Imagined Races
From Environmental Determinism to Geographical Authenticity in Twentieth-Century Argentina
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4792017 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Coletta (0000-0003-0201-1814, University of Warwick, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 164-178 |
| Publication date | 2019-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of Latin American Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-3050 • E-ISSN: 1470-9856 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/blar.12787 |
| OpenAlex | W2808986182 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 20 |
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. Therazawas commonly taken to be synonymous with nation. Selected works by sociologist and legal scholar Carlos Octavio Bunge (1875-1918) and by writer andensayistaBernardo 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
Archaeology · Darwinism · Determinism · Epistemology · Natural (archaeology · Political science · Politics · Positivism · Race (biology · Relation (database · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Indigenous Cultures and History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Philosophy
The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies
Civilizing Nature
Race and Ethnicity in Latin America
Ortega y Gasset en la cultura hispanoamericana
Imagining the Nation in Nature
Rethinking Race in Modern Argentina
Territories of Difference
Patagonia
Imagining El Ser Argentino
The Prairies and the Pampas
Race and Nation in Modern Latin America
Latin American Social Thought
Epistemic Disobedience, Independent Thought and Decolonial Freedom
Patagonia as borderland
Making Sense of Modernity
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |