https://tidsskrift.dk/dialogos/issue/feed 2024-12-13T00:00:00+01:00 Diana González Martín digoma@cc.au.dk Open Journal Systems Latin American Studies https://tidsskrift.dk/dialogos/article/view/137239 2024-05-30T10:27:08+02:00 Lennita Ruggi lennitaruggi@hotmail.com

<p>This paper historicises the concept of ‘bottomless academic pyramid’ (<em>pirámides academicas sin base</em>) from its origins in Latin American anthropology in the 1960s to its current use by Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui to criticise the international system of power in higher education. Examining this theoretical legacy aims to foreground ongoing inequalities against the ‘predominated’, that is, people whose access to formal education is hindered by race, class, and gender. It touches on the epistemological injustice of being Othered by universities in reading the memories of Carolina Maria de Jesus. The discussion aspires to highlight the academic project’s tensions as problematised by contemporary decolonial feminisms from Latin America.</p>

2024-12-13T00:00:00+01:00 Copyright (c) 2024 https://tidsskrift.dk/dialogos/article/view/144190 2024-07-03T06:54:10+02:00 Adriana Rodríguez-Caguana adriana.rodriguez@uasb.edu.ec Xavier Brito Alvarado lx.brito@uta.edu.ec

<p>Cultural and political debates on modernity and identities in Latin America are varied and controversial. These concepts are surrounded by epistemic assumptions that have often been devalued and excluded from public debate, being replaced by new currents that, although presented as novel, are inscribed in previously discussed theoretical frameworks. This work invites to reflect on modernity, identities, interculturality, subjects and citizenships in Latin America from a critical perspective. It also seeks to recover the value of the essay as a tool for social debate, which has been marginalized in favor of other forms of knowledge generation. Thus, the essay is conceived as a bridge for dialogue between theory and the authors' positions, using a methodology based on a special bibliographic search.</p>

2024-12-13T00:00:00+01:00 Copyright (c) 2024 https://tidsskrift.dk/dialogos/article/view/143487 2024-10-08T15:33:04+02:00 Vinicius Mariano de Carvalho vinicius.carvalho@kcl.ac.uk Anna Grimaldi a.grimaldi@leeds.ac.uk

<p>This article presents and reflects on Thinking Inside the Box, a decolonial pedagogical framework that connects students with archival materials from Latin America. We understand these archives as artefacts of resistance to authoritarianism and struggle for social justice, and employ them as a point of departure for collective interpretations and 'performances'. Through a reflection and qualitative analysis of a survey carried out with students on the project between 2021 and 2022, we explore how Thinking Inside the Box constitutes a positive means for catalysing transformative learning experiences. At the same time, we identify how the current context of UK higher education poses challenges to the project’s future.</p>

2024-12-13T00:00:00+01:00 Copyright (c) 2024 https://tidsskrift.dk/dialogos/article/view/143047 2024-02-23T18:32:38+01:00 Gerardo Tunal Santiago gtunal@correo.xoc.uam.mx Ricardo Enrique Aguilar García 193025886@alumnos.xoc.uam.mx

<p>Starting from Baczko's theories of social imaginaries, Butler's gender theory, as well as Le Breton's sociology of the body as units of analysis and taking as a historical framework the publication of the Ley para el Reconocimiento y la Atención de las Personas LGBTTTI de la Ciudad de México, here we investigated how heteronormativity causes the invisibility of transsexual men in Mexico City (CDMX). This hypothesis was tested based on an exploratory case study based on key informants to whom a semi-structured interview. The results showed that the hegemony and domain of the heteronormativity punishes dissident gender identities and does not recognize its existence and in addition to disciplining these through the monopoly of violence of a hegemonic heterosexual social structure.</p>

2024-12-13T00:00:00+01:00 Copyright (c) 2024 https://tidsskrift.dk/dialogos/article/view/143523 2024-04-25T10:54:52+02:00 Nubia Nieto continents.sky@gmail.com

<p>The presence of corruption in Mexico is a constant phenomenon that affects different areas from human rights, business opportunities, access to public health care, education, social inequality and social mobility, freedom of expression until environment and natural resources. In this sense, this text aims to shine a light on the Mexican corruption and its impact on the abuses against natural resources and environmental degradation: bribes, illegal permits, threats to journalists and environmental advocates, collusion, smuggling, cronyism, systemic influence peddling are some of the most common crimes. The present text is guided by the assumption that the environmental degradation in Mexico is accelerated due to corruption. Thus, this article is divided in two parties. The first one considers the main arguments about the correlation between corruption and environment degradation. The second one presents the consequences of Mexican political corruption and its influence in environment deteriorating. Finally, some comments are offered to wrap up the discussion, which shows the challenges to reduce the impacts of corruption into degradation of the environment.</p>

2024-12-13T00:00:00+01:00 Copyright (c) 2024 https://tidsskrift.dk/dialogos/article/view/150915 2024-11-12T15:05:57+01:00 Jan Gustafson bjt982@hum.ku.dk

<p>This paper studies the interrelation of the concepts of ‘revolution’ and ‘utopia’ within the paradigmatic utopian-revolutionary experience of Cuba after 1959 by analyzing the understanding and interpretation of the two terms in three different discourses or cultural products: (1) the official political discourse as represented in the preamble to the Constitution of 2019 and in fragments of two discourses of Fidel Castro, (2) the poetics of singer-songwriter (cantautor) Silvio Rodríguez, and the cinema of Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. In the official political discourse, “the Revolution” is considered an omnipresent phenomenon going beyond its immediate historical and social dimensions; it identifies with the people and the nation and is seen as a kind of supreme subject. In the poetics of Silvio Rodríguez, revolution and utopia are mostly present as the potential of future and hope, imagination and persistence, not unlike the ideas of philosophers Bloch and Abensour. Gutiérrez Alea dives critically into the immediate social reality of revolutionary Cuba. As Silvio Rodríguez, Alea stays loyal to the revolutionary project and, seemingly, his criticism respects the limits of the official discourse. However, using subtle narrative and visual resources, his films manifest more radical levels of critique.</p>

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