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Proyectos modernizadores de la Fundación Ford en América Latina, 1927-1965

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ID7295251
AuthorsBenedetta Calandra (0000-0002-8361-1581, University of Bergamo, corresponding author)
Year2015
Issue34
Pages53-80
Publication date2015-12-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistoria y Política Ideas Procesos y Movimientos Sociales (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1575-0361 • E-ISSN: 1989-063X
PublisherCentro de Estudios Politicos y Constitucionales (PUBLISHER • ES)
DOI10.18042/hp.34.03
OpenAlexW2241002470
LanguageES
Citations received7
References cited15

The aim of the article is to reflect upon the role played by the Ford Foundation, a giant of American philanthropy in Latin America. The time frame spreads itself over four decades: since the first contact established by Henry Ford in Brazil in 1927, before the very birth of the Foundation, until the opening of the first official branch in Latin America at the beginning of the 60s. The analysis of the archive sources allows us to focus on two main issues, which are worth special attention. On the one hand, the type of «modernizing» interest of the Foundation with respect to the American subcontinent, which did not consist of one simple transfer of American know-how orientated towards «development», but which had a more global objective of the exportation of the American way of life in a cultural, social and political sense. On the other hand, it highlights the broad context of the Cold War, in the sense of the multiple intersections that were showed by this modernizing interest with strictly political dynamics

Archaeology · Art · Capital (architecture · Context (archaeology · Economic history · Exportation · Foundation (evidence · Humanities · Latin Americans · Political science · Politics · Historical Education Studies Worldwide · History · Law · Sociology and Education in Brazil · Twentieth Century Scientific Developments

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