Edge of empire Prado, Fabrício
2015., 20150916, 2015, 2015-10-13
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In the first decades of the 1800s, after almost three centuries of Iberian rule, former Spanish territories fragmented into more than a dozen new polities.Edge of Empireanalyzes the emergence of ...Montevideo as a hot spot of Atlantic trade and regional center of power, often opposing Buenos Aires. By focusing on commercial and social networks in the Rio de la Plata region, the book examines how Montevideo merchant elites used transimperial connections to expand their influence and how their trade offered crucial support to Montevideo's autonomist projects.These transimperial networks offered different political, social, and economic options to local societies and shaped the politics that emerged in the region, including the formation of Uruguay. Connecting South America to the broader Atlantic World, this book provides an excellent case study for examining the significance of cross-border interactions in shaping independence processes and political identities.
Tanks roaring over farmlands, pregnant women tortured, 30,000 individuals "disappeared"-these were the horrors of Argentina's Dirty War. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year and Finalist for the ...L.L. Winship / PEN New England Award in 1998, A Lexicon of Terror is a sensitive and unflinching account of the sadism, paranoia, and deception the military junta unleashed on the Argentine people from 1976 to 1983. This updated edition features a new epilogue that chronicles major political, legal, and social developments in Argentina since the book's initial publication. It also continues the stories of the individuals involved in the Dirty War, including the torturers, kidnappers and murderers formerly granted immunity under now dissolved amnesty laws. Additionally, Feitlowitz discusses investigations launched in the intervening years that have indicated that the network of torture centers,concentration camps, and other operations responsible for the "desaparecidas" was more widespread than previously thought. A Lexicon of Terror vividly evokes this shocking era and tells of the long-lasting effects it has left on the Argentine culture.
Looking beneath the surface of seemingly ordinary social interactions, The Moral Power of Money investigates the forces of power and morality at play, particularly among the poor. Drawing on ...fieldwork in a slum of Buenos Aires, Ariel Wilkis argues that money is a critical symbol used to negotiate not only material possessions, but also the political, economic, class, gender, and generational bonds between people.Through vivid accounts of the stark realities of life in Villa Olimpia, Wilkis highlights the interplay of money, morality, and power. Drawing out the theoretical implications of these stories, he proposes a new concept of moral capital based on different kinds, or pieces, of money. Each chapter covers a different piece -money earned from the informal and illegal economies, money lent through family and market relations, money donated with conditional cash transfers, political money that binds politicians and their supporters, sacrificed money offered to the church, and safeguarded money used to support people facing hardships. This book builds an original theory of the moral sociology of money, providing the tools for understanding the role money plays in social life today.
This book looks at two Korean communities, one in Sao Paulo and the other in Buenos Aires, in order to identify the global pulls that have affected Korean identity formation, community development ...patterns, integration efforts, social mobility, education for children, remigration, return migration, and relationships with the host communities.
Soil organic carbon (SOC) is a complex set of pools, and to understand its dynamics it is necessary to know which of these pools are sensitive to the edaphic and climatic conditions or the ...agricultural practices, or to both. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the relationships between permanganate oxidizable C (POX-C) and various soil organic carbon fractions in different land-uses and soil types, and to examine whether the POX-C fraction is sensitive to different agricultural management practices in soils under no-tillage. Three treatments were identified at four sites located in the Argentine Pampas region: two different agricultural scenarios in terms of crop rotation, fertilizers and use of agrochemicals (Good Agricultural Practices and Poor Agricultural Practices, GAP and PAP, respectively) and an undisturbed natural (NE) environment adjacent to the agricultural sites as the control treatment. The following organic fractions were quantified: SOC, coarse and fine particulate organic carbon (POCc and POCf, respectively), hot water and acid extractable organic carbon (HWC and HAC, respectively) and POX-C. Soil POC values ranged from 0.46 to 7.29 g kg−1, HAC values ranged from 1.50 to 6.73 g kg−1, HWC values ranged from 0.20 to 1.10 g kg−1 and POX-C values ranged from 0.41 to 1.04 g kg−1 soil, POCc being the most variable fraction (CV = 72%) and POX-C the least (CV = 22%). Soil POCc and POCf at 0–10 cm, and POCc at 10–20 cm were largely explained by management practices with a component of variance >50%. The relationship between POX-C and SOC was generally stronger (R2 = 0.76–0.92) than POX-C with other organic fractions and where depth and site factors have a greater influence on this relationship than management practices. Among the labile fractions, the most sensitive indicators of soil quality in agricultural soils were POCf and HWC, which displayed the highest F-statistic values. Despite the dilute solution used (0.02 mol L−1 KMnO4) the POX-C demonstrated limited sensitivity to different agricultural practices. However, this methodology could be used to estimate SOC regarding site conditions and depths. The POCf was the fraction most affected by agricultural practices, indicated by high relationships with both the soil physical attributes (macroporosity, bulk density, and density, volume and stability of aggregates) and the agronomic parameters (soybean and maize yields).
•POX-C presented high component of variance due to edaphic and climatic conditions.•POCc and POCf presented high component of variance due to management practices.•The sensitive indicator of soil quality in agricultural soils was POCf.•Relationship between POXC and TOC improve by individual sites and depth.•Potassium permanganate method was both feasible and useful to estimate SOC.
The “disappearance” and torture of many people during the worst days of the authoritarian regimes that ruled many Latin American countries in the 1970s have been well documented and ...widely condemned as abuses of human rights. Less well known is what has become of the movements for human rights once democratic governments were restored in these countries. In this book, Michelle Bonner reveals how the defense of human rights continues today, taking Argentina as her primary example (with comparison to Chile in the final chapter).
Bonner shows that the role of women—viewed as protectors of the family—is key to understanding how human rights movements have evolved. Moreover, the continuity of the “historical frames” used to legitimate their activity is an essential element in the success of their efforts, even while the claimed abuse has changed from the political repression undertaken by the dictators’ minions to the economic hardships created by market inequities resulting from neoliberal policies.
Based on extensive field research and providing a long historical view extending from colonial times to the present, this study compares the activities of the ten most prominent human rights organizations in Argentina and assesses the responses of both state and society.
DuBois traces how state repression and community militancy are remembered in a neighborhood in Buenos Aires and how the tangled and ambiguous legacies of the past continued to shape ordinary people's ...lives years after the collapse of the military regime.
Savage frontier Jusionyte, Ieva
2015., 20150609, 2015, 2015-06-05
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This highly original work of anthropology combines extensive ethnographic fieldwork and investigative journalism to explain how security is understood, experienced, and constructed along the Triple ...Frontera, the border region shared by Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. One of the major "hot borders" in the Western Hemisphere, the Triple Frontera is associated with drug and human trafficking, contraband, money laundering, and terrorism. It's also a place where residents, particularly on the Argentine side, are subjected to increased governmental control and surveillance. How does a scholar tell a story about a place characterized by illicit international trading, rampant violence, and governmental militarization? Jusionyte inventively centered her ethnographic fieldwork on a community of journalists who investigate and report on crime and violence in the region. Through them she learned that a fair amount of petty, small-scale illicit trading goes unreported—a consequence of a community invested in promoting the idea that the border is a secure place that does not warrant militarized attention. The author's work demonstrates that while media is often seen as a powerful tool for spreading a sense of danger and uncertainty, sensationalizing crime and violence, and creating moral panics, journalists can actually do the opposite. Those who selectively report on illegal activities use the news to tell particular types of stories in an attempt to make their communities look and ultimately be more secure.
Landscapes of Memory and Impunity, edited by Annette H. Levine and Natasha Zaretsky, chronicles the aftermath of Argentina's most significant terrorist attack, exploring transformations in Jewish ...cultural, literary, and political practices that developed in response to violence and impunity.
