Editoriales universitarias ¿para qué? : intervenir en la esfera pública y el conocimiento

This book is a joint publication by Eduvim (Villa María), the Press of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities at the UNC (Córdoba), Editorial Universitaria Siglo XXI, and the Press of the Catholic University of Córdoba.

What role can a public university press play today in a cultural ecosystem governed by market logic, an obsession with metrics, and the illusion of infinite productivity? This book answers that question with rare clarity and from a concrete experience: that of Brazilian university publishing, one of the most dynamic and complex on the continent.
Through two complementary texts, Paulo Franchetti and Plinio Martins Filho reconstruct, on the one hand, the history of academic publishing in Brazil and, on the other, offer a far-reaching reflection on the publishing profession within the university. The result is neither a technical manual nor an institutional chronicle, but a lucid argument in defense of the book as a unit of meaning, of editorial work as cultural mediation, and of the university as a space for the democratic production and circulation of knowledge.

In an age of information overload and attention deficit, this book proposes viewing university presses as strategic political and cultural artifacts, capable of sustaining the circulation of critical, situated, and socially necessary ideas. An urgent invitation to rethink academic publishing from the perspectives of the public, the collective, and Latin America.