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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Southern Cone"”.
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Radical Democracies: The Politics of the Aesthetic in the Southern Cone
The transitions to democracy in Argentina and Chile have been critiqued by numerous artists and analysts alike, both because of the social and economic continuity from dictatorship to democracy, and because of the democratic states’ occlusion of the violence of the preceding dictatorships. Yet …
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Grammaticalization of Spanish 'De': Reanalysis of (De)queismo in Southern Cone Dialects
… variants of the same sociolinguistic variable in Southern Cone Spanish because both variants are regulated by the same linguistic factors, i.e., types of verbs, syntactic structures, grammatical person, and tense in the main clause. Secondly, (de) queismo seems to constitute a change in progress …
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OPERATION CONDOR'S DOPPELGÄNGER: THE JUNTA DE COORDINACIÓN REVOLUCIONARIA AND THE OUTBREAK OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN THE SOUTHERN CONE
… on the outbreak of political violence in the Southern Cone. Given the JCR's short existence and the barbarity of Operation Condor, most scholars have overlooked this organization or treated as convenient excuse for the military regimes to justify their heinous crimes. This article attempts to …
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Partisan politics in the southern cone: is there anything left for the left? Political institutions, privatisation and policy outcome
This thesis examines the capacity of left-wing governments in Latin America to implement their policy preferences in the context of the current phase of globalisation. In particular, it focuses on the policy area of privatisation. It addresses the debate concerning the extent to which increasing …
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Spatial Models of Animal Disease Control in South America: The Case of Foot -and -Mouth Disease
… in Paraguay and stamping out in the rest of the Southern Cone, though this is sensitive to the size of the outbreak and certain parameter assumptions. While this strategy yields the maximum benefit of those considered, the gains are not distributed equally over the different regions in the …
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En breve: modos de la novela corta en el Cono Sur
… Latin American narratives. The literature of the Southern Cone nations—Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay—exhibits a distinct tendency to brief narrative forms, including the short novel. This dissertation provides an original theoretical framework for the analysis of the short novel, and explores …
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La Obra De Arte Frente Al (Super)Mercado: Ética, Éstética, Política Y Consumo En El Cono Sur
Over the last three decades, Southern Cone societies have been transformed dramatically by the global and local determinations of late capitalism. Consumption mechanisms of interpellation and representation have had a central role in these changes. As many contemporary scholars have pointed out, …
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Capital account liberalisation in developing countries implications for South Africa
… less developed countries. The countries of the Southern Cone of Latin America (Argentina, Chile and Uruguay) are used to illustrate examples of failed experiences. In the light of the lessons learned from the above, the major results are that (1) South Africa's capital controls should be …
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New Constructions of House and Home in Contemporary Argentine and Chilean Cinema (2005-2015)
… shift in the political treatment of the home in Southern Cone cinema, away from allegorical affirmations of the family, and towards a reflection on film’s ability to both delineate and disrupt lived spaces. In the works examined, the displacement of attention from human subjects to the material …
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Practices of Assembling in (Post-)Dictatorial Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay (1973-2019)
… historical memory, and human rights in the Southern Cone, my thesis proposes specific historical and theoretical anchors for interpreting the mutual endurance and entanglements of creative practice and political assembly.
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The eco-epidemiology of Chagas disease risk in Panama
… of most intense transmission, particularly the “southern cone” of South America. In contrast, we know little about sylvatic transmission, whereby triatomine species living in natural environments are attracted to the human-built environment. This dissertation examines the factors that attract …
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<em>Trypanosoma Cruzi</em> in Wild Raccoons and Opossums from Kentucky
Only 6 autochthonous cases of human Chagas disease have been documented in the U.S.A., however, as many as 5% of immigrants from Latin America may be infected with the etiologic agent, <i>Trypanosoma cruzi</i>. The parasite has been isolated from a variety of wild mammals, particularly in the …