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This article explores the childhood of a Mexican Indigenous activist, Raúl Javier Gatica Bautista, who was born in 1963 in the Oaxacan market town of Tlaxiaco. Growing up in poor circumstances, Gatica would become a leader in the social movements that between the 1980s and early 2000s pushed Mexico toward gradual democratic reform. The article seeks to describe what it was like to grow up poor and Indigenous at a time (later dubbed the Mexican Miracle) of impressive social and economic advances. Paying special attention to the experience of racial abuse, the article also asks how Gatica's childhood came to inform his political militancy. While other historians have linked the phenomenon of political radicalism in twentieth-century Latin America to particular social conditions, or to the influence and adaptation of global ideologies, this article seeks the origins of Gatica's radicalism in the experience of a racialised childhood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

I The Ambivalent State i is a careful, thorough and solid examination of the contradictory, ambiguous, selective and ultimately criminal practices of the state in marginalised urban spaces in Argentina. Auyero and Sobering engage both Wacquant and Cruz's notions to make sense of their complex data. In I Urban Outcasts i (Polity, 2008) Loïc Wacquant highlights the importance of the police for the study of state penetration in neighbourhoods of social exclusion. [Extracted from the article]

This article explores how young Brazilian men from poorer areas transcend socio-geographical boundaries by inhabiting the streets of an elite neighbourhood. Drawing on several periods of qualitative fieldwork, the article demonstrates the complex and dynamic character of the relationship between the young men and the formal residents and traders. It reveals temporal patterns of day and night, where the young men's social positions shift from subordinate diurnal (as serving workers) to dominant nocturnal positions (as potential attackers). Analysing the interactional patterns between the two groups regarding sentiments of trust and fear, the multifaceted and sometimes incoherent relations reveal social inclusion and exclusion as well as street protection and crime. The article also dismantles some common dichotomies within research on crime and fear of crime, emphasising that these young men are both victims and offenders, fearful and fearsome. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Examines the issue of ecological perception and ecological politics among poor populations. Poverty as a cause of environmental degradation; Balance between resources and population; Cases of guano and fishmeal in Peru.

Analyzes the implementation of strategies to reactivate the Programa de Apoyo de Ingreso Temporal for the poor in Peru. Evaluation of how a political party operates in the municipal level; Improvement of the feasibility of research in urban areas; Incorporation of the workforce into the economy.