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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]

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]

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]

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]