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This paper addresses a reality insufficiently studied in penitentiary centers: the impact of participation in leisure, sports, and cultural activities on the desistance process of incarcerated individuals and as a protective factor against committing new crimes. It was carried out in one of the eight ordinary regime penitentiary centers that the Generalitat of Catalonia (Spain) has in its territory. In this exploratory research, a quantitative design was chosen to allow a static, confirmatory reading of the benefits of leisure, sports, and cultural activities in penitentiary contexts, focusing on improving competencies that benefit desistance processes. The results show the perceived benefits by the incarcerated individuals and how these influence positive identity construction processes. Some recommendations derived from the results obtained are provided, which may suggest actions in penitentiary treatment and the design of public policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Education, understood as transmission and creation of knowledge, and self-training to build commonalities, are the main objectives and values shared by those willing to change the prevailing irreversibility in daily practice. People dedicated to heritage education have come together in communities of practice to express ourselves and work with freedom and autonomy, based on principles of horizontality and with the commitment to improve our professional practice. At the beginning of 2017, the closing down of FANAPEL (National Paper Factory), founded in 1898, shook the city of Juan Lacaze, calling the attention of government and media. The political strategies developed by this company's workers, alongside with other organized sectors of the city, were fundamental to place this issue on the public agenda. This essay, based on the testimony of professionals working in the area, addresses the trajectories of subjects linked to two different sectors of the city: the rural and the vulnerable, away from highly politicized scenes, from an anthropological perspective. The general objective, then, is to increase their visibility, in the context of the construction of a development agenda coordinated by the Local Development program of CLAEH University. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is focused on the analysis of the historical narrative taught to students during the last dictatorial government in Uruguay, through the official textbooks of National History for Primary School, between 1980-1984. Assuming that during the dictatorial period—within the framework of its foundational project—it was made a political use of the past, this paper explores the characteristics of such use and its relationship with the main features of the regime, through the study of five thematic units, related to different periods or issues of Uruguayan history. The pro-government speech on the past taught in classrooms shows then a combination of traditional historiographical trends with conceptual innovations based on the principles of the National Security Doctrine, a combination of little scientific rigour which clearly aimed at legitimating the regime and laying its foundations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]