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Introduction: The different aspects that the study of the craft activity and its relationship with the natural environment can take have represented an important challenge due to the diversity of thoughts expressed, which entails a heuristic effort to identify explanatory elements that have meeting points and allow a pertinent classification to be established. Objective: The objective of the research was to document the thematic orientations that frame environmental studies of craft activity, this through the review of different investigations that have addressed the relationship between crafts and nature. Method: For this, a critical analysis of the bibliographical collection was carried out, identifying the thematic orientations. The investigation was carried out after the study of scientific articles published in indexed journals, during the period 2007 to 2022 available in open access in Spanish, English and Portuguese; in addition, the following criteria were considered: type of research, objective of the contribution, methodological approach, territorial scope, thematic and disciplinary orientation. Results: Four groups of thematic approaches were identified: a) production process, access to raw materials, transformation, and technologies; b) impact of production on natural resources; c) forms of social organization in the local context; d) commercialization and consumption in the current market. Conclusions: Although it is possible to establish a proposal for the classification of environmental studies of handicrafts, an expanded vision of reality is required that goes beyond parcel perspectives, considering the paradigms of complexity as arguments for their study in Mexico.

Introduction: In a democratic state, persons holding public office have the duty to report, justify and be publicly and periodically accountable for the use of allocated funds and the results obtained. Accountability is essential for the credibility and legitimacy of public institutions, however, in Costa it is still an incipient practice. Objective: The aim of this article is to analyze the stages of the public policy cycle concerning to the Public Prosecutor's Office accountability model and to determine the limitations and progress achieved in relation to its purpose. Method: The technique used for the systematization is the documentary analysis of materials prepared by the Public Ministry. A matrix of variables was designed that examines the different phases of the public policy cycle, based on guiding questions. To answer the questions, the information was classified into large categories and contrasted to obtain the relevant ideas and visualize the main results obtained with the accountability model in the period between the years 2018-2021. Results: Among the main findings, it was determined that the model was able to establish a standard in terms of the definition of a concept and structure of contents. Moreover, poorly developed areas were identified, such as administrative and professional support for the Prosecutor's Offices. [Continue reading in the article]

Introduction: Access to documentary sources constitutes one of the fundamental pillars for the advancement of research projects and the development of science, which enables analysis regarding their use, preservation and socialization. Objective: In this article we propose to reflect on the incorporation of documentary sources in social science research, taking as an analysis case the reconstruction of the building structure and the spatial distribution of a workers' village demolished in the early 1980s in a Buenos Aires province city from Argentina. Method: In this way, the inquiry is qualitative and multidisciplinary in nature, starting from a reflective crossing from History, Anthropology and Communication Studies. Results: We understand that the approach to the history of cement companies in the province of Buenos Aires presents obstacles with regard to access to documentary archives, for this reason we allow ourselves to evaluate how personal and informal links in an average city, access policies open space and the use of digital media guarantee access to a variety of information. Conclusion: We analyze the analytical value of documentary sources (journalistic, judicial, photographic, business archives, administrative writings), concluding that in Social Sciences access to them -and their complement- is essential for the development of investigation processes and understanding of local history.

Introduction: This reflective article seeks to formulate a theoretical matrix to approach collective processes that allows recovering knowledge, reflection, and the articulation of experiences and essential knowledge to produce -or preserve- conditions for the reproduction of life. Objective: It reflects on the processes initiated in popular pots and merenders as a response to food insecurity, accentuated by the pandemic and the mitigation measures that were initiatives of neighbors or groups of neighbors implemented in the Department of Maldonado, Uruguay, between 2020 and 2021. These processes must be observed in the context of public policies implemented at the national and departmental levels, with deficit apprhes and budgy otros locations. Method and technique: The methodological framework of analysis, reflection and systematization of secondary information was chosen, taking into account various articles and updated information in this regard. Results: Some of the results of the article refer to the construction of a referential framework that made it possible to illustrate gaps and theoretical nodes that enable mechanisms of reflexivity in relation to the «new needs», senses and meanings of communities and civil society organizations focused on food security in the Department of Maldonado. Conclusions: This approach is strategic for the analysis of practices aimed at strengthening rights, solidarity, community care and the potential of building «the common«, its tensions, contradictions and challenges. In this sense, it is a pertinent approach to account for the contingencies and dynamism of the object of study from an experiential point of view.

Introduction   The configuration of the Argentinian historiographical field was articulated during the first six decades of the twentieth century. During this period a series of heuristic and epistemic consensuses crystallised that transformed paradigms and contributed to the consolidation of disciplinary autonomy. The role of women historians in this process has been little studied. Objective   The purpose of this study is to review the participation of women in historiographical practice in Argentina in order to learn about their contributions to the articulation of the disciplinary field. Method and technique   This paper is an article of reflection that does not derive from a specific research on the subject, but is nourished by information and questions arising from previous research related to the evolution and consolidation of historical knowledge in the Río de la Plata during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The methodology is qualitative, of an interpretative nature, and is based on the perspective of the History of Historiography. The theoretical precepts are nourished by some contributions from gender studies.   Results   Information is presented on the itinerary of several women dedicated to the investigation of the preterit (some little studied and others almost unknown), the difficulties they had in gaining access to jobs and the strategies they had to implement in order to do so.   Conclusions   By way of conclusion, some of the relevant contributions made by women in the process of shaping the Argentine historiographical field and in the emergence of the "new history" of the 1960s are explained.

Introduction: The platform economy has invaded social relations in every way. Products of the information revolution, artificial intelligence and big data, the platforms constitute a sign of the times that crosses and deepens the set of pre-existing mercantile relations while commodifying a series of activities that, until their arrival, were outside to data extractive logic. The consequences of this irruption for the world of work are multiple and profound. Objectives: Here we propose to analyze the control practices and working conditions at UBER, the company that constitutes a paradigm of the new work management logics through digital platforms. Methodology: The study is qualitative in nature, based on ten in-depth interviews with UBER drivers during the years 2019 and 2020, in which, among other dimensions, working conditions, control mechanisms and meanings of work were investigated. Likewise, periodic monitoring of two driver and passenger forums was carried out. Results: Throughout the writing, a multiplicity of daily practices developed by the Uber company to influence the behavior and control the activity of drivers is observed. The platform's capacity to algorithmically manage work in a massive and personalized way is verified, with significant effects on working conditions. [Continue reading in the article]

Introduction: the concept of «decent work» defined by the International Labor Organization is assumed as the productive work of men and women in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity, and is proposed as one of the priority objectives of the Agenda 2030 sustainable development of the United Nations. Objective: to identify and analyze the elements that decent work involves from the perception of women microentrepreneurs who work in the natural or organic artisanal food and beverage sector to contribute to the discussion about the characteristics of the concept of decent work for women from sustainability economic and labor. Method: it involved a descriptive qualitative approach with a gender perspective and the concept of structural culture as a theoretical perspective, to analyze the elements of decent work from the perspective of women. The field work involved the participation of 5 women microentrepreneurs from an artisan collective who were given in-depth interviews. Results: from the perception of women, the essential elements for a decent job are the convictions, suspicions and interests of women microentrepreneurs, and the work-family balance. [Continue reading in the article]

Introduction: Labor informality and the formalization of employment have already been widely discussed. However, the problem remains on the public and government agendas at both the national and subnational levels. Objective: The objective is to assess the design of the public policy instruments that the government of Nuevo León has implemented (2015-2021) for the formalization of employment. The target population of the instruments are the Micro, Small and Medium enterprises of the state of Nuevo León.

Introduction: The relationship with the digital particularizes other forms of construction of subjectivities, which require visualizing the transformations from the use of these objects. We will focus on understanding the relationship between adolescence and the digital, from the use of technology as a potential element of the social bond or depotentializer of the social bond. Objective: To propose a critical analysis of the relationship between the digital and adolescence in psychosocial vulnerability, based on the notion of the body, digital technologies, and new subjective constructions. Method: A documentary research was carried out in two phases. The first was aimed at identifying existing Ibero-American literature in the last decade (2011-2021) on the relationship between adolescence in psychosocial vulnerability and digital technology. The second phase consisted of the analytical-critical theorization of this link, as a process of relational and subjective transformation.  Results: The documentary review allowed the identification of 82 binding investigations. Three analytical criteria were established for deconstructive critical reading with the transversal pharmakon axis: access-non-access to the digital, the circuit of affects and intergenerational difficulties in use. The result of the process led to an analytical corpus of 25 investigations. [Continue reading the article]

Introduction: In 1995, at the Fourth World Conference on Women, government representatives from all over the world agreed on the Beijing Platform for Action. The media appeared, for the first time, as one of the areas of special concern for achieving gender equality in the world. Objective: To carry out a critical monitoring of the communication and gender policies developed by the Argentine State regarding the fulfillment of the strategic objectives set forth in Chapter J: women's participation in the labor structure of the media; and the eradication of sexist and stereotyped media content. Method and technique: A documentary research with a qualitative approach was developed and the technique of content analysis was used. From this, especially for the elaboration of conclusions and recommendations, a methodology for the gender analysis of the legal phenomenon was used as a reference. Results: Most of the policies promoted by the Argentine State comply with the second strategic objective of the Beijing Platform for Action. In the year 2021, a law on gender equity in the media was passed, which responds to the first strategic objective; however, it has not yet been regulated. Conclusions: There are pending challenges in relation to possible reforms in the current legislation on violence against women; the tensions between regulation and freedom of expression; access to justice in cases of media violence; and the need to advance in the fulfillment of strategic objective one.