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In order to understand the articulation between decoloniality and interculturality, it is necessary to analyze categories that include, on the one hand, historical aspects and, on the other hand, power relations and asymmetries. In this way, the need to assume a critical stance from the concepts of culture and coloniality becomes concrete. The objective of this article is to understand how western knowledge has generated a project of modernity, through discourses in which the construction of otherness goes through different processes of assimilation and incorporation of the other. These condition the adjustment of otherness, according to the dominant social standards, from essentialist conceptions, which ends in processes of differentiation and discrimination. The method used is the critical documentary review. The paper concludes that decolonization poses the challenge of dissociating itself from knowledge that distorts reality, and must distance itself from rationalities that fragment, classify, label and generate rhetoric with which social division is reinforced and segregation and exclusion are legitimized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the incommensurable and incommensurable nature of subalternity, which materializes a position without an identity whose intelligibility is complex, especially when we try to access the configurations of its ontopolitical schema. Subalternity constructs a binary opposition to the nation-state. It is necessary to fight for the production of new criteria of legibility of the educational and cultural subject. This problem is reduced to an obstruction in its ontopolitical and existential rules of intelligibility of a wide constellation of specific heterogeneous groups amalgamated through political, structural, relational, contingent and historical issues that determine their units of cultural legibility. The method employed is that of critical documentary review, organizing a critical corpus of review works derived from intercultural studies, subalternity and postcoloniality. Each of them are key to promote other types of epistemological performances in this regard. Among the main findings and conclusions, we note that subalternity documents a deeper methodological problem: we do not know exactly what the cultural and political agency of such groups consists of. The only thing we should not forget is that we, educators, are at the service of subaltern groups, our task is to learn from their environment, to become a disciple of their cultural space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents, from an introductory point of view and oriented to non-experts in network theory, the fundamentals of graphs and networks that allow projecting information about cultural networks in a formal context. It also describes some of the most common measures and tools to design quantitative mechanisms for the subsequent analysis of these networks. This article does not pretend to be a complete course or tutorial on network theory, for that the reader can refer to any of the references listed at the end, but rather it is an introduction oriented to go through, in a single document, some of the details that are considered more important and that are usually leTh out of the initial explanations on the subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I examine both the uses and effects of the digital images spread by the "sequence groups" in Cali (Colombia). It is a live music offer accompanied by electronic recordings (sequences) that replace other musicians. This is a sort of cyborg production, of heteronomous human-artificial sounds articulated to the logic of "copy" proper to the popular globalization. I contend that images and relevance of visuality enable the humanization of these sequences through the management of emotions sought after by the performance. Likewise, the sequence creators try to instill the sounds with warmth. In the online communication images, beyond being advertising, weave the solidarity between colleagues in an unstable trade. I based this work on ethnography where I acted both as a researcher and flute player. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides some contributions (both methodological and empirical) by the photography in a sociological study on the urban art. It deals specifically with the graffiti and the street art. The central objective is to question how pertinent it is to use a photographic record as a tool for gathering information and carrying out a documentary analysis based on a dual action basis: on one hand, to highlight the methodological process in a research where the photograph is pivotal as a visual means, discussing critically on different views of the city. On the other hand, to provide examples on how the photography is relevant in the social universe under research, i.e., among the artists doing graffiti and street art. In these two cases, taking photographs of the works in the public space provides a double game: 1) as a tangible practice of legitimization and gaining prestige within a collective; and, 2) as a material proof for the recognition and appreciation of their artistic track record. The analytical framework includes to record in situ the produced images in different Latin American (Buenos Aires, Lima, Montevideo) and European cities (Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Lisbon, Paris, Porto). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work resume the arguments by Hartmut Rosa on the acceleration as a trendy principle of modernity, thus studying in depth the reasons (the "drives") leading to this process. One of these drives -the one analyzed herein in detail- is the capitalist competition that fuels, added to other cultural and institutional aspects, the increase in the speed. Based on the works by David Harvey, this paper shows the directions and the logic reasons whereby the capitalism actually produces the acceleration. Then, it allows making two contributions to Rosa's theory: a discussion of the relationship between the different drives of acceleration; and a weighing of how important it is to take them under the sociological concept of social structure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The coverage of the Colombian peace process by the national media meant a significant work of media representation starting by introducing the main events in their agenda and was followed by the production of a series of accounts whereby the media told these events and made sense thereof. By analyzing three cases, this paper describes how the media approached the peace process, focusing mostly on produced images. One of the main findings is that the iconography of the peace process --besides being ancillary to the written news-- accounts for the strong polarization of the different stances assumed by the official and political actors regarding the peace process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the inception of the Western culture, white color has been identified with light, being akin to each other. Therefore, white was identified with knowledge, God, primeval flare, and the first act of creation that equated whiteness to order and measure as opposed to the darkness of chaos. This paper provides a reflection on the persistence of the concept 'white' as a Western construct on the grounds of a perceptive prejudice that considers the disegno as essential before the chromatism, which is rooted in the Classicism and has remained almost intact up today. The perpetuation of this western aesthetic concept is examined to then conclude that, despite all the attempts to do a tabula rasa by the Modernity and the contemporary art, nothing has changed and it remains in force nowadays. Under an analytical approach, this work uses documentary references, mostly written, together with some other filmic and artistic ones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting from the study of one's image and the society enemy's image in the margins of the State, this paper provides an analysis of the military logic on the notions of the human and the order in the TV show Hombres de honor (Men of Honor). The TV show displays an army committed to serve the civilian population, especially in the so-called conflict zones. It describes the human character of the military forces beyond their role as soldiers trained for the war. The analysis herein allows understanding both the sphere of power and the thanatopolitics providing the frame for the logic of the war actions in their image. The capitals at stake and the hierarchy in the military sphere were determined in the analysis and, based on it, this work explored the binary structuring and narratives on the law enforcement and the enemies of the society. In this context, the superiority of the army legitimizes the military values for the whole society from the biopower. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This reflection paper aims to provide insights into the gangs in El Salvador based on expressions of identity reconfiguration produced in the frame of a participatory photography experience with a group of men who belonged to those collectives. With their accounts, descriptions, and exercises of action-reflection they created an encounter of voices and views that dialogically analyzes, interprets and rebuilds some fragments from their realities, anchored to their realities and the meanings thereof. Identity in the context of a gang, the forms and meanings of violence as mediation in the social relationships, and the social stigma as a device producing the otherness are the three analytical lines allowing understanding how difficult it is to build an identity in the context of a stigmatizing society. All this also allows for the new self-concept built after the distancing from the violent practices as well as the awareness on the possibilities for change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Argentina is the most sued country in the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and one of the most Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) signed (58 in total, 55 into force). Most of these lawsuits were filed by transnational corporations (TNCs) by the 2001-2002 crisis and linked to economic sectors related to natural resources. 20% of these claims are related to the drinking water and sanitation, which also makes Argentina in the country that has received claims in ICSID this sector. These are cases of social conflict and where the role of the state is evident as a regulator against the claim of protection of private property by TNCs, which highlights a legal asymmetry that favors the protection of investments on the protection of rights humans, particularly the human right to water recognized by the UN in 2010. Taking the Argentine case as a witness, this paper will present an asymmetry that violates the most basic foundations of international law, highlighting the need to revise the international investment protection regime and its relevance to the human rights obligations erga omnes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the interactions between courts, experts and interest groups present in the sentence C 355/2006, through which abortion is partially decriminalized in Colombia. A detailed review of this paper allows to track the role that interest groups and social movements have in the mobilization of expert discourses in the high courts as a strategy to influence their decisions. The use of disciplines and fields of knowledge is articulated to the general structure of the sentence as literary technology that makes visible the role of the court as administrator of justice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to revisit some connections drawn from literature and others identified directly, between accountancy and the Theory of Communicative Action -henceforth TCA- as described by Jürgen Habermas, with a view to favouring an extension of the social role of accountancy towards social understanding and integration, and not just to globalisation and economic integration, as it is presented today. The paper, making use of TAC concepts, states that accountancy can be the product of social efforts aimed at creating a dialogue between companies and socio-economic actors. It compares in a critical way various concepts drawn from both volumes of the TAC with notions on the role of accountancy regarding development and neoliberal globalisation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to analyze how professionals of palliative care -a branch of medicine specialized in the care of dying patients- define, plan and disclose the "terminal" status of patients with advanced cancer diseases. The article is based on ethnographic observations and interviews with professionals in a palliative care service in the Buenos Aires city. The paper analyzes the tasks of definition and projection of the dying process and the way professionals disclose information about the dying prognosis. The analysis of these practices shows how the "end of life" is constructed in two ways: as a stage of psychological preparation for patients and families (and therefore an object of professional intervention), and as gradual process culminating in death. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the early sixties the term 'marginalisation' began to be used in Latin America in the social sciences to refer to the heterogeneous and inequitable effects of the processes of industrialisation and development. The term began to be used in the front-line between two paradigms in conflict, allowing for two different forms of interpretation: the notion of social or cultural marginalisation developed within modernisation theory, and the notion of economic marginalisation developed by dependence theory. This paper aims to review the characteristics that the concept of marginalisation acquired within each of these conceptual frameworks, focusing on works by Gino Germani, José Nun and Miguel Murmis. Last of all, the paper outlines the main arguments included in the contemporary form of the concept and its potential applicability to current circumstances in Latin America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper account for the main collective actions undertaken by two women networks in Colombia: Women's Peace Route and the Colombian Women Initiative for Peace, during transition justice process and the implementation of the Justice and Peace Law (2004- 2009). From a sociological approach to the political process and the gender category, this paper discusses how gender ideologies inform new ways of mobilization affecting discourses, purposes and repertoires of those claiming identities and defending human rights. The main conclusion here is that the feminist influence in redistribution and acknowledgement claims for victims from the armed conflict have encouraged collective actions that begin to modify their relationship to the State. This is proved by their achievements at Court and social acknowledgement victims have gained as social actors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to account for the ways women integrating the free software community in two countries from the global South negotiate with feminizing paradigms imposed to them by the collectives interested in popularizating free technologies. Through an ethnographic approach to vital experiences of women in the Indian collective Linux-Chix, and holding a dialog with the experiences of non-organized women in the free software community in Colombia, this paper suggests these negotiations are going to be materialized primarily in the constitution of survival strategies from which certain civilizing projects are particularly vindicated, some of which seem to promote a Western paradigm of female subjectivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is compiling some of the main methodological axes around which a research on political violence incidence on daily life of peasants in the Macarena sierra, located in Colombian Western Amazonia. This text aims to bring some elements to the methodological debate addressed by several anthropology works made in local contexts affected by political violence. Written as a research report, this paper presents several results of our work, the analysis framework used and the main features defining ethnographical practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Considering that soccer is a highly political sport and places itself in the crosshairs of capital questions such as membership and identity, the goal of the present article is to analyze how the discourse of Spanish identity is constructed in the sports press. To that purpose, the author conduct an exhaustive content analysis focused on the four main daily sports papers with the highest print run and circulation in Spain. Specifically, it studies the information published about the Spanish team during its participation in the 2006 World Cup in Germany. The article focuses on the role that the sports media currently plays as active agents of ideological transmission of a banal nationalism, and points out the differences that this media process of constructing a Spanish nationality shows compared to non-democratic periods. The article also highlights the existing discrepancies between the ways in which this identity is formed in the sports papers edited in Madrid (centralist) and the ones edited in Barcelona (autonomist). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Populism is a matter diversely studied in Colombia, particularly associated with the political figure of the assassinated leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitén. This paper first evaluates the meaning of populism in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico parallel to similar Colombian factors. With these arguments, the paper makes some critical assertions on the "populist" adjective that have accompanied the public profile of Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, focused on the populist parameters of the Cono Sur's populism, and his government programs designed and proposed during the 30s and 40s of the 20th century. Finally, the paper observes the personal character of Gaitan, asking first if the leader was at least rather a pale popular than a real populist leader, as can be concluded by checking Iris relationships with the paradigmatical labor unions of Antioquia. The second part evaluates the contradictions of his personal low-class condition, which made him a person with a clear proclivity to climb into the Colombian "little bourgeoisie". As a central matter, this paper works around diverse expositions from the Colombian researcher Marco Palacios, so it does not focus on the analysis of the Latin-American populism as a whole or the diverse political-electoral perspectives of "Gaitan's phenomena" in Colombia, which almost all are concerned with his obscure assassination in 1948. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the communicative practices of a Colombian trans-woman scientist, biologist Brigitte Baptiste, when she speaks publicly about environmental issues on different media platforms. In the analysis, I explore the implications of Baptiste's public presence for the imaginaries of readers and journalists regarding science, scientists, and trans-people in Colombia. Leaning on certain feminist critiques of science, I analyze communicative practices as matters of care. Throughout the analysis, I find that care in Baptiste's public presence is performed through the ways in which she connects biodiversity and sexual diversity, thinking with trans-women's experiences to transgress the borders of science and connect it to activism and public service. I conclude that Baptiste's public presence in Colombia is an exceptional example of gender diversity acceptance in the present, though it does represent a speculative commitment towards embracing diversity in general in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a new theoretical framework for analyzing linguistic power relations and it examines the linguistic effects of what Anibal Quijano has called coloniality of power. The coloniality of language refers to a process of racialization of colonized people as communicating agents (ie, as potential interlocutors) that begins with the conquest of America and nowadays. The research focuses on the dehumanization of the colonized and enslaved populations, and the concomitant contempt of their languages and social ways of making sense, interpreted as expressions of his inferior 'nature'. The results are an original contribution to the debate on the historical relationship between colonialism, race, ethnicity, and language in America. The argument suggests that there is a connection between the reduction of the colonized and racialized populations to a status of non-humans, as well as a monolingual linguistic ideology that hides colonial oppression dialogically and discursively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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

This paper is an invitation to think about art and the legacy of violence and injustice in the history of mankind and the efforts from different artistic projects on conflict resolution and the promotion of peace in the world. Some of these experiences are presented and analyzed and it is examined how they have been applied by different disciplines to solve or make progress on some of the problems society faces. It is also important to think about the use of art, theater and creativity as a methodological strategy and as an exercise of participatory research that allows transformative research in the field of violence and teamwork from the affected communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The intent of this article is to present, from a specific case, the multiplicity of intentions and discussions between indigenous organizations from Cauca, Colombia. I go back to the concept of ethnicity in order to understand indigenous organizations as arenas where ethnic processes are reconstructed, relationships are redefined and the way diversity is recognized is questioned. However, this paper focuses exclusively on the different expressions and relationships that exist within indigenous organizations, especially those created after the Constitution of 1991. For this purpose I present how the Education Program of the Eastern Cauca Territorial Council of Indigenous Authorities (COTAINDOC) and their main proposals emerged.I conclude that this program redefines its way of recognizing cultural diversity and relationships with other organizations and institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores the relationship between gender and cinema as a contribution to the study of representation in the field of social research. First, the basic features of visual culture in the global society are presented keeping in mind the identity and gender mindsets in this general and current context. Second, the historical links between feminisms and cinema are reviewed as well as between studies of gender and cinema, emphasizing on the theoretical perspective of Teresa De Lauretis. Third, it is postulated the use of film in the process of social research from an experience that - based on building an analytical look at the axis cinema / gender / society-pursued the objective of identifying, understanding and explaining the changes in the female identity in Korea from the senses and meanings that cinematic space condenses. This paper concludes highlighting the relevance and productivity of interweaving gender and film studies in the current problematic field of Social Sciences, deeply marked by a diversity of objects / subjects of study and 'new' epistemological, theoretical and methodological approaches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we reflect on the motivations, agenda and commitments set within the context of the first international seminar "Afro female Conspiracy: Rethinking feminisms from diversity" held between June 24th and 25th, 2011 in Cali, Colombia. In this scenario, it was proposed to understand Afrodiasporic feminism as a process, a research agenda, a strategy of social mobilization, a practice of solidarity and a restorative justice claim. We establish connections between the proposals discussed in this scenario and a number of proposals on diasporic feminism formulated in Latin America, in dialogue with the U.S. black feminism and African feminism [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we intend to address an analysis of the publication of domestic violence and femicide cases, through a survey conducted with four Argentine newspapers during the first half of 2012. We are interested in enquiring who the privileged representatives by the media are when reporting on the phenomenon, in order to distinguish the space of enunciation that the press gives to diverse actors. Through the analysis of the stories of aggressors, family, justice and victims, we intend to observe the diverse positions and the arguments involved and elucidate who has a louder voice in defining and fixing the interpretations of femicide and gender violence. Based on this, we seek to catch a sight of the reduced space women take up in a sea of voices in counterpoint. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the results of a sociological research on racial discrimination in Colombian universities. Racism is understood as a social process and based on an empirical qualitative work from in-depth interviews, the article approaches the everyday racism experienced by students in universities in Bogotá who are racialized as black men or black women according to the constructions of racial otherness in Colombia. The main mechanisms of manifestation of racism and discrimination identified in the research are expressed subtly or from euphemisms and they tend to generate and reproduce a supposed inferiority and subordination of black students at universities in Bogotá, paradoxically to the core values and principles of universality and meritocracy present in the very origins of university ethos in the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reflects and discusses the partial results of an exploratory investigation carried out in the sister cities of Cachoeira and São Felix, in the Brazilian state of Bahia. Such exploration was part of a multicenter research effort coordinated by the Joaquim Nabuco Foundation (FUNDAJ), a federal investigation entity with its head office in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. The research project "Intergenerational Transferability: Poverty and Racial Inequality: visions and perceptions", coordinated by the FUNDAJ, sought to explore in six Brazilian states from the Northwest (the poorest region of the country with the highest quantity of black inhabitants) the variations of the education expectations of parents and children from a qualitative perspective attentive to socially produced meanings and controlling race / color. Preliminary results indicate that the gender dimensions must be considered seriously for questioning the formation of racial identities in popular contexts and, particularly, the relationship of youth with school. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Under a Foucauldian reading of the power-knowledge nexus, this paper combines the diffusion theory and the discourse analysis to study knowledge asymmetries present in the diffusion process of ethnoracial affirmative actions in selected Andean countries. The study aims to show the transnational connections between legal and / or academic discourses and the ethno-racial representations, based on the analysis of recent legislation and constitutional reforms, a literature review of national academic production and interviews with leaders of indigenous and Afro-descendant organizations as well as with servants of public companies related to ethno-racial and anti-discrimination policies. At all these levels (law, social sciences, social movements, public policies) the obtained evidence reveals how expert knowledge places the U.S.A. as a paradigm or model, obscuring the experience of other countries and ruling a liberal multiculturalist agenda. This transfer (vertical, unilateral) of knowledge has had a notable impact in Colombia and Chile, but it has been resisted by alternative epistemic projects, especially in Ecuador and Bolivia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Poisonous plants are considered those with substances with physical or chemical properties producing more or less serious alterations of the anatomic structure or the functional activity of an organism by ingestion and/or penetration or any other way of contact with the organism. Many of the poisonous plants are usually used as ornamentals or medicinal plants. For the present paper the plants were collected, pressed and processed according to the botanical standards. All the field information was recorded and later transferred to a data base. The families were alphabetically ordered. The species were arranged by family and for each family were alphabetically ordered. Each species has its scientific name, common name, origin, use, and altitude above sea level where it is found, in some cases the general environment where it can be found, description of the plant, poisonous parts, toxic compounds, toxic effects, treatment. Photos are given to facilitate their identification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a general discussion on the topic of Digital Humanities (DH) understood as a scientific and technological field that is being built worldwide and in which we should think, from the beginning, on the issue of relations between some research centers in the North that propel this field and others that follow the movement. To found this reflection, it retakes the analysis of the role of Science and Technology (S & T) in development and in a more precise way it observes what happens or what could happen in the field of DH. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper begins with a brief review of some antecedents that led to the current configuration of the world, particularly about what happened to the idea of nation and nation-state and the revolution of the general values in the postwar years and its rapid erosion in recent decades. Then it analizes the constitution of nation-states in the postcolonial world and the dream of modernity. It continues with an analysis of the transition from the field of "national" science in the nation-state regime to the delocalized research networks of the current phase. Subsequently it refers to the new global governance and the emerging forms of scientific and technical research. It concludes with some reflections on what is needed in the future in order to achieve a form of research that responds to the real and not cosmetic challenge of the co-design of knowledge, through the different existing borders in our unequal world, in real processes of co-construction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The knowledge society, as an engine of economic and social development, is present in the minds of academics, entrepreneurs and government officials. This implies that globally there is a need for the academy to contribute with the productive sector and for the State to support this integration. This paper tries to reveal the perceptions of members of the academy, the enterprises and the Argentinian State on the scope of this triangulation; which means the relationship between the three vertex: the scientific and technological system, the productive system and the governmental system to cooperate in conjunction. It also seeks to expose its position on the alleged commodification of knowledge and the state's role as an intermediary and provider of scientific policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the past decade discussions about the way in which the development of technologies can (or should) promote social inclusion processes have been revived in the academic debate, in some cases these have also been reflected in the design and implementation of public policies. However, among the groups of R & D engaged in activities of technological development and extension the deterministic approaches and adherence to the technology transfer models persist and, therefore, they often fail to generate processes of inclusion and sustainable empowerment in time. The main objective of this paper is to make a first analysis of the learnings generated when R & D groups face problems and meanings outside their knowledge production frameworks and the way this enables new forms of negotiation of knowledge and technology, also identifying possible limitations of these processes. To this end, we analyze two experiences of developing technologies for social inclusion in Argentina in the areas of social housing and renewable energy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents a theoretical and methodological approach to identify the educational dimension present in socio-technical systems. It specifically explores how this dimension is configured in the conceptualization, building and appropriation processes of interactive artifacts in museums and interactive centers of science and technology; which objectives are to to popularize techno-scientific knowledge. Methodologically, the article presents a case study based on three theoretical components: A social constructivist framework, reflections of the feminist critique of technology and Freirean pedagogy. The paper closes with some reflections about the tackled problem and suggests key points for future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides an analysis of the links between national identity and technoscience. To do this, we will study the meanings of nation that are developed on two ceremonies commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of institutions dedicated to the production of science and technology in France and Argentina: the headquarters of the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique in Grenoble and Instituto Balseiro, a training center of the National Atomic Energy Commission in Bariloche. We will show how the meanings of nation activate and justify speeches and practices associated with technoscientific production focusing on the resources through which technoscience is incorporated into every celebration. The proposal is framed within ethnographic research including among its methods, the development of in-depth interviews and participant observation of daily situations or beyond daily situations from a comparative perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the main results of the analysis of the representations of science projected on TV advertisements that are broadcasted on the two main commercial channels in Colombia. A sample of 2,141 TV advertisements was analyzed. 455 of these contained messages of science in sound, visual or textual elements. Statistical and semiological analyzes were applied to the sample and the results indicate that the number of TV advertisements with elements of science were low: 21% of the total TV advertisements that were analyzed. The use of science and scientific expertise as a discursive and narrative element within advertising messages is governed by a set of values that privilege the subjective, emotional and affective dimensions of the message. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article we intend to show that security and efficiency in the production of energy from nuclear power stations is an important discursive component which is mounted on a scientific truth built by experts on nuclear energy. In the article we will attempt to show the joints and linkages in the arena of social power of a discourse produced by experts that legitimates nuclear power generation. Based on analysis of newspaper articles, scientific papers and the corporate site of the National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA), we aim to expose the construction of this discourse in Argentina. Thus, we assume that the truth is the product of struggles and conflicts within specific power relations-definition (Beck, 2008) and conclude that a nuclear lobby has achieved an effective staging that excludes risks and that links the economic efficiency of this industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines some of the relationships between the ethnographic experience and knowledge that has been deployed on the ethnicity of the Great Chaco region in the first decade of the XXIst century in the argentinian anthropology. Considering that it is through "the lived experience" in the field that knowledge is produced, there are two conditions as interpretive focus: the condition of displacement, otherness and space condition. It is argued that each of these conditions suggest to the recent ethnography of Gran Chaco, as field of experiences and practices that are temporarily, politically and historically located in relation to configurations, anthropological trajectories and subjectivities, whose heterogeneity is intertwined with the particularity of each lived experience in "the ethnographic field". The Cartesian dual dimension of the field work is questionned and the article shows how the epistemological dispute, by the Chaco ethnic alterity, is ascribed to specific forms of knowledge of the national anthropological academy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper develops a reflection on the elements that concurred in the late nineteenth century in Bogotá to form the notion of aesthetic canon. For the analysis of documentary sources we will refer to two illustrated publications: El Papel Periódico Ilustrado (Illustrated Newspaper), managed by Alberto Urdaneta, and the Revista Ilustrada (Illustrated Magazine), managed by Pedro Carlos Manrique. Such publications define themselves as platforms for the formation of taste and, within a set of political, religious and cultural conditions, allow us to see new processes in the formalisation of specialised culture through institutions such as the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes (National School of Fine Arts). The contribution of these illustrated publications becomes a reference to what will be the relation between art critique and the public, formulating notions of aesthetic appreciation and taste that we understand as programmatic in a project of civilisation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mining activity shares the characteristics of a field, in the sense attributed to the concept by French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. This can be observed through a case study in Marmato, in the department of Caldas. 470 years of gold-vein mining have formed a culture tied to beliefs and traditions that influence the degree of rationality in work relationships, work itself, and economic behaviour in general. It is possible that these habita are being broken by the presence of a global agent that has now entered the dispute for gold: multinational companies. This paper uses the concepts of field and habitus to study the dispute between ancestral and industrialised forms of production, and their strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to discuss the idea that certain phenomena, which relate to the notion of culture in anthropology, are paramount in understanding some of the causes of international emigration. In order to achieve this I will use three concepts: identity, local structures of desire and imaginary geographies. With these I intend to complement comprehensively other research approaches on migration based on the study of economic or macro-sociological causes. The fourth contribution I wish to outline regards the role of ethnography in its three types - experiential, thick description and multi-sided - as a suitable means for studying international migration. This reflection is based on the results of nearly five years of research on international migration in the city of Pereira -and its metropolitan area-, known in Colombia for its high rates of emigration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses the difficult and contradictory formation, consolidation and change processes of Latin American identity from an anthropological and holistic perspective and in the context of the emergence of the world-system from the conquest, colonization and independence struggles to its current reconfiguration in the midst of transnational globalization and the alternatives to it. This approach, which we could call dynamicsynthetic, sees identity as a constantly changing open process where contradictory dynamics interact in the construction-deconstruction-reconfiguration of Latin American identity in specific historical contexts. Our continental collective identity is analyzed as the result of complex strains among various civilizational dynamics and opposing geopolitical forces. Dialectical and dialogical processes work together to allow the "reconciliation" of converse and diverse elements in innovative syntheses and create a space for dialogue that fosters what is shared to have a positive interaction, without denying the specific. In other words, they facilitate the interaction between "we" and the "others", the "national" and the "continental", the "local" and the "global", enabling a better understanding of our inclusive continental nominative process: "Hispano-American", "Ibero-American", "Latin American". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores how processes of social mobilization and property parceling framed in the Agrarian Reform National Plan --involving an ample sector of tenant farm laborers in an Andean Nariño large estate between 1958 and 1963-- appear, nearly five decades later, as objects of moral interpretation and appraisal. It analyzes the significance assigned in accounts to the agency of actors involved (peasants, landlords and state); variations in such assigning are connected to the moral frameworks they call on to interpret their past; and their origin is traced back on the various subalternization experiences they faced. I suggest that, when turning out to different sources of moral appraisal, the existence of manifold subjectivation forms makes itself evident depending on their relations to different forms of authority (landlords, church, state), and that they come with various alternative standings face to their past. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the transformations in actor-network collective action in the Process of Black Communities --pcn--, which were developed as a consequence of the armed conflict worsening in the Pacific region --specifically on the collective lands in the municipalities of Buenaventura and Suárez (Southwestern Colombia)-- in the last ten years. Information was gathered through semi-structured interviews, observation records, analysis of audio/text documents on the organizations' claims and communiqués, and the drafting of aggregated data on displacement and conflictual facts in the region. Findings show a significant up surging of conflict within the period, in the face of which PCN's coalitions with local and global actors have come both to neutralize and make visible armed actors' actions against populations, and to reorient collective action, introducing innovations in the repertoires of action and setting new goals for this actor-network in the region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Colombia, there are quantitative databases on armed conflict, some of them public and open-access. This paper reviews the main theoretical and methodological traits in some of those databases and their main features when defining and measuring political violence. Based on the results of a research performed in a Colombian region, several methodological issues will be presented in order to process --statistically, spatially and cartographically? the information delivered by those databases. After the exposition, several procedures are described, which allowed to measure differences among databases. Those contents are addressed aiming to show the consequences that using one or another database has in the quantitative analysis of armed conflict, since the results of those analyses will depend on the source used. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper inquires into the production of memories on violent events in two Antioquia municipalities, which from the 80's have shown alarming violence indicators. Thus, in the municipality of San Carlos violent events memories are framed within a context of a catholic society having homogeneous economic conditions, elites historically pertaining to the Conservative party, accelerated development processes, and living under hegemonic armed rule. In this scenario a certain consensus is achieved in the narrative of violence, aiming at dignifying victims and highlighting the high costs armed confrontation entails. In the municipality of Apartadó, violence memory is framed within a pluri-ethnic, lay and marginal society, immerse in accelerated development processes and unstable armed rule. There, a split memory is produced, featuring political identities routinizing and eventually justifying violent events. In the face of these cases, an attempt is made to keep the reflection on what kind of memories are required to stop reproducing war? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to show, in first instance, the existence of some "artifacts" as devices of memory, born out from various exercises conducted among communities having undergone violence. These devices are the "living" embodiment of underground memories that were gathered within various inquiry and extension projects by the research group. In the second part, a more theoretical reflection is put forward on the Memory/ Power relationship as the frame of discussion within which these experiences are situated, emphasizing two aspects: making visible those "spaces of power" where both memories are situated within today's Colombian society so as to show specifically how those spaces of power appear, as well as the instruments they make use of, qualifying memories either as dominant or underground; and to show those spaces, just like any other social process, are not immutable or unchangeable phenomena, but are prone to be transformed, redefined and even reconfigured up to leading all the way to make changes to differently distribute the resources of power leaving their mark on them. In a third final part, a reflection "as a working hypothesis" is made, which could be the way to change the issue at hand and suggest new paths aiming to shift the place in society for those underground (marginal, hidden and scarcely visibilized) memories and make them emerge to surface so that they can develop all of their political potential and get their due place in Colombia's historical memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]