This article examines the process of the transnationalization of the telenovela industry from a perspective that seeks to articulate economic and cultural analysis. Several objectives guide this analysis: first, studying an industry of great importance in the daily life of hundreds of millions of human beings; second, criticizing through a case study the a priori assumptions that globalization processes are both “homogenizing” and “deterritorialized.” The case of the telenovela industry shows that while certain differences are erased from the productions, new ones appear, and that not only do old territorial references continue to be meaningful but that new territorial references emerge (e.g., the city of Miami); third, discussing some tensions underlying the production of telenovelas as a sector of television and other entertainment industries, with particular attention to the tensions related to the production of markets and of representations of identities, especially to the construction of a transnational “Hispanic” identity.
Daniel Matosetores sociais, como também para a formação profissional oferecida pelas universidades, assim como a qualidade de pesquisa que referidas equipes realizam. Contudo, estes tipos de atividades não costumam contar com valorização institucional. Isto torna aconselhável que as universidades e os organismos de avaliação integrem estas modalidades de trabalho como um componente importante dos programas de estudos e lhe atribuam maior valorização em suas políticas de pesquisa e de carreira docente. Ainda que esta pesquisa tome como referência algumas experiências de universidades argentinas, o problema não se limita a esse país, pois se enquadra em alguns processos de alcance internacional, que se expressam em certas culturas institucionais, em algumas políticas e na crescente ascendência dos rankings universitários internacionais. Palavras-chave: Educação superior. Avaliação. Qualidade. Extensão. Vinculação social. Colaboração intercultural. Comunicação intercultural. Argentina.Abstract: This article discusses some contributions to the improvement of academic quality achieved by university teams through their extra-curricular activities carried out in collaboration with communities and social organizations. It also examines some factors that limit its further development and institutional appreciation. The research is based on over two hundred experiences, from forty Argentine public universities, developed by teams constituted by professors and students from different disciplines, some of them interdisciplinary, in varied social contexts. Some of these experiences are conceptualized by their participants in terms of university extension, social reach, service learning, action-research, or university voluntary work. Their common characteristic is that all of them have received support from the University Voluntary Program of the Secretary of University Policies, of the Ministry of Education of Argentina. The research leads to conclude that this kind of experiences not only contribute to enhancing the quality of life of involved social groups, but also the professional training provided by universities, as well as the quality of the research carried by these teams. Nevertheless, experiences of this kind usually are not institutionally valued. This makes advisable that universities and university evaluation agencies include this orientations of work as an important element of university activities, as well as that they enhance the value attribute to them in research policies and teacher performance assessment. Despite this research is based on some experiences developed from Argentine universities, the problem in question is not limited to this country, because it is related to some worldwide social processes, which are associated to certain institutional cultures, some policies, and the increasing impact of International University League Tables.
Representations of a transnational US Latina/o-'Latin' American identity are being produced and circulated by multiple social actors. The development of representations of this transnational identity does not have any particular pre-assigned meaning. Speculations about whether it may result in being more or less strategically beneficial are also taking place, but 'for whom?' and 'how?' become the obvious questions. The overall argument presented in this article may be summarized as follows. Identities are not legacies passively received but representations socially produced, and -in this sense -matters of social dispute. The case under discussion presents particular dimensions in connection with both the context of the present age of globalization and the histories of the US and the different 'Latin' American countries. Every and each collective identity construction highlights assumed similarities while obscuring presumed differences that at times may become more or less significant. Current representations of a US Latina/o identity as well as of a 'Latin' American identity and of an allencompassing transnational US Latina/o-'Latin' American identity entail images that, according to several social actors' representations, obscure differences that are significant. The existence of assertions of difference does not invalidate per se any social practices based upon representations of a US Latina/o-'Latin' American identity. Nevertheless, the existence of these assertions of difference makes it unavoidable to think that these identity representations by means of those representations of difference, be CULTURAL STUDIES 12(4) 1998, 598-620
Este texto ofrece un panorama general de las diversas modalidadesde colaboración entre pueblos indígenas y universidadesy otros tipos de instituciones de Educación Superior actualmenteen curso en América Latina, así como de las iniciativas propias yautónomas de algunas organizaciones indígenas en este campo.Adicionalmente, señala sus principales logros, problemas, desafíos,y confl ictos, los cuales generalmente se plantean con los Estados, através de sus organismos del área de educación.Palabras clave: pueblos indígenas, estados, educación superior.
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