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The struggles for independence in Latin America during the first half of the nineteenth century were accompanied by a wide-ranging debate about political rights, nationality and citizenship. In South American Independence, Catherine Davies, Claire Brewster and Hilary Owen investigate the neglected role of gender in that discussion. Examining women writers from Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Colombia, the book traces the contradictions inherent in revolutionary movements that, while arguing for the rights of all, remained ambivalent, at best, about the place of women. Through studies of both published and unpublished writings, South American Independence reveals the complex role of women in shaping the vexed ideologies of independence

Anthropology has been playing a central role in questioning the supposed
objective and apolitical character of scientific knowledge by underlining the socio-cultural context
and history of the constitution of any scientific theory. From different
research universes, anthropologists have sought to demonstrate how science
and politics are composed, juxtaposed and produced in the daily work of
social actors. In the wake of what Donna Haraway (1995) pointed out, it is
there would not be the "science" look, but the look of the scientists - always located
in a space (which is not only geographical, but temporal, cultural, marked
by social differences, etc.). It is therefore based on the premise that science and
are mutually constituted and from specific contexts. Following
In this line, this collection explores how certain knowledges are constituted and legitimized, how technologies of government come into action - and, through practices
of the social agents, are (re) formulated - and how through such devices
new categories of analysis, social markers, populations and
subjectivities (FONSECA, MACHADO, 2015) - A antropologia vem tendo um papel central no questionamento do suposto
caráter objetivo e apolítico dos saberes científicos ao sublinhar o contexto sociocultural
e histórico da constituição de toda teoria científica. A partir de diferentes
universos de pesquisa, antropólogos têm buscado demonstrar a forma como ciência
e política são compostas, justapostas e produzidas no trabalho cotidiano de
agentes sociais. Na esteira do que apontou Donna Haraway (1995), destaca-se que
não existiria o olhar "da ciência", mas, sim, o olhar dos cientistas - sempre localizado
num espaço (que não é apenas geográfico, mas temporal, cultural, marcado
por diferenças sociais, etc.). Parte-se, portanto, da premissa de que ciência e intervenções
se constituem mutuamente e a partir de contextos específicos. Seguindo
nessa linha, essa coletânea explora como determinados saberes são constituídos e legitimados, como tecnologias de governo entram em ação - e, através das práticas
dos agentes sociais, são (re)formuladas - e a maneira como através de tais dispositivos
são produzidas novas categorias de análise, marcadores sociais, populações e
subjetividades (FONSECA; MACHADO, 2015)

Voltaire hoje / Sergio Paulo Rouanet -- Reflexos das transformações do Brasil no libro, na literatura e nas bibliotecas brasileiras / Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna -- Constituição brasileira : modelo de estado, estado democrático de direito, objetivos e limites jurídicos / Tércio Sampaio Ferraz Júnior -- Otica externa e olhar interno : mudanças no sistema educacional brasileiro / Barbara Freitag -- A contribuição da Alemanha para o desenvolvimento industrial do Brasil / Luiz Alberto Moniz Bandeira -- Transformações na cultura brasileira / Sérgio Paulo Rouanet

Through an analysis of the transformations and persistencies in the image­-power­-knowledge relationship that result from the spread of digital communication's technologies, our goal is to characterize the emergence of a conflict that, in the politics of visuality and the cyberspace's techno­political configuration, reflects similar tensions that constitute the actual power relations diagram. The research begins with an investigation of the historical background that influenced Thomas Hobbes Leviathan's images production, where a given visual order corresponds to a new power order. Then, we analyze the changes of this specific configuration – that is perceptible as the Leviathan image regime's metaphor - in face of the analog and digital image production technologies. Our hypothesis is that the disputes (aesthetic, legal, economic) that attempt to regulate the image within the digital media domain and that shape a particular politics of visibility, are similar to those tensions that affect the cyberspace conditions to become a different 'sensible' surface (medium), that potentially mobilizes other forms of knowing, other models of organization and production. To examine this issue, we analyze the ongoing conflict between different social forces that point out both for new practices and meanings that emerge in the cybercultural arena, and for the trends that attempts to impose over the digital medium the regulatory mechanisms established in the context of analog medium. At the end we characterize the current power diagram, and we argue that cyberspace aesthetic and political configuration depend upon a capacity to intervene over the very fundamentals that regulate its field of enunciation and visibility. Finally, we take it as a struggle for others modes of thought and social organization models, as a war over the virtual and imaginary production, therefore a war that is oriented to the future.

Powerful narratives describe Latin American nations as fundamentally mestizo. These narratives have made it difficult to recognize racism in the region, but recent multiculturalist turns have increased recognition of black and indigenous cultures and identities. Multiculturalism can focus on issues of identity and visibility and address unconcerned forms of racism, but it can also divert attention from structural racism and racialized inequality, and thus constrain broader anti-racist initiatives. In addition, multiple understandings of how racism and anti-racism are inserted in projects of social transformation make racism a complex and multifaceted issue. The seven essays in Contra oracismo investigate actors in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico who go beyond the politics of recognition to address structural inequalities and build common ground with other marginalized groups. The organizations in this study advocate an approach to social structural transformation that promotes alliances, is inclusive, and is inspired by a radical imagination.