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Imagined races : from environmental determinism to geographical authenticity in twentieth‐century Argentina
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Coletta, Michela (2018) Imagined races : from environmental determinism to geographical authenticity in twentieth‐century Argentina. Bulletin of Latin American Research . doi:10.1111/blar.12787 ISSN 0261-3050.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/blar.12787
Abstract
This article explores how Argentine intellectuals incorporated the natural environment into their accounts of the racial, cultural and political features of the nation. In the late nineteenth century environmental determinism, based on the assumption of a cause–effect relationship between geographical and racial factors, entered Argentina through three main routes: Lamarckism, Darwinism and Spencerianism. By the mid twentieth century, however, anti‐positivist philosophies had been fully incorporated into a body of work that analysed Argentina's socio‐historical foundations. This article examines the shift that occurred during the first half of the twentieth century in how those seeking to define race incorporated the environment into their arguments. The raza was commonly taken to be synonymous with nation. Selected works by sociologist and legal scholar Carlos Octavio Bunge (1875‐1918) and by writer and ensayista Bernardo Canal Feijóo (1897‐1982) will be analysed as influential yet overlooked examples of how ‘the problem of Argentine culture’ could not be separated from the question of nature understood in terms of both physical and human geography. The goal will be to reveal, firstly, the extent to which the notion of the interior as geographical and anthropological desert deeply informed the political vision of the early national period in relation to race and nation and, secondly, how later interpretations of the nation recast American nature as a foundational element of cultural authenticity based on a sentiment of geographical belonging.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races J Political Science > JC Political theory |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > Hispanic Studies Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Nationalism -- Argentína, Bunge, Carlos O. (Carlos Octavio), 1875-1918, Canal Feijóo, Bernardo, 1897-1982, Race | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Bulletin of Latin American Research | ||||||
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0261-3050 | ||||||
| Book Title: | Bulletin of Latin American Research | ||||||
| Editor: | Coletta, M. and Cadelo, A. | ||||||
| Official Date: | 22 June 2018 | ||||||
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| DOI: | 10.1111/blar.12787 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Coletta, M. (2018) Imagined Races: From Environmental Determinism to Geographical Authenticity in Twentieth‐Century Argentina, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.12787 . This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Description: | Special Section Article: Race and Geography in Latin American History |
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| Date of first compliant deposit: | 14 January 2019 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 22 June 2020 | ||||||
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