Revista Alteridades
Revista Alteridades
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La comunicación en las transformaciones del campo culturalhot!
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MartÃn-Barbero, Jesús
La comunicación en las transformaciones del campo cultural
Communication in the
Transformations of the Cultural Field.
The author is focused on the analysis of communication studies. He goes back to the seventies when communication studies responded more to a model of instrumental knowledge than to a project of comprehension in order to point out that in the last decades this model has been overtaken by social process as well as by displacements on theoretical fields. This is so, as far as communication and information (together with technological innovations: satellites, computer science, video processors) have occupied the central point in the configuration of new society models and they have caused deep transformations in daily culture of the majority. Within this frame, the author underlines the importance of the variety of disciplines in communication studies.
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EtnografÃa, ciudad y modernidad: hacia una visión de la metrópoli desde la periferia urbana.hot!
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Nieto Calleja, Raúl y Eduardo Nivón Bolán / EtnografÃa, ciudad y modernidad: hacia una visión de la metrópoli desde la periferia urbana.
Ethnography,
City and Modernity: Towards a Metropolis Vision Seen from the Urban Outskirts.
Nieto and Nivón start the essay talking about La Habana and other cities in Latin-America where modernity has collapsed, and in regard to this fact, culture specialists must put in the right place options that give identity as well as the traditional ones which are in opposition. Subsequently, they make a critical revision of the analysis of culture in Latin-American modernity based on the works of Néstor García Canclini, Roberto Da Matta and Norbert Lechner who share the appreciation of subjective daily spaces and dimensions of culture as well as the conviction that culture can only be theoretically reconstructed by putting different levels of social, institutional, communicative and historical action at stake. Lastly, they analyze Mexico city starting from the outskirts in order to explain the metropolis itself.
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Globalización cultural y antropologÃa.hot!
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Rosas Mantecón, Ana / Globalización cultural y antropologÃa.
Cultural Globalization and Anthropology.
Ma. Rosas introduces a revision of the anthropological discussion regarding globalization concepts and system-world. She includes authors such as Sahlins, Harris, Hannerz, Bonfil, García Canclini, Arizpe and Ortiz who have been interested in this conflict and who have pointed out that anthropological analysis is basically aimed to investigate a supposed cultural homogenization produced by globalization, to show new ways of hegemony construction, to repercussions of contents and direction of cultural flows as well as to social and identity transformations. This article also revises Stuart Hall statements from the School of Cultural Studies which has become interested in investigating global dimensions of cultural and consuming production. The author emphasizes that it is not enough to research the variety of answers of each group, but it is necessary to re-conceptualize the interaction amongst local cultures and those of wider scale as well as giving ethnographic techniques the capacity to grasp “the globalized local”.
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Conflictos interdisciplinarios en la investigación sobre cultura (Traducción)hot!
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Jameson, Frederic / Conflictos interdisciplinarios en la investigación sobre cultura (Traducción).
Interdisciplinary Conflicts in the Investigation of Culture.
Frederic Jameson analyses in detail the compilations of Grossberg, Nelson and Treicher, Cultural Studies in which different investigations from various disciplines were gathered up and which are searching far beyond the answers. His revision deals with topics related to groups, Marxism, the concept of articulation, culture and libido, the role of intellectuals, populism, geopolitics and finally, utopia.
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