Here is the whole issue of Arctic & Antarctic International Journal of Circumpolar Socio-Cultural Volume 16-17 - 2022-3
The Arctic & Antarctic International Journal of Circumpolar Socio-Cultural Issues
The Latin American Avant-Garde: Innovative Central American Women Writers
Hólmfríður Garðarsdóttir & Hasan Karakilinc (University of Iceland)
This article discusses how the Avant-Garde (s. vanguardia), as a cultural renovation intertwined with literary experimentation, offered a space for women to enter the literary scene traditionally occupied by men. These changes occurred at different pace in different countries and within genres, such as poetry, essays, and short story writing. After briefly contextualizing the Latin American cultural scene, a light will be shed on the way questioning women´s role and place in society might be considered as a feature of the Avant-Guard and women´s entry into the “new art”. The literary contributions of Carmen Sobalvarro (Nicaragua, 1908-1947/8), Matilde Elena López (El Salvador, 1923-2010), Pilar Bolaños (El Salvador 1923-1961) and Yolando Oreamuno (Costa Rica, 1916-1956), will serve as roadmaps to an enhanced understanding of the topic.
Driftage and (Super) natural Entanglements (Université Paris-Saclay, Institut de Recherches Arctiques Jean Malaurie)
Kristinn Schram & Alice Brower (University of Iceland)
The nature-culture entanglements of Arctic and Subarctic coasts are discussed here with a focus on the non-human actants present in myths, legends and personal experience narratives that reveal worldviews and belief systems. It explores these dynamics on Iceland’s northern shores and engages with how driftage (e.g. of flora and fauna and nature-cultural material), landscape and the human experiences within it are narrated. Folkloristic enquiry and ethnography are furthermore applied in the study of narratives that themselves question ontological assumptions and established boundaries.
“Geography of Art”: an interdisciplinary project in the long term. The Northern Dimension
Olga Lavrenova Institute of Scientifiс Information for Social Sciences Russian Academy of Sciences (INION RAN)
Olga Lavrenova Institute of Scientifiс Information for Social Sciences Russian Academy of Sciences (INION RAN/
At the turn of the 21st Century, social policies became one of the fundamental links on which the current capital accumulation regime is based, given their massive nature and global character. The so-called Conditional Cash Transfer Programs (CCT) marked a milestone in this direction. The objective of this article is to study the consumption practices – the what and how - that CCTs model on their recipients and their relationship with credit, is in Buenos Aires City. The qualitative designed methodology used is based on documentary analysis and semi-structured interviews conducted with CCTs’ recipients and public servants involved in their design and implementation.
Consumption, credits, and social policies in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Florencia Chahbenderian Center for Social Research and Studies, CIES, Buenos Aires) (IADCOM-CICLOP, FCE (University of Buenos Aires)
The Geography of Art project, initiated in 1994 by geographer Yu. A. Vedenin and subsequently developed by philosopher and cultural critic O.A. Lavrenova, explores the complex interrelationship between culture, art, and geographical space. The project published its inaugural collection of articles in the same year and held its first scientific conference in 2008. Its research scope encompasses a broad spectrum of topics, including the spatial distribution of artworks, the historical evolution of artistic styles, and the distinctive artistic representations of localities, regions, and both real and virtual spaces. Furthermore, the project examines the semiotic processes through which art inscribes meaning onto space and its role in the construction of cultural landscapes.