{"title":"Identidades en el fondo. Algunas notas sobre el trabajo con archivos personales a partir de la experiencia del acervo de Gino Germani","authors":"A. Grondona","doi":"10.1387/pceic.24149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1387/pceic.24149","url":null,"abstract":"A partir de la presentación de algunos problemas y dilemas vinculados al trabajo con el fondo documental del sociólogo ítalo-argentino Gino Germani (1911-1979), recientemente repatriado a la Universidad de Buenos Aires, el texto se propone enfocar las sinuosidades de la identidad y de la herencia en los archivos personales, como ámbito específico de la práctica de investigación y producción cultural. Para ello, y a partir de la noción de «heterogeneidades discursivas» elaborada desde el análisis materialista de los discursos, nos centramos (y desestabilizamos) una noción que funciona como pivote en la archivística clásica, la de «sujeto productor». En ese despliegue, se abren paso distintos modos de interrogar las identidades múltiples que se refractan/reflejan en los archivos personales. Hacia el final del texto retomamos, además, aquello que rehúye a ser representado en el archivo y que lo desborda como «deshecho» o «resto».","PeriodicalId":41605,"journal":{"name":"Papeles del CEIC-International Journal on Collective Identity Research","volume":"338 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76907064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recent middle class studies. Historical and ethnographic contributions for a renewed research agenda","authors":"S. Visacovsky","doi":"10.1387/pceic.24307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1387/pceic.24307","url":null,"abstract":"This text presents the dossier Middle classes: recent historical and ethnographic contributions. The aim of this dossier is to present the renewed path taken by studies on the middle class carried out in the last twenty-five years. A significant part of this research is mainly (but not exclusively) historical and ethnographic and differs from pre-existing studies in its focus on the middle class and the questions it raises. What has characterized this field of studies is less the unified character of its theoretical-analytic perspective and more an agenda based on problems that the usual approaches have not been able to solve or even formulated. Basically, several aspects that had been taken for granted until then were problematized: the “given” character of the middle class; its universalism; the supposed correlation between objective conditions and ways of thinking and acting; and underestimation of internal heterogeneity. Instead, these studies addressed the processes of historical formation of the middle classes, the specificities of national contexts, and the diverse practices of identification and delimitation in everyday life. After the texts by David S. Parker and Mark Liechty in the Fundamentals section, the issue features contributions by Moises Kopper, Leela Fernandes, and Anna Jefferson and Charlotte Perez. The number also includes contributions by Marco Maureira-Velásquez y Diego González-García, Kristina Grünenberg and Anja Simonsen, and Pablo Francescutti in the research articles section, and by Luis Enrique Alonso and Carlos J. Fernández Rodríguez, and Ana Grondona in the Inherited Identity section. The issue also gathers, in the critical papers section, three contributions regarding middle classes (by Lucía Gandolfi Ottavianelli, Markus Shall Enk and María Florencia Blanco Esmoris) and two additionals by Ramón Ramos Torre, and María Martínez.","PeriodicalId":41605,"journal":{"name":"Papeles del CEIC-International Journal on Collective Identity Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75907927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Barbosa Cruz, Mario, López-Pedreros, A. Ricardo, y Stern, Claudia (Eds.) (2022). The middle classes in Latin America: Subjectivities, practices and genealogies. New York: Routledge","authors":"F. Blanco","doi":"10.1387/pceic.24269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1387/pceic.24269","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41605,"journal":{"name":"Papeles del CEIC-International Journal on Collective Identity Research","volume":"375 2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75708992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Visacovsky, Sergio, y Garguin, Enrique (2021). Argentina y sus clases medias: panoramas de la investigación empírica en ciencias sociales. Buenos Aires: Biblios","authors":"Lucia Gandolfi Ottavianelli","doi":"10.1387/pceic.24138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1387/pceic.24138","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41605,"journal":{"name":"Papeles del CEIC-International Journal on Collective Identity Research","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79912610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ideas of class","authors":"David S. Parker","doi":"10.1387/pceic.23787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1387/pceic.23787","url":null,"abstract":"This text was originally published by David S. Parker in 1998 as an introduction to the book The Idea of the Middle Class: White-Collar Workers and Peruvian Society, 1900-1950, published by Penn State University Press. In the book, the author reflects on the union organization of private employees in Lima (Peru) and the origin of the 1924 law that established a legal distinction between empleado (white-collar employee) and obrero (blue-collar worker). Both the “constructivist” school and the linguistic turn argue that social classes are abstractions, inventions of the collective imaginary, that is, ideas that compete in an ideological market. Among the infinite ways of conceptualizing society, only a few images and discourses become common sense, influencing the formation of identities and inspiring laws and public policies. This text affirms and characterizes that the formation of the middle class concept in Peru is due to ideological, discursive and political processes.","PeriodicalId":41605,"journal":{"name":"Papeles del CEIC-International Journal on Collective Identity Research","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83735171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Albertín Carbó, Pilar, y Langarita Adiego, José Antonio (Eds.) (2021). Prostitución, contextos fronterizos y corporalidad. Diálogos para la acción. Barcelona: Icaria","authors":"Miguel Ángel Martínez","doi":"10.1387/pceic.23964","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1387/pceic.23964","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41605,"journal":{"name":"Papeles del CEIC-International Journal on Collective Identity Research","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84103012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Middle-Class Déjà Vu: Conditions of Possibility from Victorian England to Contemporary Kathmandu","authors":"M. Liechty","doi":"10.1387/pceic.23897","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1387/pceic.23897","url":null,"abstract":"Although the term “middle class” is often invoked, almost never is the concept defined or theorized in any systematic, coherent manner. What is a middle class or middle-classness? Is there one middle class or many? How are we to understand relationships between middle-class formations in different times and places? Combining perspectives from both anthropology and history, this paper tries to address the problem of how it is that we can call groups “middle class” even if they are culturally very different and separated widely in time and space. How do we conceptualize “middle class” theoretically to account for both what is similar, and what is different? Drawing on the concept of “conditions of possibility”, this paper offers a historical and spatial model of middle class formation, one that attempts to theorize the formation of middle classes, and the emergence of differences between them, in terms of historical processes and patterns of inter- and intra-class spatialization. This involves conceptualizing the emergence of middle classes in the context of global capitalism while also avoiding the teleological reduction that labels some middle-class cultures as merely derivative of others.","PeriodicalId":41605,"journal":{"name":"Papeles del CEIC-International Journal on Collective Identity Research","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88552154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discursos expertos sobre el cambio climático en España: comunicar las incertidumbres o no, esa es la cuestión","authors":"Pablo Francescutti","doi":"10.1387/pceic.23896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1387/pceic.23896","url":null,"abstract":"En las disposiciones sociales ante el cambio climático influyen notablemente las incertidumbres que lo envuelven. Su conocimiento, a su vez, depende de los expertos: los actores legitimados para producir un saber válido sobre el clima. Como en España sus puntos de vista apenas han sido estudiados, este artículo los aborda mediante un análisis del discurso generado en entrevistas en profundidad a especialistas en la materia. Los discursos examinados a través de la óptica de la «sociología de la ignorancia» revelan una aguda conciencia de las incertezas científicas, unida al temor a que sean utilizadas para justificar el negacionismo y la inacción. La visión del futuro común amenazado por el calentamiento global es sombría, en contraste con el horizonte individual, menos pesimista. Se reafirma la división epistemológica entre expertos y legos, aunque para algunos son posiciones intercambiables. Hay acuerdo en que los especialistas deben asesorar e informar a las instituciones y la sociedad, aunque les cuesta comunicar las incertidumbres; y discrepan en cuanto a la conveniencia de exponerlas a los legos. El análisis concluye que el cambio climático —sumado a las dudas suscitadas por el COVID-19— aboca a los expertos españoles a afrontar las incertidumbres científicas y a sopesar los pros y contras de su comunicación pública.","PeriodicalId":41605,"journal":{"name":"Papeles del CEIC-International Journal on Collective Identity Research","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88646873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In the Name of the Public: The Middle Classes and the State in Liberalizing India","authors":"Leela Fernandes","doi":"10.1387/pceic.23741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1387/pceic.23741","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyzes the political dynamics of middle class claims of representativeness of the public interest in contemporary India. Drawing on research in the post-liberalization period, the article examines the ways in which the “publicness” of the middle classes produces a distinctive relationship between this social group and state power. In the process, the middle classes both become a vehicle for the exercise of state power and are able to benefit from this relationship. Middle class claims on the public interest allow this social group to shape governmental responses and policies. This allows this social group to gain indirect access to state power and access to material resources. An analysis of the publicness of the middle classes is critical for an understanding of the nature of socioeconomic inequality. The article draws on a case study of urban governance and water resources in contemporary India and is based on qualitative research and fieldwork.","PeriodicalId":41605,"journal":{"name":"Papeles del CEIC-International Journal on Collective Identity Research","volume":"235 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80328451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"De la disciplina al éxtasis: la evolución de la identidad corporativa en el discurso gerencial","authors":"L. Alonso, C. F. Fernández Rodríguez","doi":"10.1387/pceic.24021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1387/pceic.24021","url":null,"abstract":"En las últimas décadas, se ha generado un importante debate sobre la fragmentación de las identidades en la sociedad contemporánea, con discusiones intensas sobre cuestiones como el individualismo, los roles de género o el regreso del nacionalismo. Sin embargo, en general se ha prestado menos atención a un espacio como es el de las organizaciones económicas y en particular la empresa, donde sin lugar a dudas también la cuestión de la identidad puede estar jugando un papel relevante. En este trabajo, nuestro objetivo va a ser el de discutir el fenómeno de la identidad corporativa, tomando cuenta su evolución histórica a lo largo de los últimos cien años (en los que se ha experimentado una creciente fragmentación de las identidades corporativas ante los relevantes cambios de las políticas gerenciales) y los análisis críticos que se han generado en torno a la misma, añadiendo unas conclusiones en las que se discute el impacto sociológico de estos cambios.","PeriodicalId":41605,"journal":{"name":"Papeles del CEIC-International Journal on Collective Identity Research","volume":"56 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79104644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}