oscarguarin
PHD student of Social Sciences at the UNICAMP in Brazil. Bachelor’s degree (1995), and Master in History (2004). Assistant Professor at the History Department of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia.
Country: BRA
Abstract: A few days ago, in an academic meeting, I was surprised to hear from a renowned anthropologist woman that she had rejected a postdoctoral candidate. The reason? The candidate [...]
Abstract: For medicine, pregnancy is considered a disease and childbirth is part of a surgical protocol. The “clinicalization” of labor involves the intervention of a number of violent and invasive [...]
Abstract: The crisis has not spread, it has not been infected. Rather, it has been revealed in one country and another. It is not contagious as such, as happened in its [...]
Abstract: Mato Grosso do Sul is in flames. Kaiowa Guarani Indians have announced in a statement its imminent demise. The reason is a Regional Federal Court judgment that mandating that [...]
Lläufer, Sports Museum Cologne by PixelAnarchy. License: Public Domain Abstract: It is not true that in the Olympic competitions wins the best. Usually the richest wins. Well, certainly earns arguably [...]
Abstract: For the past three months a teachers’ strike has been taking place in Brazil. The movement has spread and reached 57 of the 59 federal universities. According [...]
One year after the events of September 11 in New York City, peculiar rumours spread in Colombia that the FARC was preparing a suicide attack with a plane on the presidential palace or the Congress building (CNN July, 25 [...]