Une histoire de nombreux soupçons et de quelques confirmations
In 1965, a scandal shook the Latin American social sciences and affected for years the positions of academics and intellectuals before offers of foreign funds to carry out their activities. Indeed, the complaints that emerged in Chile about the goals of the so-called Camelot Project, together with t...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Éditions de la Sorbonne
2023-07-01
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| Series: | Revue d’Histoire des Sciences Humaines |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/rhsh/8090 |
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| Summary: | In 1965, a scandal shook the Latin American social sciences and affected for years the positions of academics and intellectuals before offers of foreign funds to carry out their activities. Indeed, the complaints that emerged in Chile about the goals of the so-called Camelot Project, together with the tracking of its financiers to the military apparatus of the US government, alarmed those who, amidst budgetary restrictions at the national level, were looking for money for their research projects. In Uruguay, these deliberations coincided with the debates surrounding the recent Seminar of Latin American Elites, held that same year at the Universidad de la República without too much fuss, but with some alerts about the promoting body, the suspected Congress for Cultural Freedom. It was increasingly evident that these issues were imbricated in public discussions on science and politics, especially those that aimed, in line with similar global debates, to redefine the role of knowledge institutions in the promotion of social development and change. This paper analyzes all these events to understand how and why foundered the first more or less systematic attempt to consolidate sociology as a separate and legitimate academic discipline in the Uruguayan university. |
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| ISSN: | 1963-1022 |