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

The objective of this paper is to document the experiences of Tenek and Nahua women in self-care during pregnancy and childbirth, and their perceptions about institutionalized care. Mixed methodologies research was used. Data was collected through surveys and group interviews. Resulted showed that women implement resistance strategies in order to continue the accompaniment of the midwives, and although they are incorporated into the follow-up of the health services, they conceive health participation more as a means of control than as a guarantee of the right to health. This article provides elements for reflection and analysis of maternal health in indigenous contexts. The value of this research lies in the fact that it questions the resistance to the institutional health service, revealing the gaps, omissions and violence in medical practice. It is concluded that family counseling is relevant to decide on their pregnancies and births, while health services assume an ethnocentric view that minimizes and undermines their knowledge and therapeutics.

The objective of this article is to show the economic link established by the haciendas in the north of the Mezquital Valley with the real de minas de Zimapan during the last decades of the viceroyalty, with the intention of making visible the role of these productive units in the extraction of novohispanic silver. The data were constructed from the review of documentary sources, printed matter, historical cartography and field work; which were analyzed from their spatial dimension through Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The objective of this article is to show the economic link established by the haciendas in the north of the Mezquital Valley with the real de minas de Zimapan during the viceroyalty, with the intention of making visible the role of these productive units in the extraction of novohispanic silver. The data were mainly constructed from the systematization of secondary sources and printed documents of the time, and to a lesser extent archival documents, historical cartography and field work; which were analyzed from their spatial dimension through Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The results allow to recognize that the haciendas helped to maintain the silver production dynamics of Zimapan by providing the mining center with the necessary inputs for this activity, as well as the economic and social integration of the Mezquital. Likewise, the wealthy miners formed a regional elite by land grabbing, hoarding natural resources and local workforce to lower their production costs; in addition, they builded an important road network to speed up the flow of goods.

Social participation has been vigorously promoted in renowned Latin American public policies, such as: the National Solidarity Program, Progresa, Oportunidades and the National Crusade Against Hunger (Mexico); Fome Zero and the Brasil Sem Miséria Plan (Brazil), as well as the food security policies of Cuba and Uruguay. Now, in Mexico, with Mexican Food Security seeks to promote the agricultural sector to increase production, economic benefit and well-being of rural communities with the participation of producers and their organizations. For this reason, a hermeneutic analysis of a socio-critical approach was carried out on the inclusive food policies with the greatest relative success in Latin America to contrast them with the social participation component considered in the Mexican Food Security policy. As a result, it is shown that food policies with greater relative success denote greater participation of producers and their organizations, but at the same time there is little empirical evidence of social participation that intervenes in public policies, which limits its analysis based on results.

The objective of this research is to know the perception of mezcal exporters in Oaxaca (Mexico) about electronic government as a management tool. To achieve the objective, an exploratory and cross-sectional qualitative research was implemented. To collect the information, a semi-structured interview was used, through convenience sampling. Among the results, a positive perception was found towards the electronic government as an instrument to improve its export processes. However, exporters perceive the services as very basic and deficient, coupled with a lack of knowledge to use them. One finding is that the electronic government as a tool to promote the digitization of various economic sectors, as in this case, the management of mezcal export processes, is key to development, particularly when it is designed based on the real needs of exporters. and is accompanied by user training. It is concluded that not all the benefits of electronic government are being used, generating a loss of efficiency and effectiveness in export management.

We criticize the conception of “history” that understands it as the set of “important”, “transcendent”, “relevant” and/or “transformative” human actions, and that, for this reason, would be the only actions that can and/or should be remembered. We problematize this conception because it generally implies Eurocentrism as it only sanctions as constituents of “history” the actions that “Western” (Eurocentric) culture considers “important”, “transcendent”, “transformative”, both at regional and global levels (like scientific discoveries, capitalist developments, democratizing advances, etc.). Firstly, we reflect on the problem that the ambiguity and polysemy of the word “history” implies. In a second moment, we propose the central question of this text: that the definition-conception of history as “the set of past events carried out by the human beings” is the conception that will best allow the elimination of generalized Eurocentrism. Finally, we admonish the currently predominant historiographical notion of “world history” and the texts produced under such a notion, like those of Yuval Noah Harari or Peter Frankopan, for appearing to be pluricultural when they are still Eurocentric, technocentric and colonizing.

The purpose of this article is to discuss the transformation of Sociology and Political Science in Mexico during the 1990s and the embrace of the transition paradigm. To this end, two sets of key phenomena are analyzed. The first set focuses on: 1) the transformations of international social science in the late 80s and 2) the evolution of American Political Science. The second examines three dimensions of the Mexican Sociology and Political Science: 1) its history, highlighting the lack of theoretical production and its link with the State; 2) the blurred border between public and academic sphere and 3) the weaknesses of the academic translation of the democratic paradigm during the 90s. The conclusion reached is that there is an ideological, normative, and conceptual imbalance that is still being reproduced in the current study of political processes. This article is an invitation to debate the paradoxes of democratic theory.

José de la Colina is among the writers that mastered the craft of the short story in México during the Twentieth Century. He was widely considered by his peers as one of the very best prose writers of his generation. Even though he was acknowledged, few critics have studied his texts considering their technical and symbolic traits. To correct this the following article focuses on several of his pieces, chiefly in those in which animals become significant elements of the plot. The hypothesis suggests there is a bond between form and meaning in his stories; animals appear to be not only symbolics presences, but also function in the construction.

Based on archival documentation from the National Register of Foreigners in Mexico (1932-33), I am interested in reconstructing the transatlantic geographies of the journeys that parental groups of “Gypsies” made between Europe and the Americas, especially to Mexico, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These documents map the spaces and places of these journeys and link members of different contemporary Ludar and Rom families. The ethnonyms and exonyms in the documents, the climate of migration policies in Mexico and the reconstruction of these geographies are all part of the Rom migrations to the Americas.

Reseña del libro Patrimonio efímero: Memorias, cultura popular y vida cotidiana, coordinado por Jennifer L. Jenkins y Adriana Corral Bustos y publicado por la Editorial de El Colegio de San Luis, A.C.

Climate change must be one of the topics that has been studied the most in recent years. Both the physical sciences and the social disciplines and humanities have dealt extensively with the nature, causes and effects of global warming on all dimensions of social and natural reality. One of those issues are migrations. This article analyzes the findings that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has recorded in its five evaluation reports on the relationship between climate change and migration, taking as a frame of reference the displacement of people who have left their homes in Central America to go to the United States in recent years. The notion of “climate reductionism”, proposed by Mike Hulme (2011), is taken as a starting point to affirm that, with some differences of degree, by arguing that migrations are an adaptive response to the effects of global warming, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is reproducing a perspective of social processes that has its roots in environmental determinism, both as a methodological approach to reality and as an instrument of political legitimation of the social order.