“It is an act of justice and historical reparation,” affirmed, for her part, the institutional vice president of the UNLP, Andrea Varela, who highlighted that Canclini was expelled from that university during the civic-military dictatorship and became “a a pioneering intellectual beacon in the approach to cultural expressions”.
García Canclini was born in La Plata on December 1, 1939. He studied philosophy and received his doctorate in 1975 at the National University of La Plata and, three years later, with a scholarship granted by Conicet, he received his doctorate at the University of Paris. He taught at the University of La Plata (1966-1975) and at the University of Buenos Aires (1974-1975). Since 1990 he has been a professor and researcher at the Autonomous Metropolitan University, Iztapalapa Unit, where he directs the Cultural Studies Program.
During the award ceremony, García Canclini reviewed his university life and recounted moments of anxiety experienced during the civic-military dictatorship: “I was expelled from this university and the resolution sent to me by the Superior Council to award me the award makes it clear that That expulsion occurred in a context of progressive social and cultural repression”.
After thanking Mexico, the country that welcomed him into exile, he indicated that “766 teachers and non-teaching students were victims of repression, several careers were closed, entire professorships were dismantled,” he recalled and recalled that “several colleagues disappeared” .
His career is one of the most influential in the field of social sciences in the region in recent decades. García Canclini has developed innovative methodological theoretical problematizations and novel approaches from which he has proposed to study the articulations between Communication, Culture and Politics in contemporary times.
In addition, he has been a visiting professor at various universities, including those of Naples, Austin, Stanford, Barcelona, Buenos Aires and São Paulo, and is considered one of the leading anthropologists dealing with postmodernity and culture from a Latin American perspective.
One of the terms he coined is “hybridity.” It is a concept typical of any field, but especially cultural, giving way to what we now understand as hybrid genres, which are places of intersection between the visual and the literary, the cultured and the popular. The “hybrid cultures”, as he calls them, have been “generated by the new communication technologies, by the reordering of the public and the private in urban space, and by the deterritorialization of symbolic processes.” An example of this is the contemporary musical groups that mix or juxtapose global currents such as pop with indigenous or traditional rhythms.
The distinction to the academic was proposed by the Rodolfo Walsh Association, host of the Student Center, and approved by the Board of Directors of the Faculty of Journalism and Social Communication with the support of the Board of Directors of the Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences and of the Faculty of Arts. Then, it was raised to the Superior Council of the UNLP where it was treated and approved in the last session of last September 9.
Source: Ambito
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