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Te Ckunza of the Lickan Antai people inhabiting Chile, Bolivia and Argentina has been declared extinct. However, it is argued that reconstructing the elements of the grammar could facilitate its revitalization. Tis paper seeks to account for these elements in the ckunza of San Pedro de Atacama. To this end, a review of the phonetic, phonological, lexical, semantic, morphological and syntactic elements of the Amerindian language will be provided. Tis analysis also informs about the agglutinative characteristic of Ckunza. Te corpus of this research comes from the samples collected by the pioneers in its study. Te aim of this review is to show the grammar of Ckunza, since its reconstitution will provide the rules that will allow the creation of new sentences that will contribute to its revitalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Thie main objective of this paper is the conceptual study and characterization of slow journalism from an academic and professional perspective. As a methodological process, a total of 76 files have been analyzed, of which 58 correspond to publications of authors from the academic world and 18 to journalism professionals. Thie publications come from the academic world on information and journalistic quality, on digital journalism and narrative journalism, as emerging journalistic routines with potential and creative dynamics in the media sector. Thie other part of the analysis corresponds to 18 professional journalism experts. Among the most outstanding results is the preeminence of the academic world when it comes to studying the phenomenon, given that among those who practice journalism there is less production of works in this regard compared to those coming from the university environment. Also in academia there is a greater profusion of denominations to refer to the phenomenon in Spanish, although both in academia and in the journalistic profession itself the most commonly used term is the Anglo-Saxon term slow journalism. [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]

In 1944, the government of the self-ploclaimed «June Revolution» installed a Military Zone in the basin of the Gulf San Jorge (Argentina). Its purpose was to militarize central Patagonia, as its vast and perpetually disputed oil wealth meant this territory needed to be safeguarded. The Military Government (GM) caused a series of important transformations; the analysis of the work environment in Comodoro Rivadavia shows one of these transformations. This paper will show that, during the MG, workers claimed the values of oil nationalism promoted by General Enrique Mosconi in Fiscal Oil Fields (YPF) between 1922 and 1930. [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]

This paper inquires into certain theoretical lines of argument in order to rethink the analyses of some alternative communication projects under way in different Argentine inland cities. The characteristics of some established radio and digital newspapers, produced by young men and women from urban milieus, problematize the ways in which social, political, and discursive matters are to be approached. Thus, in this paper, we propose a dialogue between the different post-structuralist perspectives in order to ponder on the relationships established between power and resistance based on a 'rhizomatic' conception of the social issue. On the other hand, we recover some Latin American reflections on alternative communication in order to connect them to M. Foucault's proposal concerning the indissoluble link between power and discourse. Finally, we sum up with a few key methodological approaches from which we consider that, both the political and discursive dimensions of social processes, are articulated into a social-discursive perspective once it has been clearly understood that ideology is always present behind any sense or meaning which has the imprint of the social conditions that produced them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the problem of school violence through a critical reading that allows rethinking the approach to school bullying. It proposes a critical psychosocial interactionist approach from a qualitative perspective focused on the reconstruction and understanding of the conflicts in coexistence in secondary schools in Argentina from the perspective of young people and educators. It focus the analysis on physical confrontations ("fights") between students, which emerge in defined situations by the participants, and are defined as deep affronts to their identity and can be understood as recognition conflicts. Finally, it presents considerations around psychosocial intervention through participatory strategies with young people and educators to promote the deconstruction of the arguments that justify violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the beginnings of Psychology Education in Argentina and then focusing on the organization of undergraduate programs in the whole country. The aim is to carry out a complete updating information of all universities including psychology programs. Subsequently, the impact of the process of accreditation of undergraduate psychology programs is analyzed. Accreditation began in 2009 and it is not finish at all. On the other hand, graduate programs and organizations of psychology are also examined. It also confirms the professional and clinic bias that characterized Argentina psychology since the early 1960s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper takes very briefly on six decades of the history of psychology in the city of La Plata (Argentina), from the creation of the Pedagogic Department in the National University, in 1906, until the coup d'état of 1966, that put an end to the expansion of psychological studies that had started in 1958, after the creation of the psychology program. In that period, psychology would go through different phases, marked by oppositions such us “positivist naturalism"/ “anti-positivist humanism", “theoretical training" / “professional training", “scientific psychology" / “psychoanalytic psychology", etc. The goal of this work is to make an account of what happened at the time, giving as much importance to the individual actors as to the institutional and political factors that were present in the context. The methods are the traditional ones for history (mainly de gathering of oral, documentary and bibliographic sources. However, they have been interpreted from a critical perspective. [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]

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 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]

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 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 analyses popular wisdom and memory transmission regarding State terrorism and forced disappearance, which are circulating among youth living around Hospital Posadas, located in Haedo, a province to Buenos Aires, Argentina. At this hospital, there was, under the military dictatorship (1976-1983), a Clandestine Imprisonment Center, where people were kept prisoner as disappeared. Therefore, at this facility both practices of health restoration and torture and murder perpetration coexisted. Through thirty indepth interviews carried out among neighbor young people, the existence of manifold knowledge fractures and memory transmission about State violence is verified, being a result from the social relations breakthrough that used to articulate the neighborhood and the hospital, and from the material life conditions promoting undifferentiated historical and political time awareness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper was to analyze the differences Reflexivity-Impulsivity in cognitive style and planning as regards social risk and to test the efficacy of a reflexivity training program integrated to the curriculum in a poverty context. We have worked with a sample of 110 6-year-old children: an experimental group (N = 47) a control group (N = 22) at risk and a control group not at risk (N = 41). All of them live in Entre Ríos, Argentina. The results indicate differences in R-I response patterns and planning in terms of social risk and emphasize the role of experience in the development of these functions. Besides, they support the hypothesis which holds the possibility to improve the reflexive disposition after program training. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses the discourse conflicts concerning development and the social issue, between the government elites and the power groups during post-Peronist developmentalism era in Argentina. Because of space limitations emphasis will be made on the Onganía's government. Governmentality crisis faced during that period can be explained on the grounds of the difficulty elites in power had to come to an agreement on a hegemonic discourse concerning those issues, as it is argued here. The empirical analysis will show a constant: permanence in time of a liberal narrative against any effort of state regulation and the failed attempt to create an alternative narrative through the development significant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From an ethnographic perspective, this paper will focus on analyzing how «cirujas» --as people collecting reusable materials from waste are-- are readapting themselves to the current urban space in the city of Buenos Aires (Argentina), and how they confront stigmatizing social discourses. An account of theses uses and the strategies they formulate to face social differentiation they use to live with, to resist or coexist with stigmatizing stereotypes condemning them is provided. At the same time, by focusing on urban spaces with interacting groups from different socio-economic sectors, the idea of social segregation will be challenged, by showing these processes come along with new encounter modalities between the different social groups based on the realization of a differentiated use of public space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the results of my Master's Thesis entitled "Representations of Public Space: Citizenship and Political Culture in the First Peronist government". In general terms, I address the articulation of politics and communication, considering the public space as a matter for primary analysis. To do so, we analyze the news events Sucesos Argentinos, which were shown between films in cinemas. Thus, I will first address the main analysis items: public space, citizenship, culture and political representation. Then, I will present the research questions and methodological approach, and finally some of the main conclusions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper relies on the analytical tools provided by Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Zizek in order to study the way in which Argentine president Carlos Menem (1989- 1999) rearticulated the Peronist discourse. It also analyses the effects this re-articulation produced in the identity of the Peronist movement. I seek therewith to explain how it was possible to maintain the Peronist identitary ties, within a context of socioeconomical policies that were profoundly different from the ones that were previously proclaimed and implemented by Perón between 1946 and 1955. Therefor I analyse the context in which Menem's discourse emerged and its entailment with other discourses that began to prevail during that period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]