Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

The greatest value of our narrative, cloistered as it is under a roof of steel, is the self, which has left otherness and the collective in the dark. This narrative is rigorously ascribed to capitalist realism, centered on an essentialist, dehistoricized, emotional, and privatized self in terms of the narrative’s concern by his/her protagonist subject and his/her affective environment. It is also a narrative without expectations for the future, a constant journey towards a childish or adolescent past. The definition of the historical moment that Chilean literature is currently going through is that of a slow but determined decline towards insignificance. It is not about to disappear; on the contrary, it is being published abundantly, even in a pandemic. I do not mean that valuable works have not been published in this century. There are and in good number. Rather, we are witnessing a shift of the literary as a whole into an area of cultural insignificance; it is a narrative that is on the way to becoming a consumer niche defined by a decidedly declining rank. Literature seems not to be rebelling against this dramatic fact.

The essay investigates the ways in which some Chilean writings of the last decade have produced the limit scene of the end of times, the end of the world, and its afterlife. It is interesting to inquire how these fictions imagine the current crisis from the disruptive, shifting and also “exceptionalized” spaces of the boundaries of the end (confines, in Spanish), and how they produce, through the apocalyptic genre “masked, encrypted” (Derrida), another imagination of the present. A political critique that, revealing the current crisis as a crisis of the imagination of future, could re-guides our gaze on the limits of our time and the conditions for its overcoming. The essay also tries to think about these writings in a situated way, from an enunciation also in crisis, which assumes the contemporary in a trance of fall and transformation.

This reading of Patriagonia (2014), a collection of poems written by the Huichille-Chilean poet, Ivonne Coñuecar, delves into the aesthetics of three of her texts gathered in this edition: Catabática (2011), Adiabática (2009) and Anabática (unpublished until 2014) from a feminist and queer, intersectional and decolonial perspective. We explore the weavings of non-binary relationships of identity, territory and nation-state, as a series of geodesic and erotic, geopoetic and political revolts. The poetic speaker accounts for sparks and disruptive memory shifts, amidst multiple assemblages of power that encompass the body, the heteropatriarchal family and the capital centrality of the neoliberal state.

This essay asks the question of writing and the modes of narrating the crisis produced by the social outbreak in Chile. It aims at thinking possible languages for several aesthetic productions: texts, bodies, individual and collective signs that have enabled to propose meanings. The essay engages with languages written during or after the social outbreak; in a traditional genre or in an unconventional writing proposal; either on paper or using other mediums; with recognized authorship or in the anonymity of the streets and the popular voice. These languages show that the unknown, the still unsaid, the still without history are named in the imaginary power of diverse writings. Such diversity produces an enrichment of the literary in the way it relates to history.

I am interested in examining in a partial way -or perhaps too generally- and, even more, from a fictional perspective, the course of acute social dilemmas in a set of Chilean novels written since the 19th century. I attempt to think how and how much social pacts, places, the configuration of the elites and political powers have been modified in the 21st century. In fact, the main question of this essay is temporality and its capacity for social renewal. Or whether certain temporalities keep the same structures of domination overlapped, overlapped or wrapped in new discursive parameters.  

This text is based on the use of discursive power to show that the longevity of trade unionism could be responsible for preventing it from disappearing; this is why we have studied its origin. Methodologically we have relied on the critical analysis of specialized literature. Our results indicate that the emergence of mercantilism at the beginning of the Modern Age brought about profound changes in professional corporations, which basically tested two strategies at the Spanish level: the master craftsmen tried to increase their control over the production process and the workforce, which made it difficult for officers to access the upper levels of the trade; and the officers were organized under a visibly trade union institution. In conclusion, respect for the stratified order by officers forced them to replicate the associative formulas of their teachers. In addition, they assumed a critical participatory role in new forms of economic development, which led them to claim rights, working conditions and employment conditions that they had traditionally and legally enjoyed.

Entrepreneurial success in transforming ideas into realities is important for any society. The research question is whether successful entrepreneurs possess specific measurable qualities. Given that forming new companies is in itself a creative act, such companies should provide data that allow one to test an objective measurement of creativity. Hence, the research goal here is to create a test capable of measuring qualities observed in business creators. The methodology consists of applying the test to three groups (Normal, N = 2.126; Entrepreneur, N = 29, and Multi-entrepreneur, N = 8), analyzing the results, and selecting explanatory dimensions of the qualities detected by grouping items and comparing related literature. The results confirm significant differences (reliability> 95%) among the test groups; at higher levels of entrepreneurship, there were higher test scores (53.27 <63.09 <74.62). The 15 explanatory qualities detected are: efficient conversation, leadership, resolution, proactivity, activation, priority, realism, recognition, official experience, risk, tenacity, interaction, no rancor, empathy and equilibrium. To explain what the test measures, the term “convergent creativity” (materialization of ideas) is chosen, avoiding possible distortions of the word “creativity”.

This article addresses the characteristics and manifestations (beliefs and healing practices) of the Andean healers in Little Bolivia, an ethnic enclave located in Barrio Liniers of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. There one observes a field of religious practice in which various offerings forma market for symbolic healing goods within which the limits between legal and illegal, legitimate and regulated, are continuously shifting. This descriptive-exploratory qualitative research was done between 2013 and 2016 by means of in-depth interviews with healers. It aims to contribute to a better understanding of this social phenomenon that relates the fields of ethno medicine and sociology of religion to one another. The conclusions are that the Andean healers provide a new urban folk medicine that plays a healing role for people suffering from poverty, displacement and social exclusion.

In recent decades, companies in the clothing industry have adopted principles and criteria of environmental and social sustainability. The most innovative companies form a business hub called green fashion, sustainable fashion, eco-fashion, bio-fashion, ethical fashion, environmental fashion, ecological clothing or “slow fashion”. So, is this a passing trend or a structural change? Using the hypothetico-deductive method, bibliographic and statistical analyses and studies of published cases, this study investigates the environmental behavior of the main social sectors or stakeholders involved in the operation of the fashion industry. The results reveal that the change toward the greening of the clothing industry is in fact structural and is led by the most advanced countries. Contributions to this structural change come from public administrations via environmental, commercial and consumer legislation, from international NGOs by means of alert campaigns that raise consumers' environmental awareness, from researchers identifying chemical risks, and from designers and companies using ecologically friendly materials in fabrics and incorporating ethical practices in manufacturing processes.