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The article is an editorial from the magazine "Debates en Sociología" of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. The magazine is dedicated to presenting high-quality scientific research in social sciences that are relevant to social reality and the current situation in Latin America and Peru. In this issue 57 of the magazine, the new styles and themes implemented during the work of Deborah Delgado Pugley are reflected. The magazine seeks to maintain the quality and reliability of the published research papers and contribute to global, regional, and national debates on various social, cultural, political, gender, and environmental issues. This issue presents a dossier on alternatives and resistances to hegemonic capitalist models in rural worlds. The magazine is open to all individuals who wish to contribute with their academic research to improve knowledge of reality and alternatives to current challenges. [Extracted from the article]

This paper presents a genealogy of educational and occupational aspirations, based on the desires of two generations of rural children of Ayacucho. Taking the region's recent turbulent and violent history into account, and other recent structural social changes, the research shows how the aspirations change between both generations, paying special attention to gender differences. Terciary education becomes the most wanted future, while peasant activities almost disappear from desired future lives; in addition, in poorer households girls keep higher aspirations than their male peers. Despite all this, hard evidence shows that tertiary education is rarely reached in Ayacucho, and women still have less opportunity to access and finish secondary and tertiary education. Therefore, this genealogy of desires not only should be seen as a social construction, but also as an expression of voice and agency, where social hierarchies are questioned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]