Former president Rodrigo Carazo Odio (1978-1982) was one of the most controversial politicians in Costa Rican history during the Cold War. His presidency, which was marked by neoliberal ideas, an acute economic crisis, clashes with international financial organizations and the Sandinista Revolution, le some of the most unpopular marks on the second...
The text alludes to how the construction of memory about collective self-organization processes, such as expressions of resistance to the process of gentrification and touristificationinitiated in the center of Madrid (Spain) between 1997 and 2003 and until the present day, has generated powerful dissidence among the inhabitants. This is based on d...
Abstract: Queer activist Gio Infante was one of the most lucid voices of the Peruvian social movements. At the age of 31, Infante’s early death stopped a political and intellectual becoming that deserves to be revisited. Cultivating Gio Infante’s memories is an effort to dispute the problematic desires for social normalization of some LGBTQ subject...
A través de una descripción auto-etnográfica en torno a la toma de palabra de los familiares de los perpetradores, el siguiente artículo busca sentar las bases para una exploración de las posibilidades que llevan a éstos a organizarse en señal de repudio a sus parientes. Se sostiene que dicho acto forma parte de los efectos domésticos de los pactos...
The proposal of the article is to think about certain political forces condensed in the figure of the archive, both in its instrumentalization by the National Police of Guatemala, as well as in its historical rescue work and in its rep-resentation in The human material by Rodrigo Rey Rosa. From a Derridian critique we understand the archive as the ...
As a tribute to Máximo Jiménez, who died recently, a musician, composer, member of ANUC (National Association of Peasant Users) and a committed social leader, I revise my musical practice when I used to accompany him as acaja player (a typical drum) in order to recognize in his songs and records a discourse —in the form of vallenato song— of resist...
La lectura y el análisis del Resumen histórico del convento de monjas capuchinas de Buenos Aires, en especial el tomo III —un costumbrario—, y de una serie de poemarios individuales y colectivos escritos por las ´hermanas pobres´, permite acceder a un mundo hasta ahora muy poco conocido: varias de las prácticas devocionales y escriturarias que las ...
Members of the Society of Jesus, as didacticians (and humanists), were aware of the importance of the memoria for the delivery of speech. For this reason, they did not omit this opus oratoris in rhetorical studies intended for their students. An example of this is the textbook De arte rhetorica libri tres ex Aristotele, Cicerone, et Quintiliano pra...
En ambas novelas de Juan Marsé, El amante bilingüe (1990) y Esa puta tan distinguida (2016), se trata de estudiarla relevancia de la temática del cuerpo y mostrar hasta qué punto es constituyente de la escritura transgresiva ycomprometida del autor. En efecto, para Marsé, quien luchó siempre por denunciar la impostura de las palabras sometidasduran...
