and JLASSS intend to be the protagonists in the strengthening of this field.

scholarly journals Songs of Exile: Music, Activism, and Solidarity in the Latin American Diaspora

JOMEC Journal ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Claudia Bucciferro
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
New Media ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Military Rule ◽  
Cultural Artifact ◽  
Selection Of

This article addresses the connection between music and social activism in Latin America, centering on a discussion of ‘the music of exile’ as a cultural artifact of historical and conceptual significance for diasporic Latin American communities. The music produced by artists who were persecuted during the years of military rule was characterized by an engagement with social and political affairs, and often helped bring people together in the struggle for democratization. Despite censorship laws and other repressive measures enacted by the dictatorships, the music not only endured, but traveled across nations and continents, carried by the millions of people who were displaced due to State-sponsored violence. Now distributed through new media platforms such as YouTube, this music functions as a repository of memory and an emblem of solidarity that connects dispersed Latin American communities. Using Cultural Studies as a theoretical framework and employing an interpretive methodology, this study focuses on a selection of songs written between 1963 and 1992, presenting an analysis that centers on their lyrics and connects their meanings to larger social processes.  

scholarly journals Latin American media reception studies: notes on the meaning of gender and research methodologies

2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (24) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Ana Carolina Escosteguy
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Reception Studies ◽  
American Media ◽  
Media Reception ◽  
The Spectator ◽  
The One ◽  
Depth Interviews

The author explores a comparative analysis of key methodological approaches and theoretical debates between, on the one hand, Latin American and Brazilian reception analysis, and, on the other hand, the same branch in the anglophone academy. This kind of investigation is related to the general rise of cultural studies in Latin America from the mid-1980s on. Reception studies give special attention to female audiences, especially middle-age women from lower classes. Methodologically, this empirical research, adopting qualitative methods, has sought to concentrate on the accounts of the spectator herself, commonly using in-depth interviews and sometimes including participant observation. The author sustains that, although reception research concentrates its focus on women’s experience as a whole, it avoids the specificity of women’s issues. The conclusion stands that, in contrast with cultural studies elsewhere, the encounter of feminism with reception analysis within Latin America, specially in Brazil, hasn’t happened yet.

Jesús Martín Barbero and Communication Studies

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Lagos Lira
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Graduate Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Meanings ◽  
Entire Career ◽  
The 1960S

Jesús Martín Barbero is a philosopher specializing in communication and culture, particularly focusing on Latin America as his major geographical research environment and emphasizing the social meanings and practices of cultural consumption. Although he was born in Spain and his formal academic training was developed in Belgium and France, his entire career has been conducted in Latin America and, specifically, in Colombia, where he has lived since the 1960s, with a brief interruption due to his graduate studies in the 1970s. Along with others, Martín Barbero is considered to be one of the main theorists of the Latin American school of communication. He represents the cultural studies trend within it, and he is one of the few Latin American authors in communication and cultural studies who has been translated or published in English. Some of Martín Barbero’s main contributions have been to resituate communication studies within the broader field of culture, emphasizing a nonmedia-centered approach, proposing a radically historical perspective, arguing that the concepts of popular and mass culture are not actually opposite, but tightly embedded within each other, and recognizing that popular and mass culture practices are indeed worthy of study. This perspective has often been dismissed or neglected by previous research in communication and cultural studies in Latin America, and the recent focus on telenovelas research is one such example. De los medios a las mediaciones: Comunicación, Cultura y Hegemonía (1987), Martín Barbero’s most cited book, has several editions in Spanish and has been translated to Portuguese (Dos meios ‘as mediacoes, 1992) and French (Des médias aux mediations, 2002). The translation to English in 1993 includes a little twist on its title: Communication, Culture, and Hegemony: From Media to Mediations. Although Martín Barbero’s work has been included in edited volumes or special issues in English, it has been overwhelmingly published in Spanish. Drawing on his corpus of work—his books, articles, conferences, and interviews—this article offers an overview of Jesús Martín Barbero’s main concepts, his intellectual trajectory, his major intellectual influences, and how and why he became an influential thinker in the Latin American field of communication and cultural studies. It also highlights some limitations in Martín Barbero’s work.

An Approach to Compositional Trends in Latin America

2000 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 3-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Coriún Aharonián
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Time Use ◽  
Cultural Transmission ◽  
Cultural Boundaries ◽  
Sense Of Time

Any attempt to theorize about Latin American composition will necessarily involve a prejudgment of which composers to consider. In addition the context of a colonial system of cultural transmission should not be ignored. This context makes it important to evaluate a composer's significance in terms of his or her distinctiveness in the light of metropolitan composers and compositions. A number of characteristic trends can be seen in the works of composers who meet these criteria, including a distinctive sense of time; use of nondiscursive, reiterative processes; austerity; violence; the breach of technological and cultural boundaries; and an interest in cultural identity.

Migration vs. development? The case of poverty and inequality in Mexico

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agustín Escobar Latapi
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
International Migration ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Opportunity Cost ◽  
Inequality Index ◽  
Poverty And Inequality ◽  
And Migration

Although the migration – development nexus is widely recognized as a complex one, it is generally thought that there is a relationship between poverty and emigration, and that remittances lessen inequality. On the basis of Latin American and Mexican data, this chapter intends to show that for Mexico, the exchange of migrants for remittances is among the lowest in Latin America, that extreme poor Mexicans don't migrate although the moderately poor do, that remittances have a small, non-significant impact on the most widely used inequality index of all households and a very large one on the inequality index of remittance-receiving households, and finally that, to Mexican households, the opportunity cost of international migration is higher than remittance income. In summary, there is a relationship between poverty and migration (and vice versa), but this relationship is far from linear, and in some respects may be a perverse one for Mexico and for Mexican households.

Palestinian Diaspora Communities in Latin America and Palestinian Statehood

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-120
Author(s):  
Yousef M. Aljamal ◽  
Philipp O. Amour
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
South America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
The Political ◽  
Middle Classes ◽  
Latin Americans ◽  
Political Views ◽  
The Right

There are some 700,000 Latin Americans of Palestinian origin, living in fourteen countries of South America. In particular, Palestinian diaspora communities have a considerable presence in Chile, Honduras, and El Salvador. Many members of these communities belong to the professional middle classes, a situation which enables them to play a prominent role in the political and economic life of their countries. The article explores the evolving attitudes of Latin American Palestinians towards the issue of Palestinian statehood. It shows the growing involvement of these communities in Palestinian affairs and their contribution in recent years towards the wide recognition of Palestinian rights — including the right to self-determination and statehood — in Latin America. But the political views of members of these communities also differ considerably about the form and substance of a Palestinian statehood and on the issue of a two-states versus one-state solution.

Sorting Out the Mixed Economy

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy C. Offner
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
New Deal ◽  
The United States ◽  
Business Associations ◽  
Welfare Programs ◽  
The Road ◽  
Social Welfare Programs ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The New Deal

In the years after 1945, a flood of U.S. advisors swept into Latin America with dreams of building a new economic order and lifting the Third World out of poverty. These businessmen, economists, community workers, and architects went south with the gospel of the New Deal on their lips, but Latin American realities soon revealed unexpected possibilities within the New Deal itself. In Colombia, Latin Americans and U.S. advisors ended up decentralizing the state, privatizing public functions, and launching austere social welfare programs. By the 1960s, they had remade the country's housing projects, river valleys, and universities. They had also generated new lessons for the United States itself. When the Johnson administration launched the War on Poverty, U.S. social movements, business associations, and government agencies all promised to repatriate the lessons of development, and they did so by multiplying the uses of austerity and for-profit contracting within their own welfare state. A decade later, ascendant right-wing movements seeking to dismantle the midcentury state did not need to reach for entirely new ideas: they redeployed policies already at hand. This book brings readers to Colombia and back, showing the entanglement of American societies and the contradictory promises of midcentury statebuilding. The untold story of how the road from the New Deal to the Great Society ran through Latin America, the book also offers a surprising new account of the origins of neoliberalism.

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