"Un condor de fuego marchando hacía los cielos infinitos" : cuatro proposiciones sobre el viaje reformista

Abstract

This essay analytically dissects an area of University Reformism’s intellectual and cultural praxis during 1918-1930 here termed Reformist Journey. In order to reconstruct it, four dimensions are approached: its role as activating device of student mobilization processes in distant environments; the sequence of displacements and performances in conferences and public events of the leaders of the reformist movement, and the ritual and performative dimensions staged at those times; the function of Americanism as an imaginary ingredient promoting these journeys, and its links to the wider internationalist and universalist horizon, whose presence was significant then; and, finally, the controversial and agonal character of this sort of traveling in relation to other attempts of American fraternity of the period, especially those encouraged by diplomats and politicians