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Se aborda la temática y otros aspectos de la pastorela novohispana ¿No fui yo la luz más bella?, atribuida a la monja dominica María Anna Águeda de San Ignacio. A pesar de la ausencia del manuscrito original, es posible señalar cuáles de sus elementos se inscriben convencionalmente dentro de la tradición de la pastorela y cuáles son de un carácter singular, como la presencia de la figura de la Virgen María. Se hace una breve descripción del género y algunas reflexiones finales enfocadas en la autoría de la pastorela, a fin de preguntar: si aceptamos que sor María Anna Águeda fue la autora de la pastorela, ¿puede decirse que la monja dominica es precursora de dicho género teatral en la Nueva España? Conventionality and Singularity in ¿No fui yo la luz más bella? A Nativity Play Attributed to María Anna Águeda de San Ignacio Abstract The article discusses the Novohispanic pastorela, or Nativity play entitled ¿No fui yo la luz más bella? (Was I not the most beautiful light?), atributed to the Dominican nun María Anna Águeda de San Ignacio. Despite the absence of the original manuscript, it’s possible to identify what elements of the text can be conventionally placed within the pastorela genre, and what others are peculiar, such the character of the Virgin Mary. A brief description of the pastorela as a theatrical genre leads to the question: if sor María Anna Águeda is indeed the text’s author, can she be considered the forerunner of Nativity plays in New Spain? Recibido: 09 de septiembre de 2022 Aceptado: 22 de febrero de 2023

¿Qué es lo que hay en el espacio que se abre cuando alguien experimenta el dolor por la muerte de un ser querido, y el momento en que el sujeto experimentador muere? Me interesa esta pregunta no por querer saber lo que sentirán mis seres queridos cuando muera, sino porque me parece que, por más que sea un proceso natural y continuo, contiene un potencial de sentido, el cual permite valorar con profundidad lo inexorable de nuestro destino

legado de Luisa Josefina Hernández a la cultura mexicana es inmenso. Escritora perteneciente a la generación del Medio Siglo, se destacó en cada una de sus incursiones creativas: la narrativa, la dramaturgia y la docencia. Inquieta y constante, su presencia fue fulgurante desde sus primeros pasos en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la UNAM. Sus congéneres fueron notables figuras —como Emilio Carballido, Jorge Ibargüengoitia y Sergio Magaña— quienes se convirtieron muy pronto en jóvenes talentos de la escena mexicana bajo la tutoría magisterial de Rodolfo Usigli y Celestino Gorostiza.

This article retakes the action of historians José de Mesa and Teresa Gisbert in the political and cultural context after the Bolivian Revolution and their participation in official bodies through publications and other projects associated with the dissemination of art and architecture. The article’s main reading underlines the articulation between historiographical resources provided by a developing research area –the Latin Americanist artistic studies– and cultural policies promoted by the governmental level. We argue that, among other points, race mixture as an ideological construction was a key element to guide the art history of the region while boosting official speeches interested in national unity.

In this article we investigate the supports of school experiences, attending to the typesof institutional offer of secondary level, in a context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the gradual return to face-to-face classes in Argentina. The empirical data come from the study “Diversification of the secondary school structure and educational segmentation in Latin America” by ECLAC-IIEP UNESCO Buenos Aires and UNICEF, where focus groups and semi-structured interviews were carried out. In this article we are going to focus into the Student Center and the demands for the right to comprehensive sexual education (ESI) that, as instances of participation and sociability appear, from youth narratives, as privileged supports of school experiences.

This edition of Foro de Debate presents different articles on contemporary debates on the political power of ideas and discourses in Latin America from a theoretical and practical analysis. Several approaches to the topic are presented. They begin with an academic review of concepts, government regimes and electoral rules, proposing a pending agenda for study followed by a methodological reflection on discourse and politics as a proposal to address the topic of study. Along the same lines, an analysis of the importance of speech in social research is presented. This is followed by a look at discursive attribution as a possibility for political action. And finally, an empirical application of discourse, problem and policy analysis applied to poverty and inequality is presented.

This article examines representations of working-class fatherhood published in widely circulated magazines in Argentina at the beginning of the 20th century. It takes as acase study, the images of railroad workers, locomotive personnel -machinists and firemen-, in particular. In so doing, it seeks to highlight the relevance of commercial press in discussingboth the modernity of the labour worlds in Argentina as well as the hardships of living andworking conditions of the railroad workers and their families. In addition, this study paysattention to a less studied dimension of working-class masculinity: fatherhood. It explores the place of men in family life and seeks to shed light on prescriptive ideals regarding working-class fathers’ responsibility and rights in modern Argentina.

The article analyzes the pandemic context as a framework of political opportunity for the revitalization of youth activism at the core of the right wings in Argentina. The profilesand reasons to participate built by a group of young activists from AMBA (Buenos AiresMetropolitan Area) are explored, as well as the repertoire of collective actions, in which thestreet demonstrations are combined; the dispute over the political representation of youths and in the promotion of the so-called “cultural battle”. The article shows the way in which slogans, figures and agendas of right wings are produced and updated based on readings of the present of the Kirchnerist governments and the socio-state management measures of the health crisis during the pandemic.

The present research analyzes how youths are understood by documents that guide public policies for young people. The qualitative research used as a technique the documental analysis of State Plans for Youths of the 27 administrative regions in which Brazil is divided. Specifically, we analyze: 1) in which context the Plans were created; 2) who are the youths according to the Plan's guidelines; 3) which social cleavages matter for the public policies provided for in the Plans. The results indicate that: Youth Plans were developed especially under the influence of progressive  governments; they vary in terms of definitions of youth, ranging from a strictly legalistic delimitation to sociological considerationsand; highlight several social markers as landmarks for public policies aimed at young people.

The study revisits the debates over the modernization in Latin America by examining police formation in Mexico City during the Porfiriato. To this end, it takes a historical-pragmatic approach that allows tracing the modes of production of two magazines of the Gendarmería Municipal, their exchanges with the urban press and discourses on police work and institution. Starting from the premise that these magazines articulated contact zones between unequal forms of knowledge, the study reveals the paradoxes of police formation and its dialectic with fin-de-siècle  modernization. Thus, the analysis contributes to police studies in Mexico and complicates the narrative over the configuration of modern orders in Latin America.