Review of \u3ci\u3eThe Discovery Of Childhood In Puritan England\u3c/i\u3e, by C. John Sommerville.

John Sommerville has written a fascinating book that scholars from a number of interests and backgrounds will find valuable. His work is an intersection of the history of childhood and of religious history in early modern England. In this study, Sommerville is arguing for a much more sympathetic and positive view of Puritanism, especially in terms of how the Puritans thought about children and how they in practice related to their children. Sommerville\u27s work is an interesting counterpoint to Linda Pollock\u27s Forgotten Children: Parent-child Relations from 1500-1900 (1983). Pollock argued for a very harsh attitude toward, and treatment of, children in early modern England. Sommerville counters that there is less change from the early modern period to the modern age.The change Sommerville does perceive is not necessarily the actual treatment, but the greater guilt over bad treatment, and this he traces to Puritan influence

Encuentro con Marc Augé en Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación - 13 de octubre 17h. Salón de Actos, en el marco de las Jornadas de Investigación de la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación, entre el 11 y 13/10/2017.

Digo memorias en plural. Porque no quiero hablar sólo de las múltiples huellas que la historia ha dejado en el espacio urbano con el tiempo, sino también tener en cuenta el hecho de que cada uno de sus habitantes tiene una relación íntima y personal con ese espacio de la ciudad. Tanta gente, tantas memorias y tantos recuerdos

Emma, c’est nous

Aliénés, dirions-nous dans un langage qui n’était pas le sien, à leurs lectures, à leurs rêveries et à des ambitions qui ne leur appartiennent pas en propre, les personnages de Flaubert sont avant tout l’expression d’une époque. Lui, pourtant, travaille et écrit pour les promouvoir à l’existence, comme si rien n’était plus important que de mettre en forme le désenchantement qui non seulement leur interdit toute vision de l’avenir, mais entraîne chez les plus lucides d’entre eux une interpréta..

De lo imaginario a lo "ficcional local"

Ponencia del VIII congreso de Antropología en Colombia, 199

Lieux et non-lieux de la ville

This paper will try to grasp and elucidate the main developments and tendencies characterizing the contemporary global city by employing the concepts of place and non-place. I will start from the assumption that the interaction of lieu and non-lieu may work as a heuristic tool suitable for sociological analysis. In the first part of the paper, the notions of place and non-place will be discussed from a theoretical point of view, while highlighting, at the same time, their spatial, temporal and symbolic dimension. Then, several characteristics of the contemporary city will be addressed: from spatial differentiation and social segregation to the Disneyfication of places, from the global homogenization of downtowns to the sub-urbanization of the city’s surroundings. I will show how the ongoing tendencies in global economy, urbanism, and planning are filling the cities with non-places. Nonetheless, new forms of geographical and social imaginative outlets are springing up in the interstices of contemporary cities, in the common attempt to rebuild places of social exchange and mutual recognition.This paper will try to grasp and elucidate the main developments and tendencies characterizing the contemporary global city by employing the concepts of place and non-place. I will start from the assumption that the interaction of lieu and non-lieu may work as a heuristic tool suitable for sociological analysis. In the first part of the paper, the notions of place and non-place will be discussed from a theoretical point of view, while highlighting, at the same time, their spatial, temporal and symbolic dimension. Then, several characteristics of the contemporary city will be addressed: from spatial differentiation and social segregation to the Disneyfication of places, from the global homogenization of downtowns to the sub-urbanization of the city’s surroundings. I will show how the ongoing tendencies in global economy, urbanism, and planning are filling the cities with non-places. Nonetheless, new forms of geographical and social imaginative outlets are springing up in the interstices of contemporary cities, in the common attempt to rebuild places of social exchange and mutual recognition

Naturaleza, cultura y paisaje

https://doi.org/10.22380/2539472X70https://doi.org/10.22380/2539472X7

El viaje como ilusión y como promesa

La sociedad liberal aclama los méritos de la movilidad en todos los ámbitos. Pero hay varios tipos de movilidad: la gloriosa movilidad de los «grandes» de este mundo y la movilidad sufrida por los que se ven obligados a emigrar. El cambio de escala que experimenta la humanidad afecta simultáneamente al tiempo y al espacio. En este texto se distinguen tres formas de globalización: globalización imperial, globalización fragmentada y globalización de los medios de comunicación, a las que corresponden diferentes formas de desplazamiento. Se prestará atención a la naturaleza narrativa del viaje y al hecho más amplio de la vida como narrativa, para preguntarse si acaso el viaje no es la condición sine qua non del contacto con la diversidad humana como requisito previo para la comprensión de la realidad universal de la humanidad