The projects for 2016 of Latitudes, the Latin American Research Group from Australia, are now available online, including the recordings of events carried out in the first semester, the launch of a new book and a project of digital archives. Seminars “Media Monopolies and political power in Latin America: The Argentine Case” and “Public Forum: political crisis in Brazil”. Also, new books on historical memory in South America.
Material and Concepts: working methods and theoretical relations of Walter Benjamin
Call for Papers. This workshop is interested in the relation between Benjamin’s work with different kinds of material and its conceptual articulation. The point of departure will be Benjamin’s working notes dealing with sociohistorical and political topics. Deadline: 1 October, 2016. The workshop will combine lectures (followed by Q&A) with a collective working method.
Otherwise than Political
Otherwise than political will bring together gather essays that explore the possibility that “politicity” may well exceed traditional political frameworks and resist being captured by current political forms. We seek work that lays bare claims that cannot be translated as links within a populist chain of equivalent demands, bodies that cannot be particularized and thus identified, actions that showcase the limits of our concept of political action.
Republicanism and Agonistic Democratic Theory
Call for Papers Pléyade. Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences ISSN 0718-655x / e-ISSN 0719-3696 Nº 20 July-December, 2017 Special Edition “Republicanism and Agonistic Democratic Theory” In recent decades, various theories have challenged what appears to be a hegemonic dominance of liberalism in at least three directions: economic, legal and the political dimension of the community. Among these, two stand out for the extent of their criticism.
Las acciones de la Presidenta y la concentración de los medios en Chile
Podríamos destacar cómo existe una correlación entre la concentración del control y la propiedad de los medios junto a la distribución de poder comunicativo que estos tienen. Mientras más concentrada está la comunicación en unos pocos grupos económicos, más poderosos en el campo de la esfera pública son estos consorcios.
Escritos bárbaros. Ensayos sobre razón imperial y mundo árabe contemporáneo (2016)
Escritos bárbaros. Ensayos sobre razón imperial y mundo árabe contemporáneo Lom editores: Santiago of Chile Rodrigo Karmy Bolton Escritos bárbaros. Ensayos sobre razón imperial y mundo árabe contemporáneo constituye un conjunto de ensayos acerca de nuestro presente. Su cometido es simple: interrogarnos sobre cómo hemos llegado a ser lo que somos. Si bien su reflexión se enfoca en el “mundo árabe”, este constituye un crisol desde el cual contemplar nuestra actualidad.…
Research Member published an article in Chungará, Journal of Chilean Anthropology
The text written in coauthorship with members of the Group of Research in the Social Sciences and Economics (GICSEC), exposes the results of a qualitative and exploratory study about the agrarian transformations and the water conflicts that have emerged in the last three decades between localities historically agricultural and large mining companies in northern Chile.
Alfredo Joignant and Katherine Hite: new researchers of Latin Memories Project
Alfredo Joignant and Katherine Hite are the new adjunct researchers of Latin Memories Project of the Institute. Katherine Hite is professor of political sciences at Vassar College (USA), and Alfredo Joignant is Full professor in political science at the Universidad Diego Portales (Chile).
International Workshop “Latin American Critical Theories: New Approaches”
Workshop organized by the Sociology and Political Science department of the Universidad Católica de Temuco with the International Institute for Philosophy and Social Studies. The activity discussed the new critical approaches on Latin America and the Global South.
La actualidad de la crítica. Ensayos sobre la Escuela de Frankfurt (2015)
Nicolás del Valle Orellana, editor. Critical theory is the theoretical project that began with the Frankfurt School, one of the most important German intellectual traditions of the twentieth century. This volume is on the discussions of the first three phases of the Frankfurt School. History, art, nature, law, justice, domination, public sphere and social rights are addressed in this book.
