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Throughout the last decades, we have witnessed phenomena of social protest, collective actions and organization with a strong youth component all over the world. This greater visibility of youth as a differentiated political subject with their own demands and actions has gone hand in hand with the consolidation of these studies. In this context, the paper aims to answer what moves young people to participate in youth collective actions. Methodologically, the research is qualitative, with an interpretative perspective. We work with a multiple case study consisting of a popular library and a cultural center. Both are located in popular neighborhoods in the metropolitan area of Mendoza, Argentina, and are representative of other youth experiences that are far from the formal structures of political participation. The motivational universe and the affective field of participatory practices are explored. We conclude that there is an individual motivation that can only be solved collectively and that, in this process, the peer group nourishes the daily experience with meaning, it builds an enabling linking support for collective actions and generates an emotional community that operates as a means and as an end of these actions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the design of a model to create the reading habit based on a co-creation process with third and fourth grade students, parents and teachers of the Institución Educativa Municipal José Celestino Mutis (Fusagasugá). The methodology had a mixed approach, using documentary research sources and field work, through surveys to 78 students and 11 parents, interviews to four teachers and six experts, the application of a reading log for 21 days and the cocreation workshop. From the results it was identified that students like to read, enjoy reading textbooks and feel that it contributes to the learning process; however, half of them do not have books at home, and their parents are not motivated to create this habit, so the model proposes to train parents in the formation of this habit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Specialized local production in agrarian societies can be understood in the dynamics of the places where it is developed, based on two concepts: Appellations of Origin and Terroir. These concepts emerge from precision production practices, while being part of rural traditions and heritage of peasants and artisans in Europe and other regions with delimited productive histories and vocations. This paper aims to give an account of different experiences and notions related to these concepts, emphasizing their transformation and resignification processes according to the contexts of production, marketing and consumption where they have been implemented. The methodology reviews documents that discuss the concepts, both in the places where they have originated and in other latitudes where these have been worked in an applied or critical way, thus dealing with a diversity of approaches. The paper proposes a reflection on the inputs that the Terroir and the Appellations provide for the development of opportunities in rural production scenarios, such as those found in emerging regions of Latin America. In addition, it concludes with a review of elements ranging from the physical, organic and bioclimatic conditions of these vocations, to the sensitive, territorial, cultural and popular elements that also shape them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes the governmental measures implemented by Chile and El Salvador during the pandemic to manage the repatriation of their nationals and resident citizens who were stranded abroad due to the closing of borders, a decision imposed by governments worldwide as a measure to contain the health crisis generated by COVID-19 in their territories. The restriction to the freedom of movement of people across borders caused in several countries of the region an additional humanitarian drama to the devastating effects of the global health crisis, so this paper examines this problem from the coverage given by the Latin American media to the repatriation processes of Chileans and Salvadorans as case studies, through a qualitative documentary analysis of the news about the main difficulties and consequences generated by this humanitarian drama. An important conclusion of the study recognizes the relevance of the administrative, logistic, and communicational capacity that the diplomatic missions of Latin American countries should develop, as well as the preeminence of human rights in international relations in order to face more responsibly the migratory crisis caused by the closing of borders for sanitary reasons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a review of the psychological, social and emotional effects of social isolation. Its objective is to reflect on this measure taken during the pandemic, focusing on the psychological consequences. On the one hand, it is based on official speeches, critical views and mental health research. On the other hand, a study is made on the subject in Mexico, in which opinions, practices and the cognitive, emotional, behavioral and relational impacts are addressed. This is done through a bibliographic and documentary review, as well as surveys, questionnaires and interviews, for the country and for Mexico City. As a result, the consideration between benefits and risks in general is presented. In particular, a favorable assessment from the population, a relative follow-up, an accumulation of unpleasant feelings, psychological disorders, as well as changes in habits, activities and relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of the article is to propose a critical and decolonial reflection on the limits, challenges and alternatives of risk governance in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The paper begins with an invitation to think about the current crisis of multilateralism as a first step to problematize the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 virus and its effects on the institutional frameworks of global politics. To understand the consequences of the current pandemic in the shaping of governance schemes adopted to address the emergency, reference is made to a body of literature that addresses perspectives on risk and uncertainty in contexts of transition towards sustainability. It also delves into the notion of geography of knowledge --developed by Latin American political ecology-- to explain the deep entanglements between the coloniality of knowledge and the construction of public imaginaries and knowledge devices on risk control and governance. We understand this reflection as "being part" of an exercise of sociological imagination that seeks to contribute to the construction of possible futures, in which integral and safe spaces are available for the reproduction of all forms of life on the planet. This reflection concludes with some ideas on the need to stimulate a new and different set of relations between sciences, technologies and knowledge, which ensures the adequate exercise of citizen practices and diverse subjectivities, in harmony with social participation in pluralistic contexts and full recognition of rights. COVID-19 represents an important opportunity to think about different ways of environmental cosmopolitanism, capable of bringing these ideas to the political arena through social movements, which could be taking shape in addressing the emergency at the local and community levels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyze and reflect on the current crisis of multilateralism and its general principles of conduct --ideas, discourses and practices-- which may represent a scenario of opportunities and threats to respond to the complexity of the world drug problem and the crisis of its dominant paradigm whose strategy, primarily military, represents an anachronistic worldview regarding security reduced to the prohibitionist approach. Likewise, there are debates on the dominant development paradigm, built on global agreements and their general principles of conduct --ideas-- that have determined and constrained a multidimensional approach in the case of Colombia and Peru. In this way, the worldview has been determined by the dialectical vision of the internal world --harmony-- and external --anarchy-- according to the rationalist approaches which, from the critique of reflective approaches in International Relations, poses more than an explanation (causality), the understanding (interpretation) and coconstitution of reality and current phenomena, such as the world drug problem and development for the consolidation of alternative paradigms in Colombia and Peru. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses its analysis on how YouTube audiovisual content producers in Argentina develop and organize their activity, which they perceive as work. Specifically, it is interested in knowing whether they carry out their activity individually or collectively, and whether there is any form of collective organization (actual or potential) in the face of possible conflicts with the platform. To do this, a series of interviews conducted with producers during 2018 were analyzed. Additionally, the discourse of the video platform was studied to understand to what extend this corresponds to the producers' narratives. The main findings account for a marked individuality in the ways of developing their activity, a fact that comes into collision with potential forms of collective organization and reproduces YouTube's discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]