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

This paper delves into the institutional history of the public administration of Pereira, an intermediate Colombian city, by following the creation of institutions related to regulation and control in its expansion process. To fulfill this purpose, a descriptive methodology was applied to documentation from the Municipal Historical Archive of Pereira (AHMP), especially that which corresponds to the "Old Municipal Council Fund" and the series of "Sanctioned Agreements", thus rescuing historical sources that are relevant to understand the strategies implemented to control the urban expansion process. As a result, it was possible to identify that the urban institutional evolution of Pereira went from inspection processes to territorial intervention processes. In this sense, officials in the 19th century performed "inspection" functions, but from the second decade of the 20th century, municipal officials intervened directly in the territory through public works and expansion planning with the application of technical instruments such as statistical surveys and plans. The periodization of time was established between the first institutionalization processes that took place in 1871, until the creation of the Secretariat of Public Works in 1946, prior to the application of more sophisticated planning exercises such as the office of the Regulatory Plan that had as its objective the application of a "Pilot Plan" for Pereira. Finally, the paper is considered a contribution to the urban history of Pereira because the historiography of the city had not used this type of sources, thus opening a vein of work for other research on the city and its history. Likewise, it serves as a reference for studies of other intermediate Colombian and Latin American cities that have similar documentary sources.

The closed and exclusive departmental development processes can generate negative impacts on the multicultural communities that live in the jurisdiction of Santander and affect its local and regional structure and operation; therefore, the objectives of this study are focused on carrying out a critical analysis of citizen participation in the dynamics of territorial planning from the perspective of Buen Vivir, which allows identifying the successes and failures of said procedures. The documentary study of mixed type, with interpretative approach, cross-sectional, has a hermeneutic structure that makes it possible to characterize, analyze and synthesize, both the documentary review that theoretically and conceptually bases the relationship between participatory processes of territorial development and the notion of good living, and the analysis of the participatory process carried out in the framework for the formulation of the departmental planning plan of Santander. The results allow us to make a series of recommendations for the optimization of this plan from the perspective of good living.

The archaeological information presented in this document is part of the results of the Preventive Archaeology Program carried out within the framework of the Rumichaca-Pasto Road Project. The research was based on the excavation of 47 undisturbed burial contexts, which were found in the village of El Porvenir, municipality of Iles, department of Nariño, specifically in southern Colombia. This cemetery was dated around the IV and V centuries A.D. information that allows us to approach the understanding of the occupation processes, social and symbolic way of life of the pre-Hispanic groups that settled in the region. Finding evidence in the ceramic typology and dates that relate El Porvenir with the pre-Hispanic human groups that settled in northern Ecuador, thus making visible a great use of the territory, which in political terms is very important, on the other hand, the findings of this large number of burial contexts reaffirm the social and symbolic recognition of the territory. In terms of burial sites, these contexts differ from others of the same temporality and culture, due to the great variability found among the structures.

This reflection article addresses an overview of the relationship between games, video games and art from a perspective that articulates the recent historical context, the experimentation with different types of images, materials and subjects, and the technical transformations that have caused video games to become powerful means of creative expression. Although today play is considered a fundamental activity in the development of civilization, historically its study has not had a great place in humanities and art history until the twentieth century. The aim of this article is to arouse curiosity about games as powerful means of creative expression that unfold different configurations, production strategies, visual styles, forms of participation and types of audience. The present work articulates reflections that arise from the reading of bibliography coming mainly from referents in the field of the academic study of the game and the analysis of case studies coming from the avant-garde of the 20th century, contemporary art and the field of development of video games in the recent context.

Desde que Van Rensselaer Potter escribió su libro Global Bioethics: Building on the Leopold Legacy (1988), la idea de una bioética global, concebida en el marco de un sistema mundo, ha ganado gran popularidad en las últimas décadas (García-Rodríguez et al., 2009); sustentándose en los alcances globales de la tecnociencia y sus posibles impactos en las diversas manifestaciones de la vida (Herrera, 2008; Sayago y Amoretti, 2021), y demandando decisiones agenciadas partiendo de articulaciones entre centros y periferias (Wallerstein, 2005). De acuerdo con esta perspectiva, los humanos no son considerados superiores a las demás especies que habitan la biosfera (Pinto et al., 2018), priorizando la protección y el respeto por la diversidad biológica y cultural (Sarrazin y Redondo, 2022). Como se afirma en la Declaración Universal sobre Bioética y Derechos Humanos, DUBDH (UNESCO, 2006): la bioética podría ser un instrumento eficaz como propuesta inicial para lograr un respeto ecosistémico (Borgoño, 2009). La bioética debe propiciar la deliberación para que diversas perspectivas puedan estar en consenso (Parra, 2018). Así, mientras se mantenga la horizontalidad y el respeto por cada una de las cosmologías o epistemes que participan en este concierto de construir una bioética global intercultural, será posible que representantes de diferentes países participen y contribuyan para lograr tal propósito; como lo muestra la DUBDH, por medio de la cual se ha avanzado sobre acuerdos bioéticos desde el respeto por la diferencia (UNESCO, 2006). Con todo, se corre el riesgo de reproducir, privilegiar o defender sutilmente la lógica hegemónica, situación que se debe analizar para no caer en lo mismo que se desea evitar.

The purpose of this research is to contrast the familist and non-familist positions in publications about Colombian rurality in the period 2016 to 2021, taking into account the trajectory of both approaches in light of the changes in the conformation of rural families in the country. The study is of a qualitative nature, through the review of literature with a descriptive exploratory scope, resorting to techniques of inferential analysis of content in academic production. In this sense, postulates of gender studies are taken up and the contributions of social constructionism are taken into account. It is concluded that, despite the transformation in rural families, familist and non-familist conceptions coexist in research on rurality in Colombia, where gender, economic practices and social organization are the nodes that show the greatest variations and similarities between the two concepts.

The intermediate city is considered a connection between global cities and rural spaces. However, considering urbanization as the absolute answer, being able to solve the most frequent problems in cities limits the analysis, leading us to think in an urban system shaped exclusively of non-rural spaces, forgetting any other form of critical perception. Consequently, in this article it is proposed to think  intermediate cities as territorialized space to contain the reproductive activity of human capital in order to ensure that intermediate cities function as private spaces on a large scale, so it is possible to posit that a) the function of this urban spatiality allows to understand that the reconfiguration of the global urban system is happening and proof of this is the creation of specialties and the blurring of other actors such as the Nation-State, b) this restructuring is constituted by a principle of specialization and spatialization and centralization of the various capitals, as well as migratory flows, labor flexibility and c) The importance of the workforce and its reorganization, it moves in a way not seen until now, we see mobility in smaller and more precise geographical sectors, from city to city. The importance of reflecting on intermediate cities is sustained in its geopolitical role as it has a close relationship between dispossession by accumulation, sustaining the current economic model, the reorganization of migratory and habitat flows, problematizing the dilemma about "urban development" has arisen from historical processes of colonization, enclave economies, the destruction and domination of space to absorb it, refunctionalize it to generate a network of flows of economic, political, cultural, human and territorial capital.

The multiscalar state has managed urban interventions in the intermediate city of Barrancabermeja in response to population growth influenced by the petrochemical industry since its settlement at the end of the first decade of twentieth century. Thus, this article aims to understand the urban transformation of the city of Barrancabermeja in the period 1951-2002, as a result of the interventions of the petrochemical industry and the multiscalar state actors, in terms of the production of social housing and infrastructure (urban roads, aqueduct and sewerage).  Through the review and analysis of official muniments, cartographic documents, and field trips, we were able to identify  the interventions that the petrochemical industry and state actors carried out in the urban fabric of the city of Barrancabermeja between 1951-1989; likewise, it was possible to understand: The involvement of  the Ninth Urban Reform Law for urban development management, the abandonment of ISI model and the restructuring process; and the trends in the urban configuration of  Barrancabermeja between 1951-2002, as a result of the different urban development management models.

Intermediate cities have played a prominent role in urban growth in recent decades. This makes them a central area to think about adaptation alternatives for the climate change process. The tensions between urbanization and environment are relevant to understand the emergence of socio-environmental conflicts in intermediate cities. The objective of this work is to analyze the long-term and low-intensity socio-environmental conflict related to the pressure exerted by the urban sprawl on the forest area in San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina. The hypothesis that guides the research is that the urban growth of the city of San Carlos de Bariloche is modulated by the dynamics of said conflict. The research develops an instrumental case study to make a contribution to how socio-environmental conflicts are structured in intermediate cities and how institutional responses to them are developed.