Desterrando minas

Desterrando minas es, a su vez, un documental de contexto y un documental de proceso. A partir de la inmersión en los mismos campamentos en los que viven los desminadores se cuenta la historia de Nariño como la vivieron sus pobladores, se muestra la manera en la que el miedo fue el principal configurador de las relaciones entre la comunidad y su territorio y cómo el desminado ha transformado ese miedo

New modes of governance of latin american higher education : Chile, Argentina and M??xico

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Los estudios latinoamericanos en el siglo XXI (Tema Central)

El autor, a partir de un rápido recorrido por lo que han sido los estudios latinoamericanos en el siglo XX, hace algunas aproximaciones a lo que serán los cambios y desafíos que tendrán aquellos en el siglo XXI. Para Whitehead, la necesidad de estudiar y entender las realidades específicas de América Latina, y de transmitir estos conocimientos locales para enriquecer el conocimiento universal, no va a desaparecer en el presente siglo.

Interdisciplinariedad y estudios latinoamericanos (Tema Central)

Dos preguntas centrales orientan el desarrollo de este artículo: ¿qué significa estudiar América Latina en la actualidad? y ¿cuán fructífera ha sido la interdisciplinariedad en los estudios latinoamericanos? Para el autor, la primera pregunta apunta a encontrar el sentido del momento actual de los estudios latinoamericanos a la luz de la experiencia del pasado, y la segunda a evaluar los conocimientos adquiridos y acumulados en esa trayectoria histórica.

Repensando la categoría de Estado en América Latina: recuperación del pensamiento teórico latinoamericano (Tema Central)

La autora hace un recorrido por las tendencias que han seguido los estudios del Estado en el siglo XX y para ello, aborda cinco momentos históricos que refieren a autores claves y representativos del pensamiento crítico latinoamericano. Las preguntas: ¿cómo se ha estudiado al Estado en América Latina? y ¿qué desafíos plantean las crisis institucionales a los conceptos tradicionales? delimitan el artículo. Finalmente, hace un balance de las corrientes que han caracterizado cada momento y propone una posible línea de investigación que considera acorde con la compleja y asincrónica realidad latinoamericana.

Latin American critical (‘Social’) epidemiology: new settings for an old dream

The present paper offers a fresh perspective from the South about the relevance of progressive Latin American public health (termed ‘collective health’) by highlighting a number of its hard scientific contributions which, unfortunately, remain almost unknown to mainstream medical and public health researchers outside Latin America. An armed form of structural greed has now placed the world on the brink of destruction. At the same time, however, fresh winds blow in the continent. This paper is an invitation to confront the menacing forces producing our unhealthy societies and an opportunity to form fraternal partnerships on the intercultural road to a better world, where only an epidemiology of dignity and happiness will make sense.

Back to the margins in search of the core: foreign land's geography of exclusion

The crisis of the national project in the early 1990s, caused by a short-lived but disastrous government, led Brazilian art cinema, for the first time, to look at itself as periphery and re-approach the old colonial centre, Portugal. Terra estrangeira/Foreign Land (Walter Salles & Daniela Thomas, Brazil/Portugal, 1995), a film about Brazilian exiles in Portugal, is the best illustration of this perspective shift aimed at providing a new sense of Brazil’s scale and position within a global context. Shot mainly on location in São Paulo, Lisbon and Cape Verde, it promotes the encounter of Lusophone peoples who find a common ground in their marginal situation. Even Portugal is defined by its location at the edge of Europe and by beliefs such as Sebastianism, whose origins go back to the time when the country was dominated by Spain. As a result, notions of ‘core’ or ‘centre’ are devolved to the realm of myth. The film’s carefully crafted dialogues combine Brazilian, Portuguese and Creole linguistic peculiarities into a common dialect of exclusion, while language puns trigger visual rhymes which refer back to the Cinema Novo (the Brazilian New Wave) repertoire and restage the imaginary of the discovery turned into unfulfilled utopia. The main characters also acquire historical resonances, as they are depicted as descendants of Iberian conquistadors turned into smugglers of precious stones in the present. Their activities define a circuit of international exchange which resonates with that of globalized cinema, a realm in which Foreign Land, made up of citations and homage to other cinemas, tries to retrieve a sense of belonging.

Soft balancing in the Americas: Latin American opposition to U.S. intervention, 1898–1936

In the aftermath of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, scholars of international relations debated how to best characterize the rising tide of global opposition. The concept of “soft balancing” emerged as an influential, though contested, explanation of a new phenomenon in a unipolar world: states seeking to constrain the ability of the United States to deploy military force by using multinational organizations, international law, and coalition building. Soft balancing can also be observed in regional unipolar systems. Multinational archival research reveals how Argentina, Mexico, and other Latin American countries responded to expanding U.S. power and military assertiveness in the early twentieth century through coordinated diplomatic maneuvering that provides a strong example of soft balancing. Examination of this earlier case makes an empirical contribution to the emerging soft-balancing literature and suggests that soft balancing need not lead to hard balancing or open conflict.

The Cold War and its aftermath in the Americas: the search for a synthetic interpretation of U.S. policy

More than two decades have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the transfer of the Cold War file from a daily preoccupation of policy makers to a more detached assessment by historians. Scholars of U.S.-Latin American relations are beginning to take advantage both of the distance in time and of newly opened archives to reflect on the four decades that, from the 1940s to the 1980s, divided the Americas, as they did much of the world. Others are seeking to understand U.S. policy and inter-American relations in the post-Cold War era, a period that not only lacks a clear definition but also still has no name. Still others have turned their gaze forward to offer policies in regard to the region for the new Obama administration. Numerous books and review essays have addressed these three subjects—the Cold War, the post-Cold War era, and current and future issues on the inter-American agenda. Few of these studies attempt, however, to connect the three subjects or to offer new and comprehensive theories to explain the course of U.S. policies from the beginning of the twentieth century until the present. Indeed, some works and policy makers continue to use the mind-sets of the Cold War as though that conflict were still being fought. With the benefit of newly opened archives, some scholars have nevertheless drawn insights from the depths of the Cold War that improve our understanding of U.S. policies and inter-American relations, but they do not address the question as to whether the United States has escaped the longer cycle of intervention followed by neglect that has characterized its relations with Latin America. Another question is whether U.S. policies differ markedly before, during, and after the Cold War. In what follows, we ask whether the books reviewed here provide any insights in this regard and whether they offer a compass for the future of inter-American relations. We also offer our own thoughts as to how their various perspectives could be synthesized to address these questions more comprehensively.

Iberia-Latin-American Symposia of Morphological Terminology (SILAT). First Two Years and Statute

On the occasion of meeting the first two years of life, it makes a review of SILAT as scientific and educational program that serves as a tool to analyze and solve the problems of morphological medical terminology in the countries of Hispanic and Portuguese-speaking America. It describes the basis of its creation, strategy and scope in the region, the founding years and its immediate future. Finally, some conclusions are indicated and it Statute is annexed.