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The aim of this article is to demonstrate that the mystical treatise known as “Siete grados o sendas”, that historiography and literary criticism have attributed to the hermit and mystic of New Spain Fernando de Córdoba y Bocanegra (1565-1589), was not written by him, but copied entirely from a Portuguese Franciscan chronicle, translated into Spanish, that circulated in the Hispanic territories at the end of the sixteenth century. It also explains the reasons why this hermit-was influenced by Franciscan spirituality and interested in his soul being united with God-he appropriated this treaty, transcribed it and sought to have other devout people read it and take advantage of its contents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In cities, public spaces are shaped by the encounters they make possible the historical memory and the uses and customs that propitiate their "symbolic appropriation" and the constitution of the genius loci. Political mobilizations appropriate public spaces, which are momentarily transformed into "political spaces" whose strength, character and symbolic weight are assimilated to projects of identity, capacity for mobilization and political action. In Mexico City, two cases of politization of the public space are the Ángel de la Independencia and the Estadio Azteca. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the poem Seudoaraucana by Elvira Hernández (2010; 2017) based on the rewriting as an articulating resource of an off-center and amplified look at the source text, La Araucana de Ercilla y Zúñiga. As a hypothesis, it proposes that the rewriting discusses social phenomena linked to the fissures of the Chilean nation and the political processes of the current situation. As an objective, it tries to establish a dialogue with the tradition and the literary field around the epic, on the one hand, and with critical reconsiderations about the poetic imagination of history, on the other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: This article is based on the results obtained, through the work process with the group of women in the community of Los Ledezma, during the first and second semester of the workshop Local organization and construction of citizenship, taught by the School of Social Work at the University of Costa Rica. Objective: Analyze the lived experience of the achievements and learning of the group of Social Work students, through the work process with the women of Los Ledezma, during the year 2022. Method: From a social approach, from the review of background and field diaries, the achievements and learning derived from the work are observed, based on theoreticalmethodological understandings translated into the organization of a group of women in the town of Los Ledezma. Results: A greater handling of technical tools by the work group is identified, having a more accurate understanding of reality from the application of previously acquired theory. As well as a more defined ethical-political position in practice. Conclusions: This is not a linear process, there were numerous challenges that led to testing, proposing, negotiating and starting over; Flexibility was a constantly applied skill, due to the fact that different daily activities were being worked on. A necessary axis of analysis, linked to the above, is the system that reduces women to fulfilling specific roles in which there is no space for them to participate on their own and use their voice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Urban studies have developed the notion of public space by putting in tension its normative framework and its practical side. However, less attention has been paid to urban public space as a historical process. This article addresses the formation of public space from a historical perspective in the city of Rosario, Argentina. It seeks to show the open and porous character of public space, beyond its normative and idealized definition. The methodology combines a work of historical data reconstruction, based on a corpus of official and journalistic documents, and an ethnographic approach of participant observation in public spaces to capture contemporary processes. The article shows that public spaces are part of an open, complex, and multicausal historical process involving an unstable set of forces, actors, and interests. Likewise, although urban regulation models and social regimes of accumulation may influence urban policies, they do not completely determine the profile of public spaces and the modulations of their social appropriations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Students, teachers and citizens know the truths and realities through media products, with aggravating circumstances such as misrepresentation, falsification, spectacularization and decontextualization. The general objective of this research is to analyze the developments, approaches and challenges of the use and appropriation of technology - communication - education interaction for media comprehension in the virtual or face-to-face classroom. In this research it was found that educational systems today raise media literacy and revive educommunication without considering that technology says how, what and why it should be apprehended. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Considering that the presence of a Unified Educational Center (CEU) directly and indirectly impacts the entire surrounding community, comprising this equipment within an interdepartmental public policy, which acts positively in the transformation of the community and in the promotion of citizenship, This article aims to analyze the reports of five students from the 6th and 7th grade of elementary school II, about the places most used by them in CEU Butantã, seeking to understand the process that transforms and re-signifies these places into meaningful spaces. These locations were identified on maps drawn by the students, who justified their choices through interviews conducted in the form of a conversation circle. The maps and reports were analyzed based on Michel de Certeau's concepts of place and space, in dialogue with Milton Santos' concept of territory, and with reference to the dimension of Social Pedagogy. The analysis of maps and reports suggests the importance of peer learning for children and adolescents and the appropriation of policies and public facilities for culture, information technology, art, sports and leisure as fundamental in this process. In the adolescents' speeches, we could infer the use of spaces considered significant together with their families and friends, important for coexistence for the exercise of the right to Family and Community Coexistence advocated in the Statute of the Child and Adolescent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The books VISO I (Aproximación a una Imaginería Visual en Venezuela) and II (Irrupción de la Visualidad Lírica, after VISO), are part of a visualization of the experimentalisms and holistic handling of the word as a multi-form enlargement from Venezuela, and as an open and attentive research-action to the unstoppable creative moment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There are several contents of complex nature in chemistry teaching. Teaching such contents to deaf students requires re-signification, in addition to the Cultural-Historical Theory, the appropriation of these concepts demands the development of voluntary attention, perception, memory and thought. So, is possible to consider that the adapted games are mediating tools for the appropriation and generalization of Chemistry concepts by deaf students? The development and application of the Jenga Game resulted from studies developed in the subjects "Instrumentation for Teaching Chemistry II" and "Brazilian Sign Language (LIBRAS) II" at the Federal University of Latin American Integration (UNILA). The research of qualitative approach, is participatory with intervention and occurred in a Bilingual Education school for the deaf, located in western Paraná, in a high school class, with a sample of 12 deaf students over 18 years. The qualitative analysis revealed that: i) the stimuli that induced the voluntary attention of students occured only after the second round of the game; ii) the proposed game led them to perception, because building structures, recognizing the correct pieces to be removed, was determinant; iii) the game promoted memorization, demanding from students, the structures building with the correct number of bonds for each compound; iv) the presence of the Translator and Interpreter of Sign Language (TILS) and the mastery of sign language, were essential for the access and appropriation of scientific concepts. As for the generalization of the concepts, this study would demand more time and conditions to fully explore the proposed content. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the following research we will address the problem of Latin American art as an expression of identity, recognizing on the one hand that art offers interpretations that can nurture Latin American philosophical thought, and on the other hand that because it is a manifestation of reality, it can allow us to understand the aesthetic experience from particular, localized points of view. We follow the guide of two central categories: Reticulophagy and Appropriation, to understand what this "expression of the real" is about in the Latin American artistic scene, starting from the idea that Latin American art throughout its history has been capable of eating the reticulated reason of the other and appropriating the imposed visual elements to create with them a manifestation of what is observed. In addition, other contributions that address the ethical problem implicit in the study of Latin American art are included in this research, such as Enrique Dussel's proposal on the aesthetics of liberation and Vasconcelos's coordinative philosophy as a philosophy of the living, capable of accepting observation as a action that has no control over what is observed. All of the above will serve to lay the foundations for a Latin American aesthetic proposal. We recognize the difficult (if not impossible) task of describing the reality of such a diverse territory under an aesthetic category, therefore we will emphasize developing readings, glimpses of a shared will, without understanding this approach as a single truth about social, territorial, aesthetic, political realities of the different Latin American countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article describes the social class trajectories of the families of professionals and executives in Buenos Aires. The author did biographical interviews with men and women born between 1965 and 1975 into families in which one or both parents were university-graduate professionals and held high-level posts in organizations. He analyzes the evolution of both family and individual possession of different kinds of capital (economic, cultural, social, symbolic), as well as the ways in which resources were transmitted and appropriated for the reproduction or change in class position. He found diversity in the appropriation of family cultural capital: often class was reproduced by people aiming for different goals from those of their family of origin. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The appropriation of technology has been a permanent challenge in the history of human evolution. With the advancement of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), opportunities and challenges are presented in educational environments. The is understanding and adoption of ICT in these contexts require a series of intentional steps because its appropriation does not happen spontaneously. This article presents the results of qualitative research carried out on this subject, it begins with a conceptual approach that addresses the opportunities and challenges faced by educational systems in their generalized intention to make the best possible use of ICT to improve their performance, it also analyzes some teaching models proposed by multilateral organizations, which focus on digital skills and the adoption of technological tools. Subsequently, a case study carried out in the National Learning Service (SENA), an institution of technical and technological training attached to the Ministry of Labor of Colombia, is presented. Finally, a methodology is proposed for the integration of ICT in educational institutions that involves three dimensions (pedagogical, administrative, and infrastructure). It places the trainer as an active and crucial subject and also outlines the conditions, requirements, and persons who intervene directly and indirectly for the effective adoption of ICT in training processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The public space appropriation is linked to pilgrimage phenomena. Both are irremediably connected to architectural objects, expressly created as gravitational centers of religious devotion, where this social phenomenon is verified. The comparative points of the main investigation start from the architectural objects production and a lecture of its transformations over time. Understood as the main places where hierarchical structures exercise their power, implicit in the act of inhabiting through time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe has thousands of shows every year and dozens of Shakespeare productions among them. To stand out in the saturated festival market, Shakespeare productions emphasise their popular appeal, rebranding Shakespeare as a simultaneously familiar and, at the same time, new product. The neoliberal market conditions of the festival impose a series of limitations and, consequently, Shakespeare productions need to adjust to time and space restrictions and reduce their casts and sets. Shakespeare productions, therefore, negotiate these constraints in order to attract an audience, a tension that has given rise to specific theatrical approaches to Shakespeare in performance. The main objective of this article is therefore to provide an understanding of Fringe Shakespeare, that is, the theatrical events featuring Shakespeare in performance at the Edinburgh Fringe whose distinctive characteristics are determined by the festival context. To do so, the first part of the article reviews the concept of fringe theatre, examines the tension between innovation and material constraints and explores the reasons why so many companies decide to stage Shakespeare at the Edinburgh Fringe. The second part examines the performing trends in Fringe Shakespeare: appropriations, solo shows, new writing, adaptations into unusual genres and parodies. This will shed light on Fringe Shakespeare and its definition as a theatrical event in the first decades of the twenty-first century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the impact of Afrocubanismo on the development of Cuba’s arts during the 1940s and 1950s. The article follows the discursive output of artists, intellectuals, and cultural policymakers of different racial backgrounds over the deployment of lo negro to construct cubanidad. It argues that, if the 1920s and 1930s experienced a movement towards the construction of a homogeneous mestizo Cuba, the following decades reveal an effort by some artists to desyncretize lo cubano. While some intellectuals constructed notions of authenticity that circumscribed black art to black artists, many white Cuban artists in turn embraced elite Hispanic heritage as their main creative language while valorizing some Afro-Cuban artists’ recreations of lo negro. The article also demonstrates that the scholarly debates about cultural appropriation in recent decades have a long history within the Afro-Cuban community. It shows how Afro-Cuban artists and intellectuals pioneered arguments about the exploitative use of lo negro to make national art and the central role of culture in shaping racial inequality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is a work in progress of a research on feminist art activism in South America with a focus on the performative work Un violador en tu camino (A rapist in your path) by the Chilean collective Lastesis, and is part of my master's thesis research for the MA in Cultural Studies at the Andina Simón Bolívar University, Ecuador. Due to the rebellious nature against patriarchal violence, the video rapidly went viral in a very short time, after which we began to see numerous women's groups and feminist collectives around the world reprising it in their locations around the world. The cultural, social and political dimensions of this performance reveals an interesting overlap and interrelation between art and activism, as it created new forms of communication of feminist activism through the power of artistic creation, by way of the audiovisual media that circulates through the Internet and social networks. In this article I dedicate attention to the use of the body in relation to the concept of poner el cuerpo (putting the body) and how the body is a political battleground in performance as well as art activism. Based on the collective's declaration of working from the micro-politics to move macro-politics, I highlight how the use of the body as an aesthetic, combined with social networks and appropriation, has generated a global solidarity which wove an underground fabric of feminists, contributing to macro movements. Finally, I address the concept of rebel creativity, introduced by the Bolivian collective Mujeres Creando, to propose that art and creativity are not necessarily at the service of social movements, but rather complement and strengthen them by creating other powerful realities and subjectivities that question the truth imposed by hegemonic powers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the southern outskirts of Bogotá, the Ciudadela Nuevo Usme is characteristic of a new social housing offering built since the mid-2000s by the private sector. This article seeks to give an account of the experience lived by the residents of this emerging model of vertical social habitat. Our study is based on field work done in 2018 in two closed residential complexes in the Ciudadela, aimed at low-income populations and displaced households, victims of the armed conflict. Through a study of of living patterns and focusing on the divergences between the constructed space and the inhabited space, we will try to evaluate the adequacy of this housing offer to the needs and aspirations of its beneficiaries. To this end, we will carry out a multiscale analysis of the "practices of places" and representations of space of the inhabitants of these apartment blocks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This presentation explores a new strategy in the repatriation policy of exiled Peruvian heritage. Latin American heritage has an important presence in the world's museums, but it is less conspicuous than the heritage of other regions, looted according to cultural origins, colonial ties or economic power. In the early 20th century, scientific research in the Andes preceded the indiscriminate looting that would fill American and world museums with artifacts. In this scenario, the best examples of looted Peruvian heritage were found in foreign museums until 1987. The call for the repatriation of heritage is common from many of the looted countries. Peru is no exception. But such claims are haphazard, circumstantial, erratic and, while legally required, very costly and ultimately, I believe, counterproductive. Unless action is inevitable when, in a rare scenario, a museum showcases Peruvian heritage in an exhibit called "A Stolen World." In this presentation I propose a new strategy to face the immense exiled Peruvian heritage, revaluing repatriation not as a political discourse, and therefore illogical, of heritage policy but in new academic dimensions, of cultural promotion and identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this research is to investigate the property and appropriation associated with the production of space in Pinheirinho neighbourhood – Alfenas/MG. The investigation about the production os space requires mobilization in triads based upon categories and concepts. The triads allow us in interpretating the relationships between production and reproduction in the neighborhood, highlighted by the strong presence of the real estate sector and the State, which take action for valorization of urban land. Another aspect that was revealed was the use at the level of survival of the residents. The methodological procedures adopted are based on bibliographical review; semi-estructured based interviews by the neighborhood’s residents and surroundings, councilors, mayor, city officials and merchants; statistical data survey, cartographic and photographic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text makes an ethnographic approach to the relational complexity present in the Amazonian territories, where the care and cure routes detonate a fact that cannot go unnoticed and is the presence of religious institutions that echoes up to the present time and that marks with deep wounds the history and the life courses that are woven there. Marks of a mainly missional legacy of the Catholic Church manifested in Jesuits and Franciscans, which in addition to spiritual disputes, leads to tensions and re-existence between the actors involved in the care and healing processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research comes about in response to the demand of centennial and millennial students for new methods to develop creativity through use of new technologies. This paper considers the need to incorporate appropriation as an educational strategy to promote the creative competence in the digital age. The main goal of this work is to promote new didactic methods that allow the integration of social and technological dynamics that determine online daily interactions. The mash- up has been adopted as the main tool to carry out a methodological proposal of teaching innovation in the academic context of Advertising Communication studies. The construction of the model called lateral visual thinking constitutes a revision of the design thinking based on two distinctive characteristics: vernacular creativity and the practice of lateral thinking through the recombination of materials of diverse origin and authorship in the World Wide Web. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the new normalcy is real and little by little we are assimilating it, so it is necessary to try to clarify the inhabitation of the architectural space together with the pragmatic inquiry of its user. These elements provide an image of the space in which it is possible to appreciate the architectural coexistence as a whole covered under the semiotic theory of signs. There are different ways of understanding architecture, and its design is considered as a formal and functional activity, which due to the cognitive distancing of rationalist architecture, generated a crisis that led to an application of the scientific method with the purpose of freeing itself from all formal concepts, where there is no representation of the space but a configuration linked to the functional value of these (the spaces) and as a consequence the design process advances from the interior to the exterior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

I use the artwork O Peixe by Jonathas de Andrade (2016) to analyze how a mock ethnographic documentary operates by faking the recuperation of an ancestral ritual of anthropological significance. De Andrade denaturalizes the tropes with which Otherness and historical narratives have been constructed and shows how 'Latin America' sponsored the manufacture of an identity of 'indigenous peoples' and 'blacks,' which was domesticated and prepared for museum display, as part of the Nation-State project. In Brazil, those 'differences' were depoliticized with a discourse of 'racial democracy' and 'multiculturalism.' The artwork challenges the spectator by appropriating and mobilizing essentialist categories anchored in the 'culture'/'race'/'ethnicity' used to classify the allegedly 'non-Western' population even within the national territory under subalternizing ends. O Peixe offers a path of experiential knowledge and promotes an ethnography at the time of its projection. The fishermen embody, in a parodic performance, an archetypal myth by which they are dreamt challenging their objectification. They look back at the spectator, refusing to be subjugated and forging alternative stories by following the traces of cut lineages. In doing so, they show a being that since colonial times has been 'modern in another way,' globalized and always hybrid, 'cannibal,' 'impure.'Tomaremos la obra O Peixe de Jonathas de Andrade (2016) para observar cómo actúa un simulacro de documental etnográfico que falsea el rescate de un ritual ancestral de interés antropológico. De Andrade desnaturaliza soportes con los que se ha construido la alteridad y el relato histórico y pone en presencia cómo 'Latinoamérica' patrocinó la museificación identitaria de 'indígenas' y 'negros' para domesticarlos como parte del proyecto de Estado-nación, 'diferencias' que más tarde en Brasil se pretendieron (también) despolitizar bajo la fórmula de la 'democracia racial' y el 'multiculturalismo.' Interpela al espectador apropiándose y movilizando categorías esencialistas ancladas en la 'cultura'/'raza'/'etnia' que habitúan ser usadas para clasificar a parte de la población pretendidamente 'no occidental' -aún dentro del territorio nacional- bajo fines subalternizantes. O Peixe ofrece un camino de conocimiento experiencial y promueve etnografiar su visualización. Los pescadores, al encarnar -en un performance paródico- un mito arquetípico con el que se los sueña, trastocan su objetualización para devolver una mirada que no se deja subyugar, que retoma linajes cortados y gesta historias alternativas mostrando un ser que desde tiempos de la colonia fue 'moderno de otra manera,' globalizado y, desde siempre, híbrido, 'caníbal,' 'impuro.' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Science teacher training programs face a big challenge when it comes to re-signifying trainees' ideas of what it means to teach and to learn. This challenge is generated by the profound differences that exist between prospective teachers' previous experiences as lifelong learners and the current conceptions of teaching and learning coming from science education. This paper reports the appropriation of such conceptions achieved by pre-service physics teachers, throughout the course Didactics of Physics, which is part of their training. The motivation to report these results was the observation that, after a methodological reformulation of the course proposed for purposes unrelated to this research, students showed a deeper commitment to those conceptions, both at a personal and a collective level, in ways that went beyond the expectations of the course' instructors. Inspired by the concept of appropriation, from the literature on sociocultural learning, the authors adapted a suitable definition to interpret the phenomenon that occurred during the course. Results showed that the definition of appropriation used fit very well to the students' academic assessments and reflections, and allowed us to recognize appropriation in five of the six future teachers. Also, that the authentic and idiosyncratic ideas that define each pre-service teacher coincided with contemporary conceptions of learning and teaching from science education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The work analyzes the international sociodigital network generated around the hashtag #LGBT. The theoretical framework rests on the perspective of the network as a paradigm to address the appropriation of the Internet by social movements. The Social Network Analysis (ARS) method is used to a database obtained by data mining with the NodeXL program and visualizing the networks using Gephi. Among the results obtained, it stands out that the network is made up of communities closely linked to each other and to a lesser extent with others. In addition, the relevance of the nodes changes according to the number of links, their directionality or their recognition / function for the LGBT community and the platform itself (Twitter). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay seeks to combine Frèdéric Gros' concept of subordination, presented in Disobey: The philosophy of Resistance, with the theory of women's subordination proposed by feminist philosophers aligned with the Speech Acts Theory framework. It purports to show that the paternalism identified by Gros as a trademark of subordinative arrangements is present as such in sexist societies, playing a justificatory role in what concerns the morality of the subordination of women to men. The text discusses uses of sexist derogatory words to show that such words reflect a patriarchal worldview, evoking paternalistic stereotypes. Additionally, it is argued that counter-speech and slur appropriation can work as efficacious forms of resistance and disobedience to the patriarchy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Community school education in Oaxaca is the result of a teachers' movement and the struggle for indigenous rights in the region. In 2004, the Indigenous Community Secondary Schools (7th-9th grade of basic education) began to operate as an alternative indigenous pedagogical model. School practices are based on community participation in school life, the use of the local indigenous language, and educational work through learning projects. In the schooling process, boys and girls resume community practices based on autonomy, reciprocity and collaborative work. Based on an ethnographic study in a community and the accompaniment of more than eleven years of this indigenous educational model, the article discusses the relationship between participation in socio-cultural practices and school appropriation of indigenous children and the construction of their own voice as members of an indigenous community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Augusto de Campos (São Paulo, 1931), one of the founders of the Brazilian Concretist Movement of the fifties, has distinguished himself for using translation procedures on foreign texts, which involve a mode of extreme appropriation. His declared affiliation to the claims of the anthropophagic tradition provides the functionality to demystify the original texts in order to resignify the foreign so as to integrate it to the local. Therefore, there is a shift in the figure of the translator, from that of a subaltern, invisible role of mere mediator towards an active, creative role of creator of a new piece. De Campos introduces the concept of intranslations to refer to these intersemiotic translations in which visual criteria external to the translated text operate. Thus, by means of the analysis of the procedures used for these rewritings, a new, more radicalized autonomy is revealed, generating the crisis of certain concepts such as author / translator, source text / target text, fidelity / infidelity. From the point of view of comparative studies, we examined how these concepts lead to some kind of non-translatability, which is resignified within the framework of the poet's personal output and his cultural frame of reference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper, based on a study conducted with a 26-student class engaged in an annual "Arctic Kayak" project, is twofold. The first challenge is to present the dynamics of joint construction, going back and forth between observation analysis and theoretical object. The second is to introduce two new concepts that might benefit the course-of-action research program. The first, "story of experience", helps designing and conducting observation research to collect and analyze the experience of large groups of actors over a relatively long period of time. Such stories offer a condensed description of students' individual experiences during the kayak classes, providing multiple angles of analysis. The second concept is "action field", which is a subset of the "course-of-experience" theoretical object. For an actor and a given unit of time, this corresponds to all elements of its environment to which it attributes characteristics. Analysis of the students' action fields allowed us to identify evolutions and transformations which are typical of the students' perceptual judgments during classes. These results clarify the hypothesis of the three processes (in-situation, in-corporation, in-culturation) of appropriation proposed by Theureau. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text presents the results of a Master's research on teacher professional development in terms of the production of new meanings about their practice which focused on formative spaces and elements that constitute being a teacher. The analysis was based on the processes of appropriation and production of meanings involving teaching during childhood and Basic Education. This is a case study research and its theoretical framework is historical-cultural theory, also draws on researchers of the teacher professional development field. The results point out that even in early childhood impressions are produced on the process of being a teacher, which influences on the career choice and serves as a reference for educational praxis. Therefore, it is possible to consider this early phase as the beginning of professional development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the performance practice and aesthetics of Cuban dance music in the United States in relation to the concept of sabor. This multifaceted term encompasses a range of meanings and includes, among other elements, a dance imperative, melodic call-and-response-style inspiraciones, and a clave feel. A case study of Dominican-born Johnny Pacheco, a charanga flute player and the cocreator of the term salsa, allows for exploration of a specific New York–based sabor as well as consideration of issues such as imitation, innovation, and cultural appropriation in the context of charanga típica performance in mid-twentieth-century New York. Pacheco's musical contributions, critiqued by Juan Flores as "traditionalist" and by John Storm Roberts as "revivalist," have often been overshadowed by his considerable entrepreneurial activities. Rather than examine his work as a record producer and entrepreneur, this article looks to Pacheco's earlier recordings made as a charanga flute improviser to demonstrate that, pace Roberts and Flores, his improvisational style illustrates a particular New York performance aesthetic rooted in clave aesthetics and the rich musical culture of the Bronx—an aesthetic that is related to, but distinct from, that of earlier Cuban role models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article aims to do an interpretative approach of the neo-co-management knowledge in the digital society, letting know the current dynamics of knowledge in the lives of some subjects immersed in a technological-based social model. In relation to the method, it is definedas a documentary type descriptive study. Additionally, it is essential to mention that during the article development there were findings that show the emergence of a new co-management of knowledge and allow to conclude that in it, collaborative networks are integrated among the different actors (nodes) of society, who through technologies of information and communication, appropriate knowledge and displace it into the collective as a common well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rio de Janeiro has gone through major urban restructuration work over the last decade. Its status as host city of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games meant an important transformation process for most of the city. In this context, one of the most important infrastructural interventions made was the implementation of the BRTs (Bus Rapid Transit) system. In most stations, it is possible to perceive an informal dynamic of unscheduled uses and ephemeral appropriations, using objects or devices of informal commerce that occupy the "interstices" forgotten by the system. This insurgency reclaims new possibilities for interpreting urban spaces, once they reveal their potential, offering alternative products and services in the context of daily urban mobility. The concept of "interstitial ity" is proposed in order to name the "in-between", or the gaps in the BRT system which, in practice, have diffuse limits. What sets out this interstitial dimension are those who inhabit and use the gaps, through ephemeral appropriation of the mobility infrastructure and its surroundings. This work, through fieldwork, photographic survey, a categorization of the observed behaviors and the ephemeral supports detected, complemented with a bibliographic discussion, observes those ephemeral appropriations in the interstitial spaces, mainly of the TransOeste Corridor Jardim Oceânico Intermodal Station of the BRT system of Rio de Janeiro. The work concludes that the phenomenon of interstitial appropriation must be considered as part of the urban systems, because, in the contemporary city, it is that insurgent and informal ephemerality that often responds to the demands and needs of our daily lives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study examines two ejidos in central Veracruz --Monte Blanco and Chavarrillo-- to show how agrarian legislation was interpreted and applied at the moment of their formation and in the ensuing years. Taking as its reference point the process of land distribution, the article discusses the territorial transformations involved and analyzes how the members of the ejido and their families have lived and evaluated them. The study illustrates the diverse practices adopted by ejidatarios and elucidates the multiple territorial dynamics that those processes generated in the same geographical area. Finally, it demonstrates that although Agrarian Reform is based on one sole set of laws, it has experienced heterogeneous acceptances, conceptions and consequences. [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]

The production of new knowledge is configured as one of the main objectives of the implementation of Science, Technology and Innovation policies. At the level of Latin America and Caribbean, the policies that govern and administer science and technology are controlled by secretariats, councils or ministries, who through a budget allocation (investment in P&D) build an STI agenda that seeks, as said, enhance the production of new knowledge. However, there is an important absence in the purposes of implementation, while the conceptual elements of ownership are not considered. This paper analyzes the influence of STI policies on the production and appropriation of STI. The results show the evolution in these two areas in the last 5 years, indicating that, although the production of new knowledge has increased, its appropriation is reduced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the 1990s onwards, the Family Ownership Plan is launched in the Municipality of Tandil, favoring the generation of urban land for low-income families. This article aims to achieve an approach to the implementation of the plan, in order to analyze its development and consolidation throughout the period under study, from 1993 to 2016. The families, the State and the market contribute to the configuration of the plan and appropriate it under the logic that distinguishes each of the actors. The data obtained, which was based on written documentation and semi-structured interviews, was systematized. The results show that the State legitimizes some of the family practices that are considered informal or that do not follow the guidelines established by the plan, either through concrete action or due to lack of decision-making, and point out that the market influences this process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article offers a critical analysis of UNESCO heritagization procedures in a postcolonial setting. Drawing on the case of the Zafimaniry of Madagascar, the research highlights the capacity of heritage to mobilize dynamics of appropriation and control, connecting the interests of different spheres - political, economic, cultural, touristic - and legitimizing the infusion of global regimes of value into local practices and meanings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The conflict over the Atuel River is a longstanding struggle. But the conflict should not be reduced to the mere political confrontation between La Pampa and Mendoza. Disputes do not recognize jurisdictional boundaries. The territories are the setting of power conflicts among different social subjects. The appropriation of communal natural resources by certain subjects to the detriment of others constitutes one of the most complex problems of social relations. The territorial impacts on the Atuel wetlands area in both provinces continue as a result of the dispossetion of water resources. The conceptions of extractivism and development are very enlightening to understand this process. Therefore, the aim of this article is to analyze from a critical perspective the appropriation of the water flows of the Atuel river and its current territorial impacts, based on authors who approach the subject from the extractive processes and development paradigms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A systematic review of studies related to topics of appropriation of IT, systems dynamics (DS), serious videogames (SG) and decision support systems (DSS) associated with agroindustry done by using the information provided by the Web of Science and Scopus. Among the results of this review is the low adoption of IT in the sector, especially by small producers. It was also observed special interest in mitigating that gap, specifically, on the use of information systems and developments for understanding and learning models with system dynamics and serious video games. This review serves as a basis for future work related to the appropriation of IT in rural productive systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article provides the first theoretical reflections of an ongoing research on the concept of appropriation in the students in the Communication and Educative Informatics undergraduate program. Due to the communicative densities in nowadays media cultures, it is pertinent to find a concept not only related to the reception, but also to the interaction. A qualitative and interpretative methodology is used but taking elements from the Grounded Theory in order to build theoretical dimensions of the appropriation in the observed context. These dimensions are: sense problems, interpretation and interaction. It was found that for these dimensions the theoretical-curricular guidelines of the said undergraduate program have brought about some uncertainties in the students related to the professional profile. This contingency -which is also an opening- has enabled the production of significant appropriations with the media and technologies. These first reflections provide an interpretative analysis framework to rethink the media culture and the education in technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay juxtaposes three recent publications, Vicente Luis Mora's Circular 07. Las afueras (2007-), Kenneth Goldsmith's Capital: New York, Capital of the 20th Century (2015), and Jorge Carrión's Barcelona. Libro de los pasajes (2016), in order to explore how contemporary digital technologies construct and fragment urban experience on a global scale. Despite their different political intentions, these three works share a common aesthetic of appropriation, unoriginal quotation, and fragmentation, as they are also all modelled after Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project. Just like Benjamin did with Paris, each of these works focuses on a particular Western city--Madrid, New York, and Barcelona--now being proposed as paradigmatic representations of urban experience, which is meant to mimic digital media's modularity and disintegration. Goldsmith's use of appropriation is read as a blank endorsement of digital mediation of everyday life, which sits in opposition to Carrión's and Mora's political projects. Circular 07 and Barcelona mix unoriginal writing techniques, like Goldsmith's conceptual writing, with other experimental methods to warn readers against apolitical adoption of digital technologies. Fragmentation is still proposed as the most important aesthetic form of twenty-first century writing, but these two Spanish works strive for its contextualization as a complex mechanism structured around reader/writer subjectivity. Finally, this essay ponders how to consider new reader/writer subjectivities within the larger context of global cities in late capitalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article seeks to analyze the appropriation of information and knowledge through intellectual property rights between peripheral and central countries and the relation of such appropriation to the concept of imperialism that has been proposed by several authors since the TRIPS agreement (on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The central theme of this work focuses on theoretical proposals in the literary field, towards the first half of the twentieth century in Hispanic America, particularly in Pablo de Rokha'sproject developed in the text "La épica social americana", incorporated in his book Arenga sobre el arte (1949). Our premise is that "La épica social americana" is an appropriation of the avant-garde totalitarian discourse, projected in the heroic image of the poet, whose writing should consider the contact between enlightened culture and popular culture. In this context, the aim is to recompose topics and the lines of meaning that order the theoretical discourse of Pablo de Rokha, attending to the emphases and connections with the cultural and literary discourse of his theses. Consequently, the center of the discussion demands the use of interdisciplinary concepts and categories, where the idea of appropriation is fundamental, in connection with the context in which the text was produced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

New opportunities for consumption and leisure appear in the post-industrial "ludic city". The generation of nightlife containers, usually settled in the urban centres, has sometimes raised opposition from the popularly called "traditional residents". Often delegitimized as NIMBY (Not In My Backyard), fuzzy definitions of these groups are often found in the literature, and there is a lack in the biographical and discursive aspects associated with their collective actions. In this article we examine the phenomenological experience of some long-term "traditional residents" in an increasingly turistified area in Madrid due to the expansion of nightlife's industries. Based on the environmental "Appropation of Space" theories, we address the diverse forms in which these residents deal with urban changes, as well as the construction of a collective local subject in opposition to the massive use of the place by visitors. Finally, we discuss the implications of some middle-class-led protests in urban historical centres. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reflects on digital technologies appropriation processes, as well as digital goods and services creation and innovation. These activities are conducted by individuals or collectives aimed at developing market-oriented or socially, culturally and politically relevant innovations and business ventures. The position occupied by the Argentine State, Universities, Higher Education Institutions and non-governmental organizations from cultural and creative industries in the promotion of innovations and entrepreneurship is also analyzed. Finally, specific cases in cultural and creative industries are examined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this article is to present a series of approaches to the Brazilian Baroque from three perspectives that represent the difficulty that the Baroque exerts around its own definition. In each of these perspectives it is observed that the reading of the baroque modifies what we call "baroque archive" and therefore its own configuration in the present, its uses and its potentialities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cities are centers of communication and learning, where physical, intellectual and creative energy is concentrated. Through urban installations and interventions in the public space of cities in Mexico and Germany, the task of approval was approached in an experimental manner, understood according to Alexej N. Leontiev's appropriation theory as a synonym of a specific learning process. Learning from and with the other, as well as learning from the place, turns the public space of the city into a place of learning and identity, leaving traces in the memory of the people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article we study how teenagers from working class from Berisso city (Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina) use computers and the Internet. Through deep personal interviews, we analyze time and space perceptions among the youth regarding the use of the Internet. Our main findings suggest that Internet is a key place for bonding or hanging out with peers and for accessing to meaningful information. Also, we have found that even if for young people there is no clear distinction between virtual and physical spaces and they are lived as experience continuum, there is no linearity between what happens in one or the other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to analyze how time and space are experienced among young people from Argentinean popular and media classes, focusing on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) appropriation; namely, the uses of computer, cell phones and the Internet in youth everyday life. To fulfill this goal, actor's perspective will be recovered through a qualitative approach, based mainly on in-depth interviews with young men and women, which are students at high schools in La Plata and Great La Plata (Buenos Aires) and beneficiaries of Programa Conectar-Igualdad (PCI). The evidence of this research suggests that being young in contemporary societies is based on new approaches to time and space managing, articulating intimacy, privacy and public issues, all of which are pushed by ICT uses. Nevertheless, these patterns do not appear univocal nor homogeneous, but, on the contrary, they acquire diverse senses, depending on the socio-cultural context of appropriation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]