{"title":"Questioning European Democracy? Versions of Representation in the 15M Movement and Podemos","authors":"Emmy Eklundh","doi":"10.1080/13260219.2022.2170729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13260219.2022.2170729","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the wake of the social movement mobilization after the 2008 financial crisis in Spain, many would like to argue that this has given rise to a new wave of left-wing political representation, such as the party Podemos. Left-wing populism is often seen as the natural continuation of protest movements and hailed as reinvigorating democracy by creating new forms of representation for the previously unrepresented. This article argues that the political subjectivity espoused by Podemos hails from a long European tradition built on rationality, masculinity, and nationalism. In opposition, the political subjectivities practiced by the many branches of the 15M provide a more novel critique of the European democratic system. The article questions the claims to democratic innovation by Podemos, and argues that without a closer engagement with how current party practices reinforce different forms of exclusion, the democratic promise of left-wing populism may be weaker than previously thought.","PeriodicalId":41881,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research","volume":"28 1","pages":"335 - 349"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44121885","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":"Recentralization of Health Systems: The Strengthening of Central Health Authorities in Brazil and Spain","authors":"Hélder Ferreira do Vale","doi":"10.1080/13260219.2023.2168296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13260219.2023.2168296","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The article analyzes the dynamics behind the recentralization of health systems in Brazil and Spain. Recentralization in Brazil and Spain occurred after a long decentralization process when central governments stepped up their monitoring and coordination roles over the health system as a response to the shortcomings of decentralization. The analysis herein explains why Brazil shows a higher degree of recentralization than Spain and reveals two causes of this outcome: first, the different strategies of central governments to sideline at least one subnational level of government during decentralization, and second, the type of opposition these governments faced in the approval of recentralizing measures. This article contributes to the literature on health reforms in two ways: first, it allows for a better grasp on the main factors affecting the advancement of recentralization, and second, it aids in identifying how temporality and territoriality interfere in the recentralization of health systems.","PeriodicalId":41881,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research","volume":"28 1","pages":"383 - 404"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49205313","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":"Discussing Media Manipulation in José Ricardo Morales’s Play Cómo el poder de las noticias nos da noticias del poder","authors":"Juan Alfredo Del Valle Rojas","doi":"10.1080/13260219.2023.2168729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13260219.2023.2168729","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article critically analyzes the media practices that intertwine private and public interests and the distortion of reality carried out by journalists in José Ricardo Morales’s play Cómo el poder de las noticias nos da noticias del poder (1969). This play is used as a case study to analyze the playwright’s ideas about using media as a manipulation tool to control and distract the audience in modern capitalist societies. The play’s analysis addresses interviews and the commodification/objectification of women as discursive devices of distraction producing false information in the media industry. This study establishes that Morales’s play reveals the cultural space of distraction used by the media, which contributes to creating a parallel narrative of possible futures, both defying national literary canons and anticipating several issues related to media intervention by corporate media and politicians in the 1960s.","PeriodicalId":41881,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research","volume":"28 1","pages":"426 - 441"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43818348","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":"An Archive of Emotions: On the Afterlives and Futurity of 15M","authors":"Jonathan Snyder","doi":"10.1080/13260219.2022.2170728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13260219.2022.2170728","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT On the tenth anniversary of the 15M protests, this article questions the affective world in which the protests materialized in 2011 in relation to the reception and mediation of 15M in its afterlives. Should future historians take up the task of documenting the shared affects and emotions in circulation around the events of 2011, what would this archive of emotions look like? How would one describe the affective world of the social context in which the 15M protests erupted in 2011? What experiences would this archive of emotions register as representative of both the time of 15M and the tempo in which, one decade later, its many ramifications continue to unfold? How can such an archive be kept alive—in a manner of speaking—thereby contributing to the reactivation of this repertoire of protest actions in the afterlives of 15M?","PeriodicalId":41881,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research","volume":"28 1","pages":"321 - 334"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47285952","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":"About the Authors","authors":"Jane Hanley","doi":"10.1080/13260219.2022.2087313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13260219.2022.2087313","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research (Vol. 28, No. 1, 2022)","PeriodicalId":41881,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138539772","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":"About the Authors","authors":"Jane Hanley","doi":"10.1080/13260219.2022.2087313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13260219.2022.2087313","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research (Vol. 28, No. 1, 2022)","PeriodicalId":41881,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138539743","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":"Class and Gender Roles: Narratives of Highly Skilled Mexican Women Migrants in Australia","authors":"G. Mejía, M. L. Vázquez Maggio","doi":"10.1080/13260219.2022.2069842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13260219.2022.2069842","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article explores gender role experiences interconnected with class among women of Mexican origin who have migrated to metropolitan Melbourne, Australia. Drawing on qualitative research data from twenty middle high-class and upper-class high-skilled Mexican women, and using an intersectionality prism via Anthias’s translocational positionality, we argue that the personal journey of highly skilled Mexican women’s migration/mobility and located adaptation brings changes to their social class/status and gender role identities. We attempt to ascertain how and why they re-evaluate, challenge, or renegotiate their Mexican class privileges, roles as professionals and as women, and how those roles relate to Australian social ordering. Their experience narratives highlight that most go through challenges in this renegotiation. From the participants’ point of view, some have renegotiated roles within their family units. At work, some feel recognized as professionals in a space which enables them to develop a deep sense of agency and make independent choices.","PeriodicalId":41881,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research","volume":"28 1","pages":"144 - 164"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43871365","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":"A New Era in Latin American Migration Scholarship in Australia","authors":"E. Kath","doi":"10.1080/13260219.2022.2131800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13260219.2022.2131800","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41881,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research","volume":"28 1","pages":"117 - 119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45199360","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":"Constructions of Mexicanidad in Australia: Mexico as an Exoticized, Postcolonial Other","authors":"Alice Cranney","doi":"10.1080/13260219.2022.2097293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13260219.2022.2097293","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This qualitative study examines the constructions of the so-called authentic Mexico, mexicanidad, in Australia. The limited contact between Australia and Mexico means that this phenomenon is still in its infancy, and as such, there is a gap in the literature. The aim of this article is to begin to fill this by examining the presence of mexicanidad in urban Australia, and the impact of this on young, urban Australians’ imaginings of Mexico. This study, conducted among Australian university students, examines how imaginings of Mexico, both positive and negative, are constructed by young Australians. The interviewees (re)produced a stylized pastiche of Mexico. Made in urban Australia, this imaginary comprises Frida-Kahlo-themed restaurants, Day-of-the-Dead exotica, and a fascination with the drug cartels. There are few Mexicans in Australia who might contest the misty-eyed Disneyfication of their cultures, and thus, mexicanidad in Australia operates as a vacant conceptual category into which cool yearnings can be inscribed. This article theorizes the construction of the social imaginary of Mexico in Australia, proposing that there is a presence in Australia of a pastiche version of mexicanidad, made up of both positive and negative imaginings. In the absence of a significant local expatriate population, Australian constructions of Mexico draw upon discourses of an exoticized, postcolonial Other. These imaginings operate as a largely empty conceptual box that serves as a holding space for Australians’ myriad desires, expectations and interpretations.","PeriodicalId":41881,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research","volume":"28 1","pages":"242 - 257"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45072543","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":"Chican@ Artivistas: Music, Community, and Transborder Tactics in East Los Angeles","authors":"Inés Durán Matute","doi":"10.1080/13260219.2022.2131809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13260219.2022.2131809","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41881,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research","volume":"28 1","pages":"313 - 316"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48582262","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}