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The Impact of the 1833 Cholera Epidemic on Havana's Vulnerable Populations and Urban Landscape
Get PDFThis article examines the connection between the cholera epidemic, health codes, and the early nineteenth-century urban change of Havana. Cholera was supposed to be a sickness that targeted weak people of color. Moral deviance and physical contamination had previously been vaguely associated with concepts of racial and class inferiority, but following the 1833 cholera outbreak, the ideological links between the two became clear. Colonial authorities took advantage of the circumstances to carry out many of the urban changes that would drastically change Havana's appearance, such as renovating the most vulnerable areas, creating roads, and establishing aqueducts, public fountains, and gardens. In this study, we will examine the impact of the cholera epidemic on women of color, as well as the modification of their living environments in Havana in the decades after the 1833 epidemic. Viewing the epidemic from the inside allows us to understand the trends of structural racialization prevalent in Havana at the time as well as within our own society. The structural violence made evident by analyzing infrastructure makes analysis of past societies, through race, gender, and class, vital for the creation of policy
Paul Dresman. In the River of My Sleep. Editorial El sur es América, 2023.
No full textReview of Paul Dresman. In the River of My Sleep. Editorial El sur es América, 2023.Reseña de Paul Dresman. In the River of My Sleep. Editorial El sur es América, 2023
“Un deleite lúgubre del alma, pero deleite al fin”: Cuba en el discurso eugenésico hispanófilo de Concepción Gimeno en México
Get PDFThis article analyzes two novels by the Spanish feminist Concepción Gimeno in Mexico —Suplicio de una coqueta (1885) and Maura (1888)—, given the Cuban nationality of their protagonists. These texts are contrasted with her first novel, published in Spain: Victorina o heroísmo del corazón (1873). The article describes the way in which Cuba is appropriated by the discourse to address two issues: the future of the Spanish nation, and that of Hispanic world/Latin race. Regarding the latter, according to Gimeno, Porfirian Mexico is expected to exercise its continental leadership. In this Regenerationist debate, Cuba becomes a symbolic object of study for the rationalist eugenics discourse of late 19th century.Este artículo se enfoca en dos de las novelas publicadas por Concepción Gimeno en México, Suplicio de una coqueta (1885) y Maura (1888) —por la nacionalidad cubana de sus protagonistas—, textos que se contrastan con la primera de sus novelas publicada en España: Victorina o heroísmo del corazón (1873). Se aborda específicamente la manera en que Cuba es apropiada en el discurso para (re)plantear un doble futuro: el de la nación española por un lado, y el de la hispanidad/raza latina por otro, futuro en el que para Gimeno el México porfiriano está llamado a ejercer un liderazgo continental. En esta disputa regeneracionista, Cuba se convierte en objeto simbólico del discurso eugenésico racionalista de finales del XIX
Laura Torres-Rodríguez. Orientaciones transpacíficas: la modernidad mexicana y el espectro de Asia. Chapel Hill: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 2019.
Get PDFReview of Laura Torres-Rodríguez. Orientaciones transpacíficas: la modernidad mexicana y el espectro de Asia. Chapel Hill: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 2019.Reseña de Laura Torres-Rodríguez. Orientaciones transpacíficas: la modernidad mexicana y el espectro de Asia. Chapel Hill: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 2019
Taxonomic voucher specimens for study of bee communities in intensively managed Douglas-fir forests in the Oregon Coast Range
Get PDFUnderstanding how pollinators respond to anthropogenic land use is key to conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem services, but few studies have addressed this topic in coniferous forests, particularly those managed intensively for wood production. This study reports on voucher material generated as part of Zitomer et al. (2023), that assessed changes in wild bee communities with time since harvest in 60 intensively managed Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) stands in the Oregon Coast Range across a gradient in stand age spanning a typical harvest rotation (0-37 years post-harvest). We additionally assessed relationships of bee diversity and community composition to relevant habitat features, including availability of floral resources and nest sites, understory vegetation characteristics, and composition of the surrounding landscape. Specimens were collected using a combination of passive sampling methods-blue vane traps and white, blue, and yellow bowl traps- and hand-netting and were identified to the lowest possible taxonomic level by A.R. Moldenke and L.R. Best. Four hundred and ten taxonomic voucher specimens were deposited into the Oregon State Arthropod Collection (Accession# OSAC_AC_2023_01_09-001-01) to serve as a reference for future research
Ephemeral Sovereignties and Vanishing Communities:: Precariousness, Gender, and the Political in Paulo Lins’s Cidade de Deus
Get PDFIn Cidade de Deus (1997), the Afro-Brazilian anthropologist Paulo Lins (Rio de Janeiro, 1958—) explores the effects of the illegal drug trade on City of God, a favela located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. Building on different readings of Lins’s work (Schwarz, Fitzgibbon, and Lorenz) and on the work of other anthropologists and historians (Alves, Segato, and Dawson), this article provides a close reading of the novel, focusing on an understudied aspect: the intersections between precariousness, gender, and the political, specifically, the relationship between masculine brutality and state sovereignty. First, I examine the portrayal of young drug lords and the vanishing favela sense of community. I then delve into how Lins’s drug lords personify what I call “ephemeral sovereignties,” i.e.: inchoate incarnations of state power through disposable bodies. In Cidade de Deus, these volatile sovereignties manage to produce a vanishing community while simultaneously paving the way for its self-destruction.En Cidade de Deus (1997), el etnógrafo afro-brasilero Paulo Lins (Rio de Janeiro, 1958—) explora el impacto del narcotráfico en la favela carioca homónima, Cidade de Deus, ubicada en la periferia de Rio de Janeiro. A partir de diferentes lecturas de la obra de Lins (Schwartz, Fitzgibbon y Lorenz) y estableciendo un diálogo con el trabajo de otros etnógrafos e historiadores, (Alves, Segato y Dawson), este artículo ofrece una lectura atenta de la novela, concentrándose en un aspecto poco estudiado: la intersección entre precariedad, género y lo político, específicamente, la relación entre brutalidad masculina y soberania. Para empezar, examino las representaciones de narcotraficantes jóvenes en la novela y la desaparición del sentido de comunidad en la favela. Luego, profundizo con una lectura sobre cómo los narcotraficantes de Lins personifican lo que llamo “soberanías efímeras,” es decir, encarnaciones rudimentarias del poder estatal a través de cuerpos descartables. En Cidade de Deus, estas soberanías consiguen producir una comunidad evanescente para, al mismo tiempo, sentar las bases de su auto-destrucción
Strategies for Exploring Technology as a Proctoring Solution [Archived]
Get PDFUntil recently, when the massive shift from on-campus to remote learning occurred, there was little interest in online exam proctoring and limited technology available. Additionally, few resources were available on how to explore that technology as a potential proctoring solution. This commentary draws on the author's extensive experience in the online exam proctoring space to help the reader identify the goals of their institution and to provide a framework for analyzing technology as a potential proctoring solution. The framework provided in this article (P.A.W.S) can help readers consider how to explore technology as a proctoring solution for online exams
Convenient Quadrilaterals and Imagined Indians: An Introduction to “El pabellón colonial: Revisiting Cuba and the Philippines”
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"Esto lo he leído en el cielo": visión martiana de la lectura y la escritura. Ensayo interpretativo.
Get PDFThis study aims to consider how José Martí valued reading as an immense field of cultural action, as a decisive instrument of epistemological and social liberation. José Martí’s oeuvre is examined here, particularly his articles, chronicles, and letters through the lens of his theory of reading: the concepts of reading, reader, the links between writer and reader, and the relationships with social and human environments are identified. We seek to reveal and highlight his conception and practice of reading, systematically oriented towards a deep human interrelation, not only of the reader with the text but beyond it, with the man who created it, an essential link between sender and receiver; the active and critical character that necessarily defines the reader and his participation as co-creator of the text; the cognitive and social functions of the book; the relationships between reading and writing; and Martí’s perception that reading constitutes, in its essence, a fundamental cultural process, the absolute bedrock of education and the true university, which is oriented towards action in the world.El presente ensayo se propone reflexionar acerca de cómo José Martí valoró la lectura en tanto inmenso campo de actuación cultural, como decisivo instrumento gnoseológico y de liberación social. Para cumplir tal propósito se examina la obra de José Martí, fundamentalmente en sus artículos, crónicas y epistolario. Se identifican los conceptos de lectura, lector, los vínculos entre el escritor y el lector, así como las relaciones con el entorno social y humano. Entre las conclusiones más importantes se encuentran: su concepción y su práctica de la lectura orientadas sistemáticamente a la interrelación profunda, no solo con el texto, sino, más allá de él, con el hombre que lo ha creado, en tanto un nexo esencial entre emisor y receptor; el carácter activo y crítico que debe caracterizar al lector y su participación como cocreador del texto; la función cognitiva y social del libro; las relaciones entre lectura y escritura; así como la consideración martiana de que la lectura constituye, en su esencia de proceso cultural básico, el cimiento cabal de la educación y la universidad verdadera, que es la de la actuación en el mundo