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The purpose of this article is to analyze the practices of resistance and protests in the prisons of Córdoba in Argentina, and to reflect on the media representations of these practices. This article focuses on the social and historical constructions that have been reified over time in the media about a certain narrative on prisons, prisoners, and riots. The purpose of this paper is to propose local perspectives and discuss with the exclusivity of the riot as the only practice of resistance installed in the social imaginary. Accordingly, the native meanings are approached in their own context of use, through the analysis of situations in which the actors actualize their representations of their own social world. Following this intention, an ethnography with persons deprived of their liberty and their relatives is used as a starting point. It is concluded that local perceptions of prison protests do not necessarily coincide with the meanings attributed to them by the media. n this analysis, it is of interest to illustrate how the subjectivities historically constructed through the images that circulate in the media about prisons influence the constitution of the punitivist imaginary in the current situation of Preventive and Compulsory Social Isolation (ASPO) to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic. Conducted between July and October 2020, this work contributes to the deepening and complication of studies on the practices of protests and resistance in prisons, through the analysis of the meanings assigned to them by the protagonists. This text proposes a questioning, from an academic perspective, of the social classifications of persons deprived of their liberty in the media representations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we interpret one of the phases of the solid waste recovery, under certain structural processes as a way to understand the formation of sensitivities. The colonization at home/in the house [de lo doméstico] covers classification practices and collection of recyclable materials in the homes of waste collectors which can differ in terms of space, time, care and similarities. These practices make sense in the context of environmental concern reflected in the documents of international organizations; predominant types of municipal management related solid waste; and, deregulation of the labor market, which increased subproletarian forms of employment. The complex articulations of this with the daily practices of classification and collection in homes, create conditions of possibility for a sensitivity of disposable people [sensibilidad de los desechables], ie, ways of perceiving and feeling the world why naturalizes live to waste. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the participation of the members of three catholic workers association -Círculo de Obreros de Córdoba, Asociación Artesanos de San José and Sociedad Católica Popular Italiana- to choose their authorities in Córdoba, Argentina during the first decades of the 20th Century. The study allows us to know that, besides, the indirect electoral system applied in the three cases, there are important differences which contributed in different ways to the appropriation of the concept and practice of political citizenship inaugurated in 1912. A diversity of electoral procedures can be found: from a very restricted political position more interested in religion and catholic rituals to one which granted all members the right to choose and be chosen. In the same way, the more "democratic" associations corresponded, as could be expected, to those where internal debate was more regular. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to undertake a case study in order to inquire how racism appears in the discourses of Argentinean bosses about Bolivian migrants who live and work in a settlement where bricks are manufactured, located in the peri-urban zone of the city of Cordoba, Argentina. Assuming that discursive practices are constitutive and constituent of social facts, we develop an appropriate analytical framework for the study of everyday racism. Based on the analysis of ethnographic fieldwork records and news regarding Bolivian immigrants published in local graphic media, we address the ways in which racism is reproduced, bearing in mind the particular socio-historical context in which Bolivians were visualized as immigrant workers. We argue that the boss of the analyzed workplace and his close family use racist stereotypes and prejudices, thus justifying and naturalizing the assignation of Bolivian workers to tough and badly paid posts, as well as the precarious and informal conditions of the production process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The object of this paper is a synthesised historical approach to prostitution in Cordoba during the sixteenth century. For this purpose two views, integral one to another, are embraced: on the one hand, the examination of the legal texts in that period; on the other hand, its real enforcement according to Cordoba's City Council records. The findings of this study show the presence of social exclusion areas that are not self-evident through a mere formal analysis of legal texts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Data on the total nutrient content of soils is essential for assessing potential fertility and is fundamental to environmental and edaphogenetic studies. The aim of this paper was to measure Cu, Zn, Fe y Mn in soils of the Chaco Pampean Plain in Argentina using the simultaneous acid nitric (HNO3 4 M) extraction procedure (called pseudototal) to infer geochemical background and geochemical baseline data by analysing surface and subsurface samples. The results can be related with other edaphic features such as organic carbon, acidity, salinity and carbonates. Average values of 11.3 to 19.2 mg Cu kg-1, 29.4 to 61.5 mg Zn kg-1, 285 to 626 mg Mn kg-1 g-1 and 9 to 19.9 g Fe kg-1 were found at a soil depth of 0-60 cm, falling within the range reported in worldwide literature. The lowest values were found in sandy soils. The values at a soil depth of 0-20 cm were 17 mg Cu kg-1, 55 mg Zn kg-1, 562 mg Mn kg-1 and 16 g Fe kg-1 in loessic and loam loessic soils and 12 Cu kg-1, 36 mg Zn kg-1, 347 mg Mn kg-1 and 11 g Fe kg-1 in loam sandy soils. The textural difference between loessic and sandy soils reflects different background values for the four elements studied, the lowest values corresponding to sandy soils. Multiple regression analysis included Fe and Mn as the main variables to explain the amounts found for each of the four elements at each depth which is related to the high affinity between transition metals and their tendency to co-precipitate as low cristallinity oxides.The second variable in most of the models for the studied elements was organic carbon, confirming the importance of organic matter as a primary source of these micronutrients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article approaches the discursive constructions of the nation State and citizenship in the written press from a socio-semiotic perspective. It studies the written press in Córdoba, Argentina, over the course of the week in which Néstor Kirchner takes power in Argentina (23 to 30 May, 2003). It is argued that the very nature of the written material produced over this period, including all the written press and local papers, regardless their own reading contract, generate some kind of construction of the nation State and the Political community which, in spite of any attempts to be objective, is heralds the establishment of a new institution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents some results of a research on discourses about "natives" in the context of a secondary school in Córdoba, Argentina. This research was developed during 2006-2007, and it was focused on the analysis of a pedagogical project that considered on the topic of "cultural diversity" and "indigenous people" in order to design educational strategies of intervention to improve and/or transform pedagogical practices. These results mainly discuss the relationship between school and cultural difference in the context of the significant political, economic and cultural changes that took place from the 90's. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper looks at the existence of a radical culture in Argentina, outside the main urban centers. Especially we study two cities: San Francisco and Río Cuarto in Córdoba province, in the 1930s and 1940s. The use of Oral History helps us discover a rich world unknown to us. Analyzing a series of interviews to workers, intellectuals and political militants, we found a new conception of politics, culture and militancy. Most of interviewees tend to explain their politicization as natural derivation of their life experience rather than as what we perceive as a traditional process of politicization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to assess the impact of complementary irrigation on maize dry matter yield. A randomized complete design with 5 treatments and 4 replications was used. In order to schedule irrigations, the crop cycle was divided in three stages (pre-critical, critical and post-critical). Irrigation scheduling was based on a water balance calculated from weather data furnished by the meteorological station at the experimental field site. Irrigation was performed using lateral move pressurized systems. Maize matured in 138 days with all treatments and took 1660,6 degree days to attain physiological maturity. Dry matter yield showed significant differences (α = 0.05) among plots irrigated with the different treatments and between irrigated and control plots. Maximum production values ranged between 34,628 kg.ha-1 with T1 and 20,414 kg. ha-1 in the rain fed plots. The amount of water applied ranged between 360 and 300 mm; total crop water use, according to the water balance, was 575 mm ± 15 mm in the case of irrigated treatments, and 308 mm with the control treatments. Dry matter water use efficiency showed significant differences (α = 0.05) between irrigated treatments (5.7 kg.m-3) and rain fed (control) plots (6.6 kg.m-3). The harvest index was 0.49. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]