Interviewees

Entrevistas

Gentrification and culture: a discussion based on experiences in Guadalajara, Mexico and Barcelona, Spain

Interview with
  • Mauro Castro Campos
  • Nizaiá Cassián Yde

  • Christian O. Grimaldo-Rodríguez
  • Hector Robledo

This interview is a conversation that occurred during the summer of 2019, planned in the context of an international intensive summer course offered by the Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education (iteso) entitled Social Psychology, gentrification and culture. We seek to raise parallels and distinctions between the way in which urban dispossession processes operate in both Latin American and European cities, especially from the situated analysis of Guadalajara, Mexico, and Barcelona, Spain. The discussion addresses the relationship of abstract concepts such as public space and citizenship; sociocultural constructions such as race and gender, and the political, economic and cultural phenomenon known as gentrification, understood as a global process based on a city model based on the commercialization of urban life.

Temáticas

Road bodies, culture and citizenship: anthropological reflections

  • Paul wright

WThis work analyzes, from the perspective of road anthropology, the way in which our individual bodies, historically and culturally, are shaped as road bodies. The conceptual framework draws mainly from various currents of Goffman and Bourdieu's sociology, performance anthropology, proxemics, phenomenology, and the political economy of culture. I analyze the various origins of road anthropology from my own biography as an anthropologist, and how the ethnographic experience gave rise to a new conceptualization of road cultures and their links to actual bodily practices on streets and sidewalks. I include comparative ethnographic cases from England, the United States, Uruguay, and Argentina, experienced and observed, that illustrate how culture, society, and the state can shape our road bodies.

Entrevistas

What is the “gender ideology” ?: social and political transformations in Brazil based on the appropriation of a discursive strategy

Interview with
  • Maria das Dores Campos Machado

  • Karina Bárcenas Barajas

This interview constitutes an important approach to understand the origin of the term “gender ideology” as a discursive elaboration created by the Catholic Church to stop the advances of the feminist agenda and sexual diversity. In this conversation, Maria das Dores Campos Machado reveals how this strategy, of Catholic origin, was used by evangelical deputies and senators in Brazil as a counteroffensive to the gender perspective in public policies, which, in turn, diverted attention from various practices of religious intolerance that placed Pentecostal groups and actors at the center of public opinion.

Entrevistas

To recover the democratizing sense of the popular

Interview with
  • Christian Parker Gumucio

  • Claudio Palma Mancilla

In this interview, carried out in Guadalajara while in Santiago and most of the cities of Chile a popular and citizen uprising was developing (and still occurs) against the inequalities of the neoliberal system, Parker explains the antecedents and characteristics of such a powerful social movement That seems a surprise to many, given the opinions that the global financial organizations referred to the success of the Chilean model.

Entrevistas

Ecuador, October 2019: “it was a movement of youth, indigenous youth and more”

Interview with
  • Susana andrade

  • Santiago Bastos

Our interviewee points out the importance of the generational change that occurred, for example, in the conaie and considers that the conflict has not been closed, since there is a lack of communication between the political actors that she describes as “failed interculturality”.

Entrevistas

The struggle of an Ecuadorian indigenous woman, a migrant in Spain, for the right to housing and against banking abuses

Interview with
  • Aida Quinatoa

  • Olga L. González

Aída Quinatoa is an indigenous Ecuadorian economic migrant in Spain, where she has been the leader of the mobilization of migrants against the so-called “real estate scam”, against banks and real estate companies. This same fight made Ada Colau known and led her to the Mayor of Barcelona (2015-2019). In this interview, Aída details the role of the National Coordinator of Ecuadorians in Spain, CONADEE, an organization that she led between 2006 and 2013. This mobilization became visible beyond the circles that work with migrants as of mid-2011, due to their presence in evictions.

Entrevistas

Three-way conversations on community feminism in Guerrero

Interview with
  • Tranquilina Morales and María del Carmen Mejía

  • Lina Rosa Berrio

Keywords: feminism, community feminism, Guerrero, Me'phaa, Mexico, indigenous women.

TO Below are some fragments of that dialogue between two Me'phaa women, community feminists from the Guerrero mountain, and a feminist anthropologist interested in better understanding this proposal. It is not about “the spokespersons” or an “official” position on what community feminism is, but rather what this proposal means for them in their lives and how it relates to their own identity.

Entrevistas

Autobiographical testimonials. Part Two: Marxism and Internal Colonialism

Interview with
  • Rodolfo Stavenhagen

  • Guillermo de la Peña

In the previous issue of Encartes the first part of these testimonies was published. In it, Rodolfo Stavenhagen spoke of episodes from his childhood and early youth: the first years in Mexico, the discovery of anthropology and experiences with indigenism. This second part jumps back to the 1960s: doctoral training in Paris, followed by two years of professional work in Brazil that culminated in the return to their adopted country.

Entrevistas

Masculinities in northern Mexico

Interview with
  • Misael Hernandez

  • Joel Pedraza Mandujano

The Dr. Misael Hernández, research professor at El Colegio de la Frontera based in Matamoros, talks about how new masculinities are constructed from gender studies and cultural studies. The researcher makes a historical review about the subject and the way in which it has interacted with other fields, such as studies queer. It delves into the way in which the concept of hegemonic masculinity has changed, both temporally and geographically, throughout history from the 1980s to now.

Entrevistas

Autobiographical testimonials. First part

Interview with
  • Rodolfo Stavenhagen

  • Guillermo de la Peña

ROdolfo Stavenhagen (1932-2016) was one of the most important social scientists in Latin America in the last six decades. He had to live and participate in significant moments and scenarios in the history of Mexico and the world: of "interesting times", Eric Hobsbawm would say (alluding to the Chinese proverb: "God save us from interesting times"). On several occasions, during the second half of 2015, Rodolfo agreed to talk with me about his life and work. They were informal conversations, and for me fascinating, in which he let his memory flow spontaneously, while we enjoyed a good tequila on the terrace of his house in Cuernavaca. Not only was I interested in exploring his intellectual development in the context of the Mexican, American, French and Latin American academic world, I also wanted to understand the moral search of a human person committed to his circumstance.