tutelaje

English translation: patronage

20:14 Feb 7, 2018

Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting

Spanish term or phrase: tutelaje

The use in this text about a contemporary Argentine artist by a feminist critic does not seem to be tutelage or mentoring, but something negative---over-protection?

Frente a la comprensible –y apremiante– necesidad de buscar amparo en un mundo hostil reaparecen las fantasías de seguridad. Todo proteccionismo corre el riesgo de derivar en censura y tutelaje: ¿Anhelamos un mundo más seguro? ¿Necesitamos vallas más altas? ¿Debemos proteger nuestros cuerpos?

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Wendy Gosselin KudoZ activity Questions: 2014 (6 open) (214 closed without grading) Answers: 2 Argentina
Local time: 04:57

English translation:patronage

Explanation:
Another option.

Selected response from:

Marie Wilson
Spain
Local time: 09:57

Grading comment

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Summary of answers provided

3 +3

tutelage or hand-holding

Ryan Kelly

4 +2

paternalism

Robert Carter

domineering attitude/overcontrol

Sofia Bengoa

patronage

Marie Wilson

guardianship

JohnMcDove

constraint

neilmac

Discussion entries: 1

Answers

6 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

tutelage or hand-holding

Explanation:
It seems the context is talking about a "big brother" sort of situation where there is oversight.

Ryan Kelly
United States
Local time: 03:57
Native speaker of:

English,

Spanish

31 mins confidence:

domineering attitude/overcontrol

Explanation:
May be these options may be suitable.

Sofia Bengoa
Spain
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 4

48 mins confidence:

patronage

Explanation:
Another option.

Example sentence(s):

For nearly six decades, culture has been tightly controlled by the government, both through patronage and censorship
Suggestions like Tewari's can be seen as attempts to meddle, and hit the slippery slope to patronage and censorship

Marie Wilson
Spain
Local time: 09:57
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 52

Grading comment

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1 hr confidence:

guardianship

Explanation:
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/guardianship

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E.g.,

Feminists are acutely sensitive to the possibility of their reproducing male patterns of censorship and guardianship of women's desires;

https://books.google.com/books?id=NN48WUBx_54C&pg=PA251&lpg=...

JohnMcDove
United States
Local time: 00:57
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 20

3 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

paternalism

Explanation:
This is how I read it. Censorship and paternalism go hand in hand, as states with paternalistic impulses tend to censor certain subjects they deem inappropriate for even competent adults, in the interest of so-called decency and morality. Anyone who grew up in the UK in the 70s and 80s will probably remember the name Mary Whitehouse, who was synonymous with TV censorship campaigns, as was her US counterpart Tipper Gore in the 80s in terms of video games and rap music.

According to conservatives, the state is justified in using its coercive power to uphold and enforce a community's moral convictions and to prevent citizens from engaging in activities that offend prevailing community standards of morality and decency. (See e.g., Devlin 1968, Sandel 1984.) This position is sometimes called ‘legal moralism’. Governments also have a responsibility to prevent citizens from harming themselves. This is true, even where the citizen is not a child (who may not yet be competent to make responsible judgements for themselves about what is in their own best interests), but a mature adult who is voluntary engaged in an activity which they judge to be desirable and which causes no harm to others. The view that the state is entitled to interfere with the freedom of mentally competent adults against their will for their own good is often called ‘legal paternalism’.

paternalism
The policy or practice on the part of people in authority of restricting the freedom and responsibilities of those subordinate to or otherwise dependent on them in their supposed interest.
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/paternalism

tutelaje
1. m. Acción y efecto de tutelar1.
http://dle.rae.es/?id=azRtWKA

tutelar
2. adj. Der. Perteneciente o relativo a la tutela de los incapaces.
http://dle.rae.es/?id=azSdBZp|azXSNW1

Robert Carter
Mexico
Local time: 01:57
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 32

7 mins confidence:

constraint

Explanation:
Constraint => something that controls what you do by keeping you within particular limits...
Admittedly not the usual translation one might expect for "tutelaje", but I think that's more or less the intended meaning in the context.

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"All protectionism runs the risk of ending up in censorship and constraint."

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NB: In hindsight, maybe "censure" is better than "censorship":
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/censure

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Yes, "censure" is better IMHO. And I still prefer my suggestion :)

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Note added at 11 hrs (2018-02-08 08:05:36 GMT)
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"... a much larger framework of authority, censure and constraint. "
"The Lord Chamberlain's licensing function took its place within a much larger public framework of censure and constraint";
"Intuition has been subject to various forms of censure and constraint,"

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PS: I think if they'd meant just "paternalismo" they'd have used that:
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternalismo

And I think the notion expressed is stronger and also more negative than things like "guardianship" or "patronage", which are usually positive things.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/constraint

neilmac
Spain
Local time: 09:57
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 124

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