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Contemporary artistic practices were provided with a space for reflection and the creation of opinion in the galleries of the Fundació Espais and in the pages of its art magazine, Papers d'Art. A group of independent voices of multidisciplinary artistic production was made audible thanks to this publication that provided a critique which forged dynamic connections between artistic meaning and social and cultural contexts. This paper highlights a shift in meaning of the conception of contemporary art as a key element in intellectual culture, including politics, philosophy, science and other creative formats such as music and literature. Based on an analysis of the critical awareness of the various contributors to the magazine and on the historiographic study of certain aesthetic and symbolic questions, a review of the articles published in the Studies and Research section is detailed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The emergence of internet in the 1990s transformed the cultural industry on a global scale in a gradual and definitive way and put print journalism at risk. This article aims to investigate, from the analysis of the Brazilian case, the dimension of these changes and try to answer the following issues. How have digital publications transformed the production and dissemination of content? Will the paper publications will still have space? Can alternative digital publications face the big media? Will they take the place of the political-cultural magazines of the past? finally, how can we think the relationships among intellectuals, culture and politcs in the field of cultural and mediatic production? The analysis of these and other issues will start from two temporal perspectives. The first one will be the 1970s, the peak of the military dictatorship, when the so-called alternative press worked as a bastion of resistance to the regime and magazines such as Versus, of Latin American character, circulated. The second will be the current context, with Brazil under a government of the extreme right, in which digital publications seek to act as a counterweight to the voice of the hegemonic media that yesterday supported the dictatorship of 1964, and today the political trial of Dilma Roussef in 2016 and the current government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we aim to explore the interconnection between Children's Literature and contemporary technologies, though not from the perspective of technology as a didactic tool or as a media to produce or reproduce literary texts. Instead, we examine how technology is present in books for children and picture books. This approach is based on the concepts of children's literature, and childhood and technologies. We also present an initial corpus of stories and picture books either about technology or in which technology structures the book or the narrative. Our conclusion is that in some texts the encounter of both worlds produces significant literary experiences. However, there is a literary core that cannot be integrated with technology. This tension is also part of the cultural representations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This investigation is centered on two objectives: one is to determine whether in Tomelloso, which from 1950 onwards was characterised as being a city linked to literature, this activity is still relevant in the distribution of its spare time. The second objective is to verify whether this city is still a place from which new writers regularly emerge. In addition, this paper aims to provide a sociological explanation of this social phenomenon. Methodological triangulation was used, with qualitative exploratory interviews, surveys, and the management of the bibliography and documentary archives. It is confirmed that there is still a major link to literature in Tomelloso and that writers are still continuously emerging. The phenomenon is explained by relating it to the theories of symbolic interactionism and Robert K. Merton's concept of self-fulfilling prophecies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Neoliberalism is a political-economic philosophy that consists of two claims: one economic and the other political. The economic claim is: that free market laissez faire economies are the best way to organize economic activity as they generate efficient outcomes that maximize well-being. The political claim is: that free market economic arrangements promote individual liberty. This paper argues both claims are problematic. The evidence from the forty-year experiment that began in 1980 shows neo liberalism has undercut shared prosperity and unleashed illiberal forces that threaten liberty. The paper distinguishes between the first political turn which saw the establishment of neoliberal political hegemony, and the second one toward proto-fascism that we are now experiencing. The second turn is being driven by a collection of factors that have created a demand for proto-fascism and weakened the defenses against alt-right ideas. Those factors include socio-economic disembedding, institutional destruction and political disembedding, increased economic inequality that tilts political power, an alteration in attitudes to government and governance, transformation of economic identity, and a cultural transformation that celebrates sociopathic egotism. The Third Way's capture of center-left politics means liberal elites occupy the political place that should be held by true opponents of neoliberalism. Those liberal elites obstruct the politics needed to reverse the deep causes of the drift to proto-fascism. Ironically, that makes those elites a real danger. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: Abstract: "Kosher" is a word used to illustrate the food laws of Jewish people. It's a traditional Jewish law for food. For Jews, it's more than food consumption with safety. It's regarding religious beliefs and traditions. Jews follow proper guidelines of Kosher and give the compulsion to food to be reckoned Kosher. The English word "Kosher" is derived from the Hebrew root "Kasher", which means to be pure, proper, or suitable for consumption. Kashrut is a charter that renders the foundation for kosher dietetic rule and is established inside 'Torah' which is a Jewish sacred book. Kosher dietetic rules are including all and produce a strict structure of rules and regulations which gives a sketch of foods allowed or prohibited. It also determines how foods allowed should be made, refined, and fixed before eating. The paper illustrates kosher law and food among American-Jewish people and their determination towards their religious beliefs in American land, which is not their motherland, with analysis from Philip Roth's novel Indignation. This paper also ascertains Jewish culture into the outlook of American culture which ends with a cultural clash referring to historical consequences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The potentialities of the educational units as medium of university extension, as material vehicle of promotion of culture, in their more wide meaning, it is the referring that defends this work. It includes a summaries of the main epistemological conceptions about the extension as university process, as well as those that it maintain to the educational units as fundamental vehicle for the investigative labor formation and it reflects about the possibilities of these to be a canal that possesses the university to extend their culture to community. Appear also a proposal of methodology for the development of the process of university extension in the educational units. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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]

Culture of peace and education work together to shape individual with knowledge, attitudes and behaviors focused on harmony, tolerance, respect, inclusion, and peace. This paper presents a systematic review whose purpose was to identify the lines of study of the culture of peace in secondary education globally during the last decade (2012-2022). The study was based on the PRISMA methodology; 367 articles were collected from the databases of ERIC, Education Source, Academic Search Ultimate, Web of Science and Redalyc. Based on inclusion and exclusion criteria, 27 articles were analyzed. The results obtained reflect that most of the articles focus on the of the peace component in the school curriculum, although scientific production focused on identifying the effects of culture of peace programs was also identified. It is concluded, the study of this topic provides a deeper understanding of how education contributes to the development of citizens committed to peace. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study analyzes fifty years of theological reflection in Uruguay, specifically at the Faculty of Theology of Uruguay "Mons. Mariano Soler" and its predecessor, the Theological Institute of Uruguay. These periodic publications demonstrate the research and production work in the area of theological thought in the country. Over time, different research topics have emerged, addressed from the different specialties of theological knowledge and ecclesiastical sciences in general. The progress of the Theological Institute of Uruguay has contributed to giving more importance to research and being more demanding in publications. The article presents the emergence of academic publications in Uruguay in the 1970s, as part of the Latin American theological movement following the Second Vatican Council. These publications, which include an Annual Book and a series of Notebooks, seek to be theological and pastoral contributions in service to the Church. The text talks about the publications of the Theological Institute of Uruguay and their evolution over the years. Initially, five issues of the magazine "Puntos de Apoyo" were published in 1983 and 1984, addressing specific topics related to theology. Then, for three years, there were no new publications. Starting in 1995, the magazine "Soleriana" began to be published, replacing the Annual Book and being published semi-annually. This new stage coincides with the creation of the degree in theology of evangelization and seeks to promote theological reflection in the service of evangelization in a context of secularization and social challenges. Soleriana magazine presents itself as a resource for the evangelization of Uruguayan culture, promoting interdisciplinary dialogue from theological thought. In 2000, the creation of the Faculty of Theology of Uruguay "Mons. Mariano Soler" is announced and the magazine becomes the faculty's magazine. The article presents a summary of the issues of Soleriana magazine published between 2001 and 2015. The topics addressed in each issue are mentioned, such as hope, the Virgin Mary, religiosity, and the evangelization of culture. It is highlighted that the magazine has experienced a crisis and decline in recent years, with a decrease in the number of issues published. The importance of research and academic production in the theological field is emphasized. Soleriana magazine has gone through different stages over the years. In the first stage, it focused on the history of the Church in Uruguay and had the participation of faculty students. In the second stage, the magazine faced difficulties and stopped having previous sections. In the third stage, the magazine was revitalized and began to be published semi-annually, with new sections and a focus on research. Style guidelines have been introduced and blind peer review has been implemented. The article presents the history of theological production at the Faculty of Theology of Uruguay "Mons. Mariano Soler" through its publications. The importance of Soleriana magazine is highlighted, which has adopted a style manual for article submission and has established formal requirements. The magazine has exclusively relied on research papers from authors, mostly faculty members. Additionally, the creation of its own research lines and the exchange with other academic publications are mentioned. On the other hand, the existence of books edited by the institution is mentioned, mainly by faculty professors. In conclusion, the contribution of these publications to Uruguayan theological production and their objective of contributing to the Church and national culture is highlighted. The article presents the work of the Theological Institute in Uruguay over the past 50 years. Although proposals for liberation theology emerged in the country, the institute did not embrace them. [Extracted from the article]

Situated between the social studies of art and community psychology, in this paper we investigate the reception experience of the contemporary dance work "Otoño" by the independent group Cantorodado. We conducted a socio-semiotic analysis of the reception of different audiences from popular and marginal sectors of the Paravachasca Valley (Córdoba, Argentina), in the framework of a collaborative ethnographic research initiated in 2018. To do so, we analyzed the play "Otoño" and then, the experiences of reception. We identified that the play "Otoño" addresses different daily violence from polysemic scenic compositions, using a realistic and open code. We recognize different reception experiences that focus on the situations of aggression in the play "Otoño", configuring emotions such as "sadness", "anxiety" and "fear", and interpretations such as "domestic violence", "exorcism" and "horror movie". Thus, we observe a relationship between the aesthetic and political proposal of the play "Otoño" and the experiences of the participating audiences. Recognizing that contemporary dance functions as a field of restricted production in the region under study and is named as elite dance, the results found lead us to think, in the first place, of an articulation between popular and elite cultures. Secondly, recognizing an area of vacancy of this type of studies in the field of community psychology, we echo Martín Barbero's words regarding the need to investigate the cultural consumption of popular groups without saturating them with meanings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At the end of the 19th century, Cardinal Mercier founded the Higher Institute of Philosophy (HIPh) in Louvain, an academic centre that sought to harmonise Thomistic doctrine with both modern science and philosophy. The Vasque priest Juan Zaragüeta Bengoechea was trained in the HIPh and occupied a prominent place in Spanish academic life during the first half of the 20th century, making important contributions to philosophy, pedagogy, psychology, and Spanish culture in general. This paper presents a portrait of Zaragüeta and briefly outlines some of the key aspects of his conception of psychology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A great question remains unresolved: What is man? The limits of the Eurocentric techno-scientific worldview, and its theories and models of human nature are examined. An intellectual paralysis prevents progress in the examination of this issue. This paper presents a worldview committed to a specifically human biology that transcends the shortcomings of neo-Darwinian theory. We propose a theory of the essential elements that would allow us to advance in the study of what makes us human. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper tests a simple but fascinating hypothesis, namely, that racism is a strictly modern reality. We will not find specifically racist theories before the eighteenth century. We also intend to establish a suggestive contrast with Spanish thought of the 16th century. The goal is to corroborate an issue that, perhaps, will amaze more than one: the verifiable circumstance that racism is absent in the doctrines of the jurists, moralists, theologians, and humanists (as well as early ethnologists) of imperial Spain in the 16th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the development of University Extension action carried out remotely, during the pandemic. The objective is to present elements for reflection on curricular practices in this period, highlighting the limits and possibilities of technological resources. As an object of reflection, the "Circles of Culture" were used, which sought to deepen concepts developed by Paulo Freire. In the field notebook records, in forms and minutes, we sought to identify elements for the development of this reflective production. We highlight as obstacles the existing social inequality in Brazil, which prevented the access of part of the population to digital resources. On the other hand, we highlight as a possibility the dialogue with subjects from different parts of the country, the sharing of experiences and materials. We consider that this remote action can be integrated as a complementary activity to in-person extension actions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the effect of transfers from the General Participations System (SGP) on Colombian municipal development indicators during 2003-2017. A Municipal Development Index is proposed, considering indicators of educational achievement, health coverage, and crime rates. This index is studied in the municipal context using spatial autocorrelation techniques. A panel-type econometric model was estimated to evaluate the effect of transfers on the index. The results suggest that increases in education, health, culture, and recreation transfers generate positive, differential effects on the index. Transfers to the health sector have the most significant impact on the index. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This exploratory paper analyzes the definition of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the role played by data to feed decisional systems, bearing in mind that a library does not store data, but identifies the relationships between them and performs a constant work of verification. Evidences the pathology of intelligent systems in today's world and the lack of human ethics, with examples that warn about it. Indicate how Artificial Intelligence will affect future jobs, and how it relates to culture and libraries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this article is to argue that Mexico's involvement in the Universal Exhibitions and World Fairs of the nineteenth century can be considered as the immediate background of what would be called cultural diplomacy in the twentieth century. The evidence found is that Mexico started a tradition that will remain nowadays. The influence of history, as well as the richness and diversity of its artistic and cultural production were their "letters of credence" that allows the country to be appreciated and recognized internationally. Based on testimonies from those who witnessed and attend the exhibitions, as well as official documents and papers of that period, the features of these exhibitions were exposed. To this end, this paper analyzes Mexico's involvement in three of the most important exhibitions of nineteenth century: 1851, 1889 and 1900. This selection allows to compare different contexts and at the same time contributes to observe Mexican political narrative evolution. This article aims to show that the Universal Exhibitions were an opportunity for Mexico to be known and to promote an idea of a country that was aligned with the canons of that century: progress, civility and peace. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes a reading of American poet Keneth Goldsmith's Uncreative Writing. Managing Language in the Digital Age (2015) which corresponds to my personal review of the book -linked with other readings and particularly with my creative and research experience. It is organized by «theses» or pieces that briefly develop some of the ideas contained in Goldsmith's proposal. This way of proceeding has generated three approaches: 1) post-identity expressiveness as a substitute of creative authenticity, 2) the literary canonical forms' reevaluation as an effect of the deployment of interactive digital communication, 3) the effects on literary practice in the digital culture. With this reading of Goldsmith, a call on understanding the possibilities of the digital as an opportunity to renew literary practice is proposed at the end. The paper ends with an addendum: the short story "El hombre de la esquina", which complements, in a fictional register, the ideas elaborated here. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to argue how compassion is configured as a fundamental category that enables interreligious and cultural dialogue. In all major religious traditions, there is a wealth of wisdom that involves the assimilation of values and virtues that facilitate and foster feelings of compassion, which can lead to encounters with other religions and cultures in order to experience peace. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a theoretical and audiovisual investigation that has the objective of identifying and studying the presence and representation of the concept of happiness in Andalusia as depicted in the Cruzcampo advertising campaign 'With much accent'. This is a qualitative study in which an exploratory-descriptive methodology divided into phases has been applied. First, the concept has been observed from different social and psychological perspectives. Second, an audiovisual analysis of the spot has been done. Finally, communication of the advertising campaign has been analyzed through the different degrees of representation. After the analysis, we obtain results that reinterpret the importance of the Andalusian myth and the relationship with tradition for a new generation of young people from an ideological, cultural, social and future perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we propose to investigate one common adult representation of childhood that will serve both to reflect on and to problematize current and varied representations. As such, our object of study will always be a representation and not a substantialist definition. We propose to analyze the adult concept "child" from a critical perspective by reviewing it through a historical lens--that is, as it is expressed in the political and educational world of 19th century Chile, which, in turn, we can glimpse in the historical writings of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento. To carry out this journey, we propose three guiding thematic axes: 1) how all school apparatuses embody, configure and assume a certain identifiable representation of "child' and childhood; 2) an analysis of the characteristics and objectives of the 19th century Chilean school apparatus, particularly in its function as a government device, or dispositif; 3) just how that dispositif becomes visible to inquiry in the historical record, particularly in what it can reveal to us about the image or images of childhood held by adults. To be understood by adults as a boy or a girl in Chile during that period is communicated in the historical record through a myriad of diverse sources, each requiring consideration in its context. Magazines, syllabaries, school textbooks and children's stories configure different perspectives on and attitudes toward childhood, which in turn are associated with the social origin of these documents and the purposes they embody. The images, ideas and signs of interaction that appear in these school documents act cumulatively to reveal a cultural image of "child" and aid us in understanding the political and socio-cultural significance attributed to that period in the human life-cycle. And while we cannot claim to have identified how all adults of 19th century Chile understood and represented childhood, such documents do offer insights into the beliefs and assumptions of the political and ruling classes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using interpretative analysis methods, the paper looks at policy and analyzes the meaning, values and judgements implicit in the devices that gave footing to the program's creation and of the analysis of six interviews with public officials in a position to make decisions and that participated in part in the creation or modification of the program. The results show that the prejudices of the culture of poverty are present in the documents that gave rise to the program, in the founding documents of the program and within the narratives of said public officials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to present and base the theoretical-analytical proposal called psychosocial understanding of the configuration of subjectivities, from a complex, relational, socio-historically situated, intersubjective and symbolic epistemological position. In this framework, it is postulated as an alternative to the deterministic and essentialist views that have characterized the theoretical productions in this field. This proposal, which should be considered provisional and open to later revisions, is inspired by the historical-cultural perspective of Fernando González Rey. First, the problematic individual-society relationship and the reductionisms derived from their consideration as antinomic poles are analyzed. In a second moment, some details about the psychosocial understanding of subjectivities are advanced, particularly the power of the concept "configuration" as an epistemic operator. Finally, a conceptual scheme is offered that articulates the proposed analytical dimensions and categories and reflects on the ethical-political projections of this discussion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The increasing use of networked digital devices is giving rise to a new culture: the digital culture theorised by Manuel Castells. It has its own space, cyberspace, and makes available a large collection of content, creating what Pierre Lévy calls collective intelligence. Although it is based on the technocratic belief that technology promotes human progress, some research shows that the actual uses fall short of what is desired and theorised. The analyses carried out in Portugal on the use of the Web by the Catholic Church in the pursuit of its mission prove precisely that. There are several hypotheses that try to explain the phenomenon. This paper seeks to demonstrate that one of the existing fragilities is that the various analyses did not consider the need for a new rhetoric, the digital rhetoric. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper establishes semantic conceptions for the terms mathematical thinking and mathematical culture, which are present in the Theory Mathematics in the Context of Sciences. We used the method called comparative constant. This is fundamental to avoid misconceptions or carry out contradictory analyses in regard to the precepts of the referential adopted. The acknowledgement of the elements that characterize these conceptions can enable the design and implementation of adequate programs of Mathematics to develop mathematical thinking, as well as mathematical culture in students of Higher Education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With this paper we intend to elucidate whether cultural diplomacy and international relations continue to constitute one of the main resources of soft power of the European Union, as instruments capable not only of enhancing its influence and leadership as a global actor, but also of generating key strategies to confront the great challenges that the Union is facing today. To this end, we will propose a series of recommendations for the preparation and implementation of a new strategy for European cultural diplomacy and international cultural relations, adapted to the current legal, geopolitical, social and health circumstances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a reflection on the relationship between the mass media and the prehispanic past of Mexico. The official discourse (archaeological, institutional) around the past has been called into question with the transition from classical media (print, film and TV) to digital media. In contemporary worlds, the established imaginary about Mesoamerica is seen resignified and confronted with other imaginaries associated with New Age groups that promote the resurgence of the Anahuac culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to analyze, in the light of anthropology of the media in conjunction with a critique of culture inspired by psychoanalysis and its clinic, a set of film and television products that stage some of the cultural mutations that impact our contemporaneity. The digital revolution, the redefinitions of gender identities, generational differences and interethnic and interracial relationships, are the subject of reflection through films and series that deal with these phenomena and reveal the profound changes in the figures of the subjectivity product of late capitalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the context of growing global daily mobility, fragmented visions of knowledge predominate when assisting policies for advancing the sustainability of this phenomenon. Such visions have mostly focused on material aspects. In this paper, from an inter- and transdisciplinary perspective, a hybridization of theoretical perspectives around the notions of daily mobility and sustainability is proposed. For that, we review the existing literature to provide theoretical approaches and key concepts for the construction of a Sustainable Daily Mobility Index - IMCS. That index comprises a set of indicators around four dimensions: ecology, well-being, governance and culture; the latter seen from prevailing social representations and as a way forward to establish nexuses with the material dimension of daily mobility. Based on preliminary findings for the case of Barrio Antiguo in the city of Monterrey, Mexico, we conclude with a reflection on the IMCS usefulness in a Latin American context where socioeconomic, cultural and spatial characteristics turn social representations into a key explanatory factor of many mobility dynamics, challenges, and potential solutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of the present paper is to systematize the contributions of more than 15 15 years teamwork around the understanding of communication as a field of complex inter and transdisciplinary reflections, built on the research practice of the Center for Cuban and Caribbean Social Studies “Dr. José A. Portuondo ”, from the Universidad de Oriente (Cuba). To systematize the results, a large volume of data contained in 49 undergraduated and postgraduated investigations, 60 scientific articles, 8 books, 15 book chapters, as well as the empirical experience accumulated in dozens of communities, cultural projects, social institutions was analyzed., local governments, unions, companies, scientific events among others, where research results have been socialized and introduced. A complex conception of communication of a socio-anthropological and micro-cultural nature is proposed, which is already located in the analysis of the media, cultural management, socio-cultural relations, politics and local development. [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]

The objectives of this paper are to describe with two examples the recreation of communality in an urban context. And, to explain how the Betaceña community has recreated its culture through the communal practice (with the party). On the other hand, it is intended to account for how through these practices the members of this community have adapted to a new space, and have resisted the complexities that migration implies. Therefore, the recreated communality is considered as a form of Zapotec resistance in urban contexts. This analysis is of utmost importance, because it will contribute to blur the conceptions that are held about communality. In addition to visualizing other forms of Zapotec resistance. In order to obtain the results, this work used an ethnographic methodology. It mainly relied on participant observation and the elaboration of field diaries. Thus, the description and analysis of the empirical data resulted in the possibility of a decontextualized communality or a communality recreated through the party. Becoming the way in which the Betaceños adapt, remain and resist culturally in an urban context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The impact of SARSCoV2 have been geographically differentiated. In general terms, the highest rates of infections, deaths and lethality take place in the West as opposed to what is observed in the East. In this paper, an approach to the pandemic is made from the point of view of the civic-political culture, by taking into account the predominance that the individual has in Western nations compared to the relevance that the collectivity/community has in Eastern nations, and through the use of a model based on a triple analysis: geographical-civilizational considerations, political philosophy and political regime. Eleven countries are analyzed according to Samuel Huntington's civilizing typology: four western, five non-western countries and two split or hybrid countries. Our conclusions suggests that countries where civic-political freedoms around the community predominate have had a lower incidence of infections / deaths during the current pandemic. The analysis reveals the importance of civic-political culture in dealing with emergencies such as the SARSCoV2 pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article approaches artistic practices in a small city. It follows a group of visual artists from different cities in the northwest of the province of Buenos Aires. The paper analyzes how the ways in which members of this group perceive the limits, distances and meanings of what is local affect their perception and positioning as "peripheral" within the field of culture. It is based on interviews with group members and the participation in virtual and in-person activities between 2019 and 2021. The article examines the definition of an inside and an outside of the locality and constructs the category of exteriority as a constitutive part of the social world in which this group of artists is inserted. [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]

The name of Karl Lachmann has been key in the broad field of Humanities in the European territory from the Nineteenth-Century on; the importance of its work, however, was increased because of a series of misunderstandings laid upon the preface to De rerum natura. Lachmann's edition of this book by Lucretius was told to be the foundation of a different method for Philology: the Stemmatic Method or family tree method. In this paper we wish to introduce Lachmann's work and the content of this important preface, one of the discipline's key sources. We will render, as well, some of the theoretical and political stances that this lachmannian method has inherited to other associated disciplines, expressing a specific sort of academic pursuit of origins of culture as a path to explaining it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Northeast India, the land of original inhabitants, follows a unique and fascinating culture and tradition as its inhabitants are closely attached to nature. Northeast India is one of those few places in the world, where matrilineal culture is still practiced. In Meghalaya, one of the northeastern states, the practice of matrilineality has been in existence for almost 2000 years among a few tribes. Khasi, Jaintia and Garo, the earliest ethnic communities of Meghalaya appear to be homogenous ones, as the youngest daughter becomes the custodian of the ancestral prospects. This practice where the womenfolk become the custodians of the cultural and natural artifacts has strong parallels in the theory of ecofeminism. By employing ecofeministic perspective to read the matrilineal culture of the tribes, the paper aims to make a parallel study on the ethnic women’s affinity towards nature. Ecofeminism celebrates the robust connect between women and nature and asserts that women serve as the advocates for nature rather than men. The paper, therefore, aims to investigate ecofeministic elements among the Khasi, Jaintia and Garo tribes of Meghalaya and tries to express an ecofeministic view concerning family, marriage, religion, and food culture of the Meghalaya tribes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using interpretative analysis methods, the paper looks at policy and analyzes the meaning, values and judgements implicit in the devices that gave footing to the program's creation and of the analysis of six interviews with public officials in a position to make decisions and that participated in part in the creation or modification of the program. The results show that the prejudices of the culture of poverty are present in the documents that gave rise to the program, in the founding documents of the program and within the narratives of said public officials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The violence that has been built around gender affects social dynamics and ways of understanding the world. Although it is true that the role of women in the construction of culture is vital, relations with the other, with the male sex, have been based on asymmetries, objectification and implementation of dominant patriarchal logics. For this reason, this paper analyzes the categories of gender, equity, multiculturalism and interculturality, pointing out the necessary transcendence of multicultural approaches, which hide hegemonic discriminatory patterns towards women and culture, since recognition or tolerance towards women is not enough. The other requires the establishment of symmetrical, equitable dialogues that tend towards social justice. The work was developed following the guidelines of the hermeneutic-documentary methodology. It concludes in the recognition of the heterogeneity of genders, cultures and knowledge, to denounce discriminatory patterns in multicultural approaches, which encourage mistreatment towards divergent identity, tending towards the consolidation of an ethical-normative system based on a genuine intercultural dialogue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With this paper we intend to elucidate whether cultural diplomacy and international relations continue to constitute one of the main resources of soft power of the European Union, as instruments capable not only of enhancing its influence and leadership as a global actor, but also of generating key strategies to confront the great challenges that the Union is facing today. To this end, we will propose a series of recommendations for the preparation and implementation of a new strategy for European cultural diplomacy and international cultural relations, adapted to the current legal, geopolitical, social and health circumstances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using Mexican and Spanish sources, this paper presents the inquisitorial process carried out by beata María Guadalupe Rivera in New Spain in the 18th Century. The objective is to analyze some indications of the love of God, typical of the heresy of the deluded, of their the visions, between demons and states of childishness, that the condemned used to make evident the state of grace that they had supposedly been granted by God. Such manifestations testify to a cultural environment of an entire era and a repressive system attentive to any deviation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Water culture is determined by customs, attitudes and values, both individual and socially shared, that people adopt with respect to water. In this paper, we analyse the water culture transmitted in 20 Spanish and Colombian textbooks designed for students aged 14-15 years old. To this end, a taxonomic instrument was developed based on the differences between the New Water Culture and the traditional one. This instrument was useful in characterising the Teaching-Learning Units identified in the textbooks. The results indicate a high dispersion in the cultural image of water in both Spanish and Colombian textbooks, although overall there is a timid tendency towards the more traditional culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to discuss the relationship between media competence and fan culture, focusing on content creation shared on Twitter by fans of the Limantha ship, from the Brazilian telenovela Young Hearts (Malhação: Viva a Diferença). In order to reflect on how telenovela social issues were explored in the content shared on Twitter, we adopted Ferrés and Piscitelli’s concept of media competence. We concluded that, in addition to deepening themes dealt within the plot, fans expanded and resignified discussions based on correlations with personal reports. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper considers the interwoven and accelerating changes in media, culture and society that are impacting and transforming cultural journalism as we have known it, creating new dynamics, new opportunities and new roles for cultural journalists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the context of a wider research, this article analyzes the first stage of Jesús Martín-Barbero's work, more precisely his writings in the 1970s, in order to recover his most significant contributions to the field of communication/education during that decade. The corpus of analysis is made up of Martín-Barbero's doctoral thesis entitled La palabra y la acción, finished in 1972, and two later books, Comunicación masiva: discurso y poder, written in 1978, and Comunicación educativa y didáctica audiovisual Elementos teóricos-metodológicos para la producción de ayudas audiovisuales didácticas, published a year later. The aim of this paper is to characterize these reflections, explain them, and systematize them in order to identify the points of continuity and rupture between those deliberations. This will in turn let us, on the one hand, establish the lines of research that will allow us to relate the other stages of the intellectual production of the author in this field and analyze the evolution of these first contribution, and, on the other hand, to evaluate to what extent these approaches and their subsequent developments and transformations can still be useful to investigate the phenomena related to communication/education in the present. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims the viability of building an ecological citizenship, understood as a response to the environmental crisis, a product of the advance of symbols of the instrumental rationality of modernity. The confluence of diverse theoretical, cultural, educational, philosophical and social movements gave rise to the emergence of a political ecology, which was built on the utilitarian foundations established by Western logos, while allowing a holistic, complex and heterogeneous understanding of relationality man/naturalness. However, the environmental problem was not resolved with the political emergence of ecology; it required entering into sustainable development, with the presence of an ecological citizenry, whose fines are placed on the responsibility and active role of the citizen in favor of the environment, to the communities in the processes of transformation of society. However, to consolidate this proposal, it cannot be achieved without environmental education, thought, in the bureaucratic terms of the academy, as a life training, which must be carried out from birth to death, promoting axiological training and a culture sustained, fair and sustainable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following paper represents some reflections on the pedagogical from different perspectives and debates around its definition, which will lead us to establish some analysis on its practical and theoretical implications and its relationship with academic culture, training and pedagogical knowledge. These approaches seek mainly to enrich the debate and strengthen the scope of understanding of the pedagogical as a horizon of reflection from practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]