Critical Perspectives
(Asynchronous Session - Online)
Bioethical Considerations on the Crisis of the Latin American and Colombian Penitentiary System : Alternatives from Transitional Justice View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Melba-Luz Calle-Meza, Juan Carlos Hoyos Rojas
This paper presents some critical considerations of the Latin American and Colombian penitentiary system based on the review of the meaning and evolution of the principles of bioethics and the exploration of contractualist theories raised by Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu and Rousseau. For this purpose, a retrospective documentary investigation was carried out with a ten-year observation framing (2010/2020). The result highlights the setback of a Latin American criminal policy incapable of minimizing crime, which can be associated with factors of poverty, marginality, inequality, and social exclusion. While the states instrumentalize the person deprived of liberty under the protection of an absurd and unattainable resocilizing treatment. With this starting point, attention is drawn to the increasing disintegration and deterioration of the prison society in Colombia, whose prison system reflects all these characteristics that violate the principle of respect for human life and dignity, with a rate of overcrowding that exceeded in 2018 365 percent, in some main detention centers. However, the new model of transitional justice, which favors truth and reparation over custodial sentences, could be considered, from the beginning of bioethics, as a systemic alternative for the solution of the regional prison crisis.
Endometriosis Warriors: Patient Accounts of (Mis)diagnosis, (Mis)trust, and Self-Advocacy View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Arline Votruba
Although endometriosis impacts about 176 million people with female reproductive anatomy between the ages of 15 and 49, it takes an average of ten years between the onset of symptoms and medical diagnosis of endo patients. This ethnographic report addresses the question of why delayed diagnosis occurs through interviews with people that self-identify as having endometriosis. The report focuses on cultural factors such as the normalization of women’s pain and relationships of (mis)trust that result in (mis)diagnosis that contribute to the delayed diagnosis of endo. Additionally, the report details the role of self-education and self-advocacy in relationship to diagnosis and achieving positive outcomes for endometriosis warriors. It is not until endo warriors disrupt the expectation of their gender, often repetitively or for many years, that they might finally convince their doctor to reconsider their menstrual related complaints. Endometriosis impacts female reproductive anatomy, thus complicating each respective diagnosis with cultural expectations of gender. I consider endometriosis warrior’s delayed diagnosis through work that centers the voices and accounts of those who are living with the condition in order to extend our understanding of endometriosis, gendered illness, and the road to treatment in a system plagued by medical sexism.
International Mobility between China and the European Union in the Cultural and Creative Industries: An Example Case of Chinese Cultural Workers in Spanish Artistic Residencies View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Silvia María Gonzalez Fernandez
This paper analyses the mobility of artists as a tool to develop local destinations, improve and exchange cultures between countries. I discuss the main barriers to be avoided by creative professionals travelling abroad and enjoying artistic learning experiences in China and Europe. I focus on the Spanish residencies that have hosted Chinese artists, aiming to segment the market so that I can select the most suitable sample to study. Basing its methodology on in-depth interviews and Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping, the paper examines the literature on cultural labour mobility. The main findings reveal connections between mobility, creativity, urban progress, and economic development.
Cognitive Humanities: Probing the Research Field, Mapping Knowledge Structure View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Bartosz Hamarowski
Significant changes have been observed in recent decades towards developing more cross-disciplinary research in the humanities. One of the clearest examples of this tendency and what some found to be one of the most promising undertakings in contemporary academia is the growing area of cognitive humanities. Nevertheless, despite the theoretical and methodological advancements within specific subfields of cognitive humanities, very little has been said about the research field as a whole. This paper is a preliminary attempt to define the genealogy and the scope of cognitive humanities. In order to accomplish the research objective two diverging, yet complementary methodological strategies have been employed. The first, which may be called probing, involves a close reading analysis of cognitive humanities “self-histories” written by some of the most prominent scholars in the field. Thereby, I reconstruct those narratives put forward from within the research movement to indicate the internal dynamic of the field’s development. The second strategy utilizes the bibliometric analysis technique to identify those research currents and overall characteristics, which might have been omitted from a close-distance (probing) perspective. The data were collected from Web of Science (Arts & Humanities Citation Index) and subsequently analyzed and visualized through commercially available software (Sci2, Bibliometrix, Gephi). Data analysis was carried out, taking into account four properties: temporal, geospatial, topical, and network. As a result, a multilevel overview of the field of cognitive humanities has been provided.
