Argentine Riddle: The Pinedo Plan of 1940 and the Political Economy of the Early War Years
Journal of Latin American Studies (1998), 30 : pp 519-550
Lo sagrado secularizado como sustento diario: los sambeniteros en las calles zulianas
Co-authored with Nelly García-Gavidia
Esta investigación versa sobre la representación que los creyentes de San Benito de Palermo tienen del tipo de... more
Esta investigación versa sobre la representación que los creyentes de San Benito de Palermo tienen del tipo de práctica de algunos sujetos que transitan por las calles pidiendo limosna con una imagen del Santo en sus brazos. Las interrogantes que han guiado la investigación son: ¿qué tipo de práctica es ésa, donde pareciera no existir límites entre lo religioso y lo secular? ¿Qué representación tienen estos individuos acerca de la religión? ¿Hacen alguna distinción entre lo religioso y lo secular, en el contexto de las prácticas que les sirven de sustento económico? Los objetivos son: explicar la relación entre lo religioso y lo secular en este tipo de prácticas y creencias. El método utilizado es la etnografía, y el análisis interpretativo de las significaciones. Se concluye es identificado con lo sagrado: para algunos, la intercesión del Santo legitima su búsqueda de dinero, para otros, la oportunidad de estar frente al Santo, tocarlo o bailarlo merece un pago para quien lo lleva a cuestas.
(English version): The devotees of San Benito de Palermo go through the streets carrying an image of the Saint and asking for alms. The questions that concern this paper include: a discussion of this tradition which is both secular and sacred in character; the religious persuasion of those involved; and the distinction between religious rites and the means of sustenance. The objectives of this research include an explanation of the relation between the religious and the secular in this particular persuasion. The methods applied are those of ethnology; analysis is based upon implied meaning. The conclusion is that for some people the intervention of the Saint is welcome and justifies the devotees’ personal need for money. The presence invoked by the idol, the touching of the figure, or dancing before it, is a periodical ritual and the service of the devotees offers a good opportunity to make a participatory donation.
Constitucionalismo Bolivariano
South American politics have changed since Hugo Chávez started his “Bolivarian Revolution”, especially after Evo... more
South American politics have changed since Hugo Chávez started his “Bolivarian Revolution”, especially after Evo Morales and Rafael Correa won the elections in Bolivia and Ecuador respectively. Since all three leaders made new constitutions and approved them by referendum, this article intends to analyze the political arena in which the constitutional processes took place. To understand why this happened, a historical introduction is presented and later a brief analysis of the political circumstances that
allowed each of the countries’ leader to be empowered and then make their new Constitutions approved by popular voting. The second goal is to compare the three Constitutions, looking for similarities and differences in fundamental aspects of the State`s structure. This article wants to demonstrate how the new Constitutions and all
the structures around them can be better understood through historical knowledge with political analysis.
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Reporte de investigación, en revisión.
En el proceso de legitimación es considerado el sistema de acción especializado en la reproducción de la cultura... more En el proceso de legitimación es considerado el sistema de acción especializado en la reproducción de la cultura (educación), donde es factible lograr el reconocimiento de la acción estatal. Además y especialmente en la educación instrumentada en la modalidad a distancia, es notorio que la ideología de la ciencia y de la técnica provee legitimaciones (conocimientos, prácticas educativas y motivos de obediencia); incluso, a través de la educación se promueve la asimilación de la racionalidad instrumental-cognitiva como fundamento para comprender a la realidad.
Reformas y transición en Cuba: una evaluación de desarrollos recientes (2010-2012)
Iconos: Revista de Ciencias SocialesÍconos. Revista de Ciencias Sociales. Num. 43, Quito, mayo 2012, pp. 135-148
Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales-Sede Académica de Ecuador.
ISSN: 1390-124
Resumen
El VI Congreso del Partido Comunista Cubano aprobó reformas orientadas al mercado en la economía
El VI Congreso del Partido Comunista Cubano aprobó reformas orientadas al mercado en la economía
interna del país ¿Cómo se explica el contenido de esta agenda? ¿Por qué se ha observado una máxima
gradualidad en su implementación? ¿Hay algún espacio para la democracia? Este artículo ilustra,
para la primera pregunta, el papel que en estos acontecimientos ha tenido el problema de la sucesión
de la dirigencia histórica y, para la segunda, una reacción popular manifestada de forma mayormente
como disenso pasivo frente a los cambios. En cuanto a las reformas sostenemos que ha estado ausente
cualquier impulso democrático desde arriba, pero ¿podría este venir desde abajo?
Palabras clave: Cuba, mercado, reformas, élite, democracia.
Abstract
The Sixth Congress of the Cuban Communist Party adopted market-oriented reforms in Cuba’s internal
economy. What explains the contents of this agenda? Why has it been gradually implemented?
Does it allow a space for democracy? In response to the first question, this article illustrates the role of
this event in relation to the succession of Fidel Castro’s historic leadership. In regards to the second, it
addresses the anger that people have passively manifested in the light of these changes. Finally, we confirm
the absence of any type of democratic impulse coming from above. But what if this impulse is
originated below?
Keywords: Cuba, Market, Reforms, Elite, Democracy
Três variantes do personalismo na política da América Hispânica: o caudilhismo, o bolivarianismo e o populismo como expressões de afirmação regional / Three variants of personalism in Hispanic America’s politics: caudilism,bolivarianism and populism as expressions of regional affimation
by Francisco Mata Machado Tavares (Franck)
Abstract: This article discusses, from a political-theoretical approach, three variants of the
charismatic... more
Abstract: This article discusses, from a political-theoretical approach, three variants of the
charismatic legitimation of power that are identified, along different historical epochs, in Hispanic
America. The goal is to identify the common features and the differences between caudilism,
bolivarianism and populism. The argument I intend to justify is that the political personalism in
this subcontinent is closely related to the affirmation of its regional autonomy, and, thus, to the
denial of the legalist-rationalist legitimation consubstantiated in the European constitutionalism.
There would be, thus, a paradoxical relation between the citizenry autonomy pressupposed in the
constitutional ideal, and the local autonomy, which is intrinsic to the expressions of personalism
in Hispanic America
Hiperrealidad y simulacro: La crisis de la modernidad en “El muñeco”, de Virgilio Piñera
Forthcoming in Nuevas aproximaciones a la obra de Virgilio Piñera. Ed. Humberto López. Cruz. Madrid: Editorial Hispano Cubana, 2012.
Internacionalismo y revolución: Las intervenciones del ICAIC en la historia de las independencias
Published in 1808-1810. Cine y guerras de independencia. Ed. Jorge Nieto Ferrando. Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, 2011.
La pesadilla del homúnculo
Rodríguez, J.M. 2012. La pesadilla del homúnculo. Semanario Universidad No. 1929: 24 Opinión.
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Published in Mujeres, espacio y poder, Ed. Mercedes Arriaga et ál. Sevilla, Arcibel Editores, 2006, pp. 561-582. ISBN: 84-934085-0-6
Geografías del terror en Colombia.
(2010) Reseña del libro: "Comunidades negras y espacio en el Pacífico colombiano. Hacia un giro geográfico en el estudio de los movimientos sociales" Ulrich Oslender (2008) Bogotá: Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia, 355 pp.
On the Applicability of Lessons
in: R. Stemplowski, Europe and Latin America - Looking at Each Other
"Police Museums in Latin America: Preface"
by Amy Chazkel
Contributing editor of "Forum: Police Museums in Latin America," in "Calling the Law into Question: Confronting the Illegal and Illicit in Public Arenas," Special Issue of the Radical History Review 113 (Spring 2012), 127-33.
Organized by the historian Amy Chazkel, who also provides the foreword, this forum gathers the work of three... more
Organized by the historian Amy Chazkel, who also provides the foreword, this forum gathers the work of three historians of Latin America who have written extensively on the social history of crime, prompting them to reflect on a ubiquitous but little studied public history institution: the police museum. Alejandra Bronfman, Lila Caimari, and Robert Buffington, specialists in Cuba, Argentina, and Mexico, respectively, guide us through a selection of five police museums: one in Havana that played a crucial role in legal medicine and developing ideas about race during Cuba's Republican period but no longer exists; one in Buenos Aires that was founded as part of the early twentieth-century wave of police reform and modernization; and two in Mexico City and one in Guadalajara that mushroomed in the context of the Mexican police's public image hemorrhage of recent decades. This forum is a critical examination of not only objects on display but also the deeper logic of the categorizing schemes used in each museum. The official history of crime presented to the public, epitomized by police museums, provides a fascinating counterpoint to the contemporary academic history of crime in Latin America, which is remarkably diverse but converges on its use of historical analysis to challenge normative understandings of the law and the illicit. Far from “calling the law into question,” unsurprisingly, police museums naturalize and dehistoricize the criminal law. Yet this forum points toward ways in which further research on police museums can shed new light on how the public encounters the most problematic and controversial manifestations of state power.
"El relato de una casa deshabitada: voz, sujeto y nación en Silencios de Karla Suárez", published in: Confluencia, spring 2010, volume 25, number 2, p.158-167
by Nanne Timmer
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In Teresa Orecchia Havas (comp.), Homenaje a Ricardo Piglia, Buenos Aires, Catálogos, 2012, pp. 233-250. ISBN 978-950-895-308-7
Perder es cuestión de método: una poética del fracaso
Published in Revista Crítica de Literatura Latinoamericana, XXXI, 62 (2005), Lima-Hanover, pp. 265-280. ISSN 0252-8843
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