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

La puesta en marcha de cualquier actividad científica o académica supone la movilización de recursos económicos. La realización de investigaciones, la práctica de la enseñanza, la publicación de resultados, o la manutención de aquellos encargados de estas tareas, tanto como las oportunidades laborales que se les presentan en un determinado momento, dependen de la disponibilidad de fondos. Aun cuando diversos factores de índole general, como el contexto político más amplio, las cambiantes modas intelectuales o el clima ideológico en un determinado momento, inciden en la forma en que los científicos sociales desarrollan sus tareas, las condiciones más inmediatas de trabajo en que deben formular sus ideas y apuestas intelectuales –que pueden suponer (o no) algo tan básico y determinante como la posibilidad de acceder a puestos de tiempo completo– son determinantes.

El libro traducido al español como ‘Filantropía Blanca’ es simplemente un libro fantástico. Este libro nos lleva por la complejidad de los procesos de racialización durante las primeras décadas del siglo XIX donde se mira a la supremacía blanca de manera transnacional por medio de intervenciones filantrópicas. Este libro, aunque histórico, nos presenta las maneras en las cuales aún hoy el libro Un dilema americano se tiende a utilizar de manera errada en la contemporaneidad.

The review analyzes the work critically, recovering the discussion of the various situations presented by the authors (young people from the upper-middle classes and the poorer strata of the population in Mexico City, Monterrey and Oaxaca, men and women), underpinning the quality and richness of the analyzes carried out.

The Pandemic Journaling Project (PJP) is a combined virtual journaling platform and research study that chronicles the experiences of people during covid-19. In this interview, PJP co-founders, Drs. Willen and Mason, speak about the role of human rights in how PJP was conceived, designed, and implemented. They describe how PJP contributes to a broader effort to advance social justice through the preservation of archival accounts of historically underrepresented communities. Willen and Mason also share some insights into what they are beginning to learn about human rights from the contributions of PJP participants. They conclude with a brief discussion about how they plan to disseminate findings, as well as next steps for PJP.

Through the institutional analysis of the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC) and the study of the economic ideas proposed by a group of economists whom she calls cepalinos, Margarita Fajardo makes a contribution both to the history of economic ideas and to the ECLAC institutional history. Although it is not central to the work, the research also results in a contribution to the cultural history of the Cold War in Latin America. Keywords: ECLAC. Latin America. Development. Raúl Prebisch.

The research compares the functioning of juvenile justice in two courts in Minas Gerais (Brazil), one in the capital and another in the interior. The implications of these two models for practices, actors’ decisions, process outcomes and flows were analyzed. Hearings, interviews, reading of the case files and analysis of the outcomes of the proceedings were combined. In the capital, justice works practically “instantaneously”. In the interior, efficiency is guaranteed by agreements and interpersonal connections between agents. Therefore, it was concluded, that both courts work as assembly lines, settled through informal ways. The difference is that, in the capital city, informal interactions are induced by institutional mechanisms, while in the interior, it has an eminently personal content.

We investigated the microstructure of a set of online urban social networks made up of hundreds of Facebook pages throughout a year of sampling in an Argentine city. We explore the relationship between the census of triads obtained for each network and various structural variables. In this way, we associate microstructure with the macrostructure of the same in an online context. We find that transitive triads are more likely to be found in the most active and reciprocal networks or clusters. Likewise, the preeminence of transitivity emerges in assortative networks.

If the public universities of Latin America are considered part of the State, then it would seem likely that they share fundamental features with it. This would imply, for example, that during much of the 20th century, universities have been clientelistic, like the State itself. However, this feasible hypothesis has never been examined by the literature on the Mexican social sciences of the 20th century. The same is true of the role played by patrons of science, such as American philanthropic foundations. In this article, I argue that the Rockefeller Foundation sponsored the humanities, practiced in a liberal spirit, and organized according to formal rational criteria; the Foundation wished to promote an alternative to what it perceived as clientelism and amateurism in Latin American universities. While philanthropic foundations have often been seen as yet another manifestation of how U.S. imperialism pursues cultural hegemony in Latin America, this article shows that foundations were neither individual actors nor able to predict the actual impact of their decisions. In Mexico, the Rockefeller Foundation promoted the humanities in the 1940s, but missed the opportunity to support a local vision of social science teaching and research.

: Is the dynamics of tourism nothing more than a sham? Do travelers play as if they believe in the authenticity of the staged ethnicity? This document raises a theoretical reflection on those tourists who know well, who are aware that the ethnic staging’s with which they are in tourist contexts are created for their enjoyment, but who, even so, are involved in them with certain fascination. After exposing Eric Cohen's proposal about the recreational tourist, it is argued here that this idea creates a theoretical problem: an ontological perspective of the tourist as a cynical subject. Given this, the concepts of interpassivity and illusions without a subject are proposed as a possible route of reflection.

We analyse the effect of information about economic inequality on the justification of wage inequality. Using a survey experiment in a sample of the metropolitan area of Santiago de Chile (n=732), we seek to replicate the results of Kris-Stella Trump (2018) on the justification of wage gaps. The results show that information on real wages does not impact Trump’s measure of inequality justification. Instead, wage inequality information was found to increase the justification of wage gaps by high- and low-status occupations, being boosted by the joint exposure to the towards system justification. Finally, the study’s methodological limitations and implications for the study of distributional preferences are discussed.