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This paper examines Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's theories of writing and the State in Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus, teasing out issues of gender, primitivism and academic expertise in the authors' claims about power and politics. While noting the benefits of politically analysing social customs and traditions, Laurie highlights the complicities between Deleuze and Guattari's theories and the assumptions embedded in their anthropological sources. He further argues that the cultural and historical speculations in Anti-Oedipus cannot be divorced from the authors' privilege of philosophy as a uniquely European creative space. Seeking an alternative perspective on cultural translation, the paper turns to Walter Mignolo's study of the 'book' in Spanish-Amerindian colonial encounters. Foregrounding the critical value of philology for 'de-colonising' theory, Mignolo argues that Eurocentric cultural comparisons serve to legitimate particular ways of knowing within contested fields of representation. However, in both Deleuze and Guattari and Mignolo, the paper questions the gender dynamics of writing practices implicitly articulated in meta-narratives about the State and/or colonialism. Laurie suggests that these authors frequently remain oblivious to the role of women in the historical contexts examined, and that understanding political dynamics within cultural groups requires questioning the privilege of writing itself, both in and outside the academy. While sympathetic to the role of political philosophy in negotiating complex historical issues, this paper also advocates a rethinking of the subordinate place attributed to anthropological and historical research practices in the theoretical exegeses of Deleuze, Guattari and Mignolo.

Whitfield explores the transnational recreation of a nineteenthcentury
event in twentieth-century fictions and their exemplary role
in serving local concerns while also connecting old and new homelands
and bridging a century-long temporal divide. She shows how
in the nineteenth century Welsh emigrants founded settlements in
Patagonia, Argentina, with the hope that in this then geographically
isolated diaspora, they could maintain their Welsh language and
culture better than in a homeland dominated by the power of the
British Empire and the English language. The attempt ultimately
failed, but in the late twentieth century novels published in Argentina
and Wales (in Welsh, Spanish, and English) have offered new representations
of life in these settlements. Whitfield analyzes the various
reasons for this reconsideration, such as the attraction of a not fully national Argentine identity in the aftermath of some failures of
the Argentine state. In Wales, she shows, ever since 1962, when the
playwright and activist Saunders Lewis referred to the Patagonia
expedition as "that daring experiment to create a Welsh homeland,"
the Patagonian past has been invoked as a model for a future, autonomous
Wales. In addition, the immigrants' landing in Patagonia in
1865 has been widely credited with reviving the interest of Welsh
descendants in their parents' and grandparents' history. The singularity
of the Welsh Patagonian narrative, Whitfield argues, is that it
preserves for an Argentine nation of immigrants the memory and
legacy of a particular group with peculiarly utopian aspirations,
whose leaders settled new frontiers for the nation.

Following in the footsteps of the Grim Brothers, a woman named Cecilia Francisca Josefa Böhl de Faber y Ruiz de Larrea set out to collect Andalusian folk tales under the pen name Fernán Caballero. Caballero was one of the first people to record folk tales—specifically those deriving from Spain—in writing, thus helping to shape the subsequent fairy tale genre that is ever-pervasive in modern-day society. However, while many translations have been derived from the collections of the Grimm Brothers and other male collectors, Caballero´s have received less attention from English translators. One notable exception to this rule can be found in the works of John H. Ingram, who translated one of Caballero's folk tale anthologies that included the story Bella-Flor, a Spanish folk tale about the importance of (and ultimate triumph resulting from) being good. This paper analyzes the merit of Ingram's translation through assessing both linguistic choices and cultural edits. Analyzing this specific translation seeks to contribute to the aim of discussing the wider issues of translating stories the fairy tale genre—specifically those less notorious in modern-day Western culture—as well as the linguistic and literary choices that must be made when translating works across time and space.

The slow and long professional development of the Spanish teachers since the mid-nineteenth century, from Moyano's Law, was cut short by the civil war from 1936 to 1939. Since then, it is possible to distinguish three stages until the late twentieth century, an evolution which can be viewed as the reconquest of the professional and personal dignity of teachers: one of them is called authoritarian, the another controlled by technocratic criteria and the third of access to a greater prominence of teachers through participation in the planning and management of educational fact. The second of these stages is discussed in more detail because of its character as a bridge connecting the other two, marking the difference between a totalitarian regime (the Spanish post-war) and democratic (the present). ; El lento y largo desarrollo profesional de los maestros españoles desde mediados del siglo XIX, a partir de la Ley Moyano, se vio truncado por la guerra civil de 1936 a 1939. A partir de entonces, es posible distinguir tres etapas hasta llegar a finales del siglo XX, en una evolución que puede considerarse como la reconquista de la dignidad profesional y personal de los maestros: una primera de autoritarismo, otra dominada por criterios tecnocráticos y una tercera en la que se accede a un mayor protagonismo de los maestros a través de la participación en la programación y la gestión del hecho educativo. Se analiza con más detalle la segunda de estas etapas en razón de su carácter de puente entre las otras dos, que marcan la diferencia entre un régimen totalitario (el de la posguerra española) y otro democrático (el actual).

We explore the distinctive characteristics of Mexico's society, politics and history that impacted the establishment of genetics in Mexico, as a new disciplinary field that began in the early 20th century and was consolidated and institutionalized in the second half. We identify about three stages in the institutionalization of genetics in Mexico. The first stage can be characterized by Edmundo Taboada, who was the leader of a research program initiated during the Cárdenas government (1934-1940), which was primarily directed towards improving the condition of small Mexican farmers. Taboada is the first Mexican post-graduate investigator in phytotechnology and phytopathology, trained at Cornell University and the University of Minnesota, in 1932 and 1933, respectively. He was the first investigator to teach plant genetics at the National School of Agriculture and wrote the first textbook of general genetics, Genetics Notes, in 1938. Taboada's most important single genetics contribution was the production of "stabilized" corn varieties. The extensive exile of Spanish intellectuals to Mexico, after the end of Spain's Civil War (1936-1939), had a major influence in Mexican science and characterizes the second stage. The three main personalities contributing to Mexican genetics are Federico Bonet de Marco and Bibiano Fernández Osorio Tafall, at the National School of Biological Sciences, and José Luis de la Loma y Oteyza, at the Chapingo Agriculture School. The main contribution of the Spanish exiles to the introduction of genetics in Mexico concerned teaching. They introduced in several universities genetics as a distinctive discipline within the biology curriculum and wrote genetics text books and manuals. The third stage is identified with Alfonso León de Garay, who founded the Genetics and Radiobiology Program in 1960 within the National Commission of Nuclear Energy, which had been founded in 1956. The Genetics and Radiobiology Program rapidly became a disciplinary program, for it embraced research, teaching, and training of academics and technicians. The Mexican Genetics Society, created by de Garay in 1966, and the development of strains and cultures for genetics research were important activities. One of de Garay's key requirements was the compulsory training of the Program's scientists for at least one or two years in the best universities of the United States and Europe. De Garay's role in the development of Mexican genetics was fundamental. His broad vision encompassed the practice of genetics in all its manifestations. © Springer 2005.

This study explores how the French Royal State establishes at the heart of its apparatus of power structures specialized in the manipulation, projection, and reception of political writing. These structures are intended to end the troubles of the Wars of Religion, to win political positions against corps and communities, and to strategically, politically, and theoretically arm both battles as well as military and ceremonial contacts across Europe. The actors in these new structures are secretaries of State and secretaries. From this exceptionally intense political crisis, they help bring about a new governmentality that prepares and announces the coming of the administrative monarchy and the pre-bureaucracies of the second part of the 17th Century. As the heart of the state and the conduit of royal desire, secretaries mobilize their professional skills in the service of the sovereign. Their functional position in the state grows into the cutting edge of a political society undergoing intense restructuring. They thus form an administrative society with codes, uses, and practices closely related to their Spanish and English European counterparts, following the increasing internationalism of the Wars of Religion. The heuristic concept of the European "Republic of bureaus" once more asks questions regarding the transnational circulation of administrative knowledge and the transfers of government models. The increased attention to the materiality of the work of government bureaus on the European scale gives this study the dimension of a cultural history of the State, centered on the games of actors and scales, the resolution of conflicts, and the collaboration and connections at the heart of networks of information. ; L'étude explore comment l'État royal français institue au cœur de son dispositif de pouvoirs des structures spécialisées dans le maniement, la projection et la réception de l'écrit politique pour éteindre les troubles des guerres de Religion, gagner des positions politiques face aux corps et aux ...

Part I: Politics of the Spirit 1. Cultural Organizations, Networks and Mediators: An Introduction Diana Roig-Sanz and Jaume Subirana 2. Rebuilding a Europe of Intellectuals (1918-1939) Christophe Charle 3. Cultural Mediators and Their Complex Transfer Practices Reine Meylaerts Part II: Cultural Organizations 4. A Representative Organization?: Ibero-American Networks in the Committee on Intellectual Cooperation of the League of Nations (1922-1939) Martin Grandjean 5. The 1933 Dubrovnik PEN Congress or How to Deal with the Present That Was Already History Simona Škrabec 6. International PEN and the Republic of Literature Rachel Potter 7. The 1936 Meetings of the PEN Clubs and the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation in Buenos Aires Alejandra Giuliani 8. Barcelona on the International Map of Modernity: The Conferentia Club's Role in the Interwar Period Gabriella Gavagnin Part III: Cultural Mediators 9. Joan Estelrich and International Cooperation: From the Years of Expansió Catalana to His Activity for the PEN Club in the Early-Mid-1930s Sílvia Coll-Vinent 10. The Spanish Center of the International PEN Through Its First Sumiller: From a Project of International Solidarity to an Expression of the Tensions oftheLiterary Society of Madrid (1922-1924) Laurie-Anne Laget 11. The International Relations of the Catalan PEN Until 1936: Guests, Congressors and Visitors Joan Safont Plumed 12. The International Dimension of the Portuguese "Politics of the Spirit": António Ferro, Júlio Dantas, Fidelino de Figueiredo Ângela Fernandes 13. Between the Local and the International: Enrique Gómez Carrillo and Antonio Aita at the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation Laura Fólica and Ventsislav Ikoff 14. Torres Bodet and the "Male Pedagogies": Radiography of a Thought of Transcultural and Transnational Circulation Mauricio Zabalgoitia Herrera 15. Universalisms in Debate During the 1940s: International Organizations and the Dynamics of International Intellectual Cooperation in the View of Brazilian Intellectual Miguel Ozório de Almeida Letícia Pumar

Part I: Politics of the Spirit 1. Cultural Organizations, Networks and Mediators: An Introduction Diana Roig-Sanz and Jaume Subirana 2. Rebuilding a Europe of Intellectuals (1918-1939) Christophe Charle 3. Cultural Mediators and Their Complex Transfer Practices Reine Meylaerts Part II: Cultural Organizations 4. A Representative Organization?: Ibero-American Networks in the Committee on Intellectual Cooperation of the League of Nations (1922-1939) Martin Grandjean 5. The 1933 Dubrovnik PEN Congress or How to Deal with the Present That Was Already History Simona Škrabec 6. International PEN and the Republic of Literature Rachel Potter 7. The 1936 Meetings of the PEN Clubs and the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation in Buenos Aires Alejandra Giuliani 8. Barcelona on the International Map of Modernity: The Conferentia Club's Role in the Interwar Period Gabriella Gavagnin Part III: Cultural Mediators 9. Joan Estelrich and International Cooperation: From the Years of Expansió Catalana to His Activity for the PEN Club in the Early-Mid-1930s Sílvia Coll-Vinent 10. The Spanish Center of the International PEN Through Its First Sumiller: From a Project of International Solidarity to an Expression of the Tensions oftheLiterary Society of Madrid (1922-1924) Laurie-Anne Laget 11. The International Relations of the Catalan PEN Until 1936: Guests, Congressors and Visitors Joan Safont Plumed 12. The International Dimension of the Portuguese "Politics of the Spirit": António Ferro, Júlio Dantas, Fidelino de Figueiredo Ângela Fernandes 13. Between the Local and the International: Enrique Gómez Carrillo and Antonio Aita at the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation Laura Fólica and Ventsislav Ikoff 14. Torres Bodet and the "Male Pedagogies": Radiography of a Thought of Transcultural and Transnational Circulation Mauricio Zabalgoitia Herrera 15. Universalisms in Debate During the 1940s: International Organizations and the Dynamics of International Intellectual Cooperation in the View of Brazilian Intellectual Miguel Ozório de Almeida Letícia Pumar

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The first literary manifestations to emerge in the context of the Spanish Civil War endeavored to create a legitimizing discourse for each of two contending Spains, the National Spain and the Republican Spain, by means of poetic appropriation of urban spaces. Nevertheless, this was not a Spain divided only in two, between leftists and rightists or Socialists and Cedistas, but rather a territory comprised of many parallel wars sparked prior to 1936. According to historian Enrique Moradiellos, the nuclei of three disparate and opposing political agendas arose from the physical foundation of these two Spains, 'the reformist-democratic, the reactionary-authoritarian and the revolutionary-collectivist [agendas] that responded to the same triad of models that emerged in Europe in the wake of the devastating impact of the Great War of 1914 and that competed to achieve political and institutional stabilization' (2004: 125). This 'reform, reaction and revolution' triangle that acted as the protagonist of the Great War would also settle into the fratricidal spaces of Spain and its cultural products. In this context, my essay will analyse the mechanisms of appropriation of Madrid's spaces employed by each of these three political agendas as they are presented in Madrid, de Corte a Checa (1938) by Agustín de Foxá. Following the map of the capital we will see how both, the agenda of a modern anti-traditional space driven by the Second Republic and the anti-bourgeois revolutionary agenda that stood for the destruction of the status quo and the implementation of a Communist Orthodox regime, present a threat to the conservative ideal that represented the monarcho-Catholic centralism of the third agenda. This threat is manifested in the dismantling of Madrid through the 'de-Hispanicization' (Foxá) of the mythical spaces of the sacred (churches and convents), historic (statues and palaces) and domestic (house interiors) cityscapes.

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In the early twentieth century, with the advancement of printing techniques enabling the reproduction of graphics and images, the number of illustrated publications increased rapidly. In addition to its consumer appeal, the printed image and its mass distribution through reviews, newspapers,
posters and illustrations in books boosted new types of usage and meaning relating to the image, which in turn established new codes of communication. Due to their eagerness to proselytize, anarchist groups worked themselves up into a publishing frenzy which served as a platform for dialogue
between anarchist elites and the proletarian masses, as well as being a vehicle for teaching and indoctrination. The rapid growth of these publications promoted what can be referred to as a 'review culture', which gave rise to new strategies for spreading anarchist ideas as well as for recruiting
and educating activists. Estudios. Revista Eclctica (1928–37) stands out because of its interest in the sexual education of the proletariat, focusing on spreading scientific knowledge among the workers, peasants, artisans and other groups which made up its vast readership. A large number
of science and medical professionals and amateurs developed a veritable manual on the sexual education of the proletariat, which was complemented by the review's rich visual discourse. This article argues that these images, which were a part of the visual culture of the Spanish and international
anarchist world, established a dialogue with the textual discourse of this publication, completing or visually transmitting the concepts relating to sexual education which were expressed in the review. The anxiety to improve the living conditions of the proletariat and the focus on proletarian
sexuality was largely caused by the anxiety to reduce the high mortality rate in European nations in the inter-war period. Sexuality and sexual practices were policed through a scientific discourse which, it is argued, was not unburdened by the Catholicism of old.