SLAS2016 Society for Latin American Studies Annual Conference

SLAS2016 Society for Latin American Studies annual conference

Conference programme

University of Liverpool

7- 8 April 2016

1 Contents

Welcome ...... 9

Programme overview ...... 10

Campus map ...... 11

Practical information ...... 12

Keynote lectures ...... 13

Events and launches ...... 14

Panel timetable ...... 15

Paper abstracts ...... 35

The Society for Latin American Studies and the conference organisers at the University of Liverpool would like to express our thanks to our partners/funders: Wiley-Blackwell Foreign and Commonwealth Ofce, Americas Research Group Anglo-Bolivian Society

The following publishing houses/journals have supported this conference through advertising or presence in the book fair: AMDigital, Gale, Cengage Learning, Combined Academic Press, Gazelle Books, Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru/University of Wales Press, Iberoamericana Libros, Institute of Latin American Studies book series, Intellect Books, Liverpool University Press, News from Nowhere, Nomos eLibrary, Pathfnder Books, Peter Lang, Taylor & Francis and Thompson Henry.

3 LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES AT LUP

Publications 2016 New in Liverpool Latin American Studies

Andean Truths Anne Lambright 9781781382516 • £75.00

Positivism, Science and ‘The Scientists’ in Porﬁ rian Mexico Natalia Priego 9781781382561 • £75.00

Forthcoming Forthcoming £25.00 £25.00 Book Launch - Friday 8th April, 12.15pm

Since its founding by Edgar Allison Peers in 1923, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies has become the foremost British academic journal devoted to the languages, literatures and civilizations of Spain, Portugal and Latin America. Recognised across the world as one of the front-ranking journals in the ﬁ eld of Hispanic research, it is supported by an editorial committee specialising in a vast range of Hispanic scholarship.

Published on behalf of the North American Catalan Society, Catalan Review accepts contributions such as re- £5.00 £20.00 £25.00 £15.00 search articles, translations, and book reviews dealing with all aspects of Catalan culture. Buy online Listed above is a selection of our latest and bestselling publications. Visit our online publications catalogue For more information please contact Chloe Johnson. for up-to-date information and to buy each title: store.london.ac.uk ([email protected]) For bulk discounts email [email protected]

To submit a book proposal, please email [email protected] In late 2014, Liverpool University Press launched Modern Languages Open (MLO), a peer-reviewed Contact ILAS SAS Publications online platform for the open access publication of research from across the modern languages to a Institute of Latin American Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London School of Advanced Study, University of London Second floor (room 248), Senate House (South Block) global audience. Second floor (room 226), Senate House (South Block) Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU For more information, visit www.modernlanguagesopen.org. Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU [email protected] Liverpool University Press Distributed in North America by Tel: +44 (0)151 794 2233 Oxford University Press /instituteoflatinamericanstudies @ilas_sas +44 (0)20 7862 8753/8688 email: [email protected] email: [email protected] www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk global.oup.com/academic

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Conference team: The University of Liverpool and the conference organisers are delighted to welcome you to the 52nd Annual Natalia Priego Conference of the Social for Latin American Studies 2016. Marieke Riethof The papers and panels in this programme proposed by postgraduate students, junior and senior academics from Niamh Thornton the UK, other European countries, Latin America, the Katinka Weber US, Canada and elsewhere cover a wide range of topics in the arts, humanities and social sciences, including anthropology, cultural studies, history, flm, literature, PG helpers: politics and socio-linguistics. We are also pleased to welcome our two keynote speakers to Liverpool, Professor Pablo Bradbury Hugo Cancino (Aalborg University) and Professor John D. Sheneez Amara French (Duke University). Lucia Brandi In 2016 we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the opening Juliette Doman of Liverpool’s Centre for Latin American Studies (later Erika Drummond re-named the ‘Institute of Latin American Studies’). David Harrison The Institute was one of the six Parry centres for Latin American Area Studies founded in the UK in 1966. The Ailsa Peate conference marks the relaunch of Latin American Studies Jack Webb in Liverpool as the North West Americas Studies Network (NWASN). This will be a Liverpool-based multidisciplinary network whose aim is to bring together experts in Latin The conference team would like to thank American and North American studies to support research emeritus Prof John Fisher and Prof Chris in the feld, exchange ideas, and to provide opportunities Harris for their advice and support. for collaborations amongst the members. Practical and administrative support from the School of Histories, Languages and We hope you have an enjoyable and productive Cultures events and fnance teams has conference, been invaluable. We would particularly like to thank Caroline Stanley, Larissa On behalf of the organising committee, Kolstein, Lynn Farthman, Annie Bradshaw, Jane Maher and Andy Sloan. Marieke Riethof

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10 11 Practical Information Keynote lectures

Navigating the Programme Audio-visual facilities 7 April at 17.00 8 April at 11.00 The programme overview on p. 10 provides times for All panel rooms are equipped with PowerPoint facilities Moot Lecture Theatre, South Campus Teaching Hub Moot Lecture Theatre, South Campus Teaching Hub. panels, keynote lectures and other events. The detailed and delegates should bring their presentation on a USB timetable (from p. 16) lists panel and paper titles as well stick. You can also connect your laptop if it has a VGA Emeritus Associate Professor Hugo Professor John D. French, Duke University as times and locations. connection. An IT technician will be available on both days Cancino, Aalborg University, Denmark Many panels have two slots and each panel session for support. Lula’s Politics of Cunning: From the normally has three to four paper presentations. You can El Latinoamericanismo en los Factory Floor to the Post-Presidency use the order in the programme as an indication when a Certifcates of Attendance Paises Escandinavos: Una Visión particular paper is scheduled. Please bear in mind the fnal Only available if requested in advance: you can pick up Crítica, 1976-2015 (in Spanish) John D. French is a professor of History and African and order of presentation in each panel is at the discretion of your certifcate at the reception desk. Please contact African-American Studies at Duke University in Durham, the panel convenors/chairs. Delegates can present their [email protected] to request a certifcate and North Carolina. With a B.A. from Amherst College, he paper in English, Spanish or Portuguese: please ask the include your name, afliation and paper title. Professor Cancino’s distinguished career as a cultural received his doctorate at Yale in 1985 under Brazilian panel chair for clarifcation if necessary. historian was launched in 1984 with the publication by the historian Emília Viotti da Costa. Since 1979, he has been Las raices históricas University of Odense of his PhD thesis studying labor politics, populism, and the left in Latin e ideológicas del Movimiento Sandinista: antecedentes Conference Location America and has published 42 refereed articles as well de la Revolución Nacional y Popular nicaraguense, 1927- Most conference events will take place in the South as three books: The Brazilian Workers ABC (1992/1995 in 1973. Campus Teaching Hub (SCTH), building 120 on the campus Since then he has continued to publish extensively Brazil), Drowning in Laws: Labor Law and Brazilian Political map. We will also use the Rendall Building (no. 432 on the and indefatigably on the intellectual and cultural history Culture (2004; 2002 in Brazil), and a coedited volume The campus map). and politics of not only his native Chile – for example Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers (1997). Chile: Iglesia y dictadura, 1973-1989: un estudio sobre He is currently fnishing a book manuscript entitled Lula’s The registration/reception desk in the South Campus el rol politico de la Iglesia católica y el conficto con el Teaching Hub lobby will be open from 8.30am until 17.00 Politics of Cunning: From Trade Unionism to the Brazilian regimen militar (1997) – but also Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Presidency. on Thursday and 8.30 until 17.30 on Friday. A cloakroom and Mexico. His recent works include a major anthology will be available to delegates during the same times: of essays - Intelectuais na América Latina: Pensamentos, His most recent articles include: “How the Not-So- please ask at the reception desk. Contextos e Instituicões. Dos processos de Independencia Powerless Prevail: Industrial Labor Market Demand and All breaks, lunch and the publishers’ exhibition take place A Globilacão – edited in 2013 with the Mexican scholar the Contours of Militancy in Mid-Twentieth Century São in the Social Learning Space 1 on the frst foor of the Rogelio de la Mora and the Brazilian Lená Medeiros de Paulo, Brazil” (HAHR 2010); “Another World History Is South Campus Teaching Hub. Menezes for the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Possible: Refections on the Translocal, Transnational, and Global” in Workers, Across the Americas: The Transnational The conference dinner will be held in the Anglican as well as in 2014-2015 journal articles on Salvador Turn in Labor History (2011); “Understanding the Politics Cathedral at 19.30 on Thursday 7 April. The Cathedral is Allende and (with his wife, Rita) on the educational of Latin America’s Plural Lefts (Chávez/Lula): Social 1.1km from the conference venue, approximately 13-15 projects of the Popular Unity Government. Democracy, Populism, and Convergence on the Path to minutes’ walk. a Post-Neoliberal World,” Third World Quarterly (2009); and “Social History and the Study of ‘Great Men’? The Internet access Hispanic American Historical Review, William Spence Delegates will receive guest wireless access on request Robertson (1872-1956), and the Disciplinary Debate about from the reception desk. Many delegates will automatically Biography,” Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la have access to the University’s eduroam network – for Cultura (2013). joining instructions, check https://wireless.liv.ac.uk/ From 2001 to 2005, he served as director of connecting/eduroam/. the Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Panel convenors will also have log in details and and as national Treasurer of the 5,000-member Latin instructions for computers in panel rooms. Printing American Studies Association from 2003-05. In July facilities will not be available and the nearest copy shop is 2012, he became senior editor of the Hispanic American Desktop Print, 57 Bold Street, L1 4EU. Historical Review for a fve-year term with Jocelyn Olcott and Pete Sigal. Currently he co-directs the Duke Brazil Presentation guidelines Initiative and the Global Brazil Humanities Lab of the John For pre-constituted panels, the panel chairs will contact Hope Franklin Center at Duke University. the panellists about the arrangements. For panels formed by the conference committee: delegates are not expected to submit a paper. To allow for discussion, presentations should be no more than 20 minutes for panel sessions with up to 4 papers and 15 minutes for 5 participants per panel session (each panel session is 90 minutes and many panels have two sessions).

12 13 Events Publishers’ launches

Wine Reception Liverpool University Press Mexico by indirect routes, including reviews and articles in French journals. As the President of SLAS, Jens Hentschke – who will speak at the launch – states on the back cover Thursday 7 April, 18.00-19.00, Social Learning Space 1, Friday 8th April, 12.15-13.00, Publishers’ Exhibition, of the volume, this truly is an ‘innovative monograph…that South Campus Teaching Hub Social Learning Space 1, South Campus Teaching Hub. breaks new ground’. All delegates are invited to join us for drinks and nibbles The ‘Liverpool Latin American Studies New Series’, after the frst keynote lecture. which published its frst title in 1999, exemplifes LUP’s longstanding and distinguished record of publishing on Gale, Exploring the Oliveira Lima Library Conference Dinner Latin America and Hispanic themes. It is ftting, therefore, that the two most recent titles in the series, numbers Friday 8th April, 10.30-11.00, Publishers’ Exhibition, 14 and 15, published in November 2015 and January Thursday 7 April, 19.30, Anglican Cathedral (pre-booked Social Learning Space 1, South Campus Teaching Hub. 2016 respectively, should be formally launched at this only) Conference, which is designed to showcase Liverpool The Oliveira Lima Library has long been regarded as one of Come and join us for dinner in the Anglican Cathedral at University’s continuing commitment to research on Latin the fnest collections of Luso-Brazilian materials available 7.30pm on Thursday, 7 April, where dinner will be served American Studies. to academics. Now this collection is more available than in ‘The Well’, with its stunning views through the Dulverton ever, thanks to Gale’s partnership with the library to The series aims to present original, world-leading Bridge to the High Altar, ofering an exceptional view of digitise this content and present it in the new archive, scholarship produced by experts in a broad spectrum the Cathedral. After dinner, Irish and Ceili band Beer for Brazilian and Portuguese History and Culture: The of disciplines, including, history, literature, cultural and Breakfast will play a ceili with an Irish and Scottish favour. Oliveira Lima Library. social studies, languages, social anthropology, politics, The Cathedral is 1km (approx. 12-15 minutes’ walk from international relations, and human geography, as well as Come and see the archive within Gale’s revolutionary the conference venue). multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies. It is edited digital research platforms, enabling primary research and by Professor Catherine Davies (Director of the Institute of discovery like never before. Meetings Modern Languages Research at the University of London’s School of Advanced Study) – herself the principal author of number 7 – South American Independence: Gender, Politics, Tsikan Chu Nipxi / La Viejita y la SLAS Committee Meeting: Text (2006) – and Professor Allan J. Kuethe (Department of Calabaza / Buri and the Marrow Thursday April 7, 9.30-10.30, SCTH Seminar Room 1. History, Texas Tech University). Professor John Fisher, for his part, revels in the role of ‘Emeritus Editor’. Bulletin of Latin American Research editorial board: Both days: Publishers’ Exhibition, Social Learning Space The interdisciplinary feature is evident in each of the two 1, South Campus Teaching Hub. Thursday April 7, 11-12, SCTH Seminar Room 1. new titles. In Andean Truths, Transitional Justice, Ethnicity You are also welcome to attend a presentation on the and Cultural Production in Post-Shining Path Peru Anne project in panel session 40 on “Mainstream publishing Postgraduates in Latin American Studies lunch: Lambright analyses how literature, drama, flm, and the in indigenous languages: presentation and discussion for Thursday April 7, 12.30-13.30 in SCTH, Social Learning visual arts contest the dominant narrative of national academics, students, publishers and activists”, on Friday Space 2. peace and reconciliation promoted by Peru’s Truth and afternoon 16-17.30, SCTH, Seminar Room 1. The Postgraduates in Latin American Studies (PILAS) Reconciliation Commission, established in 2001 with the Welcome to the frst ever trilingual ‘talking book’ featuring Committee has organised a lunch session with established responsibility for investigating and making public the Totonac, an indigenous language of Mexico, plus Spanish academics from diverse career trajectories to share truth of the civil war that ravaged the country during the and English. The University of Liverpool teamed up with experiences and learned lessons in a less formal space. 1980s and early-1990s. She concludes by questioning the country’s capacity to overcome this collective trauma Colegio Paulo Freire, an independent indigenous-led We aim this to be a welcoming session to provide insights school in the Puebla highlands, and UK publishers Mantra for postgraduates at all stages on: without reconsidering prevailing cultural paradigms. Dr Lewis Taylor, who has also written on Sendero Luminoso Lingua whose award-winning TalkingPEN brings all three • Getting a job and working in academia for the series (number 6: Shining Path. Guerrilla War in languages to life. Children enjoy listening to or reading • Activism from and in academia Peru’s Northern Highland, 1980-1997, 2006) will present this joyful, universally popular story in any of three languages, adding fun to language learning and bilingual • Working in Latin America this volume. literacy. • What else can I do with my PhD? In number 15, Positivism, Science, and ‘The Scientists’ in Porfrian Mexico. A Reappraisal, Natalia Priego draws upon Every copy you buy pays for another book for a Totonac child! Annual General Meeting, Society for Latin American her profound understanding of the real nature of the Studies: long dictatorship of Porfrio Díaz and her expertise in the Friday 8th April, 13.00-14.00, Moot Lecture Theatre, South history of science and philosophy to test and debunk the Campus Teaching Hub. infuential myth, established by Leopoldo Zea, that the members of the group described as ‘The Scientists’ by its critics were Spencerian Positivists. Her methodology embraces an analysis of the original papers of Francisco Bulnes and Justo Sierra, coupled with a close reading of the books, pamphlets and articles of Herbert Spencer, in order to establish the real sources and nature of the ideas and activities of these prominent ‘scientists’. It also demonstrates that the ideas of Spencer, Charles Darwin, and other philosophers tended to be disseminated in

14 15 Panel timetable Thursday 7 April 09.00-10.30 Session 1

Rethinking whiteness Questions of identity and post- Thursday 7 April S1 S2 in Latin America identity in Latin American studies Session 1 (09.00-10.30): 1 2 7 11 16 36 Session 1, Thursday 9-10.30 and Session 1, Thursday 9-10.30 and Session 2 (11.00-12.30): 1 2 4 7 16 18 36 continues in session 2, 11-12.30 continues in session 2, 11-12.30 Both sessions: SCTH – Seminar Room 2 Both sessions: SCTH, Seminar Room 3 Session 3 (13.30-15.00): 6 9 13 14 15 19 24 25 39 Convenor: Ignacio Aguilo Convenor: Emily Baker Session 4 (15.30-17.00): 6 9 13 15 19 23 24 25 34 University of Manchester University of Cambridge Discussant: Lucy Bollington White Privilege? Migration, Belonging, & the University of Cambridge Friday 8 April Fragility of Costa Rica’s Whiteness Myth Carmen Kordick, Roosevelt University, ‘Y se hundió en el otro rostro’: renderings of Session 5 (09.00-10.30): 3 10 12 21 23 26 34 38 Chicago, IL, United States La Malinche in contemporary Mexican fction From Warriors to Scholars: Manuel Maria Montt Strabucchi, University of Session 6 (14.00-15.30): 5 10 12 17 22 28 29 38 Querino’s Contribution to Black History Manchester, Manchester, UK, Pontifcia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile Session 7 (16.00-17.30): 5 20 27 28 29 40 Helen Gledhill, Independent Scholar, Godalming, Surrey, UK El paseo de las muñecas: Queer (In) Visibility in Contemporary Santiago Constructing the White Cholo: Racial Sincerity or Colour-Blindness? Barbara Castillo Buttinghausen, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK SCTH: South Campus Teaching Hub (120 on campus map) Fiorella Montero Diaz, Keele University, Stafordshire, UK Institutions and Gender Policies in Michelle Rendall: Rendall Building (432 on campus map) Bachelet’s Second Administration Re-Examining Argentinian ‘Whiteness’ through Art during the 2001-02 Economic Crisis Carmen Sepúlveda, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Ignacio Aguilo, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK The Re-appropriation of Catalina de los Ríos y Lisperguer in Gustavo Frías’ Tres nombres para Catalina Series Ceire Broderick, NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland From ‘imagined’ to ‘inoperative’ communities: En busca de Klingsor by Jorge Volpi and Amphitryon by Ignacio Padilla Emily Baker, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Promiscuous Disidentifcation in Mario Bellatin’s novella Jacobo el mutante (2004) Lucy Bollington, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Bridging Alterity: Translating Languages, Cultures and Identities in Luciano Tapia’s Ukhamawa Jakawisaxa Peter Baker, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, UK

16 17 Session 1 Thursday 7 April 09.00-10.30 Thursday 7 April 09.00-10.30 Session 1

Making sense of neoliberalism in The changing dynamics Exploring bridges between Representations of indigeneity S7 S11 S16 S36 Latin America today: narratives on of Cuban Healthcare: The the formal and informal and community resistance violence, exclusion and resistance New Role of Health (sectors) in Latin America Session 1, Thursday 9-10.30 and Session 1, Thursday 9-10.30 and Session 1, Thursday 9-10.30 Session 1, Thursday 9-10.30 and continues in session 2, 11-12.30 continues in session 2, 11-12.30 continues in session 2, 11-12.30 SCTH, Seminar Room 4 Both sessions: Rendall, Seminar Room 9 Both sessions: Rendall, Seminar Room 10 Both sessions: Rendall, Seminar Room 11 Convenor: Emily Kirk Convenor: Karina García University of Nottingham Convenor: Patrick O’Hare Mapping the Absence: Participatory GIS in the University of Bristol University of Cambridge Afro-Geographies of the Colombian Caribe Ana Laura Zavala Guillen, University of The Evolution of Cuban Medical Discussant: Sian Lazar Shefeld, Shefeld, South Yorkshire, UK, The oracles of the past framing the Internationalism under Raúl Castro University of Cambridge Observatorio del Caribe Colombiano, future: decoding the intellectual John Kirk, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada From Precarious Inclusion to ... Cartagena de Indias, Bolivar, Colombia narratives over war in Colombia Precarious Inclusion? The ‘Container Did Ebola save the day? How medical Law’ and the Containment of Waste Stitching gender identities: embroidery María Pinto, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK cooperation in West Africa made and Workers in Montevideo and the defnition of Mayan womanhood #YoSoy132 and digital ICTs: The ambivalent for healthy relations between between globalisation, tourism and character of an ‘anti-neoliberal’ practice Canada and the United States Patrick O’Hare, University of migration in the Yucatán Peninsula Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Rodrigo Liceaga, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK Robert Huish, Dalhousie Claudia Giannetto, Goldsmiths University, Halifax, Canada ‘Divined Work’: Linking Evangelical College, London, UK Analysing ex-narcos narratives: churches and belief to informal economies Development as Dignity? The ‘Critical what can we learn? in Rio de Janeiro’s peripheries The Past is Future: Representations of Distance’ of Contemporary Cuban Moxos’ “millenarian” past in political Karina Garcia, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK Medical Internationalism Laurie Denyer-Willis, Centre of Latin American campaigning in lowland Bolivia Fighting and living with dignity in a Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Chris Walker, Saint Mary’s Chuck Sturtevant, University of neoliberal era: Dynamics of disagreement, Univeristy, Halifax, Canada Argentinean Cartoneros: from informality Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK recognition and social criticism in the to a ‘vernacularized’ integral solid Health and Well-being: The Next Urban Housing Movement (Movimiento waste management model Colonial Kings of Amazonia: the role de Pobladores en Lucha) in Chile Stage of Cuban Healthcare of intermediaries in the negotiation Santiago Sorroche, University of Buenos Emily Kirk, University of of interethnic and power relations Juan Rodriguez, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina Nottingham, Nottingham, UK Louise Cardoso de Mello, Universidad ‘Social security lite’ and the Cuba and Research: Contemporary Healthcare Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain informalisation of citizenship in Brazil Imti Choonara, University of The place of the peasant community Lucy McMahon, Centre of Development Studies, Nottingham, Nottingham, UK on Peru’s northern coast? University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Andrew Jobling, Shefeld Hallam Worker Power and Community University, Shefeld, UK Development in Argentina Movements Matter: Indigenous Movements Jorge Rogachevsky, St. Mary’s College of and Electoral Politics in Peru Maryland, St. Mary’s City, MD, USA Gemma McNulty, Northwestern The policymaking of wage policies: The University, Evanston, Illinois, USA, Dublin political economy patterns in democracy and City University, Dublin, Ireland the challenges from diferent MW-collective bargaining models in Chile and Uruguay. Juan Velasco, International Development Institute, King’s College, London, UK The production of “popular economy”: forms of activism and collective organization of work among popular sectors in Argentina Dolores Señorans, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

18 19 Session 2 Thursday 7 April 11.00-12.30 Thursday 7 April 13.30-15.00 Session 3

Breaking down confict: Cultural transformations Enforced disappearances Bridging languages, knowledge S4 S18 S6 S9 understanding and reframing in a changing Cuba: media, in Mexico: continuities and systems, and identities in Latin American experience communication and the ruptures in the civil society- contemporary Latin America remaking of Cuban Identity state relationship Session 2, Thursday 11-12.30 Session 3, Thursday 13.30-15.00 and Rendall, Seminar Room 8 Session 2, Thursday 11-12.30 Session 3, Thursday 13.30-15.00 and continues in session 4, 15.30-17.00 continues in session 4, 15.30-17.00 Convenor: Diana Morales Arcila SCTH, Seminar Room 4 Both sessions: Rendall, Seminar Room 9 Both sessions: Rendall, Seminar Room 10 Newcastle University Convenor: Sara García Santamaría Convenor: Rosaleen Howard University of Shefeld Convenor: María de Vecchi Newcastle University University College London War on Drugs in Mexico: spaces of Ecuador’s growing confict over diference: government and violence Discussant: Sebastian Scholl, Towards an Updating of Communication the case of ´indigenous´ education University of Bamberg Héctor Bezares-Buenrostro, Newcastle Policies in Cuba: Rethinking the Management Antonia Manresa, Newcastle University, University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK and Sustainability of Journalistic Organisations Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK Pentecostal Understandings of Violence, Mabel Machado López, Goldsmiths, Putting Absence into Words: The Language attitudes among young Maya la Misión Iglesia Pentecostal, and Military University of London, London, UK Disappeared in Mexico professionals: overcoming language purism Authoritarianism in Chile, 1973-1990 Media and Hegemony: Rearticulating Maria De Vecchi Gerli, UCL Institute Josep Cru, Newcastle University, Joseph Flórez, University of Equivalential Chains in a Changing Cuba of the Americas, London, UK Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Sara Garcia Santamaria, University Victims, Agency and Reparation: Reconsidering Multilingual language resources and socio- ¿Aquí viven genocidas? Reframing State Terror of Shefeld, Shefeld, UK the Notion of “Victim” in Discourses on economic change in the Peruvian Amazon in Human Rights Discourse in Argentina Mexico’s Contemporary Violence Cool Party: Pocket Utopia. Social Uses Sheila Aikman, University of Laura Webb, Swansea University, Wales, UK of Audiovisual Projects in Havana Mijael Jiménez Monroy, Kingston East Anglia, Norwich, UK University London, London, UK The Political Ecology of Voice in Peru Rafael Rodriguez Berlanga, University Bridging worlds: translating the law in Peru of Havana, Havana, Cuba Citizen-led Forensics: How Mexicans are Adrian González, University of Leading the Search for the Disappeared Rosaleen Howard, Newcastle University, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Beyond the Blog: Cuban Independent Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK; Luis Andrade, Pontifcia Digital Media, Emergent Civil Society, Arely Cruz-Santiago, Durham Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru; Raquel and Changing United States Policy University, Durham, UK De Pedro, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK Ted Henken, Baruch College, City Contested Spatiality? Exploring Language and cultural ideologies in indigenous University of New York, New York, USA Ambivalent Geographies of Social interpreting and translation in Peru Movement Dynamics in the Drug War Luis Andrade, Pontifcia Universidad Católica del Sebastian Scholl, University of Perú, Lima, Peru; Rosaleen Howard, Newcastle Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK; Raquel De Pedro, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK Grounded in language, rooted in the past: expressing animate landscape in a non-indigenous tongue Sarah Bennison, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK A Wayuú Perspective on the Symbolism in Gabriel García Márquez’s Literature Paul McAleer, University of Hull, Hull, Humberside, UK The Many Etymologies of an Andean-Amazonian Toponym Nicholas Emlen, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

20 21 Session 3 Thursday 7 April 13.30-15.00 Thursday 7 April 13.30-15.00 Session 3

Settler colonial experiences Collective action successes and America or Americas? New Neoliberalism, resistance, S13 S14 S19 S15 in Latin America failures in 21st century Argentina opportunities and pressures and popular cultures on regional governance Session 3, Thursday 13.30-15.00 and Session 3, Thursday 13.30-15.00 Session 3, Thursday 13.30-15.00 and continues in session 4, 15.30-17.00 continues in session 4, 15.30-17.00 SCTH, Seminar Room 2 Session 3, Thursday 13.30-15.00 and Both sessions: SCTH, Seminar Room 3 continues in session 4, 15.30-17.00 Both sessions: Rendall, Seminar Room 8 Convenor: Ken Mitchell Convenor: Geraldine Lublin Monmouth University Both sessions: SCTH, Seminar Room 1 Convenor: Daniel Nehring Swansea University University of Worcester Discussant: Lucy Taylor Collective Action and Public Resource Convenor: Giulia Sirigu Discussant: Gerardo Gómez Michel Aberystwyth University Mobilization - Have Argentines University of Manchester Busan University Learned to Tax Themselves? of Foreign Studies

Challenging the Traditional Concept of the Ken Mitchell, Monmouth University, The United States and Latin America: Melting Pot: Peronism, Jewish Argentines West Long Branch, NJ, USA Decline of power or decline in interest? Re-imagined communities: Neoliberal and the Seeds of Multiculturalism Collective Action and Party System multiculturalism, identity, memory and Tom Long, University of Reading, Fragmentation: Opposition Parties in Argentina the literature of pueblos originarios Raanan Rein, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel Reading, Berkshire, UKGovernance Exploring the ambiguities of the settler Samuel Maynard, Georgetown opportunities for Mexico related to Gerardo Gómez Michel, Busan University of subject: the Welsh in Patagonia University, Washington DC, USA its presence in Central America Foreign Studies, Busan, Republic of Korea Lucy Taylor, Aberystwyth Vessels of Modernity: Examining Youth Culture Giulia Sirigu, University of Manchester, Bare life in contemporary Mexico: Popular University, Aberystwyth, UK in Urban Space in Argentina, Mexico, and Brazil Manchester, UK, University of religion and everyday violence Liverpool, Liverpool, UK Recreating Welshness in Patagonia Dylan Maynard, New York Jungwon Park, Kyung Hee University, University, NYC, NY, USA The support and promotion of Stephen Seoul, Republic of Korea Geraldine Lublin, Swansea Harper government to the Canadian- University, Swansea, UK Psychology, capitalism and the making owned mines in Latin America of neoliberal selves in Mexico The Rise and Decline of the British Oliver Santín Peña, Universidad Nacional “Investment” Community in Argentina Daniel Nehring, University of Autónoma de México, Mexico City, DF, Mexico Worcester, Worcester, UK David Rock, University of California, The role of subnational governments Santa Barbara, USA ‘Cine Bajo Tierra’: Ecuador’s Booming in North America’s governance Underground Cinema in the Aftermath Negotiating Space, Power and Roberto Zepeda Martínez, Universidad Nacional of the Long Neoliberal Night Knowledge in Northern Brazil and Autónoma de México, Mexico city, D.F., Mexico French Guiana, 1650s-1750s Rafael Ponce-Cordero, Keene State College, Keene, NH, USA Silvia Espelt-Bombín, University of St Andrews, Fife, UK ‘Decolonial Marxism’: Understanding Pluriversal Struggles through Multiple Subsumptions Ana Cecilia Dinerstein, University of Bath, Bath, UK

22 23 Session 3 Thursday 7 April 13.30-15.00 Thursday 7 April 13.30-15.00 Session 3

Latin American sports in the global arena Building bridges between social, Elites, governance and democracy S24 S25 S39 cultural and environmental in Central America: changes and Session 3, Thursday 13.30-15.00 and continues in session 4, 15.30-17.00 studies: states, social continuities in the faces of power Both sessions: Rendall, Seminar Room 11 movements and natural Convenor: David Wood resources in Latin America Session 3, Thursday 13.30-15.00 University of Shefeld SCTH, Seminar Room 4 Discussant: Matthew Brown Session 3, Thursday 13.30-15.00 and Convenor: Benedicte Bull University of Bristol continues in session 4, 15.30-17.00 University of Oslo Both sessions: Rendall, Seminar Room 3 Banana Republic Ball Games? Sport, Global Games and Latin America Convenor: Francesca Zunino Media and Economic Elites in Central Thomas Carter, Mark Doidge, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK CDS-University of Bath America: Convergence, Confict and News during Presidential Campaigns in “We’ll trade a gold for some plata”! The role of Cuba’s sport for Costa Rica and El Salvador (2014) development outreach in training athletes in the Americas and beyond Building bridges between natural and Francisco Robles Rivera, Frei Universiteit cultural struggles: The Frente de Mujeres Robert Huish, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada Berlin, Berlin, Germany Mazahua en Defensa del Agua, Mexico Early South American cycling: Competition for Urban Licit elites and illicit fows in Central Francesca Zunino, CDS-University Space and the Thrill of the Open Road America: linkages, collusion and conficts of Bath, Bath, UK Matthew Brown, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK Benedicte Bull, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway Liquid Spirit: Defending the Communal “Brazil, tell me how it feels”: football, music and Control of Water in Ecuador Between the back and the front stage narcissism, or how to be a local fan in global times - the political strategies of Central Geof Goodwin, London School of Economics American business groups Pablo Alabarces, Universidad de Buenos Aires/ CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina and Political Science, London, UK Yuri Kasahara, Norwegian Institute for More than samba, football and carnival? The Metal Governance in El Salvador and Urban and Rural Research, Oslo, Norway ‘Demonstrations Cup’ under the global spotlight the Cultures of Legality Thereof Sarah Bennison, Newcastle University, César Jiménez-Martínez, LSE, London, UK Ainhoa Montoya, ILAS, SAS, University Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK Imagining National Frontiers Through Printed Narratives In South America: of London, London, UK A Wayuú Perspective on the Symbolism A Methodological Approach For A Global History Of Styles Of Play The space between oil and gold: A case of in Gabriel García Márquez’s Literature Christian Schwartz, Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV-CPDOC), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil indigenous empowerment through extractive resources in Venezuelan Amazonia Paul McAleer, University of Hull, Black Diamonds: Football and the Perpetuation of Brazilian Racial Democracy Hull, Humberside, UK Amy Penfeld, ILAS, SAS, University David Wood, The University of Shefeld, Shefeld, UK of London, London, UK The Many Etymologies of an Global Maradona - (diferent) perceptions in Andean-Amazonian Toponym Ethnifcating the people and the Argentina, Spain, Italy, England and Dubai land: the emergence of a ‘new’ Nicholas Emlen, Leiden University, Thomas Fischer, Catholic University of Eichstätt, Eichstätt, Bavaria, Germany indigenous geography in Chile Leiden, The Netherlands Sarah Bennison, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK Hugo Romero, Catholic University of Temuco, Temuco, Chile; Katy Jenkins, A Wayuú Perspective on the Symbolism in Gabriel García Márquez’s Literature University of Northumbria, Newcastle, UK Paul McAleer, University of Hull, Hull, Humberside, UK The Many Etymologies of an Andean-Amazonian Toponym Nicholas Emlen, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

24 25 Session 4 Thursday 7 April 15.30-17.00 Friday 8 April 09.00-10.30 Session 5

Middle-class activism and politics Insiders and outsiders in (Re)viewing the archive in Feminism, violence, and S23 S34 S3 S10 in contemporary Latin America society, flm and literature Latin American cinema migration in Latin America

Session 4, Thursday 15.30-17.00 and Session 4, Thursday 15.30-17.00 and Session 5, Friday 9-10.30 Session 5, Friday 9-10.30 and continues in session 5, Friday 9-10.30 continues in session 5, Friday 9-10.30 continues in session 6, 14-15.30 SCTH, Seminar Room 3 Session 4: Rendall, Seminar Room 3; Session 4: Rendall, Seminar 4; Session Both sessions: SCTH, Seminar Room 1 Convenor: Sarah Barrow Session 5: Rendall, Seminar Room 10 5: Rendall, Seminar Room 9 University of Lincoln Convenor: Mo Hume Convenor: Franka Winter University of Glasgow Maynooth University Including US-Latino Literature in Uruguayan Films as Archives: and Opportunity Latin American Studies: Junot Díaz’s to Access Previous Productions Listening to the silences: towards a feminist This Is How You Lose Her theorisation of violence in Central America Post-neoliberal protest in Latin America as Beatriz Tadeo Fuica, Universidad Católica Liz Harvey, UCL, London, UK struggle over the name of “the people” del Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay Mo Hume, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK ‘Bridges across heartlands’: comparing Juan Pablo Ferrero, University of Bath, Bath, UK Between archive and a hard place: “Found The use and abuse of the the depiction in flms of indigenous Moving beyond “revolts of rising Footage” Film in Experimental Argentine Video ‘continuum’ of violence peoples in Argentina with minority expectations” and “middle-class peoples in European contexts Clara Garavelli, Leicester University, Leicester, UK Jelke Boesten, Kings College, London, UK discontent”. Young middle-class people in Lima discussing their city’s problems Dilys Jones, University of Reframing Transition: Film Archives, Cultural Unpacking local political economies of Manchester, Manchester, UK Memory and National identity in Peru violence: feminist insights and framings Franka Winter, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland Consuming Latin America in the UK: Sarah Barrow, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK Polly Wilding, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK Building imagined communities Demonstrating Elite Status - The Sarah Bennison, Newcastle University, Between a rock and a hard place: Central through the ¡Viva! flm festival Political Activism of the Colombian- Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK American Migrants in Mexico Lebanese community in Bogota Nicola Astudillo-Jones, University of A Wayuú Perspective on the Symbolism Alejandra Diaz de Leon, University Manchester, Manchester, UK Esteban Devis-Amaya, Oxford in Gabriel García Márquez’s Literature of Essex, Essex, UK; Maria Inclan, CIDE, Mexico City, Mexico Brookes University, Oxford, UK Victims of the Spaniards: The portrayal of Paul McAleer, University of Hull, the Latin American Immigrant in La venta Governando o Consumidor: A Cultural Hull, Humberside, UK Migration Crisis in the Americas: “The del paraíso (Emilio Ruiz Barrachina, 2012) Study of the Consumer in Brazil Beast” as its Visual Representation and Evelyn (Isabel de Ocampo, 2012) The Many Etymologies of an Christopher Barton, King’s College Andean-Amazonian Toponym Hólmfríður Garðarsdóttir, University Marta F Suárez, Liverpool John Moores, London, London, UK of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland Liverpool, Merseyside, UK Nicholas Emlen, Leiden University, Sarah Bennison, Newcastle University, Leiden, The Netherlands Almost American: Reading the Memoirs of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK Esmeralda Santiago - When I Was Puerto A Wayuú Perspective on the Symbolism Rican (1994) and Almost a Woman (1999) in Gabriel García Márquez’s Literature Emma Staniland, University of Paul McAleer, University of Hull, Leicester, Leicester, UK Hull, Humberside, UK Low Bridge over Shallow Waters: The Many Etymologies of an Witold Gombrowicz and Argentina Andean-Amazonian Toponym Lloyd Davies, Swansea University, Swansea, UK Nicholas Emlen, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

26 27 Session 5 Friday 8 April 09.00-10.30 Friday 8 April 09.00-10.30 Session 5

Solidarity Campaigns The transnational circulation of Round Table: global history Politics and the audio- S12 S21 S26 S38 and Latin America Mexican celebrity and stardom and Latin America visual: transmedial relations in flm and TV Session 5, Friday 9-10.30 and Session 5, Friday 9-10.30 Session 5, Friday 9-10.30 continues in session 6, 14-15.30 SCTH, Seminar Room 3 Rendall, Seminar Room 8 Session 5, Friday 9-10.30 and Both sessions: SCTH, Seminar Room 4 continues in session 6, 14-15.30 Convenor: Niamh Thornton Convenor: Matthew Brown Both sessions: Rendall, Seminar Room 11 Convenor: Grace Livingstone University of Liverpool University of Bristol University of Cambridge Televisión por cineastas: nuevas series fccionales en la Argentina Demián Bichir - Constructions of Mexican Panellists include: Patience Schell, Natalia Gauging the impact of solidarity masculinity and othering across the border Priego, Jo Crow, Nicola Foote, Rosie Doyle, Pedro Carolina Soria, UBA-CONICET, Ciudad campaigns: Pinochet’s Chile Feitoza, Julie McClure and Matthew Brown. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina Francisca Sánchez-Ortiz, Manchester Grace Livingstone, University of Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK Depatriarchalizing the gaze on the Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Andean political cinema of the 70s. The Gael García Bernal: Staging case of Ukamau and Kuntur groups The infuence of international Transnational Stardom solidarity in Chile’s politics during the Isabel Seguí, University of St Andrews, Catherine Leen, NUI, Maynooth, Kildare, Ireland 1970s. Exiles in western Europe St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, UK Las Félix: Celebrity, Stardom Mariana Perry, Leiden University, Exploring the sphere of leisure and gender and Guns in Mexico Leiden, The Netherlands in contemporary Latin American cinema Niamh Thornton, University of The Venezuela Solidarity Campaign in Britain Julia Kratje, University of Buenos Liverpool, Liverpool, UK Aires (UBA)-National Research Council Julia Buxton, Central European (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina University, Budapest, Hungary From private to public? Chavism Political activism as a means and the media in Venezuela of coping with exile Alicja Fijalkowska, University of Jasmine Gideon, Birkbeck, University Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland of London, London, UK Politics and media in Latin America. The hazards and fortune of a troubled relationship in audiovisual democracies Mariano Dagatti, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, University of Quilmes, Bernal, Buenos Aires, Argentina, CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina

28 29 Session 6 Friday 8 April 14.00-15.30 Friday 8 April 14.00-15.30 Session 6

Transnational Intellectual Social-Environmental Looking Back to the Future: International Perspectives S5 S17 S22 S28 networks in Latin America Conficts and Human 40+ years of Thinking About on the Politics and History Rights in Latin America and ‘Doing’ Latin American of Latin America Session 6, Friday 14-15.30 and Research and Fieldwork continues in session 7, 16-17.30 Session 6, Friday 14-15.30 Session 6, Friday 14-15.30 and continues in session 7, 16-17.30 Both sessions: SCTH, Seminar Room 2 Rendall, Seminar Room 8 Session 6, Friday 14-15.30 Convenor: Both sessions: Rendall, Seminar Room 9 Joanna Crow Convenor: Malayna Raftopoulos SCTH, Seminar Room 3 University of Bristol University of Convenor: Peter Ward Aalborg, Denmark The University of The Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty Local geographies and Maya Texas at Austin dispute: Is British-Argentine archaeology, 1890-1940 reconciliation a possible scenario? A New Benchmark for Green Criminology: Sophie Brockmann, ILAS, University Magdalena Lisinska, Jagiellonian the case for a Community-Based Human Going back to Move Forward: Revisiting and of London, London, UK University, Kraków, Poland Rights Impact Assessment of REDD+ Learning from Fieldwork Sites 40 years On Writing Indo-America: Gabriela Mistral in (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation British Shareholders within the Peter Ward, The Unversity of Texas Conversation with Peruvian Apristas and Forest Degradation plus Conservation Colombian Railway Sector and Sustainable Development) at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA Joanna Crow, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK Andrew Primmer, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK Malayna Raftopoulos, University of Aalborg, Scholarly Refections on Research and James Trail, Scientifc Networks and Amazonian Denmark; Damien Short, Human Rights Fieldwork in Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1960s Revolutionary Christianity in Argentina: Exploration in the late Nineteenth Century Containment and Transgression of a Consortium, University of London Colin Clarke, Oxford University, Oxford, UK Social Movement (1968-1976) Patience Schell, University of Exploring the contradictions between Brazil’s Beijing+20: A Retrospective and a Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK Pablo Bradbury, University of role in the global climate change regime and its Forward Look at Women’s Political Liverpool, Liverpool, UK Anita Brenner, Intellectual Tourism, and position in regional environmental governance Representation in Latin America Nation-building in Post-revolutionary Mexico Apertura/Clausura – The Case for an Karen Siegel, Edinburgh Napier University, Victoria Rodríguez, The University of ‘Early Cold War’ in Latin America Claire Lindsay, University College Edinburgh, UK; Marieke Riethof, Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA London, London, UK University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK William Booth, UCL, London, UK The political and technical dimensions Indigenous State and the Frustration British Understandings of Haitian of the arrival of industrial accident of Indigenous Self-determined Independence: Emperor Faustin I of Haiti prevention. Chile, 1930-1950 Development in Bolivia and the Illustrated London News Andrea del Campo Peirano, University Radosław Powęska, CESLA, University Jack Webb, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK of Manchester, Manchester, UK of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

30 31 Session 6 Friday 8 April 14.00-15.30 Friday 8 April 16.00-17.30 Session 7

Education, Environment, Latin American digital culture: Violence, politics and the sacred S29 S20 S27 Inequality, and Social Mobility repositioning the feld Session 7, Friday 16-17.30 Session 6, Friday 14-15.30 and Session 7, Friday 16-17.30 SCTH, Seminar Room 4 continues in session 7, 16-17.30 SCTH, Seminar Room 3 Both sessions: Rendall, Seminar Room 10 Convenor: Claire Taylor Repositioning the Genre? Questioning Truth University of Liverpool in Rogelio Guedea’s Detective Trilogy Welfare State Development, Individual Ailsa Peate, University of Deprivations and Income Inequality: Liverpool, Merseyside, UK Building Bridges Between Disciplines: A cross-country analysis in Latin Negotiations Between Digital Culture Cultural brokers and ‘urban articulators’ America and the Caribbean and Latin American Studies at the boundaries between core and Gibrán Cruz-Martínez, Universidad periphery in Rio de Janeiro: strategies, Claire Taylor, University of Autónoma de Chile, Santiago, Chile goals and the role of digital technologies Liverpool, Liverpool, UK Building Bridges Between Paulo Freire’s Mary Delphine Freedman, Queens Visual Navigations: The Poetics of Data Pedagogy of the Oppressed, and European University, Belfast, Ireland Alternative Educational Methods Maria Mencia, Kingston University Policing Street Children in Sao Paulo, Brazil: London, London, UK Anna Isabella Grimaldi, King’s College Relations of Violence and Exclusion in the City London Brazil Institute, London, UK Viral Latinidad and Beyond: Lozano- Daniel Jupp Kina, University of Hemmer, Gómez-Peña and Navas A territorial view of social mobility in Chile. A Dundee, Dundee, UK mixed method and multidisciplinary approach Thea Pitman, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK The ‘police-isation’ of Brazil’s military? Alejandro Bilbao Quiroga, University of Bristol, Feedback efects between UN Peacekeeping Bristol, UK, Centre for Social Confict and and domestic deployments of soldiers Cohesion Studies, COES, Santiago, Chile Christoph Harig, King’s College Environmental conficts in the Chilean London, London, UK forest landscape: toward a new social geography in the political ecology scope Enrique Aliste, Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile Professional Learning Communities in Chile: How to best approach or local realities? Daniela Figueroa Moya, UCL Institute of Education, London, UK The Politics of Land Use in Costa Rica’s Southern Rainforest Clate Korsant, Goldsmiths College, University of London, London, UK

32 33 Session 7 Friday 8 April 16.00-17.30 Paper abstracts

Mainstream publishing Re-Examining Argentinian Multilingual language resources S40 in indigenous languages: ‘Whiteness’ through Art during and socio-economic change presentation and discussion the 2001-02 Economic Crisis. in the Peruvian Amazon for academics, students, Ignacio Aguilo Sheila Aikman publishers and activists The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

Session 7, Friday 16-17.30 The crisis sufered by Argentina in 2001-02 as a result This paper asks how in the context of rapid and radical of a series of neoliberal reforms has been the subject socioeconomic and cultural change indigenous speakers’ SCTH, Seminar Room 1 of substantial academic scrutiny. However, despite the multilingual repertoires and the values they give to vast quantity of studies on the crisis, few comprehensive particular language resources are changing. It focuses investigations have been produced on the ways in on the Arakmbut of SE Peru, a numerically small people Convenor: Lucia Brandi which it impacted on established narratives of national where the work of missionary linguists in the past and (PhD student in Mexican identity, partly constructed around whiteness and racial indigenous organisations today have produced an sociolinguistics at the University homogeneity. These narratives argued that discussing orthography, dictionary, transcriptions of myths and an of Liverpool and coordinator race and racism in Argentina was irrelevant because Afro- intercultural bilingual primary schooling programme. of the Totonac / Spanish / descendant and indigenous groups had virtually died Arakmbut responses to such initiatives have been mixed English publication Tsikan Chu out or were very marginal, and European immigrants had and ambiguous and the rate of language shift to Spanish Nipxi / La Viejita y la Calabaza whitened the country. In practice, however, this image of has continued apace. Arakmbut youth are diversely mobile, / Buri and the Marrow) a racially homogeneous nation was instrumental in the virtually networked, formally educated, professionally reproduction of racial domination over non-white groups employed, as well as being gold miners, hunters, and This friendly and informal session welcomes throughout the 20th century. This paper will demonstrate gardeners. The paper investigates the complexities of academics, students, teachers, language activists that the crisis contributed to the emergence of manifold contemporary indigenous modernities, creative processes and publishers for a discussion on current discourses in the cultural feld that engaged critically with of Arakmbut internal restructuring, and the ways Arakmbut opportunities and markets for multilingual these ideas of racial uniformity. In order to do so, it will ontological and socio-cosmological assumptions structure and Latin American indigenous language examine the work of visual artist Leonel Luna. It will be perspectives on contextual changes and infuence the publishing or performance, especially for argued that Luna’s artworks expose Argentina’s racism ways in which language resources are valued. popular and mainstream audiences. Rapidly by linking the late 19th century indigenous genocide with developing technology is bringing constant the exclusion and discrimination of the poor during the S9 Bridging languages, knowledge systems, and identities innovation and opening up unexpected crisis. By de-naturalising the usually-masked articulation in contemporary Latin America channels for indigenous languages. The risks of race with class in contemporary Argentina, Luna’s work and opportunities of processes of linguistic and also shows how the impoverishment brought about by cultural commodifcation, and their economic, the fnancial meltdown was experienced in terms of race sociolinguistic and cultural implications, make by the middle class, and specifcally, as a threat to their for a lively discussion, alongside the challenges whiteness. of collaboration between academics, publishers and language activists. The session begins by S1 Rethinking whiteness in Latin America showcasing Tsikan chu Nipxi, which is the trilingual edition of Buri and the Marrow, an internationally successful children’s book published by UK- based Mantra Lingua, and a new development for indigenous language publishing in Mexico. The University of Liverpool has begun using the text in its local community to promote Spanish and primary school learning on indigenous cultural diversity in the Americas; in Mexico it is being used to support Totonac literacy among primary students. Following discussion of this collaboration, the foor is opened up for questions, refections, debate, information-sharing and ideas around indigenous language publishing.

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“Brazil, tell me how it feels”: football, Environmental conficts in the Chilean Language and cultural ideologies Consuming Latin America in the music and narcissism, or how to forest landscape: toward a new social in indigenous interpreting UK: Building imagined communities be a local fan in global times. geography in the political ecology scope. and translation in Peru through the ¡Viva! flm festival.

Pablo Alabarces Enrique Aliste Luis Andrade Nicola Astudillo-Jones Universidad de Buenos Aires/ CONICET, Buenos Aires, Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile Pontifcia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Argentina This study seeks to address potential social and A state-funded training programme for translators and Since the early 1990s there has been a marked increase During Brazil’s 2014 World Cup fnals, Argentine fans environmental conficts that may arise due to changes in interpreters between indigenous languages and Spanish in in Latin American culture within the UK, from food, popularized a chant that stated “Brazil, tell me how it the assessment and perception of the mutations of the Peru provides an opportunity for bridging communicative music, sport and flm to increased levels of immigration feels”. The chant became viral, and produced a Brazilian landscape. To do this, it addresses land-use changes in gaps between social groups and cultures that have and larger migrant communities (McIlwaine, Cock and response, “Argentina, me diz que se sente”: both discussed coastal regions of Bio-Bio and Maule, concentrating on been historically related in a scheme of domination Linneker, 2011). This paper examines the contemporary a historical rivalry by joking at the other’s expenses. But it the forestry sector and its expansion in the last 40 years. and asymmetry. Both the programme priorities and consumption of Latin American flm through the ¡Viva! flm was surprising that the chant was based on the melody of In this way, seeks to work the issue from the political the trainees’ expectations and trajectories reveal an festival in Manchester and, drawing on data from my PhD a very old song from the American rock band Creedence ecology, stressing how to interpret and construct a reading inherent duality in this new ofcial role: on the one research, considers the relationships that are often forged Clearwater Revival (“Bad Moon Rising”), frst recorded of that process. This, it does so from the social and cultural hand, translators and interpreters seek to facilitate cross- and/or sustained through the flm festival experience in 1969, possibly before the birth of those who sang geography, environmental history, social anthropology linguistic and inter-cultural understanding in public spaces between Latin America and the individual in Britain. the melody in Brazil. The paper discusses several topics and development, and landscape ecology. It is held (between speakers of Spanish and Amerindian languages), Coinciding with the wider conference theme of building derived from that fact: the relationship between popular from the conceptual point of view, that as important as in order to comply with recently approved legislation bridges, this paper looks at two ways in which both British music and football chants; the uses of popular music and the physical changes are those that occur at the level on indigenous rights. On the other hand, they perceive and Latin American audience members were found to global pop at the World Cups from 1962 to the present of representations and imaginary, for development themselves—and are positioned by the state and the construct a sense of imagined community (Anderson, day; the self-presentation of the “local” (national) fans discourses exert an important infuence on how to media—as “cultural ambassadors” of their peoples in the 1982; Iordanova and Cheung, 2010) with Latin America before a globalized media scene; and, last but not least, understand these new territories and ways of inhabit. wider society. This implies the development of activities through the festival. On the one hand, British members the role of sport icons and heroes for the fans as well as This could be leading to the emergence of new conficts focused on raising awareness of linguistic and cultural of the audience used the flm festival as a means to the construction of national epics (the icons and heroes based on the consolidation of second nature as “natural rights. However, these activities, as well as the translation- temporarily immerse themselves in Latin American culture, invoked in the chants included, obviously, both Maradona landscape” which is already a artifcialised landscape, but interpreting training, are permeated by language and forge a sense of connection and identifcation with Latin and Messi, two of the most important football heroes one that responds to the lived experience of space of the cultural ideologies—both on the side of the state and that America and use this culture within the construction of from the ‘80s until today). The core idea is to show how inhabitants of these territories. of the trainees—that reintroduce colonial perspectives their own self-identity. At the same time, Latin Americans contemporary football culture must be described and into a valuable initiative aimed at reinforcing intercultural were found to use the flm festival as a medium through interpreted in the continuous intersection of local texts - S29 Education, Environment, Inequality, and Social communication. In this paper we address some of the which to reconnect with their home countries and culture, and fans’ practices - and global events. Mobility main ideologies we have identifed, with special focus but also as a means of further developing knowledge on diferent forms of purism and essentialism. The paper and understanding of their national and regional cultures S24 Latin American Sports in the Global Arena is based on research funded by the AHRC’s “Translating and participating in a pan-Latin American identity. The Cultures” programme, our thanks to the Research Council construction of imagined communities through the ¡Viva! for their support. flm festival was thus found to potentially reinforce notions of identity for both migrants and non-migrants S9 Bridging languages, knowledge systems, and identities alike. in contemporary Latin America S34 Insiders and Outsiders in Society, Film and Literature

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From ‘imagined’ to ‘inoperative’ Bridging Alterity: Translating Languages, Reframing Transition: Film Governando o Consumidor: A Cultural communities: En busca de Cultures and Identities in Luciano Archives, Cultural Memory and Study of the Consumer in Brazil Klingsor by Jorge Volpi and Tapia’s Ukhamawa Jakawisaxa National identity in Peru Christopher Barton Amphitryon by Ignacio Padilla. King’s College London, London, UK Peter Baker Sarah Barrow University of Newcastle, Newcastle, UK University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK Emily Baker Afuence - as Avner Ofer noted of mid-to-late twentieth Luciano Tapia’s Ukhamawa Jakawisaxa provides a rare University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK century Britain and America - comes with a distinct set testimonial insight into the life of a member of one of the Although Peru has a fragile and fragmented flm of challenges. The doctoral research that forms the frst generations of contemporary indigenous activists production ecology that relies to a large extent on passion, The criticism faced by Latin American authors for failing to basis of this paper seeks to address how institutions in in Bolivia. The text is presented as a coming-of-age serendipity and transnational patrons, its national flm deal with ‘national’ questions was a source of contention Brazil responded to the challenge of afuence during tale, whose economy is structured around a moment of archive (the Filmoteca) is an institution that has been throughout the twentieth century. It was most eloquently the late Nineties and early Noughties, namely through revelation, where Tapia appears to come to terms with developed strategically and (relatively) independently addressed by Jorge Luis Borges when he was moved the consumer. While rightly accepting the existence of the fact that the long history of discrimination that he since the 1960s with a mission to preserve the cinematic to voice his concerns about the aesthetic constraints consumption and the consumer prior to this period, the has sufered owes to his being part of an indigenous race. heritage of its nation. By taking the concept of ‘mediated imposed by the Argentine cultural nationalism of the paper suggests that as consumption experienced material It is from a specifc understanding of this race -- which memory’ articulated by Thomas Elsaesser in his writings Peronist period, in his oft-quoted essay ‘El escritor changes, the consumer underwent qualitative changes in Tapia constructs in and through his writing -- that he on the cultural and political value of the archive, this paper Argentino y la tradición’ (1952). In it he aptly points response to the challenge of afuence. This paper, utilising develops and makes sense of his own pro-indigenous considers the contemporary role, reach and relevance out that ‘Shakespeare se habría asombrado si hubieran the literature and theory of Stephen Greenblatt and Michel political agenda. Throughout the autobiography, Tapia of the Filmoteca. Moreover, it will explore its status as a pretendido limitarlo a temas ingleses’. It appeared that Foucault, seeks to make visible how authorities sought employs various textual strategies that mark Aymara ‘contested site of curation’ (Ernst) that has the potential to circumstances had not changed almost fve decades later to manage this condition of afuence to particular and linguistic and cultural diferences in order to lay claim impose or disrupt the status quo through its preservation when, in the Mexican context, Jorge Volpi and Ignacio productive ends through the construction, circulation and to an Aymara collective identity of which he presents priorities and its links to and infuence upon other key Padilla caused a stir on the national cultural scene when often contestation of the consumer. The authority that himself as an exemplary member. This paper will draw on institutions such as the Ministry of Culture (for funding) they published novels dealing with events, philosophical shall be the focus - though still contextualised within a deconstructive theory to highlight the inherent instability and the national Film Festival (for profle/distribution). In questions, and conspiracies relating to Nazism and the milieu of spatial, political and regulatory authorities - of of these linguistic and cultural diferences in the Aymara order to ofer more tangible ways of understanding the Second World War, and did not include any ‘Mexican’ this paper shall be that of novelas, due to their popularity author’s writing. Focusing on target audience and the political powerplays, analysis will be ofered of recent questions, characters or locations. One critic said ‘ya no and capacity for normalisation. The ideas pertaining to sense of selfhood he portrays, the paper will show that productions and flm-makers who have been supported podemos considerarlos autores mexicanos porque ni su the consumer propagated in this period, it is argued, the Aymara writer’s recourse to a collective indigenous by the Filmoteca: from fction directors such as Francisco tema ni su tratamiento se remiten a México’. This paper have a bearing on the more recent history of Brazil, even identity is marked by an absolute alterity that can never Lombardi whose Ojos que no Ven (2003) drew largely reads the novels En busca de Klingsor (Volpi; 1999) manifesting themselves in the protests of 2013 that be anticipated in advance. The paper will therefore on flmic accounts of the last days of former President and Amphitryon (Padilla; 2000) as performances of the garnered much attention. ‘interruption of the myth’ of national identity -a task layed ofer refections on the limits of linguistic and cultural Fujimori’s corrupt regime; to documentary-makers such demarcations in the formation of political identities in as Alfredo Béjar, whose recent provocative work on out for literature by by Jean-Luc Nancy in his 1986 book S23 Middle-class activism and politics in contemporary Bolivia, as well as ofering refections on the signifcance one of Peru’s most successful sportsmen of the 1960s, The Inoperative Community. It situates these gestures in Latin America the context of wider debates, which Volpi himself has of this for the agency of indigenous writers such as Tapia. Imaginando Mina (2011) relied on hundreds of archival extensively participated in, regarding the need for a resources and revealed — through its making and its subject S2 Questions of Identity and Post-identity in Latin assessment of the disciplinary and locational boundaries matter — the ongoing inequalities in modern Peru. American Studies which are still rigidly upheld in the ways in which S3 (Re)viewing the Archive in Latin American Cinema universities and literary markets are confgured.

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Grounded in language, rooted in the War on Drugs in Mexico: spaces A territorial view of social mobility The use and abuse of the past: expressing animate landscape of government and violence in Chile. A mixed method and ‘continuum’ of violence in a non-indigenous tongue multidisciplinary approach Héctor Bezares-Buenrostro Jelke Boesten Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Sarah Bennison Alejandro Bilbao Quiroga Kings College, London, UK Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK University of Bristol, Bristol, UK The War on Drugs (WoD) in Mexico constructs the world as The term continuum of violence has found particular permanent and intense confict between law and disorder. How central is language to a value system? How central is In recent years, the use of mixed method designs has salience in studies of violence against women. It helps In this regard, it enables the material and ideological language to identity? This paper explores these questions been increasing in social sciences (Robson, 2011; Small, seek root causes of violence beyond contingencies and resources to govern the spaces and identities performed in relation to the non-indigenous, Spanish-speaking 2011). In a broad sense, this design integrates elements of it politicizes every day violence. Critics of the concept around the prohibition of drugs, constructing violent forms province of Huarochirí in the highlands of Lima (Peru). both qualitative and quantitative approaches in a single point out that certain contexts produce diferent forms of of mediation in urban and rural settings alike to manage Here, locals diferentiate themselves from outsiders setting to complement, to contrast and/ or to expand the violence, and that these diferences should be highlighted, individuals and populations. To this extent, the WoD in through oral narratives that centre on their unwavering research scope. Due its fexibility, mixed method designs rather than the similarities. This would help identify Mexico, as a form of exerting power is productive of spatial conviction that the landscape is animate. This Andean could be extremely useful to face the challenges of Latin perpetrators, rather than structures, and thus lead to more arrangements enabling the classifcation, separation, and ontological perspective has been attributed to Quechua American research, like democratization, struggle against accountability. Using violence against women in Peru as a organisation of the conduct of Mexican citizens. In such speakers (Mannheim and Salas 2014), yet Huarochiranos the inequalities and environmental issues. However, in case study, this paper will question these assumption and a way it has demarcated and communicated informal do not speak Quechua. Indigenous languages are no the literature there is lack of systematisation about examine to what extent thinking in terms of a continuum taxonomies regarding zones of circulation where drug longer spoken in Huarochirí and as such, its communities this methodological strategy, meanwhile in the Latin helps or constraints accountability. trafckers, undocumented migrants and citizens are are not indigenous in the eyes of the State. Moreover, America its use is not very extended yet. This paper is an being transformed into terrorists and insurgents. The S10 Feminist engagements with violence in Latin America locals do not defne themselves this way. Nevertheless, the efort to systemise the discussion about mixed method, acceptance of these informal zones and classifcations by province is home to the so-called Huarochirí Manuscript besides it presents an illustrative example of its use citizens and police agencies produce the spaces in which (c.1608), an anonymous Quechua document describing on the author PhD research, which is focused on social the use of force -coercive and kinetic- becomes possible; local traditions during the early colonial era. This text mobility and territorial trends in Chile. This research has the articulation of these spaces as ‘dangerous’ or ‘risky was written by an indigenous person and it provides been implementing in a frst main quantitative phase also expresses understandings of how and where state- unique insights into the pre-Hispanic Andean past. Today, following for a qualitative one, which will also give more imposed violence should be exerted and based on these Huarochiranos practice many of the traditions mentioned elements for new quantitative analysis. In theoretical understandings violence is prolonged and escalated as in the Huarochirí Manuscript, including rituals geared at terms, this research also adopts a multidisciplinary well as people’ behaviour is constrained. Informed by pacifying the animate landscape. In order to explore the perspective, taking in consideration elements from social Foucault’s notion of government, and his explanation nexus between language and ontology, I explore oral policy, sociology and geography. Thus, the paper takes of the micropractices of disciplining of individuals, the narratives collected during feldwork in Huarochirí. I focus the methodological elements of this research to give a bio-political management of populations, and the further on the use of Quechua and Aymara loanwords used to meta-analysis of the use of mixed methods, detecting its concept of governmentality, this work aims to describe describe the local environment, and consider the role of advantages and disadvantages. Finally, the paper proposes the spatiality of the exertion of power under the WoD. the animate landscape in promoting linguistic continuity. some challenges to incorporate more researches based on Accordingly, the central research question is ‘how does Furthermore, I draw on locals texts from a period of mixed methods and multidisciplinary approaches in Latin power exerted through the WOD shape the political intensive infrastructural development in order to consider American. the role of nation-building processes on language loss. organisation of the spaces of everyday violence in Mexico? S29 Education, Environment, Inequality, and Social S4 Breaking down confict: understanding and reframing S9 Bridging languages, knowledge systems, and identities Mobility in contemporary Latin America Latin American experience

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Promiscuous Disidentifcation Apertura/Clausura – The Case for an Revolutionary Christianity in Argentina: Local geographies and Maya in Mario Bellatin’s novella ‘Early Cold War’ in Latin America Containment and Transgression of archaeology, 1890-1940 Jacobo el mutante (2004) a Social Movement (1968-1976) William Booth Sophie Brockmann Lucy Bollington UCL, London, UK Pablo Bradbury ILAS, University of London, London, UK University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK Latin America remains overlooked as a site of Cold War In the frst half of the twentieth century, an unprecedented This paper discusses contemporary Mexican author confict prior to 1959 and the Cuban Revolution. While As in the rest of Latin America, a large and highly mobilised number of archaeological expeditions from Britain and Mario Bellatin’s experimental novella Jacobo el mutante in recent years there has been a concession to the movement of Christians in Argentina began to agitate for North America travelled to Guatemala and Honduras in dialogue with the work of Judith Butler in order to importance of Guatemala and the coup of 1954, there socialist revolution in the 1960s and 1970s. Intellectually, to excavated Maya sites. While these endeavors relied draw out the queer challenge Bellatin poses to the remains a broad narrative of ‘lateness’. Key volumes of the movement became known as liberation theology, and heavily on the support of Central American governments, Oedipal identitarian framework. Jacobo is composed Cold War history say very little of Latin America prior comprised a broad range of theoretical developments that as well as scholars and hired labourers from local of fragmented pieces of text that have allegedly been to 1959, often (and oddly) relegating this period to a combined, to varying degrees, theological innovations communities, scholars have paid more attention to the written, deconstructed and reassembled by multiple footnote in the process of decolonisation. In their seminal with sociology infuenced by Marxism. The movement’s reception of Maya artefacts in British and American (fctional) authors and researchers. The text of the novella edited volume Latin America between the Second World relationship with the institutional Catholic Church, museums than to the immediate social and geographical purposely contains many gaps, foregrounds some striking War and the Cold War, Bethell and Roxborough made Protestant authorities and the political and economic surroundings of these feld sites. My paper will examine jumps in logic, and introduces a number of unexpected a forceful case for the 1944-48 period as a democratic elites became increasingly confictive and complex during excavations including those led by George Byron Gordon juxtapositions. The palimpsestic and fragmented nature opening in Latin America, albeit one which rapidly choked. 1970s. Particularly within Catholicism, conficts between at Copán in the 1890s and John Alden Mason and Linton of the text has implications for the identities of the This paper will argue that, nonetheless, the ‘apertura’ diferent sectors escalated, deepening internal divisions Satterthwaite at Piedras Negras in the 1930s and 40s. novella’s central characters. These characters are caught masked a more fundamental regional ‘clausura’, beginning and solidifying the sense of opposition between the It will focus on the interactions of local labourers and up in metamorphoses that take them from one gender to in 1945 (and arguably earlier). Indeed, the paper goes church of the rich and the church of the poor. This paper local scholars with these foreign scientists and highlight another or from one type of family formation to another further, suggesting that 1945-48 is one of the most critical adopts a social movement approach and looks at how locals’ contribution to research at this feld sites. I will pattern of kinship. For instance, a central cross-gender conjunctures of the modern era. Engaging with world the intra-ecclesial confrontations and social conficts show that archaeological sites, far from being scientifc familial metamorphosis occurs when Jacobo, the novella’s systems theories and longue durée histories, the period is intertwined with and conditioned the formation of a broad spaces remote from the rest of society, were integrated protagonist, is suddenly reborn in the body of his adopted framed as a global and (particularly) regional turning-point liberationist Christian movement that sought a preferential into a rural, agricultural landscape. Debates about the daughter Rosa. Drawing, in particular, on the frameworks in social, economic and political terms. While most Latin option for the poor and oppressed. It will show how the right of locals to maintain milpas around expedition sites introduced by Butler in Bodies that Matter and Antigone’s American lefts lingered in an unrequited ‘popular front’ tension between containment and transgression, that is, were emblematic of this. Local geographical knowledge Claim, this paper shall discuss how Bellatin implements mindset, domestic anticommunism brought the Cold War the desire to remain within or to transcend the traditional was also exceedingly important to the success of these an aesthetic of promiscuity on both a character and to local political conficts, a change which caught many by ecclesial institution, emerged within the liberationism. In expeditions. I will examine the diferent conceptions of the textual level throughout his novella. It shall be argued surprise. taking this approach, it reveals how, as a result of social landscape put forward by archaeologists, Central American that Bellatin’s promiscuous text stages processes of and religious antagonism, an alternative vision of the scholars and local labourers, and highlight the contribution S28 International Perspectives on the Politics and History disidentifcation through which hegemonic familial Church was produced that promoted notions of assembly of local guides to archaeologists’ excavations. of Latin America subjectivities are destabilized and complicated. At the over institution, and of more horizontal structures over S5 Transnational Intellectual Networks in Latin America same time, Bellatin’s promiscuity creates new forms of hierarchy. Additionally, as social and political allegiances identifcation and new patterns of kinship and community realigned, with liberationists of diferent Christian that exceed the limits of dominant identitarian models. denominations making common cause and uniting with other revolutionary groups, a distinctly plural and S2 Questions of Identity and Post-identity in Latin ecumenical character was afrmed that contrasted with American Studies the traditionalism of Catholic authorities.

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The Re-appropriation of Catalina de Early South American cycling: The Venezuela Solidarity Colonial Kings of Amazonia: the role los Ríos y Lisperguer in Gustavo Frías’ Competition for Urban Space and Campaign in Britain of intermediaries in the negotiation Tres nombres para Catalina Series. the Thrill of the Open Road. of interethnic and power relations Julia Buxton Central European University, Budapest, Hungary Ceire Broderick Matthew Brown Louise Cardoso de Mello NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland University of Bristol, Bristol, UK Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain This paper looks at the Venezuela solidarity movement in the UK during the Chavez and Maduro presidencies, The seventeenth-century historical fgure Catalina de los This paper will discuss the problems and opportunities During the eighteenth century, and until fairly recently, the starting with the launch of the Venezuela Information Ríos y Lisperguer- more commonly known as la Quintrala- ofered to early South American cyclists in the late South-West of Amazonia was perceived as an undefned, Campaign during the 2002 coup attempt. Issues relating has represented a personifcation of ethnic anxieties nineteenth-century. Refecting on material preserved in unknown region located in the distant boundaries of the to funding, networks, priorities and ‘audience’ will be in the Chilean national imagining since the nineteenth newspapers and cycling club statutes, it will explore the Iberian (and later national) domains. From a historiographic addressed, with the paper refecting on the advantages century. This paper analyses how Gustavo Frías, writing in extent to which the arrival of this new technology was viewpoint, this derived not only in a lack of primary and draw backs of the move from an ‘information’ to a the early twenty-frst century, uses the fgure of Catalina seen as bringing modernity, freedom for men and women sources, but also in a general negligence towards the area. ‘solidarity’ campaign. to attempt a unifying yet complex portrayal of ethnic to explore new urban and rural territories. As U.S., German, Nevertheless, the revision of the existing ethnohistorical identities in Chile. In his ‘historical’ study, Los Lisperguer y British and French manufacturers competed to import the documents from the prism of the study of interethnic S12 Solidarity Campaigns and Latin America la Quintrala (1877), Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna suggests latest machines and spare parts, South American cyclists relations has allowed to bring new data to light and new that Catalina’s alleged crimes, which include the murder of used the innovations for mobility, leisure and competition. actors to life. Therefore, the main objective of this paper is her father, servants and former lovers, are a result of her The paper will conclude with speculation regarding The political and technical dimensions to showcase the underlying role of the intermediaries in mestiza condition. The historian suggests that as a mestiza the possible historical routes for the vastly diferent of the arrival of industrial accident the articulation of the relations between the indigenous woman of Spanish, German and indigenous descent, she trajectories of cycling culture across the continent. and colonial societies. Secondly, it looks at how these was prone to such violence. In the twentieth century a prevention. Chile, 1930-1950 interethnic relations transformed within the framework number of authors of historical novels produced new S24 Latin American Sports in the Global Arena of colonial political reforms and territorial agreements in permutations of la Quintrala to question issues of ethnic Andrea del Campo Peirano the midst of changing power relations. In view of this, it identity in Chile pertinent to the period in which they were Licit elites and illicit fows in Central University of Manchester, Manchester, UK argues that despite the governmental endeavour to nullify publishing. None strayed too far from the ‘facts’ of Vicuña its competition, there was a continuity in the dynamics Mackenna’s text until Mercedes Valdivieso’s Maldita yo America: linkages, collusion and conficts This study states that pioneering eforts to set in practices of said relations due to the persistence of the role of entre las mujeres (1991) and Gustavo Frías’ Tres nombres of safety at workplaces in Chile between the 1930s and intermediaries, which was not eliminated but instead para Catalina (2001; 2003) series. Used for so long as a Benedicte Bull 1940s, shared an agenda with political purposes. Since in assumed by new actors. It further aims at demonstrating tool of distinction and ‘othering’, Frías provides Catalina University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway this period accident prevention depended mostly on the that these relations developed on the fringes of with a new narrative that places her in the centre of a state propaganda, the discipline was tightly related to the governmental interference, therefore, within its multiple complicated contestation of identities that reject facile, For several decades, the Central American economies state professionals’ agenda. I afrm that the main means inner frontiers rather than the external political one. static defnitions. Taking a postcolonial approach, the have been dominated by sprawling, multisectoral family- of communication of promoters, the bulletin Seguridad, Finally, by focusing on the study of interethnic relations, paper will draw on the work of academics theorising on based business groups. Some of them originate in the was an instrument for education on safety but also for this paper hopes to contribute to outline the creative and and within the Chilean context such as José Bengoa, Sonia colonial landholding elites, while many more have roots demanding a new accident law and the existence of only adaptive capacities of the diferent ethnic groups and Montecino and Jorge Larraín. in businesses set up by european and arab immigrants one accident insurance, the “social insurance”. In this way, social actors in the region, revealing not only their voice from the early 20th century. Jointly with multinational the introduction of the discipline in Chile manifested a but also their agency. S2 Questions of Identity and Post-identity in Latin companies, these business group have controlled the visible intertwined combination of technical and political American Studies economies and their owners have also dominated politics roots. On the one hand, a scientifc dimension which S13 Settler colonial experiences in Latin America in shifting alliances with armed forces and through a looked at the North American model. On the other hand, number of diferent means (political parties, pressure a political dimension inspired in the principles of social groups etc). However, over the last decade they have security, which along the twenty century, until the 1970s, become increasingly vulnerable to competition from had a growing expression in welfare policies, common abroad, while at the same time, fnancial fows from the reality in diferent occidental states. Furthermore, if we illicit economy has provided new sources of funding but recognise the United States as the main international also given rise to competing elites. Based on research on referent in the transference of knowledge about industrial Central American business groups and a series of recent safety, we identify in the political ambit the International cases of proven collusion between business groups and Labour Organization as the main referent and supporter. criminal organizations, this paper explores how the surge This paper not only refects on the strong political nature of illicit fows have changed the political-economic context that the discipline showed in its arrival to Chile, but also and the strategies applied by traditional business groups on the transnational character of this process. to grow economically and dominate politically. S5 Transnational Intellectual Networks in Latin America S39 Elites, governance and democracy in Central America: changes and continuities in the faces of power

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OS OUTROS LADOS DA FRONTEIRA: Banana Republic Ball Games? Sport, El paseo de las muñecas: Queer (In) Cuba and Research: Identities and agency in the Global Games and Latin America. Visibility in Contemporary Santiago Contemporary Healthcare construction of the Brazilian Thomas Carter Barbara Castillo Buttinghausen Imti Choonara nationality in South-West Amazonia University of Brighton, Brighton, UK University of Bristol, Bristol, UK University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

Louise Cardoso de Mello The emergence of global sport in the late twentieth At present, Santiago de Chile is considered a post- Healthcare in Cuba is excellent. Child mortality rates Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain century has now become the pervasive, if not hegemonic, modern capital that is open to the world, as a result of are lower than in the USA. The model of health care form of sport found in the wider world. Latin America’s modernisation and the liberalisation of its economic delivered in Cuba is an excellent model for other countries, The concept of “Brazilian” as a nationality, like many alleged “arrival” in this globalized, presumed modern, system in the late 1970s. Taking a social and cultural especially lower- and middle- income countries. Cubans others in Latin America, is the construction of an world, became apparent in the global sport spectacles perspective on the city’s development, however, allows however are very modest about their achievements and identity whose origins date back at least two centuries. hosted by Mexico in 1968 and 1970 and then reiterated us to see another dimension. Aside from the large socio- do not like boasting. Additionally, there are numerous Nevertheless, the confguration of the Brazilian identity in Argentina in 1978. Then for nearly thirty years, the economic gap experienced by its inhabitants, there difculties for Cubans who wish to write scientifc papers – masks a highly varied scenario of ethnicities and identities visibility of Latin America dissipated in the sporting remain unresolved problems connected to discrimination access to computers, internet access and speed, language within its jurisdiction, which in some parts of Amazonia world. Only now has globalized attention returned to against sexual minority groups, such as homosexuals difculties. Collaboration with Cuban health professionals have been neglected. This process started out with the Latin America with the 2014 and 2016 global spectacles and transvestites, which are physically manifested in the has resulted in several publications and workshops in establishment of porous borders in what were initially in Brazil. Not all of this attention is good, however. In urban space. These issues persist despite eforts made both La Habana and Camaguey. It is hoped that a young the distant boundaries of the Iberian domains, in an this paper we examine the good (triumphant athletes by Chilean authorities, from the late 1990s onwards, to generation of Cubans can be encouraged to write about attempt to overlap its multiple inner frontiers by nullifying and national sides) and the bad (alleged corruption and move towards a more integrated and tolerant society. This their achievements. Experiences over the last decade will indigenous territoriality and thus, identities. Since then exploitation of governing ofcials) to better understand paper looks at the work of contemporary Chilean urban be described. and until fairly recently, such ethnicities were concealed Latin America’s presence in the world of global sport. chroniclers Roberto Merino, Álvaro Bisama and Pedro under a somewhat paradoxical homogeneity of a society Examining both sides of the ball, we look at the political Lemebel, exploring the representation of homosexuality S11 The Changing Dynamics of Cuban Healthcare: The comprised of mestizos. In view of this, this paper presents economy of the global sport industries (with particular and transvestism in Santiago’s urban space, as well as New Role of Health an ethnohistorical and ethnographic analysis of the emphasis on the Olympic and FIFA spectacles) and how looking at processes of the integration of “gay-friendly” reconstruction of identities in South-West Amazonia Latin Americans have played prominent roles within these zones into the city. For this purpose, chronicles by these throughout the process of construction of the Brazilian industries. writers are analysed using theories related to the feld of Scholarly Refections on Research one. By means of three case studies, it proposes to look at queer geography. It is argued that, while world cities such this historical process of transformation of ethnicities and S4 Latin American Sports in the Global Arena as London, San Francisco or Madrid have developed “gay- and Fieldwork in Kingston, identities from the viewpoint of strategies of resistance, friendly” zones that are openly recognizable, Santiago’s Jamaica, in the 1960s thus outlining the agency of the various ethnic groups most renowned queer spaces, such as Bellas Artes and in the region. With this, it further aims to demonstrate Bellavista, fnd themselves at a half-way point between Colin Clarke how the indigenous, mestizo and maroon identities visibility and invisibility, refecting therefore forms of Oxford University, Oxford, UK transformed from ethnic categories to social-political discrimination that are still present in Chilean society. ones. Finally, by bridging the process of transformation This paper will ofer refections upon my Kingston research of social and ethnic identities in Amazonia since the S2 Questions of Identity and Post-identity in Latin as the frst systematic study of the social structure, social eighteenth century and the modern-day identity claims of American Studies history and social geography of a city in the developing local communities, this paper hopes to contribute towards world, as well as explore some of the early ideas about the historical understanding of identitarian, territorial and squatting, shanty towns, rent-yards/ciudades perdidas heritage struggles not only in Amazonia, but in Brazil. and squatter up-grading in the Caribbean and elsewhere. Having held one of the frst three faculty posts created S36 Representations of Indigeneity and Community at the Latin American Centre at Liverpool, in 1966, I will Resistance also ofers some thoughts about my and others’ research contributed to research and teaching on Latin America and the Caribbean over the past half-century - the bridge to where we are today.

S22 Looking Back to the Future: 40+ years of Thinking About and ‘Doing’ Latin American Research and Fieldwork

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Imaginarios, formas de sociabilidad Writing Indo-America: Gabriela Mistral Language attitudes among Welfare State Development, Individual y paradigmas culturales en América in Conversation with Peruvian Apristas young Maya professionals: Deprivations and Income Inequality: Latina. Una mirada a las experiencias overcoming language purism Joanna Crow A cross-country analysis in Latin de Argentina, Paraguay y Venezuela University of Bristol, Bristol, UK Josep Cru America and the Caribbean Miguel Angel Contreras Nátera Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK The idea of Indo-America constituted an integral, yet Gibrán Cruz-Martínez Instituto Social del MERCOSUR, Asunción, Paraguay dynamic and fexible, part of the political philosophy of Language purism often emerges as a conspicuous Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Santiago, Chile Peru’s Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana (APRA). Los radicales cambios en las formas de subjetivación phenomenon in processes of language revitalisation. Building on a growing body of scholarship which interprets Several scholars have confrmed the role that the política que tomaron cuerpo en Venezuela a fnales de As an ideology that seeks to remove from languages APRA as a fundamentally transnational organisation welfare state (WS) plays in reducing poverty, promoting siglo desbordaron las formas de regulación económica y elements (often lexical) that appear to be foreign or (without side-lining national context or trajectory) and equality and ensuring the common wellbeing. One política de los últimos cincuenta años. La emergencia de lacking in authenticity, linguistic purism is closely linked examines the ways in which experiences of exile and of the limitations of the scholarship has been the nuevos imaginarios anclados en luchas sociales y políticas to the idea of legitimation and standardisation, which has travel impacted upon Apristas’ intellectual production, conceptualization and operationalization of the WS and permitió la construcción de formas de sociabilidad, been researched in a number of works on endangered this paper spotlights one particular Chilean writer who poverty as one-dimensional variables. The purpose paradigmas culturales y memorias históricas que lograron languages in Latin America (see Hornberger and King collaborated in this cultural and political project of of this paper is to examine the explanatory power producir nuevos enunciados de lo político en la región. 1998; Howard 2007 for the Andean region, also England continental integration: Gabriela Mistral. It explores and signifcance of the WS development on single- Las dinámicas transformativas desencadenadas en la 1996, 2003 and Brown 1996 for Guatemala). In Mexico the multiple meanings of Indo-America as created and dimensions deprivations and income inequality in experiencia venezolana se convirtieron en el suplemento the seminal work by Hill and Hill (1986), which explores debated through epistolary exchanges between the Nobel Latin America and the Caribbean, before and after fundamental del quiebre de la hegemonía neoliberal en the impact of purist attitudes on the use of Nahuatl, laureate and key Aprista intellectuals, Víctor Raúl Haya controlling for demographic and cyclical factors. The WS is América Latina. Este deslizamiento contribuyó a consolidar continues to be essential to understand language shift de la Torre, Luis Alberto Sánchez, Ciro Alegría and Magda operationalized taking into account its multidimensional un ideario popular de resistencia centrado en la crítica in central Mexico. This presentation will explore the Portal. It also investigates joint publishing endeavours, nature. Three individual deprivations sufered by people al neoliberalismo. La experiencia venezolana con su narratives of young indigenous professionals from the such as the prologues that Mistral and Haya de la Torre on poverty and two income inequality indicators are capacidad de interpelación se convirtió en el punto de Yucatan peninsula that refect a change in attitudes wrote for Joaquín Edwards Bello’s book El nacionalismo used as dependent variables. Three pooled time-series infexión de la primavera política regional. Posteriormente, towards language purism. I argue that a fundamental continental. I focus, in particular, on the role that the cross-section regression analyses with panel-corrected con las transversales consecuencias de la crisis global de ideological change, triggered by higher education and ‘Indian’ was allocated in the idea or project of Indo- standard errors models were carried out on 18 countries 2008 la región comenzó a experimentar refujos en los professionalization during a particular life stage, underpins America, and in doing so seek to undermine the dominant in the region around 2000, 2005 and 2010. This paper dinamismos societales. Las tensiones entre las formas not only a process of re-ethnifcation among these historical narrative that tends to present relations between shows that the development of social-welfare programs de fragmentación del consumo, la localización territorial young adults but also a committed attitude towards the Chile and Peru exclusively as hostile and antagonistic, and and institutions seems to be an efective way of tackling de redes delincuenciales, el desacoplamiento de las maintenance and reproduction of Maya. Chile as a country that, in contrast to Peru, failed to engage individual deprivations sufered by people on poverty in políticas sociales están creando campos de fuerzas que se in discussions about the so-called ‘indigenous problem’. S9 Bridging languages, knowledge systems, and identities the region. On the other hand, the WS development didn’t confrontan con las dinámicas transformativas de principios in contemporary Latin America appear to be efective to reduce income inequality. The de siglo. La fnalidad del presente trabajo es ofrecer S5 Transnational Intellectual Networks in Latin America coverage of welfare programs appears to be the pivotal una mirada comprehensiva que permita caracterizar las dimension to reduce income inequality and income tensiones, bifurcaciones e incertidumbres localizadas deprivations in the region. en los imaginarios populares de América Latina. Principalmente, se centra en las experiencias populares S29 Education, Environment, Inequality, and Social de Argentina (cambio moderado), Paraguay (contención Mobility del cambio) y Venezuela (radicalización de los cambios) con el objetivo de clarifcar alternativas societales en un contexto de profundización de la histórica heterogeneidad estructural de la región.

S15 Neoliberalism, resistance and popular cultures

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Citizen-led Forensics: How Mexicans are Politics and media in Latin America. Low Bridge over Shallow Waters: ‘Divined Work’: Linking Evangelical Leading the Search for the Disappeared The hazards and fortune of a troubled Witold Gombrowicz and Argentina. churches and belief to informal economies in Rio de Janeiro’s peripheries. relationship in audiovisual democracies Lloyd Davies Arely Cruz-Santiago Swansea University, Swansea, UK Laurie Denyer-Willis Durham University, Durham, UK Mariano Dagatti Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina The Polish writer, Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969) This paper develops new understandings around the ways Cambridge, UK lived for more than twenty years in Argentina. He was, in which citizens are participating in the construction of From Athens on, public opinion rules over democracies, however, not only a political but also a literary outsider This paper concerns how evangelical belief shifts the forensic knowledge in Mexico. The analysis moves from said Walter Lippman in Public Opinion. This premise who championed those values resistant to what he sensation of precariousness for women in the informal simply framing the independent searches done by families provides a direction to investigate any change in the saw - much in the manner of Said - as the imperialism of work economies of Rio de Janeiro’s peripheries. While of the disappeared as isolated eforts, to analysing how mechanisms of trust in politics, media and civil society. Western reason: instability, incoherence, the ‘unformed’, neoliberal reforms have reconfgured access to secure their activities are efectively transforming the way The decline of the old collective actors, the progressive the ‘immature’ and the ‘low’. It was on this basis that he work, health care and security in Brazil’s urban peripheries, forensic science is practiced and established. To date processes of individualization and the loss of trust in forged a degree of solidarity with his adopted country the evangelical church has emerged as a central spoke in more than 27,000 persons have disappeared in Mexico. political parties have changed the constellation of which he regarded, approvingly, as ‘abject’, lacking ‘full the ways people make sense of this entrenched precarity. Little or no investigation has been carried to fnd out what contemporary politics and its connection with the role of defnition’. His novel, Transatlantico (1953), is Poland- Based on approximately two years of ethnographic happened to them and prosecute those responsible. The media in mediated contemporary democratic societies. orientated but set in Argentina. The two countries share research with women who have started their own informal recent disappearance of 43 students from Ayotzinapa, The consolidation of democracy as a political system and a ‘minor’ cultural status, the peripheral position of Poland businesses with micro-loans from evangelical churches - Guerrero, provided a glimpse into the status of forensic a way of life fnds in the relationship between politics in relation to mainstream European culture shaped by from making and selling their own home cleaner with toxic science. As a forensic expert stated “Mexico is in the and media one of its keystones. Diferent regional Renaissance values that did not fully penetrate countries factory run-of to buying and selling warehouse athletic middle of a huge forensic crisis. The country was not political experiences -as in the case of neoliberalism and at the European margins such as Poland and Spain, fnding socks -this paper considers the relationships between prepared to deal with the amount of bodies been postneoliberalism- are marked by a specifc interweaving an echo in what Sabato, in his preface to Gombrowicz’s Evangelical churches and the informal economy, and how discovered in clandestine mass graves”. The Mexican state of political and media systems. As some recent research Ferdydurk (1937), describes as ‘la vieja Argentina de these new linkages are shifting the afects of precarity and has failed to provide answers to thousands of families has showed, the “video-politics” has closed bonds with las grandes llanuras pastoriles’ (the translation of this women’s relationship to the state. Many women explain looking for a loved one. In some cases, governmental neoliberalism. Similarly, the “left turn” in Latin America text from Polish into Spanish can also be seen as an that their businesses are ‘cradled by God’, and that their authorities have even tampered with forensic evidence. has brought a growing concern in national Executives exercise in linguistic bridge-building). Argentine writers, futures are guaranteed by ‘a God who knows’. This paper Thus, International organisations have provided technical for the role of media. This paper proposes three axes to such as Ricardo Piglia, see Gombrowicz as part of the takes seriously how ‘a God who knows and cradles’ is a assistance for the identifcation of victims in Mexico; investigate the relationship between politics and media Argentine traditon - because of, rather than despite, his rather remarkable thing for women within the precarious however support has been geared towards high profle in current Latin American societies, taking into account status as a foreigner and outsider. This paper will explore periphery. These new ties between economy and church cases, while thousands still need proper analysis and the passage from a neoliberal democratic consensus to a Gombrowicz’s key concepts such as ‘immaturity’ and and belief alter women’s engagement with the state - investigation. Not surprisingly, relatives of the disappeared post-neoliberal democratic consensus. Primo, we consider ‘indefnition’ - noting their connection with Deleuzian sometimes even making them decline the conditional cash are taking the lead in the search for their missing. They various global studies of media systems and the formation notions of ‘becoming’ - and will trace their resonances in transfers that Brazil has become internationally known are locating possible clandestine mass graves sometimes of public opinion in industrial democracies. Secundo, we Argentine literature, particularly in the work of Ricardo for - and dramatically realter relationships to city space, doing the excavation and documentation by themselves contrastively analyze the political culture of the 90s and Piglia (1941 -). family, and community. For evangelical women, God has and using GPS technologies and phone tracking software the derivations of “left turn” in the frst decade of this new to search for their loved ones, in a country where made informal work ‘divined’ and gives it a logic that is century. At last, we problematize the relationship between S34 Insiders and Outsiders in Society, Film and Literature categorically diferent from prevailing neoliberal logics of disappearances are an everyday occurrence. media and leadership, in a Latin American presidentialist abandonment or empowerment. democratical scenario. S6 Enforced Disappearances in Mexico: Continuities and S16 Exploring bridges between the formal and informal Ruptures in the Civil Society-State Relationship S38 Politics and the Audio-Visual: Transmedial Relations (sectors) in Latin America in Film and TV

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Demonstrating Elite Status - The Between a rock and a hard place: ‘Decolonial Marxism’: Understading The Many Etymologies of an Political Activism of the Colombian- Central American Migrants in Mexico Pluriversal Struggles thorugh Andean-Amazonian Toponym Lebanese community in Bogota Multiple Subsumptions Alejandra Diaz de Leon Nicholas Emlen Esteban Devis-Amaya University of Essex, Essex, UK Ana Cecilia Dinerstein Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK University of Bath, Bath, UK Every year, thousands of Central American migrants cross In a remote corner of the Andean-Amazonian cofee The Colombian-Lebanese have an established community through Mexico to arrive to the United States. In the way How can we understand diverse forms of resistances frontier of Southern Peru, indigenous Matsigenka people in Bogota, with over 100 years of presence in the city. they have to brave the road, the elements, the heat, the within current processes of accumulation of capital, from from across the region have married together, along with Over time, some their members have risen to the political, mosquitoes, and wild animals. They have to ride on top a non-Eurocentric perspective? Authors of the decolonial a handful of Quechua-speaking migrant farmers from the cultural and social elite of the city and most of those that of a fast moving freight train for hours at a time. They school question the lack of epistemological consciousness Andean highlands, to form a community in the small Yokiri actively participate in the community belong to the middle have to avoid organized criminals and corrupt members in the left. The imposition of categories of modern thought River Valley. Community members from these diverse and upper-middle classes. A number of organisations, of the Mexican institutions who rob, beat, rape, kidnap on the analysis of indigenous resistance for example backgrounds understand and discuss the landscape, its including religious, social, cultural and political groups, and even murder them. Although the violence has been tend to reinforce the coloniality of power that indigenous history, and its toponyms in diferent ways--as a world form part of the community and are the most active going on for decades, the situation got worse in late movements are struggling against. They contend that the shaped by mythological beings and events, as the legacy centres for the Colombian-Lebanese. This paper argues 2014 when Mexico implemented the Southern Border world is ‘pluriversal’ (Conway and Singh, 2011: 702): ‘a of a painful recent history of violence and displacement, that elite Colombian-Lebanese individuals have used their Plan. This ongoing strategy intends to deter migrants from truly universal decolonial perspective cannot be based and as a contested economic resource to be developed social, economic and political resources both to improve crossing the southern states by increasing the number on an abstract universal (one particular that promotes in conjunction with state investment. Etymological and enhance the position of the community within Bogota, of roadblocks and making the freight train go faster. This itself as universal global design), but would have to be knowledge of local toponyms is an important part of as well as to promote their views and ideologies to the leaves Central American migrants trapped between a rock the result of critical dialogue between diverse critical these discourses, which take place in diferent languages wider public. Over the years they have participated in and a hard place since a great number of them leave their epistemic/ethical/political projects towards a pluriversal and in diferent interactional contexts. However, while a number of public demonstrations, including a protest country to escape poverty or violence and cannot go back. as opposed to a universal world’. (Grosfoguel, 2009). most toponyms in the area come from the Matsigenka demanding Israel withdrawal from Lebanon, as well as This paper analyses the efects of the Southern Border In this paper, I anticipate a conversation between two language and make transparent reference to geographical participating in national protests calling for peace and Plan in the town of Pakal-Na in Palenque, Chiapas in the approaches: Decolonial School and Open Marxism. I features and mythological beings or events, Yokiri does rejecting the FARC, under Colombian-Lebanese banners. months of June and July of 2015. Through fve weeks of identify their theoretical strategies, limitations and mutual not suggest an obvious interpretation, and is subject to a It also contends that it is their elite position within the feldwork, participant observation, and interviews with misrecognitions that prevent fruitful cross-fertilisation, wide variety of etymological interpretations. This paper city that allows them to openly participate in these migrants and stakeholders we can assess the efect of this in order to delineate a new direction in the study of reports fve such etymologies of Yokiri collected in 2011- demonstrations as hyphenated-Colombians, and has newly implemented deterrence policy on the strategies of counterhegemonic politics and social emancipation. I 2012, and discusses how these discourses are tied to their meant that the demonstrations that pursue their goals migrants and their vulnerability to violence. ofer the term ‘Decolonial Marxism’ to designate a form of proponents’ conceptualizations of the region’s history and have been efective. However, the elite status has also critique that bridges diverse forms of counter hegemonic their own places in it. These etymologies, like the notions S10 Feminism, violence, and migration in Latin America meant that the community and its organisations have not resistance within current processes of accumulation of of history from which they emerge, are often contextual been entirely inclusive of all Colombian-Lebanese, and capital from a non-North centric perspective. ‘Decolonial and can co-exist in diferent types of naturally occurring hence their political activism only actively represents Marxism’ distinguishes between multiple oppressions and discourse without apparent contradiction. In other cases, the desires of those in the elite. This paper draws from subsumption and, and the same tie, is able to grasp the they can play an important role in both internal and material from ethnographic research I conducted for my production of excess of indigenous and non indigenous external political struggles over identity, authority, and PhD at the University of Southampton. struggles. By ofering the notion of subsumption via legitimacy. exclusion, Decolonial Marxism bridges diferent pluriversal S9 Bridging languages, knowledge systems, and identities S23 Middle-class activism and politics in contemporary resistance that assert themselves in the open veins of in contemporary Latin America Latin America global capital.

S15 Neoliberalism, resistance and popular cultures

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Negotiating Space, Power and Post-neoliberal protest in Latin America Professional Learning Communities From private to public? Chavism Knowledge in Northern Brazil and as struggle over the name of “the people” in Chile: How to best approach and the media in Venezuela French Guiana, 1650s-1750s or local realities? Juan Pablo Ferrero Alicja Fijalkowska Silvia Espelt-Bombín University of Bath, Bath, UK Daniela Figueroa Moya University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland University of St Andrews, Fife, UK UCL Institute of Education, London, UK If the “move to the left” in the 2000s in Argentina and Although the censorship in Venezuela ended with This paper focuses on the exchanges that took place Brazil was the result of a longer process of contentious As part of the trending topics for school improvement the overthrow of the dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez, between settlers – colonists, missionaries and local mobilisation from below enacted primarily during the and capacity building, the idea of ‘Professional Learning during puntofjismo the media remained faithful to authorities– and indigenous people in the lands and rivers latter part of the previous decade, what sort of social Communities’ (PLCs) refers to supportive groups which the government formed by AD and COPEI. This close located between the mouth of the Amazon River (Brazil) imaginaries have been enacted in the newest wave interrogate, investigate and learn about their own practice relation was confrmed by ofering Congressional seats and French Guiana (France). While my starting point is of discontent and what is its likely efect on the Post- and development from a critical perspective, focussing on to publishers in exchange for favourable coverage, that French settlement, archival sources in several languages neoliberal form of governance? The argument put forward improving students’ learning. Considering the value that included silencing Caracazo in 1989. The situation allow me to develop an argument that deals with French here is that the newest wave of social protest elicits the PLCs give to local school agents in their own processes changed with Hugo Chávez’s rise to power in 1998. The and Portuguese colonising initiatives and Indigenous re-enactment of the liberal imaginary indirectly expressed of change, it is clear that the sense that a PLC can acquire private media did not support the new government, acting polities. French settlement took place in a space already under the notion of the republic. This operation tends in practice depends largely on the context in which it is on behalf of the opposition. The climax of the tension inhabited by several indigenous groups immersed in to undermine the bases of post-neoliberalism, i.e. “the developed. However, although research about PLCs is between Chávez and the private media was the coup pre-European exchange networks, what could be named popular”, “the national-popular” and “anti-neoliberalism”, growing in diferent places, most of the investigation has d’état attempt in 2002, nicknamed media coup because an ‘Amerindian Space’. This space was also within the the imaginaries that defned the move to the left in the been developed in countries like the US, the UK and Spain, of deep involvement of the private media in the plot. orbit of infuence of the Portuguese Crown and its region. There is a new activated public, associated to which raises the need for more contextualized approaches. Although the conspiracy failed, it led to the new media northern expeditions and well-established and successful middle class sectors, that raises new demands and do not Currently in Chile there are being implemented some PLC policy in Venezuela based on strengthening public media. Dutch presence in the West (Dutch Guiana or nowadays identify with the “anti-neoliberal” camp. In as much as this projects, which are fundamentally top down initiatives It was started with launching TeleSur in 2005 and then Suriname). Through the analysis of several cases, this activation means a dispute over the name of the people, coming from external realities to the Chilean one. Hence, continued with the creation of TVeS, a new TV channel paper explores the friendly but sometimes confictive it signals a slowdown in the efcacy of existing populist it is challenging to think in efective strategies for that took the frequency that previously belonged to one links established between French settlers and Indigenous formation to deepen the movement towards more radical standing up the intrinsic bottom up sense of PLCs. From of the private channels - RCTV. In 2009 the government groups (both autonomous and settled in missions), reforms. a qualitative perspective, and using the results from a also closed around 60 radio channels, distributing French missionaries and Indigenous groups, and between pilot study about PLCs’ implementation in Chile, this their frequencies among the community media. The S23 Middle-class activism and politics in contemporary diferent European settlers (colonists, traders, slave raiders presentation will focus on the analysis of the best ways paper aims to explore the changes in media landscape Latin America of indigenous people, and missionaries). Ultimately, to approach schools developing PLCs, in order to create in Venezuela during the governments of Hugo Chávez my objective is to analyse how the myriad of relations worthwhile data collection techniques that recognize the and Nicolás Maduro. The analysis of political decisions established allow for a better understanding of European particularities of the Chilean context and the contributions and their consequences will help to determine whether settlement. It is not a one-way story of domination, that local agents can ofer from their own ways of being a the enforcement of the public media turned out to be exploitation or ‘pacifcation’, but a combination of periods PLC. Therefore, this work will contribute to the research of successful and if the discussed changes threaten freedom of conficts and peace, learning and integrating cultural this growing topic in Latin America, in a more signifcant of speech and balance of information in Venezuela. diference in order to negotiate with the other, and fnding way for our local realities. S38 Politics and the Audio-Visual: Transmedial Relations a modus vivendi that, at least for a limited period of time, in Film and TV worked for all parties. S29 Education, Environment, Inequality, and Social Mobility S13 Settler colonial experiences in Latin America

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Global Maradona - (diferent) Pentecostal Understandings of Violence, Cultural brokers and ‘urban articulators’ Between archive and a hard perceptions in Argentina, Spain, la Misión Iglesia Pentecostal, and Military at the boundaries between core and place: “Found Footage” Film in Italy, England and Dubai. Authoritarianism in Chile, 1973-1990 periphery in Rio de Janeiro: strategies, Experimental Argentine Video goals and the role of digital technologies Thomas Fischer Joseph Flórez Clara Garavelli Catholic University of Eichstätt, Eichstätt, Bavaria, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Mary Delphine Freedman Leicester, Leicester, UK Germany Queens University, Belfast, Ireland The violent overthrow of the democratically elected In the last decades, cinema has become a recurring This paper deals with Diego Armando Maradona, one of the government of Salvador Allende on September 11th, Digital communications channels have been heralded inspirational source for video art. It is used not only as most well-known footballers in history. He was an actor 1973 represented the worst political breakdown in the worldwide in recent years for their role in contesting primary source for new productions, in a found-footage- (subject) and a product (object) of football globalization, history of Chile. Its repercussions touched all aspects hegemonic narratives and infuencing governmental action, flm style, but also as a referent that contributes to and he continues to be an important person in collective of life in the country. Pentecostal reactions to the coup often forging new articulations between the local, the its language re-signifcation and to its re-positioning memory on a global scale. I will compare the impact of this d’etat and the ensuing violent repression have been national and the international in the process. Whilst levels within the Arts and audio-visual felds respectively. The fgure in the national contexts of Argentina, Spain, Italy, viewed as overwhelmingly supportive of the regime. In of digital access retain links to income and geography, in exhibition and publication in the United States of Cut: England and Dubai. Maradona became famous worldwide ofcial and public meetings with military authorities, many Brazil, appropriation of digital technologies - often by Film as Found Object in Contemporary Video (2004-2006) because of his role as the leader of the albiceleste team religious leaders ofered recognition and legitimation. younger segments of the population - has increased the demonstrated the need for written work that delves into during the mundial of 1986. However, his goals were At the same time, a small but vocal minority, who felt visibility of territories, citizens and issues that previously the complexities of using someone else’s work in the perceived in a very diferent way in Argentina, England misrepresented by the political agenda of conservative experienced a poverty of representative channels. Much construction of new moving-image art works. In Argentina, and the rest of the world, as was his role as a football leaders developed clear stances and discourses in of this can be traced to Gilberto Gil’s period as Minister from the beginning of the new millennium, video has player in Argentinian, Spanish and Italian clubs. The aim opposition to the repressive character of the dictatorship. for Culture (2003-2010) and policies developed at that spread at great speed. As a means of artistic expression, it of this paper is to reconstruct in the fve countries under This paper investigates the development of these voices time, in particular the ‘Pontos de Cultura’ initiative. This has often referred to other media – including cinema – as consideration the perception of this famous football player and their reactions to cases of political torture through paper focuses on two NGOs (Observatorio das Favelas an inherent element of its practice and formation. This and to compare his function as a tool for collective identity the lens of one such group - la Misión Iglesia Pentecostal and Catalytic Communities) operating in Rio De Janeiro, paper aims to explore contemporary Argentine video construction. The comparison shows clearly the diferent (Pentecostal Mission Church - MIP). For many members, and the ways they employ digital tools as they attempt productions that use cinema as an inter-trans-medial impact of this fgure which can be cast by a glocalization the interpretation of their faith and what it meant to be to efect changes to both the conceptual construct of dispositive and, thus, as a source of renovation. Among approach. Moreover, images about Argentinian and Latin truly faithful could not be understood without reference the city and its lived urban environment. Postgraduate others, the works of artists/flmmakers such as Galuppo, American football are reconstructed through the lenses of to violent context in which they were embedded. This feldwork research carried out in Brazil is analysed in Guzmán, Costantino, Macchi and Denegri will be analysed. this fgure. The broader approach of my paper relates to paper situates the development of new understandings reference to the concept of ‘cultural brokers’. These are glocalization; I see “Maradona” basically as a discursive S3 (Re)viewing the Archive in Latin American Cinema of religion, torture, and interruptions in lived religious defned by Jezewski (Jezewski&Sotnik, 2001:17) as actors construction and as a narrative about a body. experience within la vida cotidiana (everyday life) during engaged in “bridging, linking or mediating between the dictatorship. groups or persons of difering cultural backgrounds for S24 Latin American Sports in the Global Arena the purpose of reducing confict or producing change.” I S4 Breaking down confict: understanding and reframing will argue that both organisations can be understood Latin American experience as part of an emergent generation of cultural brokers or ‘urban articulators’ engaged in activities which set out to bridge popular, academic and political discourses seeking to represent ‘peripheral’ areas and populations in Rio de Janeiro.

S27 Violence, Politics and the Sacred

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Analysing ex-narcos narratives Media and Hegemony: Rearticulating Migration Crisis in the Americas: „The Stitching gender identities: embroidery on poverty and exclusion: do we Equivalential Chains in a Changing Cuba Beast” as its Visual Representation. and the defnition of Mayan womanhood really nead a war on drugs? between globalisation, tourism and Sara Garcia Santamaria Hólmfríður Garðarsdóttir University of Shefeld, Shefeld, UK migration in the Yucatán Peninsula Karina Garcia Univeristy of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland University of Bristol, Bristol, UK The Cuban Revolution has faced diferent moments of This study proposes to examine various aspects of the Claudia Giannetto crises that have endangered the revolutionary consensus. Goldsmiths College, London, UK This paper explores how former narcos’ (shorthand for passage of undocumented Central American migrants Drawing on Ernesto Laclau’s theory of discourse, this narcotrafcantes) narratives about poverty and experiences through Mexico, viewing the situation from the perspective paper aims to discuss the way in which the Cuban Embroidery is a fundamental activity among Mexican of relative deprivation contribute to the understanding of human rights violations and social exclusion. Driven by mainstream media has helped rearticulate the meaning Mayan women; it sustains the defnition of Mayan of the ongoing drug-related violence (DRV) in Mexico. extreme economic conditions, civil unrest and violence of the Revolution in periods of national crises, and womanhood in the same manner the cornfeld defnes Dominant scholarly approaches explain the onset and in their home countries, and, in some cases, the desire to national debate. The paper will focus on two moments: the Mayan man. But embroidery is also a source of escalation of drug-related violence focusing on four reunite with relatives already living in the United States, the call to the IV Congress of the Cuban Communist income, part of a Mayan family spectrum of economic main issues: a) the democratisation process in the 1990s adult individuals, families, and even unaccompanied Party (CCP) in 1990-1991, and the call to the IV Congress activities. In the Yucatán Peninsula the production and and 2000s; b) systemic corruption of the judicial and children and adolescents embark on this perilous journey. of the CCP in 2010-2011. A content analysis of Cuban selling of embroidery increased since the 1970s, when legislative institutions; c) a weak rule of law across the In doing so, they risk falling victim to abuse, extortion, newspapers suggests that the leadership has used two the initiation of a major tourist development project in country and d) the Mexican ‘war’ on drugs launched by sexual assault, and other forms of violence at the hands main legitimising articulations, disseminated through Cancún generated a growing market for handcrafted items. former president Felipe Calderón (2006-2012). Such of brutal gangs, organized crime, and corrupt ofcials. the hegemonic control of the mainstream media. First, it While Mayan men migrated to the Mexican Caribbean approaches, however, fail to account for the interplay of Many lose their lives. The study will address the specifcs has constructed a homogeneous Cuban people united coast in search of job, a number of women started to the pre-existing social conditions, everyday experiences and realities of the migrants’ dangerous journey north, around the revolutionary project, represented by the Party. trade their embroideries for tourist consumption. In and subjectivities of the participants of such violence. and review the main factors that lead these people, Second, it has constructed a clear enemy, embodied in the few years more women grouped in cooperatives that This paper, therefore, contends that neoliberal discourses mostly from the so-called “northern triangle”, El Salvador, United States. The media construction of a Manichaean rapidly sprung up throughout the Peninsula. Although such as those stemming from the culture of consumismo Guatemala, and Honduras, to leave their home countries opposition between a united people (‘us’) and their the expansion of tourism has pushed many Mayan infuence and nourish DRV in Mexico. Through an atop freight trains that are referred to by names such enemies (‘them’), and its rearticulation in times of crises, women into the commercial production of embroidery, approach informed by the principles of Grounded Theory, as “The Beast” or “The Train of Death.” The experiences has historically flled the Revolution -an empty signifer this occupation is submerged in a series of assumptions the framework of this paper responds to the signifcance of Central American migrants have been the subject of in Laclaunian terms- with a hegemonic meaning. However, that set a limiting framework for their professional and of poverty and strict socially-structured class roles in the several recent feature flms and documentaries which interviews with Cuban media scholars and journalists personal development. It is said that a woman works to self-reported life stories of thirty-three men who used to provide both a narrative and visual representation of the suggest that the depth of current changes and the help her husband, an evaluation that portrays women work for drug cartels. The interviews were carried out from journey north through Mexico. This study will analyse appearance of alternative voices in digital media projects engaged in embroidery as “non-workers”. Despite this October 2014 to January 2015 in Coahuila, Mexico. the way the flms El norte (1983), Sin nombre (2009) and are dislocating the cohesive force of previous articulations. La jaula de oro (2013) illustrate the harsh realities that prejudice in Yucatán many women are now the main family breadwinners. This shift in the distribution of power S7 Making sense of neoliberalism in Latin America today: Therefore, the data indicates that the paradigms of ‘unity’ undocumented migrants face while attempting to reach afected the gender relations and altered the structure Narratives on violence, exclusion and resistance. and ‘sieged society’ are now losing their hegemonic power, the United States and the extent to which they provide giving way to more subjective and nuanced debates about insight into the lives and experiences of the migrants. and function of the traditional Mayan family. Focusing on the future of a post-Castro, post-embargo Cuba. the experiences of Mayan women from the community S10 Feminism, violence, and migration in Latin America of Xocén, I will explore the ways women use embroidery S18 Cultural Transformations in a Changing Cuba: Media, to redefne their gender identity and negotiate their Communication and the Remaking of Cuban Identity presence and power both in their “local” communities and in the “global” market.

S36 Representations of Indigeneity and Community Resistance

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Political activism as a means Re-imagined communities: Neoliberal The Political Ecology of Voice in Peru Liquid Spirit: Defending the Communal of coping with exile multiculturalism, identity, memory and Control of Water in Ecuador Adrian Gonzalez the literature of pueblos originarios Jasmine Gideon University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Geof Goodwin London School of Economics and Political Science, Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK Gerardo Gómez Michel This paper will explore Latin American confict and London, UK Busan University of Foreign Studies, Busan, Republic of violence through an interlinked focus on natural resource Drawing on interviews with Chilean exiles in the UK this Korea paper explores the centrality of political activism to life in extraction (specifcally oil) and environmental problems Ecuador is one of a small number of Latin American resulting from its production. The author will set out to countries that has broken with the neoliberal orthodoxy exile. Many exiles now view their activism as a means of In the last decades, one of the punchlines that has explore how the relationship between resource extraction over the last decade. The change in the direction of coping with life in the UK and it brought them into contact sought to legitimize neoliberal political discourse in industries (REIs) for local citizens and other stakeholder policy has been electorally successful but has created with new people and new ideas and for some it ofered Latin America is that of a harmonious multicultural groups (community based organisations (CBOs) and new tensions around the use and control of natural opportunities to ‘move on’ in life. community resulting from the recognition of cultural non-governmental organisations (NGOs) can be one resources. Conficts have been particularly intense over diference. However, progressive multicultural policies are S12 Solidarity Campaigns and Latin America major factor in causing environmental-based confict and water. The Correa government’s attempt to introduce a routinely confronted with neoliberal economic mandates violence. To illustrate this point, the paper will present new water law in 2009 and 2010 sparked a long-lasting and prevalent socio-economic inequalities grounded an innovative theory termed the “political ecology of dispute with indigenous and peasant communities, in dominant criollo-mestizo culture. In this context, the voice” (PEV). PEV can be defned as the study of a specifc organisations and movements. The confict was multi- From Warriors to Scholars: Manuel multicultural policies of many of the region’s governments temporal political, economic, social, and geographical faceted but revolved around the increased role the state achieve little when it comes to improving the lives of Querino’s Contribution to Black History environment in which stakeholder’s utilise their voice was expected to perform in the management of water. indigenous peoples. Neoliberal multiculturalism may come over an environmental issue. The paper will show how Indigenous and peasant leaders feared the centralization to constitute a disciplinary framework deployed against Helen Gledhill these various strands of PEV interconnect to form the of decision-making within state agencies would threaten indigenous groups to enforce political and economic Independent Scholar, Godalming, Surrey, UK theory which will be illustrated through two case-studies the communal control of water, limit the resolution of demands. This paper analyzes the ways in which some conducted in Peru’s Loreto region; the frst in a pueblo conficts at the local level, and facilitate the granting of indigenous communities, namely the Maya in Mexico, The focus of this paper is on the tactics of the Afro- community adjacent to Iquitos’s Petroperu refnery and the water concessions to agroexporters, mining companies the Mapuche in Chile and Afrocolombians on the Pacifc Brazilian scholar Manuel R. Querino (1851-1923) for second in a pueblo located next to the North Peruvian oil and hydroelectric plants. Waves of protests forced coast, deal with and challenge these multicultural politics combating the veiled racism prevalent in Brazil during pipeline. the government to shelve its original plans and hold a in their countries. Governmental eforts to promote his time and ours. Based on my PhD thesis, it will discuss prelegislative consultation on the issue. Following the multiculturalism may result in important limitations, as in S4 Breaking down confict: understanding and reframing Querino’s eforts to demonstrate that blacks contributed completion of the consultation, a revised version of the the case of ambiguous legal procedures to defne who can Latin American experience to Brazil’s national defence as soldiers, as well as being law was introduced in 2014. Indigenous and peasant be represented as part of an indigenous culture. This paper scholars and artists, thereby undermining the prevalent pressure forced some modifcations. Yet tensions remain proposes that one of the ways indigenous communities image that all blacks were poor, illiterate and generally over the concentration of power within state agencies. (here we took Afrolatinamericans as well as indigenous ‘backward’ by European standards. The paper also Drawing on preliminary research undertaken in Ecuador in people) have found to challenge neoliberal intercultural includes an overview of Querino’s biography, the scientifc 2010 and 2015, this paper explores the confict, focusing policies is to re-imagine their culture identity through racism he sought to combat, and the tradition of black on the clash between communal and state control of water memory and literature. Constructing a discourse of self- vindicationism to which he contributed with works such as and the cultural and ecological dimensions of the struggle. “O colono preto como fator da civilizacao brasileira” (1918). recognition as a diferent “imagined community” from the hegemonic criollo-mestizo group within the territory of S25 Building bridges between social, cultural and the Nation-State they inhabit, they articulate a counter- S1 Rethinking whiteness in Latin America environmental studies: States, social movements and narrative that not only challenges the infamous narratives natural resources in Latin America. about them inherited from the Colonial era, but also challenges those of recent times dictated from above.

S15 Neoliberalism, resistance and popular cultures

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Building Bridges Between The ‘police-isation’ of Brazil’s Including US-Latino Literature Beyond the Blog: Cuban Independent Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of military? Feedback efects between in Latin American Studies: Junot Digital Media, Emergent Civil Society, the Oppressed, and European UN Peacekeeping and domestic Díaz’s This Is How You Lose Her and Changing United States Policy Alternative Educational Methods. deployments of soldiers. Liz Harvey Ted Henken Anna Isabella Grimaldi Christoph Harig UCL, London, UK Baruch College, City University of New York, New York, King’s College London Brazil Institute, London, UK King’s College London, London, UK USA ‘When I frst saw you... I knew I’d call you Flaca. If you’d Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed states that the In order to counter severe public security issues, Latin been Dominican my family would have worried about Despite a state monopoly over the mass media and very dominant educational approaches of today, based on American governments frequently rely on their Armed you, brought plates of food to my door. Heaps of plátanos low Internet access, Cuba has recently witnessed the the understanding that children are blank slates waiting Forces. Yet, conventional wisdom suggests that the military and yuca, smothered in liver or questo frito.’ Junot Díaz’s emergence of a rich variety of independent digital media to be ‘deposited’ with information, are of an oppressive is ‘trained to break things and kill people’ while police collection of short stories This Is How You Lose Her is projects, many of which are embedded in its extensive nature, and explores how the limitations, censorship, ofcers should be better prepared for a restricted use of primarily written in English, for a US audience. Díaz himself diaspora in both the United States and Spain. This paper and fear of this method puts harmful restraints on violence. Despite this theoretically reasonable objection, is a professor of literature at MIT, Boston, and his narratives analyzes the challenges these projects face to establish society as a whole. Although not the specifc focus of the reality in many Latin American countries, particularly are frmly located in the US. This paper, however, argues their legitimacy, maintain their autonomy,and become Freire’s work, which mostly refers to peasant masses, I Brazil, demands a closer evaluation. Brazil’s regular police for the inclusion of his works into a broader defnition of visible and accessible to the Cuban public in a polarized will use the theme of childhood education to begin forces are infamous for serious abuse such as extralegal ‘Latin American Studies’ which would incorporate works in and highly controlled media environment. While a number approaching Freire’s philosophy on oppression. To Freire, killings, racist behaviour or corruption. Federal and state English which are heavily infuenced by an aspect of Latin of these projects began as individual or collective blogs, the oppressed are a people who internalize, through governments have tried to introduce forms of community America. Díaz and his characters are Dominican-American here we chronicle the process whereby many have learning, the consciousness of an authoritative other. This policing and to address structural causes for police and, as the above quotation suggests, conduct their lives consciously moved “beyond the blog” to embrace the process hinders free thought and praxis in relation to violence. Still, they also facilitated more ‘guaranteeing in a bilingual and bicultural manner. While the Dominican challenge of producing news and information for the the ‘oppressed’s’ own reality or ontology. Paulo Freire’s law and order’ (GLO) operations, during which the Republic is overtly present in this work, it also haunts Cuban public in a more systematic, coordinated, and Pedagogy of the Oppressed was frst published in Armed Forces can actually replace the police. The most the background of these stories, the characters, and their entrepreneurial way, meeting the demand for reliable Portuguese in 1968, and two years later translated into notable example is the military occupation of entire narratives. Whether these recall a journey to or from the and objective reportage unmet by the propagandistic English. On translation, the book gained considerable neighbourhoods during Rio de Janeiro´s Pacifcation country, a present relationship with it, or more generally ofcial media. Finally, the paper seeks to gage how the popularity overseas. However, as I will argue in this campaign. Arguably, policing tasks performed by soldiers play with stereotypes surrounding what ‘Latinness’ is in reestablishment of diplomatic relations between the U.S. presentation, there are limitations to this popularity in GLO operations are strikingly similar with their role in the US context, it is clear that this work is inextricably and Cuba might alter the island’s moribund mass media which must be re-considered in light of ongoing European the UN Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), where linked to Latin America. As such, this paper will begin environment and provide new opportunities to Cuba’s debates regarding education. This presentation will Brazil has been the largest troop contributor since 2004. by briefy contextualising US-Latino literature, before emergent independent digital media. explore how some key ideas in Freire’s work resonate With thousands of soldiers in recent GLO operations being examining Díaz’s work in more detail. It will analyse the S18 Cultural Transformations in a Changing Cuba: Media, in some of its contemporary development in Europe, as drawn from MINUSTAH veterans, I suggest that reciprocal linguistic and cultural Dominican infuences on This Is How Communication and the Remaking of Cuban Identity well as where it diverges from them, surpasses them, and learning processes are afecting soldiers´ abilities in You Lose Her, before considering other concepts which are ofers solutions where they might become conficted and policing tasks. Based on questionnaire-based surveys played with in this collection such as machismo and the problematic. The aim is twofold: on the one hand this will and interviews with veterans as well as observations in family. demonstrate how Freire’s work has been unnecessarily dedicated training centres for Peacekeeping and GLO S34 Insiders and Outsiders in Society, Film and Literature overlooked, and on the other how it should be given missions, this paper seeks to fnd out whether soldiers more credit, especially considering some of the problems, are capable of internalising the necessary restrictions of worldwide, the education system faces today. police duties or if they resort to a role understanding as warriors when facing critical situations. S29 Education, Environment, Inequality, and Social Mobility S27 Violence, Politics and the Sacred

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Bridging worlds: translating “We’ll trade a gold for some plata”! The Did Ebola save the day? How Listening to the silences: towards the law in Peru role of Cuba’s sport for development medical cooperation in West Africa a feminist theorisation of outreach in training athletes in made for healthy relations between violence in Central America Rosaleen Howard the Americas and beyond. Canada and the United States. Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK Mo Hume University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK New legislation on language rights in Peru has given rise to Robert Huish Robert Huish Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada a government-led initiative whereby the 2011 ´Language International organisations widely agree that a gendered Act´ (Ley de Lenguas) has been translated from Spanish perspective should be ‘integral’ and ‘crosscutting’ in Cuba has a long-standing track record of elite sport What opened up relations between Cuba and the United into a wide range of Andean and Amazonian languages. policies to promote citizen security in the region (UNDP, achievement in the Olympics, the Pan American games, States? Was it President Barack Obama’s awakening of Based on in-depth interviews with translators (speakers 2014). However, mainstream violence debates remain as well as in other regional competitions. Even in times consciousness? Was it Raul Castro’s pragmatism? Pope of Aymara, Quechua, Shipibo and Ashaninka), we shall characterised by their silence on gender issues. Enduring of economic crisis, Cuba achieved outstanding medal Francis’ Devine Intervention? Or did a deadly virus in explore the linguistic and cultural challenges posed by gendered silences have implications for how we analyse, counts as compared to other countries of similar economic West Africa help to bridge the gap? While there is much this task, and some of the strategies adopted to overcome as well as what we analyse as violence. Feminist praxis has standing. Recently, however, other countries in the attention focused on the high-level politics and diplomacy them. The process of translation is never a case of mere long challenged the gendered silences and masculinist Americas are giving Cuban athletes a run for their money. to normalize relations with Cuba and the United States, the linguistic transference. In translating a legislative text from bias in scholarly research on violence. Much of this work Cuban coaches are working to train foreign athletes for case of Cuban physicians working in U.S.-built hospitals a European to an Amerindian language in a postcolonial has understandably been concerned with ‘breaking the elite performance in the same competitions that Cuban during the Ebola pandemic provides an important example country like Peru, the problems are compounded. The legal silence’ in order to provide a framework for women to be athletes compete in. What’s more, Cuba is also exploring of how person-to-person diplomacy also factors in to the language of the original text is technical and specialised, able to ‘name’ gendered forms of violence. In this paper, relations with professional sporting associations in the equation. This paper argues that U.S.-Cuban cooperation with no easily identifable equivalent terminology, and no I am interested in drawing feminist connections between U.S. to receive Cuban athletes. Taken together, Cuba is during the Ebola crisis provided an important opportunity equivalent register, in the cultures of the target languages. the diferent ‘types’ of violence that shape everyday entering an unknown dimension of sport for development for transactional diplomacy, cooperation, and direct The transfer from Spanish to the Amerindian languages is life and I draw on longitudinal ethnographic research where coaches, and occasionally players, serve the defance of U.S. State Department aggression against Cuba. made in writing, and yet the writing systems of the latter from El Salvador. I argue that silences and silencing both interests of foreign nations against the ambitions of This is signifcant as it demonstrated a working example are in early stages of development, and writing is a less shape and are shaped by the violent everyday, and this their own domestic athletes. This paper discusses two of foreign outreach where the two countries worked in frequent medium than orality for transfer of information. forecloses an analysis of violences as connected. Without scenarios that this situation brings forth. First, there is a conjunction with each other, and not against each other. The translated texts do not have the legal status of law ‘listening’ to these everyday silences, our understanding of nationalist / cultural challenge of Cuban coaches training Notably, the Ebola cooperation directly challenged the as in the original Spanish. The overriding motivation of violence and its efects are necessarily limited. translators is to get the message of the law across to foreigners to compete against Cuban athletes. Second, U.S. State Department’s aggressive “Cuban Medical Parole there is an increasing tension in the desire for acquiring Program,” a strategy to undermine the work of Cuban members of the receiving communities. The strategies S10 Feminist engagements with violence in Latin America they adopt to achieve this communicative aim requires a much-needed hard currency from of-shore sport activities. physicians, and replace it with an important cooperative broad understanding of what ´translation´ can be taken to Taken together, Cuban sport is reconceptualising its place framework. Indeed this experience has lessons for be. The paper is based on research funded by the AHRC´s in the Pan American landscape from proving its own emerging U.S.-Cuba relations and for international ´Translating Cultures´ programme, our thanks to the national merit in sport to being a Pan-American engine of development policy more broadly. Research Council for their support. sport for good. Based on interviews with Cuban coaches in Mexico, and Cuban sport administrators in Havana, this S11 The Changing Dynamics of Cuban Healthcare: The S9 Bridging languages, knowledge systems, and identities paper unpacks the tensions and opportunities in this new New Role of Health in contemporary Latin America dimension of Cuban sport for development.

S24 Latin American Sports in the Global Arena

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Ethnifcating the people and the Victims, Agency and Reparation: More than samba, football and The place of the peasant community land: the emergence of a ‘new’ Reconsidering the Notion of carnival? The ‘Demonstrations on Peru’s northern coast? indigenous geography in Chile “Victim” in Discourses on Mexico’s Cup’ under the global spotlight. Andrew Jobling Contemporary Violence Shefeld Hallam University, Shefeld, UK Katy Jenkins César Jiménez-Martínez Catholic University of Temuco, Temuco, Chile LSE, London, UK Mijael Jiménez Monroy This paper explores the contemporary dynamics of Kingston University London, London, UK peasant communities on Peru’s northern coast. Ongoing The neoliberalisation of Chile since Pinochet’s Following years of economic growth and political stability, dictatorship is a well-known process: repression of processes of socio-economic diferentiation and change Discourses on contemporary violence in Mexico have the hosting of both the World Cup and the Olympic society, deregulation of the economy, privatisation of the in a context of capitalist expansion and globalisation emphasised the relevance that the notion of “victim” has Games was seen by many as the ‘coming out party’ for national resources and companies, and the imposition appear potentially to threaten the historical continuity in understanding the possibilities for restoring peace Brazil in order to become a global actor. Both events, in of free-market through legal reforms, among others. The of these communities. Simultaneously, hegemonic and conditions for justice in contexts marked by violence. particular, were considered as communicational platforms political ecological project of neoliberalism in Chile has discourses and policies, including the continued roll out Victim-centred conceptions of political violence analyse that would allow Brazil to project a more modern and been also highlighted during the last years: the massive of a liberal, individualist institutional and legal framework; the relationship between victims of violence and the neoliberal image of itself for foreign audiences. According transformation of land to be specialised in the production the transfer of land and water resources to expand the state -as guarantor of justice for these victims- in terms to some documents by the Brazilian government, the of raw materials (copper, forestry, and fshery, among agribusiness frontier; and the persistence of spatialized of the process of reparation that makes possible the Confederations Cup of 2013 would be one of the key others), the creation, privatisation and concentration narratives of development that depict the coastal region transition from the victim-condition -or victimhood- to events in the attempt to portray a ‘new’ image of Brazil, of water rights, the penetration of transnational capital, as the locus of Peruvian modernity, render coastal peasant a subject-condition for the full exercise of people’s civil given that it would be a dress rehearsal for the World the expansion of large investment projects and the communities as anachronistic and out of place. However, and political rights. In other words, these conceptions Cup of the following year. However, in an unexpected rapid urbanisation. However, there has been little this paper argues for a more nuanced reading of the analyses the conditions for reparation in terms of reaching twist, a series of protests that had started weeks earlier attention about the impacts of these processes among current experiences and practices of coastal peasant citizenship in a political sense. In this presentation I will against an increase in public transportation fares, reached the indigenous population. Our study is focused on the communities, encompassing complex and sometimes analyse, frst, the thesis that states that victimhood means, their peak precisely during the Confederations Cup (later process of urbanisation of the indigenous population contradictory processes of adaptation and resistance as at least, that the political condition of people is damaged nicknamed the ‘Demonstrations Cup’), constituting the and the emergence of territorial claims in the context well as marginalisation. In so doing it contests simplistic (or at risk to be damaged). And, second, how discourses biggest social unrest witnessed in Brazil in more than of extractivism. The cases of study are the North, where and compartmentalised readings of Peruvian geography to on contemporary violence identify diferent processes or two decades. Drawing on original research gathered in the Aymara and Quechua indigenous population is assert the social diversity of the northern coastal region. strategies to transform victimhood into well-being in terms more than 60 interviews with Brazilian journalists, foreign concentrated and there is confict with large mining correspondents, activists and representatives of the of the exercise of political liberties or, more precisely, in S36 Representations of Indigeneity and Community companies, and the South, where the Mapuche people Brazilian government, this paper will focus on the tensions terms of restoring the conditions for being a citizen or a Resistance is clashing with the expansion of the forestry industry political agent. surrounding the media coverage of Brazil by local and and hydroelectric projects. The hypothesis is that the foreign journalists during those weeks in June 2013. In urbanisation of indigenous of people was not their S6 Enforced Disappearances in Mexico: Continuities and particular, this paper will pay attention to the eforts holocaust (as some anthropologist pointed out) but Ruptures in the Civil Society-State Relationship carried out by diferent groups in order to construct and the possibility for a new process of self-identifcation, project a specifc image of Brazil aimed at getting the organisation and the construction of a ‘new’ indigenous attention of foreign audiences, as well as the diferent geography, where the ancestral territory has been struggles behind the development of these mediated constructed from science, environmentalism and representations. imagination. This research present the analysis of mixed methods, putting together surveys, GIS and remote S24 Latin American Sports in the Global Arena sensing, and interviews conducted in the studied areas.

S25 Building bridges between social, cultural and environmental studies: States, social movements and natural resources in Latin America.

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‘Bridges across heartlands’: comparing Policing Street Children in Sao Between the back and the front The Evolution of Cuban Medical the depiction in flms of indigenous Paulo, Brazil: Relations of Violence stage - the political strategies of Internationalism under Raúl Castro peoples in Argentina with minority and Exclusion in the City Central American business groups John Kirk peoples in European contexts. Daniel Jupp Kina Yuri Kasahara Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada University of Dundee, Dundee, UK Norwegian Institute for Urban and Rural Research, Oslo, Dilys Jones Under Raúl Castro there have been signifcant eforts University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Norway This paper will explore the social, spatial and temporal to modernize the economy, to make the state more efcient. Since the exportation of medical services is The portrayal of ‘original peoples’ (Maldonado 2010) nature of the relation between police and street-children Historical accounts on the development of the Central in the streets of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The feld work took American democracies place major emphasis on the role the main source of hard currency for the government seems relatively neglected in analyses of Argentine (generating almost three times the amount resulting flm. Through an analysis of changing ways that original place in the city centre of Sao Paulo city where the of the elites and their sources of wealth for the evolution concentration of street-children is at a historic high. of democracy. Diferences in ideologies and inclination from tourism), it is important to analyze the impact which peoples have been portrayed in the work of directors his modernization platform has had upon the delivery such as Ulises De la Orden, Miguel Pereira, and Lucrecia According to a survey completed in 2007 (Sao Paulo, to support democracy are often viewed as determined 2007), 805 children were found living on the streets and by whether the elite is a landholding class, engaged in of foreign medical services. This paper, based upon Martel this paper explores possible similarities with extensive interviews in Havana, examines the approach the portrayal of other minority peoples in flms of other it is estimated that this number has signifcantly grown export processing, commerce or industrial production. since then. The increase of this population coupled This paper discusses the political strategies of current employed by the government of Raúl Castro to maintain minority nations. Drawing on a threefold system of flm medical cooperation abroad, and studies both changes classifcation developed in relation to Welsh, Basque and with the difculties local and national authorities face diversifed business groups (DBGs) in the context of recent to develop efective social policies has intensifed the economic transformations including transnationalization. implemented to date and the constants in medical Catalan cinema, it discusses diferences and similarities internationalism. in characterisation, plot and the depictions of everyday encounters between the police and street-children It asks how these strategies are afected by the shift in the (Sales 2012; Ribeiro 2008; Drybread 2013). The research sources of income from agriculture and industry towards social, cultural and political life, and how these shape S11 The Changing Dynamics of Cuban Healthcare: The participants were composed of 3 groups: street-children, services, and their increasing transnational activities. changing narratives of identities. Collapsing distinctions New Role of Health between documentary and feature flm, in particular police/security ofcers, and key informants (academics, However, it is not only the case that political institutions it focuses on similarities and diferences in ways that practitioners, etc.). The methodology included three main are afected by DBG strategies; DGBs are also crucially minority peoples characterise land or territory. From forms of data input: Ethnography, Collective Mapping, and afected by political institutions. We discuss the impact Kolla, Diaguitas, Wichi, and Guarani issues of land rights, Semi structured interviews (on site / walking interviews). of political institutions on business group strategies through notions of heartlands and nurturing landscapes Data analysis is ongoing but preliminary analysis indicates focusing particularly on informal and formal institutions to discordant landscapes associated with postnationalism that police violence is still very present in street-children. afecting the relationship between the executive and the which has been developed in analysis of Welsh and The data also provides information about the types of legislative, and how that impacts on the business group Basque flm, this paper traces a possible trajectory in violence that have been practiced and the diferent people strategies towards presidents pursuing agendas that are the changing relationships between minority peoples involved in violent actions. It is possible to observe a challenging or accommodating to their interests. More and landscape. It draws attention to how peoples and qualitative change in the forms of violence as a result of specifcally, we research strategies 1) aimed at controlling landscapes co-construct each other, and also highlights the militarization of the civil metropolitan police and the the executive, and 2) strategies of confronting executive diferences in how land itself is characterised in the legitimisation of the lethal power of the military police. powers perceived to pursue an agenda that counter flms depicting peoples with territory and degrees of Refections around the relation between the increase their interests. We fnd that there is a clear pattern that autonomy, and flms depicting those struggling to reclaim of violence and wider societal process such as the where institutions are weak and presidential control over territory. It concludes by pointing towards possibilities for gentrifcation process is another important aspect raised congress is also weak, the DBG leaders will attempt at building bridges between the experiences and situations by the participants. destabilization. Moreover, there is a connection between of indigenous peoples in South America and minority generally strong institutions, relationship of cooperation S27 Violence, Politics and the Sacred peoples in other places, contexts and situations elsewhere between government and DBGs and a low propensity to in the world. transnationalize.

S34 Insiders and Outsiders in Society, Film and Literature S39 Elites, governance and democracy in Central America: changes and continuities in the faces of power

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Health and Well-being: The Next White Privilege? Migration, The Politics of Land Use in Costa Exploring the sphere of leisure Stage of Cuban Healthcare Belonging, & the Fragility of Rica’s Southern Rainforest and gender in contemporary Costa Rica’s Whiteness Myth. Latin American cinema Emily Kirk Clate Korsant University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK Carmen Kordick Goldsmiths College, University of London, London, UK Julia Kratje Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL, United States Minor University of Buenos Aires (UBA)-National Research For decades the Cuban healthcare system has been Outlying Islands Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula has been circumscribed as Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina internationally lauded, and its health rates celebrated. a “wild” and “remote” place where opportunity and Indeed, for a population of 11.2 million, there are some Costa Rican elites and intellectuals have long defned their socio-economic transformation await. This peninsula This paper aims at presenting my current doctoral 83,000 doctors—one of the highest doctor-to-patient nation as unique in the Central American isthmus through has historically been the site of much confict over research’s goals and methodological considerations, as ratios in the world. International health specialists the formulation of a remarkably durable, multilayered, land use including exploitation by US companies well as the main questions it attempts to answer. The have also often noted the country’s success in the feld ofcial national narrative that celebrates Costa Rica as like United Fruit and Osa Productos Forestales (OPF). work analyzes a corpus of Argentine and Latin American of health. The Director General of the World Health Central America’s white republic. This teleological master After OPF’s controversial tenure bullying campesinos movies from 2002 to 2014, with the goal of exploring Organization, Margaret Chan, noted on her last trip to Cuba narrative holds that during the colonial period Costa (subsistence farmers) of their lands, the company was fctional projections of the socio-sexual universe. The that, “I keep a special place in my heart and recognize Ricans, who are of ‘pure’ European extraction, forged a fnally expropriated. The company’s absence, however, focus is a comparative study of the fgures of women, the efort of the Cuban government to establish health peaceful, egalitarian, though impoverished society far was only to be flled by a new policing force – state which reveal changes in customs and everyday life. The as an essential pillar to development”. The system and its away from the colonial centers of power. Like all national conservation initiatives. These new environmental specifc goal is to analyze the construction of scenes and evolution have been studied at length, as scholars have mythologies, Costa Rica’s exceptionalist rendition draws initiatives manifested as Corcovado National Park and fgures linked to various experiences of leisure. We ask: examined the system’s development. However, since 2008 upon some undeniable realities. The widely embraced the Golfo Dulce Forest Reserve. Neither managing body Which audiovisual and narrative procedures are used to the healthcare system and the island’s understanding of master narrative, however, distorts as much as it inspired much trust amongst the campesinos in the show the various ways to represent the sphere of free health have changed signifcantly. This paper will explore illuminates the experience of contemporary and historical area. Instead, the presence of the state was viewed as an time and cultural consumptions? How is that construction the next stage in Cuban healthcare. Instead of the a actors. Moreover, for Costa Ricans who fnd themselves invasion, as capitalist forms of resource exploitation and linked with aesthetic and socio-cultural images related system focusing almost exclusively on social determinants residing in the United States and are “read” by their host violent coercive tactics were supplanted by bureaucratic to contemporary transformations of gender and sexuality of health, since 2008 the system and its practitioners society as non-whites, the experience can be a difcult management and the legitimization of the nation’s land relations? From a micro-social perspective, the premise have increasingly focused on the importance of well- one. Interestingly, for those Costa Ricans who are in fact grab. Costa Rica is unique in the manner that it centralizes is that, in order to analyze movies in terms of production being and how it engages with individual and national read as “white” by non-Latinos in the U.S. the experience environmental concerns and creates a space where and distribution, a detailed study of particular cases is health rates. The development of the next stage in Cuba’s can at once confrm their sense of national belonging, but political discourse, socio-economic transformation, and necessary. The paper leverages a series of key studies healthcare system will be explored, and the contemporary also places into question what precisely it means to be environmentalist rhetoric are entangled. This paper will to understand flms in historical, political and aesthetic understanding of health throughout the island will “white” and what is “white” privilege in both the U.S. and place this dissent from environmental concerns within terms. Two main axes of analysis have been assumed: be analyzed. Why has the healthcare system in Cuba Costa Rica. Costa Rica’s national context and in relation to the the frst one takes into account the cross-disciplinary changed? And what is the new understanding of health burgeoning interests surrounding ecological stewardship. nature of flm studies as regards the socio-cultural feld and its role in society? S1 Rethinking whiteness in Latin America I propose to illuminate the perspectives of campesinos of knowledge; and the second considers flm and gender afected by the violence perpetrated by OPF and the studies exploring the matter of the body and sexuality as S11 The Changing Dynamics of Cuban Healthcare: The subsequent state policing. The views held by Osa residents a paramount location for the production of new forms of New Role of Health complicate normative notions of “opportunity” and the subjectivity. ethics of socio-economic transformation by demonstrating how difering types of knowledge collide. Ultimately, S38 Politics and the Audio-Visual: Transmedial Relations what does it mean to make political claims based upon an in Film and TV understanding of space?

S29 Education, Environment, Inequality, and Social Mobility

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La épica de los trabajadores: los relatos Gael García Bernal: Staging #YoSoy132 and digital ICTs: Anita Brenner, Intellectual documentales de fábricas recuperadas Transnational Stardom The ambivalent character of an Tourism, and Nation-building in ‘anti-neoliberal’ practice Post-revolutionary Mexico Pablo Lanza Catherine Leen UBA - CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina NUI, Maynooth, Kildare, Ireland Rodrigo Liceaga Claire Lindsay University of Bristol, Bristol, UK University College London, London, UK Uno de los momentos de mayor producción del cine Gael García Bernal is an international and transnational documental en Argentina coincidió y fue producto del star whose work encompasses acting, directing, producing The social movement known as #YoSoy132 emerged Anita Brenner was a central fgure in Mexico’s cultural estallido social y político que tuvo su máxima expresión and activism. Like many Mexican actors before him, in Mexico in 2012 during the presidential campaign renaissance: a writer of now canonized works on Mexican en diciembre del 2001 con la crisis política-económica y la including Dolores del Río and Salam Hayek, García Bernal towards general elections. Triggered by the visit of the art and history (Idols behind Altars (1929) and The Wind renuncia del presidente Fernando de la Rúa. Los márgenes has achieved success in Mexico and in Hollywood, as candidate and current president Enrique Peña Nieto from that Swept Mexico (1943)). Brenner was also an inveterate de la población fueron retratados de forma insistente, las well as playing characters whose nationalities range from the political party denominated Partido Revolucionario traveller and travel writer throughout her long publishing imágenes de las protestas del 20 de diciembre de 2001 Spanish, in Pedro Almodóvar’s La mala educación (2004); Institucional to a private university, this movement was career in Mexico and the United States. This paper y las causas que las generaron comenzaron a convertirse Cuban, in Walter Salles’ The Motorcycle Diaries (2004); mainly composed by students. It initially stand against considers Brenner’s role in intellectual and commercial en un tópico común en las pantallas y su impacto, por and Chilean in Pablo Larrain’s No (2012). This paper the manipulation of information and the imposition of networks at two stages of her career and at key moments esta misma razón, comenzó a disminuir. La lucha por la examines whether the stereotypical representations of the PRI´s presidential candidate by media corporations of Mexico’s experience of modernity. The frst is her recuperación de fábricas al borde de la quiebra por parte Latin Americans in Hollywood productions has moved on and political groups but soon defned itself as ‘anti- involvement in a coterie of writers and artists (including de los trabajadores fue una de las narrativas privilegiadas the from the era of the so-called Hispanic Hollywood. It neoliberal’. Proposing a ‘systemic transformation’ Rivera, Jean Charlot and Tina Modotti) who contributed durante los primeros años de la década. Los mismos focuses in particular on whether García Bernal, like many #YoSoy132 was nevertheless vehemently concerned with to Mexican Folkways (1925-1937), edited by the North fueron retratados por grupos de intervención política other Latin American or Spanish actors, is relegated to the democratization of media and electoral participation. American anthropologist Frances Toor. The paper suggests como Boedo Films, Ojo Obrero y Alavío, en una serie de a narrow range of ‘ethnic’ roles or if his star power and Its more general expressions endorsed the use of digital that this activity served as a period of apprenticeship for videos que funcionaron principalmente como registros de behind the scenes producing and directing credits have platforms and mobile technologies in demanding the later launch of Mexico, This Month (1955-1971) edited sus luchas, sin proponer una narración articuladora en la allowed him to play more varied and nuanced roles that such transformation. In so doing, the movement was by Brenner in Mexico City and sponsored by the so-called mayoría de los casos. Por este motivo proponemos trabajar transcend ethnic or national labels. committed to freedom of speech, freedom of information Comité norteamericano pro-México. The paper, drawing on a partir de tres largometrajes documentales argentinos and access to the Internet as a constitutional right but unstudied archival material as well as those periodicals’ realizados entre los años 2003 y 2008: Grissinopoli. El S21 The Transnational Circulation of Mexican Celebrity never consistently questioned the digital platforms and contents, situates both projects – each bi-national and/or país de los grisines (Darío Doria, 2004), Fasinpat, fábrica and Stardom institutions. bi-lingual, part state-, part privately- funded enterprises sin patrón (Daniele Incalcaterra, 2004) y Corazón de – within a burgeoning magazine culture that functioned fábrica (Ernesto Ardito y Virna Molina, 2008). En ellos S7 Cultural Transformations in a Changing Cuba: Media, to afrm and commodify ‘Mexican culture’ during the prima un relato épico de la lucha por la defensa del Communication and the Remaking of Cuban Identity country’s extended period of national reconstruction after trabajo, que se articula a partir de estructuras clásicas de the Revolution. It considers the continuities and breaks crisis y personajes colectivos que emprenden batallas evident in the two magazines, drawing attention especially titánicas contra los patrones a la vez que demandan la to their mutual investment in commerce as much as social ayuda del Estado. democracy in Mexico, and examines their and Brenner’s contributions to a process of nation formation that, as Rick S38 Politics and the Audio-Visual: Transmedial Relations López (2010) and other cultural historians have observed, in Film and TV was profoundly transnational.

S5 Transnational Intellectual Networks in Latin America

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The Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty Gauging the impact of solidarity The United States and Latin America: Recreating Welshness in Patagonia dispute. Is British-Argentine campaigns: Pinochet’s Chile Decline of power or decline in interest? Geraldine Lublin reconciliation a possible scenario? Swansea University, Swansea, UK Grace Livingstone Tom Long University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, UK Magdalena Lisinska Whilst the aim of the promoters of Welsh migration to Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland Patagonia was to create ‘A New Wales in South America’ This paper discusses how far international solidarity It is commonly asserted that the United States no longer removed from British infuence, this utopian vision was campaigns can afect political developments in a targeted holds the dominant position it once did in Latin America. Being located in the South Atlantic, The Falkland Islands superseded by the stark reality of full allegiance to the country. It considers the paradox of the Pinochet regime This decline is credited to several factors: a global decline archipelago (in Spanish-speaking countries called Islas Argentine Republic. Nevertheless, the Welsh were not in Chile, which generated a historically unprecedented in U.S. power, lower levels of U.S. attention to the region, Malvinas), has been the subject of dispute between the yet another European immigrant group arriving in the number of international campaigns against it, yet was the entrance of new extra-hemispheric challengers, and United Kingdom and Argentina for years. The UK has been country; as the frst state-sponsored venture south of one of the longest-lasting dictatorships in Latin American more “assertive” Latin American leaders. This paper seeks exercising control over the islands since 1833. However, the 40th parallel, the Welsh settlement holds a special history. It considers the case of the British Chile to test the implicit hypotheses regarding U.S. decline. Argentina has laid claim to them, which fnally led to the place in national history as the frst permanent population Solidarity Campaign which successfully persuaded the First, using a variety of metrics, it will ask whether U.S. war between both states in 1982. The dispute cannot centre which substantiated Argentina’s claim to Eastern Labour governments of 1974-79 to impose a number of power in the hemisphere has declined relative to to be considered as resolved even now, despite numerous Patagonia. It is thus not surprising that Gŵyl y Glaniad sanctions against the Pinochet regime, including an arms regional and extra-regional actors. Second, it will assess attempts to mediate and made bilateral talks. Tensions [the ‘Festival of the Landing’] should have been the frst embargo. It gauges the efect of these measures in Chile, U.S. involvement in Latin America-that is, attempts to over the Falklands Islands have become particularly public holiday enacted by the brand new Province of in the light of the varying actions taken by other foreign assert power. Finally, it will examine the outcomes of these intense over the past years, during the presidency Chubut in 1958 to mark the anniversary of the arrival of governments. The paper concludes that domestic factors attempts to exert U.S. power. The decline of U.S. power of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (2007-2015). The the frst contingent of Welsh settlers on 28 July 1865. This are crucial to explaining the durability of the Pinochet can easily be overstated. The autonomy and infuence of Argentine president have recognized the Falklands paper will focus on the festivity as celebrated in Chubut in regime and, in this context, aims to identify the types of Latin American states was long understated, sometimes sovereignty issue as a key priority of Argentine national order to explore how a sense of Patagonian Welshness is solidarity action that can have the most impact on their leading to comparison against a fctitious past. However, interests, trying to strengthen its position in the South recreated in the annual commemoration, whose narrative target country. there have been real changes. First, the geographic Atlantic,change the nature of the dispute from bilateral rests upon the ‘friendship’ between the settlers and the concentration of U.S. power and involvement away from into multilateral and discredit the British actions in the original Tehuelche. Attention will also be devoted to S12 Solidarity Campaigns and Latin America South America has intensifed. Second, there has been area. The British, however, do not agree to undertake any diferent readings of the commemoration at diferent times a long-term shift in the means of U.S. power away from negotiations on the sovereignty of the Falklands Islands. throughout its history, with an emphasis on the issues it military intervention (particularly direct use of force) and The issue has been in deadlock, posing a challenge for mobilises today. international relations in the Southern Hemisphere. The towards structural power. Finally, the nature of the Chinese involvement in the hemisphere does not, as most analysts main goal of the paper is to analyze possible scenarios of S13 Settler colonial experiences in Latin America the development of the British-Argentine dispute, trying assume, threaten U.S. power. All three of these trends are to answer the question of whether the UK and Argentina likely to continue. will ever reach reconciliation over the Falklands. To do that, S19 America or Americas? New opportunities and the author will outline the nature of the dispute from both pressures on regional governance theoretical and practical perspective and provide ideas of what can be done to facilitate the cooperation between the states.

S28 International Perspectives on the Politics and History of Latin America

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Towards an Updating of Communication Ecuador’s growing confict Collective Action and Party System How to Institutionalize Youth Policies in Cuba: Rethinking the over diference: the case of Fragmentation: Opposition Movements: Examining the History and Management and Sustainability ´indigenous´ education Parties in Argentina Causes of Youth Activism in Argentina of Journalistic Organisations Antonia Manresa Samuel Maynard Dylan Maynard Mabel Machado López Newcastle University, Tyneside, UK Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA New York University, NYC, NY, USA Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK The implementation of current national education policies Since Argentina’s redemocratization in 1983, the Peronist Throughout the twentieth century, poltical movements In a context of changes in the structure of the Cuban in Ecuador refects an ideological imperative of providing party (or PJ) has dominated national politics, winning in Argentina that centered around youth have had a model of society promoted by the government since 2008, equal access to a national standardizing and centrally all but two presidential elections. On the provincial and tumultuous relationship with the government. Student the debate about the functions of journalism and public controlled education project for all. This has led to a legislative levels, the PJ has similarly shown to be the only action reached its peak with the formation of violent communications has increased notoriously. However, these highly tense political scenario uniting the indigenous viable party that can win without forming broad coalitions. guerilla insurgencies and the occurrences of both the discussions are timid about subjects like management and movement and the national teachers union over claims Partisan opposition on the left and right have been forced Night of the Long Sticks and the Night of the Pencils, sustainability of journalistic organizations. The reforming to violations of collective indigenous and workers rights. to form alliances that have had mixed results at the ballot where the latter saw the deaths of several high school process demand a detailed and critical study about Many community schools have been shut or are under box and often regressed back to ideological divisiveness students. Moreover, the advent of the global sixties and production of cultural contents and creative industries threat of closure; also at stake is whether the school can after a single electoral defeat. Currently, the Kirchner-led the proliferation of a coherent youth culture and student in economies dependent of sectors based in knowledge. be of the community or simply in the community. Against Front for Victory (FpV) branch of the PJ secures around 30 activism has been historically connected to robust Regarding that, contributions of a discipline like Political this standardizing education project indigenous political percent of Argentine voters yet its candidate is favored to political action amongst young people in Argentina, which Economy of Communication and Culture are vital, because discourse currently appears trapped. Locked in a battle win the presidency in October 2015. With 70 percent of often incited violence from the military. However, in it has warned of possible deviations to narrow paths and over who can and should deliver ‘diference’, there is little the electorate outside the FpV and the general political light of this history, the 1990s through the 2010s have utilitarian notions in the analysis of contribution of culture space for refection. I argue that the legitimate demand environment marked by extreme political polarization been noticeably less violent. Most youth organizations in social development. for ‘our education too,’ as ‘our language, our pedagogy, our after twelve years of FpV political dominance, what factors are now wings of institutionalized political parties and science,’ implies demonstrating diference framed as a are preventing collective action among opposition parties? incentives for military intervention in politics have been S18 Cultural Transformations in a Changing Cuba: Media, mirror image of a Eurocentric construction of the Subject This paper challenges the widely accepted view that reduced. In light of these factors, how has the formation Communication and the Remaking of Cuban Identity (G. Spivak, 1988). This is unable to create a space to attributes the PJ’s electoral success to its political acumen of an Argentine youth culture, the efects of Peronism, disrupt the underlying conceptualization of personhood as alone. The paper draws on interviews with opposition and de-militarization infuenced youth activism? To framed within a single episteme (M. Foucault, 1969/2012). leaders in the weeks prior to the mandatory national party answer these questions, this paper will look to Argentina’s The result is that classroom practice has no means of primary held in August 2015 (a dry run for the fnal vote formation of a coherent youth culture, which originate in legitimizing diference as ‘ways of being,´ continuing to in October 2015). Results of the open primary (voters the mid-twentieth century, government interaction and leave the school as a place of silencing. Formal education can vote for any candidate) again revealed a fractured state violence against Argentine youth, and Argentina’s as a historical process of access to a form of agency partisan opposition more than an institutionally fexible PJ adoption of Third-wave democratization. Lastly, although embedded in a singular episteme (M. Blaser, 2009), as the connecting with voters, as FpV candidate Scioli won with the global formation of youth culture is largely seen as only means for claiming autonomy, may have resulted in only 28% of the overall vote. a transnational phenomenon, thi s paper will argue that an impossible project of ‘indigenous’ schooling. it was local processes that had the biggest efect on S14 Collective Action Successes and Failures in 21st Argentina’s trajectory of youth movements and activism. S9 Bridging languages, knowledge systems, and identities Century Argentina in contemporary Latin America S14 Collective Action Successes and Failures in 21st Century Argentina

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A Wayuú Perspective on the Symbolism ‘Social security lite’ and the Movements Matter: Indigenous Visual Navigations: The Poetics of Data in Gabriel García Márquez’s Literature. informalisation of citizenship in Brazil Movements and Electoral Politics in Peru Maria Mencia Paul McAleer Lucy McMahon Gemma McNulty Kingston University London, London, UK University of Hull, Hull, Humberside, UK Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA Cambridge, UK In the feld of networks and big data, data visualization This paper examines the infuence of the Wayuu culture on Movement-party relationships are an increasingly has become very popular in recent years. Scientists, artists, the work Gabriel García Márquez: found in the interlinked In 2008, the Brazilian government introduced the pertinent phenomenon. Social Movements in Latin and software designers are working collaboratively using themes of dreams, divination and the afterlife, as well as individual micro-entrepreneur scheme, or MEI. This America helped to mobilise support for leftist parties elaborate ways to communicate data, and visual design concepts of time and symbolic binary values associated is a contributory social security scheme intended to during the region’s Left Turn. Beyond Latin America, social is playing a substantial role by making the language of with utopian and dystopian discourses. Referring to the overcome some of the inequalities between formal and movements have mobilised and engaged with electoral science more accessible and comprehensible, through results of reader-response survey carried out on members informal workers. Workers without signed labour cards politics in Europe in light of the Eurozone Crisis. However, visualisations, in the form of infographics, sculptural of the Wayuu community in September 2015, it will can contribute around R$40/month to cover sick pay, few empirical studies exist which examine the nature objects, installations, sonifcations and applications. In discuss the Wayuu’s interpretation of these elements. maternity leave and a pension. Yet a majority of informal of movement-party relationships, and in particular, the this presentation I will introduce practice-based creative How does the bilingual Wayuú community receive and workers cannot aford the MEI, and it has been criticised impact on electoral politics. This paper provides unique research where I explore data visualisation for poetic reconstruct the meanings and functions of such themes by the international NGO Streetnet for sidestepping the insight into movement-party relationships across two expression. Starting with the investigation of maritime articulated in Spanish by GGM? Do they continue to relate more urgent issue of licencing. Maira Vannuchi of Streetnet electoral cycles in Peru using original interview data. data and the design of Apps the research has evolved them to the original narratives of communal identity and notes: ‘the government creates a device to collect the Specifcally, it presents the ways in which indigenous into historical events of the Spanish Civil War and memory? Or does the transference of such symbols from tax from street vending...but takes no responsibility for social movements mobilised their bases to support the Historical Memory including Spanish and Chilean Wayuunaiki to Spanish, afect their received meanings? decent work and the right of labour’. This paper argues Ollanta Humala in the 2006 and 2011 elections. The Memory. It is with projects like these, that Electronic These issues will be explored within the parameters of that the MEI amounts to a ‘social security lite’ which not mechanisms through which the movements mobilised literature serves as a means to explore open data as theories of bilingualism and translation. According to only sustains the divide in citizenship between formal their bases, their motivation for doing so and the impact cultural material, as a way to instigate new forms of sociolinguistic theory (Kroskrity 2001; Mercedes, 2008) and informal workers but also threatens formal sector of this support on electoral results are all discussed. The communication to discuss social and political issues and bi-lingual identity is a dynamic process of negotiation, labour relations by legitimising informality. Drawing fndings demonstrate that the movements mobilised their bring transparency through hybrid forms of visual art, confict and re-creation between two cultural and linguistic from interviews with street vendors in Rio de Janeiro bases in favour of the left along programmatic linkages. language and technological advances. spheres. In contrast, the traditional stance of translation and participant observation with a workers’ rights NGO, I This marks a turning point in the relationship between S20 Latin American Digital Culture: Repositioning the theory (López García, 1996 at al) proposes a process consider how the MEI changes the political signifcance of the indigenous base and parties in Peru, and one that Field of radical change and incommensurability between informality in Brazilian citizenship. I suggest that the MEI is was driven by the movements. The implication is that languages. How do bilingual communities function in and an outcome of two contrasting trends: an informalisation movements play a direct role in electoral politics thus in between two languages and cultures? of the labour market more generally in an ongoing challenging the assumption that they operate within a neoliberal economic model, and a demand for stronger non-party space. This role not only mobilises valuable S9 Translations of Indigenous Traditions in Latin American citizenship rights by a highly politicised population and a party support, it is also advantageous for democracy by Literature relatively receptive ruling party. I consider the plausibility (re) establishing programmatic, rather than clientelistic of this combination of neoliberal employment policies linkages. Movements therefore, matter and further with ‘pink tide’ approaches to inclusive citizenship in empirical investigation into their relationship with parties terms of the needs articulated by informal vendors. and impact on elections is required in Latin America and beyond. S16 Exploring bridges between the formal and informal (sectors) in Latin America S36 Representations of Indigeneity and Community Resistance

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Collective Action and Public Resource Constructing the White Cholo. Racial Metal Governance in El Salvador and ‘Y se hundió en el otro rostro’: Mobilization - Have Argentines Sincerity or Colour-Blindness? the Cultures of Legality Thereof renderings of La Malinche in Learned to Tax Themselves? contemporary Mexican fction Fiorella Montero Diaz Ainhoa Montoya ILAS, SAS, University of London, London, UK Ken Mitchell Keele University, Stafordshire, UK Maria Montt Strabucchi Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ, USA University of Manchester, Manchester, UK In Lima few people feel or interact as equals. Markers of Conficts over metal governance in El Salvador have increasingly taken on legalistic and law-like expressions. Latin America ranks as the world’s least taxed region class, race and ethnicity are used to pigeonhole others Cristina Rivera Garza’s novel Verde Shanghai (2011) In 2009 the Canadian Pacifc Rim Mining Corporation since WWII, and among the larger countries, Argentina’s according to social imaginaries exacerbating distance has been explored in terms of how the feminist alterity and the US-based Commerce Group each fled lawsuits tax-to-GDP ratio often ranks last. Consequences of low and segregation. This division is obvious in music. Music available in the novel acts as symbol for feminist and against the Salvadoran state through the International taxation include underinvestment in human capital and racialization and the notion that musical expression is postructural perspectives (Rodríguez, 2013); as a Chinese Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), a infrastructure as well as monetary laxity. However, after racially embodied tacitly establish who is allowed to play box, using language to hide and expose at the same time World Bank institution that arbitrates disputes between 2002, the Argentine tax-to-GDP ratio rose annually, and listen to certain music genres. In the aftermath of (Sabugal, 2011); as well as an exploration of the relation private investors and states. With these lawsuits, Pacifc recasting it from a low to a high tax country that could Peru’s twenty-year internal war, a feeling of ‘togetherness’ between self and other, and between Latin Americans Rim and Commerce Group denounced the Salvadoran soon supplant Brazil atop the region. Academic and permeated Lima and motivated part of the white upper and Chinese, demonstrating an interest in the meeting of state for establishing a moratorium on all exploration and multilateral research explains why, historically, Argentines classes to approach previously rejected aesthetics and Hispanic and Asian cultures (Prince, 2014). However, there exploitation concessions after the two companies had refuse to pay taxes. Neither Argentina’s military nor its individuals through cultural consumption. White upper is yet no analysis which explores possible re-readings already invested in mining projects in the country. The two democratically elected governments proved adept at class musicians also fused these genres with foreign of Mexican myths which the novel may allow. This paper corporations sought economic compensation and a lifting collecting taxes despite numerous eforts to do so. How ones and, through intercultural and interracial onstage seeks to explore how the unstable notion of identity of the moratorium from the Salvadoran state. Meanwhile, did Argentina achieve collective action in the area of collaborations, began to explore their own role in society, available in Verde Shanghai allows for a new rendering of the Mesa Nacional frente a la Minería Metálica, an alliance taxation after 2002? Did state capacity improve? Did challenge the social conventions of ‘good taste’ and the Mexican fgure ‘La Malinche.’ The paper argues that of grassroots movements and NGOs, has become salient public attitudes shift? Did international circumstances attempt to articulate themselves socially in an inverse this is permitted not only because the protagonist shares since the mid-2000s, in tandem with a rise in metal change? This paper uses IDB tax data and focuses on aspiration process where the privileged aspired to Malinche’s Christian name, Marina, but also because exploration in the country’s northern regions. In the face of two particular issues: frst, recent changes in the taxing experience their city in the same way as the less privileged of their shared experience of the border. Read through the two lawsuits against the state that could result in the of consumption, specifcally the Value Added Tax (VAT), majority. This transgression of racialised boundaries Jean-Luc Nancy’s concept of ‘being singular plural,’ (2000) lifting of the moratorium, members of the Mesa Nacional- because it accounts for the lion’s share of Argentine allowed for music empathetic interactions and white Gloria Anzaldúa’s notion of ‘borderland,’ (2007) and Bjørn with the support of national and international NGOs taxation. In Argentina, innovations in consumer behavior upper class identity reconfgurations creating hybrid self- Thomassen conceptualisation on the ‘liminal’ (2014), Verde specialising in legal issues and litigation-have likewise that encourage more formal (and less informal) everyday representations like ‘white cholos’. Through ethnographic Shanghai, through the fgure of Marina, will be proposed resorted to legal instruments, in this case in order to assert transactions together with constitutional rules concerning examples, this paper will analyse how race and phenotype to highlight the notion of unfxedness and coexistence their position against mining. This paper will explore VAT and fscal federalism appear to combine in a way that are perceived as, and constitute, social barriers to as constitutive of the Latin American subject. Marina the cultures of legality that have developed through favors collective action. Second, Argentine tax collection creativity and musician mobility, and how contemporary opens up the possibility of less rigid gender and racial these actors’ initiatives and the implications of legal after the regional commodity boom crested in 2010 merits fusionistas challenge and subvert them. Furthermore, it distinctions. Through Marina’s exposure of notions of arenas having become a locus of conficts over resource careful examination because between 2010 and 2014 tax- problematizes the discourse used by white upper class gender and race as unfxed and ambiguous, the novel will governance. to-GDP fell or remained fat in Chile, Brazil and Uruguay musicians to validate their new fused identities as they be suggested to simultaneously recall and challenge the yet it continued to rise in Argentina. What factors accounts negotiate empathy, social solidarity, authenticity and, in histories and contemporary structures of power upheld in S17 Building bridges between social, cultural and for this variance, and can Argentine tax-to-GDP growth some cases, racial colour-blindness while advocating for Mexico today. environmental studies: States, social movements and continue if global commodity prices remain low? social change. natural resources in Latin America. S2 Questions of Identity and Post-identity in Latin S14 Collective Action Successes and Failures in 21st S1 Rethinking whiteness in Latin America American Studies Century Argentina

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Psychology, capitalism and the making Construyendo Hegemonía: nuevas/viejas From Precarious Inclusion to... Bare life in contemporary Mexico: of neoliberal selves in Mexico formas de presión a la gobernabilidad Precarious Inclusion? The ‘Container Popular religion and everyday violence en América Latina y el Caribe Law’ and the Containment of Waste Daniel Nehring Jungwon Park University of Worcester, Worcester, UK and Workers in Montevideo Jacques de Novion Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea Universidade de Brasília, Brasilia, D.F., Brazil Since the 1970s, academic debates have considered how Patrick O’Hare Popular religion is frequently considered as the remains psychological discourses may legitimize or challenge University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Si tratamos de pensar y dialogar sobre las nuevas formas of “pre-modern” times. To some it may seem anachronistic capitalist forms of social organization. However, these de presión a la gobernabilidad en América Latina, se in an era of highly developed technologies and urban life debates have largely focused on the USA and Western For the last decade, informal sector recyclers (cartoneros, puede deducir existir otras formas anteriores de esa styles. However, in Mexican society, new types of religious Europe. The roles which psychological discourses play in clasifcadores, catadores) in Latin America have practica. Desde la interdisciplinariedad y la comparación, practices and the devotion to secular saints are associated contemporary popular cultures in Latin America remain increasingly been the target of social policy interventions este articulo busca presentar una historicidad de las with the drug world and the informal sector at the margins poorly understood. Here, I use an analysis of the Mexican from the state and third sector. Policies have focused formas de presión adoptadas a partir de la relaciones of urban life. These new forms of popular religion are a self-help publishing industry to examine the roles on the collectivisation, formalisation and associated entre los países del continente americano, de fnales del sign of a changing Mexican society that has been deeply which psychological narratives may play in constructing, ‘dignifcation’ of waste work and the strengthening siglo XIX a la actualidad. Esa lectura propicia evidencias impacted by globalization and neoliberal economics. This bolstering or subverting neoliberal subjectivities. Self- of workers’ organisations, even if recognition of de una trayectoria de larga duración, con distintos paper explores this contemporary religious phenomenon help books, my subject matter, are widely read in Mexico previously invisible labour has not always translated into momentos y periodos, en tiempos y espacios específcos, by using Giorgio Agamben’s notion of “bare life”. The and at the international level. They therefore constitute improvements in income. Waste scholarship in Uruguay que revelan formas y políticas de la hegemonía para worship of Jesús Malverde, La Santa Muerte and other a nexus through which the narratives of self and social has posited a relationship of exploitation between the presionar o desestabilizar gobiernos en la macro-región. laic fgures is gaining popularity among those who relationships of academic psychology percolate into formal sector recycling industry and informal sector Desde la idea del Binomio Integración-Seguridad, se are abandoned by the mainstream and involved in the popular culture. In Mexico, self-help publishing involves, clasifcadores who provide raw materials for low prices presentaran las particularidades de cada momento - informal sector, where they remain exposed to danger frst, the translation and sale of texts written elsewhere, whilst risking health without social security cover. Panamericanismo/Big Stick; Interamericanismo/Buena and violence and abandoned by the law. The role of new often in the USA, Europe and other Latin American nations, Recent Uruguayan government policy has shifted from Vecindad; Interamericanismo/Contrainsurgencia; Alianza religious icons is to provide protection, identifcation and, second, the sale of books by Mexican authors. This encouraging clasifcador cooperatives to the construction para el Progreso/Anticomunismo; Neoliberalismo/Anti and a sense of community without authorization by the gives the Mexican self-help industry a distinctively of inter-institutional recycling plants supported by the Narco-Terrorismo-, llamando especial atención para Catholic Church the traditional system of Christianity. hybrid character, as a variety of interpretations of self- state and private sector. This has involved a process la complejidad del momento actual, con los cambios Practitioners of these forms of popular religion may be improvement compete with each other for a readership. of ‘dual formalisation’: workers enter the formal sector, globales de las ultimas décadas y las nuevas tecnologías. accused of justifying illicit activities and reproducing the Here, I contrast self-help texts that blend psychological paying taxes and social security contributions, but so do Para eso, se propone una mirada desde los Estudios culture of fear and everyday violence. This study discusses concepts with Christian nationalism with secular accounts recyclable materials which are sold directly to industry Latinoamericanos, pero en constante diálogo con la these controversial practice in order to examine a social that rely on pseudo-scientifc and philosophical arguments instead of informal sector intermediarios. This paper, Historia, la Geopolítica, las Relaciones Internacionales environment in which the informal sectors have been to formulate a moral vision of a successful life. In spite based on a year’s ethnographic feldwork, explores the y las Ciencias Sociales. Se busca ofertar elementos condemned illegality while nonetheless constructing their of their narrative diversity, I argue that neoliberal bridges between the formal and informal in the Uruguayan para una observación macro-regional de la temática, own culture, identity and ways of life. understandings of self, choice, and personal responsibility recycling sector and evaluates the transition of one así como proporcionar el dialogo y debate sobre las are pervasive in self-help texts. The organization of the group of workers from an ‘informal cooperative’ to a S15 Neoliberalism, resistance and popular cultures particularidades de cada momento, con mayor atención a self-help publishing industry according to neoliberal formal sector recycling plant. Is the relation between the las practicas y formas en curso en la actualidad. economic principles and the refashioning of authors as informal and formal purely one of ‘hidden exploitation’? Has formalisation benefted workers and in what ways? competitive self-help entrepreneurs may explain this S19 America or Americas? New opportunities and Has the state been successful in ‘containing’ workers and narrative convergence to some extent. pressures on regional governance. waste material within the formal sector? And is the dignity S15 Neoliberalism, resistance and popular cultures of work dependent on it being carried out collectively in the formal sector?

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Repositioning the Genre?: The space between oil and gold: A The infuence of international The oracles of the past framing the Questioning Truth in Rogelio case of indigenous empowerment solidarity in Chile’s politics during future: decoding the intellectual Guedea’s Detective Trilogy. through extractive resources the 1970s. Exiles in western Europe narratives over war in Colombia in Venezuelan Amazonia. Ailsa Peate Mariana Perry María Pinto The University of Liverpool, Merseyside, UK Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands Amy Penfeld University of Bristol, Bristol, UK ILAS, SAS, University of London, London, UK In Mexico’s recent history, violence – and the impunity After the 1973 military coup in Chile, one of the frst Colombian intellectuals are clearly one of the most of its perpetrators – has often been debated. Rogelio measures taken by the regime of Pinochet, in order to This paper ofers a counter case to the regular tales vigorous sectors regarding the production of academic Guedea’s detective trilogy (Conducir un tráiler: 2008, control the opposition, was to exile leaders of the main of confict and resistance to extractive activities in narratives about the ongoing war in that country. Since 41:2010, and El crimen de Los Tepames: 2012) exposes political parties that formed the Popular Unity Alliance Latin America. Drawing on the case of the Sanema of the sixties they have discussed many interpretative Mexican society as having experienced corruption on a headed by President Allende. The destination of the Venezuelan Amazonia, the paper tells of the widespread frames and presented diferent representations about long-term and wide-ranging basis, much alike the genre’s exiles varied greatly. Regardless of the context in which but largely untold phenomenon of indigenous the war through competing accounts. In this line of socio-critical American hard-boiled counterpart. However, they arrived, a worldwide solidarity organization emerged participation in wildcat gold mining, an activity that is thought, fourteen Colombian experts were invited by the rather than conforming to American generic norms, this almost instantly to condemn the regime and to keep the often enthusiastically embraced due to its capacity to Colombian government and the FARC-EP guerrilla in the paper argues that Guedea’s work provides the reader Chilean case at the top of the international agenda. Of facilitate immense wealth accumulation, regional prestige, current peace negotiators with the mission the contribute with an unusual, demanding, and original take on the particular importance was the solidarity organization that and expressions of kin compassion through manufactured to the elucidation of the origins, multiples causes, archetypal detective novel. Rather than guiding the reader emerged in Western Europe, which managed to surpass gifts. The back-story to indigenous participation in gold principal factors and conditions that have facilitated / through an obstacle course of clues to a satisfying solution, the Cold War divisions and to build bridges between east mining in Venezuela has its origins in another important contributed to the persistence and critical impacts of Guedea’s work leads the reader into inescapable darkness, and west in order to denounce the Pinochet regime and resource integral to Venezuelan identity: petroleum and the armed confict. In this context, the objective of this leaving us with an overwhelming sense of anxiety. This to support the exile’s struggle in the international arena. its ubiquitous refned product petrol, which is so highly paper is to discuss the meaning and signifcance that paper posits that Guedea’s rejection of unveiling truth – a This positive reception in Western Europe coincided with subsidised that it is almost free to purchase. Petrol has those intellectual narratives assign to the war in Colombia, vital tradition within detective fction – parallels Mexico’s a very well organized Chilean community which managed become essential to the endemic illegal mining occurring focusing on the construction of the exclusion and the socio-political background of lies and corruption. Such to rebuild their party’s structure in exile. In parallel in this region because it powers the water cannons resistance as a way to frame (or not) the use of violence. an original interpretation of the genre, achieved in part of this transnational activism, the Chilean left in exile required to access colluvial gold deposits in the sub-soil; The paper will present two rival narratives regarding this by creating a distressing plot based on historical events, started a profound process of political debate regarding and indigenous actors become key facilitators in this topic. The frst one, close to the hegemonic view of the draws our attention to the corruption currently at the the circumstances that lead to the Popular Unity defeat. small-scale extraction because the current inclusionary government, gives analytical weight to the idea that the heart of Mexican society. Furthermore, Guedea’s work also A robust exchange of political and ideological writings ideology of Bolivarian socialism bestows indigenous confict in Colombia is an expression of individual wills demonstrates how Latin American authors are capable circulated among the Chilean exiled trying to decipher the peoples with a monthly quota of fuel often covertly used and greed. The second one emphasises in the grievance of repositioning and mutating original genres in order mistakes made and to elaborate on a strategy to defeat the for this purpose. In this way, native Venezuelans fnd element and in the structural conditions that generated to provide readers with a greater understanding of the military regime. The main aim of this paper is to analyze themselves willingly occupying a valuable space between the violent outcome. Thus decoding the ways in which society in question. how the international solidarity campaigns afected the these two intimately interrelated resources - oil and gold; the intellectual narratives can reproduce or challenge political and intellectual processes experienced by the and their story can shed light on the complex dynamic hegemonic accounts of violence and subversive events. S27 Violence, Politics and the Sacred Chileans in western Europe, giving special focus to the between social, environmental and political factors process called ‘Renovation’ within the Chilean Socialist S7 Making sense of neoliberalism in Latin America today: surrounding extractive resources in Latin America. Party. Narratives on violence, exclusion and resistance. S25 Building bridges between social, cultural and S12 Solidarity Campaigns and Latin America environmental studies: States, social movements and natural resources in Latin America.

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Viral Latinidad and Beyond: Lozano- ‘Cine Bajo Tierra’: Ecuador’s Booming Indigenous State” and the Frustration British Shareholders within the Hemmer, Gómez-Peña and Navas Underground Cinema in the Aftermath of Indigenous Self-determined Colombian Railway Sector of the Long Neoliberal Night Development in Bolivia Thea Pitman Andrew Primmer University of Leeds, Leeds, UK Rafael Ponce-Cordero Radosław Powęska University of Bristol, Bristol, UK Keene State College, Keene, NH, USA CESLA, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland In 2003 critic Jon Beasley-Murray argued that Latin- Historians in both Britain and Latin America have American-ness was no longer to be located in a discrete In recent years Ecuador has grown a very vital The indigenous self-determined development, understood portrayed British Railway companies as agents of and bounded region south of the Río Grande but could underground cinema industry that relies on three as non-imposed forms of development in accordance British imperialism. Cain and Hopkins point to a class perhaps more accurately be described as ‘viral latinidad’ key factors for its current success: First, its strong with own aspirations and needs, as well as with cultural of “gentlemanly capitalist” as being the driving force in its popular circulation around the globe. The current independence from the traditional and centralized flm identities, traditions and institutions of indigenous behind British expansion overseas. Dependency theory paper explores Beasley-Murray’s concept by ofering industry and the exclusiveness of education and means peoples is not possible without autonomous decision- caricatures a class of exploitative fnanciers working to close readings of two works by Latin(o) American cultural for flmmaking since the production of these underground making. The election of Evo Morales as Bolivia’s frst extract proft from the railways of the region whilst using producers that currently circulate online: a performance flms is in most of the cases run by non-professional indigenous president brought about the incorporation the networks to exploit and extract the regions natural text by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Guillermo Gómez- crews (from script writing and direction to acting and of one of the most advanced and far-reaching set of resources. Yet neither side attempts to ask the following Peña that narrates the Latin(o) American expansion into post-production). Second, these flms have placed their indigenous rights in Latin America, including right to question: Who were these fnanciers? Is it acceptable to cyberspace entitled ‘Tech.illa Sunrise (.txt dot con Sangrita)’ production and reception arena out of the economic and self-determination, territorial autonomies and prior simply portray them as faceless representations of British (2001) and Eduardo Navas’s mash-up of the Willie Colón political centers of Quito and Guayaquil, giving space consultations. By focusing on extractive sectors as a source Imperialism? How many shareholders were involved and Rubén Blades salsa smash hit ‘Plástico’ and data from to “lo local” to be represented, but also to be watched of state revenues and supply for social redistribution, the in British railway companies, and, how great were their the Info Please website, recast in a Flash animation as on the screen by the same people in their own space of Bolivian state puts in question the authencity of its pro- individual investments? Can this information help us to ‘Plástico_2002_upDate’ (2002). In each case, the cultural projection. This is due the use of mostly local, legal and indigenous agenda and contradicts the ofcial utopia of better understand their motivations for investment in producers appear to be arguing for an ‘updating’ of pirate, distribution channels. Finally, as we analyze this vivir bien. The need for undisturbed resource exploitation the Latin American railway sector? This paper seeks to outdated, discretely bounded models of latinidad which, movement, we propose that what is behind the success of and the acceleration of state-led extractive enterprises contribute to these questions within the context of a case in many ways would seem to coincide with Beasley- the new “Cine Bajo Tierra” is a vigorous response to, and go at the expense of the most fundamental indigenous study of the Colombian railway sector. Using shareholder Murray’s concept of ‘viral latinidad’. Nevertheless, there sometimes a critique of, the disastrous consequences of rights. This “pragmatic retreat” undermines rights to registers for British railway companies the paper will are also ways in which we might see these works as the application of neoliberal policies in Ecuador. Boasting territorial and resource self-control and to decide about illustrate the make-up of shareholders of these companies. ofering more thorough-going or more subtle visions of the titles such as Sicarios manabitas, Doble trampa, El regreso indigenous own model of development and environmental The paper will analyse the preponderance of large and ways latinidad might work in the information society. del llanero vengador, Drogas: el comienzo del fn, Avaricia, policy. The struggle for the real recognition of indigenous small shareholders to demonstrate whether the railways and El ángel de los sicarios, these flms depict scenarios of self-determination is at the forefront of social-ambiental were ruled by a clique of wealthy fnanciers, or whether S20 Latin American Digital Culture: Repositioning the crude violence, poverty, and merciless surviving behaviors conficts with the Bolivian state, but the indigenous they were predominantly owned by small shareholders Field that have found an “appreciation” from their local viewers peoples are far from united. The discrepancies in interests seeking a return on their savings. The shareholders will be as a dialectical relationship of self-awareness between between various indigenous groups fuel diferent analysed geographically to test the argument of Cain and flmmakers and audiences who ultimately have sufered approaches to the very theme of indigenous rights and Hopkins that British imperialism overseas was dominated the same under the long neoliberal night. government’s policy. Moreover, thanks to its organic by “gentlemanly capitalists” within London and the South ties to social movements, the government represents Eastern Home Counties. S15 Neoliberalism, resistance and popular cultures itself as legitimate incarnation of indigenous power S28 International Perspectives on the Politics and History and natural advocate of indigenous peoples’ interests. of Latin America The “indigenous state” has re-appropriated indigenous agenda, discoursively transforming it to ft into its own development and economic priorities.

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A New Benchmark for Green Criminology: Challenging the Traditional Media and Economic Elites in Central The Rise and Decline of the British the case for a Community-Based Concept of the Melting Pot: America:Convergence, Confict and “Investment” Community in Argentina Human Rights Impact Assessment Peronism, Jewish Argentines and News during Presidential Campaigns David Rock of REDD+ (Reducing Emissions the Seeds of Multiculturalism in Costa Rica and El Salvador (2014) University of California, Santa Barbara, USA from Deforestation and Forest Raanan Rein Francisco Robles Rivera British investment in Argentina led by the railways created Degradation plus Conservation Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel Frei Universiteit Berlin, Berlin, Germany a second British settler community to succeed its early and Sustainable Development) nineteenth century predecessor founded on trade and This paper looks at Peronism’s eforts to mobilize support Do media elites and economic elite’s interests converge agrarian settlement. Comparing the two groups indicates Malayna Raftopoulos among Jewish-Argentines. The leaders of the Jewish in times of political campaigns? If so, how do these contrasting ethnic and social origins. The former mainly Human Rights Consortium, University of London, London, section of the Peronist movement (O.I.A) advocated the convergences infuence the news? And what confict comprised artisans and former smallholders and included UK social integration of Jews, emphasizing their Argentine emerge from this relation? These are central questions to female settlers; they were commonly of Celtic origin. nationality but without repudiating either their Judaism understand the relations between media and economic The second consisted of well-educated young men who This paper makes the case for a series of community- or their Zionism. On the contrary, they emphasized their elites. Mass media is key source to access and hold power, arrived under contract and unmarried. They were often based human rights impact assessments (HRIA), which sentimental ties to their imagined homeland of Israel. In politically and economically speaking. The maintenance of recruited from private schools in the south of England. we argue make for sound alternative benchmarks within this way, and with the support of the government, they their privileges and their capacity to block the emergence/ By the 1870s and 1880s, the two occupied diferent green criminology, in order to thoroughly understand challenged the prevalent concept of the melting pot. permanence of new elites depend on their capacity social levels: most of the “old” were poor and undergoing the potential harms associated with the Reducing All newcomers, according to the traditional view, were to promote their views through the media. This paper cultural assimilation. The “new” became a privileged Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation expected to abandon the customs and idiosyncrasies analyzes the relations between media and economic elites suburban middle class committed to the defence of its plus Conservation and Sustainable Development they had brought with them from their countries of origin in times of presidential campaigns in Costa Rica and El ethnic identity. Some new young men found wives in Programme (REDD+) mechanism. We analyse the problems in favor of the new culture that was emerging in the Salvador. In the last presidential election in 2014 mass- the “old” community; others returned to Argentina with surrounding REDD+ and the repercussions for the rights immigrant society of Argentina. Prior to the emergence media played a decisive role framing the political arena, spouses from England or Scotland. My paper focuses on and interests of local forest communities, as well as the of Peronism, Jews, Arabs or Japanese were not always circulating ideas and giving information. I examine the the second group, extending the discussion to the Anglo- implication a specifc link between human rights and considered part of the Argentine polis, civitas, or demos. news on the elections from three newspapers from Costa Argentines. I am interested migration and assimilation REDD+ would have on the promotion and protection Granting formal citizenship to all indigenous people and Rica and three from El Salvador using content analysis. I patterns and in the internal and external factors bearing of forest people’s human rights. Theoretically, the immigrant groups did not mean much in a society where also interviewed media elites, journalists, and economic upon them. I discuss the British schools in Argentina discussion is located within the relatively new area of elections were rigged and the elites viewed popular and elites to expose other strategies that were utilized and school curricula—leading into issues like imperialist green criminology, which provides a useful lens through immigrant culture with contempt. It was Peronism that indistinctly by them to foster or halt political parties, such attitudes and World War I volunteers. Approaching which to analyse discourses and empirical contexts paved the way for new defnitions of citizenship. With as: informal and family ties, censorship and intimidation the 1930s and 1940s, the eras of the depression and involving environmental harm, laws and regulation. its inclusion of ethnic minorities that had previously campaigns. of Peronism, assimilation gathered pace; I shall discuss Increased awareness of the interconnectedness between languished on the margins of society (such as Jews and some its main aspects. Topics include the collapse of issues of such global importance, as climate change and Arabs), Peronism transformed many of these ciudadanos S39 Elites, governance and democracy in Central America: foreign recruitment, the decline of the schools, and the deforestation, has led to acknowledgement of the need imaginarios into an integral part of Argentine society. changes and continuities in the faces of power assimilationist drive of the Peronist movement. for interdisciplinary insight and cooperation between Perón’s policies acknowledged the legitimacy of claims diferent areas of expertise, both academic and non- to collective ethnic and, by the same token, multiple S13 Settler colonial experiences in Latin America academic, in the study of environmental harm. One such identities. Precisely by looking not just at individual methodological approach, this paper proposes, is a HRIA, but also at group rights, he paved the way for today’s which can act as an alternative benchmark for green multicultural Argentina. criminological inquiry to legally defned ‘crime’. S13 Settler colonial experiences in Latin America S17 Social-Environmental Conficts and Human Rights in Latin America

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Fighting and living with dignity Beijing+20: A Retrospective and a Cool Party: Pocket Utopia. Social Uses Worker Power and Community in a neoliberal era: Dynamics Forward Look at Women’s Political of Audiovisual Projects in Havana Development in Argentina of disagreement, recognition Representation in Latin America Rafael Rodriguez Berlanga Jorge Rogachevsky and social criticism in the Urban University of Havana, Havana, Cuba Victoria Rodriguez St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, MD, USA Housing Movement (Movimiento The Unversity of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA In the past fve years, various groups of young people In 2001 Argentina experienced a massive fnancial de Pobladores en Lucha) in Chile in Cuba have been identifed with imaginaries linked In the Spring of 1995, the United Nations convened in collapse. There were a variety of grassroots responses to the culture of the club, the international music and to this crisis. Among these we fnd the emergence Juan Rodriguez Beijing a historic meeting that gathered women from all nascent entertainment market not directly managed of empresas recuperadas—cooperatives formed by University of Bristol, Bristol, UK over the world. At this meeting, a Platform for Action was by state mechanisms. This trend is due, to some extent, unveiled with a call to governments around the world to workers to prevent the dismantlement of enterprises the existence of a singular phenomenon ascending through bankruptcy proceedings. Despite the overall The urban housing social movement (Pobladores’ increase the political representation of women in their audiovisual projects: groups of young entrepreneurs restabilization of the economy over the past decade and movement) played a key role in the fght for parliamentary bodies. The goal was to have a minimum 30 who have fooded the nightlife, mainly in Havana. Based a half, the network of cooperatives under worker control democratization under Pinochet’s dictatorship in percent women in their respective legislatures, with the on ethnographic feldwork, and from the theoretical has continued to grow, from 161 in 2004 to 311 by 2013, Chile. However, with the arrival of political democracy ultimate goal of some day achieving parity with men. On assumptions of Cultural Studies and Political Economy according to a 2014 report issued by the Universidad de and the deepening of the neoliberal agenda imposed the 20th anniversary of the Beijing meeting, the numbers of Communication, this study systematizes the main Buenos Aires. In addition to securing productive resources during the 70 many social movements, including the in legislative bodies across Latin America are impressive. symbolic references that appear in the social uses of and preserving the earning-power of the workers, many of housing movement, tended to decline. Either by the Most of the countries in the region have adopted and the areas managed by these groups. Such uses express these cooperatives have established bridges to their larger institutionalization of some of its demands or by the institutionalized successful quota systems that have in the emergence of a kind of cultural capital in Cuba, community, opening up the space of the enterprise for erosion of its organizational bases, by the end of the many cases surpassed that minimum 30 percent, with associated with changes in patterns of social stratifcation activities designed to enhance the life of the communities 90s movements’ Pobladores’ movement was almost some even approximating parity. This presentation will resulting from the new economic and social realities. in which they are based. Among these initiatives we fnd completely disarticulated. Since 2006 however, the urban ofer a retrospective on 20+ years of scholarly work Cultural consumption is the stage where for getting the establishment of alternative high schools, popular housing movement has burst onto the social and political on women’s political representation in Latin America, through a desired objective social space. The adoption clinics, and cultural centers. In this process the workers in scene, showing the limits of the neoliberal subsidized extending the analysis from the legislative branch to that of patterns from the mainstream of global culture and these enterprises are taking a leadership role in promoting housing policies and the emancipatory potential of a of the executive (my current primary research), particularly cultural hierarchies associated with economic power, is grassroots community development. This paper provides fght whose horizon is not only a house but the possibility in light of the fact that in recent history the region has had reproducing the cultural capital that legitimates ritualized a general introduction to the topic of the empresas of living with dignity. By contesting the commodifed several women presidents and a low to modest number of and translational tendencies. Those practices demonstrate recuperadas, goes on to discuss numerous concrete character of social rights, redesigning the places and female governors and city mayors. how patterns of entertainment and cultural consumption experiences in the Greater Buenos Aires area of worker allocations of the city through occupation of lands, and in Cuba have been displaced with regard of traditional cooperatives engaging with the broader community, and by proposing alternatives ways of living in local areas S22 Looking Back to the Future: 40+ years of Thinking outlines, that is intended for the use of leisure time of comments on the social implications of these experiences. (poblaciones), the urban social movement went from About and ‘Doing’ Latin American Research and Fieldwork. youth within the aesthetic and ideological frameworks being merely an object of policies to a subject of rights defned by the socialist project. S16 Exploring bridges between the formal and informal able to exercise power over its local territory. Drawing (sectors) in Latin America on a discourse analysis of the narratives of housing S18 Cultural Transformations in a Changing Cuba: Media, movement’s participants, this paper aims to show the Communication and the Remaking of Cuban Identity extent to which the movement has contributed to politicise Chilean society, creating a scene of political disagreement regarding the neoliberal policy order, recognition of the social right of housing and criticising the neoliberal ways of understanding the city.

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Demián Bichir - Constructions The support and promotion of Stephen James Trail, Scientifc Networks Contested Spatiality? Exploring of Mexican masculinity and Harper government to the Canadian- and Amazonian Exploration in Ambivalent Geographies of Social othering across the border. owned mines in Latin America the late Nineteenth Century Movement Dynamics in the Drug War

Francisca Sánchez-Ortiz Oliver Santín Peña Patience Schell Sebastian Scholl Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany DF, Mexico Demián Bichir comes from a family of actors and has had a While the names Spruce, Agassiz, Wallace and Bates all The social Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity long career acting in Latin American flms and telenovelas, Stephen Harper’s rise to power as the Prime Minister bring to mind Amazonian exploration, James Trail has (MPJD) challenges the ofcial government version and but this paper will focus on his work portraying Mexican of Canada in 2006 brought the increasing presence of been largely forgotten as one of their number. Yet Trail hegemonic discourses around the so-called Drug War characters in the United States and, particularly, on the Canadian-owned mines in several countries of Latin (1851-1919), a Scottish medical doctor, spent eighteen in Mexico and beyond since its emergence in 2011. The flm A Better Life (2011) and the TV series The Bridge America, generating diplomatic issues in the region. This month surveying the region, in the mid-1870s, as part Mexican State predominantly produces and circulates (2012-14). His acting roles will be analysed in relation to paper analyses these developments in the cases of of the frst foreign and commercial expedition given imaginations of the Drug War that draw on seemingly clear a new construction of Mexican masculinity which difers Honduras, Paraguay and Mexico, where the promotion permission to explore the Amazon. Using unpublished boundaries between state forces fghting cartels on one from the idea of masculinity originating in the Mexican and defense of Canadian investment in the mining manuscript journals, amongst other archival material, and side of the confict, while civil society is constructed as an Revolution and which introduces a sense of othering. His industry has been controversial and inconsistent with building on the extensive literature on scientifc networks, outside observer of those confrontations. In this context role in A Better Life as the undocumented migrant Carlos the traditional foreign policy principles sustained by this paper will situate Trail’s naturalising, collecting and and against such a purifed image, activists and (relatives Galindo, working as a gardener and struggling to keep Canada over the last decades. In Honduras and Paraguay, observations in the context and networks of nineteenth- of) war-victims mobilize on a transnational scale in order his son away from joining violent gangs gained him a the Harper administration supported the Canadian century Amazonian exploration. This approach to Trail’s to visualize ongoing state violence manifested in human nomination for the Academy Award as Lead Actor. He was mines, despite these had been reported for diverse feld science practice and scientifc production functions rights violations ranging from forced disappearances to the frst Mexican actor to be nominated in this category irregularities and abuses. In the case of Mexico, the both as a necessary addition to our understandings of torture and murders of civic persons all committed under since Anthony Quinn. In The Bridge detective Marco Ruiz structural reforms modifed the energy sector legislation Amazonian exploration but also analyses Trail’s work the disguise of the Drug War. From a spatial perspective, presents a mixture of masculine and feminine behavioural in 2013, imposing new conditions on Canadian-owned through a framework he himself used. Trail frequently this paper investigates the mechanisms and efects around traits, which lead the audience to understand of his mines, which generated threats from the Canadian met local people who had known these earlier explorers the kind of civic knowledge production implemented character as ‘other’ in connection to his border crossing ofcials to their Mexican counterparts and a number of and the publications from earlier expeditions helped him by MPJD. Drawing on combined insights of the spatial and his diference. Canadian mines decided to leave the Mexican territory. orient his own work and frame his expectations. Trail epistemologies of place (Agnew 1987), place-framing The active role of the Canadian government as a supporter also used his Amazonian specimens to strengthen his UK (Martin 2003) and mobility (Cresswell 2004), I focus on S21 The Transnational Circulation of Mexican Celebrity of Canadian-owned mines operating in Latin American networks, sending gift specimens to British individuals and the implications of the translocal protest-dimension to and Stardom countries represents an attempt to impose a new form of institutions. Despite his eforts to build and cultivate his the construction of shared activist knowledge and its governance in the region, sponsored by foreign capital and network, Trail was not able to use his personal collection, associated impacts on challenging ofcial versions of conservative governments. Similarly, the diverse reactions writings and experiences to forge a lasting place amongst the Drug War. Hereby, I will discuss an ambivalent role of Latin American governments -to counter such ofensive-, Amazonian naturalists. Instead, his life lived out in the of place: On the one hand, mobile protest events enable reveal their infuence in the governance of the region remote Scottish city of Aberdeen suggests that there activists to efectively combine knowledge of distinctive through diverse institutional capacities. were signifcant barriers facing provincial naturalists who civil organisations and lived social realities in diferent sought to participate in the global circulation of scientifc places. On the other hand, especially diferent political S19 America or Americas? New opportunities and knowledge, illustrating the limitations of Trail’s networks. claims and goals of mobilisation of those multiple actors pressures on regional governance. complicate the formation of an even broader social S5 Transnational Intellectual Networks in Latin America movement.

S6 Enforced Disappearances in Mexico: Continuities and Ruptures in the Civil Society-State Relationship

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Imagining National Frontiers Through Depatriarchalizing the gaze on the The production of “popular economy”: Institutions and Gender Printed Narratives In South America: Andean political cinema of the 70s: The forms of activism and collective Policies in Michelle Bachelet’s A Methodological Approach For A case of Ukamau and Kuntur groups. organization of work among Second Administration Global History Of Styles Of Play. popular sectors in Argentina Isabel Seguí Carmen Sepulveda Christian Schwartz University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, UK Dolores Señorans University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV-CPDOC), Rio de Janeiro, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina Brazil Bolivia and Perú are countries without a stable flm This paper seeks to shed light on the main institutional industry. During the 70s, in a period characterized by During the last decade in Argentina numerous challenges faced by the executive’s policymakers This paper proposes a methodology being developed violence and political instability, flmmaking in the Andean organizations and social movements that recognize driving the gender policy agenda of the second Bachelet for a global history of the styles of play, or a cultural region was an artisanal, but heroic task. In that situation, themselves as rising from the struggle against neoliberal administration between 2014 and 2016. The frst Bachelet history of football’s national frontiers. Arising from this two groups of militant flmmakers composed of entire policies in the 90’ have turned to the development administration (2006-2010) made gender a centre piece original research, which examines how, in the 1920s, families, Ukamau (Bolivia) and Kuntur (Perú), conducted of production, commercialization and work practices of its political and policy commitments for greater equality Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil evolved as newly formed their work collectively and collaboratively. However, only a among popular sectors. These practices have given in the country. The evaluation of those initiatives has nations by defying the British, inventors and frst global few names, mainly of its male directors (Jorge Sanjinés and shape to an extended feld of refection and political provided a mixed view on the importance of having a promoters of the game, at the same time negotiating their Federico García Hurtado), have entered into Film History. action known as “popular economy”. This process took female-led executive power, versus the importance of own ferce regional rivalries/ alliances, two key concepts This paper aims to recover the actual cinematic practices place in the context of the implementation of a series of persistent infuential political institutions within a political will be explored: 1) that the narratives emerging from a of these collectives regarding the entire flmic process: public policies oriented to the “social inclusion” of the system. The second Bachelet administration therefore football match can be seen in terms of translation from idea, planning, production, post production, distribution, “socially vulnerable” and their “incorporation to formal provides a unique opportunity for a deeper analysis of the language of the game into various social discourses - popular or mainstream exhibition and self-representation economy” through the creation of worker cooperatives the impact of a female president on the executive as an taking translation in the broad sense of interpreting any in festivals and media. Focusing in power relations, gender and other modalities of registration of individual and institution driving policy change for gender equality. This symbolic manifestation, verbal or non-verbal, by way and class roles within the crews. Depatriarchalizing the familiar forms of labour. Within this framework “creating paper analyses and compares three main gender policy of commentary: what we shall name here narratives of gaze means not only giving visibility to those women cooperatives” and “presenting projects” have defned a processes: the bill for the decriminalisation of abortion, style; 2) that football only reaches its full meaning as participants (most of them wives or partners of the way of practicing politics in which languages associated the passing of a bill for quotas, and the bill for same-sex historically rooted media narratives: the narratives of style male members of the crews), who were instrumental in to work became fundamental for legitimising demands civil unions. The paper focuses on the impact of political create serialized and permanently renewed tales that the development of the political and artistic cinematic and fghting for public resources (Fernández Álvarez, institutions on gender change initiatives and provides an amalgamate community identities. projects, but also to those men involved in subaltern tasks 2010). In this presentation I will analyse the forms evaluation on the inner-workings of the executive and the who also have been made invisible by flm studies, so far. of activism (militancia) and collective organization legislature as gendered institutions in the policy process. Whereas Benedict Anderson speaks rather abstractly of And, ultimately, highlighting the uneven importance given involved in the development of these “popular economy” The institutional lens used provides a clearer picture on printed narratives (newspaper texts, but also novels) as the to the diferent roles in the flm process, and the sexual experiences. I would like to suggest that these practices the scope of the executive’s power to push for gender basis for the national imagined frontiers, the press reports and class division of labour associated with these roles, cannot be understood as an “alternative economy” - change in an increasingly hostile political environment we analyse in this research provide actual narratives even by emancipatory flm practitioners and progressive both to the market and State regulation - as some and decline of President Bachelet’s public approval. The of foundation (and re-foundation) or consolidation of academics. The ultimate aim of this paper is, hence, to authors have defned it in relation to what has been paper will try to show how the gendered nature of all community identities. Football’s “form” (in symbiosis with contribute to the subversion of a patriarchal construction historically considered informal sector work, but rather political institutions involved, including the fgure of the the media) and “content” (the playing/ communal event of Andean Film History. as the production of individual and collective political President itself, has a deep impact on the outcomes of as a basic source of storytelling) suggest, fnally, that the subjectivities through the mobilization of languages an these policies. S38 Politics and the Audio-Visual: Transmedial Relations game works for the culture of modern competitive sports imaginaries associated to formal work and to the struggle in Film and TV S2 Questions of Identity and Post-identity in Latin as does the novel, originally published as serialised stories for “rights”. American Studies in newspapers: namely, for literary culture at large. 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Exploring the contradictions between Governance opportunities for Mexico Televisión por cineastas: nuevas Argentinean Cartoneros: from Brazil’s role in the global climate related to its presence in Central America. series fccionales en la Argentina. informality to a ‘vernacularized’ integral change regime and its position in solid waste management model Giulia Sirigu Carolina Soria regional environmental governance UBA-CONICET, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Santiago Sorroche Argentina University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina Karen Siegel Mexican attempts to strengthen its relationship with Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK La presente ponencia se propone refexionar sobre la other Latin American countries have been evident in In 1978, the Argentine military dictatorship established incursión cada vez mayor de cineastas y dramaturgos the last years. More recently, Mexico aspired to project a centralized and regional waste management system Similar to other developing countries Brazil’s position que traspasan a la fcción serializada televisiva, algunos a more robust regional profle complementary to a in Greater Buenos Aires. The decree which created the on climate change emphasises national sovereignty elementos que defnen su poética autoral mediante renewed regional identity, boosting its activities in Central system also banned ‘waste picking’, leading the majority and the principle of “common but diferentiated una reformulación del realismo. Con la aparición del America and establishing a strong collaboration with of waste pickers (cartoneros) to conceal their activity, as responsibilities”. However, in recent years Brasilia has Nuevo Cine Argentino, directores como Bruno Stagnaro the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States they moved from daylight work in the centre of the city to also announced voluntary reductions in carbon emissions, y Adrián Caetano trasladaron a la televisión sus estéticas (CELAC). This implies the possibility of diversifcation for nocturnal work in the periphery. In 2001, the Argentine making Brazil one of the leading emerging countries y temáticas cinematográfcas. Okupas (2000, Stagnaro) its historical diplomatic and economic ties, reorienting economic crisis stretched unemployment to previously in its approach to climate change, while enhancing its inauguró una estela de representación seguida por series its strategies from North to South in collaboration with unseen levels of 20%. As the dollar skyrocketed, so too international reputation and legitimacy. Compared to its que manejaron códigos similares, como Tumberos (2002) y emerging countries and prioritising topics on security did the price of recyclables, leading many unemployed neighbours Brazil has older and more developed domestic Disputas (2003), ambas dirigidas por Adrián Caetano. Tras and migration. This paper focuses on Mexico’s attempts workers to scour the city for valuable materials. The environmental institutions and movements. Yet, Brazil’s estos casos aislados, con el ciclo de teleflms “200 años” to adapt to the transforming patterns of global and number of cartoneros, and the magnitude of the global leadership on climate change does not translate de Canal 7 (2007) se retoma —en un fujo continuo hasta regional governance and its renewed pro-activism in phenomena, began to attract the attention of society into a similar role in regional environmental governance. nuestros días— la congregación de directores teatrales y Central America on a multilateral and bilateral level. and policy-makers. A reconsideration of the illegality and In the 2000s Argentina and Uruguay became embroiled in cinematográfcos en el espacio televisivo. La proliferación Mexican diplomatic, political and economic activities will informality of waste picking was one of the frst measures a bitter environmental confict involving a shared natural de las series —emitidas principalmente por la televisión be evaluated in light of the transformations that global taken by post-crisis state agencies. As new laws were resource, the Uruguay River. Brazil not only refused to pública— es favorecida por el Estado a partir de diversos governance is undergoing in Latin America and considering created, hegemonic waste practices were reconfgured and mediate, but also kept it out of regional forums insisting proyectos de fomento, formando parte de un proceso de the opportunity for Mexico to exert a relevant role in the cooperativisation became the preferred method for the on the confict’s bilateral nature. Furthermore, Mercosur’s cambio estético, institucional y tecnológico que legitima region. Recent changes in the traditional equilibrium in formalisation of cartoneros. The idea of Integrated Solid environmental agenda has progressively become eroded la fcción televisiva argentina contemporánea a partir de the continent, determined by the transformation of Latin Waste Management (ISWM) was also incorporated into while Brazilian-led Unasur lacks an institutional framework productos denominados de calidad. Nos centraremos en American alliances and the new placement of the United government waste policy as a new ‘ideal’ for the treatment dedicated to environmental concerns. This indicates esta oportunidad en el análisis de La Casa (2014, Diego States in the Caribbean, are representing an interesting of Buenos Aires’ waste. The aim of this presentation is to that environmental concerns are far more important Lerman), serie que explora la historia argentina a través de challenge for Mexico.They provide the opportunity to analyse, drawing on doctoral research feldwork with two for Brazil’s global image than for its role as a regional las sucesivas décadas del último siglo mediante diferentes raise more independent positions and reinforce Mexico’s recycling cooperatives in Greater Buenos Aires, the way leader. It also highlights the limited scope of the climate profle in Latin America, enabling the country to propose géneros, estéticas y material de archivo. change negotiations which focus narrowly on reducing that this newly constructed ‘waste hegemony’ facilitated alternative approaches to regional integration with a the construction of a ‘vernacularized’ ISWM model which, carbon emissions, without taking wider concerns over S38 Politics and the Audio-Visual: Transmedial Relations special focus on Central America’s social, economic and in contrast to those implemented in developed countries, energy generation or environmental and social justice in Film and TV infrastructural development and to play a substantial role integrated cartoneros as central actors in a policy of waste into account. Brazil has promoted hydropower generation, in the changing patterns of global governance. portrayed as “clean” energy. Yet, these projects have reduction that was oriented to the universal (Tsing, 2005) of “sustainable development”. sparked strong domestic and regional civil society S19 America or Americas? New opportunities and opposition due to their social and environmental costs pressures on regional governance. S16 Exploring bridges between the formal and informal which make it difcult for Brazil to claim a regional (sectors) in Latin America leadership role on environmental concerns.

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Almost American: Reading the Memoirs of The Past is Future: Representations of Victims of the Spaniards: The portrayal of Uruguayan Films as Archives: Esmeralda Santiago - When I Was Puerto Moxos’ “millenarian” past in political the Latin American Immigrant in La venta and Opportunity to Access Rican (1994) and Almost a Woman (1999) campaigning in lowland Bolivia del paraíso (Emilio Ruiz Barrachina, 2012) Previous Productions and Evelyn (Isabel de Ocampo, 2012). Emma Staniland Chuck Sturtevant Beatriz Tadeo Fuica University of Leicester, Leicester, UK University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK Marta F Suarez Universidad Católica del Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay Liverpool John Moores, Liverpool, Merseyside, UK Esmeralda Santiago’s memoirs portray her move from the Archaeological explorations in the Moxos food plains Securing access to Uruguayan Cinema made before the Hispanic Caribbean to the US in 1961, and her subsequent in southern Beni, Bolivia have established an extensive This paper will look at how the portrayal of the Latin turn of the millennium is often challenging. Films and life in New York City, thus afording important perspectives network of structures was built to manage the seasonal American immigrant is often still linked to a prevalent videos are dispersed far and wide and, most of the time, on US culture in the 60s and 70s by portraying it from inundations. These include raised roadways (terraplenes), element of victimization, especially when considering they are still kept in obsolete carriers. However, sequences the point of view of a Hispanic migrant. Nonetheless, navigation canals, raised mounds, channeled felds immigrant women. Although this discourse arises as the of older flms have been made available in the work of Santiago’s work has received little critical attention in (camellones) and artifcial lagoons. All of these indicate result of the flmmaker desire to give a voice and tell some flmmakers who have incorporated them as archival comparison to that of other Latina writers. This paper an extensive human presence in the region before the particular struggles, the paper will question whether this footage in their productions. This paper explores the use responds to that lacuna by providing contextualised European invasion of the Americas, though little is known point of view might contribute to the stereotyping of the of archival footage not only as a practice that allows us readings of Santiago’s work which underline its value to about the practices or political organization of these immigrant and their categorization as “Other”, despite any to refect upon history and the tension between past and understandings of Puerto-Rican/US cultural relations and, societies. Nevertheless, present-day political campaigns positive outcomes such as increasing awareness of certain present, but also as a practice that invites the viewer to as a corollary, to the place of Hispanic migrants within and state-sponsored development agendas in Mojos issues. First, it will briefy engage with a summary of peep into the archive of Uruguayan cinema. I suggest that the contemporary US context. It examines how Santiago’s represent this pre-conquest era as a “productive” past, in previous research on the representation of the immigrant in the case of cinemas such as that of Uruguay, in which memoirs map her experience of burgeoning selfhood implicit contrast to an unproductive present. They call for in Spanish flm, especially work by Santaolalla (2005), there is no established flmmaking tradition and where onto life in New York during decades of rapid social the recreation of this imagined past, in order to further an Castiello (2005), Ballesteros (2006, 2015) and Deveny access to the archive is restricted, incorporating sequences change, when discourses of race, gender, immigration and agenda of increasing national production. This paper will (2012). The presentation will consider the flms La venta of archival flms fulfls an exhibition role which necessarily acculturation began to shift dramatically - and in tandem analyze these discourses, which treat particular present- del paraíso (Emilio Ruiz Barrachina, 2012) and Evelyn acknowledges and gives visibility to the work of previous with her own self-development. It explores the author’s day indigenous populations as “unproductive” obstacles (Isabel de Ocampo, 2012) and explore through this and practitioners, while contributing to the construction of the examination of her life then as one lived out in the to development, and redirect an imagined local past to the other examples the extent to which the Latin American flm archive. incongruence of an in-betweenness at the level of identity service of national “progress.” immigrant is often victimised on screen. These flms have S3 (Re)viewing the Archive in Latin American Cinema that was mirrored in the tumult of the era: neither Puerto been chosen because they were released on the same S36 Representations of Indigeneity and Community Rican nor American, yet both, neither white nor black, year, their plotlines are centred on Latin American female Resistance yet both, and almost, but not quite, a woman. Ultimately, characters, and the main characters arrive in Spain after the paper aims to initiate a dialogue between Santiago’s being deceived by or under the command of Spanish dualistic portrayal and current-day thinking about people. However, the flms’ style and narrative arc after Latino/a Caribbean identities, thus to argue for the value this common starting point could not be more diferent: of her texts as ones that speak not only of the history of whilst the frst one creates a fairy tale, the second one identity politics in US culture, but also to the multicultural, constructs a drama with hopeless ending. Finally, and to Hispanic future of the United States. conclude, the paper will ponder the potential efect that this “victim discourse” might have in the audience. S34 Insiders and Outsiders in Society, Film and Literature S34 Insiders and Outsiders in Society, Film and Literature

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Building Bridges Between Disciplines: Exploring the ambiguities of the settler Las Félix: Celebrity, Stardom Putting Absence into Words: The Negotiations Between Digital Culture subject: the Welsh in Patagonia and Guns in Mexico Disappeared in Mexico and Latin American Studies Lucy Taylor Niamh Thornton Maria de Vecchi Gerli Claire Taylor Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, UK University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK UCL Institute of the Americas, London, UK University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK This paper explores the way that settlers who are This paper will consider two women from diferent eras. On the 26th of September 2014, 43 students were This paper will explore building bridges as regards digital colonized ‘at home’ (like the Welsh) are caught up in the The frst, María Félix (1914-2002), was the best-paid actor abducted by the local police in the state of Guerrero, culture theory, and the specifcs of Latin American cultural logic of colonial expansion (the Conquest of the Desert of the Golden Era of Mexican cinema (1930-50s). She Mexico. The case gained national and international production, arguing that the two felds of knowledge are in Argentina’s Patagonia). It is based on archival research starred in many of the studio-made flms of the Revolution attention within weeks and the media started talking mutually enriching, and that setting the two in dialogue into the Welsh colony of Chubut, which was founded in as a gun wielding leader and warrior, most notably La about the 43 disappeared students. Naming them is essential to the future directions of Latin American 1865 and enjoyed 20 years of relative autonomy from the Cucuracha (Ismael Rodríguez, 1959) and Juana Gallo desaparecidos is not a coincidence, but the result of a studies. The paper takes as examples the poetic output of Argentine state. Whilst never avoiding the fundamental (Miguel Zacarías, 1961). Films that were poorly received decades’ long struggle of the relatives of the disappeared Belén Gache, one of the leading authors of experimental reality of colonial oppression, this research reveals the by critics and often dismissed as inauthentic and shallow and human rights organisations. This paper will analyse fction in Argentina, and Marina Zerbarini, artist and complexities of human relations between settlers and representations of the confict. Yet, her characters can how the victims of disappearance have been named in author of multimedia works. The paper argues on the one indigenous communities, relationships which are neither be read as radical challenges to traditional Mexican Mexico throughout the years. Firstly, from the “detenidos- hand that our current understanding of digital genres - binaried nor straightforward. It uses excerpts from diaries womanhood, in part, because she was armed. The second desaparecidos” in the 1970s and 1980s, to the predominantly built on an Anglophone model - must take and memoires to explore moments of encounter and the fgure is Claudia Ochoa Félix (1987-), who had a brief furry “desaparecidos políticos” or the “desaparecidos” later on. into account a rich Hispanic tradition of artistic and literary sometimes ambiguous power relations of lived experience. of fame on social media in 2014 when she was reported to And secondly, from the “levantados” to the “desaparecidos” experimentation which informs its practice, and provides It argues that a decolonial politics should not only have taken over the Ántrax gang, purportedly members of again in the context of the so-called “War on Drugs” of precursors to many of our present-day genres. On the foreground indigenous agency in colonizing settings but the Sinaloa Cartel. Nicknamed the Latina Kim Kardashian, the mid-2000s. The changes in what this reality is called other, the paper also argues that an engagement with the also cast aside settler caricatures in order to unsettle the she frequently posed with her possessions that displayed refect a history of struggle in which the relatives of the implications of digital technologies brings us to question ‘usual histories’ of the conventional historical cannon. her luxurious lifestyle as well as ostentatiously displaying disappeared and human rights organisations have played some of the nation-based assumptions underpinning our custom-designed guns of diferent calibers. Her star turn a fundamental role. Their demands to the government, as S13 Settler colonial experiences in Latin America research practice as Latin Americanists, and can provide as a celebrity fgure occupies a similar terrain to that of well as their local, national and international struggles for a nuanced approach to our area of study. María Félix, where taste and gender come into play in shall be identifed as the motor that drove these changes the assessment of her presentation of a self that centers to happen. Analysing how these crimes have been named, S20 Latin American Digital Culture: Repositioning the on Ochoa Félix’s attraction and sexuality. This paper will together with the diferent positions that have been Field consider these diferent Félix’s through focusing on a taken towards these designations, will shed light on how selection of key images, will analyse how a woman with this phenomenon has evolved and on the struggles over a gun persists to be a shift in gender roles and how both meanings surrounding it. women play with these shifts. S6 Enforced Disappearances in Mexico: Continuities and S21 The Transnational Circulation of Mexican Celebrity Ruptures in the Civil Society-State Relationship and Stardom

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The policymaking of wage policies: Development as Dignity? The Going back to Move Forward: ¿Aquí viven genocidas? Reframing The political economy patterns in ‘Critical Distance’ of Contemporary Revisiting and Learning from State Terror in Human Rights democracy and the challenges from Cuban Medical Internationalism Fieldwork Sites 40 years On Discourse in Argentina diferent MW-collective bargaining Chris Walker Peter Ward Laura Webb models in Chile and Uruguay. Saint Mary’s Univeristy, Halifax, Canada The Unversity of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA Swansea University, Wales, UK

Juan Velasco Thia paper contrasts contemporary development eforts Having begun feldwork in recently formed informal During the military dictatorship period of 1976 to 1983 International Development Institute. King’s College, by Cuba with conventional and Western approaches. It (squatter) settlements in Mexico in the early 1970s, I, in Argentina, an estimated 30,000 people disappeared. London, UK posits that many conventional development solutions are and a few of my colleagues, have the opportunity and Human rights groups have been instrumental in the pursuit often unsuccessful due to the inability to overcome ironic privilege to look back at who we were, what and how we of truth and justice, both during the dictatorship period The nature of the policymaking process (PMP) in Latin distance in policy and praxis. Additionally the conventional thought, and what did or did not accomplish at that time. and in the tumultuous years following. The revelation of American countries changed during the 2000s, especially Western approach is often seen as development as And, in some cases, to revisit those very same feld sites the true extent of the human rights abuses committed by in the Southern Cone. This new PMP approach had an charity, where NGO and UN eforts often stem from good during the course of our careers in order to evaluate both the military and police authorities during the repression impact on the relationship between minimum wages (MW) intentions, but are distanced from the lived realities of the intrinsic changes in the neighborhood as well as responses has been a lengthy process, complicated by long and and collective bargaining (CB) in Uruguay and Chile. In people most impacted by issues of ill health and poverty. and household strategies as communities sought to drawn out legal proceedings and a lack of commitment on Uruguay, the policy approach included the promotion of In contrast, the Cuban approach focuses on capacitation, respond to conditions of growth, austerity, globalization the behalf of various government administrations. During unionisation and the extension of collective. In contrast, rooted in the island’s own understanding of health and and exposure, overarching state control and, from the the years following the end of the dictatorship, human even though Chile implemented several reforms in the healthcare. By coming from a more egalitarian society early 1990s, democratization. Focusing upon Mexico and rights discourse has evolved, notably in its description of labour market during the 2000s, employment relations and a position of material poverty, Cuba is able to close former research sites revisited, the paper will explore the events of the repression, now widely referred to as have remained largely unchanged. This paper seeks to this ‘ironic’ distance in their contemporary development some of the policy challenges faced by these (now) highly genocide. But was there really genocide in Argentina? This contribute to the institutional economics approach to MW initiatives and relate to the lived realities of the consolidated settlements in the city inner ring, that all too paper examines the arguments in favour of and against and CB, considering explicitly the efect of the PMP on the populations most efected by development issues. Thus, often, do not form part of the current policy agenda. These this judgement, and considers the consequences of MW-CB policymaking using the qualitative nature of the Cuban medical internationalist eforts in Haiti, Venezuela settlements are home to second and third generation redefning Argentina’s ‘Dirty War’ period as genocide. theoretical framework established by Grimshaw and Bosch and Timor-Leste have often been more efective than UN families of the original pioneers, yet there is little policy to analyse MW-CB relations. The authors include three key or NGO health care eforts since its development as dignity preparedness of preparation for inheritance and housing S4 Breaking down confict: understanding and reframing components (social dialogue, competing policy objectives approach involves the capacitation of the most vulnerable. rehab. This research is derived from a multi-country Latin American experience and degree of regulatory compliance) of MW-CB relations Cuba has succeeded in many cases by instituting free collaborative research project (www.lahn.utexas.org), and for the analysis at country and sector levels. This paper universal public health care systems; decentralizing and forms part of a major volume target the next UN-Habitat III uses this framework in the political and economic context locating health centres in previously underserved areas; meeting to be held in Quito in October 2016. of Latin American countries, especially the transition from scaling up the local medical workforce; and broadening dictatorship and liberal reforms towards a more democratic the very praxis of what health means in a Latin American S22 Looking Back to the Future: 40+ years of Thinking policymaking structure. In doing so, this research agenda social medicine approach. Based on the Cuban healthcare About and ‘Doing’ Latin American Research and Fieldwork will use Uruguay and Chile as comparative case studies. system, by training the most impacted by ill health — the This paper applies qualitative analysis, using semi- poor, rural and marginalized populations — possible structured interviews to key informants to analyse how lessons may be learned for international health care social actors interact in a macroeconomic and political eforts from other countries. shift, infuencing the pattern of MW-CB policies and their connection to other social policies. The study also S11 The Changing Dynamics of Cuban Healthcare: The introduces a refection of how institutional and ideological New Role of Health constraints can force certain patterns of MW-CB schemes.

S16 Exploring bridges between the formal and informal (sectors) in Latin America

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British Understandings of Haitian Unpacking local political economies of Moving beyond “revolts of rising Mapping the Absence: Participatory Independence: Emperor Faustin I of violence: feminist insights and framings expectations” and “middle-class GIS in the Afro-Geographies Haiti and the Illustrated London News. discontent”. Young middle-class people of the Colombian Caribe Polly Wilding in Lima discussing their city’s problems. Jack Webb University of Leeds, Leeds, UK Ana Laura Zavala Guillen University of Liverpool, Liverpoool, UK University of Shefeld, Shefeld, South Yorkshire, UK This paper proposes a framework for understanding Franka Winter Maynooth University, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland In 1852 Faustin I of Haiti commissioned the Imperial the gendered political, economic and social dynamics The non-white Colombia hidden beyond the Andes is in Album d’Haïti, a series of photographs of the Haitian of violence, drawing on urban Brazil. In response to a process of continuous loss, not only of lives taken by feminists’ calls to recouple economic, social, political, This paper draws on a recent research project on political Royal Family, in celebration of his coronation. The album and civic discourses and practices among young middle- violence but also of territories. Along with the indigenous was distributed across the Atlantic, seemingly intended and cultural analysis (True 2012), I examine how violence resguardos, this Colombia also includes Afro-geographies can be constructively analysed within a feminist political class people in Lima. It explores interviewees’ narratives as a forceful reminder of Haitian independence under of the city, with particular emphasis on challenges, subject to territorial dispossession since colonial times. the rule of a proud monarch. A former French colony, economy approach. The framework foregrounds the vested San Basilio del Palenque and La Bonga are examples of economic and political interests of gendered actors and hopes, and fears. Media reports on recent middle-class Haiti had maintained a tenuous independence from protests in Latin America and beyond have focused on these geographies because more than 200,000 hectares European powers since its Revolution (1791-1804) in institutions, and how these shape opportunities to engage have been lost to these communities since the early part in or respond to violence. It argues that violence against “discontent”, dubbing them “revolts of rising expectations”. which slavery was abolished, reinstated and abolished Middle-class protests are understood to refect anger at of the twentieth century. Therefore, this paper aims to again, and the armies of France, Spain and Britain were women is not theoretically and empirically distinct, but reveal the depth of this process by reconstructing the rather integral to the local political economy of violence. living conditions and government practices no longer expelled. Haiti thus became the Atlantic’s frst ‘black state.’ matching the new-found status and self-image of an history of dispossession through the use of participatory In this paper I examine the reception of the Album in Geographical Information Systems (GIS). The use of this S10 Feminist engagements with violence in Latin America emerging middle-class - especially public services, such one of Britain’s most widely distributed newspapers. The as transport, education, health services and security, method may also serve to produce evidence to inform interpretation of the image of Faustin I by the Illustrated as well as corruption and authoritarian government the community mobilisation for territorial justice. In this London News suggests that Haitian independence was Black Diamonds: Football and responses to protest. This discourse has contributed to sense, San Basilio and La Bonga are currently part of this not readily accepted by British readers interested in research project that aspires to map their geographies the Perpetuation of Brazilian a broader narrative that paints middle-class people in matters of empire. The newspaper published an image of the region as more interested in their individual comfort of dispossession by frst collecting data in archives and Faustin I, based on the Album, but with the distortion of Racial Democracy. and progress than in wider social and political problems. through interviews, as qualitative sources and as a basis giving the Emperor some European features, rendering While transport and education are central concerns for the for the participatory mapping. Accordingly, colonial the image of the Haitian emperor like that of the newly David Wood young people interviewed in my study, they are only one and states archives are utilised to identify and critically coronated Napoleon III of France. Rather than recognise The University of Shefeld, Shefeld, UK side of the coin: less visible in public protest, but equally analyse the maps of San Basilio and La Bonga, and Haiti as independent, under the rule of a black leader, the important were narratives of fragmentation, segregation, to compare these records with the signifcance and presentation of this hybrid form indicates the idea that The performance of Brazilian striker Leônidas at the 1938 and division between diferent sectors of society on the experience of these territories from the point of view Haiti remained under the infuence of France - if no longer World Cup in France brought acclaim from European one hand, and narratives of hostility, aggression, and of their inhabitants. This community signifcance and by empire, then through blood lines. Assertions of Haitian spectators and journalists alike. As the tournament’s violence on the other. Several discussed education, and experience is captured by dialoguing with participants statehood were, then, ignored by the British press and leading scorer, his goals helped Brazil to their best ever even transport, with a view to their impact on inequality while walking the territory, collectively demarking their redeployed to critique the perceived failures of French performance on the international stage and marked the and division and their potential for overcoming these sites and photographing their places. The participatory forms of government. creation of an image of Brazilian football as essentially wider social problems. These relational problems of a mapping ultimately provides a community-based version mulatto. Such an image was cultivated by Brazilian writers highly unequal society were crucial to their civic and of San Basilio and La Bonga which may be juxtaposed with S28 International Perspectives on the Politics and History and intellectuals as well as the international media of the political discourses and challenge a predominant notion, the hegemonic version of their territories. of Latin America day, and has been perpetuated as the dominant image which stresses middle-class desire for segregation, S36 Representations of Indigeneity and Community of the nation’s football team since that time through diferentiation, distinction, and individual social mobility. international superstar players such as Pelé, Ronaldo, Resistance Marta and Neymar. In an era of global fows of images and S23 Middle-class activism and politics in contemporary identities, this paper will consider the manner in which Latin America the depiction of Brazil’s star players in the global arena enters into a dialogic relationship with their iconic status within Brazil itself. Through an examination of literary texts, newspaper articles and online representations of the players, consideration will be given to the interplay between Brazilian football and its global presence, as well as to the manner in which such factors contribute to shaping perceptions of the country inside it and beyond.

S24 Latin American Sports in the Global Arena

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The role of subnational governments Building bridges between natural and in North America’s governance. cultural struggles: The Frente de Mujeres Mazahua en Defensa del Agua, Mexico. Roberto Zepeda Martínez Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico city, Francesca Zunino D.F., Mexico CDS-University of Bath, Bath, UK

Since the last decades of the 20th century, both Under the interdisciplinary framework of nature-culture the increasing economic globalisation and political studies, this research presents some preliminary outcomes transition, leading to global governance, have generated of a case study that bridges across political socio-ecology, unprecedented challenges which in most cases overcome feminism, and social movements studies. It focuses the capacity of maneuver of national states. Thus, new on a rural-urban indigenous women-driven social- spaces of action and decision-making emerge. In this environmental movement that links both traditional and context, subnational states have become one of the most challenging female identities and their representations relevant actors in the international sphere. Nation-states (as farmers, mothers, feminists, and organized Zapatistas). have been incapable to solve the new global problems, The Frente de Mujeres Mazahua en Defensa del Agua which have found ways of solution in the supranational, has strategically manipulated actions, ethnicity, gender, regional and subnational avenues. This paper analyses and political discourses to challenge both the power the interactions between the subnational states in North of the state and of patriarchal structures within its America and the dynamics of governance in the region, own community. In 2003, severe foods caused by the characterized by commercial, political and social relations, Cutzamala Water System’s overfowing in the State of mostly developed in the subnational level. Such relations Mexico resulted in a total crop loss for the local Mazahua and links have developed between Mexico, Canada and indigenous community. The FMMDA was created as a the United States after the onset of the North American support struggle in appearance to assist men’s fght for Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). This paper examines justice. Nevertheless, this radical, transformative ‘hope the increasing relevance of subnational actors in these movement’ rapidly lead to the encompassing of wider countries, as a result of the diverse developments taking social, environmental and human rights’ requests for place in the region, such as political decentralization the pursuit of awareness, participation, organization, -from national to subnational governments-, economic equality and policy change. Moreover, the most recent globalization, considering free trade regions, and developments within the Mazahua movements - including transnational spaces of political cooperation, as well as a joint legal action against the National Water Commission the dismantling of the national state generating spaces for ‘ecocide’ -, and the very adverse 2015 new federal law of governance in the region. This paper focusses on the on water, provide further aspects for refection on complex relations between the subnational governments in Mexico social strategies and struggles for both the prefguration and their counterparts in Canada and the United States and the realization of joint human and environmental well- with regard to various issues such as migration, security, being and natural-cultural rights. natural resources and environment. It is signifcant to assess and evaluate these dynamics of governance in the S25 Building bridges between social, cultural and region. environmental studies: States, social movements and natural resources in Latin America. S19 America or Americas? New opportunities and pressures on regional governance.

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