Latin Americanism (review)

MLN ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 117 (2) ◽  
pp. 509-511
Author(s):  
Gustavo Verdesio
Keyword(s):  
Latin Americanism

scholarly journals Latin Americanism de Román de la Campa

2000 ◽  
Vol 66 (192) ◽  
pp. 679-680
Author(s):  
Brian Gollnick
Keyword(s):  
Latin Americanism

‘Digital indigestion’: cumbia, class and a post-digital ethos in Buenos Aires

Popular Music ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Baker
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Digital Divide ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Local Form ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
The Third ◽  
Popular Classes ◽  
Latin Americanism

AbstractThis article focuses on three recent manifestations of cumbia in Buenos Aires, Argentina: digital cumbia released by ZZK Records; retro cumbia orchestras; and a newer strand of digital cumbia, música turra. The first two are identified with the middle class, whereas the third emerged from the clases populares (‘popular classes’). Música turra is underpinned by government policies towards digital inclusion, while middle-class incursions into the traditionally working-class sphere of cumbia, too, suggest increasing social cohesion. However, the digital fascination of música turra contrasts with an embrace of the analogue and acoustic in middle-class cumbia. These developments point to the emergence of a post-digital ethos and a shift from a digital to a post-digital divide, also running along class lines, analysed here through a Bourdieusian lens of taste and distinction. While transnational in nature, the post-digital ethos appears in Buenos Aires in a distinctive local form, articulated to growing Latin Americanism and post-neoliberalism on the part of the middle class.

scholarly journals Postcolonial theory and its Impact upon modern historical-anthropological research of Latin America

2021 ◽  
pp. 61-69
Author(s):  
Irina Veselova
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Anthropological Research ◽  
Special Challenge ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Latin Americanism

The object of this research is the postcolonial theory, while the subject is its impact upon the historical, and namely, historical-anthropological research of Latin America. The author examines such peculiarities of post-colonialism as the problem of identification, the “oppressed”, the importance of linguistic component of scientific description, as well as the political bias of this direction. Attention is turned to the process of adaptation of postcolonial theory to Latin American scientific foundation; emphasis is placed on the fact that the region has its own tradition of interpretation of the colonial past that results in occurrence of the so-called phenomenon of decolonial turn within the Latin American humanities. Based on the comparative method and qualitative content analysis of the works dedicated to postcolonial theory, the author demonstrates the presence of a wide range of opinions of Latin American researchers on such concepts as “colonialism: and “Latin Americanism”. The conclusion is made that the intense discussion on the theoretical aspects of colonial and decolonial theory may underlie the new vector in the historical studies of Latin America.  At the same time, decolonial turn alongside postcolonial theory, raise a number of questions, the solution of which is vital for the development of accurate methodology for further scientific research. For the Russian Latin American scholars, the new trends turn into a special challenge that should be considered in carrying out historical and anthropological research.

Aesthetic Moments of Latin Americanism

2004 ◽  
Vol 2004 (89) ◽  
pp. 13-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. G. Canclini
Keyword(s):  
Latin Americanism

Introduction

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaime Rodríguez Matos
Keyword(s):  
Political Representation ◽  
Cuban Revolution ◽  
The People ◽  
Latin Americanism

The introduction foregrounds the relation of the formless to the fields of thought treated in the book: Latin Americanism, the Cuban Revolution, the question of political representation in connection to philosophical developments concerning time, and the writings of Lezama Lima. The book explores the link between abstract symbolic procedures and various political experiments in giving form to a principle of sovereignty based on the category of the People. It advances the notion of the formless as the limit of modern and contemporary reflections on the meaning of politics. The introduction also begins to outline the philosophical consequences of a formless concept of temporality (also understood in the book as the end of a single hegemonic Time and the end of multiple temporalities, or times) for the critique of metaphysics.

Transatlantic Studies: The Discipline that Thinks Itself Beyond its Threshold

2019 ◽  
pp. 30-42
Author(s):  
Joan Ramon Resina
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Value ◽  
Frames Of Reference ◽  
Institutional Pressures ◽  
Transatlantic Studies ◽  
Hispanic Studies ◽  
Latin Americanism

Transatlantic studies can be seen as a response to institutional pressures to rationalize resources by collapsing former units into “super-regional” frames of reference. Transatlanticism proposes an inter-continental framework, bringing under its canopy the cognate but often alienated specialties of Hispanism and Latin Americanism. In the “new” discipline, the old system of Hispanic studies, featuring the culture of Castilian Spain and its linguistic legacy in the nations born of its former colonies, reasserts itself under conditions of scarcity associated with the implosion of the Humanities. An alternative to this “modern” paradigm could be a postmodern, ironic discipline. The mark of the postmodern is the retention of pre-modern elements within an incongruous structure operating with a different functionality. For transatlantic Hispanism, irony could translate into awareness of the discipline’s imperial origins, while recasting it according to a new principle of organization that no longer rests on the alleged universality of an imperial language that fixes cultural value. An ironic discipline takes stock of its limits, and by doing so leaves them conceptually behind. In this way, and in this way only, it thinks the “trans” of the “trans” and assumes its place in the post-postmodern university.

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