scholarly journals Invenciones de Caliban: cultura, humanismo y posoccidentalismo en Roberto Fernández Retamar

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (14) ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Carlos Aguirre Aguirre
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Dimensions ◽  
Colonial Modernity ◽  
Latin American Culture ◽  
Colonial Texts ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Western Humanism

The goal of this research is to analyze the different critical dimensions of the writing of Roberto Fernández Retamar. We are guided by the hypothesis that in the anti-colonial texts of the Cuban poet, one intuits a heterogeneous and non-essentialist reading of the Latin-American culture, which is embedded with the elaboration of a metaphoric concept of Caliban, able to disorganize the cultural dichotomies of the colonial modernity. In the first part, we verified how the particularity of “Caliban” consists in his capacity of resisting any cultural derivation and unilateral writing, being related with what Jacques Derrida defines as différence. Secondly, we reflect on the humanism developed by Fernández Retamar with the well-known trope: the anticolonial humanism conceived from a relationship of aggressiveness between the “own” and the “other”. Finally, we analyzed the impact of the notion “posoccidentalismo” suggested by the Cuban in his criticism of the Latin-American post colonialism. We agree with Caliban; a symbol is not an authority of the absolute. On the contrary, it is a tool that wants to undo scriptural and epistemic modes offered by the western culture, and that takes form, within the work of Fernández Retamar, in an anticolonial and post western humanism, which is still budding.

scholarly journals The Impact of Promotional Tools on Sales Promotion

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adeel Meo ◽  
Muhammad Daniyal Abbas ◽  
Muhammad Nadeem Sajjad ◽  
Muhammad Rizwan ◽  
Sayed shahbaz hussain Bukhari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Purchase Intention ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Sales Promotion ◽  
The Other ◽  
Buying Behavior ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Impact

The main reason of conducting this research was to explore the influence of social surrounding, discount level and buying behavior on sales promotion. The research results found that there was no significant relationship of social surrounding, discount level with sales promotion. But on the other hand buying behavior, free sample, price reduction has a significant relationship with sales promotion. The results of this research paper will help the marketers to understand best promotional techniques to increase significantly in their sales as well as revenues. This research paper also plays a vital role in helping businessmen to develop their business planes more effectively so that they can get the competitive advantage over their competitors and make them able to maximize their profits.In total 180 Questionnaires were distributed by hand in different department of Islamia University of Bahawalpur. Data was feed in SPSS.  This research was done on different sales promotional techniques.Findings shows that different sales promotional techniques have impact on consumer buying behavior and purchase intention for all type of products on the other hand there is no significant effect of discount level and social surrounding on sales promotion.

God, the Trinity, and Latin America Today

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leopoldo Cervantes-Ortiz
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Theological Education ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Mexican Culture ◽  
Christian Teaching ◽  
Latin American Culture ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Trinity ◽  
Christian Beliefs

AbstractThis essay tries to show the diverse ways in which it is possible to refer to the Christian Trinity inside the Latin American culture. An example is given—the Mexican culture—where Christian beliefs are continuously changing under the impact of certain ideas and practices from the postmodern mind. Contemporary Latin American cultures are a mixture of pre-modern, modern, and post-modern elements. The belief in the Trinity is a product of these elements and expresses social, political, and ideological transformations. The traditional, dogmatic, Christian teaching of the Trinity is not the main source for comprehension in that situation. Indeed, theological education has not brought enough explanation of the better form to actualize these types of beliefs. Both Catholic and Protestant theologies need a fresh approach to this problem.

Attitudes toward Suicide Survivors as a Function of Survivors' Relationship to the Victim

1989 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francoise M. T. Reynolds ◽  
Peter Cimbolic
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Case Histories ◽  
Suicide Survivors ◽  
Case Vignettes ◽  
Attitudes Toward Suicide ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This study examined attitudes toward suicide survivors. Two variables were assessed: the impact of information on attitudes toward suicide survivors and whether the survivor's relationship to the victim affects the attitudes of others towards the survivor. Sixty participants responded to one of three fictional case histories that described a child's suicide, a spouse's suicide, or a parent's suicide. Prior to reading case vignettes, thirty of the participants read an article about suicide; the other thirty read death-related but not suicide-related materials. Results indicated that suicide information did not affect attitudes toward survivors. Further results indicated that reactions to suicide survivors are generally negative and the relationship of survivors to victims affects these reactions. Children of victims were seen least negatively; parents of a child who died by suicide received the most negative reactions.

Capitalist Dreams: Chile's Response to Nineteenth-Century World Copper Competition

1989 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 722-744 ◽  
Author(s):  
William W. Culver ◽  
Cornel J. Reinhart
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
The Other ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Economic Sector ◽  
Latin Americans ◽  
The Past ◽  
Chilean Copper ◽  
The Impact

Hernando de Soto's recent book, The Other Path, argues that capitalism has not failed in Peru and Latin America, rather, it has not been tried. Basing his case on the observation that Latin American economies are strangled by arcane policies and regulations, de Soto goes on to bolster his point by providing a fresh and powerful look at the undeniable reality of the large “informal,” and thus unregulated, economic sector in Peru. As with any such generalization, how strongly does its explanatory value remain when measured against specific events, over long periods of time? This article seeks just such a perspective. It examines the impact of such regulations as mining codes and mineral taxation on the efforts of Chilean copper entrepreneurs to compete worldwide in the nineteenth century. De Soto may be correct in his contention that today's highly regulated economies keep Latin Americans from being as productive as their resources justify, but to extend this view into the past ignores earlier productive accomplishments, as well as significant efforts at different times and places to cast off Latin America's mercantile legacy.

scholarly journals Global Citizenship Education at a Dutch University College: Latin American Liberation Psychology informing the construction of the other and the self

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 1385-1393
Author(s):  
Sabina Weistra ◽  
Eri Park ◽  
Marcin Sklad
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Liberation Psychology ◽  
University College ◽  
Social Representation Theory ◽  
The Impact

The Going Glocal project, run at University College Roosevelt (Utrecht University) in the years 2013-2014, has the aim of providing students with more knowledge to reflect about issues of global justice in a society shaped by processes of globalisation and cosmopolitanisation, and thus an increased interconnectedness. Fifteen students attended courses on Global Justice and Activism in Mexico and Global Citizenship and went on a fieldtrip to Mexico during the summer. To answer the questions did the students self-other conceptualisation change? two out of the ten interviews conducted between September and January 2014 at UCR are analysed in the light of Social Identity and Social Representation Theory. The participants, who acquired knowledge about Latin American theory and encountered members of the Zapatistas movement, constructed the other and approached the issues of taking responsibility and knowledge from very different perspectives, thus displaying the diversity of the impact this project had on its participants.

Bananas

2021 ◽  
pp. 84-111
Author(s):  
Alasdair R. Young
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin American ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Multilateral Trade ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Scholarly Attention ◽  
The Eu

This chapter analyzes one of the two instances in which enforcement tariffs were imposed: the EU’s banana trade regime (BTR). The analysis charts the origins of the policy through the EU’s efforts to protect it under multilateral trade rules before focusing on how the EU responded once it lost the complaint brought by the United States and Latin American banana producers. The EU responded in three acts. Only the second act has attracted much scholarly attention, which has led to some questionable conclusions about the impact of tariffs. The chapter exploits variation in conditions and outcomes over the three acts. Although adversely affected exporters lobbied for policy change during the second act, they were absent in the other two when changes were also adopted. In addition, there is no indication that their efforts affected the preferences of policy makers during the second act. Policy makers struggled to balance advancing the EU’s ambitious agenda in the Doha Round of multilateral trade talks with its obligations to domestic and African and Caribbean banana producers. The chapter argues that the EU’s policy reforms became more radical as the preferences of EU policy makers regarding the treatment of African and Caribbean producers changed for reasons unrelated to the dispute.

Individual antecedents of i-deals: the role of self-efficacy, networking abilities and perceived employability

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorgelina Marino ◽  
Guillermo E. Dabos ◽  
Andrea G. Rivero ◽  
Lucas Pujol-Cols
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Perceived Employability ◽  
Employee Characteristics ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Impact

PurposeThis study aims to examine the direct and indirect effects of self-efficacy, networking abilities and perceived employability on the negotiation of idiosyncratic deals (i-deals) between individual workers and their employers.Design/methodology/approachIn total, 213 managerial professionals – a non-random sample – working for different small and medium-sized enterprises from several industries in Argentina were surveyed online. Hypotheses were tested using structural equation modeling.FindingsThe results revealed that self-efficacy and networking abilities exert an indirect effect on i-deal negotiation through perceived employability. Those individuals with higher levels of self-efficacy or greater networking abilities tend to develop more positive perceptions of their employability and, therefore, are more prompted to negotiate i-deals with their employers.Research limitations/implicationsThis research sheds light on the dynamics underlying the relationship of employees' characteristics and skills with i-deal negotiation. Besides, it provides further evidence that individual bargaining has become widespread in professional employment contexts, above and beyond the collective labor agreements that prevail in most Latin American countries.Practical implicationsSelf-efficacy and networking abilities can be relevant individual factors in understanding i-deal negotiation, given that both shape employees' perceptions of employability.Originality/valueAlthough the impact of employee characteristics and skills on the idiosyncratic negotiation of employment terms has been broadly recognized, scholars have called for further exploration of the mechanisms underlying this relationship. By simultaneously investigating the impact of self-efficacy, networking abilities and perceived employability on i-deals, this study provides a more comprehensive understanding of how an individual's personal characteristics and skills facilitate the idiosyncratic negotiation of employment terms.

Reactions of Chilean and US children to marital discord

2003 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 437-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Mark Cummings ◽  
Joel Wilson ◽  
Haya Shamir
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Marital Discord ◽  
Cross Cultural Study ◽  
Latin American Culture ◽  
Us Children ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Time Culture

Understanding of the universality of relations between marital discord and children is limited by gaps in cross-cultural study. In an extension of study of this question to a Latin American culture, the impact of marital discord was examined in 7–9 and 11–13-year-olds from Chilean ( N = 36) and US ( N = 36) families. Parents completed marital discord and child adjustment measures and children responded to analogue presentations of marital discord. For both groups, marital discord was related to children’s adjustment and children’s reactions to marital discord varied significantly as a function of conflict resolution. At the same time, culture moderated the amplitude of some relations, with the pattern of findings suggesting that Chilean children were more sensitive to marital discord than US children. Discussion considers the role of cultural context as a factor in the effects of marital discord on children.

scholarly journals “Jacob y el otro”: a la luz del cine (Apolo)

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
pp. 253-273
Author(s):  
Armando Escobar
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Latin American Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
Juan Carlos Onetti ◽  
The Many ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between Uruguayan writer Juan Carlos Onetti and the cinema is extensive and. When we analyze one of the many adaptations of his work, we have to consider that it is a relationship of double influence, since our author has also take from the cinema to develop one of the most extensive and essential works of Latin American literature. For this reason, it is increasingly common to find interpretations that propose a cinematic reading of Onetti's work. As part of a similar exercise, we propose to read the story "Jacob and the Other" (1961) in the light of his adaptation to the cinema made by Álvaro Brechner in Un mal día para pescar (2009). In doing so, Onetti's tale obtains new interpretations that can be reached by analyzing it with the eyes of the cinema.

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