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Dependence Theory has been deemed as an obsolete approach for the study of Latin-American reality. The success in other peripheral geographic areas that managed to position themselves at the core of the world economy by the end of the 20th century apparently meant that the said theory was not valid anymore. However, the Latin-American countries are still not capable to correct the structural deficiencies that inspired the inception of the dependence, as they are still today significantly dependent on the raw material trading. This paper aims to resume the debate on the Dependence Theory in order to recover some valuable insights for the reflection on the current socioeconomic trends in this region. This work attempts, in turn, to redefine the most rigid and obsolete theoretical aspects of the Dependence Theory in order to underline how it influenced current development discourses. In this vein, this paper highlights the parallel facts between the Dependence Theory and the academic literature on development and primary resources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides an analysis of the concept Populism and how it relates to the violence in Colombia during the 20th-century last three decades and the 21st-century first decade, putting special emphasis on the pioneer work by historian Marco Palacios. We explore the idea that the conceptualization of populism in Colombia develops concurrently, on one hand, with the dispute around the notion of violence in the 20th-century second half and, on the other hand, with the idea that the "incomplete populism" was a causal explanation to the times of the bloody armed fights in Colombia. In addition, these events have made the Colombian political case instilled with an idea of exceptionality as compared to the other countries of Latin America. To do this work, we gathered some theoretical contributions from the conceptual history by Reinhart Koselleck and from the history of political languages by Elías Palti. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper examines three contemporary Latin- American novels with a Chinese theme: Una novela china (1987) by César Aira, Los impostores (2002) by Santiago Gamboa, and Un chino en bicicleta (2007) by Ariel Magnus. A comparative analysis of their mechanisms of 'exocization' and 'orientalization' of Chinese culture allows us to understand these works within a new trend of transpacific imagination that expresses anxieties directly related to the uncertainties created by cultural globalisation. In dialogue with the work of Edward Said and Fredric Jameson, the paper offers an exercise in theoretical speculation on the cultural transformations that the consolidation of a transnational literary community could bring. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of the present paper is to question the presence of twentieth-century vanguards in current critic and literary production. Starting with the re-emergence of references, principles and working guidelines belonging to that period in the works of widely influential authors, such as César Aira, the paper reviews the main values of the vanguards and some existing narratives about them. It then states that in order to understand the phenomenon a reflection on temporary notions and the possibility of a different relationship towards historic an aesthetic chronology must be included. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper studies the emergence of the notion of cosmopolitism in different moments in Hispano-American literature. Identifying its relationship with situations of massive displacements, the paper studies Cosmópolis (1908) by Argentinean writer Ricardo Rojas, as a starting point for comparative study involving other notions of cosmopolitism developed during the twentieth century. Relation between cosmopolitism and globalisation are discussed regarding the works Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño, and Cuban writer Ena Lucía Portela. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While Adolfo Bioy Casares is unanimously recognized as an important narrator, his novel Diario de la guerra del cerdo (1969) has not attracted the critical attention as other of their fictions has. This paper postulates the existence of an allegorical tradition in argentine modern literature and consider this novel one of the central fictions of that stream, because, although it's far from realism, could not be read as a fantastic narration. To prove this statement, this essay exposed a political reading of the novel to show how it explore a unique construction of barbarism located in Peronism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper takes very briefly on six decades of the history of psychology in the city of La Plata (Argentina), from the creation of the Pedagogic Department in the National University, in 1906, until the coup d'état of 1966, that put an end to the expansion of psychological studies that had started in 1958, after the creation of the psychology program. In that period, psychology would go through different phases, marked by oppositions such us “positivist naturalism"/ “anti-positivist humanism", “theoretical training" / “professional training", “scientific psychology" / “psychoanalytic psychology", etc. The goal of this work is to make an account of what happened at the time, giving as much importance to the individual actors as to the institutional and political factors that were present in the context. The methods are the traditional ones for history (mainly de gathering of oral, documentary and bibliographic sources. However, they have been interpreted from a critical perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article evaluates the historiography built especially from architecture after the Academia Colombiana de Historia (the Colombian Academy of History) ceased its interest in gathering cities history at the end of the 1930s. To do this, a repertoire of authors constituted by some of the most important architects of the twentieth century will be used. They will consider not only the physical aspects of cities, but also their backgrounds. In this sense, this paper seeks to contribute to the understanding of the current urban history and, in a very partial way, to the urban and architectural history, although the latter correspond to another text for length reasons. It is also understood that the intellectual production in these areas is still dominated by architects or research centers in which professionals have a significant interference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From a reflection on modernity and its implications, this paper proposes a reading one's own aesthetic and social architecture of the city of Rio de Janeiro. Also a literature review art-deco which is often outside the modernist canon but that sustained dialogue with the modernist movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper begins with a brief review of some antecedents that led to the current configuration of the world, particularly about what happened to the idea of nation and nation-state and the revolution of the general values in the postwar years and its rapid erosion in recent decades. Then it analizes the constitution of nation-states in the postcolonial world and the dream of modernity. It continues with an analysis of the transition from the field of "national" science in the nation-state regime to the delocalized research networks of the current phase. Subsequently it refers to the new global governance and the emerging forms of scientific and technical research. It concludes with some reflections on what is needed in the future in order to achieve a form of research that responds to the real and not cosmetic challenge of the co-design of knowledge, through the different existing borders in our unequal world, in real processes of co-construction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper offers a few notes on the impact of North-American films in Latin American society in the 1920's and 1930s, based on Latin- American stories produced during that period. The analysis will be guided mainly by the notions of mimetic desire (Girard) and cinema situation (Mauerhofer), as well as by the updated motif of the double (and its "realist" substitute, the doublé), in such a context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Colombian society currently undergoes a process of secularization, that is to say, a process in which the social spheres are different and autonomous. Based on an extensive empirical research, this paper presents such a process, which has gone hand-in-hand with cultural transformations. Among these last ones, we can highlight the reconstruction of religious affiliations. Secularization and pluralization have had paradoxical effects due to the fact that they have not provoked the decline of religion; on the contrary, they have rekindled religious practices, like competition between Catholic Church and the new religious movements regarding the faithful loyalty and commitment of the faithful. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Considered an emblematic story of the initial days of the Cuban Revolution, “El regreso", by Cuban writer Calvert Casey, will be, for the purpose of this paper, the starting point of a reflection regarding the ways in which an intellectual subjectivity could be configured in Cuba in the sixties. This story is a part of a series of texts produced in those years which insist in looking like theories for revealing that which could not be exhibited until then, stimulated, later on, by the occurrence of the Revolution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The philology of zero, says Werner Hamacher, is the origo of philosophy, and what this paper aims to do is to study the possibility of a sort of Latin American arch-philology, in which literary history would be the struggle of all discursive experiences, what Carl Einstein called invented spaces. Reading Macunaíma, by Mário de Andrade, a canonical vanguard text, or the forgotten early detective novels of Medeiros de Albuquerque, which did not make it into the canon, the question rises about what the canon is, keeping in mind that it is impossible to return to things past, but only to things in the past which have a place in the future. In other words, through anamnesic and heterological means, arch-philology looks in the future for that which is missing in the past in order to reopen the file. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper develops a few hypotheses regarding the traffic of material culture in Latin America and its impact, both in the field con anthropologic knowledge and in the artistic vanguards of the first half of the twentieth century. The circulation networks that supported the exchange of images and objects between ethnographers and institutions that supported their research allow for the reconstruction of the itineraries followed by those objects, the footprints of those trajectories in the construction of knowledge, the demarcation of disciplinary fields and the transgression of epistemological frontiers, associated to the emergence of new aesthetic objects and sciences such as anthropology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses popular wisdom and memory transmission regarding State terrorism and forced disappearance, which are circulating among youth living around Hospital Posadas, located in Haedo, a province to Buenos Aires, Argentina. At this hospital, there was, under the military dictatorship (1976-1983), a Clandestine Imprisonment Center, where people were kept prisoner as disappeared. Therefore, at this facility both practices of health restoration and torture and murder perpetration coexisted. Through thirty indepth interviews carried out among neighbor young people, the existence of manifold knowledge fractures and memory transmission about State violence is verified, being a result from the social relations breakthrough that used to articulate the neighborhood and the hospital, and from the material life conditions promoting undifferentiated historical and political time awareness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents the results of a research work that aimed a comprehensive explanation of the way in which the meanings of the 'Gaitanista' discourse (1928-1948) were and are construed in Colombia from a corpus of texts compiled via three selection criteria: 1. Subjectivizing voice: texts produced by spokepersons that publicly express their intellectual adherence to the 'Gaitanista' movement. 2. Objectivizing voice: historiographic texts characterized by their claim to be scientific truth. 3. Polyphony of voices: texts characterized by their inclusion of diverse voices. The theoretical approach was based on a cross between communication as mediation (Martín-Barbero, 2003) and hegemony theory (Laclau, 2005). The methodological strategy is qualitative and socio-semiotic. As an analytical tool we resorted to a triangulation of qualitative techniques: narrative and discourse analyses. This paper presents a combination of the dialogue between the approaches of Martín-Barbero and Ernesto Laclau, and concludes by gathering the main findings of discourse analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores a significant phenomenon, little studied by Colombian academia: the rise of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) as subjects of international law. These groups, which some authors have called the "third sector", managed to gain such prominence in the twentieth century that it is now necessary to consider them under the international legal system and in international political analysis. For this reason, from an historical perspective and based on the theory of interdependence, the author explains how NGOs were able to insert themselves in the international legal arena. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]