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RESUMEN El artículo expone los resultados de una investigación historiográfica, con vocación interdisciplinaria, sobre los movimientos estudiantiles de América Latina. Más puntualmente identifica algunos rasgos presentes en cuatro grandes movimientos estudiantiles de los últimos cien años: el argentino de 1918, el brasileño de 1968, el mexicano de 1968 y el chileno de 2011. Un conocimiento relevante, entre otros aspectos, porque utiliza una escala de análisis temporal y espacial inédita en un campo donde priman los acercamientos a un solo movimiento estudiantil. Los rasgos compartidos por estos movimientos fueron identificados mediante un proceso sistemático de análisis de contenido que incorporó datos e interpretaciones provenientes de las principales fuentes tanto primarias como secundarias en la materia. Entre los rasgos identificados se cuentan el que en todos los movimientos se utilizara un repertorio de protestas similar y que en todos se defendiera la autonomía universitaria.

This paper analyses and critiques the Queensland Government's Research and Development (R&D) strategy that undergirds the smart state policy agenda. We argue that this strategy poorly addresses: R&D opportunities deriving from the applied social and creative disciplines; and the role of the social and creative disciplines in the development and commercialisation process for all research. Furthermore, we suggest this derives from a view of ‘smart’ which is biased towards science and technology. Queensland can no longer afford to understand the social and creative disciplines as commercially irrelevant, ‘civilising’ disciplines. Instead they must be recognised as the vanguard of economic growth. In particular, the proposed R&D strategy does nothing to position Queensland for the emerging wave of innovation needed to meet demand for content creation in entertainment, education, government, and health information, in order to exploit universal networked broadband architectures currently in development. Not only is research in the applied social and creative disciplines required for its own commercial potential, but also because such research must be hybridised with science and technology research to realise the commercial potential of the latter. Commercialisation depends on ‘whole product value propositions’ not just basic research. We suggest that there needs to be mechanisms whereby research in the social and creative disciplines can be meaningfully hybridised with basic research in technology to create new commercial opportunities for Queensland. To this end we describe two examples of research driven commercialisation outside science/technology, namely interaction design and broadcasting.

Abstract Makerspaces make a unique contribution to the partnership between academic libraries and digital humanities by providing a creative, informal space for learning skills and new knowledge, sharing materials and equipment, and exploring and experimenting through an problem-solving, inquiry-based learning approach. The concept of the makerspace as a “liminal” space, containing inherent contradictions and tensions between formal and informal learning, structure and agency, forms a basis for understanding the role the makerspace plays in shaping, and being shaped by, a digital humanities community of practice. This chapter discusses particular experiences that demonstrate some of the ways in which the Curtin Library Makerspace in Western Australia has been involved in digital humanities since it was established in 2015. It has nurtured a creative environment for informal learning through facilitating maker activities; fostered collaborations with teaching academics to support the curriculum; and supported the development of longer-term research projects. We discuss the issues particular to each of these experiences, as the Makerspace negotiated the challenge of retaining the informality of the makerspace, while at the same time recognizing the need for infrastructural support to enable it to participate as an equal partner in digital humanities research projects.

Les medias europeens et ceux de tous les pays developpes sont l’objet de transformations significatives et d’ajustements de leurs methodes traditionnelles de fonctionnement. Les entreprises adoptent de plus en plus des techniques de marketing afin de repondre a la concurrence et aux exigences de rentabilite. Cette domination de la culturelle commerciale a des effets sur l’information et le divertissement, d’autant plus que les medias sont toujours plus dependants des recettes publicitaires. Ainsi les medias sont de plus en plus assimiles a n’importe quelle activite commerciale.

This introduction will primarily address two questions. What is so special about zoos that it deserves an entire issue of this journal on heritage studies? And what is to be gained from taking an ‘...

The Sereer-Safèn occupied a defensible refuge zone in Western Bawol, where forests and sandstone ridges provided protection against Wolof monarchy. The Safèn were part of a larger ‘Sereer’ world that defined itself by opposition to Islam in the period from 1700 to 1914. This religious divide made the Sereer targets for enslavement by the Wolof, but Sereer religion was also linked to Safèn resistance to Islam, slavery and monarchy. Religion was interwoven with an ethnic boundary, which emphasized the incompatibility of Wolof and Sereer society. Safèn religion was centered on the village ‘shrine’ or xérém, which served as the focal point of ritual, justice, communication with the other world and defense.