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European and Latin American Social Scientists as Refugees, Émigrés and Return‐Migrants
During the 1930s, thousands of social scientists fled the Nazi regime or other totalitarian European regimes, mainly towards the Americas. The New School for Social Research (NSSR) in New York City and El Colegio de México (Colmex) in Mexico City both were built based on receiving exiled academics from Europe. Comparing the first twenty years of these organizations, this book offers a deeper understanding of the corresponding institutional contexts and impacts of emigrated, exiled and refugeed academics. It analyses the ambiguities of scientists’ situations between emigration, return‐migration and transnational life projects and examines the corresponding dynamics of application, adaptation or amalgamation of (travelling) theories and methods these academics brought. Despite its institutional focus, it also deals with the broader context of forced migration of intellectuals and scientists in the second half of the last century in Europe and Latin America. In so doing, the book invites a deeper understanding of the challenges of forced migration for scholars in the 21st century.
Forensic Anthropology Teams in Latin America
This book charts the development of forensic anthropology teams in Latin America and surveys their main characteristics, achievements, and challenges in light of a recent past fraught with state repression and violence. The volume contains contributions by an interdisciplinary group of scholars from several Latin American universities, with chapters on Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Peru, Guatemala, and Mexico. These countries’ shared legacy is a host of human rights violations that continue to have an impact on present day society. Following the move towards democracy and a public demand for truth and justice, the volume highlights the role of forensic anthropology teams and their contribution as a source of information for the historical narrative, as a legal asset in enforcing the right to truth, and in achieving reparation for victims. This collection will be of interest to scholars from Anthropology, Latin American Studies, Politics, and History.
Latin America's Radical Left
This book examines a generation of leftist militants who in the 1960s advocated revolutionary violence for social change in South America.
Argentinian Telenovelas
This work explores the way in which telenovelas (TV serial dramas) give voice to contemporary and historical Argentinian social and political issues. Telenovelas have multiple layers of socio-cultural message -- local as well as global -- and are invariably laden with appealing drama and emotion, and sometimes comedy. The discussion focuses on how telenovelas reflect society's perception of, and adjustment toward, issues of globalisation. They are a means of portraying how individuals and families rationalize and incorporate rapid social and economic changes. The book explores how telenovelas might offer a subversive interpretation of reality; or provide a channel of dialogue with the govern...
Shifting Legal Visions
An in-depth study of processes of judicial transformation that enabled the success of human rights trials in Latin America.
Perforando la impunidad
Los pasados próximos fueron atravesados por procesos de represión y violencia estatales sobre las sociedades; constituyen un espacio referencial para distintas generaciones y testigos. Dicho espacio está dotado por sucesos traumáticos que evidencian el terror socialmente filtrado, con su herencia de dolor y de crímenes cometidos. Si bien las experiencias nacionales muestran mucha distancia entre sí, también ilustran la diversidad de prácticas violentas y conflictos. El legado común es un cúmulo de violaciones de derechos humanos que repercuten en las vivencias sociales. Desde mediados de 1980 comenzaron en algunos países distintos tipos de transiciones a la democracia. El respeto ...
El dos de julio:
A partir de 1977, cuando entra en vigor la primera reforma electoral en la que se otorga a la oposición un margen de maniobra respecto al partido en el gobierno, el vínculo democracia-elecciones se convierte en el signo determinante del cambio. El seminario “El 2 de julio: reflexiones posteriores”, organizado por la FLACSO-México, el IIS-UNAM y la UAMIztapalapa, se diseñó con el propósito de unir voces de muy diversa índole en la discusión de los temas, los hechos, las opiniones y los nuevos procedimientos que destacaron durante las etapas previa y posterior a un proceso electoral que, sin duda, marcará un cambio en el rumbo de las instituciones y de las prácticas políticas del país. Así pues, esta obra brinda al lector una rica panorámica de un fenómeno político de múltiples facetas: con la transición ¿qué vías se abren para una nueva cultura política en México?
