Dora maar & margaret michaelis: two photographers in front of the art and architecture

El interés por la labor callada del artista en su estudio o la atención continuada a la lenta gestación de la arquitectura, han sido constantes desde hace tiempo. Los buenos fotógrafos han estado siempre dispuestos a poner su mirada atenta sobre estos procesos. Resulta sumamente interesante desgranar lo ocurrido en este campo en las primeras décadas del siglo xx, y muy especialmente en los años que precedieron a la guerra civil española. De aquellos años, me fijaré en las figuras de dos mujeres fotógrafas –Dora Maar y Margaret Michaelis–, que entendieron el seguimiento de los procesos creativos como parte fundamental de su creación artistica y, gracias a las cuales, descubriremos a sus autores, visualizaremos los escenarios de su gestación y disfrutaremos con la plástica de sus procesos constructivos.The interest of the silent work of the artist in his studio or the continued attention of the slow gestation of the architecture, have been constant since long time ago. The good photographers have always been ready to put their careful look on this processes. It’s very interesting to peel what ocurred in the first decades of the 20Th century, and specially on the years before the spanish civil war. In this years, I will observe the figures of two women photographers – Dora Maar and Margaret Michaelis– that understood the creative processes as a fundamental part of the artistic creation, and thanks to which, we discovered this authors, we visualize the scenes of their gestation and we enjoy with the plastic arts of their constructive advances

Social Rights and Deontological Constraints

Assuming that there is not terminological or conceptual impediment to call social and economic rights “human rights”, this paper argues that social and economic human rights are normatively different from classical civil and political human rights, and that this may have some significant institutional implications. Following mainstream opinion, I presuppose that both classical liberal rights and socioeconomic human rights are bundles of negative and positive “incidents” (concrete rights). My first claim is that in both cases negative incidents can plausibly be constructed as “deontological constraints.” That means that such constraints must be observed even if infringing them could maximize the satisfaction of the interests those rights seek to preserve. My second claim is that, contrary to classical human rights, the fulfillment of the negative incidents of socioeconomic rights, albeit necessary, does not represent a significant contribution to their fulfillment. Since in the case of socioeconomic human rights positive incidents play such crucial role, there is a relevant asymmetry between classical and socioeconomic human rights. The paper concludes by showing some institutional implications of this asymmetry.Fil: Rivera López, Eduardo Enrique. Universidad Torcuato Di Tella; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentin

Periodo de entreguerras. vanguardia y Movimiento Moderno

Se analiza el momento histórico (periodo de entreguerras 1925-1939) y las circunstancias que posibilitaron que ambas -la 'vieja' arquitectura y la 'jóven' fotografía- empezaran a entenderse, a colaborar y hacerse casi imprescindibles la una para la otra, así como la importancia que el fuerte desarrollo experimentado por la fotografía y las publicaciones en esas décadas tuvo en la difusión de los nuevos valores preconizados por la arquitectura de entonces. Sin lugar a dudas, fue decisivo el papel desempeñado por la fotografía en la construcción y desarrollo de la imagen de la arquitectura modernaUniversidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Re-Encountering Climate Change: Indigenous Peoples and the Quest for Epistemic Diversity in Global Climate Change Governance

Climate change assessment reports and intergovernmental agreements are increasingly recognizing the importance of other “knowledge systems” (traditional, local, or indigenous) for climate change adaptation and mitigation. The empirical point of departure of this dissertation is the recognition of other culturally specific ways of knowing, or what I call epistemic diversity, in the field of global climate change governance. I conceive this as a process of diversification of the knowledge basis of global climate policy. This dissertation accounts for this large process by addressing the questions of why and how epistemic diversity gains visibility and recognition in a field of governance, as well as how these translate into changes in the configuration of science-policy relations. By advancing an analytical approach to epistemic diversity, the research extends and challenges prevalent theories of epistemic authority in global or transnational spheres of politics. Based on a multi-site process tracing, the dissertation traces this large process by following three trajectories of change. The global trajectory, on the one hand, looks into the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change against the backdrop of the historical recognition of epistemic diversity in the wider field of environmental governance. The Arctic and Amazon trajectories, on the other hand, follow these developments in the mobilization of indigenous peoples and the deployment of climate science and policy in specific socio-cultural regions. Specifically, the analysis zooms in on local sites of governance, namely, community-based adaptation in the Swedish side of Sápmi and forest-based mitigation in the indigenous territories of the Ecuadorian Amazon. The study finds that the recognition of indigenous knowledge (holders) is reconfiguring epistemic authority – albeit partially – by introducing criteria of epistemic diversity to guide social and political judgements about what counts as valuable knowledge to address the climate crisis.1 Introduction: Knowledge, governance and diversity 1.1 Epistemic diversity as a research problem 1.2 The diversity gap: reviewing the literature 1.2.1 Science matters 1.2.2 Science, expertise and contestation 1.2.3 Dismantling the “great divide” 1.3 Toward the study of epistemic diversity in global governance 1.4 Ordering epistemic diversity: boundary work and categorization struggles 1.5 Reconfiguring knowledge-policy relations through heterarchies 1.6 Trajectories of change and polycentric sites of governance 1.7 A word on terminology 2 Research design, methods and data 2.1 Research design 2.2 Multi-site process tracing 2.3 Case selection 2.4 Data collection and analysis 2.4.1 Analyzing documents 2.4.2 Analyzing interviews 2.4.3 Analyzing observations 3 The coming of age of epistemic diversity 3.1 The “ethno” and the science 3.2 Oscillations between visibility and invisibility 3.2.1 Postwar precursors: on “backward people” and the facts of nature 3.2.2 The Stockholm conference or the conspicuous absence of indigenous knowledge 3.3 Global recognition and the advent of the knowledge holders 3.3.1 Paving the way for Rio: sustainable development encounters traditional knowledge 3.3.2 The Earth Summit and the global recognition of epistemic diversity 3.4 Ordering epistemic diversity 4 Diversifying global climate science and policy 4.1 Climate exceptionalism 4.2 The IPCC: diversifying global climate science 4.2.1 An overview of diverse knowledges in IPCC assessment reports 4.2.2 Climate adaptation as purposeful adjustment 4.2.3 Re-thinking adaptation: from adaptive capacity to traditional knowledge 4.2.4 The rediscovery of community in adaptation research 4.2.5 Co-production or the “best available knowledge” 4.2.6 The knowers and the known 4.3 The UNFCCC: diversifying global climate policy 4.3.1 The UNFCCC as a forum for indigenous peoples (and local communities) 4.3.2 Adaptation and diverse ways of knowing 4.3.3 Mitigation and diverse ways of knowing 4.3.4 The Paris Agreement: back to Rio and beyond 4.4 Re-ordering epistemic diversity 5 Arctic knowledge 5.1 Diversifying Arctic science through Sami knowledge 5.1.1 The Sami voice: Saami Council and Sami Parliaments 5.1.2 Becoming Arctic peoples and knowledge holders 5.1.3 The Arctic Council and the invention of Arctic knowledge 5.1.4 Sami knowledge: adaptation, co-production and resistance 5.2 Arctic knowledge in the Swedish side of Sápmi 5.2.1 Sweden in the Arctic: re-encountering the Sami 5.2.2 The Swedish side of Sápmi 5.2.3 The adaptive knowledge of Sami reindeer herders 5.2.4 Co-producing adaptive knowledge 5.3 Reconfiguring Arctic knowledge 6 Amazon knowledge 6.1 The diversification of Amazon knowledge 6.1.1 Amazonia: biocultural diversity and epistemic diversity 6.1.2 COICA and Amazon knowledge 6.1.3 Amazon Indigenous REDD+ 6.2 The genesis and development of “indigenous carbon” 6.2.1 A generative question 6.2.2 Indigenous carbon as a hard fact 6.2.3 Scientific indigenous knowledge 6.3 Downscaling indigenous carbon: REDD+ and RIA in Ecuador 6.3.1 Ecuador in Amazonia: petroleum, native forests and indigenous territories 6.3.2 REDD+ in Ecuador 6.3.3 RIA in Ecuador 6.3.4 Money for nothing 6.3.5 Life Plans 6.3.6 The defense of life 6.4 Reconfiguring Amazon knowledge 7 A global platform for indigenous and local knowledge 7.1 Imagining a global platform for indigenous knowledge 7.1.1 Indigenous peoples’ organizational templates 7.1.2 Bolivia, Mother Earth and the “diplomacy of the peoples” 7.1.3 A platform: translating through ambiguity 7.1.4 Setting the pace of the negotiations 7.2 Operationalizing the Platform 7.2.1 The Platform after Paris: an array of alternatives in disarray 7.2.2 Design by bricolage: the Facilitative Working Group 7.2.3 Lost in translation: the local communities affair 7.3 The LCIPP as a knowledge-policy interface 7.3.1 The onion 7.3.2 Knowledge holders 7.3.3 Capacity for engagement 7.3.4 Climate policies and actions 7.4 Global institutional change towards epistemic diversity 8 Conclusion 8.1 Ordering and re-ordering epistemic diversity 8.2 Undone or incipient hierarchies: reconfiguring knowledge-policy relations 8.3 Entangled trajectories 8.4 Theoretical and methodological contributions 8.5 Avenues for future research 9 Reference

Blurring Global Epistemic Boundaries: The Emergence of Traditional Knowledge in Environmental Governance

In the wake of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, ‘traditional knowledge’ became a recurring theme in global environmental governance. The emergence of traditional knowledge in a governance field marked by global science begs the following question: how is it that a particular set of intellectual activities other than science came to be perceived as a form of knowledge whose attributes are valuable for governing the global environment? This paper aims to grapple with this question by tracing the emergence of the category of traditional knowledge in global environmental governance. The main argument is that traditional knowledge came to be conceived of as a cognitive resource with utilitarian and ‘glocal’ properties through a series of interventions on the part of public scientists and landmark environmental reports that blurred the boundaries between science and nonscience. Building upon the concept of boundary work in Science and Technology Studies, this paper puts forth the concept of boundary blurring to analyze how aspects of science are attributed to traditional knowledge, thus attenuating the demarcation between science and other forms of knowledge. Boundary blurring works as a form of legitimation of traditional knowledge and, through the attribution of knowledge to nonscientific actors, opens up a space for these to make knowledge claims in global governance processes. Ultimately, the analysis throws light on the constitution of unconventional ‘knowledge actors’ in global governance, in particular indigenous peoples and local communities

On the economic link between asset prices and real activity.

This paper presents a model linking two financial markets (stocks and bonds) with real business cycle, in the framework of the Consumption Capital Asset Pricing Model with Generalized Isoelastic Preferences. Besides interest rate term spread, the model includes a new variable to forecast economic activity: stock market term spread. This is the slope of expected stock market returns. The empirical evidence documented in this paper suggests systematic relationships between business cycle’s state and the shapes of two yield curves (interest rates and expected stock returns). Results are robust to changes in measures of economic growth, stock prices, interest rates and expectations generating mechanisms.Stock market; Interest rates; Economic growth; Term structure;

Sistematización seminario : educar en la escuela, un reto para pensadores

Se torna indispensable para los Etnoeducadores, reflexionar sobre la importancia de la utilización del aula, no solo como espacio físico, si no como escenario de transformación, de esta manera, se busca mediante este trabajo, dar cuenta del proceso vivido en el seminario “Educar en la Escuela, un reto para pensadores”, el cual en su objetivo buscó reflexionar la escuela, la educación y sus métodos, e incluyó procesos que innovaron la concepción de los participantes, e incentivaron al diálogo como generador del conocimiento. A partir del diálogo, zonas de trabajo, espacios culturales, se desarrollaron diversas alternativas y discusiones con respecto a la didáctica que impartimos en el aula, evidenciando diversas falencias pero también, múltiples opciones para innovar y mejorar en ello

La Eterna Lola de las Lomas

Enter Lola Rodríguez de Tío life is to revive the Antilles nineteenth century. Knowing his life, writings, thoughts, letters, concerns and ideals is rummaging through the Antilles, Caribbean and American struggles of the nineteenth century unmatched.Entrar en la vida de Lola Rodríguez Tío es revivir el siglo XIX antillano. Conocer su vida, poesías, artículos periodísticos, pensamientos, cartas, dedicatorias, escritos, inquietudes e ideales es rebuscar en las luchas antillanas, caribeñas y americanas del inigualable siglo XIX