Este artículo analiza los impactos de la expansión de grandes empresas forestales en el Alto Paraná, área central de esta producción en Argentina. Desde fines del siglo XX, el ingreso de capitales concentrados transformó la actividad, aumentando la integración vertical, desplazando productores y reorganizando regímenes laborales. El foco está en las condiciones de reproducción social de trabajadores sin tierra y pequeños productores con acceso limitado a medios de producción. En base a un estudio de caso en Puerto Piray (Misiones), se exploran sus estrategias laborales desde la categoría de “clases de trabajo”. Se argumenta que la diversidad de formas de trabajo y de actividades desplegadas para la reproducción de estas clases l encuentra un eje estructurador en la explotación del trabajo de las mujeres, en tanto son ellas quienes abarcan el continuo entre el trabajo reproductivo y el productivo.

El presente ensayo examina los modos en que la novela Cadáver exquisito (2017), de la escritora argentina Agustina Bazterrica, habita y desafía la lógica capitalista de la cadena de montaje a través de estrategias literarias que a la vez encarnan y cuestionan el neoliberalismo exacerbado. El trabajo inicia con el rastreo de una propuesta teórico-crítica sobre trayectos literarios de la carne (Giorgi 2014) para luego analizar cómo el texto de Bazterrica dialoga con los conceptos de necroescritura (Rivera Garza 2013), mal de archivo (Derrida 1997) y montaje literario (Benjamin 2004a, 2004b). Este abordaje revela el modo en que diversas estrategias literarias —incluyendo el ensamblaje de escenas desmembradas, el uso del collage verbal, la función performativa del lenguaje, el desplazamiento metafórico-metonímico de las palabras y la tensión generada por eufemismos— socavan la práctica mecanicista y mercantilizante de la producción en serie de cuerpos y lenguajes. El artículo cuestiona, así, la interpretación de Cadáver exquisito como alegoría necropolítica, explorándola, en cambio, como dispositivo estético-político que tensiona las relaciones entre carne y palabra, interrumpiendo los principios rectores de acumulación y violencia que sustentan al sistema capitalista.

This study examines the impact of environmentally oriented investments on firms’ integration into global value chains (GVCs). We use firm-level data in 41 countries from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey dataset and control for selection and endogeneity bias. Our findings reveal that the adoption of environmental protection actions boosts firms’ participation in GVCs. Measures reducing air pollution, followed by waste minimization techniques and energy management tools, yield the highest impact at both margins. Larger firms are more likely to experience a rise in their chances of participating in GVCs compared to their smaller counterparts. At the sectoral level, dirty sectors (such as plastics, construction and chemicals) are less likely to witness the positive impact of environment-friendly measures on GVC integration, given their production techniques that are CO2 and energy intensive. Finally, at the regional level, the effect of such environmental measures is more pronounced for firms located in European Union countries.

The women who have participated in memory-building projects in Colombia have shaped the formation of collective memory in important ways in official and informal projects. They have emphasized and highlighted their gendered experiences of the Colombian conflict and gained valuable experience working with and inside organizations. These experiences have provided women with a sense of feminist empowerment. The case of Medellín is particularly interesting because the city’s women have been engaged in constructing collective memory for decades, long before the ratification of the 2016 Peace Accord. As such, these women had a valuable skill set that they were able to employ in collaboration with the official transitional justice mechanisms supported by the state after 2016. The experience of having their voices recognized and acknowledged has raised the feminist consciousness of the women of Medellín involved with these projects. The Medellín case is somewhat distinct from other Latin American cases of women peace and human rights activists because Colombian women have had several decades to learn the importance of including and even centering their intersectional gendered perspectives. The women of Medellín are not unique among Latin American women, but they have had a significant head start.

This paper presents a theoretical framework to explain how firms strategically choose between truthful disclosure, greenwash (overstating environmental performance) or greenhush (deliberately under-communicating positive environmental actions). The analysis reveals that greenhush arises as an equilibrium when signalling costs exceed benefits from investor support, particularly when firms can secure sales without environmental claims. Greenwash emerges when penalties for false claims are insufficient relative to market premiums. Notably, increasing investor support for environmental initiatives reduces greenhush but may unintentionally promote greenwash rather than truthful disclosure without complementary regulatory mechanisms. The results suggest several policy strategies to promote truthful labeling: strengthening certification credibility by increasing the cost differential between legitimate and fraudulent certification, calibrating penalties to ensure separating equilibria and developing coordinated approaches that simultaneously target investor preferences andverification mechanisms.

Using a dynamic computable general equilibrium model that differentiates cropping activities and labour by sex and includes household home production, this study examines the effects of rainfall variability in Burkina Faso from both a macroeconomic perspective and a gender lens. The simulation of the annual rainfall pattern observed in the country over the past decade highlights its broad economic effects and confirms the greater sensitivity of female-led cropping activities. It also underscores the differential impacts on female and male workers in the labour market and within households, revealing the interactions between the non-market and market spheres of the economy when a rainfall shock occurs. Nevertheless, additional simulations suggest that promoting water management systems or more water-stress-resistant crop varieties could help mitigate the effects of rainfall variability and that targeted measures to support female farmers could effectively reduce their specific vulnerability.

Este ensayo revisa las siguientes películas:

La conquista de las ruinas. Dir. Eduardo Gómez. Prod. Ariel Soto, Facundo Escudero Salinas y Nicolás Munzel Camaño. Bolivia, 2020. 88 mins. Disponible en Boliviacine.com.

Algo quema. Dir. Mauricio Alfredo Ovando. Prod. Juan Álvarez Durán. Bolivia, 2018. 77 mins. Disponible en Boliviacine.com.

La bala no mata. Dir. Gabriela Paz. Prod. Catalina Razzini Zambrana. Bolivia, 2012. 57 mins. Disponible en Boliviacine.com.

My Bolivia, Remembering What I Never Knew. Dir. Rick Tejada-Flores. Prod. Rick Tejada-Flores. United States, 2017. 56 mins. Disponible en DVD.

A Primeira República (1889–1930) é considerada um divisor de águas da história cultural brasileira graças ao modernismo. No entanto, muito do que foi escrito sobre o período deriva diretamente das concepções nacionalistas dos modernistas, que estabeleceram o paradigma da identidade nacional que ainda hoje é válido, o que leva à desconsideração dos trabalhos da geração que lhes é anterior. O objetivo deste artigo é problematizar emergência de um campo artístico autônomo no Brasil a partir de uma análise das tomadas de posição dos atores da época frente ao par “nacionalismo” e “cosmopolitismo”. O argumento central é que esse período marca o começo da ascensão de um regime artístico moderno no Brasil, que tem como base a ideia de autonomização de campo profissional, que se realiza em um espaço artístico e literário nacional secundário dentro do espaço mundial. Assim, para se autonomizar e proclamar sua liberdade estética, as artes no Brasil devem se libertar não somente da dominação política, mas também da dominação internacional.

Ideology is a powerful tool for parties in armed conflicts, as it provides a source of motivation for combatants to stay in group under difficult circumstances and to perform actions that put them at risk or defy their personal ethical codes. But once in peacetime, besides the effects of past negative intergroup experiences, radical beliefs may become an obstacle to reconciliation and prolong the confrontation in the minds of ex-combatants. An examination of 484 recently decommissioned soldiers and insurgents in Colombia shows how the persistent ideological differences among former enemies help us explain postconflict intergroup bias beyond the effects of wartime victimization. We conclude that addressing the ideological radicalization that prolongs confrontation after armed conflict ceases is fundamental to creating proper conditions for reconciliation, and it offers a viable policy alternative to the much-needed healing from wartime-related trauma.

This study tests the null hypothesis that no significant differences exist in the relationship between economic growth and deforestation, based on the levels of growth and agricultural productivity in the municipalities of the Brazilian Legal Amazon. Grounded in the environmental Kuznets curve theory, this study employs a non-linear methodological approach to estimate the relationship between economic growth and deforestation. The results reject the null hypothesis, indicating that the relationship between growth and deforestation varies with the municipalities’ productive performance. Furthermore, the findings conclude that a negative monotonic relationship exists between economic growth and deforestation in the Brazilian Legal Amazon, suggesting that reductions in deforestation are achievable even during periods of economic expansion.

This article analyzes historical claims about the Quyllurit’i pilgrimage (Cuzco, Peru). First, it discusses its relationship to Inka rituals and the Tupac Amaru rebellion. It shows that the way the rebellion affected the Ocongate church in 1782 was crucial for the later inscription of 1783 as the year of the pilgrimage’s miracle. It then analyzes how the conflicts between the Ocongate merchants and the hacienda Lauramarca over the commercialization of colono alpaca wool in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are related to the creation of the first written account of the pilgrimage’s origins. This account was written in 1932, using the local archive shaped by the Great Rebellion, but without any evidence of anything that happened in 1783 in what is now the Quyllurit’i shrine. As the pilgrimage expanded beyond Ocongate, scholars who studied the pilgrimage in the 1970s used this first account to hypothesize its relationship to the Great Rebellion within tropes of indigenous cultural authenticity, continuity, and resistance.