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The tree that called my name: on the significance of encountering the constellated symbol in the natural, other-than-human, world. [PDF]
J Anal Psychol, 2022 Abstract In this paper I explore what it means to encounter the symbol as a meaningful object, or process, within the environment of the other‐than‐human. Using Jung’s account in ‘The spirit mercurius’ of an enlisted Indigenous soldier who attempts to desert his barracks on hearing a native Oji tree calling him, I compare the evolving stages of ...
Brown GM.
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Subverting geopolitics: The reinvention of geography in post‐revolutionary Mexico
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 439-450, June 2023., 2023 Short Abstract This paper contributes to the effort to ‘decentralise’ geopolitics by bringing into light, historically, a geopolitical operation that took the form of a proper geographical invention. Specifically, the paper analyses the work of the Mexican intellectual José Vasconcelos – who acted as Secretary of Public Education in the aftermath of ...
Simone Vegliò
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German Life and Letters, Volume 74, Issue 3, Page 339-370, July 2021., 2021 ABSTRACT Alexander von Humboldt was regarded as an anti‐fascist symbol among German‐speaking exiles who, fleeing persecution from the Nazi regime, found refuge in Mexico. Humboldt's legacy was read as being an endorsement of the country's struggle for political and cultural emancipation, while his famously anti‐racist stance proved helpful in framing ...
Andrea Acle‐Kreysing
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The Making of “La Gran Familia Mexicana”: Eugenics, Gender, and Sexuality in Mexico
Journal of Historical Sociology, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 161-185, March 2021., 2021 Abstract This article examines the impact of Mexican eugenics on different programs relating to the family throughout the post‐Revolutionary period. It deals with how Mexican elites thought about the family and how these discussions delimited who should be part of or exist under the banner of “la gran familia mexicana”.
R. Sánchez‐Rivera
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Aztecs Are Not Indigenous: Anthropology and the Politics of Indigeneity
Annals of Anthropological Practice, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page 173-179, November 2020., 2020 Abstract To write about Indigeneity means already being deeply enmeshed in identity politics. The much researched rural south of Mexico City is a case in point. Anthropologists have described the Nahuatl speakers of Milpa Alta as “heirs of the Aztecs,” and knowledge of Nahuatl and folklore has become key to maintaining municipal land rights in the ...
Catherine Whittaker
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Multilateral Development Finance in Non‐Western Thought: From Before Bretton Woods to Beyond
Development and Change, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 144-163, January 2019., 2019 ABSTRACT Recent initiatives of China and other emerging powers to create new multilateral development lending institutions (MDLIs) are often portrayed as efforts to build upon and/or reform an idea pioneered by Western officials during the Bretton Woods negotiations.
Eric Helleiner
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Heroic Creation and the Socialist City: The Making of Villa El Salvador
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.Abstract J.C. Mariátegui believed Indo‐American socialism would be neither calque nor copy, but heroic creation. This article explores an attempt at heroic creation in 1970s Peru: the Self‐Managed Urban Commune of Villa El Salvador (Villa). Putting Marxism in conversation with decolonial theory, I argue Villa shows universality and particularity can be
Rafael Shimabukuro
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Decolonizing Approaches to Family Science as Intersectional Latinx and Caribbean Scholars
Journal of Family Theory &Review, Volume 17, Issue 4, Page 895-909, December 2025.ABSTRACT The field of human development and family science is broadening the scope for what is deemed legitimate science; however, the voices of Latinx and Caribbean scholars have been largely absent. We contend that it is not sufficient to merely disrupt hegemonic worldviews and practices in the production of knowledge, but it is also necessary to ...
J. Maria Bermudez +4 more
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Mexican Indigenismo, Choctaw Self-Determination, And Todd Downing's Detective Novels [PDF]
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Cox, James H.
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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 30, Issue 3, September 2025.ABSTRACT Building on an ongoing dialogue with co‐editors Claudio Alvarado Lincopi and Roberto Cayuqueo Martínez, this article explores the process that redefined roles and relationships with and through writing. It investigates multivocal representations and collaborative writings, interrogating the possibilities and challenges of divergent ...
Olivia Casagrande
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