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This article proposes to reconsider the feasibility of overcoming violent situations. Situations in which reality imposes itself in an indefectible and aggressive manner and in which it is hard to generate spaces of justice, since in them, social inequality and marginalization prevail. The persistence of injustice is the breeding ground for violence. An explicit case of such conditions was the massacre of 43 students of the Rural Teachers’ College in Ayotzinapa (Guerrero) on November 26, 2014. Under these circumstances, and, in order to formulate alternatives where peace becomes a viable horizon, this paper assumes the perspective about real injustice developed by Luis Villoro. Based on the recognition of this condition, the collective imagination of alternatives for overcoming violence and achieving peace becomes possible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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

In this paper, we propose the review of a College as a case study that allow us to present an analysis that relates critically the categories of strategic management and strategic analysis. For the first category, it is assumed at the outset that this is a prospective view that attempts to regulate the behavior of members of an organization with an explicit intention of seeking efficiency and effectiveness. While the assumption for the second is that it is rather an ex-post view that assumes strategy as the regularity in the behavior of the actors This critical review of the categories will be based on diagnostic analysis of a Mexican higher education institution in the dimensions: explicit intentionality, and power and strategy. Particular emphasis will be put on those elements that allow us to demonstrate the conceptual distinction suggested above between strategic management and strategic analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Indigenous Justice System of Quintana Roo, was created and implemented by the local government more than ten years ago, and it has not been sufficiently investigated. The aim of this paper is to analyze its performance from the legal sociology point of view, using the law reports of the traditional judges. Today, and thanks to their actions, the Mayan traditional judges are socially legitimized into the indigenous communities, although they were created "from the outside of the communities" by state authorities a little bit more than a decade ago. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to determine the degree of implementation of the knowledge management process in two selected groups of companies of the states of Carabobo (Venezuela) and Tamaulipas (Mexico). A non-experimental research was developed, with a transactional - correlational design, in which a questionnaire was used as instrument for recollection of information and it was applied to executives of the area of human resources or administration of 20 companies of the great industry which formed part of a nonprobabilistic sample. From the obtained results, it can be affirmed that the various activities of the KM process are present in the administrative practice of the selected companies, and with almost no difference it can be concluded that the Venezuelan companies have more homogenous answers and develop more activities of knowledge management than do the Mexican ones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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