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.
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.
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.
This book examines the conflicting performances that take place at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin and the Memorial to the Victims of State Terror in Buenos Aires. Sion offers an interdisciplinary ...model for analyzing sites of memory, their purpose, failure and success, and their part in a transnational circuit of remembrance practices.
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.
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.
This book challenges the widely accepted notion that globalization encourages economic convergence--and, by extension, cultural homogenization--across national borders. A systematic comparison of ...organizational change in Argentina, South Korea, and Spain since 1950 finds that global competition forces countries to exploit their distinctive strengths, resulting in unique development trajectories.
Generally portrayed as a windswept wasteland of marginal use for human habitation, Patagonia is an unmatched testing ground for some of the world’s most important questions about human ecology and ...cultural change. In this volume, archaeologist Raven Garvey presents a critical synthesis of Patagonian prehistory, bringing an evolutionary perspective and unconventional evidence to bear on enduringly contentious issues in New World archaeology, including initial human colonization of the Americas, widespread depopulation between 8,000 and 4,000 years ago, and the transition from foraging to farming.
Garvey’s novel hypotheses question common assumptions regarding Patagonia’s suitability for prehistoric hunter-gatherers. She makes four primary arguments: (1) the surprising lack of clothing in parts of prehistoric Patagonia supports a relatively slow initial colonization of the Americas; (2) the sparse record of human habitation during the middle Holocene may be due to prehistoric behavioral changes and archaeological sampling methods rather than population decline; (3) farming never took root in Patagonia because risks associated with farming likely outweighed potential benefits; and, finally, (4) the broad trajectory of cultural change in Patagonia owes as much to feedback between population size and technology as to conditions in the rugged Patagonian outback itself.
