scholarly journals ‘Mijita Rica’: The female body as a subject in the public space

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 1290
Author(s):  
Ana María Ledezma
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Symbolic Violence ◽  
Separate Spheres ◽  
The Public ◽  
Ideological Background ◽  
Accepted Practice

The politeness system is one of the most subtle and everyday forms of gender violence.Harassment in public is a socially accepted practice in Chile, where the ideological background crosses the various social spheres and remains rooted in the national and Latin American ethos.This article questions its bases, revealing the symbolic violence, gender hierarchization, and the reproduction of the ideology of separate spheres infused in street "flattery".

scholarly journals PRAISE OF THE CONVERT: BELIEVE AND BELONG FROM THE CATHOLICITY OF LATIN AMERICA

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 327-339
Author(s):  
Felipe Gaytán Alcalá
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Church

Latin America was considered for many years the main bastion of Catholicism in the world by the number of parishioners and the influence of the church in the social and political life of the región, but in recent times there has been a decrease in the catholicity index. This paper explores three variables that have modified the identity of Catholicism in Latin American countries. The first one refers to the conversion processes that have expanded the presence of Christian denominations, by analyzing the reasons that revolve around the sense of belonging that these communities offer and that prop up their expansion and growth. The second variable accounts for those Catholics who still belong to the Catholic Church but who in their practices and beliefs have incorporated other magical or esoteric scheme in the form of religious syncretisms, modifying their sense of being Catholics in the world. The third factor has a political reference and has to do with the concept of laicism, a concept that sets its objective, not only in the separation of the State from the Church, but for historical reasons in catholicity restraint in the public space which has led to the confinement of the Catholic to the private, leaving other religious groups to occupy that space.

scholarly journals The political in recent urbanism of collective actions in the public space and its implications in some Latin-American contexts

ESTOA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (11) ◽  
pp. 7-17
Author(s):  
Nuria Álvarez Lombardero ◽  
◽  
Francisco González de Canales ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Latin American ◽  
The Political ◽  
Collective Actions ◽  
The Public

scholarly journals Valoración de la Calidad Visual del Paisaje Urbano de Interés Patrimonial = Valuation of the visual quality of the urban landscape of patrimonial interest

2020 ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Josué Eliseo Llanque Chana
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Visual Quality ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
Psychological Attributes ◽  
American Heritage ◽  
The City

ResumenLos centros históricos latinoamericanos, unas de las creaciones más interesantes de nuestra cultura, se enfrentan a profundas mutaciones físicas, sociales, funcionales, medioambientales y sobre todo paisajísticas. El paisaje del espacio público como lugar descubierto, generalmente rodeado de edificios, decorado por estatuas, fuentes, áreas de estancia, vegetación, etc., y destinado al embellecimiento de una ciudad, ha sido concebido para que los ciudadanos se reúnan a percibir la ciudad y a observar el espectáculo arquitectónico de sus principales edificios monumentales. El objetivo de la presente investigación es proponer una nueva metodología para la valoración de la calidad visual del paisaje urbano en áreas de interés patrimonial, considerada desde la visión, que se complementa con otros atributos físico-ambientales, visual-estéticos y socio-psicológicos. Adicionalmente, la calidad visual constituye un componente de la calidad ambiental y de la vida urbana que fomenta el sentido de pertenencia de las personas con su medio natural y construido. Su aplicación a los espacios patrimoniales latinoamericanos lo convierten en una nueva herramienta metodológica para su adaptación.AbstractThe historical centers of Latin America, some of the most interesting creations of our culture, face profound physical, social, functional, environmental and especially landscape changes. The landscape of the public space as a discovered place, generally surrounded by buildings, decorated by statues, fountains, living areas, vegetation, etc., and intended to beautify a city, has been conceived so that citizens come together to perceive the city and to observe the architectural spectacle of its main monumental buildings. The objective of this research is to propose a new methodology for the assessment of the visual quality of the urban landscape in areas of heritage interest, considered from the perspective, which is complemented with other physical-environmental, visual-aesthetic and socio-psychological attributes. Additionally, visual quality constitutes a component of environmental quality and urban life that fosters people's sense of belonging to their natural and built environment. Its application to Latin American heritage spaces make it a new methodological tool for its adaptation.

scholarly journals A Bridge to the Past: Public Memory and Nostalgia for the Communist Times in Modern Georgia

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-51
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Kovtiak
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
The Public ◽  
Official Discourse ◽  
Soviet People ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ideological Background ◽  
Flea Market

AbstractThis paper deals with the politics of memory in contemporary Georgia’s public space. It explores the relations between official and vernacular commemorations of the Soviet past in Tbilisi. In this paper, I have studied the forms of materialization of vernacular memories in the public space and provided a frame in which they exist, including the ideological background of decommunization in Georgia and peculiarities of the Soviet era museumizing in state museums. The official discourse demonizes the previous epoque and neglects all its benefits, whereas the ordinary people are quite nuanced in their memories of their past – this contradiction leads to manifestations of vernacular memories. Therefore, this paper focuses mostly on Tbilisi’s Dry Bridge, a famous flea market where the memory of the recent Soviet past is negotiated. The main argument is that this particular flea market and its artifacts might be regarded as a “vernacular memorial” and “lieu de memoire” where nostalgia for an officially demonized era can be expressed and materialized. This paper explores the items that are on sale, explaining their meaning for the post-Soviet people, and describes the intangible practices that can be observed there. In addition, this paper unpacks that these nostalgic practices should not be considered as “unhealthy” or “retrospective” as it helps people to adapt to modernity and develop by considering more than one hegemonic version of their past.

scholarly journals Latinoamérica go.es: el arte de acción como metodología de investigación experiencial

Ñawi ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Fiacha O'Donnell Pina
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Video Art ◽  
Multidisciplinary Research ◽  
Research Project ◽  
The Public ◽  
Documentary Video ◽  
Public Areas ◽  
Action Art

Latinoamérica Go.es es un proyecto de investigación multidisciplinar sobre las distintas apropiaciones culturales que se dan en el espacio público por parte de las comunidades latinoamericanas que viven en Madrid (2011-2015). El trabajo surge de una colaboración conjunta entre los colectivos Arquitectura Expandida (Bogotá) y Elgatoconmoscas (Madrid). El objetivo del presente artículo es analizar e interpretar los resultados de este estudio centrando la atención en las distintas estrategias de aproximación que fueron llevadas a cabo a través del arte de acción, todo ello documentado audiovisualmente (documental, videoarte). Las distintas intervenciones artísticas que componen la investigación: Ecuavóley, Carrito-barbacoa y Corte latino funcionan como piezas independientes, pero han sido compiladas y exhibidas conjuntamente en el proyecto expositivo C.I.T.I., bajo el título de El evento es fuera a modo de publicación de resultados. Lo que se pretende es subrayar la importancia del componente experiencial en un estudio sobre eventos cultuales puramente vivenciales. AbstractLatin America Go.es is a multidisciplinary research project on the different cultural appropriations that the Latin American communities living in Madrid carry out in the public areas (2011-2015). The idea arose from a joint collaboration between the groups “Arquitectura Expandida” (Bogota) and “Elgatoconmoscas” (Madrid). The objective of this article is to analyse and interpret the results of this study focusing on the different approaches that were carried out through the art of action, all documented audiovisually (documentary, Video-art). Various artistic performances that make up the research: Ecuavóley, Carrito Barbacoa (trolley-barbecue) and Corte Latino (Latin cut) work as independent pieces but have beencompiled and exhibited jointly in the Project exhibition C.I.T.I., under the title ofthe El Evento esta fuera (The Event Is Out There) as a public spread of the results. Keywords: Action art; latin communities; public space; situations design; videoart.

The presence of religion in the Latin American public space. Notes for a debate: La presencia de la religión en el espacio público latinoamericano. Apuntes para la discusión

2018 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 467-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Cruz Esquivel ◽  
Rodrigo Toniol
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
United States ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Latin American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Thematic Issue ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social

Religion in the public space constitutes a structuring issue of the contemporary debates of the social sciences of religion. This article mobilizes part of that literature, circumscribing it to the Latin American context. In that attempt, we work in two dimensions. First, we present how, from the historical and political configurations of our region in the debate, problems and questions about the public space are addressed distant from those commonly encountered when the empirical reference corresponds to the United States-Europe map. The aim is to explore the regional particularities for an effort to theoretically and methodologically strengthen the analysis of this topic. The second dimension contemplated in the text is the presentation of concrete empirical situations in which religion in public space is condensed as a controversy, that mobilize and is mobilized by different actors: politicians, religious, academics, media. These two dimensions go through the thematic issue that follows this article.

scholarly journals Latinoamérica go.es: el arte de acción como metodología de investigación experiencial.

Ñawi ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Fiacha O'Donnell Pina
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Video Art ◽  
Multidisciplinary Research ◽  
Research Project ◽  
The Public ◽  
Documentary Video ◽  
Public Areas ◽  
Action Art

Latinoamérica Go.es es un proyecto de investigación multidisciplinar sobre las distintas apropiaciones culturales que se dan en el espacio público por parte de las comunidades latinoamericanas que viven en Madrid (2011-2015). El trabajo surge de una colaboración conjunta entre los colectivos Arquitectura Expandida (Bogotá) y Elgatoconmoscas (Madrid). El objetivo del presente artículo es analizar e interpretar los resultados de este estudio centrando la atención en las distintas estrategias de aproximación que fueron llevadas a cabo a través del arte de acción, todo ello documentado audiovisualmente (documental, videoarte). Las distintas intervenciones artísticas que componen la investigación: Ecuavóley, Carrito-barbacoa y Corte latino funcionan como piezas independientes, pero han sido compiladas y exhibidas conjuntamente en el proyecto expositivo C.I.T.I., bajo el título de El evento es fuera a modo de publicación de resultados. Lo que se pretende es subrayar la importancia del componente experiencial en un estudio sobre eventos cultuales puramente vivenciales. AbstractLatin America Go.es is a multidisciplinary research project on the different cultural appropriations that the Latin American communities living in Madrid carry out in the public areas (2011-2015). The idea arose from a joint collaboration between the groups “Arquitectura Expandida” (Bogota) and “Elgatoconmoscas” (Madrid). The objective of this article is to analyse and interpret the results of this study focusing on the different approaches that were carried out through the art of action, all documented audiovisually (documentary, Video-art). Various artistic performances that make up the research: Ecuavóley, Carrito Barbacoa (trolley-barbecue) and Corte Latino (Latin cut) work as independent pieces but have beencompiled and exhibited jointly in the Project exhibition C.I.T.I., under the title ofthe El Evento esta fuera (The Event Is Out There) as a public spread of the results. Keywords: Action art; latin communities; public space; situations design; videoart.

scholarly journals Seeing the Belly Dance as a Feminist Possibility: Gaze, Gender and Public Space in İstanbul

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-84
Author(s):  
Işık Eğrikavuk
Keyword(s):  
Group Theory ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Feminist Identity ◽  
Male Gaze ◽  
Belly Dance ◽  
The Public ◽  
Muted Group ◽  
Feminist Practice

This paper discusses the ancient form of belly dance as an example to speak more in depth about the public spaces of Istanbul, where the female body is constantly under surveillance by the male gaze. Over thousands of years, the ancient dance form of belly dance has been transformed from a collective women’s ritual to a form of entertainment that serves the male gaze. This paper looks for the possibilities tore-define belly dance as a feminist counter strategy to revive its essence. Framed by the Muted Group Theory, this paper also exemplifies various artworks and strategies produced by female artists and analyze them in the light of this theory. It also searches for redefining the belly dance as part of a feminist identity and asks whether these artistic strategies could be pathways in re-defining belly dance as a feminist practice.

scholarly journals Reflections on local participatory democracy in Latin America

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (6) ◽  
pp. 1108-1124
Author(s):  
Felipe Addor
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Participatory Democracy ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Local Power ◽  
Popular Participation ◽  
The Public

Abstract This work presents reflections on the field of participatory democracy in Latin America, based on the analysis of the experiences of Cotacachi in Ecuador, and Torres in Venezuela, which are examples of great popular participation at the local level. The study proposes to interpret the experiences from a Latin American point of view, considering the singularities of each municipality analyzed. The aim is to identify which factors contribute to the emergence and consolidation of mechanisms of participation in the public policy decision-making process. In order to approximate the democratic theory of the context of Latin America, the study presents an analysis structured in two relevant concepts for the theory: agency and public space. These concepts were essential to identify which factors allowed the creation and consolidation of practices of participatory democracy at the local level. The analysis of the experiences resulted in a list of seven factors that were fundamental for their advancement and diffusion, factors that may represent important guidelines for the development of new democratic practices in countries of the region. Finally, the study present some reflections on the challenges that must be overcome to expand the local power and popular participation in Latin America.

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