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Literature and Universal History have been full of diverse heroic characters. One of these characters is the Bat Man, who at a very young age witnesses the murder of his parents and, therefore, devotes his life to the fight against evildoers. Batman is an icon of popular culture and, in this story, it is a direct intertext of the imaginary of Gotham City and its masked hero. In The Last Adventure of Batman, by the Costa Rican writer Carlos Cortés, the author uses the figure of Batman as a means to unravel the mysterious origin of the protagonist. In this way, such detectives of the night, protagonist and Bat Man go into the darkness of the night and the unknown to undertake their latest adventure.

The present article analyzes from an epistemic and reflective perspective the importance of academic praxis in art and science with respect to the interdisciplinary studies enunciated by Rolando García. For this, three aspects of the study have been formulated: disciplinary assessment, methodological rigor, and humanistic and ethical dimension in the interdisciplinary exercise. In addition, it is taking into consideration the intellectual approach of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) and Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) to justify the annotations to wield. In this way, it is concluded that art and science assume convergent points in the disciplinary work, without neglecting that each area maintains a different approach in the way of approaching an experiment, a problem or a process. On the other hand, despite the relationship between both disciplines (an example, the use of drawing) a different methodological rigor persists in the study approach. Finally, both disciplines assume a humanist task in the elaboration of their statements and results.

The article explores part of the scope of University Community Work in the Diriá National Park and surrounding communities. This TCU has opened a range of possibilities that are truly vital, dynamic and effective because, while they preserve, they also generate a space for reflection and academic and systematic inter-institutional study. There, the University Community Work (TCU) represents an active form of the University - Society relationship, in which students experience an approach not only to the National Park itself, its problems and natural wealth, but also a direct relationship with the La Esperanza, Colas de Gallo and Vista del Mar communities, between others. The social action developed by the University of Costa Rica in the aforementioned communities and in the National Park Diría by the TCU, has been fundamental not only to improve behavioral changes and knowledge regarding the protected areas related to their protection, valuation and care on the part of the communities but also that the activities and development of the project contribute to improve the quality of life of the inhabitants of the communities

This article discusses the most important ideas of the political thought of Machiavelli in the Prince, in which both are located around the principle of centralization of power and strength, although within a schema and Kautilya Arthasastra in radically different from the Western feudalism. Arthasastra according to the mentioned authors, shows systematic thinking about the political and administrative order publics and the processes of decision in lathe to the ruler. Both texts share comparable key concepts, despite the distance spatio-temporal works which form part of the strategy in the exercise of power. In the same way, the concept of virtu which determines the behavior of the successful rules in political life are compatible.

Trafficking of women is a reality which presence in society is not new; however, the magnitudes reached in the midst of migratory processes make it a topical problem. Las Elegidas (2015) a novel by Jorge Volpi; and Las Elegidas (2015), a film by David Pablos, they broaden this topic. There is an approach to the phenomenon on both representations, so it shows the validity and strength of the patriarchal logic on which gender structures society and promotes the exercise of power, mediated by violence and the domination of men over women. The analysis of both texts allows us to delve which common denominator is always ownership as part of a sphere of control of women's lives.

Aurenthal, a novel published by Luis Ricardo Rodríguez in 1991, has many features that could be considered part of the fantastic. However, a close inspection reveals that there are innovative narrative devices in its pages, from the actual story to the stylistic resources used to tale it. From the theoretical proposals of Todorov and Tolkien, as well as Baum’s stylistic considerations, this work analyze the novel looking for its place in the fantastical and the marvelous theory, and in the interpretative possibilities of its narrative devices

This article offers a panoramic revision of the complex relationships between Black populations, the Caribbean space, and the Central American isthmus from the Colony to the present. As a framework for this analysis, I explore the concept of AfroCentral Americanness, as a simultaneous circumstance of geographical, cultural and political dislocation and translocation. On the one hand, Central American countries exclude both the space and Afro-Central American identities from their repertoires of nationhood. On the other, these populations define themselves through a linkage with the insular Caribbean since the colonial times. They affirm a Circum-Caribbean experience during the (liberal) plantations era. They also capitalize their Afro-Latino condition through the migrations to the United States and other territories in the region, from the mid-twentieth century until today. Entangled with the formation and mobilization of diasporic identities, Afro-Central Americanness speaks about the cultural malleability (and fragility) of national borders. It also suggests dynamic projects challenging the mestizo (or white) Central American imaginaries and the possibilities of articulation within.

The objective of this paper is to analyze nine life stories of elderly women, Chinese immigrants or direct descendants of Chinese immigrants, who live or have lived in the city of Puntarenas, Costa Rica, in the 20th century, in order to know the Chinese immigration from the female perspective and the mechanisms they used to face cultural change. The storytelling technique proposed by Bertaux (2005) is used. The results show that these women, immigrants and descendants, were strong, hardworking, faithful, respectful and above all, lovers of their families, who managed to deal with a different culture, get adapted to the new context, built a family and inserted themselves peacefully into the community of Puntarenas.  

Through a large analysis of literature about development policies, statistics and studies of cases in European Union and Latin America, this article presents an analysis of main development rural policies in European Union, Latin America and Costa Rica between 1990 and 2008, when globalization produced a new reality in rural sectors that forced to create modern actions for rural development. Thus, it´s been evidenced that in these regions, territorial bottom-up rural policies caused social inequality and did not resolve the main issue: the rural poverty.

This research exposes the development and consolidation of the presence of the University of Costa Rica (UCR) in the Brunca Region in Costa Rica. This began with the donation to the UCR of land and buildings in Golfito, Puntarenas, used until then by the Banana Company of Costa Rica (CBCR) after the abandonment of the banana activity in 1984. These facilities are managed by different entities such as the UCR- Kansas University agreement, the Foundation for Interuniversity Cooperation in the South Pacific (FUCIP) and the UCR Foundation for Research (FUNDEVI). In 2004, the Rectory of the UCR took over the administration of these buildings and in 2006 began teaching tasks, with which it became a university branch.