Archive for February 2012

Forthcoming Review Article: "Seeing and the State in Argentina, Brazil, and Cuba"

Forthcoming in the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology:

Seeing and the State in Argentina, Brazil, and Cuba
by Christine Folch

A review of:
The Optic of the State: Visuality and Power in Argentina and Brazil. Jens Andermann, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007. 256 pp.

Hidden Powers of State in the Cuban Imagination. Kenneth Routon, Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2010. 204 pp.

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[Update] Argentina vs U.K. conflict over Malvinas/Falkland Island

From British Forces News, HMS Dauntless is deployed to the South Atlantic:



Prince William arrives in the Falkland Islands today as the HMS Dauntless, a destroyer class ship, is deployed to the islands. This was all, per Britain's government, planned before the escalating rhetoric between Argentina and Britain over possession of the islands. Meanwhile, the Argentine foreign ministry lamented that Prince William was arriving "wearing a conqueror's uniform" and not "with the wisdom of a statesman who works for peace and dialogue between nations." An interesting analysis of this: Falklands tensions serve all parties--except the Falklanders.

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