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Forming social capital for collective appropriation encourages the conservation of socially-owned forest ecosystems. In Mexico, social ownership accounts for 60% of forest ecosystems, in which individual and collective mixtures of appropriation coexist. Through collective action, the organization of work, the kinship ties embedded in it and their expression in individual and collective areas in five ejidos in Tabasco and Chiapas were studied, in order to examine the territorialization of social capital for community forest appropriation. The results reflect an incipient process of building social capital for collective action and a fragmented community structure.

The Metropolitan Area of Tucumán (AMeT) is undergoing a process of gentrification linked to intense socio-spatial fragmentation, expressed through the unequal growth – regarding both area and population– of municipalities and communes (Gómez López, Cuozzo and Boldrini, 2015). The Institute for Planning, Housing and Urban Development (IPVDU) is undertaking operations to regularize historic settlements in the ATS through relocations. In this context, this research aims to conduct a critical review of this process, based on a multicriterial, comparative analysis of cases, in relation to the strategies to ensure the accessibility of basic services and quality of life for the population.

Nowadays, there is common perception that conceptualizes demographic anthropology as something born from physical anthropology. Nonetheless, this theoretical and methodological approach is based, since its inception, in the deeply rooted historical relation between demographics and anthropology – the latter understood in a holistic perspective, in which theories, methods and techniques from every anthropological discipline converge. The purpose of this paper is to advance a methodological reformulation of the so-called demographic archaeology, in order to be able to infer demographic structures from extinct populations through calculations of the number of inhabitants per household. We will turn to a case study of the Olmec site of San Lorenzo in order to expose the potential of the approach and show that research in this field, conceived as an integral part of a broader demographic anthropology, is necessarily developed through interdisciplinary, intradisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches, applying new technologies with the ultimate goal of contributing to the comprehension of the varied and complex dynamics of human populations.

We address the experiences of territorial stigmatization and their impact on health among a group of women who live in a working class-neighborhood of the periphery of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Data come from focus groups conducted during 2015 and 2016 and from interviews with neighborhood representatives. We reconstruct macro and meso-social processes of structural discrimination that produce place-based disadvantages, vulnerabilities, risks, and that also contribute to the neighborhood stigmatization. We analyze the responsibilities allocated to the neighbors and external actors. In addition, we account for some individual and collective strategies to face the territorial stigmatization.

The purpose of this article is to describe the history of urban planning in Colombia, based on the definition of four fundamental stages that group the characteristics and their evolution in the country. Each stage denotes a set of characteristics that were establishing the practices and the most connoted conditions in that country, according to the national or international tendencies in front of the urbanism processes. Also, there are evidences related to social processes, which do not exclusively define growth or urban expansion as a physical fact, but as an articulation of a number of social variables in the construction of the urban fabric.

Reseña del libro Renovación urbana, modos de habitar y desigualdad en la Ciudad de México, de Angela Giglia

The present work has as general objective to examine the principles of sustainabil­ity in the transportation system of the city of Mexicali, Baja California, from a hier­archical approach.Transport as an activity involves the development of sustainable systems, in­cluding efficient energy, multimodal mobility systems, communication systems; es­pecially, public transport involves fuels and clean vehicles (Zhang and Ferrari, 2013, p. 1).The results show that sustainability principles in the city’s transportation system are not integrated: accessibility, mobility, urban planning, networks, among others.

Dr. Brígida García Guzmán received the Research Fellow Emerita distinction from El Colegio de México in recognition of her outstanding academic career in the area of sociodemography, and her committed work in the training of population scholars. The ceremony was held on June 24, 2019, in the Alfonso Reyes Hall of this institution. The words of the speakers are reproduced below in order of appearance: Silvia E. Giorguli, president of El Colegio de México; Orlandina de Oliveira, Research Fellow Emerita of the same institution; Enrique de la Garza Toledo, Distinguished Professor of the Autonomous Metropolitan University; and Jessica Nájera, research fellow at the Center for Demographic, Urban and Environmental Studies of El Colegio. We also include the words of Brígida García Guzmán, now Research Fellow Emerita of El Colegio de México. Vicente Ugalde, academic secretary of that institution, served as moderator.

Bitter, Sabine y Weber, Helmut (eds.). (2018). Autogestion or Henri Lefebvre in New Belgrade. Berlín: Sternberg Press

El Colegio de México paid tribute to Alejandro Mina, an outstanding demographer and teacher of many generations of population students. The posthumous act was held on February 6, 2019 in the Alfonso Reyes Hall of this institution. The addresses of the speakers are reproduced below in order of appearance: Manuel Ordorica, research fellow at the Center for Demographic and Urban Studies (CEDUA) of El Colegio de México; Carlos Javier Echarri Cánovas, research fellow at CEDUA, El Colegio de México and general secretary of the National Population Council; Silvia E. Giorguli, president of El Colegio de México; and Mauricio Rodríguez Abreu, professor at the University of the Americas, Puebla. The act was moderated by Jaime Sobrino, director of CEDUA, El Colegio de México.