Argentina's publicly-funded "science" [EXPLAINED]
Posted: Fri May 13, 2022 9:35 pm
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For the nerds: The word "memory" in the context of social sciences in Argentina refers to the idea of remembering the "30,000 missing people™ " of the 1970's dictatorship; a number as reliable and unquestionable as that of the holocaust. Funny how they want you to remember the fact that they got a free helicopter ride but not the bombs these innocent folks planted in public places as part of a socialist revolution."Communitary theatrical practices and memory"
"Cyber-and-hack-tivisms. Assortment of subjectivities, trajectories and lore in cyber-resistances"
(It was in uppercase)"GENDER IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ECO-TECHNOLOGIES"
And my personal favourite:
Here's another: https://ri.conicet.gov.ar/handle/11336/54604"Is it full of faggots, trannies, sissies, indians and niggers?" Processes and practices of politization of dissident sexualities in the province of Jujuy, Argentina.
Social representations in child film [sic]: Nationality, race, culture and class in “The Lion King”
Now, you may be wondering why some of the titles don't appear to make much sense. Is it a mistake on my end? Couldn't I have paraphrased it in a more palatable way for an anglophone audience? Perhaps. But I chose to leave it that way to show you the level of buzzwording that accompanies the social "sciences" in our country. In all fairness, we can't blame them; it's a common Argentinian practice to use buzzwords in order to impress others or get a higher grade on a test.
As you can imagine, this is what the people who run these projects look like: