Mato Grosso do Sul na rota: uma análise em imagens by Ana Paula Camilo Pereira, Rafael Oliveira Fonseca, Mateus Boldrine Abrita, Daniel Amorim Souza Centuriao, Angelo Rondina Neto, angelorondina@uel.br, Rafaella Stradiotto Vignandi, Guilherme Espindola Junior

“…This study analyzes the spatial segment of the Latin American Integration Network (RILA) route that crosses the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, in order to identify possible changes in territorial dynamics caused by the implementation of this road corridor, which has gradually reconfigured the territorial planning of the state, especially with regard to the logic of enabling circulation infrastructure, which sometimes conditions the speed of fluidity, sometimes shows the transformations embedded in this space.…”
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Le latino-américanisme français en perspective by Mona Huerta

“…If art and culture have been the cornerstone of these relationships since the late nineteenth century, the region was for the French researchers a fruitful laboratory that inspired the construction of Latin American Studies in France. Back on a story to feed the reflection on the changing Area Studies, in times of globalization.…”
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Blanca Varela: una poeta vestida de humana by Modesta Suárez

“…Blanca Varela (1926-2008), «human dressed poet», is one of the mayor voices of contemporary Latin American poetry. When we consider her writing –writing of desire and disaster−, we discover a lyrical subject impressed by the Surrealist artists’ universe in its pictorial aspect. …”
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Epidemiology of Chagas Disease in the United States of America: A Short Review and Some Comments by Stephen A. Klotz

“…This report discusses autochthonous cases of Chagas disease as well as disease in immigrants from Latin American countries. Suggestions for epidemiology research and medical care are discussed given the evolving epidemiology of the disease in the United States of America.…”
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A narrativa entre aspas de Bernardo Carvalho: legitimação e paratopia em um estudo de Onze: uma história by Paulo César Silva de Oliveira

“…The paratopic situation of the Latin American writer and the legitimating process are the starting point of this article, concentrated on the analysis of the novel Onze: uma história , by Bernardo Carvalho. …”
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Cultural industries, nation and state in the work of Renato Ortiz: A view from inside the Anglosphere by Philip Schlesinger

“…It then discusses the author’s meeting with Ortiz in Scotland during a European-Latin American ‘encounter’ set up to discuss cultural identity and communication. …”
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Cantinflas, Patriota de la patria e Insurgente del detalle by Héctor Ruiz Rivas

“…A survey of his first period films will enable us to discover a thorough irreverent and devastating cinematographic machine that delves deep into the foundations of long-established Western values -including language-, from both a Latin-American and a universal outlook.…”
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Introduction to dossier. Mining extractivism in Latin America: The juridification of environmental conflicts by Rachel Sieder, Ainhoa Montoya, Yacotzin Bravo-Espinosa

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Jacques Gilard: dos ponencias feministas by Helena Araújo

“…In honour of the admired professor, Helena Aráujo evokes two occasions on which she listened to two of his lectures in the University of Pau during two congresses (1996 & 2004) about «the place, the representations, the status and the part played by women in Latin-American society and culture». Analysing the first tales written by Marvel Moreno, born in Barranquilla, Jacques Gilard would emphasize the «humiliation inflicted to the feminine body as a characteristic of patriarchal system». …”
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De l’onomastique dans l’affirmation du sentiment national : le département oriental de San Martín au Pérou by Catherine Heymann

“…This tradition was based upon a patriotic speech which shall be analyzed in this article, since it was the cause of a controversy between two major figures of Latin American Independence − San Martín and Bolívar.…”
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Rurality, ethnicity and mountain areas: by Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary

“…In a Latin American context where indigenous populations have had to wait until the end of the XXth century to recover a certain visibility, the definition of Andean identity is still an issue. …”
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Sobre a perda da grandiloquência na literatura hispano-americana pós-noventa: notas sobre a des-representação do exílio em Lemebel e Bolaño by Pablo Gasparini

“…The aim of this article is to analyze the transition from the political comprehension of the Hispanic-American Literature on the ’80 to another paradigm that involves speci fi c changes on the functions and characteristics of the literary discourse due to the Latin-American democratization and the strengthening of the mass culture. …”
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Ruralité, ethnicité et montagne : by Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary

“…In a Latin American context where indigenous populations have had to wait until the end of the XXth century to recover a certain visibility, the definition of Andean identity is still an issue. …”
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A colonialidade de gênero e a invisibilidade da luta política das mulheres durante três ditaduras latino-americanas by Cleidi Cristina Pereira

“…The political participation of Latin American women, as occurred with female protagonism in other areas of society, also went through a process of erasure. …”
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Nuevas aproximaciones para la comprensión del militarismo uruguayo a través de un análisis social by Manuel TALAMANTE PEREZ

“…Contributions in Latin American historiography to the theme of militarism have been very recurring in recent years. …”
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Cinemas and Spectators of International Development by Molly Geidel

“…This article tracks how mid-20th century US and Latin American documentary filmmakers created a visual and narrative repertoire that encouraged spectators worldwide to imagine a global transformation from the stagnant living death of underdevelopment to striving, productive life-in-development. …”
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Palabras nómadas by Fernando Aínsa

“…The new Latin-American narration reflects the importance of such figures as exodus and exile, and kindles the «nomadic condition», the notions of uprooting and «cultural runaway», the «migratory artist», as elements of identity in the globalization processes. …”
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Tirinea de Jesús Urzagasti (1969) by Giovanna Rivero

“…In the residual space of military defeat against Paraguay, Urzagasti writes an illuminating national history and gives life to a different modern subjectivity capable of reformulating old cultural terms in order to consolidate a new Latin American utopia.…”
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Carências e vulnerabilidades em metrópoles periféricas: análise comparativa entre Curitiba, Brasil e San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina by Maurício Polidoro, Natalia Czytajlo, Marta Casares

“…Finally, we hope to contribute to a methodologically reading of spatial patterns between Latin American cities using census data.…”
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La clausura del pasado. Los conflictos del cono sur de América by Juan Rial

“…Latin American dictatorships all practiced some form of "dirty war", that entailed the disappearance of persons, murder and torture, to fight people engaged in armed propaganda or open insurrections taking place in the seventies. …”
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