Rio de Janeiro y la Exposición del Centenario de la Independencia en 1922 by Niuxa Dias Drago, Marcia Furriel Ramos Gálvez

“…Following the path traced by other Latin American nations at the beginning of the 20th century, Brazil celebrated the centenary of its independence with a major international exhibition in Rio de Janeiro in 1922. …”
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L’identité argentine ou la construction d’un mythe littéraire entre Europe et Amérique by Lionel Souquet

“…Paradoxically enough, this literary image is not so far removed from the socio-cultural reality as the identity of the Latin-American novelist is often defined by his or her engagement with reality through (philosophical, political, historical and sociological) description and analysis. …”
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Corporate storytelling and the idea of Latin America by Mariana I. Paludi, Jean Helms Mills, Albert J. Mills

“…In a continuation of critical perspectives that challenges the dominance of Anglo-Saxon onto-epistemologies in management and organization studies (MOS), we conducted an empirical study on a multinational airline company whose past successes depended on the North/South, Anglo/Latin American borderlands. We analyzed the grand narratives of Pan American Airways’ (PAA) corporate archival material to determine its dominant discourses about people from Latin America. …”
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Employability of Older Workers: An International Scoping Review by Luiza de Souza Coroa Contage, Lucia Helena de Freitas Pinho França

“…There is a need for more research on the subject, especially in Latin American countries, which are poorly represented in the current literature.…”
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Género y gestión del riesgo de desastres: análisis comparado de la agenda internacional y latinoamericana y caribeña by Ana Gabriela Fernández-Saavedra, Rosario González-Arias, Sandra Dema-Moreno

“…The article carries out a comparative documentary analysis in a double sense: on the one hand, on the incorporation of the gender perspective in the main multilateral agreements on disaster risk reduction approved in the international, Latin American, and Caribbean sphere and, on the other, on the treatment of disasters risk reduction in the equality agenda in the same territorial area. …”
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La promoción de la eugenesia en México a inicios del siglo XX by Víctor Octavio Hernández Ávila

“…Mexico, like many other Latin American countries, considered it appropriate to analyze the eugenic knowledge of the time and then apply it to the country’s population. eugenic knowledge of the time and then apply it to the country’s population. …”
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Las voces del pueblo ecuatoriano: construcción del pueblo en el fenómeno populista de Rafael Correa by Ingrid Ríos-Rivera

“…Originality: It addresses the narratives constructed about “the people,” focusing on those who comprise it as key actors in the Latin American populist phenomenon.…”
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Judicial Lawfare: Analysis of Legal Arguments against Abortion Rights in Peruvian Courts by Camila Gianella, Brenda Álvarez

“…Through the analysis of three judicial cases, with a focus on the legal arguments and strategies, the article argues that two features of the abortion legal mobilization in Peru are key to understand the lack of more positive developments: 1) formalistic feature of Peruvian Courts, that offers little space toward recognizing additional grounds for abortion, as has been the case in other Latin American countries; 2) innovative capacity of anti-abortion legal mobilization, that have forced to create a tacit alliance between the movement toward the recognition of abortion rights and the State, to defend the (restricted) abortion rights in the country.…”
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La dimensión de los discursos curatoriales y su circulación en la Bienal más expandida del Sur Global by Eva Natalia Fernández

“…In this article the purpose is to develop the articulation between curatorial discourses and their circulation in Bienalsur: the most innovative contemporary art biennial in the last four years in thirty-two cities in the world at the same time.This biennial proposes the notion of network as a space for review of the power structures that have to do with the global cultural policies prevailing in the art world.Its operational modality pursues the idea of ​​simultaneity that we will understand as a production of synchronous speeches, with a circulation and a reception established from a situated statement -the south- aiming of repositioning Latin American Art.First, the notions of discourse and circulation will be conceptualized from the gaze of authors such as Michel Foucault, Eliseo Verón, Teun Van Dijk and Michel Espagne. …”
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The role of oligopolies and economic groups in accelerating inflation in recent Argentina by Pablo Manzanelli, Leandro Amoretti

“…The article examines the impact of market concentration and corporate conglomeration strategy on the variation in relative prices or, according to the Latin-American structuralist view, on the “downward stickiness” of prices following the international shock that resulted in a significant increase in corporate profit margins. …”
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Shifting the focus of world industrial development from European countries and North America to Asia by A. V. Ivanchenko

“…It makes it possible to change the term “developed countries” meaning and extend it not only to European and North American countries, but also to a number of Asian and Latin American countries due to the ever-growing importance of these countries’ industry on a global scale.…”
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Transportation, Social Inequality and Spatial Capital: Comparative Analysis between Buenos Aires and Santiago de Chile by Ricardo Apaolaza, Jorge Blanco, Natalia Lerena, Ernesto López-Morales, Michael Lukas, Maite Rivera

“…This paper studies how the characteristics of Latin American urban transportation generate dimensions of dispute of ‘spatial capital’, meaning an individually internalizable type of urban resource which results from the combination of objective material conditions and subjective socio-cultural conditions. …”
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Health information-seeking among Latino newcomers - an exploratory study by Christina Courtright

“…This exploratory study examines health information-seeking practices among Latin American newcomers to a small city in the United States. …”
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La Asociación Sud-Americana de Paz Universal y Ángela Oliveira Cézar: pacifismo, activismo trasnacional y «diplomacia femenina» by Paula Bruno

“…Based on the itinerary of its founder and the dynamics of the association and resorting to different types of sources –documentation of the group (statutes, correspondence, books published), national and international periodical press, official documentation, personal correspondence– the article studies the possibilities and limits of Latin American women in undertaking actions motivated by American fraternity and international pacifism and the articulation between the local, regional and transnational repercussions of their initiatives. …”
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Planning Befriends Women: A Look of a Gender Responsive City in the Colombian Context by Yancili Lozano-Torres

“…Therefore, a just and sustainable development cannot, and should not, be conceived without gender equality (GE), as recognized by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Several Latin American countries are making subs- tantial progress in terms of critical aspects of GE. …”
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Three Waves of Populism in Latin America by O. V. Varentsova

“…This article presents common characteristics of Latin American populist regimes that emerged in different historical periods which help identify the origins as well as distinctive features of Venezuelan and Bolivian political regimes. …”
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Comentarios al dossier "Antropología visual en Latinoamérica" by Christian León

“…The article reviews the essays and contributions made by each one of the authors; at the same time, it raises a number of questions regarding the nature, work conditions, and lines of research existent within Latin American visual anthropology. Finally, it invites the reader to reflect on the discipline’s social role when placed in a peripheral and particular context such as Latin America. …”
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Documentaire et fiction dans Norteado de Rigoberto Perezcano by Marie-Pierre Ramouche

“…From its very beginning, the phenomenon of Latin American migration towards the United States has aroused great interest among artists in Mexico, which was primarily concerned by this exodus. …”
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The indifference towards democracy in Latin America by Alejandro Monsivais-Carrillo

“…This statement is supported by the analysis of four surveys conducted in 18 Latin American countries from 2013 to 2017. The evidence indicates that even though there is a preference for democracy in the region, this preference is not very high. …”
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Vaping illusions: The hidden risks of E-cigarette use among young Filipinos and adolescents in Latin America by John Patrick C. Toledo

“…The study aims to examine the prevalence of e-cigarette use among Latin American teenagers, identify contributing factors, and guide public health initiatives to reduce the hazards associated with vaping. …”
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