Este estudio pretende comprender las experiencias educativas de las personas afrolatinas que viven en España a través del lente de la antinegritud. Así, se abordan las experiencias educativas como situaciones privilegiadas desde las que entender la función de la antinegritud y su relación con la conformación de identidades de género y sexualidad para las personas afrolatinas en España. Se diseñó una metodología de corte cualitativo en la que interactuaron tres elementos centrales: entrevistas semiestructuradas a personas de origen afro-latino que habitan o habitaron el estado español y sus instituciones educativas, análisis documental y relatos asociados a la propia experiencia de las personas que componemos el equipo de investigación. La aproximación propuesta ha permitido concluir que las experiencias educativas de las personas afrolatinas hacen parte del sistema social de construcción de las diferencias sexo-genéricas que alimentan relatos y estructuras antinegras en España.
This essay connects the notions of body/territory and intersectionality in analysing street artivism during the Chilean uprising of 2019. Two vignettes are used to illustrate how conceptually the notion of body/territory reflects experiences of inequality (based on gender, class and nationality) as part of the violence exercised upon the territories where these experiences unfold. Methodologically, the lens of body/territory enables reading street artivism both as an aesthetic expression of protest and as a mechanism to reveal the intersectional character of how inequality is experienced by bodies in territories. The paper shows that the body/territory imaginary affords a spatial character to intersectionality, which in turn strengthens public spaces’ democratic potential.
This article combines autoethnography, history and geography to explain the intersectional discriminatory logics behind the planning of Ciudad Universitaria, the modernist campus of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City, from 1947 to the present. The theoretical tools of intersectionality, Michel Foucault’s concept of disciplinary spaces, the phenomenology of discrimination, and Milton Santos’s concept of rugosidade are deployed to demonstrate how the spaces of CU were designed to accommodate some users and to exclude others, as seen in the organization of its facilities, roads, borders and public transportation network. Therefore, this public space can be relatively functional for some, but is openly dangerous for others, according to their intersectional characteristics: class, gender, and mobility.
Cali’s economic prosperity contrasts with social inequality. This is evident in selfbuilt neighborhoods where internally displaced persons, ethnic minorities, and other marginalized groups face overlapping oppressions. This article addresses the case of District 18 where an intersectional approach was used to reveal power dynamics that shape public spaces. Through the analysis of spatial contestation, forms of discrimination and temporal geographies of exclusion, we demonstrate how intersectionality allows to move from theory to practice in neighborhood upgrading. This experience offers insights on how social categories interact with spatial and temporal dimensions to reproduce social hierarchies in public spaces.
Este artículo revisa las traducciones femeninas realizadas en Chile en el siglo xix y los perfiles de sus traductoras desde el enfoque de la historia cultural. El análisis las comprende como partícipes de una comunidad cultural de élite que halló en la labor traductológica una estrategia para participar en la esfera intelectual y literaria, contribuyendo a la difusión del conocimiento y a la reivindicación de sus derechos. Se analizan sus biografías y las temáticas que abordaron, revelando un proceso de ampliación desde enfoques moralizantes a intereses diversos como la ciencia y la filosofía. El análisis permite concluir que la traducción realizada por mujeres fue una estrategia de afirmación femenina y expansión de sus roles tradicionales.
Basándose en los conceptos teóricos de las Queer Ecologies, este artículo ofrece una relectura de tres obras del autor cubano Severo Sarduy, teniendo en cuenta sus aspectos socioecológicos. Argumenta que el tratamiento lúdico de motivos ecológicos en el ensayo La simulación (1982) y en las novelas Colibrí (1984) y Pájaros de la playa (1993), anticipa aspectos relevantes de esta teoría al subvertir la hetero y cisnormatividad como ejes centrales de los discursos hegemónicos sobre la naturaleza. A la vez, el pensamiento de Sarduy, que interactúa de manera original con la tradición hispanoamericana, contribuye al enriquecimiento y descentramiento de conceptos ecológicos queer, hasta ahora mayoritariamente circunscritos al mundo anglosajón.
Este Foro de Debate analiza, seis años después, los estallidos sociales que transformaron el escenario político reciente de Chile, Ecuador, Perú, Colombia y Bolivia. Desde una mirada comparada, los textos examinan no sólo el origen, los actores y las demandas de aquellas movilizaciones, sino sobre todo sus consecuencias: qué cambió -o no- en las agendas, las instituciones y las dinámicas sociales de cada país. El objetivo es ofrecer una reflexión crítica sobre el alcance y las huellas políticas y sociales que dejaron estos procesos de protesta en el escenario político de Latinoamérica contemporánea.
In this qualitative research, I analyze how the intersection of class with other dimensions of categorical inequality (gender, sexuality, and racialization) produces differentiated situations of vulnerability and discrimination in the experience of public space by young people from popular sectors. I focus on two different spatial scenarios in which youth from popular sectors encounter the “other”. On the one hand, I analyze experiences of exclusion and discrimination when these young people exceptionally visit places of consumption and recreation oriented towards upper-middle and high-class sectors. On the other hand, I analyze the insecurities and urban violence associated with the use of public transportation in their daily routines of moving around and through the city.
La instrumentalización política de Don Quijote en reinterpretaciones ensayísticas, literarias y mediales contemporáneas.
This article explores how various intersections of social markers such as race/ethnicity, gender, and class (re)produce the materialities of urban public space in Latin America. Based on five ethnographic studies conducted over the past two decades, we analyze how different social groups –skateboarding enthusiasts, street vendors, informal recyclers, seamstresses, domestic workers, and women and non-binary gamers– utilize and influence the urban public spaces of Buenos Aires, including virtual environments. The unequal urban experiences of these groups –characterized by distinct modes of resource acquisition, spatial navigation, and moral impositions– highlight the necessity of an intersectional perspective in comprehending the spatial processes that perpetuate inequality.
How do intersectional inequalities daily impact on the physical-material and social dimensions of urban public space in Latin America? Ethnographic data on the here-and-now of bodily and materially mediated interactions of homeless women in public streets, squares, courts, and halls of the region’s largest city during the Covid-19 pandemic (2020-2022) help me argue that intersectional inequalities interfere with the physical and social setting of urban public space situationally. After situating my thesis theoretically, I demonstrate it via a two-step methodology. Thus, four patterns of spatialized interaction related to the women’s social-reproductive practices in São Paulo disclose the interactional production of three situational spaces within public space in urban Latin America.
This article analyses rehabilitation in the Women’s Correctional House in Santiago, Chile, under the administration of the Good Shepherd congregation. It first profiles the women –prisoners, guards, and nuns– who populated the prison between its move to a new site in 1962 and the handover of the prison to the state prison service in 1996. It then tracks the sisters’ rehabilitation as an earthly, motherly love designed to lead prisoners to God’s redemptive love. Finally, the paper reveals how the nuns adapted this insular nineteenth-century “mission of love” to a change in prisoner profile and the professionalization of prison service staff in the second half of the twentieth century by incorporating external and scientific expertise into the project to evangelize prisoners.
The work presents three themes that were recorded and transmitted by Mexican journalists on their respective trips to communist China. In an era where the written story played a central role in the transmission of experiences, those who managed to witness a set of unique events, used to leave a record of what they saw and heard. The various journalist-travelers who traveled the world to learn about the experience of the Chinese revolution, found modernization processes in progress. The text will address the implications of how they recounted this process of modernization by considering the conception of time based on the idea of the "east wind" and the role of voluntarism in the domination of nature.
This article argues that the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm shaped a new global environmental regime that had been emerging since the 1950s in the context of the global post-Cold War, a regime characterized by transnational scientific and discursive exchanges to address the evidence of environmental problems that transcended national borders. In the constitution of this regime, Maoist and Global South environmental diplomacy played a central role, challenging the epistemological hegemony and political power of the Global North. Thus, the Stockholm Conference, as a field of dispute, learning, and reflection, opened up new challenges and possibilities for addressing global challenges and North-South and South-South cooperation initiatives.
This article examines Chinese perspectives on classical Latin American populism. Direct exchange between the two sides is still limited, and a systematization of the accumulated knowledge in China can be a valuable contribution to strengthening it. In the first part, the article briefly reviews the origins and uses of the concept of populism in Latin America and the characteristics of the classic cases. It then addresses the origins and translations of the concept of populism in China. Based on a selection of academic texts by Chinese authors on classic Latin American populisms, the third part conducts a content analysis of these studies, identifying the main thematic cores, the key trends in the use of translations of the concept, the Latin American authors cited and the views of Chinese authors on the topic. In the last section, it offers some lines to contribute to South-South academic dialogue.
| Abstract: This article analyses the historical process behind Panama establishing diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 2017 under President Juan Carlos Varela. While most Latin American countries switched diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to China in the late 20th century, Panama instead maintained relations with Taiwan. Utilizing archival documents and interviews with major Panamanian foreign policymakers, including two Panamanian presidents, this article explains why Panama switched diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to China much later than other Latin American countries, and why it was Varela, and none of his predecessors, who established relations with China. Furthermore, this article highlights how both U.S. geopolitical pressure and Taiwanese domestic politics influenced this process, frustrating Panamanian attempts to establish relations with China in 1980, the late 1990s, and 2009.
Over the past 20 years, Argentina stands out as the only Latin American country to produce a significant body of films about the Chinese diaspora. This article examines these representations in order to provide an overview of these narratives, identify their recurring themes, and distinctive features. The analysis reveals three central points: the evolution from stereotypical views to more diverse and subjective representations; the realistic depiction of the motives and conditions of migration; and the aesthetic and narrative hybridity as an expression of fluid identity.
Through a reading of the travel chronicles of the Latin American modernists Enrique G & oacute;mez Carrillo (1905) and Arturo Ambrogi (1915), this article analyzes the representations of China in the early twentieth century. Unlike previous studies, which have focused on how these authors reproduced or interpreted Orientalist discourse, this analysis examines the traces of the historical context of the Asian nation. By analyzing their itineraries and observations on Chinese culture, it argues that these chronicles articulate an ambivalent gaze: although they reproduce exoticizing elements, they also reveal a growing concern with China's social and political transformations during the late Qing dynasty and the early Republic. Therefore, these texts suggest an early formation of a Latin American imagination that articulated debates on modernity and colonialism across both regions.
El objetivo de este artículo es hacer una presentación y un análisis inicial de la obra de teatro Dragón de sangre (2023) de Carlos Pascual, la cual escenifica la matanza de 300 ciudadanos chinos en la ciudad de Torreón, Coahuila, en 1911, en los albores de la Revolución mexicana. Se enmarcará la obra, de manera sucinta, en el contexto literario mexicano actual, el cual se ha interesado en presentar, denunciar y reflexionar acerca de ese hecho histórico muy poco conocido. Se trata de identificar algunas de las circunstancias y motivaciones históricas, sociales, económicas y políticas que llevaron a lo que se considera el mayor crimen contra la comunidad asiática en la historia de Latinoamérica
