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Thie main objective of this paper is the conceptual study and characterization of slow journalism from an academic and professional perspective. As a methodological process, a total of 76 files have been analyzed, of which 58 correspond to publications of authors from the academic world and 18 to journalism professionals. Thie publications come from the academic world on information and journalistic quality, on digital journalism and narrative journalism, as emerging journalistic routines with potential and creative dynamics in the media sector. Thie other part of the analysis corresponds to 18 professional journalism experts. Among the most outstanding results is the preeminence of the academic world when it comes to studying the phenomenon, given that among those who practice journalism there is less production of works in this regard compared to those coming from the university environment. Also in academia there is a greater profusion of denominations to refer to the phenomenon in Spanish, although both in academia and in the journalistic profession itself the most commonly used term is the Anglo-Saxon term slow journalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Agricultural activity in the rural sector has been studied mainly in terms of technical questions regarding cultivation; however, the organizational aspects that generate added value, such as knowledge, have rarely been addressed. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between knowledge management and innovation in rural agricultural organizations in northwestern Mexico. A questionnaire with composed of 36 items and a thorough interview was applied to seven leading organizations of the Yaqui Valley (YV). The results reveal a positive and significant relationship between knowledge management and innovation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Residents of Mexico's communities face considerable health issues. The improvement of green infrastructure bolsters the efforts of rural communities in maintaining high standards of health, subsequently making rural communities as habitable as possible. This paper aims to critically assess the existing literature on this topic between 2000 and 2018 because most sources fell comfortably within this range and no other comparable systematic review, either selective or comprehensive in nature, has been conducted in this respect. The results of the review suggest that a greater focus on the development of green infrastructure in rural areas is required. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the current paper we study producer-consumer linkages in a small rural market in Mexico. Two short food supply chains for the sale of egg were identified, which reduced producer-consumer distance and enabled the exchange of information regarding egg origin, egg production practices, and egg characteristics valued by consumers. This allowed the creation of food symbolism and increased consumers' knowledge and trust in small-scale producers and their products. It is concluded that producer-consumer linkages in short chains enable closeness, confidence, and exchange of information between them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper assesses the effects of the "Grupo de los Tres" (G-3) trade agreement in the Colombian automobile market. Assuming that demand might be described by a Discrete-Choice model, this paper develops a partial-equilibrium model in order to analyze the import quota of automobiles produced by the Mexican assemblers and its effects upon prices on the Colombian Automobile Sector. The results of this paper evidence that the quota reduced average market prices in no more than 3%, comparing the case without G-3. Likewise, the price in Mexican cars were reduced on 20%, but prices of domestic and other import cars were unaffected. Finally, There is evidence that the distribution of the price reduction among classes is independent of market-shares. Therefore, the import quota does not accomplish the goals of domestic policy-makers. These results are relevant in order to make trade policies in targeted industries and are useful for firms of the Automobile market when they undertake strategic decisions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes the poverty - environment relation as observed in the rural communities living next to the tourist development called Bahías de Huatulco, located to the south of Oaxaca, in the poorest zone in Southeastern Mexico. The information presented was gathered throughout five years of work of various institutions; the methodology applied was that of participative rural research and continuous improvement techniques, that allowed the conformation of work groups in which family and community members of San Isidro Chacalapa, Santa María Xadani, Petatengo and Playa Grande were involved. In the paper, variables that are affected by the poverty - environment relation are defined, and some indicators that serve to identify such relation in the work zone are described. In rural communities, the preservation of natural resources is strongly determined by conditioning factors and family behavior. In production activities, family organization for work and rural people's attitude towards change and innovation have a negative impact on the quality and quantity of the natural resources available. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing from an empirical study undertaken by the author at two National Museums in Mexico, this paper examines the interactions of the museums' visitors, as agents that use their capacity and resources to interact with one another as well as with the knowledges and narratives displayed at the museums. Grounded in contemporary debates in the social sciences, the analysis aims at elucidating the dynamics and the experience of power relations as social processes; it presents the different forms in which history and other knowledge, as well skills and abilities, interplay in such processes. The study reveals the social nature of the construction of historical knowledge and its usage —or lack thereof — in the teaching of history and in the formation of national and cultural identities in state institutions such as museums. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The participation of stakeholders in the design and application of rural development policies is one of the major concerns of policymakers. The Framework for Participatory Impact Assessment (FoPIA) is a methodology used to measure the impact of policies, which could include different stakeholders. This paper used FoPIA to assess the impact of rural development policies in Mexico and Colombia. The results showed a positive impact in the case of Mexico, whereas in Colombia, just one of the policies showed positive results. In both cases, social themes were remarked in order to take them into account at the moment of designing rural development policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The supply of water to rural areas has historically provided the Mexican government with a significant challenge. Years of uncertainty in relation to responsibility for water supply, as well as geographical differences across the country and a division between rural and urban areas, explain this phenomenon. I have reviewed in this paper a substantial proportion of the literature on this topic, the reasons behind its nature, and the solutions to the problem in Mexico, as my main aim. The key conclusion is that while improvements in rural water supply in Mexico have been made, further work is required for equality in its supply. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the inclusion of Mexico in the OECD, this research paper attempts to answer the question of technological innovation for increasing the competitiveness of the four largest firms in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico economically and socially based on their size and characteristics. The research was part of a study conducted in the southeast of Mexico and it was sponsored by the FORDECyT. The current model of the OECD (2009-2010) with standards on the appropriation of knowledge, adapted to the direct interview method was used for the analysis.Although the results showed a noticeable backwardness in the four companies analyzed regarding the appropriation of knowledge, they also show ethnic and cultural differences in the Maya peoples living in this region when it comes to social businesses. They adopt complete technological packages and / or globalizing market models. When facing the impossibility of adopting or appropriating socially the knowledge, they are dependent on their workforce or their ancestral patterns of production and exploitation of the main resource. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper results from a quantitative study, which aims to define the profile of the networks of formal and informal support in relation to social reintegration program users of the Postpenitentiary System Office and The Attention of the Released Bureau of the State of Jalisco, Mexico. The sample consists of 260 users of this system, who agreed to participate in the evaluation and make a follow up interview at six months. The analysis give results where a high user satisfaction regarding the program and the formal support system of social reintegration, in turn, leaving a program does not correlate with the formal support, being noted that the informal support show a positive correlation with this according to the figures and their social adaptation. Implications of the results to address the social reintegration of prisoners are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the incidence of the Constitution and international treaties for the effective protection of human rights in Mexico, after the constitutional reform of June 10th 2011 and the paradigmatic sentence of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation within the file varios ('various') 912/2010. With these changes, international criteria become an interpretive parameter that end the sole and final interpretation of human rights. Based on an epistemological approach, the Mexican constitutional openness to the international protection of human rights builds an external control and a double guarantee for such rights, which extends beyond reductionist or unilateral criteria from the exclusive will of the State; that is to say, there is a reciprocal dialogue between domestic and international judicial bodies that seeks to overcome the protectionist monopoly in relation to human rights in Mexico. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rural areas face a range of global challenges as a result of current economic and social transformations. The contribution of cooperatives, as collective companies with a strong territorial affiliation, has led them to be considered in some countries as a pillar of rural policies. This paper analyzes a successful public initiative released almost thirty years ago: cooperatives for regional development. Their function as promoters of the cooperative movement in Quebec is critical for corporate diversity and employment in rural areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The development of rural tourism in San Juan Atzingo, state of Mexico, has been promoted by diverse international organizations, federal government agencies, private sector companies and even some civil society organizations. However, the activity has not been established and it is generating contradictory results on the components that determine the peasants' lifestyle and production. The paper identifies the socio-territorial impacts of the project Tlahuica Community-based Ecotourism (ECT), and it uses the commonality proposal as a methodological framework for analyzing the implications for the territory, the resources, the weakening of the organizational structures, the dynamics of labor, reciprocity, and even the transformation of typical cultural elements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of this paper was the knowledge and recognition of the spaces of the dwellings occupied by the elite-bourgeois society in Yucatan taking into account the main activities carried out inside them. After identifying archetypical areas, two approaches were undertaken: the first one explored each space and specified its functional dynamics, formal elements and symbolic characterization as well as stated the objects found inside. On the the other hand, the other approach analyzed each space as part of a whole. The study universe was formed by houses built between 1886-1916. The analysis was done with the tools used for the study of everyday life and the understanding of architectural space. The sources of information were varied and abundant, including plans, pictures, newspapers and periodicals. This approach allows understanding the phenomena of spatial compartmentalization, the functional specialization and the relationship between matter and its symbolic conception. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the territory management process regarding a succinct property of the public policy, its territorialization. The methodological basis takes criteria and factors that deal exclusively with territorial development, and segregate two qualities to the territory: as a central focus of public policy and as a management unit. All in all, the interactions that make up social networks are analyzed and a proposal on the convergence structure for territorial management is presented. The results show the methodological feasibility in a case study, the District/Regional Councils of Sustainable Rural Development (CD / RDRS) in Central Mexico. It is concluded that the methodologies are coherent for reasoning the condition or situation of territorial development, and based on that propose solutions to the problems that arise from the management process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Small farmers in Zapotlán El Grande, Mexico, are living through important changes in their production and consuming practises, as a result of the structural modification of Mexican economy and its impact on agriculture, as well as Ciudad Guzmán's urban growth. The present paper shows how these changes are of such a different nature that they reveal a rural world which was completely different from the model which took shape in rural sociology. Thus, the concept of new rural living is a pertinent one, as it underlines the fact that rural-agricultural dichotomy, as opposed to urban-industrial dichotomy, reflects, more than ever, real life in small communities, or their relationship with cities and the global world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Mexico many socioeconomic dynamics are being put in motion within rural communities, the purpose of which is to regain control over natural resources and creating Communal Forestry Companies that support an inclusive and participative type of progress. The object of the present paper is to analyse the case of San Pedro El Alto in Mexico in terms of local endogenous development, Víctor Toledo's (1996) contribution to the study sustainable communities and post-farming appropriation (Barkin y Rosas, 1996; Rosas, 2011). This study proposes a transition from subsistence agriculture to a type of production that would increase quality of life. A participative methodology was used, including semi-structured interviews to key informants and documental information. Data will be showed demonstrating that San Pedro El Alto has achieved a certain degree of development due to the creation of the Communal Forestry Company. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an overview about modifications in Juvenile Justice in Mexico, for this aim are mentioned main streams in penal, welfares and guarantees areas, putting attention to current discussion on strengthen punishment in the juvenile population. Furthermore, the author present a retrospective statistical analysis between 1980 to 2007, for answer the questions, Has changed the juvenile offender's criminal profile of the 80's to our times? and Is there evidence suggesting that these changes are related to organized crime?. The results show that the juvenile offender's criminal profile has changed with linkage of crimes against health, murder and theft, coupled with increased vulnerability to cooptation by organized crime, thus leaving open the debate on the nature of the impact that such organizations have and their offer of life for our youth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The first part of this paper will examine some theories on emotion and its principal tendencies and objects in North American Academia, in order to then account for its influences in Latin America. The second part, will engage in a critical dialogue with these theories and explore emotions produced by globalisation in the case of Ciudad Juárez regarding the processes that (re)configure the subjectivities of young females who are poor, lacking proper education and working in the maquilas, specifically in relation to the case of missing bodies (better known as the ‘dead women of Ciudad Juárez'). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The economic downturn of primary activities in rural Mexico has brought about a shift of productive activities into a service economy, and the land is now the place for non-agricultural activities such as tourism which not only affects ecosystems but has transformed rural areas into a dense fabric full of infrastructures and equipment for providing services to tourists. The aim of this paper is to conduct a theoretical reflection on the configuration of rural areas as a result of the process of capitalist domination through tourism, a historic process formed by two main dynamics: the appropriation of space and strategic resources for tourism, and the increase in value of such space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to study the social construction of one of the mechanisms for the social reproduction of domestic groups, known as multi-activity work and carried out by members of rural or urban domestic units (DU). This mechanism is the result of implementing local solutions to the problem of social reproduction in domestic groups and is related to the creation or expansion of economic activities other than agriculture and the establishment of local job markets and social agreements, all of which have been taking place continuously since the seventies in the Municipality of Nealtican, in Puebla, Mexico. The results presented are attained by means of Complex Systems methodology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the work of Anderson & Reeb (2003), the current paper aims to examine whether, under the peculiar influence of the Mexican corporate system, there are differences in the performance of family and non-family firms. The authors propose an analysis that allows conducting a comprehensive study and comparison between companies with different ownership structures (family vs. non-family firms), differentiated by heterogeneously developed governance patterns. Likewise, the effects of the degree of ownership concentration on performance are also analyzed. Moreover, evidence is shown of contrasting relationships between governance mechanisms and performance in family and non-family firms. Results are consistent with those of Anderson & Reeb (2003). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The goal of this paper is to determine the profile of total demand and potential supply in health services, available for high cost illness or catastrophic illness in the Fund for Protection against Catastrophic Expenses (FPCGC by its Spanish initials) of the System of Social Protection in Health (SPSS). In the Fund's financial design's basis, health reality was considered static by deducting the effects of epidemic changes and not précising people's health needs, or "hidden demand". Thus, when this demand is revealed it becomes an effective demand for health institution and the plans used in the Fund's financial calculations change. All in all, a methodological definition from the General Health Council is needed in order to organize and make CIs temporal for the Fund's coverage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This lecture aims to illuminate the girardian theory of imitation from a critical perspective of a recent ethnographic research on the mayas Tsotsiles Chamula, from Chiapas, México. Girardian hypothesis of "mimetic desire" presents many possibilities to explain social and cultural conflicts, especially those arising in an "intra-ethnic" way. It also offers opportunities to better understand rites or rituals developments, or customs and traditions as relevant mimetic expressions developed to control the power or the generative force of mimesis when communitarian conflicts increase. However, Girard's theory raises strong criticism from a scientific anthropology, against major theories attempting to explain almost everything; and from the academic space of socio-cultural anthropology as well. From this framework, this paper warns about what is needed in current field studies: first, how to document empirically relevant indicators of interactive power of mimesis and, second, how to test Girard's hypothesis, namely: what be the elusive but very influential variable of "mimetic desire". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text analyzes and compares information yielded by several studies related to Internet's penetration in Mexico, including the research paper titled Estudio 2009 de hábitos y percepciones de los mexicanos sobre Internet y diversas tecnologías asociadas ("2009 study on the Mexican's habits and perceptions of the Internet and other related technologies"), done in 2008 as part of the "Internet Project" carried out by the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey itesm, Campus Estado de México. The aforementioned research is framed within the broader Estudio anual sobre el impacto de Internet ("Annual study on the Internet's impact") for the chapter on Mexico as part of the "World Internet Project", a global project where research centers and groups from 30 countries participate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Human capital development is an effective method to fight poverty, which is the reason for the launch of variety of programs that work in this direction. In Mexico, the implementation of the "Oportunidades" program ("Opportunities" program) operates through three components. One of it is the food component, where nutritional supplements are given to groups considered as vulnerable, including children (Nutrisano) and pregnant or lactating (Nutrivida) women. Both have been evaluated under an anthropometric scope, although the studies related to the acceptance and the proper uses of it are scarced. The paper addresses this undeveloped issue taking as a base a study made in the metropolitan area of Monterrey, Mexico. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the religiosity and its factors in a Mexican sample. It was constructed a Likert Scale about the attitudes of religiosity in university students, with 64 items (alpha .935, validity 60.76%). The sample was 880 students of public and private universities in the Mexico City. The results showed statistical differences by university and sex (p<.05), but men and women was more closed than another studies argues. The religiosity is composed by factors as beliefs, practices, perceptions, not just the simple question "what is your religion?" [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Being a family business is not good or bad per se; it is an extra characteristic that management has to deal with. In fact, family influence can become a blessing or a curse for a company, depending on how family members handle Key Success Family Factors (KSFF). This paper presents the Two Stages Scoring (TSS) model, a tool that companies can use to develop a competitive advantage based precisely on family influence. TSS Model is based on results obtained in a Mexican Family Businesses research, in which the relationship between family influence and firm performance was tested. The variable "family influence" was measured through the common F-PEC instrument and by FAMILIAL INDEX, while the "firm performance" was measured by CEO level of satisfaction on six financial performance dimensions. Conclusions of the research include that family influence-firm performance relationship is not high for this sample of companies and, as a consequence, the TSS model is proposed based on the idea that firm performance is related more effectively to the KSFF. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses, from a theoretical perspective, the morality of the social protection system operating in rural Mexico. From this approach, the morality of social protection deals with the moral values, norms and conventions that govern social institutions, both of governmental and civil nature, and control the access to such a protection. Morality is seen as a factor that influences the interaction amongst people in order to determine what individuals deserve support under adverse circumstances, and which are the rights and duties of the actors involved in the process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the strategies of reproduction of the Peasant Domestic Unit (PDU) in the Valley of Puebla, Mexico, with the objective of identifying its responses to the structural adjustment policies and to the globalization, which have caused not very favorable conditions for the development of the rural agriculture due to the reforms that involved the deregulation of the trade because of the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). According to the results, the rural agriculture has begun an alteration process with the production of vegetables, fruits and forages, which has brought better economic incomes. However, the reconfiguration of the agricultural activities is insufficient to guarantee the socioeconomic reproduction of the PDU, so its members have had to carry out extrafinca activities which are not antagonistic with the agriculture but complementary. The economic logic of the PDU is guided toward the achievement of the maximum economic revenues on the base of its resources and means. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1997, in Lagunillas, a municipality of Atemajac de Brizuela, south of Jalisco, Mexico, a Sustainable Rural Development project was put into effect via the Manejo Integral de Microcuencas (Comprehensive Management of Micro-Basins) program under the coordination of the Instituto Mexicano de Tecnología del Agua (IMTA). This intervention was based on two premises: 1) institutional attendance and the participation of the local population in the proper management of natural resources, and 2) the development of alternative means to increase production and improve the quality of life but sustaining the basin's functioning as an ecosystemic unity. The following paper presents parts of the results compiled in the authors' PhD theses worked out from February 2004 to January 2007, where they analyze the experience of Lagunillas in order to document the sustainable rural development practices therein implemented, particularly those aspects which have to do with the participatory processes of the local inhabitants, the lessons learned, and the pending challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1997, in Lagunillas, a municipality of Atemajac de Brizuela, south of Jalisco, Mexico, a Sustainable Rural Development project was put into effect via the program Manejo Integral de Microcuencas (Comprehensive Management of Micro-Basins) under the coordination of the Instituto Mexicano de Tecnología del Agua (IMTA). This intervention was based on two premises: 1) institutional attendance and the participation of the local population in the proper management of natural resources, and 2) the development of alternative means to increase production and improve the quality of life but sustaining the basin's functioning as an ecosystemic unity. The following paper presents parts of the results compiled in the authors' PhD theses worked out from February 2004 to January 2007, where they analyze the experience of Lagunillas in order to document the sustainable rural development practices therein implemented, particularly those aspects which have to do with the participative processes of the local inhabitants, the lessons learned, and the pending challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

this paper presents the results of a study about the safety and health conditions that were observed in the construction site of an important housing development located in Southeast Mexico. The methodology was based on the observation of constructive processes and site general conditions, in order to identify possible unsafe construction practices and not healthy working conditions. The results showed the presence of a varied frequent risk factors. The legal frame was also analyzed, and according to the data, the firm was making many omissions in providing safety and health conditions to workers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]