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This paper that I share arises as a result of the doctoral thesis "Teacher training in the face of digital culture. The convenient, the desirable, the possible" (2009-2014). The central thesis that supported it was to connect the voice of experts in the field of Educational Technology and teacher training, in the context of Argentine public educational policies. I write this in complex times; times of pandemic, of anguish, sadness and uncertainties. I took the impulse to share it in the face of this context that has made many changes in our daily lives. In parallel, demands, requirements and needs arose before them. I add a passionate voice to the conversation whose hashtag (#) is teacher training in times of change and uncertainties to make hear a series of conceptual constructions building in practices that allow conversation, dialogue, reflection, rethinking the trade and teacher training in our country in times of digital culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we will be analyzing, from social studies with a gender perspective, two court decisions about violence against women that were recently made in Neuquén, Argentina. The guiding purpose of this paper is to highlight the tensions -between tensions and resistancesthat exist in the institutions and between the public sector (Court) and private sector (Lawyers) when interacting as agents of justice, in judicialized cases where the victims are women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to examine the way in which the Spanish school textbooks used during the Franco dictatorship, strongly impregnated with Catholic doctrine, contributed to the construction of a feminine identity centred around marriage and motherhood. It is historical-educational research that analyses two primary sources: the Encyclical Humanae Vitae by Pope Paul VI and the Álvarez Encyclopedia: Professional Initiation. The results reveal the existence of a hidden political-social curriculum whose main purpose was to legitimise a system of domination over the female gender. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an exploratory work with descriptive analysis of more than nine hundred women accompaniments by Socorristas of La Pampa between 2015 and 2020. First of all, the article introduce the unique Socorristas device that allows to go through its feminist methodology of situated approach. Then, advance in the analysis on a selection of social, cultural, motivational, relationship, biographical data on the women accompanied in their decision process. The intention is to investigate, and interpret from a feminist perspective, sensitive variables that are part of their daily life, showing that decisions, especially related to motherhood and abortion, are complex, multidimensional and collective constructions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Urban spaces in Latin America and the Caribbean have become strategic centers of experimentation of city models that allow for the reproduction of capital. This paper reflects on the link between neoliberal urbanism and urban restructuring, focusing on the role the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) plays in the planning of intermediate cities in the region. For this purpose, we take as case studies the programs "Initiative of Emerging and Sustainable Cities" (ICES) and "Development of Metropolitan Areas of the Interior" (DAMI), both implemented in the last decade (2011-2021) in the Metropolitan Area of Mendoza (AMM), Argentina. We analyze the central role played by the UNICIPIO-IDB alliance in metropolitan management, focusing on the axes of citizen security and interventions of urban transformation in central areas. The work carried out shows the key role played by the IDB in progressively determining the urban agenda and implementing neoliberal urban models, through its technical advice and the financing of certain urban programs, under the discourse of sustainability. A qualitative methodological design was carried out, focusing on case analysis. We used secondary sources, including official documents prepared by the IDB, the provincial government, UNICIPIO and the Municipality of Mendoza, as well as journalistic articles and sectorial magazines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper identifies and characterizes a corporate network based on Argentinian-Spanish business (Catalan mainly) that was built around a dozen companies all located in Buenos Aires, in the first half of 20th century. Studying the board of directors of the company Providencia Compañía Argentina de Seguros, it finds meeting points in which different groups are involved and it analyzes what corporate strategies they applied. It also determines whether any political compromise was acquired by the members of the network, both in Spain and Argentina. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the conceptions about national socialism and Peronism that different referents of the Peronist left presented in a round table cycle held in September 1972. An approach close to the theoretical-methodological proposal elaborated by Reinhart Koselleck for the study of political concepts is tested to allow to recover the contingent and changing dimension of the political ideas that predominated in the debates of the Peronist left at the beginning of the 1970s, and that makes it possible to inquire about the connections between Peronism and socialism that occurred during the period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides a view on the appropriation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT's) from the perspective of digital contents. The methodology was aimed at identifying trends in the use of ICT's, through the application of a survey type instrument (Likert), answered by 404 teachers. Practices in the use of ICT's, criteria for choosing content, methodological strategies and training in the use and development of content were consulted. The results show a discursive gap between the importance given to ICT's and the teaching practices. It was identified that the respondents have been using the same tools for the past two decades. Besides, there is little implementation of educational innovation projects in their teaching. Likewise, ICT's are assumed as a support for face-to-face teaching and teachers are more consumers than content producers. These findings contrast with the acceleration of the appropriation of ICT's caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the context of a wider research, this article analyzes the first stage of Jesús Martín-Barbero's work, more precisely his writings in the 1970s, in order to recover his most significant contributions to the field of communication/education during that decade. The corpus of analysis is made up of Martín-Barbero's doctoral thesis entitled La palabra y la acción, finished in 1972, and two later books, Comunicación masiva: discurso y poder, written in 1978, and Comunicación educativa y didáctica audiovisual Elementos teóricos-metodológicos para la producción de ayudas audiovisuales didácticas, published a year later. The aim of this paper is to characterize these reflections, explain them, and systematize them in order to identify the points of continuity and rupture between those deliberations. This will in turn let us, on the one hand, establish the lines of research that will allow us to relate the other stages of the intellectual production of the author in this field and analyze the evolution of these first contribution, and, on the other hand, to evaluate to what extent these approaches and their subsequent developments and transformations can still be useful to investigate the phenomena related to communication/education in the present. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes to address the various temporalities that Lola Arias's biodramatic project on the Malvinas War (the video installation Veterans, the documentary play Minefield and the film Theater of War) brings into play, in relation to the problems associated with temporality that are specific to the narrative of war in general and the Malvinas War in particular. In the first place, each of the works that make up the project is considered as an update of a power (Paolo Virno). Secondly, both the project as a whole and some of its scenes are approached as devices that allow to display what Didi-Huberman calls the fecundity of anachronism. The objective is to think about the novelty that this project introduces in relation to the anachronism that the combatants, designated at the same time as "war boys" and veterans, embody, and which translates into an image in their heads that, in a way of iteration characteristic of the trauma, is neither forgotten nor changed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The edition of La novela de la poesía (2012) already made evident two fundamental issues in Tamara Kamenszain's writing: on the one hand, a specific inscription of the passage poetry/novel/essay; on the other, the book (the edition, the support, the object) as a link. More recently, El libro de Tamar (2018) and Libros chiquitos (2020) illuminate in a special way two other constitutive aspects of the process: one, the temporal spiral between the program of the 70s and the present of writing, which converts the series in a long duration narrative; two, the problem of limits in the form of scale. In this paper I propose to read, at the intersection of El libro de Tamar and Libros chiquitos, three scenes as inflections in a long duration story with the test of time and limits: the tempo of the prose (the writing of the poem as the rhythm of the narrative and the prose as the distillation of the real of the verse), the magnitudes of the book (the book and the masterpiece of the 70s, the poetics of the little books as a inflection of the contemporary sublime), the intersection between the inscription of the present and the creation of a community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to dialogue, to stress and to reflect upon education at secondary school, rurality, and community processes within different state areas, and about the compliance of the right to education in rural environments. We will show different school experiences that display unique management approaches, as is the case of a rural alternating agricultural school located in the province of Corrientes (Argentine Republic), an Agricultural Family School (EFA). The chosen EFA represents an experience of community organization, facing the lack of possibilities of secondary education in the rural area. The process of formation and construction of the space of this particular school crystalizes and brings clues about the collective history and the arguments that accompany it. We found in the school space hints of social organization and construction of other ways "of making and being school". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to account for the relationships between the development of the children's political knowledge and the social practices in which they participate. In order to achieve this objective, the following paper examines a series of psychogenetic studies carried out since the end of the 80's in Buenos Aires in school environment, on the political ideas that children and adolescents construct about the national government and the presidential function. This analysis is elaborated in the light of another very recent research, of anthropological orientation and ethnographic perspective, where it is studied the political knowledge elaborated by children and young people who participate in community practices and inhabit houses as illegal tenants in the same city. In this way, a critical comparison is established between these investigations, which centrally includes the methodological aspects, as well as the scope of the results, for a conceptual re-elaboration around the study of the processes of knowledge construction in the political field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper shares some interpretations of stories of young people linked to the decision-making process that they are going through regarding the fact of having to live outside the family environment, decision justified mainly in the pursuit of continuing studies at a higher level, a topic developed in a research called “Student migration and the beginning of a university career. Youth experiences: from the imagined project to the concrete project”. We worked from a longitudinal qualitative approach, identifying aspects of the youngster’s trajectory, from the sixth grade of secondary school to the first two years of arrival in the city of Córdoba. In this instance, we will focus on the step prior to migration. Interviews were conducted with young people and mothers, in 2018 and 2019, in order to know how the mobility and study project is imagined and defined, as well as options, expectations and decisions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to make a qualitative assessment of youthful transitions when finishing secondary school. The main issue addressed by this work revolves around the way in which the young undergo this process while attending their last year of secondary education. The analysis was performed by considering the youth collective’s experiences and post-secondary expectations, which are largely connected with their unique vision in relation to the future they discern for themselves in local scenarios. An in-depth survey was conducted among a purposive sample of young people that attended state-run secondary schools during the 2016-2017 school years. The interviews enquired into the assessment, meanings, feelings, wishes and mandates that characterise this turning point. The findings of the study were then classified into four encompassing categories: educational, socioeconomic, personal, and cultural. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Anclajes, from its beginnings and until today, has fostered the dissemination of articles and book reviews linked to descriptive linguistics, sociolinguistics and the historiography of the languages of Latin America. This paper reviews how the publication has witnessed, during the last twenty-five years, the advances and changes in research on Amerindian languages, cultures and literatures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the fraught chapter (V.7) of the Nicomachean Ethics concerning natural justice. It argues that the main tradition of commentary on the chapter has strayed onto a wrong path by misconstruing two quite precise junctures in the argument. When those two errors are corrected, there emerges an Aristotle who, far from being a champion of natural law theory in ethics, holds that the moral principles with which humans are naturally endowed are variable, and that in two senses. Not only do these moral principles vary across space and time, but also they can be deliberately modified by habituation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The experiences of transitional justice in Greek antiquity show to what extent emotions can play a specific role in the social reestablishment of memory, justice and truth. Based on a study of classical sources from Athens, Dikaia and Nakone, the purpose of this paper is to describe the affective fiction supporting this institutional framework: by expanding the emotional dimension from the realm of individuals to the society, a political installation of pathos is achieved with the aim of overcoming the traumatic effects of the civil war through the planning and design of an emotional community based on the virtues of reconciliation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A case of wild species management. In La Pampa province, tucotucos (Ctenomys azarae) cause economic losses in alfalfa productive systems under pressurized irrigation. As a management strategy, biological control with birds of prey is promoted. Since this problem is based on humanwildlife interaction, the study of social aspects is paramount. The aim of this paper was to study the attitudes and perceptions of the social component in order to define level of damage and selected method efficiency to control tucotucos. Workers were surveyed to define the productive problem and determine their level of knowledge about tucotucos and birds of prey. Moreover, the attitudes of rural workers during the study and the execution of the biological control project were documented. The damage caused by tucotucos represents between 0.6 and 7 % of the annual earnings by the selling of alfalfa big bales. The damage is mainly quantified in the cost and number of harvesting machinery blades that have to be replaced and the reduction of the big bales quality. Workers see biological control as an opportunity to face the problem and recognize their ecological role. Social participation in the project improves the understanding of the biological intervening situation and favors the application of management practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The citizens settled in the National Territories could not participate in national elections for almost the whole history of these spaces. A conventional approach has taken this situation as the sign of a deprivation of political citizenship that would reflect the restrictive nature of the political order imposed on the Territories. Nothing would have changed with the passing of the Sáenz Peña Law, which would have kept the settlers of the Territories excluded from citizenship. However, Sáenz Peña's electoral reform did include the Territories and their inhabitants. Even if they remained without the possibility of voting in federal elections, it was not due to any attribution of political incapacity but to the legal status of such spaces. By studying published and unpublished documents, this paper not only questions that traditional interpretation but also aims to depict the way the principle of popular sovereignty was mediated by the federal frame of the representative regime. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the trajectory of two indigenous communities from Neuquen through one century, focusing on the paths followed to access and remain in their territories, as well as the highs and lows in relation to their persistence as mapuche communities. The main goal was to explain how they achieved their current state of community reconstitution, and their relationship with politics at a provincial level, specifically in the context of the development of a new political line within the Confederación Mapuche de Neuquén at the beginning of this century. The article studied the factors that, from the genocide to the native peoples on, conditioned their possibilities of staying cohesive in a context of struggle with dominant territorialities: public policies on access to land, designed by the National State first, and then by the province, the actions of different agents in office, the mapuche political praxis and the bond they established with their supracommunal organizations. The heterogeneity of situations in the space of Neuquen led to define two cases to develop the analysis: Paicil Antriao, in the southern Andes area, and Campo Maripe, in the central eastern plateau zone. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the existence of an Italian interest in Latin American culture under fascist dictatorship. Having given rise to an increasing dissemination of Hispanic culture in Italy, cultural relations between Italy, Spain, and Latin America in the 20s and 30s will be examined. During that period, there was a very strong ideological affinity between Italy and Spain, which explains why the Italian government promoted Spanish-language literature more than others did. Even so, studies show that the spread of Hispanic editorial production in Italy was probably due to accidental meetings between publishers and not to a clear governmental policy. As for Hispano-American literature, the name Mario Puccini stands out as one who helped make modernist writers (such as Rufino Blanco Fombona and Amado Nervo) known in Italy. Accordingly, the essay's main objective is to focus on his professional activity in order to better understand which was the starting point for members of Cristoforo Colombo Institute (1923-1935), the only Italian government body responsible for the promotion of Hispanic culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores possible linkages between some aspects of Latin American Popular Education (Educación Popular latinoamericana) and classroom approaches to literary texts, based on the analysis of classwork around the reading of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (Spanish title: Un Mundo Feliz) at a working-class secondary school for youth and adults (Bachillerato Popular) in Pompeya, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The educational process, documented through an ethnographic lens, takes place in an interdisciplinary course that connects literature with the cooperative movement and the solidarity economy. This curricular option, in the context of a secondary school for youth and adults whose political/pedagogical stance recognizes the value of self-government, horizontalism and popular participation as some of its ruling principles, has an impact on the production of critical knowledge, on pedagogical relationships within the classroom, and on the structuring of the educational process, including its evaluation. From a reading conception as a cultural practice framework, this paper identifies the potentials and tensions in the pedagogical strategies displayed in the classroom, with the goal of developing collective knowledge between concrete individuals, on and through literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The assessment of learning in literature in English language teacher education (ELTEd) has mainly taken place at random instead of as a planned action. We seek for an answer here, then, to what we assess when we assess literature in English language teacher education. For that sake, we examined our assessment proposals and the answers provided by the students of English Speaking Literature II at the ELTEd program at the National University of La Pampa, Argentina, in 2015. The data were collected from mid-term exams, correction forms, and final papers, and analyzed qualitatively in view of their correspondence with the cultural, linguistic, or personal-growth models of teaching literature. The results show that our working tasks display a tendency to value processes that are in tune with the personal-growth model, although in the assessment in general there is a strong tendency to give particular relevance to linguistic precision. Nevertheless, our final considerations in the students' papers did aspire to a contextualized integration of the models of teaching at stake. To find answers to our initial question will allow us to determine to what extent our assessment meets our teaching practices, which in forms our role of socially and pedagogically responsible professors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the last Argentine dictatorship (1976-1983) forms of social cohabitation, including particular modes of responsibility and resistance, were significant in their heterogeneity, both geographically and --even in the same city or town-- affectedly. This paper proposes to examine a European outpost of the Argentine state --which has a complex specificity due to its location in a foreign country--, to approach an insistent question in studies of the recent past: what were the relations between society and the regime? In more concrete terms: how, during seven years, did the residents live in a house directly affiliated to a dictatorial regime, yet located in France, under a democratic government which, during many years, maintained good relations with the last Argentine dictatorship? Which --and why-- were the core implications of this cohabitation, the particular interrelations between residents and the House authorities, the tactics adopted to endure everyday life while, four thousand miles away, the perceived exceptionality was itself quotidian and grounded in normality? One of this paper's hypotheses is that the category of neighbour is fertile territory upon which to think and respond to these questions. Indeed, an investigation of the Argentinean House in Paris facilities a synecdoche approach to the broader exploration of the notion of cohabitation between France and Argentina during the last dictatorship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the last decade, studies on masculinities have become a growing field of scholarship in Argentina. This paper provides a preliminary state of the art and critical account of the latest research on the topic. We emphasize the relation of these studies with others on sexual diversity, identifying important ongoing debates and alerting about vacant areas of inquiry. Focusing on an assessment of both fields' most important contributions, the paper deals with two major sets of disciplines: history, sociology and anthropology on one hand, and literary, cinematographic and cultural studies on the other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the texts of two travelers who refer to the native women who inhabited the Buenos Aires campaign and the Patagonian north during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: Guillermo Cox and Félix de Azara. We consider that their representations are influenced by the ideas of domesticity and morality in force in that period and provide us a distorted image, which we understand constitutes a type of symbolic violence. Both indigenous and "Chinese" women are relegated to domestic spaces which, although they are part of their daily environment, are presented as places where they can not only perform much of their tasks but also play important roles in the life maintenance, enjoying, in many cases, interference in the ownership and administration of property. In general, the evolutionary ideas in force at that time placed these societies in the less advanced stages of human progress. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I will focus on the making of interviews as a work strategy. I do not propose, then, to reflect in the abstract, but based on the historical research I produced from the interviews. I will attend the representative dimension of the concept of citizenship. I will expose the lessons learned in the process of constructing my research problem about how women became political citizens in Argentina between 40's and 50's. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As part of a set of urban renewal policies in strategic areas of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, in 2008 the Technological District was created; which is located in Commune 4, a south-peripheral area, historically dismissed by capital investments and by the State. This paper aims at analysing the territorial effects of the Technological District in the valorisation of the real estate market and the changes in land use. From a multi-scalar approach, it focuses in the micro-territorial scale, from the exploration of four different zones within the area of the Technological District. The qualitative-quantitative methodology was based on the analysis of the sale offers of land, apartments, storefronts and offices in the Technology District, and the changes in land use, between 2006 and 2017. The results reveal that there is an accelerated real estate and land valorisation in the Technological District in comparison with other areas in the City. However, the renewal is selective in the territory. This tends to reinforce pre-existing and unequal patterns of appreciation among the different areas of the District, which allows to qualify the "success" of the policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Public green spaces (PGS) on the shores of the Limay River in Neuquen Metropolitan Area (AMN, for its acronym in Spanish) can represent tools for water management. For the design of such instruments, it is important to know the local dynamics of hydrometeorological threats. The aim of this paper is to analyze, from a historical perspective based on the digital written press, the occurrence of events related to hydrometeorological threats in the AMN and, most precisely, around the PGS located on the coast of the Limay River for the period 1999-2020. 131 journalistic articles were surveyed and the information collected was validated through hydrometeorological databases. The methodology classifies events according to origin and nature, as well as characterizing them according to their physical characteristics; consequent damages in urban, periurban and rural areas; actors from different jurisdictions and adopted actions. Before and during the events soft measures prevailed while hard measures prevailed after them. Specifically, the consequences in EVP result in hindrances for its exploitation by users. Historical records provide initial, useful and comprehensive information for the analysis of the incidence of water processes in cities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aurelius Prudentius Clemens is one of the most important Christian poets in Late Antiquity, whose work had a wide impact on the literary creations of the Middle Ages. In particular, the Psychomachia, an allegorical combat between Virtues and Vices, which combines the preceding epic tradition with Christian theology, constitutes the most representative poem of our poet. In this paper we will study the poetic strategies used by Prudentius in the proem of Psychomachia (v. 1-20), with the purpose that the tension between discursive materiality (form) and religious spirituality (content) will be analysed as an aesthetic feature that is accentuated, with greater intensity towards the end of the 5th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we offer the translation from Latin into Spanish of Peter of Cornwall's Prologue to Liber disputationum contra Symonem iudeum (c. 1208), the only section of the text that is currently edited thanks to the labor of Richard W. Hunt. The brief final exchange between the characters of Peter and Simon that Hunt transcribed in the introduction to the edition was added as an annex. These translations are preceded by the presentation of the author and the work as a whole, and by a brief critical study of the text both in itself and in relation to its context of production: the literary dialogues of interreligious disputes that flourished between the end of the 11th and the early 13th centuries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article recovers, from the narrated life itself, a narrative identity and a condition of intimacy in autobiographical terms, the self-enactment of what I call "the cultivation of some gestures" that speak about how I learned the trade of accompaniment in the direction of thesis. This narrated life shows an ontopolitical and aesthetic position with respect to the meanings given to the investigation and, in this particular case, the director's place of accompaniment. That life narrated in terms of socialities, temporalities and territorialities senses moments and discontinuities marked as forms that we need to make the world more livable and reveal, not only the job, but also the position of being-being-in-the-world. Those scales that involve components of (un) known worlds link these little stories with the great stories. In this paper, I will present six autobiographical interludes that operate as sentimentalists, as performative whispers that allow us to find vital links that define pedagogies of gestures in the process of accompaniment and doctoral training. I will present six autobiographical (dis) continuities as narrative interludes to later co-compose uncomfortable whispers as sentient subjects that we are, as a movement that de-composes not only the pedagogical field, but also that of experience in aesthetic, ethical and political terms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we emphasize the different reflections and the discussions regarding a university extension project in a Middle School within the Political Science and International Relations University. This paper presents the description of a number of "classroom-workshop" experiences during the school year 2013 with 3°, 4° and 5° year students from "San Juan Diego" school, which is situated in a suburb populated mainly by Rosario Qom Community inhabitants. The focus of the paper is the relationship between the educational context and the students' identity process. The tutorials, that took place in order to support the educational process, involved the development of different activities in which the artistic aspect was really important since it triggered several discussions regarding the school, the suburb and the community. These experiences lead us to think about the notion of identity and its complexity. During the presentation of this work, a discussion that questioned the project following the idea of their chances of interference with the changing reality took place in the IV University Extension National Congress, September 2014. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the framework of a broader investigation into the imaginaries of the afterworld in present-day Argentine literature, this paper aims at addressing the ways in which Carlos Ríos's Cuaderno de Pripyat (2012) narrates the afterworld of an identifiable historical event, the Chernobyl disaster, creating further tension between the crisis itself and the possibility of a post-apocalyptic setting that brings a radical and immeasurable interruption into play. First, we analyze the ways in which this multiplication of temporalities affects the presentation of the testimonies collected in the story. Next, the paper focuses on the collage as a possible explicative key to the fragmentary composition of the story based on the tension between the rationality of that which remains and that of referential oversaturation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Right-winged Argentine nationalism underwent a series of transformations in the mid 20th Century. These changes were registered in the biographies of many Nationalist intellectuals. Thus, the aim of this paper is to examine the case study of Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo. The work of this well-known nationalist intellectual covers over seventy years and influenced many generations of nationalist militants. In analysing his discourse on democracy and political leadership, this paper tracks the long-term changing process of his political and ideological discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the work of Chilean journalist Georgina Durand, pseudonym for Raquel Delaporte Prieto (1893-2003), in particular on a series of interviews published in the newspaper La Nación (Chile) in the last century in the late thirties and early forties. On the one hand, the paper analyzes the creation of biographical profiles of her interviewees as professional artists and intellectuals, conveying information to create cannons and hierarchies for emerging fields of knowledge at that time. On the other hand, attention is given to her role as interviewer and as a professional in a work and social context in which women's participation in the public arena was still contested. In this context, it also considers the rules governing what can and cannot be said, the tensions between public and private spheres and the potential relationship between the journalist and her readers. In the end, one could suggest that Durand achieves a balance between "correct" practice as a professional journalist, particularly in the production of her interviews and the construction of a subjectivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This chapter is divided into three somewhat disjointed parts. I have not tried to create artificial transitions. The first section is an edited transcript of only part of what actually happened at the podium ¿can the subaltern speak?. The second part is something like a prepared paper. The third part is answers to a series of questions generated: how can the humanities produce the intuitions of democracy in the broadest possible race, class- and gender-diversified sector of the population? What is it to teach the humanities? What is the in-built aporia of democracy? How do we confront the inevitable corporatisation of the entire education system? What is the role of the curriculum? What is the relationship between class, race, and liberal education in our countries? What is the relationship between a will to social justice and enforcement? What is it to interpret a history of violence and use it without accusation or excuse within the broadest interpretation of the academy? Why is national liberation not a revolution? How do we combat the anthropocene? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper emerges from a wider research project which seeks to unveil a core problem that underlies community academic projects developed in the municipalized university villages of the Sucre Mission. A pedagogical scenario emerges full of instructional practices being, leaving aside the nature of the project to be assumed from a critical and reflective vision. The findings were analyzed with different theories. Data collection techniques such as in-depth interview and testimony analysis were used. The results show that in the practices of the projects, permanent processes of community dialogue are not developed along with each of its participants, which becomes later obstacles to construct critical and reflective thinking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to introduce a reflection on the Escuela Sindical Bancaria, a union school founded by the Banking Association of Mendoza, which was the first Secondary Education Center opened in the province, in agreement with the National Direction of Adult Education (DINEA). We start with a brief history of the school and then focus on the construction of the Social Sciences Area, analyzing the bibliography used at the time and the specific mediations applied by the teachers in their classes. We conclude that trade union participation had a leading role in the school's opening process and in the construction of its political significance. Regarding academic content, official guidelines for the Social Sciences Area were not followed, as a unique construction was developed. The research design was sociohistorical, based on oral and documentary sources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A problematic link made of tensions and contradictions relates Elvira Orphée to Tucumán, the Argentinian province where she was born and the space represented in many of her texts. This paper explores one of the aspects of this problematic link by revealing the fact that the author's figure is fictionalized in Pretérito perfecto, novel published in 1983 by another writer from Tucumán, Hugo Foguet. After pointing out the elements which allow to relate Negra Fortabat, the character in the novel, to Orphée, the analysis meditates on the probable reasons for such fictionalization and on its implications regarding the image that Foguet constructs of himself as a writer. It is postulated that the figurative presence of Orphée in Pretérito perfecto works in at least three directions, intimately related to each other: 1) to develop the dispute over how to write a novel in general and how to write a novel about Tucumán in particular; 2) to incarnate the counter figure of a writer, which enables to make a necessary tabula rasa over every antecedent and to show, in that way, how disruptive and foundational the novel by Foguet is in itself; 3) to represent the tensions between a peripheral literary field located in Tucumán and a central literary field located in Buenos Aires [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to address the issues implicated in the construction of feminist genealogies. The perspective adopted incorporates several tensions and dilemmas that pervade the feminist field: those arising from class inequalities, from the effects of racialization, and from geographical locations. It also deals with new transformations as the result of the increased participation of younger generations, which have created an age gap. Due to its recent exponential growth and increased public visibility, the feminism is facing complex challenges. On the one hand, we must bring together past and present, recalling the ways our feminist ancestors envisioned the warps and wefts and knots of the movement. We must carry out this work of weaving from Safina Newbery to Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui and Julieta Kirkwood. On the other hand, we must confront the effects of dispersions of age, political traditions, location, class, embodiment, identities, in a moment driven both by the internationalist spirit of the movement as well as its situated character, its local grounds. Methodologically, the work is based on the revision of theoretical debates as well as on documentary searches for the connections between past and present and for the links among the different spaces where feminists are intervening. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I will focus on the making of interviews as a work strategy. I do not propose, then, to reflect in the abstract, but based on the historical research I produced from the interviews. I will attend the representative dimension of the concept of citizenship. I will expose the lessons learned in the process of constructing my research problem about how women became political citizens in Argentina between 40's and 50's. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is intended to give an account of an extremely interesting experience in the Municipality of Ituzaingó (MuI)--city where both authors live in--, in the western area of Greater Buenos Aires (GBA), where Municipal Public Policies include the Women, Genders, Diversity and Human Rights Council (CMGDyDH for its Spanish acronym), entity responsible not only for various functions, but for trying to prevent the local patriarchal system from continuing imposing itself through culture, society and economy, among other disciplines and practices, not allowing women's empowerment. We aim at conducting an analysis of the Gender-sensitive policies carried out by the CMGDyDH in the MuI, which are developed in a national context of different achievements reached by the feminist movement during the last years. Our question is whether it would be possible to weaken or avoid the patriarchal system, at least in the medium term, in the local context. We are aware that structural changes arise from asocial base, with a multiplier effect towards the super-structural framework, process which we would like to see materialized in order to reach equity and gender social inclusion. One of the general objectives of this article consists in revising theoretically and empirically the possible definition and construction of those intervention and formulation methods of integral Social Policies, in a collective and dialectal manner. The pillars of analysis of this article are: -Past budgetary achievements at national and provincial level, and within the MuI, with a gender-based approach. -Goals accomplished at an institutional, legislative and Public Policies level, with a gender perspective. The first part of this article (I) includes general aspects of Feminist Economics (FE) and the second one (II) consist of a description of the activities carried out by the CMGDyDH in the MuI, its objectives, and an analytical relation with the first part of the article. The second part derives from the Final Research Paper by BSW. Marta Rosendo, presented in the Women and Gender Specialization, at Universidad de Luján. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Today's work world demands a set of competencies that are key and highly valued, among them, digital skills. Within this framework, the paper presents data about the digital skills of current students. A total of 454 students from different university degrees (engineering, economics and humanities) and from a secondary school participated in the research. They responded to a questionnaire on ICT uses and self-perceptions of their digital competencies for the performance of activities that require the use of technology. The results show different levels of mastery (high, medium and low) with respect to 18 activities consulted. In the same way, 10 of the 18 activities showed differences when groups where compared. Engineering students generally reported greater mastery. Discussion revolves around highlighting the importance of generating, from academic contexts, opportunities for the development of different digital skills. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the set of recently published novels on the subject of post-dictatorial memory, that of the visual artist Gerber Bicecci (1981) stands out for a writing that uses, among other apparently disparate expressive elements, Venn diagrams, to name the ineffable generated by the disappearance, exile and silence imposed. This paper intends to analyze the writing of Conjunto vacío, highlighting the creative self-reference, and the reading effects based on the coexistence of visual and linguistic codes of different species. According to my interpretation, the novel answers this and other questions that Argentina's society is still around forty years after the last dictatorship, at which time the crystallized and deceptive responses directed especially to the new generations return. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to describe labor sex division in the field of farm production within the rural area in the east of the province of Mendoza, mainly focusing on women's labor. To accomplish this task, we designed a case study methodology strategy. The place for the study constitutes a non-irrigated area in the north-east region, which is composed of domestic groups historically devoted to extensive cattle raising. This article has been organized as follows: First, we state some general theoretical considerations related to gender, work and farming systems, together with some historical background. Then, we move to the local scale, and make a synthesis of the characteristics of labor sex division within the area under study, making an emphasis on the livestock production. Finally, we show the active key role women play in the cattle raising industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, the academic field has been improved by numerous contributions related to the concept and measurement of population well-being. Among such improvements, the concept of living conditions has played a central role. In this paper we observe the associations between living conditions and relate this concept to the notion of health contexts based on an eco-epidemiological model. For this purpose, a methodological proposal was developed and applied to the Argentine population, identifying areas of improvement, worsening and persistence of living conditions between 2001 and 2010. Finally, the proposal was validated with a classic indicator of poverty measurement and the course of living conditions was analyzed in the most critical jurisdictions of the territory through the use of an infant mortality indicator that operates on the concept of "poverty diseases". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nowadays, planning and management of tourist potentials of the territories constitute an essential requirement for the development of the activity, as they guarantee the proper integration of tourism into the economy, society and local culture. This research paper considers the tourism activity as one more variable of analysis of a territory, a social practice that constitutes and is part of the socioeconomic and cultural dynamic of the space. The idea of carrying out a Prospective Study of the sector results from the awareness of the importance of tourism for La Pampa. The main objective is to analyze the current situation of the activity and the possibilities for development with special emphasis on the cultural, patrimonial and natural attractions. Among the specific objectives, this study seeks to know the situation of tourism in La Pampa's territory from the identification of different sectors and institutions linked to such activity; to identify opportunities and risks that the province of La Pampa presents for the development of this activity and to analyze the role of provincial municipalities in the future tourist demand with reference to the elements from the offer in the coming years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The possibility of having cleaner and more sustainable energy networks, as well as reducing the consequences of climate change, promotes transitions towards efficient energy matrices based on renewable energy. The diffusion of ICT, the most efficient use of energy and the promotion of distributed energy generation advances in different territorial scales. Within this framework, Smart Electrical Grids (SEGs), which combine traditional electricity supply with ICT, constitute a new way of organizing the flows of electricity and of information based on the integration of data from the various nodes of the energy network. This paper explores the sociotechnical changes of a case of smart grids in the province of Mendoza on the basis of observations and semi-structured interviews in the localities involved. From the perspective of the social studies of technology, the normative antecedents of distributed energy generation and smart grids (SEGs) are investigated as well as the process of transformation of the "user / consumer" to the "user / generator". Smart grids enable the incorporation of renewable energy as well as favoring territorial expansion into marginal regions while promoting an eventual advance towards a national sustainable energy system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]