História Unisinos

Apresentação: Los otros espacios historiográficos en el siglo XX-XXI: recepciones, tensiones, traducciones, simultaneidades

2025-06-17T13:55:07-03:00

Introducción de dossier " Los otros espacios historiográficos en el siglo XX-XXI: recepciones, tensiones, traducciones, simultaneidades"

Cultural diplomacy, travel, and historical knowledge on China in Latin America. The work of Olga Poblete from the 1930s to the Cold War

2024-06-30T23:06:11-03:00

This article examines the construction of knowledge about Asia and China in Chile through written accounts of travel to China. Using as a case study Olga Poblete’s essay on the history of Asia (1933), a travel book about the People’s Republic of China (1953) and a volume of essays on China’s cultural history (1955), the article argues that the travel to China contributed to the elaboration and circulation of historical knowledge about China in Chile. It explores how the circulation of ideas and individuals fostered the production of transnational knowledge and supported the development of Asian studies in Latin America from the 1930s through the Cold War. Furthermore, it proposes that such knowledge on China contributed to the formation of a historiographic field focused on Asia, reflecting on the role of travel in cultural diplomacy and knowledge production.

Chile, a political laboratory? Recent contributions in Italian historiography and academic networks

2024-06-30T13:54:12-03:00

The aim of this article is to provide a synthesis of Italian historical production dedicated to studying the events in Chile from the 1960s to the present.Methodologically, we have conducted several prosopographies in order to map academic networks and the participation of authors in monographs published both in the Italian peninsula and in the Andean nation during the Popular Unity period and in the following decades. We also examine the emergence and use, in the 2000s, of the conceptual category “Latin American political laboratory” within research on Chile in the Italic context. Regarding the sources used, they consist of written documents gathered from various repositories, libraries and archives in Italy. The novelty of this article lies in the author’s use of field notes written during his academic training (in Rome and Naples), drawn from conversations with some of the scholars mentioned and from participant observation and action research.

Frank Tannenbaum y México, la lucha por la paz y por el pan (1951). Una polémica en los inicios de la Guerra Fría

2024-07-01T00:08:29-03:00

This article walks through different aspects of the debates that took place around the book México, la lucha por la paz y por el pan (1951), written by Frank Tannenbaum and published by the journal Problemas Agrícolas e Industriales de México. These controversies included different actors from the political and intellectual arena, who attempted through their participation to establish their own position in the public sphere. Although historiography has concentrated on the discussions surrounding industrialisation, this article shows the broad scope of the debate, which also addressed issues such as nationalism, the institutionalisation of different academic disciplines and Mexican democratic conditions. The aim of this article is both to question certain historiographical practices and to understand the dynamics of public debates at the beginning of the Latin American Cultural Cold War.

Relational Space in Epeli Hau‘ofa’s Postcolonial Thought

2024-01-30T23:21:01-03:00

Epeli Hau‘ofa (1936-2009) was a Tongan anthropologist and writer based in Fiji. He shaped and inspired an entire generation of anthropologists and historians studying island societies across the Pacific Ocean Basin (Pacifika). In the 1990s, Hau‘ofa experienced his “road to Damascus”, in which he revitalized Oceania studies from a critique of his own practice as a social scientist and proposed a new conceptualisation of pelagic space. His essays “Our Sea of Islands” (1994), “The Ocean in Us” (1998) and “Pasts to Remember” (2008) marked a turning point in regional studies by breaking with the colonial tradition of dividing the Pacific by island groups, and by proposing new alternatives of cultural geography and new correlations between space and identity. This paper engages with Epeli Hau‘ofa’s work and analyses them in terms of their relational and societal value, as well as its relevance for historiography. It is a contribution to the intellectual history of the Pacific, analysing Hau‘ofa’s texts and situating them within broader debates on spatial configuration, nationalism and postcoloniality that preceded and informed his thought.