Call for Papers to the Special Issue "The 100th Anniversary of Orlando Fals Bord's Birth: the Legacy of a Feeling-Thinking Sociology" and to our miscellaneous articles section, open to submissions in Spanish, Portuguese, and English.
Deadline for submissions: November 28, 2025.
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Founding moments of nations seem intrinsically significant. Nevertheless commemorations of the Bicentennial of Mexico Independence and the Centennial of Mexican Revolution will show that the meanings of such events are constructed on the basis of contemporary politics. The article analizes which dimensions of that political past are malleable (and to what extent) and which are relatively fixed (as inserted in myths, but also in institutional legacies).