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This article examines the biographical, personal, and familial consequences faced by women searching for disappeared persons in Guanajuato, a state marked by the coexistence of economic development and criminal violence. Based on a qualitative study of 27 women—categorized as active participants in collectives, disassociated from organizations, and independent searchers—it identifies differentiated impacts across five dimensions: social bonds, physical and mental health, gendered roles, institutional relations, and economic conditions. Findings reveal that collective members acquire empowerment and technical expertise despite intense physical strain; disassociated women experience isolation and "secondary ruptures"; and independent searchers develop “strategies of silent resistance” in high-risk settings.  These results contribute to a more nuanced understanding of “ambiguous loss” and “complex gendered agency,” portraying women not as passive victims but as active agents who construct strategies to confront multifaceted violence and reframe their lives.

Oil Frontiers elaborates on the political ecology of oil palm in the Costa and Selva Lacandona regions of Chiapas, Mexico. Drawing on a Gramscian perspective, the book examines popular culture in these two rural regions to understand why the monoculture was adopted. The author argues that monocultures are not only economic projects but also cultural initiatives that reshape practices and meanings in rural territories. In the cases analyzed, palm cultivation is embedded in a culture of modernization that legitimizes the exploitation of nature as a pathway to progress. Thus, the book provides a comprehensive view of territorial appropriation, rural transformations, and the social consensus that sustains the expansion of these crops.

Recovering a methodological strategy focused on conducting ethnographic interviews with neighborhood leaders from upper-middle- and upper-class neighborhoods in the Miguel Hidalgo Municipality (Mexico City), this article proposes to explore some of the senses of belonging and representations that these actors have constructed regarding the characteristics that public space should possess and the desirable profile of those who can —or cannot— legitimately transit, occupy, and inhabit it. We start from two hypotheses: 1) the aspirations, needs, and fears of the interviewees mobilize an "imagined community" based on a class habitus; 2) the ideological matrices of their notions of citizen participation are akin to liberal-democratic discourse, but at the same time display moral limits.

Facing a landscape of crisis, marked by the cathartic gestures of capitalism, encompassing civilizational, social, historical, and political issues, we increasingly find ourselves navigating contemporary unknowns and uncertainties in search of answers to what we are experiencing. This leads us to reflect, both collectively and individually, on where we are headed: What will we do to live/survive in this capitalist/death-driven system? And above all, what responses can we devise in the face of multiple (and relentless) catastrophes? As well as: Where is capitalism taking us?

This article analyzes how autonomy is configured in two emerging occupations in Mexico City: tattoo artists and app-based delivery workers. Using a comparative approach based on qualitative interviews, it explores how workers negotiate decision-making margins in contexts marked by precarity, algorithmic control, and public reputation systems. Despite belonging to different sectors, both groups share self-management of time, lack of labor rights, and individualized risk. Drawing from their experiences, we propose the concept of negotiated autonomy to describe a process where agency and control coexist in tension, enabling workers to construct meaningful relationships to their labor beyond the dichotomy of total subordination and complete freedom.

The objective of this research is to ethnographically explore the care practices implemented by women in contexts of internal forced displacement. Through ethnographic landscapes structured around case studies —developed via in-depth interviews and participant observation in the field— this study highlights the direct and indirect care practices these women deploy to sustain the lives of their companions. I argue that experiences of internal forced displacement are diverse and composed of multiple trajectories, in which care practices are fundamental to understanding the decisions women make when choosing specific destinations, displacement routes, and strategies to ensure the safety of those who accompany them.

Lahire took on the challenge of synthesizing the essential knowledge built since the nineteenth century about social structures with the ambitious goal of rebuiling sociology on truly scientific bases. He dialogues with the life sciences and elaborates a comparison between human societies and between these and non-human societies. The result is a monumental work which goal is to make social science a science like any other: one based on universal objective facts and aimed at formulating general principles of social functioning.

En A Quiet Place (2018), la ausencia del habla se convierte en una metáfora poderosa que permite un análisis desde dos perspectivas: la ética y la psicoanalítica. Desde una visión ética, el filme plantea una tensión fundamental entre la libertad de expresión como derecho humano y la necesidad de autocensura para garantizar la supervivencia. La presencia de criaturas sensibles al sonido impone un régimen de silencio absoluto, donde la más mínima transgresión conlleva una pena de muerte instantánea. En este contexto, el ethos que rige a la familia Abbott se basa en un principio utilitario: callar no solo es una restricción, sino un deber moral para preservar la vida humana. La ética aquí no se centra en la autonomía individual, sino en la responsabilidad colectiva. Desde la óptica psicoanalítica, el silencio obligado se vincula con la represión y su inevitable fracaso. La película ilustra este concepto a través del acting out, expresado en forma de síntomas histéricos que evocan la clásica tríada del “no ver, no oír, no hablar”. El trauma emerge en la figura de Beau, cuyo juego con el transbordador espacial simboliza el deseo infantil y reprimido de explorar el mundo, desatando la tragedia. Asimismo, la relación entre Regan y su padre sugiere una dinámica edípica donde la envidia y la culpa funcionan como manifestaciones del instinto de muerte. Así, A Quiet Place explora el precio del silencio, no solo como estrategia de supervivencia, sino como reflejo de pulsiones inconscientes que, reprimidas, siempre encuentran una vía de expresión.

La serie El Eternauta, lanzada a la pantalla por Netflix en abril de 2025, propone un diálogo, una tensión y un interjuego entre tres dimensiones de la catástrofe. Se trata de distintas capas del horror que se solapan y producen efectos en los personajes: aquella producto de la nieve tóxica y la invasión alienígena, el trauma de guerra que porta Juan Salvo en su calidad de ex combatiente en la Guerra de Malvinas, así como la desaparición del escritor Héctor Osterheld junto a su familia hacia fines de los ´70 en la Argentina. La ficción nos invita a transitar un modo posible de hacer con el horror, de enfrentar la coyuntura catastrófica a partir de saldar lo pendiente de aquella “otra catástrofe” que para Juan Salvo había quedado suprimida, encapsulada. Al modo de la operatoria de la restitución identidad como movimiento restitutivo ante el robo de identidad en aquellos niños que habrían sido privados de un nombre y una historia en la última dictadura cívico-militar argentina, El Eternauta nos invita a reflexionar sobre las implicancias de la restitución de aquellas marcas que signan la incidencia de la vivencia traumática. El cine introduce, una vez más, la posibilidad de la tramitación de un trauma histórico-social a partir de su narrativa, su técnica y su estética, incurriendo el estreno de la serie en la reinstalación a nivel mundial de la problematización en torno a las marcas del terrorismo de estado en la Argentina y de la desaparición forzada de personas.

The book La Raicilla. Herencia y Patrimonio Cultural de Jalisco is structured in five chapters, in addition to an introductory prologue, each of which explores distinct historical, cultural, technical, and economic aspects of this emblematic beverage from Jalisco. The organization of the text reflects a multidisciplinary approach aiming at providing readers with a comprehensive understanding of the raicilla phenomenon, often referred to as mezcal from Jalisco. From its historical origins to technical analyses, each section contributes to a holistic narrative that positions raicilla, an agave-based distillate, as both a cultural and economic symbol of the state. This balance between analytical depth and accessibility positions the book as a valuable reference for scholars, professionals in the agave and spirits industry, and policymakers involved in the regulation of this sector