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El mito de la globalización se tambalea. En la sociedad abierta asentada en los ideales de la transparencia, la comunicación y la democracia surgen perfiles inesperados e inquietantes. La pulsión reactiva y esencialista se abre paso en nuestro tiempo, devolviendo a la modernidad al punto de partida del que siempre ha querido distanciarse: la violencia. Esta arraiga en el imaginario de la modernidad tardía. Ya no surge de una racionalidad expansiva y de sus expresiones tecnocráticas relatadas por la filosofía y la sociología contemporáneas. En el actual modelo de la sociedad de las singularidades,expuesto por Andreas Reckwitz, la imagen victoriosa del capitalismo estético y de valores como la autorrealización, la exploración personal, la expresividad, la tolerancia, entre otros, se ve contestada por los sectores perdedores de la sociedad, que no se ven representados por esa imagen del mundo triunfante. La indignación se abre paso. La precariedad social, el malestar generalizado y la incertidumbre y la desprotección crecientes promueven climas y ambientes en los que se anuncian nuevos salvadores y redentores. Sus recursos no son la deliberación y el consenso sino la radicalidad y el populismo.
For decades, Mexican leaders and scholars as well as outside observers have spoken of a Mexican university system in crisis, expressing concern over student political activism and violence, declining quality of instruction and facilities, crowded campuses, and lack of employment for graduates. When the government harshly suppressed a student movement in 1968, world attention focused on the turmoil that was endemic in university life. During the severe economic slump of the 1980s, the fundamental weaknesses of the Mexican economy—its inefficiency and inability to compete in the world—were often attributed to failings of the university system. Using original quantitative data on the graduates of all Mexican universities in a dozen major professional fields since 1929, the author explores the nature of this purported "crisis" by examining a series of questions about the Mexican university system: How have the changing policy priorities of the Mexican government affected the university’s education of professionals? How have the Mexican economy’s needs for professionals shaped the functioning of the university system? Has Mexico trained "enough" professionals? Have they been trained in the "right" fields? Has the university been able to respond to demands for upward mobility through higher education? The author’s detailed analysis reveals a paradox: to the extent that Mexican universities may not be producing the kinds of expertise needed for competing in the new global marketplace, that educational quality has declined gradually over time, and that the university has not contributed much to social mobility, one may indeed speak of a crisis. Yet because the university system has reached its present form in response to demands placed on it be government, the economy, and society, responding pragmatically to circumstances beyond its control, the author concludes that the crisis is not fundamentally a university crisis, but rather one that lies in Mexican economy and society at large.
This volume is a collection of essays dealing with the critical dialogue between the cultural production of the Hispanic/Latino world and that of the so-called Orient or the Orient itself, including the Asian and Arab worlds. As we see in these essays, the Europeans’ cultural others (peripheral nations and former colonies) have established an intercultural and intercontinental dialogue among themselves, without feeling the need to resort to the center-metropolis’ mediation. These South-to-South dialogues tend not to be as asymmetric as the old dialogue between the (former) metropolis (the hegemonic, Eurocentric center) and the colonies. These essays about Hispanic and Latino cultural production (most of them dealing with literature, but some covering urban art, music, and film) provide vivid examples of de-colonizing impetus and cultural resistance. In some of them, we can find peripheral subjectivities’ perception of other peripheral, racialized, and (post)colonial subjects and their cultures.