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

The article examines the political incursion of religious agents in the production of dynamics in the Brazilian Constitutions of 1934 and 1988. Based on institutional publications and Congress documents, a methodological drawing on institutional publications and National Congress documents, we examine the socio-professional properties of the agents, as well as the discourses and positions assumed by Catholic and, more recently, Evangelical groups, in public discussions on the legal organization of private life. The results contribute to debates on constitutional cultures and the participation of religious actors in political struggles in the Latin American reality.

This article analyzes the association between migration and labor in Chile, following the critique of commodity fetishism within the framework of the critique of political economy. For this purpose, formal and generalizing notions are displaced to obtain concrete and complex categories that evidence the social relations underlying the naturalized abstractions, and how value subordinates life. It is concluded that 1) behind such association racism articulates and naturalizes the dispossession, deproletarianization and super-exploitation to the point of inferiorizing racialized people, producing migrants as mere workers excluded from politics; and 2) that recognizing the latter is imperative to confront racism and the subordination of life to capital.

The agriculture and hydraulic infrastructure in Sinaloa make up a binomial that generates codependencies, unequal wealth and irreversible harmfuls on human populations and the environment. This article illustrates how mass food production depends on a complex infrastructure headed by twelve dams and eight Irrigation Districts, and a production model focused on national and international markets. Through an ethnographic research a diagnosis is proposed that correlates those codependencies with the vulnerability of the populations, the health of the farmworkers, with the wear of the agricultural sector and with the impact on regional sea fishing.

Mexico maintains a high position among world happiness indices even though it faces important social and public issues. This raises concerns about the conformation of the subjective well-being of the population. Based on different national surveys, two analyses are conducted, one descriptive and the other econometric, to reveal how different affects, and satisfactions in the personal realm and the perception of contextual and sociocultural factors such as corruption and public insecurity are related to perceptions of well-being. It is found that the perception of well-being gives more weight to personal factors and less to context factors when those problems are more prevalent. However, in scenarios in which corruption is more prevalent, the perception of more corruption and more well-being can coexist. Evidence suggests that society has developed a tolerance for this problem and accepts it as part of the social fabric.

The Modern School was an experience that, from Barcelona, ​​sought to spread an emancipatory culture not only locally, but worldwide. A conscientious virtual ethnography with sources of high academic level, which include doctoral theses from recent years, allows us to know how the ideas of rationalist teaching that the creator of the school, Francisco Ferrer Guardia, promulgated, were penetrating Latin America, where there were several experiences, despite the diversity of countries and specific contexts. A culture in opposition to hegemony was possible, even though some of its postulates still seem distant today.  

A new anchialine species of Eupelte (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Peltidiidae) is described from tidal pools and submerged passages in Bermuda caves. It is the sixth anchialine harpacticoid species known from Bermuda and the first anchialine member worldwide of the family Peltidiidae. The genus Eupelte currently contains 16 valid species, of which five have been found in the Atlantic Ocean, four in the Pacific Ocean, three in the Indian Ocean, two in the Mediterranean Sea, one in arctic waters and the last one in antarctic waters.

The professionalization process, based on the training and development of ways of acting professionally from initial or undergraduate training, is currently considered a core aspect to guarantee the success of employability skills; Therefore, in the world of work, the conception that productivity depends, to a large extent, on having a work force that is professionally competent is becoming more frequent. However, in the management that is done from the undergraduate level, in this formative process, the instructive from a traditional didactics is frequently hyperbolized, with a predominance of a teaching-educational process that does not sufficiently promote the formation and development of ways of professional action that provide the university student with tools that allow them to insert themselves in a creative and socially responsible way in the workplace. It constitutes the main objective of this work: to assess the pedagogical and didactic foundations that should characterize the process of professionalization in students during undergraduate, and the need to develop a developer didactics in this process. The dialectical-materialist method was used, becoming the methodological platform on which the investigation was erected. The main results are focused on providing pedagogical and didactic foundations that characterize this process of professionalization and a developer didactics during undergraduate training. Thus, the professionalization process in the initial training stage acquires an essential meaning because it lays the foundations for learning the profession as a starting point for future performance.