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The objective of this paper is to analyze how the process of the production of space is configured in the 'Nuevo Amanecer' settlement in the city of Santa Rosa (La Pampa). It is a form of popular urban habitat resulting from poverty, where a group of families work in brick kilns recycle elements from sanitary landfills and do household activities intended for consumption. For that purpose, some concepts from Henri Lefebvre's (1974) theory of space production are taken into account which two dimensions of spatial practice conceived by David Harvey (1998) - 'appropriation of space' and 'control/domination of space'. In this sense, emphasis will be placed on the factors that influenced the shaping of the settlement and the actions taken by the Municipality against the occupation of public lands reserved for installation of sanitary equipment. In this regard, we propose the existence of tension between the neighbours' practices/representations and those conceived from the State, making differential territorialities come into conflict. The methodology used in the paper combines non-participant observation, in-depth interviews with key informants, structured questionnaires and informal conversations with the neighbours of the place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

William Bulfin published his "Tales of the Pampas" in The Southern Cross until they were translated into Spanish by Alejandro Patrick Clancy in 1997. In his tales, Bulfin regained the "communal nostalgia" speech, which encouraged in the Irish the need to create a strong and closed community that could protect them against external dangers and maintain the existing ties with their homeland. In order to preserve the Irish identity, and with the firm conviction that the mother tongue strengthens the identity ties, the author made use of plain English, and so he exemplified the language used by the Irish immigrants to live and grow in Argentina. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the strategies used by Bulfin to "translate" the Irish culture into a powerful selective tradition through an ideologically coherent discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we establish a relation between two Argentine entertainment programs. The first, a classic, pioneering television myth generator and the second a recent news program characterized by the involvement of celebrity guests to a turntable. The programs in question are Circular Saturdays and Saturday Bus. The route of the paper will attempt to draw a cross between two television products indicating not only the points of contact and formal and historical differences, but also the possibility of an analysis to review and propose a characterization of what significant limitation on the bodies. For reasons of space we will have a production Reading. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the revision of the journalistic coverage given to the conflict caused by the Argentine troops' occupation of the South Atlantic Islands, which ended in an army contend with England, by the two main Spanish newspapers: El Pais and ABC. The paper highlights the implication that this confrontation had for Spain that was at the height of its democratization process. Not only did Spain have a close link with Argentina but it had also experimented a similar conflict in the Rock of Gibraltar. Besides, by the time of the conflict, the Spanish government had started an approaching strategy towards Europe, and was facing one of the first demonstrations against its decision to join the of N.A.T.O. Furthermore, the Argentine dictatorship had become a subject of preferential attention and damnation as a consequence of charges raised against its continuous violations to human rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes some aspects related to the public debate about immigrant population and the construction of a national identity in Argentina during the first decades of the 20 th. century. Immigration, education and nationalism were the thee ideas which originated the debate on a possible model of country and constituted a field of tensions that covered the period of the great immigration wave. This paper will, in the light of these reflections, illustrate some of the features that these aspects acquired in a rural area. Southeast of the province of La Pampa the largest number of migratory population was farmed by groups of people who migrated from eastern Europe. The presence of Jewish colonies, such as the Narcisse Leven colony, meant the birth of debates on these groups which seemed to question the basis of the "Argentine Nationality". This text emphasizes the complexs relationship among immigration, education, and ethnicity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The FCH at UNLPam is one of the first universities in the country to give signs of commitment regarding gender. Among these is the Interdisciplinary Institute of Women Studies, created in 1993. In 2008, UNLPam legislates for the use of non-sexist language when applied in the degrees granted. In 2010, in the view of the changes on the Teaching Studies curricula, an Integral Sexual Education Seminar was incorporated; and nowadays, Extracurricular and public lectures are given in the form of Cátedra Libre named Educación Sexual Integral y Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos. It emerges along with the local forum for the rights to legal, safe and free abortion. The creation of this Chair reflects the interest in studying the complexities of the bodies, sexuality and gender in education, particularly at schools, as a socializing space in different levels. University functions are not only formative, but also being a central part in formulating public policies in education. This paper attempts to account for the articulation between the activism processes that have been taking place in the city and the accessibility found at the university decision- spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is intended as an approximate analysis of the most important student magazine in UNLPam from 1982-1987. It proposes to examine University Magazine, one of the cultural productions with deepest roots consistency and involvement in the reconfiguration of the of the post-dictatorship student movement. University Magazine was a material and intellectual experience that brought a large group of students from the Faculty of Humanities together. It participated in the student scene as an instituting and rebellious instance against the disciplinarian effects that state terror had deployed in the social / cultural sphere since its inception as a de facto government. It was an experience which stood at a distance both from party organizations and the unions (student centers, federations, etc.), whose praxis became as an exemplary statute deployed as a multiplier space through art and culture in the vast field of social and popular struggle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In a context of invisibility and emerging struggle, indigenous groups build and reconstruct identity and community senses within a process that is both political and cultural, and which collides with the contradictions of ethnic definitions and the strategic essentialisms that re-signify criteria of authenticity. This paper seeks to account for processes of communalization, which took and are currently taking place in the town of Miguel Riglos (La Pampa), paying special attention to the particular case of Eusebia Farías community. Before this, the text will review the conditions of their invisibility, which start by the late 19th century, and the form of occupation of the territory by these indigenous groups to account for the continuity of this population up to the present day. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper tries to analyze the representations of teaching, that students from Basic General Education at the Teacher Training Institute in Santa Rosa and at the National University of La Pampa, have built. The research has a qualitative approach. The process starts collecting pictures and written considerations about what they think were the reasons that made them choose this profession. We have worked with 300 samples belonging to students from 2006, 2007 and 2008 that were analyzed with theoretical categories about their identification with the teaching role in three ways: the samples were taken from students in different moments of their studies; images were comparatively analyzed with the written discourse; the students came from two different institutions. Teaching representations were studied in written and drawn discourses trying to look for coherence; continuities and disruptions. These representations must be identified and analyzed to work for possible changes during training. They imply meanings and senses regarding teaching identity and political possibilities of performing the professional role. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Language is considered to be a privileged medium in which meaning is produced and exchanged. It operates as a representational system, through which thoughts, ideas and feelings are represented in a particular culture. Cultural productions, such as literary works, have always been regarded as the key repositories of cultural values and meanings. It is in this context that we intend to analyse the representation of some aspects of the Argentine culture in Tales of the Pampas by Irish-born author William Bulfin, and to determine to what extent these representations compare with the same cultural aspects put forward in the Martín Fierro by Argentine author José Hernández. We will focus our analysis on the figure of the gaucho and the elements surrounding life in the Argentine countryside. This paper forms part of a research project on Irish literature that is being developed at the Department of Foreign Languages, at the University of La Pampa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We analyze in this paper the use of photography in the Catholic historiography of La Pampa in general, and we particularly focus on the production of a group of priests who, from the 1920s onwards, have built the 'official history' of the Catholic Church in the region. The works by Roberto Tavella (1924), Lorenzo Massa (1967), Cayetano Bruno (1983), and Roberto Tavella and Celso Valla (1974) belong in that construction, in which the photographs tend to empirically support what the written text strives to state: that the Church was a central component in the civilizing process of La Pampa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this work is to offer a theoretical and explanatory framework for the analysis of the events happened in Santa Rosa city in the summer of the 2008, which finished with mayor Juan Carlos Tierno's dismissal. The paper tries to put in the foreground the relationships between the politics's domains and art. That's why we work with the concepts already developed by a series of classical authors of the aesthetic studies. In the same way, we try to confront those conceptual and methodological determinations with the social mobilization and the aesthetic actions developed at the same time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The expansion of agriculture, the erosion and desertification of fertile soils, the spread of agrofuels, and the lack of food sovereignty are among the central environmental problems of this day and age. Many of the solutions to these contemporary ills seem to emerge from Agroecology, which stands as an opportunity for both sustainable food production and soil and biodiversity preservation. In this paper, the main principles of Agroecology are analyzed in order to examine the chances of their application to the province of La Pampa with a basis in the area of Catrilo. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper shows some instances of the differences between the discourse politicians used to legitimate the educational reform in Argentina in the 1990s and the reality of schools by the time the Federal Law of Education was actually enacted and put into practice. These are based on a revision of magazine and newspaper articles on the specific area of technical schools. The construction of a clearly unauthentic "encouraging" framework was a tool which accompanied the implementation of the Federal Law of Education in a popular context that was in fact unfavourable to the changes proposed by the government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Education is an ideological activity which responds to theoretical, political, cultural, socioeconomic and historical circumstances. Thus neither pedagogical practices nor educational theories are neutral as both are firmly based on paradigmatic conceptions of man and on their worldviews. There is then a need to analyze both of them and their intertwining relationships in the light of philosophy, politics and education in order to carefully consider what their aims actually are. These goals give sense and meaning to Institutional Educational Projects (PEI, by its acronym in Spanish), which generally respond to the requirements of the Ministry of Culture and Education. This paper studies the philosophical foundations underlying the PEIs of the first and second levels at a Basic General Education school in General Pico, La Pampa, and provides a cogent interpretation of the anthropological idea that lies beneath such projects in order to generate an open space for debate and inquiry at an institutional level and to foster new proposals to improve educational practices in general. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses a series of representations of work during job searching in young people in La Pampa. Job seeking is signified differently in view of diverse factors such as age, gender, education, and family background, among others, but most of the young persons under analysis share representations of work connected to instability, permanent risk, competition, individuality and survival. Such a situation has encouraged the researcher to explore the issues involved in the construction of these generalized social representations with the rigour and the degree of specialization the matter deserves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the formation and activities of the Argentine Patriotic League in the National Territory of La Pampa from 1919 to 1930 and it examines the relationships between this institution and the particular problems of the territory. The presentation, based on information drawn from national and territorial census, judicial proceedings and territorial media, entails a consideration of the activities and the internal organization of the League in the Territory of La Pampa as well as a discussion on the social impact of the institution has on the territorial social life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Even though competent analysis and accurate urban planning can provide short-medium term solutions to the infrastructural problems of the majority of urban areas, overpopulation, a lack of essential services and sundry sanitary deficiencies generally imply a low quality of life for the inhabitants of a medium-sized town. These problems are mostly determined by the social and economic level of town dwellers that should ideally be able to have access to vital services and satisfy basic needs such as food, clothing, health, education and recreation. This paper suggests that these variants are in narrow relation with each other and that the ways in which they come together ultimately decide the harmonious growth of a town and the improvement of its inhabitants' welfare. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last quarter of the 20th century intense changes took place in the macroeconomic conditions of Argentina. These transformations, based on the application of an economic policy contrary to the tenets of the welfare state and on a reshaping of the roles of the state, the market and society as a whole, deeply hindered the development of the local production. This article describes the main traits of Argentine economic policy between 1975 and 2005 and its impact on the dairy industry in the country as a whole and in La Pampa in particular taking into consideration a wide variety of sources which include not only statistical data and official information but also academic papers and reports published in national and local newspapers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the relationships between missionaries (either Franciscan and Salesian) and Indian groups who survived after the military campaigns of the late 1870's in the Pampas. It focuses especially on the role played by these missionaries in the integration of Indians into the Argentine 'nation' and in the 'Territorios Nacionales', performed through--among others--four kinds of tasks: a) registering births, deaths and marriages in collaboration with a poorly developed state, b) educating the main chiefs. sons and daughters in La Inmaculada school, away from their families, c) insisting on their abandoning of previous cultural patterns (such as polygamic matrimony), and d) promoting the Indian's identification with the "nation" in as many instances as possible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reviews the political discourse of a not well-known source, the magazine "Por ellos", the official organ of the Civil Legionaries of Franco, a group created in the city of Buenos Aires to collaborate with the national side. Although the objective of the publication was the creation of orphanages destined to the young war victims, it became a space to express the ideas of those who had raised against the government of the Second Republic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this work was to search into a suitable methodology to examine the use and function of the vose forms preceding subjunctive constructions spoken in the city of Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina. We believe most of the studies done in the use of vose forms have been biased by the researchers' selection of a suitable environment that would yield successful results attesting to the uses of vose forms by a variety of Spanish speakers. Pragma-linguistics aspects involved in the data collection process as well as the explanations about the origin of one linguistic form or the other have been generally omitted or scarcely hinted at. For the purpose of this paper, we have reviewed previous studies on the use of vose forms carried out in the rioplatense area to observe the methodology followed in the compilation of the corpus. We focused on those research works which provide details on methodology or provide recommendations on this issue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Different disasters have affected large populated areas, their assets and resources. In Argentina, the harmful effects of natural or man-made disasters have increased over time despite recent technological improvements. This paper proposes an analysis of methodology to be used in the various hazardous situations as a preventive integral measure by those governmental institutions in charge of lessening the negative impact these unexpected mishappenings have upon population. We attempt to explore the rate of vulnerability, exposure and uncertainty in social groups facing the effects of oil spills in the along the banks of the Río Colorado, namely, the area that extends from the city Rincón de los Sauces, Neuquen, to 25 de Mayo, La Pampa. We approach the analysis of these phenomena from the perspective of the social sciences to be able to understand the situation of social uncertainty caused by natural and technological disasters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This aim of this paper is to review the expectations and motivations students of EGB3 and Polimodal levels have respect to their a Physical Education (P.E.) classes in the city of Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires. We collected data from four schools, two of them located in middle-to high-class areas, and two in low-middle class neighborhoods. Students were asked to anonymously complete a closed survey, where the main issues assessed were: 1) students' disposition towards P.E. classes; 2) their perception of P.E. classes; 3) how this activity was viewed outside the school. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Urban life, as opposed to rural life, is a form of socio-cultural interaction characterized by its tendency to promote , anonymous and extra-family relationships. The city tends towards specialization and heterogeneity. Journalistic discourse constitutes a way of urban articulation that stimulates interactions and contributes to the construction of processes of socio-cultural identification. This article is part of a wider project whose aim is to search the ways in which journalistic discourse was constructed in relation to socio-cultural identification in the city of Buenos Aires in the period 1800-1825. In this paper the mechanisms of identity formation in Buenos Aires and their interaction with the socio-political, socio-economical and socio-cultural spheres are analyzed from evidence appearing in the first River Plate newspaper, Telégrafo Mercantil, edited in 1801 and 1802. Beginning with an analysis of the key words, we set to search Buenos Aires urban imaginary, which the newspaper contributes to reinforce as a site of collective interaction. The city appears as a social, political, economical and cultural projection, which highlights the importance of Buenos Aires and contrasts it with life in the countryside presented as of inferior hierarchy. Thus, an urban project is developed, related to elements of belonging and identification, which cannot be equaled in its realization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to describe the managing characteristics shared by schools of the first and second Basic General Education levels as a result of the implementation of the educational reform in La Pampa. To the purpose of this research, we analyzed the institutional guidelines set by headmasters and compared the conclusions stated in our previous research (1995-1999) with results from recent case studies. In most of the schools included in our sample we observed the recurrence of similar skewed contextual readings and managing practices. These particular managing styles reflect the principals' key role in the adaptation of the Institutional Educative Projects (IEP), requested by the central administration, to the different schools' needs. As a conclusion, we can say that, despite the institutional difficulties faced by those in charge of managing positions, the school headship is the possible space where to generate deconstructing and reconstructing policies via alternative projects and managing groups who can reconsider our institutional history and provide a new significance to the established educational practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is an attempt to look into the visibility of women and their link with the Peronista government during its first two administrations (1946-1952 and 1952-1955). We focus our analysis on the relationship many women established with Eva Perón during their participation in the Peronista political organization. Following the methodology of oral history, we collected data via personal interviews to a Peronista woman related to the Eva Perón Foundation. Through her reports we have been able to visualize social practices that helped us understand the function of this institution beyond the scope of discourse. In this sense, we were able to reconstruct a Peronista woman's working and political path, her social representations regarding the figure of Eva Peron and the changes that signaled a crucial period in women's history: the implementation of the feminine vote. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper Is included in a research project which aims at clarifying some aspects of the historical process by which the educational system of la Pampa was structured. Focusing on the analysis of the relationship that was established between the civilian society and the state, we base our work on the supposition that the homogeneous image that the educational system acquires is more the result of a process than the process itself. We focus our article on the analysis of some state regulations and their impact on the Territory, between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. We ask ourselves: "Was the process of construction of the educational system in la Pampa a "reflection" of national policies or is it possible to identify certain particularities?" "Which continuities, interruptions and contradictions is it possible to establish between the norms created in the central organizations and the conditions --and possibilities- of fulfilling those norms in the Territory?". Such conditions are connected with a 'diffused' presence of the National State. This presence was made effective, in the field of education, through the inspectors who - we sustain- acted as a "hinge" between the rules sent from the Capital and the local needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to provide a brief characterisation of the changes that have taken place in the Educational System of La Pampa province since the implementation of the educational reform in Argentina during the last few years. In view of the need to identify and conceptuslise these processes of change in La Pampa's model, we decided to approach the theme of the institutional organisatlen and, more specifically, the implementation of the Third Cycle of the General Basic Education and the PoUmodal, with the intention that this article will make it possible for both students of Education and other readers to construct interpretative hypotheses regarding the Educational Reform. We chose to undertake a bibliographical Jnvestigatidn. We aleo included contributions that arose from our experience in the area of Education. Working as school teachers atiows US to form interpretations of the possible implicatlens on Education because we are the ones that apply the legal framework in order to transform the educaticnal system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]