Baroque Modernity in Latin America: Situating Indigeneity, Urban Indigeneity and the Popular Economy

La economía urbana (EU) surgió de la mano de propuestas espacialistas y economicismos y continúa siendo tallada por estas A pesar de una evidente institucionalización de la economía social y solidaria (ESS) en América Latina, que da cuenta de un creciente pluralismo económico, en la EU perdura la hegemonía del enfoque del sector informal urbano y sus presiones por transformar en capitalistas cada práctica de economía popular. Buscando el reconocimiento de la economía social (ES) en este campo, el artículo ilustra brevemente la institucionalización de la ESS y plantea una provocativa exploración por poner en diálogo a la ES con la teoría de los dos circuitos. Un diálogo como este constituye una deuda pendiente que puede aportar a la disputa del campo así como a encontrar mejores comprensiones y, también, a transformar las economías de nuestros territorios en un sentido progresivo.Palabras-clave: economía urbana; dos circuitos de la economía urbana; economía social; economía social y solidaria; economía popular. Abstract: The urban economy has been hardly influenced by spatial proposals and economicism. In Latin America, while the institutionalization of social and solidarity economy of the last few years shows a growing economic pluralism, in the urban economy field persists the hegemony of urban informal sector perspective, and its pressures of transforming in capitalist every popular economy practice. Seeking for recognition of social economy in this field, the article succinctly illustrates social and solidarity institutionalization in the region and suggests a provocative exploration to put in dialogue social economy with two circuits of urban economy theory. Such a dialogue is considered as a debt, which we understand could contribute to dispute the field, to get better explanations and also to transform in a progressive sense the economy of our territories. Keywords: urban: economy; two circuits of urban economy; social economy; social and solidarity economy; popular economy.

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The Genesis and Internal Dynamics of El Salvador's People's Revolutionary Army, 1970–1976

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x13009850 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 38 (01) ◽

pp. 102-129

Author(s):

ALBERTO MARTÍN ÁLVAREZ ◽

EUDALD CORTINA ORERO

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

El Salvador ◽

Early Years ◽

Left Wing ◽

Internal Dynamics ◽

Internal Coherence ◽

The 1960S

AbstractUsing interviews with former militants and previously unpublished documents, this article traces the genesis and internal dynamics of the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (People's Revolutionary Army, ERP) in El Salvador during the early years of its existence (1970–6). This period was marked by the inability of the ERP to maintain internal coherence or any consensus on revolutionary strategy, which led to a series of splits and internal fights over control of the organisation. The evidence marshalled in this case study sheds new light on the origins of the armed Salvadorean Left and thus contributes to a wider understanding of the processes of formation and internal dynamics of armed left-wing groups that emerged from the 1960s onwards in Latin America.

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