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2021 ◽  
pp. 120633122110665
Author(s):  
Carolina Aguilera

In this short essay, I explore the recent reassessment of ruined sites haunted by the echoes of State terrorism across the Southern Cone of Latin America, asking what is at stake in the conservation of former detention centers and focusing on Villa Grimaldi in Chile. The site was initially transformed into a green park but has subsequently become a museum in which remains of the original buildings and artifacts from the repressive past are publicly accessible. I draw on perspectives that claim that even ruins that portray past acts of inhumanity do not necessarily need to evoke melancholic or traumatic retrospection; rather, they are sites of alternative pasts and futures. The transition from the original green park design to a more prominent use of the ruins speaks of an invitation to reassess the past, addressing marginal aspects of emblematic memories, including the political conflict that underpinned the repression.


Author(s):  
Adriana Dorfman ◽  
Rafael Francisco França ◽  
Julian Mokwa Felix

Author(s):  
Marcos Antonio da Silva

Review of “Gerónimo de Sierra: Cincuenta años de Sociologia Política- Uruguay y América Latina" (Buenos Aires: CLACSO, 2017). This work constitutes a fundamental, and very instigating step, for the recognition of recent Latin American production, and a testimony to the significance of the production of Uruguayan sociologist Gerónimo de Sierra and his contribution to the understanding of Latin American societies, and especially Uruguay and the Southern Cone of Latin America. It should be noted that de Sierra maintains academic ties with several countries in the region and in Europe and either continues to work or has worked in international institutions since the times of his exile. Until recently he has held the position of vice-rector of the University of Latin American Integration (UNILA) in Brazil.


Author(s):  
Juan Eduardo Bonnin ◽  
Virginia Unamuno

Abstract In this article, we discuss the concept of translanguaging by showing how theoretically unhelpful it is to account for language dynamics among Indigenous speakers leading revitalization projects in the Southern Cone of Latin America. We show how clear-cut distinctions between Spanish and Indigenous languages are crucial for minority speakers’ socio-political struggles against Spanish cultural, political, and social hegemony. We open our discussion by reviewing the different definitions of translanguaging in sociolinguistics and applied linguistics. We examine how the term sometimes overlaps with other previously established concepts such as code-switching and code-mixing and show the importance of inscribing any concepts in the historical and socio-political context in which they are used. We illustrate how Indigenous peoples’ understanding of multilingualism challenges linguists’ discourse on translanguaging. Our analysis aims at prompting scholars to reflect on the ideologies and practices we describe here to understand and attend more responsibly to Indigenous peoples’ political concerns.


2021 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
pp. 553-579
Author(s):  
Molly Avery

AbstractThe history of the Cold War in Latin America in the 1970s is commonly split into two episodes: the establishment of anticommunist dictatorships and the ensuing repression across the Southern Cone in the early and middle decade, and the Nicaraguan Revolution and the eruption of violent conflicts across Central America at its close. By exploring the Chilean and Argentine response to the Nicaraguan Revolution, this article brings these two episodes together, demonstrating how they were understood to belong to one and the same ideological conflict. In doing so, it highlights the importance of the revolution in the Chilean and Argentine perception of the Cold War and explores how the Sandinista triumph directly shaped Southern Cone ideas about US power and the communist threat, also prompting reflection on their own ‘models’ for anticommunist governance. Both regimes responded by increasing their support for anticommunist forces in Guatemala and El Salvador, often conducting this aid through a wider transnational and clandestine network. This article contributes to new understandings of the nature of Latin American anticommunism in this period, challenges traditional understandings of external involvement in Central America, and demonstrates the need to understand events in Latin America in this period in their full regional context.


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