Martín Bergel (Buenos Aires, 1973) is a Doctor in History from the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature of the University of Buenos Aires (2010). Researcher at the Center for Intellectual History of the National University of Quilmes, and professor of Contemporary Latin American History at the University of San Martín (Buenos Aires). He is a member of the collective editor of the yearbook Prismas. Journal of Intellectual History. He was a visiting researcher at the Free University of Berlin and Harvard University. He published The Displaced Orient. Intellectuals and the origins of Third Worldism in Argentina (2015) and Latin American trips of the University Reform (2018), in addition to numerous essays and articles in books and specialized magazines from Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Chile, the United States, China, Mexico, France, Germany, Israel, and Spain. He currently directs the collective research project “Intellectuals, periodic press, and globalization. The historical process of public opinion on global issues (Buenos Aires, 1870-1940) ”, and prepares a critical anthology of texts by the Peruvian José Carlos Mariátegui.

 

Publications

Monographs (selection)

2019. José Carlos Mariátegui. Antología (Selección, edición crítica, y estudio preliminar). Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI (en prensa).

2015. El Oriente desplazado. Los intelectuales y los orígenes del tercermundismo en la Argentina. Buenos Aires: Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. (traducción al chino en preparación, a ser publicada por Shanghai University).

 

 Compilations (selection)

2018. (coord.): Los viajes latinoamericanos de la Reforma Universitaria, Rosario, HYA Ediciones-Universidad Nacional de Rosario.

 

Articles / Chapters (selection)

2019. "拉丁美洲民众主义的全球性起源：哈亚·德·拉托雷与国民党” (“On the Global Origins of Latin American Populism : the APRA and the Kuo-Min-Tang”), 全球学评论 Global Studies Review, Vol. 3, feb. 2019 (in press).

2019. “De los Viajes de Sarmiento a la recepción ‘prototercermundista’ de la Guerra del Rif: tres momentos en las conexiones culturales entre América Latina y el norte de Africa”. En: Stephanie Fleischmann y Ana Nenadovic (coords.): América Latina – Africa del Norte – España. Traslaciones culturales, intelectuales y literarias. Berlín: Iberoamericana Veuervert (en prensa).

2018. “Haya de la Torre en el Cono Sur (1922). Viaje y ritual latinoamericanista en la expansión continental del reformismo universitario”. En: Martín Bergel (coord.): Los viajes latinoamericanos de la Reforma Universitaria. Rosario: HYA Ediciones-Universidad Nacional de Rosario.

2018. “Construir el pueblo aprista. El diario La Tribuna en su primer año de vida”. En: Revista Histórica 42 (1). 

2018. “FORJA: un pensamiento de la desconexión”. En Carlos Altamirano y Adrián Gorelik (coords.): La Argentina como problema. Temas, visiones y pasiones del siglo XX. Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI.

2017. “José Carlos Mariátegui and the Russian Revolution: Global Modernity and cosmopolitan Socialism in Latin America”. South Atlantic Quarterly 116 (4).

2017. “Modernización de la prensa y nuevas imágenes del Oriente. Una aproximación al problema de la emergencia de una opinión pública sobre temas globales (Buenos Aires, 1880-1914)”. En: Inés de Torres (coord.): Prensa, literatura y política en las primeras décadas del siglo XX. Montevideo: Universidad de la República.

2016. “Tentativas sobre Mariátegui y la Literatura Mundial”. Nueva Sociedad (266), noviembre-diciembre.

2016. “Para una historia de la no-lectura en América Latina. Los usos de los objetos impresos en el proceso de popularización del aprismo peruano (1930-1945)”. Políticas de la Memoria, CeDInCI (17).

2015. “Pensar la nación, pensar el mundo. Las lecturas de Mariátegui de Oscar Terán”, Prismas. Revista de Historia Intelectual (19).

2015. “De canillitas a militantes. Los niños y la circulación de materiales impresos en el proceso de popularización del Partido Aprista Peruano (1930-1945)”. Iberoamericana, Berlín 15 (60) Instituto Iberoamericano.

2014. “Rabindranath Tagore. Avatares de un cosmopolita periférico en el Río de la Plata”. En: Paula Bruno (coord.): Visitas Culturales. Argentina, 1898-1936. Buenos Aires: Biblos.

 

Research project as a fellow of CALAS

Title: Latin American thought in the face of global civilizational crises. A counterpoint between two centuries (1918-2018)

Abstract: The project proposes to place in dialogue two moments of major global civilizational crisis, the one experienced at the end of the First World War and the one we live in today, focused on the answers they found from Latin American thought. While in the first case, in the face of the crisis that ensues with the outbreak of the '14 War of the pillars that had provided the foundation for the long 19th century (science, faith in "progress", liberal democracy, etc. ), the ways in which three of the main Latin American intellectuals of the period -the Argentine José Ingenieros, the Mexican José Vasconcelos, and the Peruvian José Carlos Mariátegui- developed thinking strategies that came out at the crossroads of the contemporary challenges they had to face will be reconstructed. In the case of the dilemmas of the present, some relevant approaches that have emerged in recent times will be selected: the theory of populism that draws on the Argentine Ernesto Laclau, political ecology, and neofeminist thought. The hypothesis that guides this exploration resides in the fact that both the thought linked to the university reformism of Ingenieros, as well as the utopia of Latin America as a continent-synthesis of all the races and cultures of Vasconcelos and the indigenist and at the same time cosmopolitan socialism of Mariátegui, constituted attempts to face the collapse of the certainties that had guided the civilization of the nineteenth century from frames that attended simultaneously to local and global dimensions. That is, taking into account Latin American specificities, they designed responses that also sought to influence the world scene. The question that arises from the comparison between the two moments in which the project stops, and that constitutes its main research horizon, is to what extent the theory of populism, environmentalism and neo-feminism is able to position itself from its Latin American headquarters of origin in the essential "global conversation" on the alternatives that are drawn to face the current crisis.