HCIAS Working Papers on Ibero-America

Memory(s) and creation about the last military dictatorship in Argentina (2003-2019)

Aurélia Gafsi — 2024-04-18

This paper is focused on the memorial activism in the Argentinean society about the recent past. During the last military dictatorship (1976-1983), an illegal, repressive and systematic violence was used by the military and their civilian accomplices. The slogan “memory, truth and justice” illustrates the social demands provoked by this violence. Forty years after the end of the dictatorship, part of civil society still puts forward these revindications. These claims are inserted in the public space and the cultural sphere. In the last two decades, the transmission of individual memories and the denunciation of the last dictatorship’s illegal repression have been reflected in a diversity of productions, particularly artistic ones. In this paper, we put forward two types of memorial creations: murals and tiles; wondering how part of civil society commemorates the last dictatorship’s victims and narrates this traumatic past.

Overlapping protected areas and other designations in Central Chile: A multiscale governance analysis

Camila Muñoz Lobos — 2024-06-03

The protected areas have four types of governance in multiple scales: government, private, community, and shared. However, the lack of coordination among these has hindered the effectiveness of nature heritage protection efforts. This issue becomes apparent when protected areas overlap with other designations, resulting in a variety of regulations and administrators. Chile’s central zone there is overlapping in different protection units seek to compatibility the urban and productive growth with the protection of natural heritage. The analysis of synergies and/or duplications in protected areas’ overlaps with a multi-scale governance approach was the focus of the study. For this, was combined SIG analysis and review governance and protected areas’ rule system using secondary information sources. The results show that, out of 40 protection units, there are 88 spatial overlaps. Reviewing the case of overlapping in Sanctuary Nature Cerro El Roble, some duplications found were: 1) redundant protection functions distributed in different government sections; and 2) the regulation system does not generate accumulative protection benefits when designations are overlapped. On the other hand, synergies were: 3) a combination of global, regional and/or local protections makes more visible the relevance of protecting. The shared governance between private, local and government agents can be seen as a synergy and duplicity to protection. It is recommended to develop mixed regulatory models that consider both state regulations at different levels and contributions from the private sector. In this point, is crucial to emphasize that overlap can be a beneficial strategy to create synergies, as long as the different protection efforts and interests among stakeholders are effectively coordinated and aligned.

Mapping the Hispanic migration trends

Prof. Dr. Francisco Moreno-Fernández — 2024-04-18

This compact atlas presents several maps that attempt to outline the main keys to Spanish as a migratory language. From a historical perspective, it maps the first Spanish migration flows in the Americas and the main regional origins of the first settlers, the evolution of the ethnic composition of the population and migratory movements of communities such as the Italian, which influenced American Spanish. From a current perspective, the maps presented show the current trends of Latin American migration in the continent, from Central American flows to Hispanic migration to the United States and more recently to European destinations.

Spanish in Europe Today: Social Dynamics, Linguistic Spaces and Basis for Political Action

Óscar Loureda — 2024-08-01

The following pages quantify the Spanish-speaking population of Europe, describe its main features and show its most important dynamics, which are explained by the vitality of migratory flows and by the effects of the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language. A population study of Spanish speakers in Europe is presented, which allows us to approach the social and linguistic reality of Spanish on that continent and to plan policies in terms of culture, education and promotion of the language on an international level.

Truth Commission in Colombia and its digital strategy 2019-2022: The use of social media in peacebuilding

Manuel Faustino Cardozo Ruidiaz — 2024-12-20

Operating in a context marked by political and media hostility as well as the continuation of the armed conflict, the Truth Commission in Colombia (Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence and Non-Repetition, hereinafter TCC) faced an additional challenge that is unique to today’s time: the challenge of operating in a context where social media and digital communication are essential aspects of communicating and influencing. This trend heightened with the COVID-19 pandemic when digital communication became even more widespread than before. This, and the influence that digital communication and social media can have on young people, made the digital strategy a key component of the TCC’s communication general strategy. This article presents and analyzes the digital strategy that the TCC implemented during its mandate (2019-2022) to communicate its processes and products. The TCC’s digital strategy was a key tool for peace building as it enabled the TCC to establish its legitimacy and prepare a divided society for the delivery of the commission’s final report and recommendations.