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Positivism and Antipositivism in Argentina:Positivism in Argentina was once a dominant influence on the thought of many intellectuals and, through them, on the very cultural formation of the country. This makes the approach of this book particularly interesting, as it subjects the currents of positivism and anti-positivism to a serious critical examination. By identifying the role played by both trends within Argentine thought, and furthermore by clarifying their influence, this book points out the derivations of positivism and anti-positivism not only in culture, but also in the local historical process. Its author, Berta Perelstein, was a pedagogue and communist intellectual whose contributions go beyond educational thought and reflection and extend into the great cultural debates, such as the one she proposes in this pioneer work, only now re-edited. El positivismo en la Argentina tuvo en su momento una influencia preponderante sobre el pensamiento de muchos intelectuales y a través de ellos, en la propia formación cultural del país. De ahí que resulte por demás interesante el enfoque de esta obra que somete a las corrientes del positivismo y del antipositivismo a un serio examen crítico. Al ubicar el papel que tuvieron unas y otras dentro del pensamiento argentino, y más aún, al aclarar esas influencias, señala las derivaciones no solo en la cultura, sino también en nuestro proceso histórico. Su autora, Berta Perelstein, fue una pedagoga e intelectual comunista cuyos aportes desbordan el pensamiento y la reflexión educativa y se proyectan a los grandes debates culturales como el que propone en una obra precursora y hasta ahora no reeditada.

Historia argentina --- Escuelas filosóficas --- Positivismo --- Antipositivismo --- Argentina --- Filosofía

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This book is an enthralling account of the role played by the destroyer ARA Bouchard in the Falklands/Malvinas War. Over forty years after its construction, with obsolete technology, scarce maintenance and many out-of-service machineries, it was still present during the whole campaign with a prominent role that, for several reasons, remained hidden until today. During the Falklands/Malvinas conflict, it patrolled the north of the archipelago to allow the recapture of the islands. It was noteworthy together with the Cruiser and another destroyer in the attack on the British fleet, without being able to find it. On its return, it was hit by the third torpedo launched by the submarine Conqueror aimed at the cruiser ARA General Belgrano. It suffered damage and, although it could still sail, was forced to dry dock to change a part of its hull. For two consecutive nights, it stopped British commandos from making an incursion into the Río Grande airport, in order to destroy the Navies Super Etendard attack aircraft and assassinate its pilots. With its main gun battery, it fired with combat ammunition on enemy targets and was the only main battery to have the opportunity to do so. It was irradiated and used for missile target practice; they were unable to sink it during the firing practice. Later, it was decommissioned and scrapped.

World history --- literatuur --- Destroyers (Warships) --- Argentina.

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Emerging Territorialities in the peri-urban area of La Plata. This book compiles articles focused on the different emerging territorialities shaped by the primary activities of agricultural production in the peri-urban area of La Plata district. This territory is a space affected by economic logics permeated by a series of particular practices and social relations that have been established by social agents over time. Taking into account the forms of production and the activities derived from them in the peri-urban area, the chapters discuss the production of cut flowers; horticultural production mostly in greenhouses; life in the communities of Italian, Portuguese, Japanese and Bolivian migrants who have territorialized the area creating spatial mediations in order to take root in the place; and, in turn, all the problems derived from certain dynamics linked to the activities generated by a mostly migrant population that has settled for years on the periphery of the city. El presente libro está conformado por un conjunto de trabajos enfocados en las diferentes territorialidades emergentes que se han configurado a partir de las actividades primarias de producción agrícola en la zona periurbana del partido de La Plata. Este territorio es un espacio atravesado por lógicas económicas permeadas por una serie de prácticas y relaciones sociales particulares que han ido estableciendo los agentes sociales con el paso del tiempo. Tomando en cuenta las formas de producción y las actividades que se derivan de ellas en el periurbano, los capítulos transitan por la producción de flores de corte, producción hortícola mayoritariamente de invernaderos; la vida de las comunidades de migrantes italianos, portugueses, japoneses y bolivianos que han territorializado la zona, creando mediaciones espaciales para arraigarse en el lugar, y a su vez toda la problemática derivada de ciertas dinámicas vinculadas con las actividades generadas por una población mayoritariamente migrante que se estableció desde hace años en las periferias adyacentes a la ciudad.

Geografía --- Geografía política --- Agricultura --- Inmigrantes --- Argentina

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With a marked revolutionary and workerist phraseology with libertarian overtones, the first revolutionary unionists in Argentina came from within the Socialist Party led by Juan B. Justo, within which they had challenged their growing electoral and parliamentary orientation, under the influence of the new ideas that they were beginning to gain ground in the French and Italian labor movement. At the beginning of the 20th century, intense social struggles in Argentina catalyzed this process of political differentiation, in the context of the first general strikes and direct confrontations with the state and the ruling class. During the following years, revolutionary syndicalism unfolded as a dynamic and ductile current within a recently formed, heterogeneous and highly ethnically fragmented labor movement. The book that we present here continues and advances on the investigations carried out in the last period, providing a set of original works that examine little-reported aspects of the Creole revolutionary syndicalist current during the period prior to the first government of Hipólito Yrigoyen (1916-1922), the mandate itself and the subsequent moment, already under the presidency of Marcelo T. de Alvear (1922-1928). Starting from a careful study of primary sources, the chapters investigate aspects such as: the syndicalist political formation prior to 1916; militancy and organization in the wood industry; the activation of revolutionary unionism among rural workers; the link between trade unionism and the world of women's work; the positions and struggles within the current around the state project of legal status for unions.

Argentina, revolutionary syndicalism, anarcho-syndicalism, labor movement

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As the moment of the birth of the patria, Independence enjoys a privileged role in the historical imaginary of many Latin American nations. In Argentina as in other countries, the period has been fundamental to state discourses of nation-building and identity, lending its figures and central narratives a powerful symbolic function. It has also attracted significant literary attention, and this book offers an innovative reading of texts that provide irreverent, metafictional, or self-reflexive retellings of this foundational moment. This type of fiction is usually read through well-established frameworks on the contemporary Latin American historical novel that emphasise its destabilising of knowledge and single truths. Instead, this work foregrounds the much more immediate, concrete political points at stake when we read these texts through both their direct engagement with contemporary circumstances and the politics of the history they evoke. It therefore argues for a new approach to reading contemporary Latin American historical fiction that showcases its response to politically urgent questions.

Literary studies: general --- Latin American literature;historical fiction;Argentinian independence;Latin American independence;Argentina