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This paper intends to give a landscape on what the autor considers are some significant moments for contemporary scenic mexican dance field and its constitution. The text raises these significant moments that defined the permanence of some practices, modes to conceive dance and make it, as well as the mexican dance makers´ habitus. This habitus has its roots on the relation these actors have with the State and its institutions, that has joined these actors in various ways, supporting and excuding some of them in diferent moments. To think about these issues are important the conceptualization of some authors, and among them is Pierre Bourdieu, as much as his theoretical construction is useful to think about the power relations given in the artistic fields. Also are mentioned some authors who have written about scenic dance in Mexico and Latin America, who give interesting points of view about dance history in our countries.

No Se Vende (Not for Sale) is a grassroots campaign that claims that Puerto Ricans, even those who are renters, are the legitimate owners of Humboldt Park, Chicago. In this assertion, legitimacy and ownership are one and the same, regardless of the legal status of “homeowner”. No Se Vende then contradicts the original meaning that inspired the legal code, property that can be bought and sold which is not based on “use” values. Legality, to some extent, has lost its legitimacy in the eyes of these activists and, therefore, they have decided to claim their rights thought the symbology of language. In this sense, the idea of Puerto Ricans renting in Humboldt Park or simply deciding to stay has become an instrumental right of resistance to the perceived oppression. The campaign has played a key role in the construction of a new sense of legitimacy in the recent housing struggles after the financial housing crisis. This paper employs a single case study through participant observation, ethnography, and Participatory Action Research (PAR). Keywords: renters; owners; gentrification; Puerto Ricans; Chicago; activism; No Se Vende campaign

The hypothesis supported by this paper is, in regional studies, that the common characterization of Amazonia as a frontier should be deeply revised. This territory has been part of the capitalist world system form more than five centuries and may be better be conceived and interpreted as a composition of enclave environments, economies and ecologies, whose relationships to external political and socio-economic powers is deep-rooted and far less fragile than the frontier usage implies. Methodologically, the analysis focuses on socio-territorial literature about Amazonia and about Amazonian territorial constructions highlighting those many factors that seem to contribute to the continued plausibility of the frontier notion. Principal results are related to the construction of a critique to the sense and fertility of the concept of ‘frontier’ in territorial planning and administration practices in contemporary Amazonian territories. Keywords: frontier; Amazonia; coexistence; socio-spatial processes; coloniality

Despite international efforts to reduce the gender gap in the world, inequality in labor spheres continues to be strongly rooted in patriarchal patterns that limit women's development. In regions such as Latin America, the inclusion of women in work and their growth in management positions is a struggle that seems to face, on the one hand, the need for economic development in the region, and on the other, the traditional beliefs that are they have about the role that women play in society. Thus, at different stages of their labor development, women face strong constraints that hinder their being able to reach leadership positions with equal conditions than their male peers, showing that this issue remains a pending issue on the political agenda region. Keywords: gender gap; job; empowerment; glass roof; sticky ground.

The academia, a place where knowledge and critical thinking is (or should be) produced, has a complex relationship with multilingualism and language diversity. This complexity is far more evident when it comes to minoritised languages. English and, to a lesser extent, other dominant languages of nation states, occupy the role of hegemonic languages of science. However, according to the decolonial school, it must be reminded that the university is the result of historical processes related to colonialism, and this definitely has an impact on the languages it uses. Parallel to this, in the current context of language desertification, the dimension of language rights as human rights is becoming more and more evident. Basing on these premises, this article tries to deepen in the reasons for the low presence of minoritised languages in the academia (teaching, research and dissemination), and provides a framework to identify steps related to the concept of activism that can be taken with the goal of increasing the presence of these languages. Keywords: multilingualism at the academy; linguistic diversity; minority languages; linguistic rights; linguistic activism

In this article I will argue that the problem posed by environmental conflicts is political-conceptual (all in one word), and in the absence of a better term I will call it the problem of rational policy. Indeed, these conflicts call into question what is generally assumed as rational or reasonable policy, that is to say a policy where the contestants at least agree on what they are contending with. But these conflicts also call into question the conceptual tools with which the social sciences try to capture what is beyond rational politics, and thus it becomes clear how these conceptual tools operate as political tools in another field, that of cosmopolitics. Keywords: ontology; ontological conflicts; cosmopolitics

Edited by Elizabeth Monasterios Pérez Con Gamaliel Churata Interpelaciones al excepcionalismo de los saberes universales desde una concepción ambiciosamente crítica del pensamiento humano, se inauguran las publicaciones de América Crítica. Churata es un autor que, desde un lugar de enunciación silenciado por los procesos de formación de la modernidad occidental como el altiplano andino, abre y seguirá abriendo nuevas rutas interpretativas desde perspectivas inéditas. Ya está “dialogando con los distintos giros que ha tomado la crítica y la teoría cultural de las últimas décadas”, como demuestra Elizabeth Monasterios en su ensayo introductorio y nuevas generaciones de críticos de la literatura y de la cultura latinoamericana se están formando con el estudio de su obra. El libro que recoge las intervenciones del Simposio Internacional Gamaliel Churata: envisioning the circulation of andean epistemologies in the age of globalization, realizado en la Universidad de Pittsburgh en 2016, señala un importante momento de pasaje en los estudios sobre el autor en que emerge como reto: “la urgencia de impulsar el estudio de los manuscritos inéditos y de reflexionar sobre el potencial teórico y conceptual que tiene su obra para contribuir, desde una epistemología andina, a debates actuales sobre los límites del humanismo ilustrado y la construcción de nuevas conciencias ontológicas.” ISBN  digital edition 978-88-3312-029-4