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This article aims to describe characteristics and communicational practices of community, alternative, and popular radio stations in San Luis Province, Argentina, between 2010 and 2020, considering the latest regulation in force: LSCA law 26.522, 2009. In San Luis, there are three radio stations that fall under the categories of community, alternative, and popular, according to the law: La Bulla, Masi Radio, and Radio Rebelde, all of them born after the law was sanctioned. The methodology is qualitative, and the analysis is based on empirical research that includes official registries, previous research, academic papers, interviews, and informal conversations with media members. The study analyzes the practices that these radio stations develop to build sustainability, and whether or not they achieve it. Their relationship to other socially relevant actors, such as the State in its three levels, other civil organizations, within a concentrated and centralized media system, is also considered, reflecting those characteristics from the province's political power configuration. Community radios in San Luis suffered the consequences of the national government changes and the paralysis in local communication policies, nevertheless, they are still operative. However, the lack of new community experiences requires further thoughts about how social and political conditions contribute to its marginal position in the communicational system of the province. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An approach to the intertwining of psychology and communication is presented from two terms, mediation and concept, which are interpreted as categories of affinity. In the general context, semantic diversities can be traced with respect to the terms indicated, this is complexified in the understanding and operationalization of such notions when approached from the areas of knowledge, in this case from the theorization of the communicative and the psychological. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to reflect on the intersections between psychology and communication through the notions of concept and mediation. The methodology for this paper was qualitative (Hernández-Sampieri y Mendoza-Torres, 2018), within the hermeneutic framework, and the corpus is established from the location of discourse delimited in the intertextuality of different authors (Aristotle, 1995; Ausubel, Novak and Hanesian, 1997; Husserl, 1995; Martín-Barbero, 1991; Peirce, 1958; Plato, 1872; Vygotski, 1987 and Wittgenstein, 1999) as referents of the indicated fields of knowledge. This process of argumentation is woven from a theoretical understanding of the individual (subjective) dimension, as well as the social dimension, in order to give clues about the hinge that allows showing the intersection between the named fields of knowledge in relation to the categories: concept and mediation. From this field, connections are established from the textual dynamics, throwing as inferences the role played by language and in particular the sign, as inputs for the understanding of such notions as objects of study in which psychology and communication converge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a critical review about resignification of two identitarian, literary, and cultural practices, alabaos and currulaos, faces of the sung word, in the framework of the armed conflict that has disproportionally impacted Afro-Colombian communities. Method: the research follows the perspective of what I call the hermeneutics of return, a critical interpretive perspective on the historical presence of Afro communities in the perspective of decolonization. First, it introduces a discussion regarding the literary character of these Afro-Colombian creations. Then, these cultural practices are contextualized as agencies of Afro ethno-racial and cultural identity. After that, I focus on the recognition of the armed conflict effects in the territories, considering careful reading and listening of some lyrics, particularly three currulao songs of the following groups: Rancho Aparte, Esteban Copete y su Kinteto, Canalón de Timbiquí, and Herencia de Timbiquí. Furthermore, some alabaos from the album Voces de resistencia will be analyzed in terms of the transformations this cultural practice suffered in the middle of the war experiences. This album was interpreted by Las Cantaoras de Pogue and sponsored by ICESI University and the Ford Foundation. In conclusion, I pretend, through this article, to visualize the reinvention capacity of communities to transform these cultural practices into memory, sensibilizing, denouncing, and mental healing tools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a reflection produced after a series of interventions carried out at the sector known as "The Bronx", in the city of Bogotá, financed by the national and district governments. The main aim was, on one hand, to understand the role that some dynamics play in order to prevent crime, and, on the other hand, to design and implement a strategy in local schools that will help to reduce the individual vulnerability of young people in the sector. The work proposals develop social policy guidelines articulating elements of human geography, sociology, and psychology, around proposals such as the Zonas de Orientación Escolar (School Guiding Zones, Indications about the importance of considering the effect that territorial dynamics have on the effectiveness of the design and implementation of social policies, as well as the difficulty of defining indicators that allow comparability with similar experiences, can be found among the conclusions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After the signing of the peace agreement between the Colombian government and the former FARC-EP guerrilla, some Territorial Training and Reincorporation Spaces (ETCR, by its Spanish acronym) were allocated around the country as part of the reincorporation process for ex- combatants, whose development and achievement has had great difficulties in accomplishing what has been agreed in the framework of the peace process (delays, negligence, clear routes of reincorporation, security, political tensions). Based on fieldwork in two ETCRs, one in La Fila and the other in El Oso, in Tolima (Andean region, in the center-west of the country), we spoke with some signatories of the Peace Agreement. During our visit, we recorded at the audiovisual level how these spaces, where members of the Comunes party, national institutions, foreign countries, and neighboring communities converge, are being appropriated and intervened. This paper proposes a perspective on the ETCRs as ghettos of integration and exclusion of ex-combatants. In addition, we highlight how coexistence in spaces has created ways of inhabiting the ETCRs expressed in the adaptations to spaces, orders, and symbols given by peace signatories in the process of reincorporation [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper shows the results of the first phase of a school of audiovisual communication, wich is mediated by information technology. For it, we identified two types of narratives. Firstly, one about the beneficial impacts in the technology access and appropriation, and in values, derivated from collaborative processes carried out by students to strengthen as social collective. Secondly, others that form a first corpus of contents, with wich the school wants to narrate and represent itself as successful case of peace buiding in the region. Our thesis is that such narratives show that the processes of appropriation of information and digital communication technologies strengthen processes of comunity communication and creative citizenships, based on values emerged among collaborative relations and interactions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting from considering that social policies constitute a central link between the systemic order and the world of life of the populations, the aim of this paper is to explore the emotions of women mothers who have Conditional Cash Transfers of Income in Argentina linked to the social care and the conditionalities that they entail. This will be carried out based on a qualitative strategy, based on in-depth interviews. It is concluded that the social policies under study consolidate emotions linked to self-denial, postponement, the obligation in relation to the care tasks that they suppose and demand. This series of practices, emotions and feelings of the populations receiving the social policies worked, allow us to notice the connections between waiting, postponement and moral obligation in relation to social care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Risk management is a central concept for human development. Dwelling on the Chilean experience, this article examines the discursive elaboration of risk by relevant social agents, with the aim of establishing whether risk and models of (human) development are explicitly linked. Methodology: the paper is based on in-depth, qualitative interviews and discourse analysis as analytic approach. Results: The discourses are characterized by a non-politization of matters related to risk; that is, these appear mainly from the viewpoint of their consequences for human population, but their origins in human decisions. Conclusions: Risk, especially the type originated in human activity, is often stripped away of its political dimension, making difficult an effective risk management that could be centered in long-term human well-being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For more than one century Developmental State has been conceptualized from the unidimensional approach of economic development. However, development theory evolution towards multidimensional approaches has led to its conceptualization as Human Developmental State. This paper poses the main conceptual, theoretical and methodological challenges for this approach. These are: i) choosing the conceptual approach within the multidimensional heterogeneity, ii) constructing common theoretical and analytical frameworks in a multidisciplinary context, iii) resolving the tension between inductive-normative and deductive-descriptive methodological approaches and developing methods and quantitative indicators for international comparisons. In conclusion, a series of challenges of different order are presented and will demand progress in different disciplines until reaching a solid theoretical and analytical body that allows to speak of a unified and consolidated conceptualization of the human developmental state. This paper tries to take a step in this direction through a proposal of conceptual systematization and analytical operationalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This teoric reflection paper deals with narrative research as its main objet, concerning methodological considerations in research which generated this reflection. On one hand the bibliography regarding the subject of narrative is used, on the other hand the experience of the students involve in this study. The findings of this study show that the accounts allow a deep exploration in a family context within a trouble country, with large social, political and economical divisions. The reflection is based on a research carried out with the students of the Desarrollo Familiar program at the Universidad de Caldas, Manizales (Colombia), and they go to a dialogue with them about the investigative process, so this article has three sources: basic research, the bibliography on narratives and memory and the dialogue with students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the dimensions of citizenship, helping to recognize how work has been done around the concept and practices of being a citizen in different social, economic, political and cultural contexts. In this way, the document traces the ways of conceiving citizenship in different periods of history and emphasizes the new constructions developed today. Finally, we will refer to a theme of citizenship as a social construction resulting from the intersubjectivities of human beings with other human beings and the institutions that make up societies in each historical moment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses, from a historical perspective, the forms of representation of the independence process present in textbooks that circulated in schools in the Colombian Caribbean region during the twentieth century. Some of the most representative texts of history for schools in the region were selected as the source and object of study; through them, are analyzed and identified aspects closely related to independence, such as national identity, the citizenship formation processes, the construction of the nation state and the role of the Caribbean region as founder of the new republican regime in those times. The paper places special emphasis on the analysis of historiographical and pedagogical trends pertaining to the textbooks analyzed and which eventually undoubtedly influenced the type of representation and collective imaginary about the process of independence embodied in these artifacts of ideological and cultural character. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current global financial and economic crisis, which has a specially affect in Europe, needs a creative overview in order to address the new architecture of development cooperation and the relationships between Europe and Latin America. This paper analyses the Official Development Aid (ODA) between the European Union and Latin America. Specifically, this paper studies the dynamics that have been developed with the Andean Community, exploring the inclusion and exclusion of civil society organizations that work within pivotal issues for the sub-region. Through this framework, this paper develops in-depth the promotion of good governance, human rights and democracy, that are common goals for States and civil societies in both sides of the Atlantic. Finally, this paper highlights the challenges that must be considered in the new Regional Strategy, where it is already evident that Latin America is a new protagonist, and the civil society organizations are empowered as development actor's beyond as only a denunciators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main purpose of this paper is the impact assessment analysis of the pilot project Rede@prender carried out in Colombia under the Programme EUROsociAL within the overall context of the Euro-Latin American cooperation. The first part of the paper introduces to, on the one hand, the Euro-Latin American cooperation model and the Programme's overall philosophy, while on the other hand presents the contents of the Colombian policy on education in citizenship competencies within which context the project was carried out. The second part elaborates an in-depth analysis of the main characteristics of the pilot project and tries to give account of its impact and achieved results. Finally, the third and inal part of the text contains some considerations on the application of the evaluation criteria, best practices and lessons learned from the project Rede@prender. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes the rate of adoption, frequency and uses of Social Media by young people in the Caribbean Region of Colombia. We report a crosssectional survey of 502 youngsters (16 to 28 years) enrolled to the National Learning Service or Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje (SENA). Findings show that the average adoption rate of Social Media was 68 %, being the most frequently used Facebook (69.4 %), Google+ (57.6 %), Instagram (45.6 %) and Twitter (42.6 %). Data revealed that the main uses of Social Media by young Colombians were to read news stories, followed by connecting with friends and relatives, and finding music and videos. This is the first study in Colombia with youngsters belonging to low-income families but with frequent access to Internet, which contributes to understand the importance of Social Media in this vulnerable group. Our findings might also help to identify useful possibilities of new media for young people. Finally, we discuss practical implications of the results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the causes and effects of educational mismatch in the Ecuadorian labor market according to the microdata of the employment survey from 2007 to 2012 that implements a discrete choice model and human capital. The article is the first study on the exploration of this phenomenon in the Ecuadorian labor market, which also makes a temporal analysis of the phenomenon, to verify its structural nature. The educational maladjustment in the Ecuadorian labor market covers 35% of the labor mass where overeducation is the majority with 22% and under-education with 13%. There is a positive return for years of over-education and a penalty on wages in the case of under-education. The results show that the mismatch decreases as the size of the company and the individual's experience increases. These conclusions would show that the initiatives of the labor observatories for graduates are a first step to know the needs of the companies and the competences that develop the graduates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses 68 digital media in Venezuela, based on the results obtained in 2010 and framed on the project "Cyber media in Colombia and Latin America", which is supported by the Universidad del Norte and Universidad de los Andes (Venezuela). The goal of the research is to determine the adoption of cyber journalism features and web 2.0 in media of this region. The study uses the method proposed by Rodríguez-Martínez, Codina & Pedraza-Jiménez (2010), which has been tested in previous research by the authors of this paper. According to the results, the general data analyzed allow us to remark the low development of the digital media of Venezuela and the need of a deep debate and actions oriented to the advantage of the potentialities of the ICT from digital media in this country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to debate the new paradigms of international development aid, with a specific focus on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and their implementation within the context of Latin America. The paper will start drawing both the conceptual framework and the international environment, and afterwards will provide readers with an analysis of a success story occurred in the Department of Antioquia (Colombia). A further analytical approach will be proposed to appraise the potential of the North-South and South-South developmental co-operations. These may be linked one to each other with the first strengthening and widening up the second, thus creating innovative enabling environments for fruitful exchanges between local actors and organized civil societies of the North and the South of the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using the example of the Saint-Roch district in Quebec City (Canada), this paper is an analysis of the rhetoric of urban discourse which for the last decade or so has driven and justified the revitalization project of older urban areas in North American cities. The goal here is to add from a cultural geography perspective to the understanding of this so-called new urbanism which seems to have great success in both practice and public opinion. This paper will firstly demonstrate that this discourse is built essentially as a self-criticism, since its fundamental principle is to recognize the failure of post World War II urbanism which favoured the renewal of older urban areas through large scale demolition and systematic reconstruction. Next, this paper explains that on this basis a set of figures has emerged which have paradoxically been used to justify: (1) the protection of built heritage while at the same time allowing for innovative uses of this heritage; (2) the diversity of uses of urban heritage while at the same time actively excluding certain options; (3) the necessity for participatory urbanism while at the same time acknowledging the impossibility of including certain social categories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses current dynamics of the relationship between Colombia and the United States. The Free Trade Agreement negotiations, the atoned conflict in Colombia and the Plan Colombia have been central issues in bilateral relations. Recent political changes in the region promise to affect not only Colombia's bilateral relations with its neighbors, but have an effect on US.-Colombian relations. The paper evaluates the particularities of president Uribe's Democratic Security policy, and the state of U.S.-Colombia relations during the Uribe administration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses current dynamics of the relationship between Colombia and the United States. The Free Trade Agreement negotiations, the armed conflict in Colombia and the Plan Colombia have been central issues in bilateral relations. Recent political changes in the region promise to affect not only Colombia's bilateral relations with its neighbors, but have an effect on US. - Colombian relations. The paper evaluates the particularities of president Uribe's Democratic Security policy, and the state of U.S. - Colombia relations during the Uribe administration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Undoubtedly the border between the United States and Mexico is a territorial space of the greatest relevance in geopolitics in America. This article takes a look at this frontier from the perspective of imaginaries, the media and art, which complements the one focused on geopolitics, which is the way it has traditionally been studied. It investigates the perception of border citizens, particularly those who live in El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, with the aim of locating the imaginaries they have on this territory of separation and encounter simultaneously, and spatially on three objects that define this border: the wall, the Rio Grande and the desert. Likewise, various artistic and media productions are analyzed to broaden the perspective of configuration of border imaginary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper was proposed in the framework of the epistemological foundations of the Guane (Systemic Thinking) and Cibercultura y Territorio (Studies in Science, Technology and Society) research topics belonged to the Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia and it is the result of a bibliographic review that was to search principal key, words preceded by cyber prefix. We exposed here an archaeology of the prefix "cyber" which is used to refer to everything that has something to do with the internet or automation process. Piedra (2011) attributed to Beer pointed out the overused of this prefix and stated that: "It's a shame that its popular use has taken the root to cover everything from the cyber-man and cyber-dogs, to cyber-cafes and even, cyberspace". We found that, from the archeology made, that homeostasis and feedback appear as fundamental principles of organization in nature, this fact allows a cybernetic view of the natural and artificial world; also we observed indiscriminate use of concepts related to cyber prefix, in common dialect as in academic discourse. In the first part of the text, we set out the founding principles of cybernetics, related to the biology and control theory; in the second part, we outline the idea of cybernetics and its different stages of development. We end with some applications of the prefix "cyber "to identify some apocryphal and authentic uses. We conclude with some considerations that allows the reader to ask him/herself about the use and abuse of this prefix. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The economic growth experienced by Argentina since 2003 has had its counterpart in improving labor indicators. However, job insecurity has remained, after a significant decline until 2007, in very high values. Based on the central idea that casualization is for capital cost reductions, the aim of this paper is to account for the determinants of informality among salaried workers, establishing continuities and changes between 2003 and 2013. This we use a quantitative methodology with secondary sources of information, from which conducted two types of analysis, the first descriptive from which seeks to account for the characteristics of the Argentine labor market between 1990 and 2013 and the second performed by a binomial logistic regression approach that allows the determinants of precarious working conditions. In this regard, it was observed that between 2003 and 2013, a labor casualization, whose determinants failed substantially changed between the reference years was consolidated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Under the recent commodity boom in mining and natural resources, regional development planning and the system of sectoral incentives, it has rushed to reposition the territories marginalized through pulls of the primary line, capital accumulation, production clusters and dissemination of technological change. This paper analyzes the effects of the global situation, the structure and dynamics of the Cauca economy reconsidering geographical and institutional constraints of the mining district of El Tambo-Buenos Aires in light of the "curse of natural resources. The findings, among others found that the gold boom, around the notion of "mining district" in the western department of Cauca seems split into three types of problems. The first articulated shocks the world market, the second is a problem of dislocation of the local regional front, and finally, the problem of the level of development, which evokes a nineteenth century mining tradition in ecological plunder encrypted , rent capture extreme and political subjugation scheme legitimized by clientelism and short-term chance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The traditional perspectives on trauma studies have understood traumatic events as naturally existing. By the end of the 1990s a group of cultural sociologists started to develop a new perspective, which they refer to as the Cultural Trauma Theory. This perspective suggests that inherently traumatic events do not exist and that trauma, instead, results from a sociocultural process by virtue of which actors decide to represent some events as fundamental threats to their collective identity. However, the analysis of such representations involves the methodological challenge of working qualitatively with large amounts of data. In this paper we introduce Topic Modeling for solving this challenge by addressing the emergence of the trauma process resulting from the Chevron-Texaco case in Ecuador. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

En el estudio del comportamiento electoral, a pesar de que las teorías sociológica, partidista y de elección racional continúan aplicándose vigorosamente para analizarlo, la respuesta al interrogante sobre ¿cuáles son los factores que predominan en la toma de la decisión del voto? no alcanzan, aún, una respuesta que logre el consenso académico. Así, este trabajo pretende identificar el perfil del votante colombiano en las elecciones presidenciales de 2002, 2006 y 2010 a partir de las semejanzas y diferencias de estos en términos de sofisticación política, orientación político-partidista y características sociodemográficas. El análisis estadístico se realiza con datos de la encuesta LAPOP, y se centra en los votantes de los partidos Liberal, Polo Democrático y Partido de la Unidad Nacional. En la primera parte del documento se plantean los principales aspectos teóricos que guían la investigación. Luego se muestran los rasgos principales del contexto en el que se desarrollaron los tres procesos electorales. Finalmente, se presentan los resultados de los análisis así como algunas ideas a modo de conclusión. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Este artículo muestra los resultados de la caracterización de los imaginarios sociales en torno al derecho de protección de niños y niñas escolarizados, entre 7 y 12 años de edad, de dos instituciones educativas de los municipios de Manatí y Malambo departamento del Atlántico (Colombia). A partir de afirmaciones obtenidas en grupos focales, se hizo un ejercicio de interpretación de la manera cómo operan y se construyen los imaginarios sociales que tienen los niños y niñas, como sujetos titulares de derechos, frente al derecho a la protección, con el propósito de generar insumos que replanteen la forma como se diseñan las estrategias de comunicación orientadas a prevenir el maltrato, abuso y abandono. Partiendo de un análisis descriptivo y empleando el software de procesamiento de datos cualitativos Atlas-Ti se lograron identificar, describir y contrastar teóricamente los imaginarios: la familia como territorio protector, el espacio público como territorio negado y las instituciones como responsables de la protección de la infancia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper a theoretical discussion of "nation" and other related categories is developed. The two more recognized positions are critically presented: those who assume that the nation is fundamentally a cultural, primordial and perennial category, and those who see it as a political construction of modernity. An analytical comparison between the categories of identity and ethnicity and the central notion of nation are presented, as well as a critical review of the role of nationalist as clergy serving for a fundamental construct of modernity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main idea of this paper is to identify the management patterns of university research according to the most outstanding models that characterize Research and Development structures (R+D) in Colombian universities; and also to analyze the most typical research administration processes In countries with low scientific absorption, highlighting the case of Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla, Colombia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to present the profiles of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Managers in the Global Compact member organizations in Colombia. This is one of the preliminary results of a research that aims to provide new elements for understanding how Social Responsibility (SR) is understood and managed in the country. It is an exploratory and descriptive work in which was applied an instrument designed from the core variables that has worked in similar international studies. The results show that the charge directly related to SR in Colombia is still emerging, has more differences than similarities with regard to academic education and it is a feature entrusted more to women than to men. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Globalization has led to important changes in the dynamics that structure the relationships among actors, institutions and people. In a context of significant structural changes, the Post 2015 Development Agenda presents significant challenges and opportunities for fostering sustainable global development. In this context, this paper analyzes the concept of Policy Coherence for Development and its implications in an interdependent and transnationalized world. The article concludes that the Policy Coherence for Development is a key area that must be integrated into the Post 2015 Development Agenda. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

E-Government (EG) strategies are crucial in current societies. The goal of this paper is to know the perceptions (expectations and experiences) of citizens from Barranquilla (Colombia) about EG. We assume that EG includes not only the development of information technologies (IT's) but the incorporation of spaces for citizens participation. We ran two surveys: the first exploratory with a random sample of city citizens (N= 345) and the second descriptive with a non-random sample of university students (N=180). The findings show a low knowledge of EG sites, and that individuals who were aware of them had a hard time defining them. We notice that mass media are still important for the diffusion of EG but interpersonal communication is still necessary to achieve final adoption of EG. We also found that citizens from Barranquilla relate EG with information search, and in a lesser extent to participation and interaction with the administration. The data from the survey to university students shows a relationship between the age and the use and confidence toward EG. We conclude that future research on EG should focus more on the citizens and less on technical elements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to describe the electoral process in 1836 in Cartagena which meant the transition of the presidency of Francisco de Paula Santander to Jose Ignacio de Marquez, to show the role played by the provincial power to define them. Our hypothesis is that in the province of Cartagena, the network of local authorities had control of the parish elections and thus helped to define the election results in favor of the moderate faction of the Liberals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is an attempt to associate the concepts of foresight and strategic management of knowledge and their role within Colombian research groups (coined here as GRIN). It is emphasized that these concepts should be integrated into policies and strategies to be adopted by the local universities to meet their objectives for research, technological development and innovation, and the synergies to be generated both in the social and productive sectors. It is proposed that foresight should be associated with specific actions within systems of competitive intelligence and technology surveillance to identify the most relevant variables on which the GRIN technology can track, prior to technology foresight exercises. This calls for the incorporation of strategic management of technology, innovation and knowledge within the GRIN. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objectives: We explore the codes of conduct in order to characterize the responsibility and ethical performance parameters that Colombian oil companies define for themselves. Method: The paper is exploratory and descriptive. We use the method of multiple case study and a model of Gaumnitz and Lere (2004) in order to classify the codes. Results: The codes are grouped into three blocks according to their structure: codes of conduct of multinational companies; codes of conduct of local companies with international ambitions; codes of conduct of small local companies. Conclusions: Codes of global companies are extensive and legalistic. Codes of local companies with international ambitions are short and legalistic. Codes of small local companies are short and missionary. Virtually all codes have their roots in the utilitarian ethics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the evaluation results of the pilot phase of The Edutainment and Mobilization Platform for Social Change (EE+SM=SC). The purpose was to identify from the perspective of participants, the changes generated in the implementation processes of social mobilization in the municipality of San Juan Nepomuceno (Bolívar). The research used techniques such as qualitative open interviews, document analysis and memory workshops. Among the main results are the ability of the model to integrate and strengthen the dialogue processes and local dynamics, favoring conditions for the generation and qualification of dialogue about sexual and reproductive rights. However, the municipal context, highly involved with similar projects related to the issues of the Strategy, significantly hindered the observation of these changes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper attempts to identify and characterize, from a historical perspective, "the environmental discourses" that have been created and have circulated on what we now know as National Parks in Colombia, specifically on the PNN Katios National Park. The research argues that such discourses have been constructed, propagated, institutionalized and legitimized as a means and dynamic factor in a broader discourse we have called "development discourse." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Havana is a city with a strong maritime condition that holds potentiality for tourism development. This economic sector has experienced significant growth in the last 20 years, and it is estimated that it will keep growing in the future. This paper aims to characterize the tourist activity in the country and in Havana specifically, the most outstanding aspects of the relationship maritime-tourism in this city. Bibliographical revision, the synthetic method and the primary observation in the fieldwork were used. As a result, it contributes to the knowledge of the existing relationship among most of the coastal Cuban settlements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper presents and approach in the debate regarding the relevance of control and tracking of resources and the results obtained on the effectiveness of International Development Cooperation (IDC). We discuss the public and private sectors, as well as civil organizations and donors. Using an international viewpoint and the current Colombian Legislation, our analysis allows us to identify and define the latent risks of inadequate management of resources of IDC in Colombia. In particular, we point out some weakness of financial, legislative and technical nature. With the analysis presented we are able to propose several improvement in financing process involving the IDC. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This contribution stems from a personal interest in expanding Minority Language Media research into the Latin American context. It also arises from a desire to present some of the achievements of Communication for Social Change in Latin America to a European media studies community not acquainted with them. In order to do this, the paper begins by presenting the common ground between the two areas of studies. It draws attention to the fact that language is but one of many cultural aspects under which indigenous and ethnic communities are marginalised from and by the main media outlets in Latin America. Because of this, research into Latin American Minority Language Media needs to have a contextual approach that studies the processes of identity negotiation and participatory agency defined under the concepts of hybridity and convergence. It also demands for research to increase participation of its subjects of inquiry, as consistently requested by practitioners of Communication for Social Change. Finally, both of these aspects, a contextual approach of hybridity and convergence, and the encouragement for more participatory research, are presented as the fundamental dialogue to expand Minority Language Media studies to Latin America and to provide feedback for its further advances in Europe [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper shows the outcomes of a research which main aim is to investigate the children's reception and appropriation processes of the characteristics of the subjectivity childhood representation within nowadays socio-cultural environment. Interviews to 32 boys and girls from different sociocultural and economy levels, aged 8 to 12 years old were held. After viewing two films the children were asked to produce narratives in individual semi-directed interviews and grupal discussion, which were analysed on the basis of Content Analysis. Partial results of such analysis are presented. Aspects of their conceptions concerning the adults-children relationship and the family dynamics are identified. Certain interpretations of the narratives referred to family dynamics, children positions and adults-children relationship within our culture are outlined and interrogated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper identifies the type of learning needs for adolescent sexuality between 10 and 19 years of the Municipality of Tierralta, Cordoba, Colombia, analyzing the knowledge, attitudes and practices that are the subject of study and aspire to have. The ethnographic study is under the case-study method, the sample was comprised of 69 secondary school pupils from the urban area of the municipality of Tierralta, the data were collected through focus groups, workshops, interviews, participant observation and role playing. Learning needs for the training of young people are sexually aimed at having the desire to know about dating, love, expressions of affection, which feels a person with HIV and what is experienced when you are pregnant. You can also assert that the patriarchal vision and the socio-cultural mark the imaginary sex of the youth population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since 1988 there have been eight mayoral elections in Colombia. In Barranquilla, the introduction of popular elections for mayor has proved to follow a pattern of dynamic alliance formations centered around strong personal and factional presence and weak political parties and movements. However, this arrangement has produced its own kind of stability. This paper examines the eight popular mayoral elections in Barranquilla, assesses the degree of party institutionalization, inter party completion and alliance formation between different party factions. It argues that Political groups show a great adapting capability to new rules and that is why political reforms have not had an important impact on their behavior. We conclude that applying traditional political party theory presents difficulties in explaining patterns of party affiliation and alliance formation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper is part of the dissertation "Mexican Immigrants in Meatpacking Areas of Kansas: Transition and Acquisition of Cultural Capital", that applies the theoretical framework of Pierre Bourdieu( 1977;1986) to observe the process of adaptation of Mexican immigrants, as a process of acquisition of cultural capital, in which they have to modify or get rid of certain cultural practices from their original cultural background (habitus), and adopt and adapt elements from the receiving Anglo culture, thus defining their position within the new social space. The application of such a theoretical framework represented a challenge, since there were no previous applications of the bourdiean model in the study of migrant communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a revision about the new and the old forms of sociopolitical participation. This comparative perspective reflects a revision about the literature of socio-political participation. The objective is generated different hypothesis and explanations about participation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cojímar is a small town to east of Havana City. Founded by the middle of the XVI century, it experienced certain development as spa at the end of the XIX century and the first half of the XX century, only interrupted by the exploitation of the beaches of the Eastern Havana coast. Cojìmar has a rich cultural and natural patrimony together with a strong environmental deterioration. This paper analyses the main problems in relationship with patrimony elements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Habitat continues to be the most acute problem for lower income population in Latin America. However, it's not only a quantitative problem, but fundamentally a qualitative one in which habituated spaces and their environments that dignify living conditions in these spaces. Strategies for housing renewal are aimed at these qualitative issues. The subsidies for housing and Urban renewals program in Colombia produced a significant impact on quality of live and development variables, especially in Bogotá thus becoming an important case study. This paper presents the results of a study based on extensive field work, interviews to subsidy beneficiaries , and housing renewal proponents that took part in the Programs, concepts and strategies for housing renewal , as part of a housing subsidies policy in Colombia until 1998. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to establish a new urban imaginary of the city of Cali by recognizing its tree landscape potential that identifies the city in its singularity. Graphic-visual representation is the methodology that allows sintaxtic, semantic and pragmatic components, that together with an Urban incursión methodology, designed by this research project that incorporates the method of imagery creation for the purpose of developing a proposing a new one at the social level. A Project is obtained, that develops urban incursión methods and towards a second part that determines the genius-loci of green areas. In a following stage, on-line virtual routes, as well as others are developed in search of an esthetic qualification of the actors that define them as well as the social imagery that results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The theoretical approach a researcher has about how society is structured is crucial for research regarding Social Sciences. The methodology used in social science research is based on a view on society that at the same conditions the methodology applied in the current evaluation of social programs. In this paper three basic visions of society are presented such as the positivist, the hermeneutic and the critical realist ones. The issue of agency-structure is essential for the analysis and it is examined from a critical perspective. This discussion is linked later on with the methodological problems involved in the evaluation of social programs. At the end critical conclusions and some questions are outlined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]