This thesis explores traditional healthcare in Ecuador through the figure of La Partera, the indigenous midwife. La Partera is a vital part of traditional healthcare. Many indigenous women feel it...Show moreThis thesis explores traditional healthcare in Ecuador through the figure of La Partera, the indigenous midwife. La Partera is a vital part of traditional healthcare. Many indigenous women feel it is essential that they are accompanied through pregnancy and childbirth by a Partera. Not only does she have experience but also a vast knowledge of the traditional medicines used to aid in childbirth. The problem occurs when one considers that the Ecuadorian healthcare system does not cater to Parteras or any traditional healthcare practices, especially considering the large number of indigenous people in Ecuador. Ecuador has an obligation to provide intercultural healthcare facilities to its population as it defines itself as a multicultural society. Healthcare practices being a part of culture, the Ecuadorian healthcare system needs to incorporate indigenous traditional healthcare in order to be a multicultural society.Show less
As the presidential campaign has escalated polarization among Brazilian voters it is significant to understand how certain social movements have reacted to the political and social issues that the...Show moreAs the presidential campaign has escalated polarization among Brazilian voters it is significant to understand how certain social movements have reacted to the political and social issues that the country faces. In particular, the feminist movement played an important role in define their position against the candidate Jair Bolsonaro organizing the #EleNão movement, thus the interest of studying the emersion of the identity. Further, this dissertation investigates what kind of feminist identity emerged from the movement #EleNão during the presidential campaign of 2018 in Brazil? In order to advance this research, the author of this paper has critically analyzed the ideological discourses of two texts (one manifesto and one Facebook publication) of what it is considered to be part the feminist identity group construction of the #Ele Nao movement.Show less
This Bachelor's thesis is an analysis of Patricio Guzmán's 1997 film "Chile, La Memoria Obstinada", which he made upon returning from exile to post-dictatorship Chile. The film aimed to show his...Show moreThis Bachelor's thesis is an analysis of Patricio Guzmán's 1997 film "Chile, La Memoria Obstinada", which he made upon returning from exile to post-dictatorship Chile. The film aimed to show his internationally famed 1975 film "La Batalla de Chile", and reconnect the population with the tabooed past of La Unidad Popular and Salvador Allende. It explores how the structure of the film is a metaphor for Guzmán's belief that "a country without documentary cinema is like a country without a photo album." By using theories of collective memory, post-memory, and the powerful trope of the family, the effect of Guzmán's approach to the challenge of re-engaging different generations of Chileans with an obscured past is assessed.Show less
This thesis analyses the legacy of "tierras malhabidas" from the military dictatorship in Paraguay (1954-1989), and its implications on the country's process towards achieving a consolidated...Show moreThis thesis analyses the legacy of "tierras malhabidas" from the military dictatorship in Paraguay (1954-1989), and its implications on the country's process towards achieving a consolidated democracy, through the case study of "La masacre de Curuguaty".Show less
This work investigates an unexplored topic, that of the Latin American imaginary of students (Colombians and Mexicans) who follow postgraduate studies in Holland. Analyzing the stories requested of...Show moreThis work investigates an unexplored topic, that of the Latin American imaginary of students (Colombians and Mexicans) who follow postgraduate studies in Holland. Analyzing the stories requested of the students, the author evidences the components of the dynamics of self-representation, while describing essential elements of the context in which this phenomenon occurs: center-periphery, inclusion-exclusion, Latin America as Edenic vision and Holland as a Desired destination. In this sense, an important contribution is the description of the Netherlands and its functioning as a recipient country based on a critical interpretation of the stories of the interviewees. The image that emerges reveals the Dutch Academy as a space different from the one originally destined from the migrant imaginary. In the work on the dynamics of adaptation, it has also investigated the role played by the social spaces (e.g. student associations) of whose role and contribution in the construction of the feeling of community this work leaves record. Important is the fact that the student's reflection combines a topic of current debate -as the presence of international students- and a little-studied area: that of their cultural practices and their peculiar dynamics in the course of their adaptation process. At the same time, it records the way in which these processes, which take place in the West, generate modifications in the way of conceiving, seeing or projecting for the future of the students upon their return to Latin America. An innovative thesis not only in the subject but in the original application of the theoretical body and above all in the declared intention to participate, from the Academy, in the social debate.Show less
