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In Mexico, there is a lack in academic research about bisexual Health-Disease-Attention process. This paper analyzes the main problems about health-disease for bisexual people with a Social Medicine and a Collective Health approach. In order to do this analysis, this paper offers a systematization of research's discoveries related to the Health-Disease-Attention process in bisexual people. Problems on health-disease for bisexual people include worse mental health conditions in comparison to gay and lesbian people. As psychologists have few contextualized knowledge about bisexual health-disease situations, then they cannot adequately respond to bisexual people needs. Bisexual Health-Disease-Attention process is an historical and social product where the lack of visibility and the negative valuation functions as mechanisms to regulate people's sexuality, which can be reproduced in Health-Attention places, such as Mental Health ones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Science as an object of knowledge has been a central concern of the social sciences since the first decades of the 20th century. However, the object itself is neither static nor unchanging, and has been transformed over time. In recent decades, the innovative approach of gender studies has gained considerable ground in the social studies of science. While some of them have paid attention to the relations of the professional field with the family sphere and have investigated the ways in which structural factors of the life course play an important role in research careers, there are still few theoretical and empirical contributions that think of science as productive work highly articulated with social reproduction. Although this axis of enquiry is still incipient in social studies of science, it is consolidated within the social sciences hand in hand with labour studies and feminist economics. Within the framework of the important contributions made, this paper seeks to review the existing literature and a conceptual approach to the understanding of scientific work and its articulations with reproductive work, taking gender as a category of analysis. The paper is organised in four parts: in the first section we will review the critiques of the concept of work inherited from modernity and we will focus on thinking of science as work with specificities; in the second section we will address the processes of social reproduction in terms of the articulation of spheres; in the third section we will consider the study of gender and science; in the fourth section, we will describe the way in which this conceptual proposal operates in the empirical study carried out; finally, we will present a systematisation of the concepts developed throughout the paper and a conceptual approach to their approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper identifies characteristics of territories in socio-environmental conflict and the environmental movements that arise from these, for the defense of the territory and natural assets, from an ecofeminist perspective. The methodology used is participant observation enriched with semi-structured interviews and the ethnographic method, based on the social reproduction of the female subject and her participation in environmental groups in Jalisco. The contribution lies in the practices carried out by the groups, as an alternative to the extractivist development model, analyzed from dimension a) socio-environmental, where local communities converge with the environment with a view to sustainability, in addition a reflection is made from b) the territory and the exchange of resources from rural areas to urban areas that are also the cause of conflicts due to the hoarding of natural assets, finally c) the emergence of the Un Salto de Vida collective, in defense of the territory and the natural goods from ecofeminism, as a powerful movement that links environmentalism and feminism with a strong presence of women leaders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The changes in Mexican economic policy within neoliberalism implied serious transformations in labor relations and forms of labor organization. Based on this, the aim of this paper is to analyze the implications that practices such as protection contracts and subcontracting had on the organization of workers, and the subsequent labor reforms, still limited, which make possible new schemes of dynamization within unions, through new demands framed within the rights of labor citizenship. Methodologically, a brief description is made of the main changes in the Mexican economy and the labor context since the last decade of the last century and the first two of the present Century. This is linked to the conceptual elements of the centrality of labor and labor citizenship. It concludes by pointing out that labor reforms make possible new scenarios of opportunity for Mexican trade unionism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Digital platforms such as Uber, Rappi or Airbnb impose a labor model where workers are not recognized as such and do not have minimum rights. They are part of platform capitalism, a form of capital that uses digital technologies to impose a precarious employment relationship. However, faced with this model, application workers are beginning to organize and demand rights. In this article, I examine the ideology that platforms promote and the resistances of app distributors. I argue that, in the face of the imagined individualism of digital platforms, delivery workers are recreating forms of community. They have not been passive or totally subaltern but are displaying different forms of antagonism and autonomy. This paper is based on qualitative research with interviews of key informants and analysis of the documents of collectives and groups of Mexican delivery workers, both in Mexico City and in New York. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The different death practices (and their origin) that Mexican drug cartels have been using for the last two decades and their reproduction in every day social spheres, as well as their ties to the State that challenge theoretical frameworks and approaches. In this paper we attempt to think necropractices from the immunitarian framework of Roberto Esposito but radicalizing it in order to be able to attribute epistemic responsibilities for the proliferation and reproduction of the knowledge(s) of death that has reached the whole of the social. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In Mexico, despite the fact that international commitments have been assumed and legislation has been passed on the matter, gender inequality in politics persists as it continues to manifest itself in spaces of power and in public decision-making. In the context of the COVID-19 Pandemic, this paper proposes to analyze the designation of the Interim Municipal Councils in comparison with the integration of the Town Halls 2020-2024 of the State of Hidalgo. The research approach is comparative and descriptive. It is concluded that this political event represents a case of gender inequality in politics to the detriment of the historical struggle and political rights of women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In February of 1943, the Nazi regime arrested 2,000 Jewish men which were taken to the administrative office located on Rosenstrasse in Berlin. The spouses of the incarcerated Jews gathered in front of the building to demand the return of their loved ones. A protest of 600 women that lasted a week quickly broke out. Although this event was relevant within its context, from the point of view of the history of social movements it has remained unexplored. This protest deserves recognition within the journey of women struggles in history. This paper will critically address the debates regarding the women's social movement involved in the Rosenstrasse protests that took place between February and March of 1943 in Berlin during the Nazi government. The interest lies in discussing the nature of this social demand led by women; analyze this claim of justice taking into account the unfavorable period for the German feminist movement and for women's rights; identify their position regarding gender perspective; and to assess the impact of the social movement. The thesis of this paper is that the Rosenstrasse protests meant an extraordinary act of a successful resistance which prove the awareness of the Nazi terror on account of German bystanders. These protests, despite not being against the system, were a spontaneous collective action that managed to have an impact on public opinion and on the Nazi government within a context of state weakness. Even if women questioned the state from their position as wives, not from a feminist perspective but from the morality of traditional values such as home and family, the importance of this protest in the memory construction of social movements cannot be underestimated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Using interpretative analysis methods, the paper looks at policy and analyzes the meaning, values and judgements implicit in the devices that gave footing to the program's creation and of the analysis of six interviews with public officials in a position to make decisions and that participated in part in the creation or modification of the program. The results show that the prejudices of the culture of poverty are present in the documents that gave rise to the program, in the founding documents of the program and within the narratives of said public officials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reports an analysis of the building of gender awareness through a pedagogical intervention on men and also masculinities from a genderbased perspective in educational spaces in Guadalajara, Mexico. The work is resultant from the recollection of experiences of a workshop performed with four different groups composed of men and women. The outcomes show the way in which all the participants reflect and dialogue about the meanings, practices, identifications and gender relations of men. Based on the theoretical contributions from constructivism in education and gender studies on men, it is advocated the notion of "building gender awareness" as a proposal of a theoretical and political category to understand the process of reflexivity. The people participating in this process, through reflection of the personal experience and collective dialogue, were able to identify various problematic gender practices among men such as violence, risk behaviors and lack of co-responsibility at home, school, work, as well as in the exercise of sexuality and affective relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores the importance of considering "gender regimes" as strategic enclaves in the processes of mainstreaming comprehensive sex education policies in high school. The analysis is based on a diverse set of empirical data constructed in an ethnographic investigation carried out between 2017 and 2018 in a high school in Gran La Plata, Argentina. From the description of a gender regime called "virile" and within the framework of an institutional culture characterized as "normative", the paper reveals some limitations of a way of mainstreaming comprehensive sex education that here is called "curricular" and it offers some clues to consider in which ways an approach that considers the totality of institutional dynamics in their pedagogical dimension could enhance the scope of a policy aimed at combating gender inequalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The COVID-19 pandemic and particularly, mitigation measures taken by government institutions in Mexico, such as the closure of all schools at all levels of education, have brought strong regressive consequences in terms of both education and gender equality. In this paper, we start from a theoretical framework of gender and family to analyze, along with the negative repercussions of this measure (especially for women and children), an embodied experience of upbringing and community education in Mexico. This experience seeks to preserve educational and labor rights violated by school closures such as sociability, guardianship and custody of minors, the right to a life free of violence, work-life balance, among others. Our aim is to suggest some keys for an ecofeminist and community solution to the education crisis in this country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is part of a broader research, whose aim is to carry out a hermeneutical reconstruction of the university from the experience that LGBT students have built of it. For this part, our objective is to expose in a comprehensive way the cumulus of experiences and learning that these students live and build before the university, which we name school trajectory. The research has been performed in public universities of Tapachula and San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico from 2017 to today. A qualitative methodology and various data production techniques have been used, such as in-depth interviews, focus groups and associative letters. For the purpose of this paper, the production of data corresponding to ten interviews has been presented. The analysis strategy has been the grounded theory, using the Nvivo program as a tool for coding. Among the results we can highlight a range of discrimination experiences systematically lived by LGBT students and whose focus is the production of subalternized subjectivities within the school spaces. In this dynamic of dispossession and vulnerability, LGBT students are involved in a network of gender surveillance and regulation that accesses to the configuration of their bodies through the modeling of gender expressions. However, at the same time, these students build some learning to prevent or eliminate the conditions of violence and risk they have experienced or perceived. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Mexico, during the 2012-2018 six-year term, the National Crusade against Hunger (CNCH) was implemented, in which social participation played a central role in combating the lack of access to food and promoting social welfare. With the creation of Community Committees and the support from promoter staff, this strategy aimed to strengthen and ensure the active and constant involvement of the population; however, there were a number of factors that had an impact on the difficulties in achieving sustained community participation. The objective of this paper is to show the factors that limited social participation in the implementation of the CNCH in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, through the voices of the implementing staff. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Using interpretative analysis methods, the paper looks at policy and analyzes the meaning, values and judgements implicit in the devices that gave footing to the program's creation and of the analysis of six interviews with public officials in a position to make decisions and that participated in part in the creation or modification of the program. The results show that the prejudices of the culture of poverty are present in the documents that gave rise to the program, in the founding documents of the program and within the narratives of said public officials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper offers the partial results of an investigation aimed at studying the relationship between the emerging adults of the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador and their perception of masculinity stereotypes. The investigation is based on theoretical definitions of cultural identity, stereotypes of masculinity, hegemonic masculinity and finally a definition of the emergent adult. We describe the exploratory study based on the use of a questionnaire structured in four sections. The paper analyzes the results and establishes some preliminary conclusions about male stereotypes perceived and classified as decadent, dominant or emerging. It also analyzes the weight of the patterns of hegemonic masculinity in the construction of the identity representations of the Guayaquil man and the stereotypes that represent him. Finally, the conclusion show that the model of hegemonic masculinity is essential in the construction of the imaginary about Guayaquil masculinity (focusing on the prevalence of stereotypes, the dependence of perception to the hegemonic model and the nature of receptors and emitters of masculinity) and the paper closes with the questions that these conclusions pose to future work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines and discusses some propositions for the conceptualization of associative goods. The purpose is to explore if those goods generated by the participation of citizens can be conceptualized as commons. The argument is supported on the assumption that associations are spaces of free participation built upon a particular kind of rules and relations for the use and distribution of the resources and assets shared. Following this line, the paper identias commons in two spheres: those that are shared and generated as result of the integration of members to associative groups, and those generated by associations as result of their actions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The modern historical construction of individual subjetivity and the heterosexual division of the body, had influences in the aesthetic classic and modem discourses, which one paradoxically ended by making invisible the spectator and the artist body as sexual-generic subjects. The body art in the beginnings of 1960, represented for the artists a change in the diverse conceptions and aesthetic possibilities about the body and the gaze. The present paper develops a historical framework about the modern body and die influence of this in the modem feminist performance. Based in Chantal Pcñalosa's performance: "Sobre la Av. México", this paper develops a theoretical critic about the performance body, as a politic of presence, whereby modifies and reconsiders the role of the gaze and the body as cmpathic spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper defends the thesis that argumentation theory can contribute to research methodology and the other way around, in spite of the fact that current methodological discourse is completely separated from contemporary argumentation studies. In support of this thesis it is argued that a well-written research report delivers a series of arguments purporting to justify the research question, the working hypothesis, any other hypothesis alternative to the working hypothesis and the procedure the author intends to follow or has actually followed in order to test the hypotheses. This argument is developed in detail by means of a relatively recent paper in which a question in political science is asked about the applicability of the median voter model to the state of Singapore. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes how the ownership structure and the alliances between the agents producing serialized fiction for television are linked to the themes and narratives addressed by this type of cultural product. From the political economy of communication and cultural studies, the paper examines the predominant themes in the 100 most watched premiere fictions on open television in Argentina during the decade between 2011 and 2020. It is concluded that there is a wide predominance of universal themes with nonstructural local references, over purely local ones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the results of research into how LTBI+ women are represented in Spanish original fiction series broadcast on streaming platforms. Analyzing the content of 749 characters shows a slight under-representation of non-heterosexual orientations, a greater representation of GTBI+ men than LTBI+ women, and no trans male or non-binary characters. Finally, stereotypical female traits are accentuated in ltbi+ characters compared to cis-heterosexual women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to discuss the relationship between media competence and fan culture, focusing on content creation shared on Twitter by fans of the Limantha ship, from the Brazilian telenovela Young Hearts (Malhação: Viva a Diferença). In order to reflect on how telenovela social issues were explored in the content shared on Twitter, we adopted Ferrés and Piscitelli’s concept of media competence. We concluded that, in addition to deepening themes dealt within the plot, fans expanded and resignified discussions based on correlations with personal reports. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to describe the characteristics of the content generated by private, independent, and alternative media around the controversy over the construction of Mexico City’s New Airport in 2018, to identify the communicative ecology of #YoPrefieroElLago movement. This work was developed under a quantitative exploratory descriptive methodology. A content analysis was performed over 905 publications on web pages and 8 402 tweets. The results showed that the third sector takes part of the connecting actions of the movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the agenda building of four Spanish alternative and cooperative media: La Marea, El Salto, Crític and 5W. Using content analysis of the cover pages and open-ended questionnaires to the media, we have detected a prevalence of social issues and topics. Expert and primary sources, as opposed to institutional sources, predominate, while collaborative practices with related media for the development and diffusion of content are also common. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the journalistic coverage of social movements in Ibero-America over the last ten years (2011-2021). A systematic review of the literature was carried out to analyze the diffusion of social activism in the press. Thus, the set of sources was analyzed, identifying, in the traditional media, coverage related to the political power and the reinforcement of stereotypes, and, in digital journalism, an approach that delves into the causes and consequences of social movements, providing them with spaces for discussion and collective practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the fictional brand Wonka through the use of the reverse product placement tool. It has an exploratory-descriptive methodology that has required a bibliographic review and in-depth interviews with the experts responsible for the brand. The results illustrate its treatment in the market reflecting on its transmedia identity. In this way, a vision on the application of this technique is constructed through the study of a case of an advertising practice that has been little investigated in the academic field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objectives of the paper are to identify the types of State that propose the main economic approaches that were designed after the perfect competition model, and to make approximations to the size of the identified States. The analysis method is composed of two steps: selection of the key functions that are required for the implementation of economic processes, and definition of the degree of State intervention in these functions. The results indicate that the minimum States are diverse and that the planning States are different. Of the approaches that base the coordination of economic processes in the market, the ultra-minimal versions of the State are those designed by the perfect competition model and Pareto welfare economics, while the most extensive exposures are those drawn by development economics and Latin American structuralism with the welfare State and the developmental State, respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Water for human consumption has become in one of the most complex and diffincult resources of the market. The objective of this paper is to analyze some of the determinants influencing economic valuation and commercialization of this resource in the Estado de México. This analysis is supported by some elements of economic theory that allows contrast with the contemporary conditions of access and enjoyment. The results show the financial character, increasing the social risk and vulnerability. This paper extends the view of water in economic science. It's a milestone that strengthen the holistic discussion to generate concrete and viable proposals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I study the graphic series entitled Negro Woman (1946) by the American-Mexican artist Elizabeth Catlett. I rely on the concept of "postmemory" in relation to the slavery suffered by the artist's grandparents, as the base to interpret her desire to create consciousness on the double oppression experienced by black women, both in the past and in the present moment. Working in the artistic context of the Taller de Gráfica Popular, Catlett introduced in mid-century México the intersectionality of gender and race in a very explicit and forceful way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Transdisciplinary dialogue between feminist theories and other approaches is fundamental. The purpose of this paper is to present a theoretical reflection on the pertinence of incorporating the Feminist Standpoint Theory within the psychosocial perspective of Symbolic Interactionism developed from the Chicago School. We find this possibility at various convergence points between both stances: the opposition to positivism and scientificism; the interest in disarticulating essentialist conceptions; a situated, partial and processual vision of the construction of knowledge; the openness to implement various methods; and an investigative orientation based on intersubjectivity and experience. In this way, the possibilities of analysis and interpretation of one frame are neither accessory nor complementary to the other. Instead, we suggest thinking of a Feminist Symbolic Interactionism through the discussion of its epistemological, conceptual and methodological implications. What underlays in this theoretical positioning is an analytical and political enunciation platform that allows a critical psychosocial approach to inequality and other phenomena. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we analyze the discourses of youth social movements in the state of Zacatecas during the period 2012-2017, where different actors propose a democratic behavior that approaches to what Dryzek (2000) calls deliberative democracy. The objective is to prove that youth social movements in Zacatecas had an ideological transit from a welfare position to a proactive one where citizen participation exceeds the student and generational sphere. The methodology used to determine if in the studied period this movements had an ideological transition are the Critic Discourse Analysis tools proposed by VanDijk (1999) and the typology of democracies by Osorio (2014). The conclusion is that there is a transition in the ideological domain but not in the political action one. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The sub-national public spending studies in Mexico have increased in the last years. Nevertheless, it is unknown if the party ideology has an effect on it. Therefore, this paper explores whether this variable influences on the public expenditure. Based on the case of Jalisco, this research compares PAN and PRI governments to show their decisions on public expenditure. The results show that the panista government gave more resources to public investment, education and rural development; meanwhile the priista government gave more to public health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper analyzes the particularities of political praxis that are reproduced in the participation spaces of the municipality of Tlalpan. The guiding questions pose how given the changes in the political system clientelistic practices have been adapted to better suit the new political reality. To answer them, a qualitative study was carried out between 2015 and 2019 that included attending mass events and meetings between the different actors as well as semi-structured interviews with party leaders, town hall officials, intermediaries and district managers, as well as citizens linked to political networks. Proposed that the means of civic participation are the product of political exchanges that expressed beyond the electoral sphere and reproduced in the framework of political subjectivities and shared habitus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following article has as objective to analyze the emergence in El Salvador of family farming and the social category family farmer. To that purpose, this article uses mainly two theoretical concepts: family farming and policy transfer. Evidence suggests that the appropriation of the social category "family farmer" in El Salvador responds to an update of formerly used concepts small producer or commercial producer. Hence, it's not possible to find technical, theoretical or methodological grounds to justify the use of family farmer as new social category in El Salvador. The adoption of family farmer comes as a result of a policy transfer enhanced by three vectors: political affinity between Brazil's and El Salvador's presidents, bureaucrat's paper and work performed by intergovernmental organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on a multiple case study developed in three periurban locations in central Mexico, this paper aims to present the theoretical model that was used in the analysis of social reproduction strategies of periurban households. To this purpose, Pierre Bourdieu's theoretical approaches to the reproductive dynamics of the social world, as well as the central categories of field, habitus and capital, are recovered. The proposed model allows explaining the factors involved in the formation of reproductive strategies systems at the locality level, as well as the attachment or deviation of family practices to that system. Beyond its potential for the analysis of social reproduction in the periurban territory, it is considered that this model may be appropriate for the analysis of family strategies in contexts of profound structural changes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]