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This book provides the first English translation of Argirópolis (1850) by the Argentine Domingo F. Sarmiento, one of the most important political and cultural figures of nineteenth-century Latin America. Argirópolis proposes the union of Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay into the United States of South America or the United States of the Río de la Plata, with a capital on Martín García island. It anticipates some aspects of the continent’s future, such as the formation of Mercosur (the Southern Common Market) in 1991. Argirópolis explores politics, modernity, and nation formation, making Sarmiento’s treatise one of Argentina and Latin America’s most relevant programmatic texts. Presented alongside a critical introduction that situates the essay in its historical and political contexts, this translation allows English-speaking readers to explore nineteenth-century Latin American perspectives on concepts such as the nation-state, sovereignty, progress, space, and modernity.
Politics --- History of Latin America --- geschiedenis --- politiek --- wereldpolitiek --- Latin America
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of the rich and diverse tradition of social thought in Chile over the last century. The authors emphasize the close relationship between sociology and society, and address large issues such as the institutionalization of sociology in the face of an open modernization process following WWII, the key role played by Chile in the regionalization and internationalization of sociology and social sciences in Latin America from the late 1950s until the 1973 Coup d'état, and the radicalization of sociology and the boom of dependency theories during that time. The analysis extends to independent academic centers that kept sociological thought, social intervention and the democratic dream alive within an authoritarian context, and the role of academic and professional sociology since the return to democracy, which has been attentive to accompanying and interpreting the development of a changing Chilean society. Framed within the country's cultural, economic, historical, social and political experience, this overview of the debates, dissemination, networks, and educational programs associated with sociology will be of interest to students and scholars of Latin American studies and historical sociology. Juan Jesús Morales Martín is Professor and Researcher in the Sociology School at the Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez, Chile. In 2018, he edited the book Filantropía, ciencia y universidad: nuevos aportes y análisis sociohistóricos sobre la diplomacia académica en América Latina [Philanthropy, Science, and University: New Approaches and Socio-Historical Analysis on Academic Diplomacy in Latin America]. Justino Gómez de Benito is Professor in the Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez, Chile, and he was head of the Sociology School between 1999 and 2013. He is author of Más allá del oficio de sociólogo [Beyond the Craft of Sociology], which focuses on identity changes in the sociological field. .
Sociology --- History of Latin America --- sociologie --- geschiedenis --- Latin America
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This book critically examines the impact of the Inter-American Human Rights System (IAHRS). Going beyond traditional state compliance models of human rights impact, it develops a contextual understanding of how the IAHRS shapes political struggles between actors and institutions seeking to advance the realization of human rights and those who resist such social and political change. Par Engstrom is Senior Lecturer in Human Rights at the Institute of the Americas, University College, UK, and the academic coordinator of the International Network on the Inter-American Human Rights System.
Human rights --- America --- Latin America
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This Palgrave Pivot presents a concise yet comprehensive history of sociology in Ecuador. The case of Ecuador is especially interesting, as Ecuadorian sociology oscillated between theoretical debates—some of them out of time—and a constant search for ways of applying them to the local reality. In the decades after its formal creation in 1915, early academic sociology in Ecuador worked creatively with already outdated theories around positivism and organicism to understand the indigenous population's position, the regional fragmentation, and the formation of a coherent nation-state in Ecuador. After a short attempt of installing a more technical sociology in the 1960s, those topics were taken up and re-read by Marxist-inspired critical sociology after the 1970s, leading to the nation-wide institutionalization of one particular tradition that could connect to continental debates. This book engages with several relevant debates in social sciences and humanities, particularly by adding to the thriving research on social sciences and the role of the university and higher education in Latin America. Furthermore, it touches some recently influential topics in sociology: Ecuadorian sociology can be read as Southern Theory or engaged with from a postcolonial or decolonial perspective; the research on how ideas travel, are diffused or localized is vital for understanding sociology in Ecuador; the relation between academia and politics; and more. Philipp Altmann is Professor Titular for Sociological Theory at the Universidad Central del Ecuador. He works on how ideas spread, on the intersection of discourse analysis, history of concepts, and sociology of knowledge. .
Sociology --- History of Latin America --- sociologie --- geschiedenis --- Latin America --- Sociology. --- History of Sociology. --- Sociological Theory. --- Latin American History. --- History.
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Arts, Chilean --- Arts, Latin American --- Chilean literature --- Latin American literature --- History and criticism --- Philosophy --- Arts, Chilean. --- Arts, Latin American. --- Chilean literature. --- Latin American literature. --- Philosophy. --- Chile.
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Classical Latin literature --- cultuurgeschiedenis --- Romeinse oudheid --- feesten
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Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- culturele antropologie --- Latin America
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