Abstract: The Italian theater director, Eugenio Barba, founder of Odin Teatret, wondered: “But, beyond the islands […] what is it that exists' What and who is to be found there'” (Barba 1986:470). To this, he answers: “There are people who live in a nation, in a culture. And there are people who live in their own bodies” (1986:471). This concern, which was first applied by Barba to the dramatic experience, and is at the base of his Anthropology of Theater and Spectacle, works better when we reflect not only on the identity of the other, over there (beyond), but rather on the precise identity of the one who asks, situated here. In the Forward to the second edition of Truth and Method, Gadamer attempted to solve this concern ... Read More PubDate: 2021-01-08T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: El 24 de julio de 1994 en Cartagena de Indias se firmó el Convenio Constitutivo de la Asociación de Estados del Caribe (AEC). La iniciativa, nacida del seno de la Comunidad del Caribe (CARICOM) buscaba extender el círculo de las relaciones comerciales de los Miembros de la CARICOM a sus vecinos hispanohablantes y, a su vez, ampliar el alcance de la cooperación funcional en esferas de interés común con ese Caribe latinoamericano.Tras 25 años de creada, este artículo reflexiona sobre el papel de la AEC en el regionalismo caribeño. A partir del análisis de las circunstancias históricas que permitieron su propuesta y fundación, el artículo evalúa la evolución de la AEC y su contribución a la integración regional. Se ... Read More PubDate: 2021-01-08T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: The national-regional tensions facing Caribbean spaces such as Yucatán (México,) Belize (Central America) and Guyana (South America,) give rise to island imaginaries, where these territories are represented as isolated, different, far away, not fitting in, while at the same time considered icons of regional identity—Caribbean outposts, if you will.1 While not being islands in a physical sense, the imaginaries that come into play concerning isolation/connectivity and the complex (colonial) history linking these regions to the insular Caribbean, locate these mainland-islands as a fascinating border space. In this article, I argue that it is precisely the trope of “islandness” within our mainland Caribbean spaces that ... Read More PubDate: 2021-01-08T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: The study of postcards has caught the attention of scholars from diverse latitudes (Geary and Webb 1998). They have been studied from different disciplinary perspectives, such as history (Evans and Richards 1980); cultural studies, or collecting (Grant 1999). Postcards have been regarded as valuable visual artefacts in the field of politics, where they have been used as instruments for propaganda (Roberts 2008 and 2009), or for configuring national identities (Semmerling 2004). In this field, the work of the German scholar Hinnerk Onken (2014) stands out for its analysis of South American representations of nation and nationality, in his appraisal of some postcards from Peru, Argentina, Chile and Brazil, that were ... Read More PubDate: 2021-01-08T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: In Puerto Rico, a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States, radio is a powerful medium that often makes sense of local politics (Jamieson and Cappella 2008; Rodríguez-Cotto 2017a; Sepúlveda-Rodríguez 2014; Vargas 2012). The purpose of this study is to examine how ownership and the current business model impact information radio content. The focus is on Puerto Rico because of the influence of radio (Nielsen 2017).Based on Shoemaker and Reese’s (2014) Hierarchy of Influences Model, a content analysis of the programming grids from 2000 to 2016 and in-depth interviews with radio workers explored the changes in information radio content from news to politics talk. This study’s contribution to the debate lies in ... Read More PubDate: 2021-01-08T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: El pasado mes de octubre, el Instituto de Estudios del Caribe inició su vigésimo séptima edición de las Conferencias Caribeñas. La conferencia inaugural de este semestre trató los impactos del COVID-19 en el Caribe Insular. Esta estuvo a cargo de la Dra. Jacqueline Laguardia Martínez, profesora de la University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad y Tobago. Se presentó un panorama general de los principales impactos del COVID-19 hasta el momento en la región. También, se presentaron las políticas de desarrolladas por los países del Caribe y las acciones regionales para enfrentar la pandemia. Finalmente, la conferencia abarcó los efectos de la pandemia a nivel social y económico hasta el presente, y sus ... Read More PubDate: 2021-01-08T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: The literature of regional integration and multilevel governance has mostly focused its attention on the case of the European Union. The process of societal cross-regional interactions is less studied in areas which have a long history of regionalization without formal regional organizations, or what Hettne and Söderbaum (2000) call the Regional Complex. The book Civil Society Organisations, Governance & the Caribbean Community by Kristina Hinds provides a much-needed analysis of the role that civil society has in the processes of regional integration in the Caribbean.This book is divided into eight chapters and three themes. First, the author introduces the concept of civil society for the Caribbean and a ... Read More PubDate: 2021-01-08T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: In 2010, the Hispano-American Novel Prize “La otra orilla,” organized by the publishing house Norma, was awarded to Gioconda Belli’s novel El país de las mujeres (The Country of Women). The award proceedings stated that: “In the landscape of the Latin-American political novel, dominated primarily by men, this novel (The Country of Women) is an entertaining and unexpected provocation.”1 The three man jury—Santiago Roncagliolo, Mario Mendoza and Pere Sureda—asserted that the two most important features of Belli’s novel were the “unexpected” and “entertaining” aspects pertaining to a fictional text written by a woman. Thus, the construction of characters such as José de la Aritmética (Joseph of Arithmetic, instead of ... Read More PubDate: 2021-01-08T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: Map Archipelague de Mexique. Courtesy of Bernardo García Díaz.The city of Veracruz on the Gulf Coast of Mexico has held a strategic place as a port city in the circum-Caribbean and has long constituted—and imagined itself—as part of the greater Caribbean. Indeed, this French map from the 18th century, housed in the José Martí National Library in Havana, Cuba, depicts the Caribbean in its cartography as the Archipelague de Mexique—The Mexican Archipelago. Scholar Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, in her essay, “Colonial and Mexican Archipelagoes,” which explores imperialist designs, the history of imagining the Caribbean as the “Mexican archipelago,” and the discursive constructedness of maps, makes a vital point for the ... Read More PubDate: 2021-01-08T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: Algunos manuales de medicina definen al ser humano como un ser biológico-psico-social. El enfoque biopsicosocial, que se ha impulsado en las últimas décadas para entender y tratar las afecciones fisiológicas del ser humano de manera holística, contrasta significativamente del modelo tradicional en donde la enfermedad se reduce a mera disfuncionalidad biológica. Este modelo tradicional—que ha prevalecido en la historia de la medicina occidental—concibe al ser humano como mero organismo biológico. El cambio de paradigma, de definición, ha constituido un cambio significativo en el cuidado humano.Si bien en las ciencias comienza a retarse la definición paradigmática de lo humano, en las humanidades y ciencias sociales ... Read More PubDate: 2021-01-08T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: B. Christine Arce <carce@miami.edu> es doctora en letras hispanas por la Universidad de California en Berkeley y actualmente es profesora asociada de la Universidad de Miami, en el departamento de Lenguas Modernas. Es investigadora de estudios culturales y literatura, y trabaja las encrucijadas de raza y género en México y el Caribe. Es autora del libro México’s Nobodies: The Cultural Legacy of the Soldadera and Afro-Mexican Women de la editorial SUNY Press (2017), galardonado el premio de libro “Katherine Singer Kovacs” de la Asociación de Lenguas Modernas (MLA), el premio “Victoria Urbano” de la Asociación de Estudios de Género (AEGS) en 2016, y mención honorable por la Sociedad Americana de Estudios de Folclor ... Read More PubDate: 2021-01-08T00:00:00-05:00
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