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

The aim of the article is to analyze La Bandera de Chile by Elvira Hernández, in its formal and semantic dimension. The essay proposes that the montage of images, sustained in the tension and complement of its two basic figures, irony and sentence, compose a poetics that represents and encourages the process of social insurrection. The analysis reviews a selection of three representative images of that trajectory, exposed in terms of crisis, political consciousness and liberation.

This article analyzes three contemporary Chilean documentaries from an interdisciplinary framework and places them in a context of feminist practices, interpreting a certain corpus of recent documentaries made by women in Chile in light of the growing politicization process that the country has experienced during the last decade. This analysis considers the use of a series of resources and strategies of self-exposure in film, as means through which the complex affects derived from the intersection of multiple violences experienced and elaborated in the films, are embodied and put in language and on stage. In this way, we propose the development of a political self-exhibition of the bodies in documentary, which, from the exercise of self-representation, inserts these works into current feminist political practice.

This article explores the relationship between body and image, through the analysis of the light projection Que su rostro cubra el horizonte (2018), by the chilean art collective Delight Lab, on November 15th, 2018. This intervention is inserted in a field of contemporary photographic practices that manifest as performances. Considering the above, this article proposes to think about the relationship between the photographic image and performance practices, not only as a means of recording and circulating these actions, but also as a way of appearing the body, articulated through the reflection on the resources that, from the embodiment of the photograph, allow its displacement and the rupture of its two-dimensional format. By examining the works Huincha sin fin, by Luz Donoso, and Obra Abierta, by Hernán Parada as precedents, and the light intervention of Delight Lab, this article will outline the relationship between the trajectory of the resources of activisms, the displacement of photographic materiality, and the drifts of the body as a resource for political-aesthetic questioning, through the figure of interruption, which disrupts the experience of the city and bursts into the mechanisms of the image and the dominant gaze.

Review

This article is focused on Diamela Eltit’s critical discourse present in three books: Emergencias (2000), Signos Vitales (2008) and Réplicas (2016). They comprise a variety of texts and topics and a vast diversity of primary sources, such as conferences, literary critique, art critique, forewords and book presentations, collaborations in magazines and newspapers, among others. We are interested in the representation of the body in Diamela Eltit’s essay writing, which we find anticipated, considering the current discussions revolving around corporality in contemporary theoretical exchange of points of view. We read the body from the subjectivity of the essay writer, in a style that breaks the body-mind duality, establishing a fissure which allows an intrusion in the materiality of emotions and not only in the essay construction as an instrument of thinking and knowledge. Considering that, the body in Eltit’s essay writing is presented as subject, recognition and emancipation, this proposal has been developed from the categorization of body/pain, body/market and body/social class/memory of women’s body in her writing.

This text proposes that in the novel Sumar (2018) by Diamela Eltit, counterhegemonic practices or about resistance to power are made visible, which appears configured as an entity of political control. These counterhegemonic practices not only take place in traditionallysubversive activities, such as the protesting march, but also in the protesters' own bodies, which becomes the stage of the systemic violence. On the basis of the above, I can assert that in this novel its characters raise the utopia of emancipation to the neoliberal model, from bodies that operate as refractory signs to a patriarchal-war logic; framed in a context of defeats of doctrines and practices that in the past pointed towards a path of liberation.

Presentation

The COVID-19 pandemic has generated different consequences, including susceptibility to infection with a potentially deadly virus, interpersonal relationships affected by confinement, and in some cases, a negative affective response to government decisions such as social distancing measures, school, workplaces and public transportation closures, and restrictions on meetings. The present study evaluated the psychometric fit of a scale that measures the socio-psychological and affective consequences of COVID-19. It was a cross-sectional, instrumental study; 582 Mexicans between 18 and 65 years of age (22.1% men, 77.9% women) participated. A scale was constructed with 14 Likert-type items with five answer options. The fit of the measurement model was evaluated through Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). All items discriminated between high and low scores; the KMO and Bartlett's test of sphericity values were adequate to estimate the EFA. Four factors were identified: I) Deterioration of family relationships due to confinement (α=.88), II) Risk perception before COVID-19 (α=.84), III)Attitude about government health decisions (α=.94); and IV) Responsibility for health care (α=.70). The overall internal consistency index of the scale was α=.74 and ω=.75; the variance explained was 74.10%. However, the Parallel Analysis suggests only three dimensions: Factor I (α=.88; ω=.88), II (α=.94; ω=.94), and III (α=.84; ω=.84). This second model explains 79.28% and consists of 11 items. The model fit indices were acceptable: CMIN/DF=1.883; NFI=.984; CFI=.992; GFI=.979; AGFI=.964; SRMR=.029; RMSEA=.039. Having valid and reliable scales becomes a way to obtain relevant information as inputs for other research aimed at relating variables of interest or predicting preventive or risk behavior before COVID-19. 

Background: The world health organization declared Covid-19 as pandemic on 11 March 2020. Vaccinating the people residing in urban overcrowded slums can decrease disease burden and control the Covid-19. Objectives: 1] To estimate COVID 19 vaccination coverage 2] To assess the factors responsible for COVID - 19 vaccination coverage and vaccine hesitancy 3] To study Adverse Events Following Immunization (AEFI) pattern following COVID- 19 vaccination 4] To determine the prevalence of breakthrough infections after COVID - 19 Vaccination in urban slums of Bengaluru, India. Methodology: A community based cross sectional study was conducted in Urban slums belonging to field practice area of Akash Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Bengaluru, India. After obtaining Institutional ethical clearance, data was collected from 1638 participants and analyzed using SPSS version 24. Chi square test and Fischer’s exact test was applied. Results: In present study, 35.5% (583 out of 1638) of study participants had taken COVID Vaccine of which 533 (91.42%) were partially vaccinated and 50 (8.5%) were fully Vaccinated. 63.65% vaccinated with Covishield reported adverse events and 18.6% with Covaxin. Adverse events were reported by women (74.7%) compared to men (58.6%). Vaccination coverage was high among 18 – 45 years (37.75%), males (64.86%), graduates (95.67%), clerical and skilled workers (70.75%), Upper middle socioeconomic class (72.41%) which was statistically significant. Our study reported break through infections in 7 out of 583 vaccinated with prevalence of 1.2% and was very high among partially vaccinated (85.71%) compared to fully vaccinated individuals (14.28%). Conclusion: The Covid vaccine coverage was low in urban slums. The prevalence of break through infections in our study was higher compared to available data/reports in country. Breakthrough infections was very high among partially vaccinated individuals. The most important factor for vaccine hesitancy is mild or serious adverse effects following immunization which is biggest challenge in global response against pandemic.