Religion, fear and caution: Some reflections on the interactions among practitioners of Latin American spirit-mediumship, the academic world, and organized religion

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yves Marton
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Academic World ◽  
Spirit Mediumship

Evaluation of the Occupation and Evacuation of Peñalolen Settlement, Santiago De Chile

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 5-17
Author(s):  
Julián Salas Serrano
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Common Phenomenon ◽  
Academic World ◽  
Santiago De Chile ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Transformation Stage

This paper aims to ascertain that Latin America's current urban growth through large and organized ‘land squattings’ and limited invasions is a massive, plural and common phenomenon which, to a certain extent, has been, up to now, ignored by 'the academic world and by formal urban planning. On July 5, 1999, 10,000 organized individuals occupied a 23.45 ha. plot at Peñalolén, in Santiago de Chile. The event had great impact and received much attention, and the author closely followed the events that led to the consolidation of the ‘settlement‘ (1999-2006) through phases of negotiation, evacuation and relocation of its settlers, and finally to the current (2008) transformation stage which the plot is undergoing in order to become ‘Peñalolén's Communal Park’.This paper emphasizes the main paradigms that can be drawn from the different occupation stages, with special focus on peculiarities found at ‘Peñalolén Settlement’ compared to other Latin American ‘squattings’, in an attempt to systematize and draw conclusions on ‘self-development urbanism’.

A Two-Headed Thinker: Rüdiger Bilden, Gilberto Freyre, and the Reinvention of Brazilian Identity

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Lúcia Pallares-Burke
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
The Other ◽  
Academic World ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
German Scholar ◽  
Brazilian Identity ◽  
Brazilian Culture

This chapter discusses how the creative use of Franz Boas's ideas to analyze Brazilian culture and society and to “discover” Brazil for the Brazilians was the work of two scholars, the Brazilian Gilberto Freyre and the German Rüdiger Bilden. Freyre has been credited with the invention of Brazilian identity with the publication of his Casa-Grande & Senzala (translated into English as The Masters and the Slaves) in 1933 and is described as Boas's most outstanding Latin American disciple. On the other hand, Bilden, a German scholar who was closer to Boas and once seemed to have a brilliant future, later dropped out of the academic world and disappeared into obscurity.

scholarly journals Pensar el pasado para adaptarse al cambio climático. El aporte necesario de la historia ambiental latinoamericana/ Thinking about the past in order to adapt to climate change. The necessary contribution from Latin American environmental history

2018 ◽  
pp. 8-26
Author(s):  
Katherinne Giselle Mora Pacheco
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Environmental History ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Academic World ◽  
America Latina ◽  
The Relationship

Este artículo resalta la necesidad de involucrar a la historia en la construcción de estrategias adaptativas para el presente y el futuro. También presenta un balance sobre algunas de las reflexiones sobre la adaptación frente al cambio climático en perspectiva histórica, principalmente desde el mundo anglosajón, pero con trabajos pioneros para América Latina. El texto invita a ir más allá de las historias de coyunturas y fracasos, para reconstruir visiones de mediano y largo plazo sobre la relación clima-sociedad, que incluyan los casos en los cuales el resultado no fue fatídico. Por último, señala algunas tareas y metodologías que los historiadores ambientales latinoamericanos pueden incluir en sus agendas investigativas. Abstract This article highlights how important is the participation of history in the design of adaptive strategies for the present and future. Also, it does a balance about some reflections on adaptation to climate change in historical perspective, mainly from the Anglo-Saxon academic world, but with some exceptions from Latin America. The article is an invitation to go beyond the stories of conjuncture and failures, to reconstruct medium and long-term visions about the relationship between climate and society, which include the cases in which the result was not fateful. Finally, it indicates some tasks and methodologies for research agendas of environmental historians in Latin America.

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