Descargar Libro: Of Lands, Regions And Zones: The Poetics And Politics Of Non Urban Spaces In The 1960s In Brazil And Argentina

This dissertation examines the ways in which non-urban spaces were approached as objects of knowledge in Argentine and Brazilian essays, chronicles, and films in the 1960s. It is comprised of three case-studies. The first traces the role of spatial coordinates in 1960s political imagination, reconstructed through programmes for economic modernization (developmentalist agendas and the Doctrine of National Security), through Frantz Fanons thirdworldist understanding of political organization, and through Gunder Franks version of Dependency theory. The second study centers upon Brazils rural Northeast as evoked in Antonio Callados chronicles and economist Celso Furtados memoirs, that both simultaneously took up and challenged the terms by which developmentalisms mainly technical modernization sought to legitimate itself. The third case-study begins with the national horizon envisaged for Argentina by economist Rogelio Frigerios apology of industrialization as an agent of social homogenization. This horizon is then contrasted with two investigations on marginal spaces: Fernando Birris documentary film Tire die and Roberto Carris essay in which, by defining a new space, the area of colonial capitalism, Carri brings to the fore novel forms of political action. I situate each case-study at a crossroads between developmentalist hopes and blossoming liberation movements, demonstrating how each resignifies differently national and transnational coordinates. Critical theories of space, as well as intellectual history and discourse analysis constitute my readings methodological base, guiding my analyses of aspects that are often overlooked in studies of 1960s culture, particularly as regards the constitution of militant subjectivities and trajectories. Inspired by David Harvey and Henri Lefebvres theories and methods, I detect the constant presence of a technified prism in the spatial imagination of modernization, be it social or economic. I argue that the…

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