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

This collection of poems descends into the depths of human loneliness, from the loss of love to daily despair. The reader finds himself wrapped in nostalgia for the past, in a utopia that vanished due to the imposition of boots and the stock, leaving its stigmata in the future.

A review of the classification and genre of El viudo Román (Los convidados de agosto, 1964), by Rosario Castellanos, is made from two aspects: the short novel and the detective genre. Beyond considering the length (in words or pages) as the only criterion to determine if a narrative can be classified as a short story or novel, this article takes up some of Roland Barthes's points about the story and some other valid features for the short novel that clarify the aforementioned categorization. On the other hand, due to its theme, structure, and aesthetic features, El viudo Román establishes a direct relationship with the classic or traditional detective genre, which is a novel discovery in Mexican writing.

This text intends to point out the relevance that carousels have had for architecture and for installation art. On one hand, carousels are highlighted as objects of architectural creation, particularly in the restauration of old pieces; and also as objects of study from architectural theory as seen in the work of Constant Nieuwenhuys, Peter Cook, Cedric Price, Ron Herron, David Braithwaite, Rem Koolhaas and Robert Kronenburg. On the other hand, carousels are remarked as objects of creation and study in the production of installation art, integrating sometimes characteristic features of architecture into its discourse. This can be observed in some pieces made in different countries in the last three decades such as Carousel (1988) by Bruce Nauman, Lavatio Corporis (1994) by SEMEFO, and Golden Mirror Carousel (2014) by Höller, and the texts derived from those works.

Over the 2004-2019 period, the largest countries in the European Union experienced two phases of major electoral difficulties that proved un­favorable to the majority parties. Firstly, the sovereign debt crisis and the euro crisis of 2009-2012, and the subsequent application of severe austerity poli­cies. Secondly, the political ramifications of the refugee and migrant crisis in 2015-2016. These problems of supranational scope required the European Commission to agree on measures that, in principle, should be applied by national governments. This caused internal conflicts, which let to reverses in the elections at the cost of the national rulers and their parties, clearing a significant electoral space that was occupied by other parties and resulting in changes to the makeup of their party systems.  

In the article we analyse how some educational actions - nominally included under the paradigm of interculturality in Spain - are experienced by the schoolchildren who carry out them. We approach this question by reflecting on the different uses and drifts that the notions of interculturality and interculturalism have had (Dietz, 2017), especially in our study context (García, Pulido & Montes, 1999). The work methodology has been ethnographic, having carried out participant observation, discussion groups and semi-structural interviews with different school agents. We focus on this occasion on data produced from biographical interviews and life stories of boys and girls who have been attended throughout their schooling by devices such as the Temporary Language Adaptation Classrooms. The objective has been to get closer to their educational trajectories, as students who, in their childhood and / or adolescence, have participated in programs designed to intervene over migrant’s schoolchildren who do not know the language of the school. The results of the research suggest that the model for diversity management implemented in the study context reflects a “rhetorical drift” of interculturality itself. We would thus be facing an interculturality of a functional nature (Tubino, 2019); that would contribute to maintaining the structures of inequality resulting from the colonial dynamics of modernity (Walsh, 2012).

The natural sciences currently have an impact on essential aspects of human beings. For this reason, there is a need to highlight in the educational practice of the teachers who teach this subject the selection of content that promotes reflection and self-determination in citizens in the face of social problems. However, with erroneous visions of science overcrowded with content, distant from the student body and the abrupt changes generated by the Covid19 pandemic, this challenge and the probabilities of success become more complex. In view of the above, this article develops a theoretical-epistemic essay on science teaching models and considers some examples of the mistaken images of science that persist in schools and among teachers, which are in turn transmitted to students, generating disinterest and apathy towards science. It also analyses authors who explicitly or implicitly promote a renewed image of complex, emotional school science that assumes changes in the dimensions of being from its teaching, in contrast to the traditional vision of a conceptual model that has been dominant until today. Finally, it concludes on the relevance of a science and didactic options that should be adopted and implemented critically and that can, from the teaching praxis, influence in a reflexive way both in the teaching exercise itself and in the students' learning.

This article analyzes the use of Mexican photography as expressions of nationalism and identity formation, as well as the cult of the presidential figure in the framework of the Centennial of Independence in 1910. The material analyzed here has two fundamental features: a) proof photographs were procured for the National Commission by local commissions, some of which did not even have photographers; and b), the requests for autographed photographs were made by individuals close to or fond of President Porfirio Díaz. In this way, this exploration questions the importance of the image-issuing subject, as well as the adaptations to visual language with or without access to photography. The conclusions thus relate the administrative and identity uses of photography in 1910 as imaginary compositions of two types of time: the heroic time, with Porfirio Díaz as a living hero; and the local space time, where what prevailed was the importance of creating a postcard that addressed the needs of integration in the commemoration’s political language.

This article is the result of a brief study of the place that the concept of disease occupies in the Novo-Hispanic religious 17th-century discourse, based on three documents proposed to represent the survival of the three genera causarum of Antiquity: deliberative, panegyric and judicial, a collection of Jesuit talks, a Carmelite chronicle, and a treatise on the extirpation of idolatries. I argue that disease can function in these discourses as either punishment or as purification, facing two notions of healing that are somewhat opposite: one that trusted the arts of pre-scientific medicine, and the other that defended the quasi-magical power of healing religious – i.e., use of cédulas, prayers or sacraments. I also claim that the rhetorical use of disease was not only accessory in these discourses, but it was also a concept that made up one of the essential oratorical causes of Christianity: that which associated – sometimes conflictingly – bodily health with the salvation of the soul. Finally, I contend that the place of disease in these discourses is still limited to the moral conception of health, cultivated from medieval medical traditions, and embodying notions of malicious corporality and virtue as a quality not limited to the soul.

The following article has the objective of introducing some notions about football (or soccer) as a total social fact; it alludes to collective memory and history as part of its symbolic universe. In this sense, the understanding of sports opens the possibility of going further than the ludic aspect of the activity in order to link the sports with other social processes like the urban growth, migration and the genesis of institutions with great impact in the community. We use the concepts provided by the German historian Reinhart Koselleck ‘experience space’ and ‘expectative horizon’ to explain how Tijuana's inhabitants made football part of their identity construction. Both notions made possible the analysis of spots in the city connected to time concatenation between past and present, which includes a reflection about collective memory as a complex analytic category to discuss. 

When Hidalgo became a state in 1869, some towns in Valle del Mezquital – most of which were located within this state – aspired to change their district jurisdiction or become municipalities. To do this, the towns of Valle adopted specific historical arguments and economic and government aspirations. I analyze, on one hand, the territorial restructuring in Valle and, on the other, the discourses and ideological references used by these populations. The yearnings for change analyzed here are understood within the liberal political model of the Restored Republic, which promoted policies to favor economic growth and well-being. Thus, the article explains how the towns of Valle del Mezquital were linked to the territory and its resources, the aspirations they had, and their relationships with political actors. I argue that the towns sought in this way the appropriate conditions to self-manage the exploitation of their resources and achieve the desired economic and social progress. I also claim that some of these towns aspired to municipal status in order to become legitimate representatives of all their rights and guarantors of their own resources.