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This article analyzes an Embera myth from northwest Colombia that sheds light on the origin of racial disparities and the poverty experienced by indigenous communities in comparison to "whites." Methodologically, the myth was collected using ethnographic techniques in the Jaikerazabi community, located in the municipality of Mutatá, Antioquia. The interpretation involves identifying the myth's structure and analyzing the historical and social context that perpetuates inequalities between the Embera and other groups. According to the myth, the subordinate status of indigenous peoples stemmed from their perceived weakness and the decree of the god Karagabí, who supposedly favored the abilities of whites and mestizos. The article concludes that this myth offers insights into racial hierarchies and socio-spatial, economic, and political dynamics resulting from colonization and the country's development model. The myth legitimizes the historical domination over the Embera people by presenting modern rationality as canonical, diminishing the value of traditionally inhabited spaces and condemning indigenous people to poverty for not conforming to the Western model. However, it also serves as an attempt to comprehend and potentially transform these inequalities. The originality of the article lies in providing insight into Embera culture through the lens of myth to provide a perspective on how indigenous people perceive the inequality they experience. This approach also recognizes myths as evolving narratives that adapt to historical changes experienced by these societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Colombia is one of the most inequal countries in Latin America, which at the same time, is the most inequal region of the world. Even though this situation is discouraging it is not new, the difference lays on the importance that this situation has been taken in the political agenda in the nation, awakening multiple expectative between the citizens who has been the eternal losers: the poor. This paper focuses on the challenges that the new government of Gustavo Petro faces in matter of the inequality and poverty that affects over the half of the population in Colombia, at the same time provides a context of the Colombian case in the conjuncture of global and regional socioeconomic changes that incident on the chances of fulfill structural transformations at the social policy. Although this research acknowledges a large spectrum of inequalities existing in the territory (gender, generational, ethnic, racial) it focusses on the income inequality. This analysis takes place based on the data of specialized sources on the subject and the monitoring fluctuations of inequality in Colombia in the last decade. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The human and economic costs caused by the pandemic are not the same in every nation. For this reason, the article highlights how isolation and difficulty in accessing primary necessities demonstrate social inequality in Colombia and present a challenge to the population that cannot cover the expenses derived from staying at home. This situation is aggravated by other national problems. The text describes several events that have transformed daily life while foreseeing a future marked by inexperience and a revision of the mechanisms established to achieve a common wellbeing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the context of social injustices, "informal settlements" arise in Colombian urban space as a result of the planning policies implemented according to the capitalist mode of production and the neoliberal model. On the basis of critical theory, the article analyzes the specific urban configurations produced by capital and provides a reflection on how these forms give rise to a control of space that generates injustices. In Colombia, cities are the result of social relations that create abstract spaces in which the monopoly of control allows for the maximization of profit. Urban planning, as a technical and scientific type of knowledge, is used by the hegemonic powers to control space, thus turning it into an ideology for its organization. This leads to a relation between knowledge and power that entails the production of social inequalities and polarizations, as well as an incorrect recognition or invisibilization of the different ways of producing space. Thinking in terms of justice grounded in social and political action can contribute to the redistribution of resources for "informal settlements" and to their recognition as spaces belonging "others". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is deeply interesting that although there is a National Strategy to Prevent and Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labour in Colombia, the numbers related to child labour are still high. That is why arises the need to review this situation by proposing recommendations for the optimization of this strategy. Therefore, considering the labour reforms conducted by the Government so at the end of the 20th Century as at the beginning of the 21st Century, as well as in the context of social inequialities that characterizes the country, is that have been linked these realities such as main causes of child labour and the maintenance of large numbers of this situation. With it also arises a propposal to connect these aspects in order to promote and implement the concept of decent work so also to eliminate the impoverishment of the adult labour force, to protect the population younger than 18 years old of the worst forms of child labour and, consequently, to decrease the high rates of this problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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A specific form of social mobility, spatial mobility, is examined in this paper. Likewise, social representations by residents of different social strata are analyzed. The research project that the current results are based upon, deals with the effects of the stratification policy on paying public utilities and with social mobility. Spatial mobility patterns towards and within Bogotá are reviewed, as well as the way its inhabitants move around in the city by socioeconomic stratum. Finally, representations related to moral categories and social stratifications in the city are examined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]