Digital Humanities in Latin America
Digital Humanities in Latin America

Author: Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste

Publisher: University Press of Florida

Published: 2023-05-02

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 168340386X

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A hemispheric view of the practice of digital humanities in the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking Americas As digital media and technologies transform the study of the humanities around the world, this volume provides the first hemispheric view of the practice of digital humanities in the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking Americas. These essays examine how participation and research in new media have helped configure identities and collectivities in the region. Featuring case studies from throughout Latin America, including the United States Latinx community, contributors analyze documentary films, television series, and social media to show how digital technologies create hybrid virtual spaces and facilitate connections across borders. They investigate how Latinx bloggers and online activists navigate governmental restrictions in order to connect with the global online community. These essays also incorporate perspectives of race, gender, and class that challenge the assumption that technology is a democratizing force. Digital Humanities in Latin America illuminates the cultural, political, and social implications of the ways Latinx communities engage with new technologies. In doing so, it connects digital humanities research taking place in Latin America with that of the Anglophone world. Contributors: Paul Alonso | Morgan Ames | Eduard Arriaga | Anita Say Chan | Ricardo Dominguez | Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo | Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste | Jennifer M. Lozano | Ana Lígia Silva Medeiros | Gimena del Río Riande | Juan Carlos Rodríguez | Isabel Galina Russell | Angharad Valdivia | Anastasia Valecce | Cristina Venegas A volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America, edited by Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez

Comics Beyond the Page in Latin America
Comics Beyond the Page in Latin America

Author: James Scorer

Publisher: UCL Press

Published: 2020-02-17

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1787357546

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Comics Beyond the Page in Latin America is a cutting-edge study of the expanding worlds of Latin American comics. Despite lack of funding and institutional support, not since the mid-twentieth century have comics in the region been so dynamic, so diverse and so engaged with pressing social and cultural issues. Comics are being used as essential tools in debates about, for example, digital cultures, gender identities and political disenfranchisement.

Antiquities and Classical Traditions in Latin America
Antiquities and Classical Traditions in Latin America

Author: Andrew Laird

Publisher: Wiley

Published: 2018-12-26

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9781119559337

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This collection is the first concerted attempt to explore the significance of classical legacies for Latin American history – from the uses of antiquarian learning in colonial institutions to the currents of Romantic Hellenism which inspired liberators and nation-builders in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Discusses how the model of Roman imperialism, challenges to Aristotle’s theories of geography and natural slavery, and Cicero’s notion of the patria have had a pervasive influence on thought and politics throughout the Latin American region Brings together essays by specialists in art history, cultural anthropology and literary studies, as well as Americanists and scholars of the classical tradition Shows that appropriations of the Greco-Roman past are a recurrent catalyst for change in the Americas Calls attention to ideas and developments which have been overlooked in standard narratives of intellectual history

Myths of Harmony
Myths of Harmony

Author: Marixa Lasso

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre

Published: 2007-08-12

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 0822973251

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This book centers on a foundational moment for Latin American racial constructs. While most contemporary scholarship has focused the explanation for racial tolerance-or its lack-in the colonial period, Marixa Lasso argues that the key to understanding the origins of modern race relations are to be found later, in the Age of Revolution.Lasso rejects the common assumption that subalterns were passive and alienated from Creole-led patriot movements, and instead demonstrates that during Colombia's revolution, free blacks and mulattos (pardos) actively joined and occasionally even led the cause to overthrow the Spanish colonial government. As part of their platform, patriots declared legal racial equality for all citizens, and promulgated an ideology of harmony and fraternity for Colombians of all colors. The fact that blacks were mentioned as equals in the discourse of the revolution and later served in republican government posts was a radical political departure. These factors were instrumental in constructing a powerful myth of racial equality-a myth that would fuel revolutionary activity throughout Latin America.Thus emerged a historical paradox central to Latin American nation-building: the coexistence of the principle of racial equality with actual racism at the very inception of the republic. Ironically, the discourse of equality meant that grievances of racial discrimination were construed as unpatriotic and divisive acts-in its most extreme form, blacks were accused of preparing a race war. Lasso's work brings much-needed attention to the important role of the anticolonial struggles in shaping the nature of contemporary race relations and racial identities in Latin America.

Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin; Engineering Series Volume 6
Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin; Engineering Series Volume 6

Author: University Of Wisconsin

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 1907

Total Pages: 586

ISBN-13:

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...ditches, and the discharge of waste weirs and overflow water from the canals. The drainage of swamps and marshes, and of agricultural lands, also modifies to a considerable extent the natural flow of a stream. Every means provided for the rapid removal of storm water from the land which formerly retained it will have a greater or less effect on the resulting flood heights and consequently on the regimen of the stream. Conditions Favorarle To Maximum Runoff And Torrential Flow In general, it may be concluded that the conditions most favorable to maximum runoff and irregular flow are as follows: On a bare rocky drainage area, with scant soil, the rainfall, unhindered by the soil, gravel, vegetation or forests, will flow rapidly into the stream, and except for a small amount of absorption and evaporation, the runoff will equal a large percentage of the rainfall. Under such conditions the stream will be torrential in character. The flow will gradually increase to a maximum just after the rainfall has reached its maximum, and as the rain ceases the flow will slowly decrease until nothing but a dry run is left, shortly after the rain has ceased, and the conditions will so remain until the next rainfall occurs. Conditions Favorarle To Maximum Runoff And Equalized Flow For conditions favorable to maximum runoff and equalized flow, consider this same rocky valley, filled deep with sand and gravel, with the stream meandering through the center of the pervious plain. Here different conditions will obtain. The rain, falling on this area, will sink rapidly into the pervious deposits and move slowly toward the river. Little of the water will be lost in evaporation, because the rainfall will immediately sink below the surface and reach the ground water, ..

A Nation for All
A Nation for All

Author: Alejandro de la Fuente

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2011-01-20

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 0807898767

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After thirty years of anticolonial struggle against Spain and four years of military occupation by the United States, Cuba formally became an independent republic in 1902. The nationalist coalition that fought for Cuba's freedom, a movement in which blacks and mulattoes were well represented, had envisioned an egalitarian and inclusive country--a nation for all, as Jose Marti described it. But did the Cuban republic, and later the Cuban revolution, live up to these expectations? Tracing the formation and reformulation of nationalist ideologies, government policies, and different forms of social and political mobilization in republican and postrevolutionary Cuba, Alejandro de la Fuente explores the opportunities and limitations that Afro-Cubans experienced in such areas as job access, education, and political representation. Challenging assumptions of both underlying racism and racial democracy, he contends that racism and antiracism coexisted within Cuban nationalism and, in turn, Cuban society. This coexistence has persisted to this day, despite significant efforts by the revolutionary government to improve the lot of the poor and build a nation that was truly for all.

Intersected Identities
Intersected Identities

Author: Erica Segre

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9781845452919

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There has always been an important visual element to the construction and questioning of national identity in post-Independence Mexico, though one that has not always been given its due, outside of the celebrated and much-studied muralists. Ranging from the early nineteenth century to the present - from the vogue for the picturesque, illustrated periodicals and the influential writings of Altamirano to a wealth of twentieth-century graphic artists, filmmakers and photographers - this book re-examines the complex variety of ways in which that visual element has operated. In particular, it looks at the ways in which discourses concerning ethnicity and cultural hybridity have been echoed and transformed in Mexican visual culture, resulting in fields of visual discourse which are eclectic and increasingly self-reflexive.