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Chile is a landmark case in opening up higher education to the free market and in the reformulation of the logics that regulate scientific production in universities. This translates into a management system for academic staff oriented by productivity bonuses associated with high-impact publications, by the distribution of research funds conditional on the productivity of researchers and by the rank of academic tasks. In this article, we present the results of a study that sought to explore and understand how highly productive social science academics describe scientific writing from everyday labor practice framed in new regulations of scientific production. Through the analysis of 20 interviews, we propose 3 categories: affectivity, fragility and strategy. These give an account of everyday aspects, as well as tensions and conflicts present in the process of scientific writing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is part of the proposal given by Rivera Beiras in this journal in 2016: the global critical criminology. A possible epistemological rupture in the discipline that implies expanding its limits of study and not committing the errors and forgetfulness of the past. On this basis, this paper aims to justify the importance of feminist methodology in the way of making and understanding this new criminological trend. A methodology, or rather, diverse feminist characteristics that, as an attempt to assert, can be considered indispensable in the ways of denouncing and making visible social harms or structural violence and making memory. Therefore, this paper will cover the historical role of women in the discipline, will address some of the proposals and contributions in defense of the satisfaction of human needs and will try to reflect empirically this position through a case study. [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]

This paper presents the ways consumerist practices have changed and as consequence publicity. The contemporary publicity aims consumers to develop brand loyalty through emotions and by creating connections. I support the idea that cultural trends strengthen the consumer capitalism and the consumerist practices, even though some of them try to resist and denounce the harmful consequences of the consumerist life. I analyze the ways how contra-cultural resistance are transformed into merchandise and how consumerist attitudes are generalized and accepted docilely, even by the most radical opponents of the consumer capitalism. At the end of this paper, I argue that outrage is the last source to respond against consumer capitalism. To explain the arguments, I use different examples on how all this happens in daily life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The funds of knowledge approach values families' knowledge and practices as a form of resistance within the hegemonic school culture. In this paper we share some reflections, tensions and transformations that we teachers and researchers have identified during our experience in a high school in Barcelona. We analyzed audio and textual record (family-school conversations, study group sessions, field journals and interviews) and, in a second level of analysis, we reconstruct dialogic events that show changes in teachers and researchers: awareness of situations of oppression by race, class and gender, the understanding and legitimization of nonhegemonic forms of family upbringing and care, and critical positioning in the face of folkloric educational proposals. Finally, we discuss the contributions and limitations of this work, as well as suggestions for continuing to expand these reflective processes to the educational community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On this I paper I provide 14 tips to improve academic writing. I argue that problems to write academically stem firstly from a weak training and secondly from an attempt by authors to sustain a pose that ties academic writing to grandiloquence and obscurity. Given that those problems are socially determined, they are open to be formalized, tackled and overcome. I take an epistemologically antirealist standpoint, therefore academic writing takes a central role. My proposal is to write simply and it does not intend to be superior in any way to those other aesthetical stances that academic writing embodies. Every tip consists of a wide treatment of the problem at hand, some examples and a series of practical guidelines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ideas of Michel Foucault are still inspiring useful analysis tools to take educational research to new levels of depth in the 21st century From a brief overview of many authors having vindicated the potential of his ideas and methods in recent years, this paper argues for the application of the dispositif as an ideal category of analysis for qualitative research in education. Following a general characterisation of the dispositif from the perspective of 'microphysics of power', I move on to the identification of a specifically educational type and the techniques and technologies that would conform it. The paper concludes with a vindication of its potential to deconstruct the 'regime of truth' which sustains it. Faced with the deproblematized use of certain philosophical categories used in sociological investigation, I defend the utility and validity of a metaphor capable of reflecting the complexity of educational processes, whilst expanding on and summarising others which are already well established. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the relevance of González Rey's Theory of Subjectivity and Qualitative Epistemology for advancing a cultural-historical psychology that articulates research and professional practices in mental health care. This paper presents the outcomes of an empirical research that was carried out with the professional staff of a Brazilian community mental health service based on the con - structive-interpretative methodology. The objective of the research was to develop a theoretical model that supports educational practices aimed at the subjective development of the professional team of a community mental health service in Brasília (Brazil). The outcomes emphasize the relevance of dialogue as a key epistemological and methodological device for individuals to emerge as active agents. From this perspective, research is inseparable from professional practice. In the process, alternative paths are created, which are oriented to subjective development of individuals, social groups and institutions in its broadest sense. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Traditionally, non-cognitive values (political, class, religious, etc.) have been considered to negatively influence science. From feminism, gender biases and prejudices have been particularly criticized. However, people engaged in science are not isolated, but develop their activity in a specific sociohistorical context. As such, they may belong to different communities: the scientific, one in whose paradigm they have been educated, but also to other communities, like religious, political, etc. In this paper I show, with three examples, how belonging to one of these communities and their non-cognitive values (in this case socio-political ones such as feminists), can contribute to re-evaluate the available evidence and improve our hypotheses and theories, challenging old -- and new -- prejudices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Implementing processes based on information and communication technologies produces profound transformations in health care systems. This paper explores the experience of technological development and support teams in a telemedicine unit in Chile. Informed by the sociologies of translation and the invisible, I propose understanding the machine work that unfolds on this site in terms of forms of machination. These involve translating and aligning the interests of actors that are both external and internal to the health service. On the internal front, machine work entails sensory and data work, the latter comprising both the articulation of tasks and the care of patients. Addressing the different dimensions allows bringing to light the complexity of the tasks involved and the mechanisms that make them go mainly behind the scenes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a series of onto-epistemological reflections to problematize the relation between the notions of memory, historization, contingency and ideology, from the perspective of discourse political theory of lacanian tradition. Here, we consider that the ontological foundation or the constitutive division of the social, has ethical and political consequences in the positioning of the subject of research, as well as in the orientation of his work. To this end, we problematize the historical dimension in the perspective in relation to the production of the analytical categories and we present two cases of investigation. The main thesis of this paper is that radical historization as posed by the political discursive perspective enables us to produce memories of antagonism, based in de-completing political logics or grammars, and identifying and reconstructing social antagonisms and the ways these were rendered visible, repressed or foreclosured. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Intervention research is a transdisciplinary field in which have participated social sciences, human sciences and health sciences. These studies are concerned to construct evidence about intervention practices. The approach and methods are variables, depending of scientific paradigm. Therefore, here we presented a critical analysis of papers about social intervention. The review was done with 70 papers of scientific journals published since 2007 until 2016. In it we track emerging topics, identifying regularities, ruptures, conclusions and issues to discuss. Results shows that social intervention has been a social problems solution strategy since XIX until today. But in its history, social intervention practices have promoted relations and discourses which produce kinds of governmentality and subjectivation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes ideologies -- understood as an extralegal factor -- developed textually in the discursive genre of legal sentences. By articulating the conjectures of Bourdieu and Van Dijk, we created a theoretical framework that defines the legal field as a social and discursive practice able to create axiomatic beliefs about people. Then, we applied this theoretical approach through a Critical Discourse Analysis about a criminal sentence condemning a Mapuche individual. It is defined as a study case given that the selected example expresses the way in which axiomatic beliefs about an individual from a minority group are built. We conclude our research by reflecting on the possibility of applying this theoretical approach to the study of different corpuses of sentences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Punk is a counterculture movement opposed to the dominant system and culture, with antifascist, antisexist ideologies and principles of equality. In terms of hardcore punk, in 1991, arises the North American band Bikini Kill, object of this work, which in its compositions addresses themes with feminist, political and denunciation. In this paper, music is seen in its social dimension, as a producer of identity and representative of the socio-historical context. The aim was to analyze the band's songs, identifying the feminine perspective and it's social implications, to understand the identity of women in that context. The methodology used was the bibliographical-documental analysis of the songs, texts and materials produced on punk and feminism. The compositions were related to the socio-historical context in which they were written and sung, considering Lev Vygotsky's historical-social approach to art and its social role, and feminist theorists like Judith Butler. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tis paper presents a critical analysis of the 1970ss famous debate between Ralph Miliband and Nicos Poulantzas around the capitalist state focusing on the method performed by both authors to address the problem. Te main argument is that the central problems in which both positions relapsed, as well as the fate of the debate, are explained by the use of a scientifc method which is completely alien to that performed by Marx in his critique of political economy. In Milibandss case, it is the method of 'hypothesis testing' based on the classical positivism, while in Poulantzass case it is the method of the 'logical consistency of the theory', the typical of neopositivists currents. On this basis, the paper ends with a brief and schematic presentation of a research program based on an alternative methodological approach in line with the Marxian legacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article addresses the problem of the place of philosophy in higher education today through the analysis of a single issue: the standardization of academic writing and its effects on the practice of philosophy and teaching. From the formal analysis of the academic "paper", as the unique pattern of production and evaluation of current research, this article evaluates its impact on the relationship between thinking, writing and education. It concludes that standardization of writing in the globally homologated university, leads to a stifling of thought not only in philosophy but in all areas of knowledge. At the same time gives us the key to diagnose and locate, in each of these areas, what are the spaces of the non-negotiable from which we must rethink our relationship with education and thinking inside and outside the university. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Education in sexuality and equality is considered as a complex research and training environment, but mandatory in university research educational contexts dedicated to teacher training. In this paper we present the main results of a qualitative research carried out at the University of Castilla la Mancha (Spain) in which, through semi-structured interviews and Delphi technique to 32 professionals, the biographical-narrative method has allowed to work on the conceptions in sexuality and equality of the teaching staff. The goal is to analyze how the issues on sexuality and the principle of equality have an impact on their curriculum and their research field. The results show institutional curbs and opportunities in this field. In conclusion, it is recommendable to boost and to strengthen the institutional involvement to eradicate, or to reduce, identified limitations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we present the results of a larger investigation in which, relying on the concept of interpretative repertoire put forward by Poter and Wetherell, we analyze the emerging discursive framework of the Andalusian Public Health System in terms of the arguments-ideas behind such framework. In a previous paper, we identified three major discursive groups that we labelled as critical, ontological, and legitimating. At this second stage, we address the subjectivities constructed on the basis of these repertoires and we emphasize three categories of subjects: healthcare, non-healthcare, and citizens. We draw attention to the multi-discursive nature of the organization and, therefore, the multi-referentiality inherent in the processes of subjectivity construction as well as the --potential-- organisational consequences of assuming one or another type of subjectivity. We conclude by proposing the need for a dialogic model of management that includes the system's multi-discursive variety toward a same direction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides a brief approach to violence as a constitutive feature of the social, that is, of the orderings that shape the contexts where we are positioned. This analytical premise connects the different papers that articulate this special issue on violence. Although the papers refer to several topics, quite present in the theoretical debates that take place nowadays in the analysis of the political, they share the epistemic importance conferred to the concept of violence in the reflection on the production and experience of the social. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reflects on the understanding of the tourism phenomenon from social research in the era of big data, analyzing the use of artificial intelligence to identify emotions, social networks on the internet to draw user profiles and scoring systems to compute ratings. New research practices, arising from marketing, may relegate the measurement instruments that social scientists have traditionally used. Conditioned by their business purpose, these innovative techniques contain ethical and methodological problems that, in the field of tourism, are related to attempts to analyze emotions and opinions quantitatively. Problems that can become an object of analysis for the sociology of tourism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article I analyze the cultural consecration of Peruvian singer Yma Sumac, that is, her aesthetic value in terms of social construction. Lately, research on cultural consecration emphasizes its increasingly interactive character, the weight that non-aesthetic criteria have in it and the relative way in which it integrates non-metropolitan propositions. In this paper, introducing the civilizational criterion allows to appreciate that cultural consecration can respond to different value regimes that are related asymmetrically, through hybrid and unstable configurations that can be at the origin of unexpected revaluations. From the revised hemerographic, musical and audiovisual materials, Yma Sumac emerges as a versatile figure of the global contemporary scene, which updates the identity projection of Peruvian folklore and the stardom of the Hollywood show, while altering them through a rarefied and residual musical performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last decades, postcolonial feminism has had enormous consequences for the reconceptualization of politics or rights. In light of this, the present paper explores the crossroads among postcolonial feminism, human rights and citizenship. The paper follows bell hook's theoretical work. It does so by first, the paper reviews the emergence of postcolonial feminism and analyzes the key topics of debate generated by these approaches within Women Studies. Secondly, the paper examines some of the dilemmas and criticisms provoked by these approaches to the concept of human rights. The paper concludes by exploring the ways in which postcolonial feminist approaches might continue to make significant advancement in rethinking citizenship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to present the state of the art of the contributions of social psychology and sociology to understand obesity and fatness. Traditionally, the body has been a matter of natural sciences, where social sciences have played a secondary role. However, the complexity involved in the increase in obesity in recent years has created a necessity for a psychosocial understanding of this issue. We have grouped these contributions into four groups: (1) theories of discrimination and stigmatization, (2) the sociology of health inequalities, (3) the social construction of obesity and Fat Studies and (4) the biopolitics of obesity. We conclude that these studies have given prominence to the medical norm, ignoring other ways in which to think of the fat body. We suggest investigating in greater depth those concepts assumed as contrary, such as thinness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies how is conceived the "mediation" in the pragmatic sociology proposes by Bruno Latour and by Antoine Hennion. Even with their differences, in both this notion constitutes a fundamental ground of their respective perspectives, reason why its analysis will allow us to discuss with their theories. Particularly, we will focus in theirs questioning of the "critical sociology", because in this one, in its dialectical tradition, the mediation is a key category too. The thesis of this text is that the potentiality of this notion for a socio-cultural research is lost when it is established a point placed (more imply that explicitly) outside of such relation of the mediation. Whether it is about hybrids (Latour), mediators (Hennion) or subjective participation (critical sociology). The work ends by outlining a conception that radicalizes such mediation, catching socio-cultural phenomena in their ambiguity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a series of proposals to innovate in the field of teacher training from a critical perspective. We use art and design education incorporating creative aspects that range from the textual discourses of visual culture (cinema) and typography to issues of sexual diversity and queer dissidences. We promote creative experiences by introducing as a reference the study of typographies designed for films that raise LGBT issues. We review the typographical tradition of design elements related to the cinema, such as posters or main titles. We approach different questions from a multidisciplinary perspective, always thinking about teacher training and also about the educational potential of writing as an image. We bring this innovative theme to the workshop to generate greater interest, increasing the motivation of university students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is my purpose in this article to point out the transfeminist connections between bodily and technological dissidence. Starting from the transformations analysis of the technologies of the body from foucaultian biopolitics to the technopolitics unveiled by Donna Haraway and Paul Preciado, in this paper I gather some of the points raised in the discussions within cyberfeminist, queer and decolonial perspectives that connect bodies and technologies, emphasizing in the non-normative corporalities and sexualities on the network. Based on the previous critical perspectives of technologies and on the ethnographic fieldwork carried out in the transfeminist context in Barcelona, I explore transfeminist political practices which lead me to acknowledge and to conclude that the potential of new techno-corporal articulations are intended to resist and transform technoscience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to present a critical and comparative analysis based on artistic proposals related to some diverse discursive strategies which have been developed during last decades in order to analyze and modify the spatial discourse. Space is understood as a technology to impose sex-gender fictions, and the works selected will be linked to various feminist, transfeminist, queer and post - colonial positionings. Through this text we present a systematization of different artistic approaches and we will reveal the spatial discourse as a mechanism to generate unequal experiences. The selected artistic proposals will show the capacity of space as capable of producing sex-gender differences, which are rooted in some binary and essentialist beliefs, and therefore excluding non standardized subjectivities beyond the heteronormative and cissexist binomial, as well as linking those exclusions to other intersectional discriminations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The subject of our paper is the architectures of care from an ethnographic approach and psychosocial intervention in a building for retirees and pensioners in the Cordon neighborhood of Montevideo, Uruguay. This experience is part of a wider investigation device, about the subjectivation process and mediations in relation of his historic second enlargement. In first place, we characterized the phenomenon in the context of capitalistic city. In second term, we dive into the histories of dwell of the residents, mostly woman. Then, we focalized in the emergent conditions to the live in the housing complex, for advanced on a micro-politics of everyday care. For last, we realized considerations on urban scale about the centrality and the redefinition to the territorialities involved on the zone. We conclude reflecting about the defiance for this housing policy and the city which is promoted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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

The region of Alto Naya is a geographic unit with more than 300.000 HA, lapped by the Naya River, in the Colombian pacific region. Between April 10th and 13th of 2001, almost 500 men of Bloque Calima of Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC) entered to this territory and killed indigenous, african-colombian and peasant communities, due to the AUC believed they supported the insurgency of Ejército de Liberación Nacional. The paramilitary incursion produced inroad the displacement of 3.000 people, who just returned to the region three years after the slaughter. On that argument, the paper is based on the meanings and disputes registered during the judicial hearings, in the frame of Ordinary Criminal Justice (Justicia Penal Ordinaria) and the Law of Justice and peace, which constitute the basis of a legal "truth". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we analyze 14 textile activism initiatives in Bogotá, explaining how the textile activity that supports them and their material production are examples of feminist postures that are not always explicit. The initiatives were identified through a chain referral sample method, their representatives were interviewed and the information gathered was analyzed in order to give an account of the type of activism they develop, underlining their objectives and the practices they perform. For this exercise, we took as a starting point the proposal of feminist continuum developed by Anne Beth Pentney, which allowed typifying the different cases as collective construction, oriented to promote social causes or as forms of denunciation or protest. We discuss the limitations of this continuum proposal when considering: temporal and spatial aspects, material conditions of textile production or when dimensioning the pedagogical proposals of knowledge transmission that some cases define as their central objective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to perform an analysis of some discursive resources that frame the ideological legitimation of al-Qaeda jihadism. Through the texts of three fundamental ideologues from different stages of al-Qaeda (Abdullah Azzam, Osama Bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Suri), the discursive strategies associated with some of the decisive ideological displacements in jihadist Islamism are explored, since fighting in Afghanistan in the late 1970s, to the scene following the 2001 attacks. The discourse analysis proposed allows to describe the different genres, subjective positionings, themes and argumentative schemes that have marked the ideological evolution of al-Qaeda. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Erving Goffman's work is considered as an accomplished effort to understand modern social order on a microsociological scale. In this article I retrieve a reading of the Goffmanian self that allows me to state some premises to understand the dynamics of the conflict in the same analytic level. Where Goffmanian concepts are insufficient to account for the meaning that the action has for the actor, I engage in a productive dialogue with other theoretical traditions. Throughout this paper I identify three elements that the analyst should attend to: repertoires, breakdowns and narratives. My statement conceives conflict as a social and moral breakdown, which means interpreting it as a 'methodological tool'. Moreover, I will state that the narrative, as conceived by Jerome Bruner, can provide access to the comprehensive study of conflict within social interaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Empowerment has been promoted by government programs as a strategic enclave of social development. In conventional terms, it is understood as a process of taking power, promoting autonomy and responsibility in the face of socio-cultural conditions. In this paper, we propose a variation of that perspective using actornetwork theory as an analytical perspective. From the description of the relationships between practices and technical entities exposed by designers, professionals and users of three social programs in Chile, we expose how these can be understood as heterogeneous assemblages in which are articulated new capacities for involved agents. In that sense, instead of being an eminently social process, we expose empowerment as the emerging agency in socio-technical mediation processes. At last, according to the concept proposed by A. N. Whitehead, we indicate how such a process formulated in human and non-human relations can be understood as prehension. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study of the structures of meaning and the formation of hegemonies play a leading role in post-structuralist theories of politics. In the present paper addresses a series of ontological aspects of these theories from the reflection of the conditions of emergence of systems of meaning, the way these systems are built and how they constitute the social field and the subjects are positioned in it. Thus, motivates me to analyze some of the main epistemological categories that I consider central to any post-structuralist research, namely, discourse, performativity and subject. In short, this paper has two purposes: to investigate ontological aspects that underlie the theories in question, while beginning to develop a conceptual framework from which to address the emergency conditions of the discursive structures that shape and give meaning and social subjects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years the concept of smart city has been prominently featuring in urban discourses and practices. Indeed, it has become a label many metropolis desire for themselves. Smart urbanism is based on the premise that cities can become more efficient and sustainable through the application of technological solutions. However, what are the scenarios and socio-technical consequences that can be associated with augmentation of smart devices and algorithms within the city? This article addresses some of the contemporary debates and analytical challenges that emerge from the notion of smart cities. Taking interpretative keys from Science and Technology Studies (STS), this paper analyzes the experimental nature of the concept of smart cities and the effects of datafication over urban spaces and individuals. Using Strenger's figure of the idiot, this article concludes with a critical reflection on the vision of city that the smart city paradigm contains. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Theoretical framework. Based on a systemic functionalist theoretical perspective we present the results of an observation in which the impacts are analyzed in public administration in the municipality of Altamira. As the method, in this paper we focus on the observation of the municipal administration. As main codes: decision making process and reaction to contingency planning logic and management structure. As main contributions stand out decisions are often made based on fait accompli and without the knowledge of all factors and without the necessary quality information developed by specialists. Changes in structure and some functions secretaries are due to exogenous causes. As conclusions, in the municipal public administration system, it is possible to observe some trends. Social morphogenesis is manifested in a gradual process of differentiation of administrative structures with the creation of the Municipal Environment Council, the creation of a planning area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The public health services reorganization as market companies reconfigures the traditional roles of patient and professional, as well as the relationships between them. In parallel, risks of occupational violence from patients to professionals who attend them emerge. The aim of this paper is to identify and describe written forms of occupational violence manifested through a claim process. From the texts registered in complaint forms of a hospital in Barcelona between 2012 and 2017, we selected n=201 cases with evident connotations of violence from which we obtained, in addition, other documentation related to the case that is the subject of the complaint, such as response arguments. A content analysis allowed us to evidence and categorize different forms of violence expression. The information on the declared "grounds" of the violent claim complements and qualifies what has been obtained through surveys or interviews and brings up risk factors for a preventive action. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper takes adventure racing as a starting point from which to discuss the centrality of risk in contemporary society. It goes on to trace the emergence of risk as a linguistic repertoire for providing meaning in everyday life, its relevance for the structuration of risk management as a strategy for the government of populations and its various transformations in the context of 'risk society'. In this etymological and historical journey, risk is both a new figure resulting from specific social configuration - reflexive modernity - and a window to the past. It is in this confrontation between cultural permanence and technological innovation that it becomes possible to understand the emergence of contemporary types of risk-adventure that foster modes of adventure that are increasingly equipped with technique and know-how to face the inevitable obstacles of adventure,without needing to refer to metaphors of fatality, fortune or even luck. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper sets out to review the dilemma of citizenship Wollstonecraft raised in A Vindication of the Rights of Women, published in 1792. I argue that this dilemma falls into the same trap feminist theory does by proposing two different (and opposed) models of feminism: equality and difference. In this paper I suggest that the two are in fact the same paradox, which in turn refers to the equality-difference binarism that operates by structuring the liberal-patriarchal debate on equity in the social contract. Feminism must climb out of this trap in order to offer a new concept of citizenship in which women do not have to decide between equality and difference, or between justice and care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to explore Great Buenos Aires's politics analyzing midterm elections (2009) from my ethnography in a shantytown of La Matanza under a process of urbanization. I will try to show some outlooks which are usually darkened by electoral analyses. While these researches usually focus on campaign strategies and political networks in order to explain (or predict) electoral results, the main contribution of this paper is to show how elections are generally imposed and locally appropriated from a local perspective oriented towards the urbanization of the shantytown. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper critically assesses the discourse that justifies the latest educational reforms in European and Spanish higher education. It is presented as a techno-scientific discourse that attempts to support one of the most important current practices of subjectivity -the educational one- using a particular definition of psychology that forget the fact of the irreducible plurality of psychological practices and knowledges. This paper aims thus to make a double critical assessment. On the one hand, about the rhetorical use of psycopedagogic knowledge as scientific (indisputable) support for the reforms. On the other hand, about the assumption that there is a well definite discipline (Psychology) which is unified, scientifically established and able to offer that support. The paper consider also the current socio-cultural scenario of globalization and neoliberalism as a context that makes sense, within the ideology of entrepreneurship, such use of Psychology as a scientific guarantor of education reform. Special emphasis is placed on the promotion of subjectivity linked to that ideology, which requires individuals gifted with flexibility, self-monitoring skills and full responsibility for their fate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I propose for the Basque case a shift in the last decades: the transition from direct and confrontational protest repertoires towards more symbolic and self-expressive modes of mobilization, in a context of typologies of conflict whose roots remain modern and material. To study this process in the Basque Country between 1980 and 2010 I use the Protest Event Analysis technique, and I propose three elements that influence differentially on the types of conflict and the repertoires of protest: the creativity of the activists; the repression of the authorities; and the aestheticization of social practices in late capitalism. These three elements cause a more rapid and intense process of symbolization and dematerialization on the protest actions than on the conflicts they arise from. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper attempts to show how rape is represented in a variety of historical and contemporary discourses. Examples of rapes in Greek mythology, in the Bible, in medieval iconography, in literature, and in scientific theories, are compared and contrasted. Analysis suggests that such discourses tend to make sexual aggression (and specifically the rape of women) legitimate, be it by minimizing the harm done; by normalizing and naturalizing sexual violence; or by aesthetisizing rape as art. Finally, the paper argues that putting modern legal accounts of rape into their historical perspective brings into sharper focus the persistence of ancient myths and discourses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pentecostal religious beliefs and practices consist of a complex set of strategies of transformation and personal renewal. Among other aspects of their experiences in the Church of Philadelphia, the social construction of Gypsy reality turns on the reform of the body. The present paper lies on aspects such as the body as object and subject of biopolitical and religious practices; the relationships between religious experience and body management; new social and community interactions; and autobiographical discourse as the ideological vehicle of personal conversion and transformation. All these processes reveal how social practices remake and shape bodily behaviour and its meaning. Pentecostal charismatic practices channel and express the community and individual demands of Church of Philadelphia converts, and represent central issues in the Pentecostal management of body and spirit. Our aim in this paper is to analyze the bodily practices which provide for believers' transformation, and which shape community rituals and the congregation's interactions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The increasing violence broadcasted by tee media is subject of concern and social interest. Hard emissions frequently raise tee accusation toward tee mass media of fostering a morbid curiosity in tee audience just to raise audience ratings. But tee concept of morbid curiosity includes wide and imprecise meanings. The object of teis paper is to (re)construct tee meaning of morbidity and morbid curiosity in relation to tee watceing of serious violence in TV News programs. 16 focus groups eave been object of discourse analysis afer tee viewing 4 videos of a violent piece of TV news. The analysis seows teat tee dimension of curiosity and interest vs. illness and evil is structuring tee discourse; and tee participants eigeliget tee positive and legitimate efects teat can be atributed to tee "gaze" on violence as muce as to tee scenes. "Watceing" wite interest is necessary to get tee positive efects of tee broadcasting of violent images. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we propose that fction is not only a false way of referring to the social reality or a ruse for the construction of imaginary worlds. On the contrary, we understand fctions as a human capacity highly productive in the construction and organization of the social world, a capacity widely disseminated in this world. We started giving an overview on some discussions in social sciences on the issue of fctionality. Aler that, we rescue the notions of "real fction" and "fctional expectations" to address the productive character of fction, with special emphasis on its temporary reference. We conclude by studying the social practice of "to act as if the fctional was real" to discuss its implications in one of the most productive uses that has had in contemporary Chile: the notion of "permanent kidnapping" proposed by Judge Guzman to challenge legal order established by 1978 Amnesty Luaw. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to put in Chilean literary historiography a manuscript found in the Valley of Azapa (Arica), which summarizes various literary events as décimas, songs and testimonies writen by an African American farmer from the early twentieth century. So far, no fnding relating to this documentary, so this article is intended, from a biopolitics lecture, build an initial theoretical input to the manuscript platform for future research in the feld of cultural and literary studies. Not only is it interesting what is sounds in this group of compositions as rescue popular literary tradition of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; but also, it implies the need to take and build a theoretical locus incorporating marginalized subjectivities by the national narrative subjectivities through racialization processes that sustain the politics of memory in Chile. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Antígone's tragedy and the search for the disappeared has been aesthetically and politically appropriated by artists and activists in Mexico. Reflecting about the relationship between futility, forensic technologies and the notion of a victim-political subject, this paper engages with the narratives of the families that constituted the governance body of a project known as 'Citizen-Led Forensics' which brought to the world the first forensic DNA database created, managed and designed by relatives of the disappeared in Mexico. Our findings are the product of years of ethnography and one year of intense participatory research. We argue that it is only once technologies are not bound by principles of efficiency, market logics, or exclusive expertise, that the unexamined state-centric notions of forensic humanitarianism can be transgressed, and thus help us build new relationships between science, justice and truth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper focus on a critical analysis of a discursive formation in Spanish academic libraries: social responsibility and sustainability. The concepts that make up the discourse are historically contextualized in order to clarify their origin and social affiliation. Although the enunciation of social responsibility and sustainability content is formulated ambiguously, its articulation as a discursive practice within the framework of the new corporate management university libraries leads us to infer bias in their rhetorical formulation. We consider that, from a fuzzy concept and its integration into technocratic practices, the discourse can be used as a tool for legitimizing the deregulation of public educational institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]