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This paper aims to investigate how Buddhism is related to science as a mechanism for legitimizing its meditative practices and worldview. The first part takes a historical review of the different moments that mark the dialogue between Buddhism and the scientific worldview in the Western sociocultural context. Then, the paper explores the narratives of various contemporary Buddhist leaders and personalities from the scientific field to identify the different argumentative modalities that support the compatibility between Buddhism and science. From this conceptual scheme, the last section of the article analyzes the stories of committed practitioners of Buddhist centers formed in Argentina in recent decades to investigate the modalities of reception and appropriation of this discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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By the late 19th century the discourse of modernity was used by business sectors in the National Territory of La Pampa, for attracting investments and labor force oriented to their colonization and production initiatives. Photography played a core role in legitimating modernization project, by providing an arsenal of images that documented the economic developments and the general progress of the Territory, but also by contributing to resignify a space associated to "desert" and barbarism. Through the analysis of two photograph albums produced in La Pampa in the early 20th century, this article deals with the way that photography was used for propagandistic purposes appealing to social imaginaries related to progress and modernization. However, each album was produced in a different social context, in which not only economic and social conditions varied, as the way modernization project was perceived by society did. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the relationship between the Argentine homeopathic journal "Homeopatía" and the development of homeopathy in Argentina, including the founding of the Argentine association of homeopathic medicine (Asociación Médica Homeopática Argentina), during the 1930s. In particular, it examines what it calls a creation myth, which explained and legitimized the emergence of homeopathy in Argentina at the time, and analyzes the mythologization of the life and work of Christian Samuel Hahnemann, the founding father of homeopathy. Within the Argentine social context, it describes how the discourse of "Homeopatía" contributed to these developments.

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During the Carlos Menem administration (1989-1999) it takes a drastic process of market reforms that transformed profoundly the economic and social structure. That reforms, from neoliberal orientation, contrasted with the typical economical politics associate with the peronism. However, the President obtained the support, or unless the tolerance, of an heterogeneous coalition that integrated inclusive to the popular sectors. A variety of explications had proposed explicate that support: the establish of an order that generated peace and safety opposed with the chaos of the alfonsinism, the success producing an economic stabilization, the president's charisma and inclusive the politic manipulation. A bit, however, had investigated what we could denominate the "passive" components from the menemist hegemony, and the studies that made it, had relegated the crucial importance of the symbolic or discursive dimension. In this article we propose it analyze that dimension. For that, we will investigate, using a perspective base of an discursive analysis from president Menem, allocutions during his first government period, the role that the "scientific" reforms, the absence of alternatives, the "impossibility ideology" and the social change structure derivate from the neoliberal politics, played in the passive legitimating from his discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Environmental actions are aimed at both environment reconstitution and damage recovery. There are different ones through which attempts have been made to gain access to justice for the purposes of the "tutela" (protection) of the right to a healthy environment according to the provisions of the national Constitution in its article 14, that lend themselves to different interpretations and misinterpretations. The Argentinian constituent has anticipated a collective action in the face of a collective incidence right to all the holders of the same. And the legislator, at the time of regulating the constitutional prescription, legitimates nobody other than the holder of the right to exercise an action, because this would be a people's action, and this figure does not exists in Argentina. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]