Category: Issue #2 | Fall/Winter 2023

Triplefrontera Amazónica (Colombia, Brasil y Perú), entre la abundancia de recursos naturales y la escasez de alimentos

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Olga Lucia Chaparro Africano “La Amazonia tiende a ser vista como «naturaleza», «reserva de recursos», «fuente inagotable» o incluso «vacío demográfico», ideas que acaban siendo asumidas por las clases dominantes nacionales en sus relaciones de integración subordinada o «servidumbre voluntaria» (Étienne de La Boétie1) respecto de los centros dinámicos del capitalismo. Esa visión ignora la …

Fronteras Imaginadas de la Ecología

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Germán Corzo Los límites hacen parte de la condición humana, nos han sido culturalmente impuestos desde muchas dimensiones; límites espaciales que definen nacionalidades, biomas, predios; límites temporales, que determinan eras geológicas, épocas, generaciones, modas; límites ideológicos que nos determinan como demócratas, monárquicos, anárquicos y que en política se traducen en ser de centro, de izquierda …

Embellecimiento cinematográfico en cine de crisis

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Rocio González-Espresati Clement En el siguiente ensayo, propongo un gradiente conceptual para ilustrar la compleja relación entre identificación de la experiencia personal en relación a la crisis española de 2008 y las consecutivas propuestas cinematográficas que dialogan con dicho contexto. Existe un amplio debate acerca de la relación entre la realidad presentada en el cine …

Intercambios: Art, Stories & Comunidad

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Carolyn Kellenborn Intercambios: Art, Stories, & Comunidad presented collaborative works from artists in Madison, Wisconsin, USA, and the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, Mexico. The work on textiles, photography, printmaking, papermaking, music, and video visually explores intersections of cultures and media. As the eleven artists in the exhibition, we come from diverse backgrounds. We are from …

Dances in Cimarronaje: Sonic Errantry and the Fugitive Aesthetics of Dominican Dembow

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Gisabel Leonardo The contours of Latin America and the Caribbean, the borders that define terra firma against terra infirma, are inherently unstable. For those of the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and its diaspora, this is known. The incertitude of belonging, the impulse to carve out entire populations on the basis of geographic, linguistic, ethnic, and/or racial difference, …

On the Verge of Venom: Literature as Forgiveness in Latin America

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Chris Schulenburg In the end of her startling testimony The Inferno: A Story of Terror and Survival in Chile, Luz Arce converses with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission lawyer Carlos Fresno about the possibility of forgiving her past government captors. Years after absorbing torture, and ultimately collaborating with, Chile’s secret police (DINA), Arce certainly found …

El giro de la desaparición: Borders and Boundaries from Argentina and Armenia to Colombia and Mexico

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Joseph Wager Perhaps the most widely studied case of disappearances is that of the last cívico-militar dictatorship in Argentina. The number of disappearances is generally recognized as 30,000. Resistance to this regime of terror has been influential domestically and internationally, from the human-rights report Nunca Más to the Madres de Plaza de Mayo. Today, the …

Erotics of the Border, Compulsions of the Self: Grappling with Luisa Josefina Hernández

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Arturo Ruiz-Mautino The question of the border as a question of genre is no new affair for the examination of the symbolic and discursive affordances of the former. Already in 1987, Gloria Anzaldúa turned to ethno-poetics as a field that was capable of refining the relationship between literary discursivity and her theorization of the border. …

Polarization as border creation

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Hernando Rojas The interest in political polarization has increased in recent years as perceptions of a polarized world have become more acute (Yang et al., 2016). In part, the perception of increased polarization has been attributed to a new media ecosystem that privileges a networked distribution of information (Friedland et al., 2006), the expansion of …

Cruzando el Río Grande: Entre Sueños y Odiseas

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Nilvio Alexander Punguil Bravo Nota del Autor En cada rincón del mundo, existen relatos que definen culturas, identidades y experiencias personales. Las historias que narramos a menudo se convierten en espejos de sociedades más grandes y testimonios de la complejidad humana. Lo que sigue es una narración auto-etnográfica, una reflexión personal situada en la intersección …