Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

Es importante comprender aquí el alcance de las nociones de enraizamiento y paganismo, cuya presencia cobra nueva relevancia en nuestros días. Subrayo la palabra “alcance”. Creo demostrar, en efecto, que dicha presencia implica mucho más que un simple anacronismo, como si esas palabras carecieran de significado para nuestro tiempo o como si estuvieran fuera de lugar. Por el contrario, la fuerza de movimientos “nacionalistas”, “nativistas” y “racistas” como el que encabeza el nuevo inquilino de la Casa Blanca o el que lideran otros más en Europa, sientan las bases para “repensar” tales nociones. Allí tenemos la oportunidad de pensar y esclarecer el debate. No se trata, ciertamente, de presentar los resultados de una investigación rigurosamente académica a que lleve el debate a su lugar de origen ni agote la discusión. A fin de comprender la relación entre dichas palabras y la interpretación que haré de ellas, referiré esta problemática al enraizamiento, por un lado, y, por el otro, a su repetición y discusión en nuestro tiempo. Dicha discusión, tomada en su aspecto más general, concierne a la estrecha afinidad entre el carácter pagano de la tradición griega y la apropiación política que de ella hacen ciertos movimientos contemporáneos, revelando ciertos males de la civilización occidental. En este ensayo exploro la afinidad de estos dispares movimientos, separados por siglos de historia y, sin embargo, tan afines.

This article from a reflexive analysis addresses the problems that young people face. Since, they are the most vulnerable in the current labor market reality. This is in comparison with other countries that have reached unsustainable rates of youth unemployment, for example Spain. The high rates of unemployment force public authorities and other administrations to take urgent measures, mainly in the fields of education and labor training. These instances concentrate the main difficulties that affect this cohort of the population. The conclusions point to the importance of training as a key element to face the arduous path to have labor insertion, by young people, and the decisive role the education system plays. Precisely, one of the elements of greatest interest is to determine what actions can be implemented in the educational field in order to transform the reality of the young people in the short medium and long time period.

El tema de la confianza en las instituciones políticas ha sido relativamente poco explorado en México, a pesar de su relevancia como componente de la legitimidad en las democracias. Desde hace ya algún tiempo se han elaborado varias encuestas sobre el grado de confianza de la sociedad mexicana en diversas instituciones y organizaciones, incluyendo las políticas. La aportación de este libro consiste en reunir la información empírica disponible de estas encuestas en relación a una institución política en particular, el Instituto Federal Electoral (IFE), hoy Instituto Nacional Electoral (INE), la elaboración de una nueva encuesta específicamente para obtener información para el estudio, y el análisis y la reflexión de lo que esto implica para la democracia mexicana. La frase cambio político en el título resalta la transformación que ha experimentado el régimen político en el país en décadas recientes, y se destaca también la centralidad en este proceso de las elecciones y la entidad encargada de su organización.   

The Mexican Electricians Union (sme) was a relevant organization in the history of the union movement in Mexico. However, the presidential decree presented in October 11, 2009 main objective was the disappearance of a parastatal company called Compañía de Luz y Fuerza (clf). This decree terminated the labor relations with the (sme), which suppressed collective bargaining of workers, in order to eliminate the workers union as a force in the social movements of Mexico. Thus, the state offensive against the (sme) was a strategic move for the privatization of electric power, to favor national and international entrepreneurs. This investigation deals with the response of the electricians. The electricians Union did not accept the government proposal of an economic settlement for the years worked. They generated a protest movement that lasted eight years in defense of their work source. In the subsistence of the movement of electricians, the family played a fundamental role as a creator of affective resources and decision-making to continue their fight against the state`s decree.

El presente artículo tiene por objetivo indagar los espacios de circulación y venta de dos sellos editoriales -Eloísa Cartonera y Editorial Funesiana- surgidos en Argentina en el 2002 y en el 2007, respectivamente, con vigencia en la actualidad. El texto, anclado en la perspectiva de la sociología de la cultura, propone una metodología de corte cualitativo, que se focaliza en el análisis de dos casos, ofreciendo como técnicas de recolección de datos el análisis de fuentes secundarias, entrevistas semi estructuradas y notas fruto de la observación participante. Si bien luego de la crisis económica del 2001 en Argentina comenzaron a detectarse cauces emergentes para la producción editorial local, este artículo apunta a inscribir a los mismos en el entramado de relaciones entre edición y publicación literaria sensiblemente transformado desde la apertura neoliberal de la década de 1990. Se concluye que los espacios de circulación priorizados por los sellos mencionados se articulan en torno a nuevos cánones de circulación y publicación editorial, configurando un esquema de actividad editorial alternativo al dominante. Tal indagación constituye un aporte en el campo de los estudios de sociedad y cultura en Argentina.

The article seeks to contribute to the study of international scientific-technological cooperation from and for Latin America. The contributions found in the review of recent literature are organized and presented around different dimensions that contribute to rethink the characteristics and the role of scientific-technological cooperation in Latin American nations. Such contributions are the conceptualizations of development, the views on international cooperation and the characterization of the ways of knowledge production. These contributions can be found on different axes of international scientific-technological cooperation in Latin America. Thus, it is studied to cooperate internationally in matters scientifictechnological, within the framework of the different conceptions of development; also with whom to cooperate in science and technology in the international arena —questioning the association with traditional counterparts and giving way to horizontal relationships with alternative partners— and how emerging organizations and actors cooperate in the new modes of production of knowledge.

Introduction: Medical students’ scientific societies are organizations that promote activities focused on research and other areas such as medical education and comprehensive health care. Objective: To determinate the medical students’ scientific societies importance in Latin America. Method: Observational and descriptive cross-sectional design with non-probabilistic sampling of consecutive cases between january and july 2017. A self-administered survey was applied, the sample was 430 subjects aged 16 to 34 from 14 Latin American countries, considered for an infinite population size an expected proportion of 50%, an accuracy of 5 and a 95% confidence level. Results: Of 430 medical students from Latin America, 254 (59.9%) were women and 176 (40.1%) were men. 426 (99.1%) students consider training in research important, 421 of them (97.9%) consider scientific publication important as students. Of the university training received, 290 (67.4%) students consider that they do not receive sufficient training on research and publications. As for the tools provided by the scientific societies, 320 (74.4%) consider that it receives the necessary tools for a sufficient scientific formation. 173 (40.2%) students stated that they belong to a scientific society and 88 (20.5%) of them have published an article in scientific journals. 139 (32.3%) were initiated in the research with their scientific society and 89 (20.7%) with a research group and researcher. Conclucions: The role of medical students’ scientific societies in Latin America as an engine for growth and promotion of scientific research is undeniable. Greater support and encouragement from universities is needed to accompany and ensure the quality of that growth.

Henos aquí, en el umbral de una nueva era, molestos, confusos, enojados, asustados y frustrados con lo que pasa en el mundo.

Medical education is different in each country, taking into account the need for the progressive development of new approaches or educational techniques that facilitate the learning of new doctors, which in theory is simple but in practice is difficult due to the high amount of content and time required for the training of quality doctors capable of facing any situation. It tends to estimate that all doctors are trained to teach and that is why their students learn, which is wrong and from the past, since it has been demonstrated by different methods of self-evaluation that teaching in medicine is complex, being necessary to implement programs that favor the development of teachers in medicine given that they are fundamental as components of the teaching-learning process.