Latin American Studies Dissertations and Theseshttps://hdl.handle.net/1808/141482024-03-28T21:12:30Z2024-03-28T21:12:30ZVoces para intentar escribir otra historia: Niños, Cine y Conflicto Armado ColombianoGarces Sierra, Luisahttps://hdl.handle.net/1808/314862021-03-05T16:54:48Z2019-12-31T00:00:00ZVoces para intentar escribir otra historia: Niños, Cine y Conflicto Armado Colombiano
Garces Sierra, Luisa
This work focuses on how art, especially cinema, has portrayed the Colombian internal conflict. It is important to notice which stories were chosen to be depicted, and how certain situations, such as the creation of new Film Laws, have affected the narrative. I seek to understand how these stories have evolved in the last decade, and how they have become the platform through which to analyze the conflict from the point of view of the victims; from the children’s perspective, more specifically. This thesis wants to shed light on the new discourses from films produced during the first decade of the 21st century, examining how they portray previously marginalized perspectives, and exploring how the figure of the innocent victim impacts on the representation of collective memory. Children´s perspective allows the audience to recognize and validate circumstances related to the internal conflict, which are otherwise alien to the viewers´ realities, but that contribute to the country´s collective memory. In order to accomplish this, the following work will focus on three films produced between 2011 and 2015: the animated documentary Little Voices, Alias María, and Los Colores de La Montaña. These three movies have been selected because all of them share common plots of children who were victims of the armed conflict.
2019-12-31T00:00:00ZThe Connection of Power, People, and Place: Evaluating Environmental Equity Content in the 100 Resilient Cities Strategies of Latin AmericaGiraldo, Katelynn Faithhttps://hdl.handle.net/1808/300872021-03-05T16:54:48Z2019-05-31T00:00:00ZThe Connection of Power, People, and Place: Evaluating Environmental Equity Content in the 100 Resilient Cities Strategies of Latin America
Giraldo, Katelynn Faith
This study explores the frequency and depth of equity content within nine 100 Resilient Cities (100 RC) Latin American resilience plans. The research contributes to previous academic discussions by showing how often and how substantively proposal phase resilience plans from Latin America communicate equity and justice, topics of human identity, and the pursuit of citizen inclusion through resilience proposals. Environmental Justice Theory (EJT) posits people cannot experience a positive relationship with the environment if procedural, geographic, or social inequities prevent them from participating in the environmental decision-making process. To conduct the study, I embedded the framework of EJT into an original analysis instrument to search for and quantify the equity terms within each plan from the sample. Alongside a second plan coder, I reviewed each occurrence of equity vocabulary and thematically coded each substantive instance as exemplative of equity and justice, topics of citizen identity, or inclusion. This combination of quantitative and qualitative coding facilitated analysis of equity patterns across 100 RC’s sample of Latin American strategies and verification of 100 RC’s alignment on strategy content with the organization’s mission statement. The analysis results present a wide variation of content breadth and depth across all plans, apart from the plans’ immense consistent content focused on topics of citizen identity. The implications of the analysis include advocating for increased pairing of substantive equity passages with actionable language and the pursuit of increased consistency of inclusion content within resilience plans.
2019-05-31T00:00:00ZUniversalism and Targeting the Poor: A Dual Approach to Fight Poverty in Brazil (1988-2001)Gregoire, Joaohttps://hdl.handle.net/1808/280732019-08-27T18:10:28Z2018-12-31T00:00:00ZUniversalism and Targeting the Poor: A Dual Approach to Fight Poverty in Brazil (1988-2001)
Gregoire, Joao
While much of the analyses on cash-transfer programs have focused on the governments of former Brazilian presidents Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva, this study shifts the focus to the regional programs developed in Brasilia and Campinas. Their revolutionary initiatives were the basis for this type of social policy. With this specific goal in mind, to undergo an historical study on the genesis of cash-transfer programs in Brazil, the focus of this research is to trace the origins of the convergence point, when the fight against poverty in Brazil aligned universal social rights jointly with a federal cash transfer program (Bolsa Escola).
2018-12-31T00:00:00ZA Woman's Place: The Cuban Revolution and Gender Inequality in the HomeRoss, April Kathleenhttps://hdl.handle.net/1808/277752019-05-01T08:00:31Z2003-05-31T00:00:00ZA Woman's Place: The Cuban Revolution and Gender Inequality in the Home
Ross, April Kathleen
This thesis is an empirical study of changes in Cuban women's public and private lives from the 1959 Revolution to 1990. It describes the colonial gender ideology that has influenced present-day male and female relations, behaviors, and gender roles, and has perpetuated sexual stereotypes. It also discusses how this ideology has prevented women's full equality in the home and gives examples from interviews, films, and literature to show where these inequalities in the home are still evident.
The interviews, films, and literature utilized in this study represent both Cuban and North American perceptions of women's status in Cuban society and in the home. In using these sources, the author is able to examine Cuban women's postrevolutionary roles, relations, and experiences in the most balanced way possible without first-hand travel to Cuba. The author includes Cuban women's (and a few men's) voices as much as possible through the use of previously conducted interviews.
This study concludes that Cuban gender inequality still exists in both the public and the private spheres, though more acutely in the private, and that this is the result primarily of the perpetuation of Spanish gender ideology. This ideology has placed women in a subordinate position vis-a-vis men and has assigned men and women unequal roles in society and the home. Women traditionally have been associated with la casa (the home) and men with la calle (the street), which has made it difficult for women to escape their domestic obligations.
iv, 100 leaves ; 29 cm. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 93-100).
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