Fernando Purcell
Biographic Data
| ID | 709349 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fernando Purcell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fernando |
| FAMILY NAME | Purcell |
| SIGNATURE | PURCELL F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Vital Ice
In light of contemporary geoengineering proposals to mitigate the impact of mining and climate change on glaciers in Chile, this article analyzes how imaginaries of glaciers have changed in recent decades. It focuses on recent proposals by consultancies and mining companies to relocate glaciers, including the transportation of over thirty thousand tons of ice to a valley with low exposure to the sun in 2007 to “save a glacier,” carried out under …
Teaching U.S. History in the World
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Thirsty Country
Objective/Context: This paper studies the role of the Chilean state during the great drought of 1967-1969 as a mediator between human beings and nature. Institutional adaptations and the effort to improve the infrastructure were elements of continuity with respect to previous droughts, but there were novelties as well, such as attempts to pursue weather modification and the artificial melting of glaciers. The support of technologies and scientist…
The Peace Corps in South America
Broadcasting Modernity
Yeidy M. Rivero's work is an important contribution to the study of television, modernity, identity, and politics in the second half of the twentieth century in Latin America and the Caribbean. The book addresses a series of efforts to portray Cuba as a developed nation by analyzing distinct technological, legal, commercial, political, and cultural aspects of Cuban television, which was among the earliest developed in the region and a true region…
Conectando realidades
This article examines the work of Peace Corps volunteers in South America during the 1960s. It argues that through their training in impoverished communities in the United States and their intervention in similar contexts in South America, these volunteers connected diverse visions of community action aimed at eradicating poverty. This allows an inclusion of a historical comprehension of the Peace Corps within the scenario of a Global War on Pove…
Amenizar, sincronizar, significar
This article deals with discussions and debates about the relationship between music and silent cinema in Chile. During the 1910s and 1920s music altered cinema's functionality. It shifted from the role of enlivening cinematic spectacles to a more complex one in which the challenge was synchronizing the content of images with appropriate music. The analysis here makes clear that this was part of a global phenomenon that included Chile. This becom…
Una mercancía irresistible. El cine norteamericano y su impacto en Chile, 1910-1930
This work analyzes the irruption of American cinema in Chile during the 1910s and 1920s with regard to its role in the formation of a market empire. Hollywood cinema became an irresistible commodity that all Chileans valued irregardless of their social position. Its social and cultural impact was enormous and turned the United States into a new paradigm of modernity. The consumption of movies, fashions, and manufactured products from the United S…
La comunidad mexicana en los Estados Unidos
This work seeks to stimulate, within Mexican historiography, greater understanding and research concerning the historical circumstances of early Mexican immigrant communities in the United States. The edited volume, comprised of four articles, succeeds in its main purpose by providing readers with a short but useful historical account of the experience of several Mexican immigrant communities between 1848 and 1940. However, the contributions are …
Culturas imperiales
Ricardo Salvatore did an excellent job on this ambitious volume that gathers the works of 12 renowned scholars from various disciplines to discuss issues regarding “imperial cultures” on three continents. The volume helps reconceptualize the relationship between imperialism and culture, and it is especially strong in repositioning the study of imperialism among historians, cultural critics, and social scientists in Latin America. For Latin Americ…
Conectando realidades
This article examines the work of Peace Corps volunteers in South America during the 1960s. It argues that through their training in impoverished communities in the United States and their intervention in similar contexts in South America, these volunteers connected diverse visions of community action aimed at eradicating poverty. This allows an inclusion of a historical comprehension of the Peace Corps within the scenario of a Global War on Pove…
Una mercancía irresistible. El cine norteamericano y su impacto en Chile, 1910-1930
This work analyzes the irruption of American cinema in Chile during the 1910s and 1920s with regard to its role in the formation of a market empire. Hollywood cinema became an irresistible commodity that all Chileans valued irregardless of their social position. Its social and cultural impact was enormous and turned the United States into a new paradigm of modernity. The consumption of movies, fashions, and manufactured products from the United S…
La comunidad mexicana en los Estados Unidos
This work seeks to stimulate, within Mexican historiography, greater understanding and research concerning the historical circumstances of early Mexican immigrant communities in the United States. The edited volume, comprised of four articles, succeeds in its main purpose by providing readers with a short but useful historical account of the experience of several Mexican immigrant communities between 1848 and 1940. However, the contributions are …
Culturas imperiales
Ricardo Salvatore did an excellent job on this ambitious volume that gathers the works of 12 renowned scholars from various disciplines to discuss issues regarding “imperial cultures” on three continents. The volume helps reconceptualize the relationship between imperialism and culture, and it is especially strong in repositioning the study of imperialism among historians, cultural critics, and social scientists in Latin America. For Latin Americ…
Una mercancía irresistible. El cine norteamericano y su impacto en Chile, 1910-1930
This work analyzes the irruption of American cinema in Chile during the 1910s and 1920s with regard to its role in the formation of a market empire. Hollywood cinema became an irresistible commodity that all Chileans valued irregardless of their social position. Its social and cultural impact was enormous and turned the United States into a new paradigm of modernity. The consumption of movies, fashions, and manufactured products from the United S…
Conectando realidades
This article examines the work of Peace Corps volunteers in South America during the 1960s. It argues that through their training in impoverished communities in the United States and their intervention in similar contexts in South America, these volunteers connected diverse visions of community action aimed at eradicating poverty. This allows an inclusion of a historical comprehension of the Peace Corps within the scenario of a Global War on Pove…
Amenizar, sincronizar, significar
This article deals with discussions and debates about the relationship between music and silent cinema in Chile. During the 1910s and 1920s music altered cinema's functionality. It shifted from the role of enlivening cinematic spectacles to a more complex one in which the challenge was synchronizing the content of images with appropriate music. The analysis here makes clear that this was part of a global phenomenon that included Chile. This becom…
Broadcasting Modernity
Yeidy M. Rivero's work is an important contribution to the study of television, modernity, identity, and politics in the second half of the twentieth century in Latin America and the Caribbean. The book addresses a series of efforts to portray Cuba as a developed nation by analyzing distinct technological, legal, commercial, political, and cultural aspects of Cuban television, which was among the earliest developed in the region and a true region…
The Peace Corps in South America
Thirsty Country
Objective/Context: This paper studies the role of the Chilean state during the great drought of 1967-1969 as a mediator between human beings and nature. Institutional adaptations and the effort to improve the infrastructure were elements of continuity with respect to previous droughts, but there were novelties as well, such as attempts to pursue weather modification and the artificial melting of glaciers. The support of technologies and scientist…
Teaching U.S. History in the World
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Vital Ice
In light of contemporary geoengineering proposals to mitigate the impact of mining and climate change on glaciers in Chile, this article analyzes how imaginaries of glaciers have changed in recent decades. It focuses on recent proposals by consultancies and mining companies to relocate glaciers, including the transportation of over thirty thousand tons of ice to a valley with low exposure to the sun in 2007 to “save a glacier,” carried out under …
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