Ernesto Semán
Position
Associate Professor, Associate Professor
Affiliation
Publications
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Academic article
- Seman, Ernesto (2020). The etymology of despair in the americas. (external link)
- Seman, Ernesto (2019). “Another black film” Mass culture and the long war for national exceptionalism in America. (external link)
- Seman, Ernesto (2019). “Otra película de negros”. Cultura de masas y la larga guerra por el excepcionalismo nacional en América. (external link)
- Seman, Martin Ernesto (2018). Populism is Not in the Air (but maybe it should be). (external link)
- Seman, Ernesto (2018). Book Reviews. (external link)
Book review
- Seman, Ernesto (2019). Masiello, Francine R. (2018). Senses of Democracy. Perception, Politics and Culture in Latin America. Austin: University of Texas Press. 325 Pages. (external link)
- Seman, Ernesto (2019). Ezequiel Adamovsky and Esteban Buch, La marchita, el escudo y el bombo: Una historia cultural de los emblemas del peronismo, de Perón a Cristina Kirchner (Buenos Aires: Grupo Planeta, 2016), pp. 367, pb.. (external link)
Feature article
Interview
- Seman, Ernesto; Esha, P.K. (2019). Historic.ly: The Legacy of Juan Peron with Ernesto Seman. (external link)
- Seman, Ernesto; Healey, Mark; Hyland, Steven (2019). The Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) Historias 64 – Mark Healey and Ernesto Semán on Argentina’s presidential election. (external link)
- Seman, Ernesto; Rodriguez Rey, Santiago; Perochena, Camila (2019). Podcast Diario La Nación: La Banda Presdencial. (external link)
- Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge; Seman, Ernesto; Scott, David (2019). 2019 [Sammen med Ernesto Séman] "Histories of emancipation and slavery in the Caribbean. In the work of Stuart Hall and beyond. A conversation with Prof. David Scott" (Columbia University), Litteraturhuset i Bergen, 17 oktober 2019.. (external link)
Popular scientific lecture
Academic lecture
- Seman, Ernesto (2019). "Please, not 'another Negro film': Racism and nation in the Americas' cultural cold war". (external link)
- Seman, Ernesto (2019). Networks in Latin American history: theoretical and empirical approaches . (external link)
- Seman, Ernesto (2019). Transnational Black Chicago: Richard Wright and the Shooting of Native Son in Peronist Argentina . (external link)
- Seman, Ernesto (2019). "Hyisteory": Historical categories, hysterical claims Populist blaming and the uses of comparative studies. (external link)
See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.
Academic writing:
Books, chapters, articles
Antipopulismo. Una historia argentina (Buenos Aires, Siglo XXI Editores, forthcoming May 2021)
"The Etymology of Despair in the Americas", International Labor and Working-Class History, October 2020, pp 1-8. doi:10.1017/S0147547920000241
"Populism is not in the air (but maybe it should be)". International Labor and Working-Class History (ILWCH), Cambridge University Press and Columbia University History Department, Volume 93, Spring 2018
Ambassadors of the Working Class: Argentina's International Labor Activists and Cold War Democracy in the Americas. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017
“Populismo y Propiedad Privada: El Genoma de la Guerra Fría en América Latina” in Martín Plot (ed.), Destino Sudamericano. Ideas e Imágenes Políticas del Segundo Siglo Argentino y Americano. Buenos Aires: Editorial Universidad de Belgrano, 2010, pp. 153-176
“Neither/Nor. Mapping Latin American's Response to Neoliberalism and Neoconservatism” (with Martín Plot) Constellations, 14, no. 3 (2007): 86-111
“Political Dimensions of the Crisis” in Michael Cohen and Margarita Gutman (eds.), Argentina in Collapse. The Americas Debate. New York: The New School, 2002
Reviews
Review: Paula Canelo. La política secreta de la última dictadura argentina (1976-1983). Buenos Aires: Edhasa, 2016. In Journal of Latin American Studies, (2017)
Review: Loris Zanatta, La internacional justicialista: Auge y ocaso de los sueños imperiales de Perón Translated by Carlos Catroppi. Buenos Aires: Sudamericana, 2013. In Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 95, no. 4 (November 2015)
Review: Patrick J. Iber, “’Who Will Impose Democracy?’: Sacha Volman and the Contradictions of CIA Support for the Anticommunist Left in Latin America.” Diplomatic History 37:5 (November 2013: 995-1028. DOI: 10.1093/dh/dht041. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/dh/dht041. In H-Diplo, No 472, Published on 16 July 2014. URL: http://h-diplo.org/reviews/PDF/AR472.pdf
Review: Oscar Chamosa, The Argentine Folklore Movement: Sugar Elites, Criollo Workers, and the Politics of Cultural Nationalism, 1900–1955. In Labour/Le Travail 69 (Spring 2012)
Review: Mario Rapoport and Claudio Spiguel, Relaciones Tumultuosas. Estados Unidos y el Primer Peronismo. In Revista Contemporánea (Uruguay), 1, no 1 (2010): 209-211
Selected Writing:
Non Fiction:
Books
Hecho Burgués, País Maldito [The Bourgeois Fact, the Cursed Country]
Buenos Aires: Aurelia Rivera, 2016.
Educando a Fernando. Cómo se Construyó De la Rúa Presidente [Educating Fernando. How De la Rúa Became President], Buenos Aires: Editorial Planeta, 1999.
Chapters and media articles
"Joe Biden, el primer presidente post-panamericano", The Washington Post en Español, January 19, 2020.
"In Chile and Argentina, anti-populist politics is failing", The Financial Times, October 30, 2019.
"Los Juguetes no son tuyos," in Jordana Blejmar, Silvana Mandolessi and Mariana Eva Perez, eds. El Pasado Inasequible. Desaparecidos, hijos y combatientes en el arte y la literatura del nuevo milenio. Buenos Aires: EUDEBA, June 2018.
"Comparing Trump with Latin American Authoritarians Reveals a Dangerous Understanding of Democracy", The Washington Post, February 20, 2018.
"Democracy in the Americas, the Revolutionary Way," NACLA Report on the Americas, February 8, 2017. http://nacla.org/news/2017/02/09/democracy-americas-revolutionary-way
"La Startup Americana," Anfibia, Buenos Aires, September 25, 2016. http://www.revistaanfibia.com/ensayo/la-startup-americana/
"What Obama Should Know About Macri's Argentina," (with Gastón Chillier), The New York Times, March 23, 2016 https://nyti.ms/2l4CpRc
"The Taming of the Argentine Right," NACLA Report on the Americas, December 2, 2015. http://nacla.org/news/2015/12/02/taming-argentine-right
Introductions to "Destruction of the City of San Juan Provokes Unanimou Dismay," La Prensa, Argentina, 1944 & "The Confession," Página/12. Argentina, 1995. In Anya Schiffrin, ed. Global Muckraking: 100 years of investigative journalism from around the world. (New Press, New York, 2014)
"The Torture Consensus in U.S. Democracy," NACLA Report on the Americas, December 19, 2014. https://nacla.org/news/2014/12/19/torture-consensus-us-democracy
“(Des) Hacer Buenos Aires” (with Mark Healey) Le Monde Diplomatique (Argentina edition), February 2013
“Relaciones Peligrosas. Cultura y Populismo”[Dangerous Liasions: Culture and Populism] Le Monde Diplomatique (Argentina edition), May 2011
“Argentina’s Migration Solution” (with Gastón Chillier) Americas Quarterly, Spring 2011
“Down, Argentine Way” (with Mark Healey) American Prospect 13, no. 2 (Jan 2002)
“The Cost of Ortodoxy” (with Mark Healey) American Prospect 13, supplement (Feb 2002)
Fiction:
Books
Soy Un Bravo Piloto de la Nueva China [A Courageous Pilot of the New China]. Buenos Aires: Random House-Mondadori, 2011
Todo lo Sólido [All That Is Solid] Buenos Aires: Aurelia Rivera, 2007
La Última Cena de José Stalin [The Last Supper of Joseph Stalin] Buenos Aires: Aurelia Rivera, 2006
Stories
"Antebrazo," in Victoria Torres and Miguel Dalmaroni, eds., Golpes. Relatos y Memorias de la Dictadura. Buenos Aires: Planeta, 2016
"Mao," in Me lo llevaré a la sepultura (comp.) Buenos Aires: Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (Malba), 2016