Business, Education, and Enjoyment: Stakeholder Interpretations of the Gettysburg Museum and Visitors Center

An anthropological study of the Gettysburg Museum and Visitors Center undertaken to understand the ways in which the visitor experience is conditioned by their own personal background, as well as filtered through the carefully constructed historical narrative created by museum historians, National Park Service rangers, and administrators. The Gettysburg Museum and Visitors Center is a site in which multiple stakeholders contend to ensure that their interpretations of the museum’s purpose is being upheld. This paper will examine the ways in which these various stakeholders – primarily NPS rangers, Civil War historians, and history buffs – interpret the catalyst(s) for constructing the new Gettysburg Visitors Center and Museum, and in turn how their understandings can be understood through the theoretical conception of the museum as a place of business, education, and enjoyment. Having outlined and analyzed their individual interpretations, I will then examine the visitor experience – through surveys given to visitors at the museum – as being conditioned by the explicit educational goals of the museum’s creators, as well as by the museum’s trifold status

En búsqueda de la relevancia del G-77 y China para América Latina y el Caribe: diez tesis sobre la cooperación Sur-Sur en el siglo XXI

Este artículo persigue dos objetivos interrelacionados que se basan en una revisión de la literatura académica del pasado y presente de la Cooperación Sur-Sur (CSS): primero, contrarresta el sesgo eurocéntrico en la producción de conocimiento sobre la Cooperación Sur-Sur (en especial, pero no exclusivamente) en la academia anglófona, que se manifiesta en una desproporcionada concentración en los BRICS (Brasil, Rusia, India, China, Sudáfrica) mientras se marginan otros proyectos globales relevantes. Segundo, como una contribución de la teoría crítica, este artículo busca reclamar el histórico potencial emancipatorio asociado con la CSS, la cual implica relaciones y proyectos regidos por los principios de complementariedad, cooperación y solidaridad, como está establecido en la Carta de Argel del G-77 de 1967, para relaciones más horizontales (igualitarias y justas, a veces –pero no necesariamente– altruistas), diplomáticas, de comercio, ayuda e inversión, e intercambios de mutuos beneficios (relaciones de “ganar-ganar”), también asociadas, históricamente, con el Nuevo Orden Económico Internacional de las Naciones Unidas del año 1974. De este modo, excluyendo miembros del Comité de Ayuda al Desarrollo de la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económico (OECD-DAC, por sus siglas en inglés), la CSS busca alianzas entre los miembros del G-77 y China y el Movimiento de Países no Alineados. Las diez tesis presentadas a continuación problematizan empírica, teórica, conceptual y metodológicamente, temas esenciales para el debate de la CSS en el siglo XXI. Subsecuentemente, la conclusión presenta algunas ideas orientadas políticamente a exponer la relevancia del G-77 y China para América Latina y el Caribe, y viceversa

From Photography to fMRI

Hysteria, a mysterious disease known since antiquity, is said to have ceased to exist. Challenging this commonly held view, this is the first cross-disciplinary study to examine the current functional neuroimaging research into hysteria and compare it to the nineteenth-century image-based research into the same disorder. Paula Muhr's central argument is that, both in the nineteenth-century and the current neurobiological research on hysteria, images have enabled researchers to generate new medical insights. Through detailed case studies, Muhr traces how different images, from photography to functional brain scans, have reshaped the historically situated medical understanding of this disorder that defies the mind-body dualism

Understanding the Bolivarian revolution

Review of Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrández (editor), Democracy, revolution, and geopolitics in Latin America, Routledge 2014

Equity of access to higher education in the context of South–South cooperation in Latin America: a pluri-scalar analysis

This article draws from an education governance approach to conduct a pluriscalar analysis of equity of access to tertiary education in the context of South–South cooperation. An account of distributional justice in access to tertiary education in the Federative Republic of Brazil and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is integrated with a structural approach related to South–South cooperation among the two nations as well as within the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR), upon which two interrelated arguments are developed: first, despite persistent inequities in access to university education in both territories, state-interventionist policies enhance equity of access directly with respect to availability and accessibility. Second, South–South cooperation transforms the background conditions for educational justice by producing an alternative structure to the neoliberal global governance of education and its agenda of privatisation and commercialisation

Strategy in/for progressive transformation: A pluri-scalar war of position

This chapter addresses the strategic-processual question of how collective action may generate an alternative, counter-hegemonic structure or counter-spatiality within the constraints of the prevailing historical structure, against the accumulated power of global capital. In the context of a resurgent interest among the global left in the question of strategy, this chapter develops the concept of “pluri-scalar war of position”. The concept is grounded in earlier socio-spatial ethnographic research into the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA-TCP) and Petrocaribe. As a geographical relational approach to transformative praxis, the pluri-scalar war of position integrates neo-Gramscian concepts with critical human geography. Thus, the chapter argues for the importance of capturing state power on the one hand, and for a politics of place-space-scale to transform the existing power geometries on the other. The chapter underscores that a transformative politics needs to gain from greater engagement with place-space-scale as objects of inquiry, while aiming to increase the visibility of pluri-scalar war of position for progressive academia and activism.info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersio