the Teaching Committee is one of the special committees organised by the Conference for the History of Latin America (CLAH) of the American Association of History (AHA). In order to help improve the teaching of Latin American history — in the United States but also through the Internet in other coun...

Call organised by the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO), the Metropolitan University for Education and Work (UMET) and the Future Institute — Marco Aurélio Garcia (Imag)

Summary This article investigates the nature of religious experience as embodied in contemporary Latin American culture. With this in mind, he presented the study of two recent Chilean films (La passión de Michelangelo, 2012, and El Cristo ciego, 2016) featured by two characters with chronic charact...

debate ‘Can 5G improve access to education and culture?’ within the cycle ‘What do we know about 5G in Latin America?’ In the second session of the cycle, we addressed the field of education and culture, where recent technological developments are crucial and which especially in Latin America poses...

conversation ‘What was of sandinism?’. On 19 July 1979, the Sandinista Revolution triumph overthrow Somoza. It was the latest armed revolution in Latin America’s most recent history and received with great enthusiasm inside and outside Nicaragua’s borders. In this digital debate, we looked at how it...

From possible insights into global dynamics and their contradictions, the studies promoted by the Nuestroamerican Association of Interdisciplinary Studies of Legal Critics have at their core the analysis of the state and law; they form part of critical studies of the critical right in the sense of c...

[ES] The growing importance of China is altering the world order and questioning the hegemony of the major Western powers. The Asian country has experienced an incredible evolution over the past thirty-40 years, from a closed and fully planned economy by the state, to a socialist market system, whic...

Rosa Nidia Buenfil offers in this book a rich and complex map that brings us closer to the intellectual history of recent decades, seen from the perspective of the developments of post-structuralism and post-marxism in the theoretical field of education. In doing so, it gives citizenship to theoreti...

The naming event, assigning a category that allows different subjects to be identified under the same line, often has important policy implications. In these actions, we find specialists in the study of human societies (anthropologists, sociologists, lawyers, historians, etc.), the actors identified...

    The article shows how the paradigm of State, in all its political and historical aspects, has denied the identity and humanity of the Aymaras and Quechuas in Bolivia; as well as the Kichwas in Ecuador. This has been done in a continuous and prolonged form culminating in structural oppr...

History of unique characters that set the direction of Latin American events: a realistic gallery of portraits calling for the right to be understood in their historical context, to be recovered by studying existing documentation, to be seen as what they actually were and meant in each period. A lon...

The text below shows a blueprint, as a working document, allowing a discussion on the myths and realities of the Latin American university. It summarises the questions that have been raised in this regard.

Target Summary: The article proposes a rapprochement with the academic field of communication/education in Latin America by examining the role of three institutions, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO); the Latin American Association of Communication Researc...

summary The aim of this article is to investigate what administrative and technical discipline has evolved, or as an episteme, in the Latin American context. It is suggested that the Latin American theory of the administration faces a double problem: epistemological, due to its lack of consistency a...

Summary: this revision article deals with practices around the literality of law training in some Latin American universities. To this end, the way in which different theoretical and conceptual perspectives have been used to talk about textual understanding and production in the legal field, in high...

Summary: Does the current Latin American legislation adequately protect people against discrimination through the use of automated decision-making artificial intelligence systems and how should an effective legal framework be set up in this area? On the basis of these questions, this article analyse...

The aim of this work is to describe how poverty affects African descent in Latin America, based on analysis of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) presented by the United Nations at the beginning of this decade, for which the cases of Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador are analysed. In addition to des...

This article seeks to rebuild, by reading the dialogue between Atahualpa and Fernando VII in the Elíseos campos in 1809, and the taxonomic problem that is delineated there in relation to the term ‘Americas’, the intellectual and social environment of Latin America pre-independence, as this could hav...

In the run-up to the commemoration of the bicentenary of Spanish-American independence, the work described here is a particularly interesting interpretation of the birth and first steps of the Mexican national state. The author takes a distance from some recent interpretations, which underline the u...