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This article reports the results of the systematization of the experience named My ideas in three minutes, an activity implemented in the Maternal School course of the Bachelor's Degree in Early Childhood Education at Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga, Colombia. The One minute paper technique was used to encourage students to reflect on their future role as teachers, by composing texts containing the analysis of their experiences and practices. Those documents were collected and analyzed, using Nvivo program, based on the following categories: identity as teachers and conceptual appropriation. However, during the process, some categories emerged, such as, appreciations about the educational system and others related to writing. The conclusions point out the potential of this technique for a reflexive exercise to be carried out in an agile way; besides, it promotes in the students the habit of constantly questioning themselves, making it possible for them to be more self-critical. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At the end of the 1960s, neighborhood movements burst onto the municipal agenda in many metropolitan environments worldwide through numerous demands related to basic needs. In Madrid, these demands took different neighborhood spaces and some former municipalities that were integrated as districts in the city's urban core as a geographic scale of reference. This placed these locations at the center of the political debate, which gradually faded away as a result of the various municipal reforms developed during the first two decades of parliamentary democracy in Spain. In the last fifteen years, neighborhood demands have taken a different turn, as a political phenomenon has appeared linked to new forms of neighborhood protest called neighborhoodnalism. This process was not diminished during the hardest moments of the global covid-19 pandemic; rather, it has been strengthened as a dynamic of political socialization, solidarity, and daily resistance in many of Madrid's neighborhoods. As a result, the referents and elements of identification around the neighborhood, as well as the political practice of neighborhoodnalism itself, have been expanded. From a spatial perspective of neighborhood movements that considers political identity as a dynamic and resignified process through protest and collective organization, and through ethnography and the analysis of in-depth interviews held over five years in the Madrid district of Hortaleza around the Three Kings Parade, this paper studies how these socio-political practices are being articulated in urban space and how the learning of this form of spatial socialization is influencing Madrid's municipal agenda as a whole. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research analyses how the identity of the Europeans of the islands of Macaronesia (Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands and Cape Verde) was formed during the period of the Iberian Union with the aim of characterizing the traits of the island society. The fluid contacts between the islands and their oceanic environment strengthened among the islanders an attachment to the same island region made up of a population of extra-peninsular origin whose nexus was the Atlantic. This paper, which starts from the nesological approach to define the Macaronesian insular environment, supports the analysis in a broader geographic and methodological context: The Atlantic History. This study examines the principles of this discipline in relation to islands to apply its theoretical and conceptual framework to intrinsic territories in this ocean. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper/essay, the representations of trans people in Spanish series both on television and on streaming platforms will be analyzed, paying special attention to the new forms of masculinities, referred to as dissidents. From the pioneer Farmacia de Guardia to much more recent series such as Vis a Vis or Todo lo otro, there will be an analysis of the main characteristics of the trans characters (age, sex, social class, etc.), the reactions that they spark around them (acceptance, rejection, ignorance), as well as the story offered about transsexuality (if it is seen as a pathology, if there is a desire to change one’s physical appearance through hormones and/ or surgery, if the conception of having been born in the wrong body persists, etc.). It will be seen how this representation intersects and questions hegemonic masculinity. Finally, it will be observed how transsexuality is becoming progressively more visible in Spanish series, helping its normalization through different characters who bring this reality closer to the public, although not always in an inclusive way [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to discuss the formation of identities in the Ancash region based on a Narrative Inquiry of two families living in the city of Huaraz, the parents are Hirka and Quyllur. Both have faced the same external influences but have opted for different identity constructions. Narrative inquiry employs three dimensions: interaction, continuity, and situation. The data analysis was based on the composition of meanings and the interpretative perspective of the experiences that consist of organizing meanings based on the data and a reflective process by the researcher, and the presentation of the advances to a support group to discuss, review and adjustment of the obtained data. From the analysis of the experiences, we can conclude that Hirka represents cultural resistance and Quyllur cultural assimilation. The first considers that their cultural practices have been inherited from their ancestors; on the other hand, Quyllur does not have this intergenerational awareness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the foundations of psychoanalytic knowledge in its genesis and the question of the human essence: the recognition of a sexual body and a sexual psyche. On the other hand, it addresses the relationship between human identity and sexuality, the drive, its objects, and the diversity of the "perversity" of human sexuality due to the introduction and fall of the signifier in the body. Finally, it proposes a review of anatomy and the biological destiny of bodies to argue that, when it comes to sexuality and Eros, concerning jouissance, there is a scenario in the unconscious which will henceforth be a question of the psychoanalytic theory and praxis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I examine which elements of the myth of Atalanta enabled its survival from Antiquity to the present day. I find in the classical period her figure was used to recall the role of women in society; the Renaissance, to warn about the danger of her nature and the need for her domination; and Modernity, to enunciate the resistance of subordinated alterity. Thus, through a comprehensive study of literary and iconographic versions and variants of the myth, I argue that the articulation between identity and alterity is a device for its transformation and survival. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Several studies have revealed an unequal valuation and didactic approach to intangible cultural heritage (ICH) among teachers in Latin America, Spain and Portugal. To obtain a comprehensive overview of the situation of ICH in Ibero-American education, this study aims to discover the conceptions that educators hold about this heritage typology, the didactic use they make of it and the problems they experience when teaching about it. This paper presents the preliminary results obtained from the responses of 52 teachers to a qualitative questionnaire. The data collected, analysed from Grounded Theory through a triple coding process, points to an asynchrony between the conceptions about ICH, mainly valued as a catalyst of identity bonds, and the didactic implementation of it, in which expositive methodologies prevail, disregarding the evaluative processes. It is concluded that the developed categories can specifically serve the heritageeducational understanding of the ICH, by obtaining a model of interpretation that diverges in some respects from previous theoretical frameworks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper, by means of a hermeneutic method supported by documentary review, states that, takin intent into consideration, it is no possible a discourse simultaneously political and ironic. It has five sections: first, an analysis of the posture assuming the use of irony in political discourse. Second, a profile of the ironist and his presence in politics as troublesome. Third, the negative and private function or use of irony stressing its political impropriety. Fourth, three types proper of political discourse, which exclude and replace irony: parrhesía, cynicism and post-truth. Finally, the paper closes explaining the political inadequateness of irony. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the construction of a relational Caribbean identity in Twelve Pilgrim Tales based on the analysis of relationship, wandering and postoccidentalism, and the study of landscape as a semiotic articulator. It examines the staging of the first encounter of the Caribbean people in a situation of physical diaspora and their way of understanding their own happening after creating their first image of foreign culture and subjectivity. It is argued that this book illustrates ways of life and transnational spaces and sketches an aesthetic that recreates the Relationship in the new chaos-world from the perspective of a Caribbean subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper shows the different forms of cultural resistance that some people belonging to original cultures in Mexico and who have migrated to the city of León Guanajuato have. Through qualitative research and the interview technique, we recover the actions they have to preserve particular characteristics of their culture are revealed. In the first place, we will talk about what the resistance of native peoples is, and then, we analyzed the strategies used by indigenous people to preserve everything that identifies them as part of their community, culture and people even when they are outside of it, that is, knowing the way in which they resist so that their culture continues to stay alive wherever they decide to go. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Technological development has resulted in the communication of different signs throughout the history of human beings. Undoubtedly, the most significant moment took place in modernity, when it established a decisive rupture with the object, placing it as the product of reason thought by the subject. We are certain that this change has been reflected in the interior, intentionality and identity of the latter. In this order of ideas, the problem detected in this article is the way in which the object disappears within virtual processes and is replaced by language immersed in interpretations that lead to the generation of a metainformational process flooded with anonymity and uncertainty, a situation that impacts on the construction of the subject's identity. It is detected that within these meta-informational processes, the subject is tied to the representation and establishes a cyclical dynamic that projects his identity, resulting in a process of submission to the sign that the same individual has codified through his interests and the way he approaches his reality. This paper explores this process of submission, using the metaphor of Ixion and Nefele, which adequately describes the behavior of the meta-informational identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the ending of the XVIII century, there are in Cuba a distinguished group of People with a great monetary power and interested in culture. Colonial authorities don't feel safe with this people who has something in common: they are afro-descendant. This s the main argument for create a politic oppression designed for destroy this economic elite. This was created against the colonial system and they were involved in polemic actions like La Escalera Conspiracy in 1844. But colonial authorities just can pull down their economic power, not their ideas. With this paper, from the view of the oppression against black people, we want to give light about the resistance and the educational level that black Cubans reach in the most significant time within the process of creation of the whole Cuban identity between 1844 and 1898. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper approaches William Henry Hudson’s autobiographical work, Far Away and Long Ago - A History of My Early Life (1918), from the point of view of the authorial construction –carried out through memory and the autobiographical discourse– of childhood as the space of what we shall call a retrospective utopia, which is deeply intertwined with the leitmotif of the lost paradise. Our interest in Hudson’s text and its use of the utopian genre comes from the construction of a territory defined by an authorial crossing of self and hetero-images where we intend to track the marks of a representation of the Argentine, whether present or absent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I think about gender identity of transgender people from George H. Mead’s ideas. I use Mead’s self theory’s concepts, emphasizing links between concepts of Generalized Other and Me, and society’s principles, values and beliefs. Based on these concepts, I think about ways we predominantly understand individuals’ gender in Argentina, I analyze the challenge posed by transgender persons to gender hegemonic conceptions, and I consider changes in ways we conceive gender in Argentina in recent years — specially after Gender Identity law enactment. Conclusions: Mead's ideas allow us to think about individuals’ gender identity as an interaction between subjective experience of self-perceived gender and society’s prevailing gender conceptions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Leader article of War and Otherness. The aim of this paper is to present some methodological questions related to the study of Otherness in the last decades, as well as, to connect them with the papers presented for this edited volume. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a reflection produced after a series of interventions carried out at the sector known as "The Bronx", in the city of Bogotá, financed by the national and district governments. The main aim was, on one hand, to understand the role that some dynamics play in order to prevent crime, and, on the other hand, to design and implement a strategy in local schools that will help to reduce the individual vulnerability of young people in the sector. The work proposals develop social policy guidelines articulating elements of human geography, sociology, and psychology, around proposals such as the Zonas de Orientación Escolar (School Guiding Zones, Indications about the importance of considering the effect that territorial dynamics have on the effectiveness of the design and implementation of social policies, as well as the difficulty of defining indicators that allow comparability with similar experiences, can be found among the conclusions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper carries out an analysis, from the point of view of the social sciences, of the concepts of vulnerability and risk in their application to health and, more specifically, to diagnosis understood as a social process. The medical diagnosis, and / or the lack of it, can generate risks to people, due to the possibility of entering into processes of deterioration of social identity, stigmatization or intersectional discrimination; since these phenomena can hinder, or make impossible, the access to the sick role of the people who present any complaint or symptom. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the media framings from which National Geographic Magazine -NGM- (1903-1926) contributed to the construction of the identity of Colombians at the beginning of the 20th century. The main argument of this paper defends the idea that the media framings found are directly supported by the ideologies of Manifest Destiny and Positivism. By means of the rhetoric strategy of appropriation, the framings found promote two values associated with the Manifest Destiny: the virtue of the institutions of the United States and the mission to transform the world in accordance with the values professed by this country. Regarding the ideology of positivism, the media framings reproduce this ideology through the rhetorical strategy of classification, given that the reports observe the identity of Colombians through the lens of the scientific theory of Darwinism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Fragility of the Future: Phenomenology of the Old-age". The central thesis of this paper is that old-age is not confused with illness, and its distinction is rooted in the temporal dimension of the living body. The body's time is an ingredient of the self-consciousness (selfconstitutive) in the horizon of the possibilities and potentialities of the ego, which in old-age appear under a fragile and worn condition. I present this thesis in three main parts: first, I try to distinguish the dimensions of time of nature and subjective time. In these distinctions old age is clarified, with respect to the time of nature, as the phase of normal fulfillment or of the broadest and unitary development of the body as a living thing. In the second part I define the fragility of the future as the structural specificity of the time horizon of old-age. Finally, in the third part I explore how this temporal condition determines the self-consciousness (self-constitution) and the signification (historization) of its own body in old-age. The methodological frame of this investigation is taken from the Husserlian analysis of constitution in Ideas II. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: The objective of this paper is to reflect on changes in gender relations in families and parenthood in Mexico. Methodology: Methodologically, documentary information between 1987 and 2020 was consulted. Classic texts that allow locating the changes in meanings around childhood and the relationship of parents with their children are incorporated, since the relationship, care and attention was not always considered a priority as it is today. Results: The results show how the cultural transformations based on the commitments assumed in the International Conference on Population and Development, and World Conferences on women, Mexico City (1975) and Beijing (1995), incorporate actions to involve men in gender equal rights and fatherhood. Conclusion: The conclusion suggests how involvement in families leads them to reconcile participation in various settings, building complex identities as men/couples/parents/workers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article shows the identity construction in the oral discourse of songs created by a representative sector of rappers in Morelia, Michoacán, specifically, based on two themes: the street and the protest. The purpose of this paper is to understand the perception they have of themselves in front of others and in different frames of their pieces. All under the hypothesis that they offer a multidimensional identity in constant change according to their communicative and temporal situation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the study of the representation of the self construed as other in current Spanish poetry. Such otherness is expressed in the texts through depersonalized or dehumanized forms whose presence is perceived as a danger undermining the subject's integrity and threatening to annihilate it. A study of otherness related to the figures of the stranger, the foreigner or the intruder is presented herein. Some sociological, philosophical or anthropological concepts expressed by authors such as Žižek, Girard, Bauman and Graham will be used for this purpose. Building on the concept of 'inherent tension' or 'essential lack', the poems account for the inner struggle of the individual in search for a solution to this crisis, in texts swinging between ascertainment, development or overcoming, and ultimately revealing that the idea of a single, consistent and steady identity is a need or desire, but it is also a utopia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The intersections of various inequalities impact the lives of amazigh women in Morocco. This paper addresses the situation of special vulnerability experienced by these amazigh women: for being women, indigenous and rural population. Thus patriarchy, racism and classism intersect, weaving a construct of oppression. But along with making visible and denouncing the situation of vulnerability of amazigh women, we also want to value the contributions of these women to the development of their communities, the wellbeing of their families and the sustainability of life. Through the recognition of their identity, and from their historical-cultural legacy, these women are moving from vulnerability to empowerment. The amazigh women's agency and its resistance are a source of learning and inspiration for the construction of cultures to make peace(s). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Two concepts which appear titularly, orient this paper – “Schizophrenic Seas” and the “Trans-Nation.” “The Schizophrenic Sea” is Wilson Harris’s term which appears in his classic collection of essays, The Womb of Space. The “trans-nation” is Bill Aschroft’s attempt to revise the over-reaching framing of the post-colonial. For this paper, I propose to bring these two concepts together, as constitutive of each other. They move in different directions, but allow for a series of returns to unsettled boundaries, redefined sea-scapes and land-scapes definitely given the nature of island instability and the effects of environmental turns, creating a Caribbean-trans nation that also in my reading redefines Caribbean space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From a political identities sociology, this paper analyzes three dissidences of the argentinian Montoneros organization wich emerged in completely dissimilar moments and with different characteristics. These dissidences are "Montoneros Columna José Sabino Navarro" 1972, the "Juventud Peronista Lealtad" in 1974 and the "Peronismo Montonero Auténtico" in 1979. This paper studies these dissidences practices, documents and publications in order to carry out three contributions: a) to make a contribution on the ways of communication of the latinamerican insurgent groups of the second half of the twenthieth century; b) to shed light on some of the ruptures that Montoneros suffered in it interior, trying to elaborate general arguments about the processes of constitution of the Montoneros dissidences; and c) to investigate the way in wich the National Direction and the rest of the Montoneros group managed the internal criticisms, challenges and ruptures, and, at the same time, sustained disciplinary mechanisms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper offers the partial results of an investigation aimed at studying the relationship between the emerging adults of the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador and their perception of masculinity stereotypes. The investigation is based on theoretical definitions of cultural identity, stereotypes of masculinity, hegemonic masculinity and finally a definition of the emergent adult. We describe the exploratory study based on the use of a questionnaire structured in four sections. The paper analyzes the results and establishes some preliminary conclusions about male stereotypes perceived and classified as decadent, dominant or emerging. It also analyzes the weight of the patterns of hegemonic masculinity in the construction of the identity representations of the Guayaquil man and the stereotypes that represent him. Finally, the conclusion show that the model of hegemonic masculinity is essential in the construction of the imaginary about Guayaquil masculinity (focusing on the prevalence of stereotypes, the dependence of perception to the hegemonic model and the nature of receptors and emitters of masculinity) and the paper closes with the questions that these conclusions pose to future work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyze how the fanbase of a football team is built in a complex process which allows the study of the motivations enthused by this sport in our subjects. In order to answer our working question -What is the process to build a contemporary football fanbase for the University of Guadalajara's team, the Leones Negros?-, this study was conducted using qualitative methodology, interviews with fans, and hemerographic consultation. The team Leones Negros was chosen due to its symbolic value -a relevant source for historic memory among the city's people. Among the findings, the institutional mediation that results in the communication of emotions rooted in the subjects' biography when conforming their identity stands out. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Some philosophers think that anti-realism about de re necessity entails anti-realism about the individuation and identity of objects. In this paper I address one argument for this view, due to Sidelle (2010), according to which the only way in which a de re modal conventionalist can avoid being refuted by a well-known argument based on the contingency of conventions is by also accepting conventionalism about objects. I show that Sidelle's argument is not successful and, in this way, I also show that the combination of de re modal anti-realism and realism about objects is at least not threatened from this direction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The increase of international adoptions has generated a significant amount of research focused on different aspects of the adoption, mainly to promote the psychological well-being of the adopted. Among the different variables related to the psychological health of the adopted adult, is the formation of the identity which can be seen in the adoption narratives. In this paper we present the translation, adaptation and validation of the Interview for Adopted Adolescents. This tool covers the narrative's characteristics and the possibility of relying on quantitative measurement. We interviewed 53 internationally adopted adolescents, aged 11-19 years. The results revealed an appropriate interjudge reliability of the Spanish version of the interview. Cluster analysis distributed participants in three clusters: identity without examination, integrated identity and limited-unstable identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the cultural changes brought about by the globalization processes by reviewing the homogenization-diversification dilemma that has dominated the debate in this field. To this end, the article examines the transformations that the expansion of the global capitalism has brought about in cultural frameworks, representations, and forms of symbolic consumption. The positions that argue that we are facing a process of cultural diversification thanks to the intensive exchange of messages and the flows of people will be reviewed, as well as those that state that the concentration of the production and distribution of symbolic goods in large corporations impoverishes imaginaries and reduces the richness of cultural frameworks. The intention of this reflection is to identify the limits of this disjunctive to move forward to more complex interpretative models, in accordance with the heterogeneity of the phenomena that are underway in the contemporary world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper aims to expose the different rhetorical strategies in the identity configuration of Moses, the Jewish character on the Dialogus contra Iudaeos, written by Peter Alfonsi of Huesca c. 1106. This first exposition has a subsequent purpose: to evaluate the presence or absence of some textual components into the following anti-Jewish literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following paper seeks to determine how the relationships between deaf people and hearing people who make up the deaf community of the deaf people's Association of Ourense are built. Through the immersion in their dynamics of interaction it is possible to offer an ethnographic description on the ways of being of the --other-- deaf as linguistic and cultural minority. The exclusion approaches of their community are articulated around the construction of the access to the --other-- hearing people and the forms of inclusion, they need an identity consolidation like a deaf person and the in-corporation of the own language-sign language- and culture. The understanding of duality identity/otherness, based on development cultural capacities, allows to guide social intervention with the collective of deaf people from a sociocultural perspective in opposition to a medical-rehabilitative based on notions of disability or handicap. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses the issue of communities of practice in an art and permaculture cooperative. The contributions of the situated theory of learning, the Social Economy and Permaculture, allowed to think of the cooperatives as spaces of social-community interactions that promote education and learning for the sustainability of life. In this context, the practice, cooperation and participation acquired transcendence for the coconstruction of identities and for a shared development of mastery, interests and trajectories. The case study aimed to learn about relevant aspects of learning that contributed to understanding the emergence, development and consolidation of a cooperative understood as a community of practice; interviews were conducted with members of the art and permaculture cooperative "Reciclando Utopías", with its ecoproductive headquarters, located in Rio Ceballos, Cordoba, Argentina. The organization develops its activities respecting the characteristics of the natural ecosystem, sustainable design, agriculture and permanent culture. In-depth interviews were conducted with four people who develop services in the cooperative. The analysis of the data made it possible to learn about the forms of participation, aspects related to the emergence and continuity of the co-operative as a community of practices, trajectories, identity and commitment, green learning and co-cooperativism. In this sense, within the cooperative it was possible to recognize a diversity of learning trajectories in the cooperation practices and in the process of permanent and continuous green learning of permaculture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Place names (toponyms) are proper nouns describing natural and cultural features of a landscape. They often become fossilized over time. The diachronic perspective offered by some place names allows to virtually reconstitute part of the natural and cultural elements of disappeared landscapes. Toponymy also has a referential value, because it designates places and distinguishes them from other places. It also has an identity value, since the inhabitants of a place feel affectionately linked to their living place and, therefore, to the place name. Finally, it is also an ideological science, because the political context determines the choice of one precise place name and not another plausible one. In this paper, which focuses on the case of the municipalities of the Valencian region of La Plana de Castelló, we carried out a new method of classification and interpretation, linked to the rise of critical toponymy recently developed among English-speaking geographers. Certain patterns of toponymic behavior are detected from this study method, which help us to understand the dominant ideological context in our study area. These patterns can be extrapolated to other related territories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this research article is to explain the identity features of the people from Boyaca, such as typical dress, dialect, regional products, and some customs, from a sociolinguistic analysis of the lyrics of the representative songs of Jorge Velosa. In this paper, the song "I am also Boyaco1" is taken as a specific case study. Initially, the relationship between language, culture, and identity is succinctly presented; later the generalities of carranguera music and its main exhibitor Jorge Velosa are exhibited; it concludes with a partial analysis of a sociophonetic, sociogrammatical, sociolexical and sociocultural type of the studied song. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the territorialities present in the Eje Cafetero's city region, an urban system located in Colombia's center-west expressed in the relations of appropriation and identity manifested by its inhabitants. Through the semi-structured interview applied to social actors, the existence of a territorial belonging anchored in the past (colonization, coffee culture) was evidenced, but it is renewed with the current phenomena and redefined from them: the city region as a territory for development acquires importance in the discourse of the actors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims the discussion between Augusto Salazar Bondy and Leopoldo Zea about lateinamerican philosophy, that takes place towards the end of the 1960s. The objective is to show that this discussion is the place of a differendum; that means, of conflict between dissimilar positions and representations, in some cases irreconcilable. As proposed, what is discussed in that controversy is the meaning of philosophy and the philosophical, in contexs of enunciation such Latin America. For this, we review some conceptual nuclei of the dispute, showing it as a current philosophical discussion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper starts from a research about transgender people's gender identity's construction process, carried out during 2013 and 2015 in San Luis province, Argentina. My aim is to prove that others' recognition, and the ways we understand gender, feminity and masculinity in Western Culture, contribute to shape transgender people's gender identity's construction process. I use a qualitative strategy based on data inductive work, similar to Grounded Theory's proposal. I conclude that transgender people's gender identity is built in a permanent negotiation about others' recognition, framed in prevailing gender cultural patterns. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The text analyses the relation in the Spanish context between the problematization of the migratory phenomenon, the new logics of functioning of racism and the conceptual proposals on 'islamophobia' that have been established during the last years. To do that, the paper presents some results of different ethnographic researches where I have being working for during the last years in the educational context of Andalusia. Based on biographic interviews with students, families and teachers, the paper illustrates the main representations about the Muslim immigrant students as well as the correspondences and divergences among these images of otherness and those teenagers' identification processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to expose part of a dissertation on symbolic and political representations formulated by contemporary narrative journalism. The methodology specifies a discussion on hegemony, control and power, based on thematic groups of analysis, which reflects on a production based on heterogeneous identities that highlights a plurality of political making. The discussion is raised from a sample of two chronicles of Etiqueta Negra and El Malpensante magazines, which involves the theoretical framework from the historical formation of the chronicle to the understanding of the process of socio-cultural mediation before power relations. This discussion intends to articulate imaginary, narrative influence, control practices, humanization of communication processes and social memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the terminology with which Indian people was identified, through a selection of sources for the knowledge of Indian law, amongst them legislation, documents relating to the implementation of law, memorials and reports submitted to the Spanish king. These are concepts loaded with legal significance, often with pejorative connotations that undervalued the capacities and competences of the Indigenous population. The limitation of rights, and in particular privileges and exemptions reserved to the Spaniards, could have its cause in this fact. The importance of the assignment of certain adjectives and names constantly in the genesis of the Indian citizen's imaginary is evidenced in the process of building an American policy and, especially, in the Spanish constitutional process in the early nineteenth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This reflection paper aims to provide insights into the gangs in El Salvador based on expressions of identity reconfiguration produced in the frame of a participatory photography experience with a group of men who belonged to those collectives. With their accounts, descriptions, and exercises of action-reflection they created an encounter of voices and views that dialogically analyzes, interprets and rebuilds some fragments from their realities, anchored to their realities and the meanings thereof. Identity in the context of a gang, the forms and meanings of violence as mediation in the social relationships, and the social stigma as a device producing the otherness are the three analytical lines allowing understanding how difficult it is to build an identity in the context of a stigmatizing society. All this also allows for the new self-concept built after the distancing from the violent practices as well as the awareness on the possibilities for change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sectarian readings explain the conflicts in the Middle East through religious variables. This paper criticises their reproduction in Latin American international relations, which draw on the epistemological and ontological assumptions of hegemonic/Western approaches to international relations. This is not inconsequential, as it constitutes an identity politics that simultaneously constructs Western identity and reaffirms and perpetuates prejudices that "other" the Middle East. From Latin America, such readings form part of peripheral Orientalism and produce subjectivity effects that distance the Latin American region from the Global South, as well as consolidating their marginal position in global power relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents some results of a qualitative research that explores and analyzes the narratives of a group of adults who were adopted in Chile, and who have searched for their origins and made contact with their birth mothers. In their narratives, the people interviewed adhere to, strain, and/or challenge the principles and discourses that make up hegemonic adoption policies and practices, resignifying their experience of adoption in various ways, as they (re)build their identities and reorganize their kinship relationships. It discusses the tensions and ambivalences that play out in the search for origins and the challenges associated with it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyze in what way the notions of sexuality, gender and identity pose questions to psychoanalysis, as they problematize forms of subjectivation present in their discursive practice. Taking into account Foucault's analysis of the formation of the device of sexuality and Butler's discussion on the problem of identity in gender discussions, we intend to situate the place of the Oedipus complex in the constitution of the subject in psychoanalysis and Freud's critique of the moralization of sexuality in modern experience. To conclude, based on the notions of vulnerability and dispossession of the self, we revisit the psychoanalytic concepts of helplessness and femininity to reflect on the importance of a thinking on otherness for psychoanalytic practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the reconfiguration of student identities of the Intercultural University of the State of Puebla (UIEP), in Mexico, from reflecting the components of school motivation, expectations and the construction of their life project in a significant context of multiculturalism, to understand the link between an incipient proposal of intercultural educational model and the vision of its students. The basis of field work is participant observation and observation (Ardévol et al, 2003), in an environment of daily interaction with students, and an instrument was designed and applied following analytical categories of life projects proposed by Ovidio and Hernández (2000). Although many students enter the university with vague goals and in a situation of uncertainty (Tinto, 2004, cited in Silva, 2011), preliminary results of this work suggest significant expectations from university students to continue studying due to three aspects: family support for their formation, the bonds of community cohesion and a university environment, resources that allow dialogue with their culture and at the same time reconfigure their identity for the construction of their life project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on oral and documentary sources, in this paper we reconstruct key moments in the history and forms of collective action of bank workers from Mendoza, Argentina, during the period 1969-1974, identifying some learnings acquired through the process of struggle related to the construction of a class identity within this group, crossed by the dispute with other forms of social identity. Later, we identified different forms of education that the union promoted, analyzing in depth the trade union press. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The way in which indigenous cinema collaborated in the construction of national identity based on Mexican nationalism to the detriment of image and concept of the indigenous in our country from the dialogism proposed by Bajtín (author, exotopy and alterity) is analyzed. To model this analysis, the film Chilam Balam (1955) by Íñigo de Martino is approached. Once the armed phase of the Mexican Revolution was over, the construction of a national identity was undertaken to generate cohesion around the national project. Activities such as education, art and the media were preponderant in disseminating national discourses to all levels of Mexican society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the practices of “technological appropriation” carried out by mapuche communicators, in the context of the chilean-mapuche intercultural and interethnic conflict. The results presented were obtained through an Argument Analysis applied to a set of interviews with mapuche communicators from La Araucanía region, Chile. The central-arguments identified dialogue with theoretical categories, to develop a dialogue of knowledge between the experiential and the theories of the social and human sciences. The work concludes that the practices of technological appropriation are related to issues such as identity, vindication, communication and interculturality, in addition to recognizing their implications in the strengthening of the political and identity project of reconstruction of the Mapuche country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]