The Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association

Annually, the association publishes a journal, The Proceedings, which consists of papers presented at the annual meeting. Mitteleuropa as a Marxist Utopia by William L. Spalding, Jr. William Edward Dodd: Historian of the Old South by Jack K. Williams Sandino: Patriot or Bandit by Joseph O. Baylen The Study of South Carolina History by J. H. Easterby

Hybridity, communism and the avant-garde: Irena Blühová and Tina Modotti

This investigation compares the work of Irena Blühová and Tina Modotti between 1924 and 1936 based on ideas of cultural hybridity, photographic theory and social and Marxist art history. Centred on the premise that they worked in similar socio- political environments, shared common biographical points and were some of the first modernist women photographers in their region, a number of aspects relating to their work are examined in relation to their socio-political background. Selected works by Blühová and Modotti are analysed and compared, making apparent that, whilst they start photographing with different ulterior motives, thematically their work is moving into a similar direction from around 1926. Partly, this is due to their involvement with the communist party and the links between politics and photography on an international scale; partly to the fact that they share a concern for the culture of the countries they worked in. These concerns are expanded upon by the fact that both Blühová and Modotti intermediate between the national and the international, the aesthetic, social and the political within their local contexts, which forms distinct similarities in their work.

Crítica del “comunismo a la tica” desde el marxismo latinoamericano descolonizado

This work is part of a history of the political ideas in Latin America, approached from Marxist criteria (structural and situational) and from a framework of construction of a radical emancipationist Latin American theory. Both criteria are used to analyse a ‘tican’ (Costa Rican) style communism (comunismo “a la tica”), as an ideological expression that must be criticised and overcome.

ALGUNOS LINEAMIETOS GENERALES PARA EL MARCO TEORICO DEL ESPACIO

En este articulo se estudia la categoría del espacio como una instancia, un elemento estructural de la totalidad social, en donde ocurre un proceso social específico. Mediante la introducción de la instancia espacial, en el análisis marxista clásico, junto a la instancia económica, jurídica, política e ideológica, se tratara de avanzar en esta corriente de pensamiento científico. Existe una relación dialéctica entre las relaciones sociales y las relaciones espaciales, esta relación le permite una autonomía a la instancia espacial. La producción del espacio desde los inicios, mediante la relación hombre-naturaleza, hasta su forma más evolucionada, la ciudad, se realiza mediante la intervención del hombre con acciones individuales, colectivas y acciones estatales. Al mismo tiempo el espacio es construido, destruido y reconstruido, en esta acción la clase dominante lleva la iniciativa y contribuye a la producción del espacio de acuerdo con sus intereses. SUMMARY In this article the category of the space is studied as an instance, a structural element of the social totality, where there happens a social specific process. By means of the introduction of the spatial instance, in the Marxist classic analysis, close to the economic, juridical, political and ideological instance, it was a question of advancing in this current of scientific thought. A dialectical relation exists between the social relations and the spatial relations; this relation allows him autonomy the spatial instance. From its beginnings, by means of a man - nature relationship, up to its most revolutionized form, the city; the spatial production is a accomplished by means of the intervention of the man with individual, collective actions and state actions. At the same time the space it is constructed, destroyed and reconstructed, in this action the dominant class takes the initiative and contributes to the production of the space of accordance with its interests.   RESUME cet article on étudie la catégorie de l'espace comme une instance, un élément structurel de la totalité sociale, où un processus spécifique. Grâce à l'introduction de l'space comme instance, de l'analyse marxiste classique, au même titre que     l’économique, juridique, politique et idéologique, on essaye faire progresser ce courant de pensée scientifique. On propose l’existence d’ une relation dialectique entre les relations sociales et les relations spatiales, ce qui permet une autonomie à l'instance spatiale. La production del espace, les origines, se fait selon la relation un homme – nature. Ceci continue jusqu'à sa forme la plus sophistiquée: la ville. Elle  se réalise par l'intervention de l'homme par des actions individuelles, collectives et des actions étatiques. Durant ce temps l'espace est construit, détruit et reconstruit, mais c’est toujours classe dominante qui impose les initiatives et finalement ses intérêts.