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This paper examines in-depth the root causes and consequences of Mexican forced displacement from a decolonial feminist perspective, emphasizing the intersections between the body and territory. The absence of quantitative and qualitative data on internal forced displacement in Mexico erases people and communities from the territory, making them invisible along the migratory routes and making them disappear on the map of contemporary geographies of terror. In this article, we focus on the embodied experiences of women, drawing upon extensive multi-sited binational research along the Mexico-US border. Their testimonies allow an understanding of forced displacement beyond passive and re-victimizing narratives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the program offerings on broadcast television in Mexico City from its own content and from a structural perspective in three dimensions: socio-historical, economic and political, to reflect on their implications for the transition to democracy. In that sense realize the results of a socio-historical analysis of broadcast television in Mexico City, a review of communications policies in the Mexican television derived from the historical relationship between media-state and program offerings in open signal. The paper reports a high concentration in two major television companies and resulting in a very limited supply of content to the production of six stations, two with high prevalence and important guidance to the entertainment and fiction, one that reproduces the model above, and three of the so-called "public" with a marginal line, as the choice for the metropolitan audience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses some ideas of what the ethics of public servants should be, and contrasts the objectives and strategies outlined in the National Program to Combat Corruption by the federal government (Mexico, 2000-2006) with the objectives achieved at the end the administration and the place of Mexico in perceptions of corruption. The paper suggests that ethical development of public servants should be understood as a political issue, where the individual’s interest ought to be tuned to the institution he works for. The optimal functioning of the institution should thus be seen as a personal benefit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to analyze the programs and social development actions that have been applied in Mexico during the period 2009 to 2016 with the purpose of comparing the number of programs and the level of existing linkage with the target population. It was identified that there is a decoupling of public policies aimed at social development, mainly on the issue of exclusion, inequity, approach, and some programs do not have the targeting of their target population. Family agriculture should be considered as the axis for the articulation of public policies and should be inclusive of all types of family farmers that exist in the Mexican countryside. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The persistence of the violence in México has allowed new ways of subjectivity through its internalization as a way to resist in a society where the words have lost their affectivity. The ascription to organized delinquency by the youth or the manifestation of violent behavior in different ambits has become more frequent. The silence and the fear also work as sources to legitimize this violence. The present paper presents some lines of thought about the testimonies of young people, who live in a context where the settlement of organized crime is accentuated. Their testimonies illustrate how they see their lives in a context that appears to present only two options: to assimilate or to be indifferent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes an unconventional look about war implemented by Felipe Calderón against organized crime. The approach used is the cultural sociology, which highlighting the symbolic dimensions of sociopolitical phenomena to observe the constitution of there through cultural elements. In this way, the war against organized crime as a drama that establishes a hero (Calderon), a purpose (to finish insecurity), an enemy (criminals), some means (the military as cleaning supplies), and potential beneficiaries (the citizens). Through this look is to shed light on some important issues about the policy in Mexico. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper has the objective to analyze some artistic manifestations by Mexican artist Óscar Sánchez about HIV/AIDS from its corporeal and auto-representational implications. Although some epidemiologist scholars have argued that we are living in a "stable" era due to antiretroviral therapy, we are interested in challenge this argument through a feminist account that informs the artistic field on the corporeal-affective implications involved in the socio-cultural experience of the virus. We try in this article to turn back to the 80´s artistic manifestations about HIV/AIDS as a reminder at the importance to make visible the current characteristics of the illness and propose to re(use) the artistic representations of the body as a expression-complain channel to this new "normalization" era. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a comparative analysis in relation to the emergency of the studies on educational inequalities in Mexico and Argentina, between the fifties and sixtys of the twentieth century. Theoretics, methodologic and comparative perspective is used, for draw up to similarities and differences between both countries. Two points are relevant: convergence is highlighted in the rationales underlying the emerging research on educational inequalities in both countries, as well as the relevance of certain discursive transfers between international and na tional productions, both facts makes each case singu lar and sig nificant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the recent expansion of studies on gentrification in Latin America, there seems to be a lack of discussion between different approaches and a hasty closure of the dispute between demand side and supply side explanations. The authors of this paper aim to contribute to the argument analyzing the production of consumers as part of the production of space. The aforementioned process entails an ideological work developed by diverse types of agents, leading to the creation of a symbolic rent gap. The discussion is illustrated with the case of two commercial areas in the center of Mexico City, which resulted from urban renewal of previously downgraded sectors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a discussion on purview of the immigration issue that develops through the participatory mechanisms of different institutions in the governmental, intergovernmental and civil society areas which featured prominently in the consulting, decision making and ideas-formulation processes that addressed the migratory phenomenon in Mexico (highlighting the think tank experts of migration and the FaithBased Community Organizations). A theoretical analysis of the relational conception of interagency is developed and interpreted as structurally hybrid. This analysis combines material and symbolic practices because it works as an anchor for the political strategies, and it strengthens the rhetoric of dialog, thus creating decision makers and providing imaginary models of the "integrated management of migration". The discussion presented here is complemented by examining the relation between migrants and the institution "Casa del Migrante" in Chiapas, Mexico --which provides them humanitarian aid--, and by recovering information from the study case, applied at the time of their traffic by the southern border and within the focused groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The discussion relates to the right to choose death with dignity and the prohibition imposed by law to receive help to exercise that prerogative, a matter of free choice and ethical-juridical restrictions, often frequent with respect to those involved in the suffering caused by terminal illness, but it has also been presented in the case of detainees in Mexican prisons. This circumstance results in a paradoxical dilemma created by illegitimate rules: die with dignity or live without dignity in abject humiliation? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In our paper we tackle the topic of the knowledge of Mexican Spanish vocabulary through several types of dictionaries registering it. We make an historical overview recalling the impact of Spanish on the autochthonous people, as well as some remarks on the influence of the Castillian norm, as the leading norm, on Mexican Spanish. We also offer points of analysis for the knowledge of the privative and we analyze the theoretical tendencies of actual lexicography in registering Mexican Spanish. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the academic and ideological profile of Manuel Gamio, considered the father of modern anthropology in Mexico, and one of the main ideologues that marked the twentieth century indigenous, both in Mexico and Latin America. Gamio's influence was exercised not only in the discussion of ideas, but permeated into public policy and logic of building indigenous institutions orientation. Its formation is exposed in the stream of cultural relativism (or historical particularism) under the tutelage of american anthropologist Franz Boas and his innovations in the field of archeology, ethnography and anthropology in Mexico, and his decisive influence to leave behind the nineteenth-century paradigm "the good Indian is a dead Indian", emphasizing the need to incorporate the indigenous to modern postrevolutionary state project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In October 2001, the federal government issued nineteen expropriating decrees in order to build a new airport in Texcoco, Estado de Mexico. Against this decision, a group of peasants ("ejidatarios") and dwellers from several communities set up the social movement of Ateneo. In this paper, we will analyze the interpretative dimension of the atenquense struggle, and the relevance of the experience in the constitutive process of this collective actor. In order to achieve this objective, we will consider some theoretical coordinates from the marxist historian E. P. Thompson, Barrington Moore and the framing theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, in Mexico and globally, closed circuit television (CCTV) has become the most pervasive surveillance model for urban spaces to record the daily activities of people. CCTV is not only a divices to support policies on security, organization of traffic, but instrument of social and political control. Taking the case of two municipalities in Mexico, this paper analyzes how these surveillance technologies allowing a certain management of the city as well as different forms of governmentality of population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the notion of narrative identity related to the Historic Center of Mexico City. According to this category, identity is narratively constructed in an ongoing dialogue with culture, defined by Clifford Geertz as the ensemble of stories we tell ourselves about ourselves. A high number of events that have been incorporated to Mexico’s official history have had this area as their setting, especially the main square. The cultural policies directed in recent years towards the Historic Center of Mexico City provide an adequate case study for the notion of narrative identity applied to heritage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the influence of editing and publishing on the readers’ literary preferences, either through collections as reading programs (in case of the institutions interested in the diffusion of culture) or as reading offers (in case of the businesses that participate in the cultural marketing in Mexico.) Both editing processes share a cultural history, a cultural patrimony and political strategies for growing and strengthening. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses whether the distinctions granted by international organizations -and also by certain public policies- which add value to some areas in ordinary towns; really trigger the promotion of values, traditions, environment preservation, regional development and social participation. Through the analytical readings of the cultural landscape of Tequila’s historical downtown, in Jalisco Mexico, we can notice the transformation of specific perimeters of a town similar to many others in Latin America, which gradually -and due to the economical and political intervention of both international organisms and the Mexican government- has turned from a rural area into an important tourist destination in Western Mexico and a referent in the construction of a new national identity, linked to successful commodities within the context of globalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on a national, bureaucratic and subordinate capitalist state, the idea of patrimony, which guides quite a few of the policies and projects in cultural management in Mexico, is functional to hegemony and the market standards. This paper discusses that building democracy and an alternative nation involves analyzing the scope and potential of cultural management. The first step is deconstructing the category of patrimony itself, which in its complex historical articulation implies social, political and economical determinations, that often remain invisible and on the sidelines in the debates on the subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Democratization has led to fairer Mexican elections and increasingly shared power among political parties, which have created legislatures that are more active and independent of the executive. However, it has not been entirely clear to what extent this process of political change has produced an increased capacity of legislatures to exercise its role as a counterweight to the executive branch. In this sense, this paper examines various issues of the electoral system and party system—especially the ban on consecutive legislative re-election—that have shaped a weak institutional framework of legislative bodies. In this perspective, it is argued that it should go beyond the approaches that set up the increase of the party competition and the legislative pluralism have strengthened the oversight function of the Congresses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is the result of the study of the process of incorporating research into an institutional milieu originally devoted to teaching and what the relationship is between these two activities, converting the institution studied into a body which provides education through scientific research. It is about the case of the Department of Biology School of Sciences of UNAM. Research in this community has been implemented with the creation of thirty-nine laboratories, all of them designed to support teaching. The intention of the analysis is to try to explain that what has happened in the Department of Biology since the mid-sixties (1964) is a significant achievement among academic institutions in Mexico and around the world. The subject was addressed along three analytical axes: Discipline, institution, and major. However, the centerpiece was discipline. Each of them existed throughout the history of the institution from 1915 to 1994. The paper analyzes the development of biology through the process of institutionalization. It corroborates, under the proposed analytical framework, that discipline with its mechanisms of evolution provides opportunities for linkages between teaching and research and periods of separation of these two functions. The notion of discipline helped develop the conjecture that what happened in the Department of Biology was part of the academic (cognitive) development of the field and that this occurred through the process of integration and diversification and that the two processes were consecutive. At the same time, it was understood that in the pursuit of both mechanisms, the disciplines evolved and assured their own continuity, and that this occurred beyond the influence of external factors and the rise of research in the international arena. These processes are undoubtedly contributing factors, but without proper disciplinary advances they would not have resonance. We concluded that this could be a model for the interpretation of the historical work of other institutions and disciplines. Furthermore, it underscores the idea that respect for and understanding these processes is essential to enable the advancement of scientific development in our country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using Michel Foucault's genealogical method, this paper argues that human rights consciousness first appeared in Mexico as the result of an eclectic combination of two political tendencies: transition to democracy and liberation theology In this way of thinking, civil and political rights were considered to have the same importance as economic, social, and cultural rights. However, human rights cause lost ground as it became subordinated to the transition-to-democracy cause, and human rights issues related to socio-economic inequality were put on the back burner. As the economic situation worsened, NGOs are finally addressing economic and social problems, but have not been able to revert the effects of years of neglect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The primary interest of the present paper is to reflect about the transformations in modem society and their effect on the daily dynamics of the city and in the practices of the people who inhabit it. Our reflections are centered particularly on Mexico City and in the youths who live there. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article tries to open the reflection around the multiple possibilities that Communication Science offers to the study of the city. At a first moment, the author exposes the conceptual proposal of the Comunicology, and his first joints with the city. Later, the paper presents some of the main characteristics of the city and "the urban thing" as study objects, with special emphasis in the contributions of Communication Science, that impel the approach to the city like communication system and media construction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a general outlook on the mainstream orientations that prevail nowadays in Mexico City studies. These orientations fail to recognize the functioning of the city as a totality, operating on the basis of a serious fragmentation of the object under study. The author holds that the Distrito Federal is only a part of a real city, formed by the metropolitan zone of the Valle de México. Because of this, it is necessary to develop these kinds of studies in a metropolitan scale or, at least, putting these fragmentary studies in a general context. The article also deals with some fields of research that the strategist should take into account for the structural change of the metropoli. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines some of the most important contributions for the studies on communication and culture, of the academic debate on the reception and production of meaning between James Curran and David Morley. Its purpose is to suggest the relevance of taking some theoretical steps to approach fragments of the city from the point of view of individual experience. In this sense, the author plead for the continuous collaboration and interchange between social sciences, in terms of categories, common theories, concepts, etc. and for an hermeneutic-interpretative position, in order to lighten the fragment of life which is to be studied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with the history of institutionalized citizen participation in Mexico City. However, it doesn't attempt to make a thorough account of facts, mechanisms, instances and legal instruments which, dating from 1928 until the present day, preceded and characterized its building and formal development in this capital city. What this brief historical review particularly aims at, is at showing how was born a set of relations, practices and perceptions, that characterize a particular political culture, through the construction and functioning of "diverse" institutional modes along history. This current political culture is part of a symbolic universe that embodies traditions and customs that explain, to a very large extent, citizen participation's achievements and limitations within Mexico's capital city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]