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Objective/Context: The economic, political and military relations between the People’s Republic of China and Latin America have grown exponentially since the beginning of the 21st century. In this context, this article questions how the perception of Latin American citizens about China varies, taking into account its commercial, military and political dimensions. To answer this question, it is proposed that according to the theory of social identity, the perception towards China will be homogeneous, while from the individualist theories of public opinion a greater heterogeneity is expected in the perception of Latin Americans towards the Asian giant. Methodology: Data from the 2020 Latinobarómetro survey were used to estimate a cluster analysis to identify the different types of political, commercial and military perception of Latin American citizens towards China and a multinomial regression analysis to identify political and sociodemographic factors. related to each profile. Conclusions: The analysis found evidence in favor of the individualistic theories of public opinion, identifying four groups, one with a favorable perception of China in the three dimensions evaluated, another with a favorable perception, less so in the military dimension, and another two groups that did not. have a favorable perception of China. This study also shows that Latin Americans who do not support democracy are more likely to belong to groups with a low perception of China. Originality: The analysis of clusters is a novel methodology in the study of the perception of Latin Americans about China, as well as analyzing the perception of China as a multidimensional phenomenon and not only analyzing the favorability towards that country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text presents the dossier "Latin American youth: challenges and potentialities in the context of the pandemic" whose main objective is to make visible the experience of Latin American youth during the pandemic, offering contributions to the resolution of the revealed and deepened problems in this period. The Dossier brings together ten studies on five Latin American countries that address the themes: the displacement and importance of time, space and perspectives for the future among young people during the pandemic, inequality in the use of ICTs in the area of education, growth in precarious jobs and the political participation of youth. Due to the important contributions, we consider the Dossier as a landmark in the field of studies on Latin American youth and as a unique record of how the pandemic has impacted the lives of youth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Intestinal parasitic infections are more frequent in children; in Latin America the prevalence is high, due to socioeconomic factors, deficit in environmental sanitation and inadequate hygiene habits. Public health entities are making efforts to mitigate this problem; however, they continue to be a probable cause of deficits in the child's anthropometric development. To determine the relationship between intestinal parasites in Latin American children, anemia and malnutrition, the mechanisms by which intestinal parasites may cause these disorders are evaluated. The documentary design and type of retrospective study were used, using the PRISMA guide as a search strategy. The result, according to the review of studies at the level of all Latin American countries, is that the most frequent parasite is Giardia intestinalis (lamblia, duodenalis) which is recognized as a cause of malnutrition in preschool children with chronic and severe infection due to malabsorption syndrome. Among the helminths, the most frequent were Ascaris lumbricoides and Trichuris trichiura, which could cause alterations in nutrition and anemia, respectively, without forgetting hookworms (Ancylostoma duodenale, Necator americanus) that produce anemia but, in Latin America, are more frequent in adults. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Studying childhood in Latin America requires considering the context of social inequality in which so many children are immersed, as well as the complexity of thinking about the pluralization of childhood and the multiplicity of life experiences of children in this region. Children encounter scenarios of discrimination, subordination and social segregation, among other situations that configure their action in a society that distances them from the universal, ideal understanding of childhood that is associated with schooling and play; nor are they always protected in those institutional spaces that should guarantee their full development. In this respect, thinking about Latin American children's protagonism and participation in their own lifeworlds requires an understanding of the different social realities that do not promote given, ready-made types and styles, but which are built on the dynamics of relationships, spaces, places and times so that the participation occurs. The present study aims to address reflections on child protagonism in Latin America through an exploratory study of the scientific publications on the subject in the Spanish-speaking countries of the continent in recent years, in order to identify how the concept has been understood and discussed in the academic environment. This literature, which has historically occupied the social and scientific margins, will make it possible to understand the different experiences of living childhood in these countries, and to dialogue with the issues and problems that permeate children's lives. These problems demand attention, and call for initiatives and spaces for participation that will act to increase the social visibility of children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This note analyzes the position of children's and youth literature in Latin America at the international level. On the one hand, the objective is to show the evolution of the position of the Latin American children's literature thanks to the development and diversity of the production of children's and youth books in Latin America, particularly in Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, and Brazil. On the other hand, we aim to explain why despite everything, its position continues to be peripheral in terms of the main international bodies for the consecration of this type of literature (ibby, Bologna Children's Book Fair, Munich's International Youth Library). Thus, it is intended to highlight from the point of view of the sociology of literature the domination relations (between languages and nations) that govern children's and youth literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the trajectory of the Latin American Women's Group in Paris. Formed in 1972, this group published the bilingual (Portuguese and Spanish) newsletter Nosotras between 1974 and 1976. Based on the texts published in this newsletter and interviews, I have tried to understand how these women theorized their own oppression, how they developed the idea of “we, the women” and of a “Latin American specificity”. Based on the problems they were facing as Latin American women in Europe and the fact that it was impossible to separate their multiple “affiliations”, they sought to thematize the various forms of domination they experienced and to develop strategies of struggle and alliances to confront this reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the context of the centenary of the University Reform of Córdoba 1918-2018, this study is based on the main approaches to university autonomy discussed in the Latin American academic field. From a summary analysis of this subject, the fields of university autonomy are characterized, interpreted and explained as a democratic pillar, legal space of differentiated power and the manifestation of Latin American public universities as social actors present in a century full of political experiences around the constitution, continuity, challenges and defense of university autonomy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, Latin American governments have been committed to formulating and implementing new forms of police management. They have applied the notions of citizen security and community participation to involve populations in plans, programs, and projects aimed at guaranteeing the security of territories, from a perspective focused on prevention rather than repression. The new models of community policing implemented in different countries of the region share certain principles. Their implementation also shares challenges and obstacles, especially concerning the active participation of the inhabitants of the territories and their response to the proposed changes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The so-called computational journalism is becoming increasingly important among media. Its emergence has given rise to numerous ethical dilemmas. The main goal of this research is to determine if the content of deontological codes is still a valid reference for professionals. More specifically, this research focuses on Latin America. A content analysis was the methodology applied to a selection of 18 ethical codes. Data were coded according to Dörr and Hollnbuchner (2017). Results show a great presence of principles such as respect for privacy, observation of legal status, objectivity or the authorship of data and results. On the contrary, we have not found any references to controlling software and techniques in any code. We concluded that the antiquity of the code is not a relevant factor, except for the Code of Ethics for Journalists and Communication Professionals of El Salvador. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the increasing political discontent, manifested in the emergent democracies and consolidated as well, citizens' support for democracy seemed stable in most countries. Recently, however, some studies have uncovered signs of an increasing disconnection with democracy's values and institutions. This study argues that a specific expression of citizens' estrangement from democracy is political indifference: the opinion that living in a democratic or an authoritarian regime makes no difference. This statement is supported by the analysis of four surveys conducted in 18 Latin American countries from 2013 to 2017. The evidence indicates that even though there is a preference for democracy in the region, this preference is not very high. A considerable segment of the population declares being indifferent, rather than choosing the authoritarian option. The analysis shows that the attitude of political indifference is associated with a heightened discontent about the performance of the political system. It is also more likely that people who declare they are politically indifferent distrust others more and are more likely to be women, teenagers, less educated, or live in a low-income household. The evidence suggests that for a significant number of citizens democracy is an abstract notion that does not create political attachment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of this paper is to elaborate a periodization of the historical-spatial transition in South America from the end of the last century to the present day. In methodological terms, this periodization proposal is based on an analysis of critical junctures at the regional level during which there is a measurement of forces among strategic political projects. The identification of these conjunctures allows us to define five significant moments: 1) the collapse of the neoliberal and unipolar financial project between October 1998 and April 2002; 2) the construction of alternatives: the development of the Atlantic Axis and the "No al ALCA” [No to ALCA] between April 2002 and November 2005; 3) the strategic advance of Latin American popular nationalism in a postneoliberal and South American continental key between November 2005 and 2011; 4) the emergence of the Pacific Alliance, the resumption of the unipolar offensive, the stagnation of autonomous regionalism and the weakening of popular nationalism between April 2011 and October 2015; 5) the onslaught of the financial, neoliberal and unipolar project and the reflux of nationalpopular forces in Latin America between October 2015 and June 2018. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Varied and interesting are the debates that have been generated around the concepts of original accumulation, modes of production and modernity in our continent. However, in general these discussions have been framed in the walls of economism and the teleological vision of time and history, as well as eurocentric and androcentric conceptions, which continue dominating the construction of knowledge in Latin American academies. Then, in the following paper I intend to address and read these three fundamental issues, but observing them in critical key from a path that, on the one hand, has remained in a certain theoretical "subalternity" in the regional academy, and on the other, maybe not has deeply problematized these issues from the perspective it seeks to build. My goal is to provide a reading that supports the non-fragmentation of dimensions of oppression such as class, gender and race, generally observed from the Eurocentric categorization that does not seek or manages to unveil its inseparable articulation in the lived social experience, product of the systems of multiple and simultaneous domination. For this, I place the present -and brief-, analysis from the Latin American contributions of decoloniality and decolonial feminism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We present the dossier "On open access to open science: progress and reflections at the age of 17 of the BOAI", in which we review some of the recent initiatives that have emerged around the world to advance the realization of the expected open access to scientific literature, with special emphasis on the Latin American region. At the same time, a summary of the articles included in the dossier is presented, the first referring to the role of libraries in the Open Access and Open Science processes, and the rest dedicated to the analysis of different situations in three Latin American countries: Colombia, Uruguay and Argentina. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This special issue highlights and discusses the colonial grounds (Machado Aráoz, 2014) that characterize the modern experience of Latin America and the ways modern-colonial geographies have articulated urban and rural geographies. We explore the emergence and transformation of rural and urban Latin American geographies as a dialectical relationship which is part of colonial and postcolonial systems of power. By doing so, we inquire into the instauration and propagation of structures of power, hierarchies, and resistance that have marked the production of Latin America and its subaltern intersections with global geographies. This introduction to the special issue focuses particularly on the material side of the modern-colonial discourse in order to recover and discuss the historical foundations of modernity and its contested forms. Finally, we propose understanding the formation of modern-colonial geographies not simply as a top-down approach but as a discontinuous and contradictory process that has produced and reproduces a variety of "subaltern modernities" (Coronil, 1997, p. 7). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to identify how the coverage of the World section of two Brazilian news portals (O Globo and Folha de S. Paulo) is accomplished. We seek to comprehend in which range Latin America countries are presented within the World section of the researched portal, examining also the rate of appearance of the United States as well as European countries. The literature review enables to advance two hypothesis: 1) The United States is the country with the highest rate of appearance in both portals' coverage; 2) Latin American countries have a low rate of appearance, even though both portals being Brazilian. In order to test this hypothesis, we used quantitative content analysis, which allows us to identify patterns and differences in the coverage of portals permitting comparisons. The data was collected since 2018 April until July and the results indicated similarities in the analyzed portals, with both coverages presenting Latin America countries, although showing significant differences in comparison to the so-called developed nations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The world's population is constantly on the move, making migration part of daily life for billions of people. The repercussions of these flows for family configurations constitute an issue for political agendas, academic research, and citizen-led protests around the globe. From the standpoint of the multidirectional circulation of care, this study identifies tensions and ambiguities in the caregiving that many Latin American grandmothers provide for their grandchildren in transnational families. The article problematizes the naturalization of the choice of the grandmother as substitute caregiver and proposes that it can be best understood as an intergenerational solution to the care dilemma. It is argued that the circulation of care affords us new understandings of kinship and of the boundaries between the public and private domains. Faced with the inability of Nation-states to meet their responsibility to guarantee social welfare, kin renegotiate their obligations to care for one another. A transversal reading of a corpus of 52 publications on transnational family dynamics in three subregions of Latin America (where child-shifting between households has deep historical roots) shows how the circulation of care forges a certain notion of family wellbeing predicated on the so-called intergenerational pact. Yet, at the same time, it provokes conflicts among the grandmother, her adult children, and her grandchildren. The analysis of discourses that justify the marshalling of energy and resources as well as the distribution of carework reveals that the participation of grandfathers and other relatives tends to be invisibilized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article explores the true scope of recall as a mechanism of direct democracy. Recall is a mechanism of citizen control adopted by several Latin American countries after the third wave of democratization and in the context of a crisis of representation. Some regulations consider a campaign so that parties and their leaders may inform voters and politically influence their decision in the referendum (electoral mediation). Others give citizens complete freedom to elaborate their own opinions (self-government). A normative study is undertaken of the constitutions and national laws of the Latin American States that include this mechanism. The conclusions show the obstacles posed by the norms to the direct exercise of popular sovereignty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study analyzes and classifies the internal organization of Latin American political parties, comparing the content of 42 party statutes distributed in the 18 democratic countries from this region. The statute analysis focused on their comparison, highlighting the presence or absence of certain contents in each of them. The prevailing view of the region indicates a case of party underdevelopment, in which the associations are described as having fragile internal organizations, in many cases these are nonexistent. This work does not share that view and argues that Latin America has a broad party spectrum in which parties with different organization levels coexist. The main results indicate a strong influence of ideology and original type on the party’s format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text seeks to present a debate on decolonial feminisms, beyond to the academic discussion on Coloniality. My objective is to indicate possible ways for researchers interested in the decolonial keys but dissatisfied with its limitations when encountering empirical situations. In this way, I will present in general way the decolonial thought to bring some close reflections about coloniality and gender using two texts of Latin American authors (Ochy Curiel and Breny Mendoza). In the end, I will draw some theoretical and methodological possibilities, in light of both the discussion of these texts and the research I have developed with indigenous people in Brazil. My studies with indigenous women and to the indigenous LGBTIQ movement in Brazil have hitherto pointed to an original and radical movement beyond decolonial discussions pointing out new possibilities beyond those indicated by the theoretical discussions brought here. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Open source mapping platforms (such as OSM) are innovative tools that can enhance student learning and engagement in Latin American geography courses. Use of these tools can also facilitate new collaborations between students/scholars and communities responding to social and economic challenges in Latin America. In this paper we discuss the use of these tools in three different educational settings. We begin by describing the work of YouthMappers, a new international network of open source mappers that formed in 2015 with chapters in Latin America. YouthMappers can be a resource for geography departments anywhere in the world interested in developing open source mapping skills and projects. We then provide three examples from our own department of how open source mapping is used to build skills, enhance data collection, and foster international collaboration between U.S. and Latin American researchers and students. We conclude by discussing the benefits and challenges of employing these tools in the classroom and the field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Contributing to debates around the relationships between precarity, mobilities and migration, this paper examines the nature of precarity among onward Latin American (OLA) migrants as they have moved transnationally to multiple destinations from their homelands to southern Europe and onwards to London across different time periods. Drawing on primary research with over 400 OLAs, the discussion highlights how precarity maps onto onward migration trajectories in fractal rather than linear ways. In moving beyond a continuum approach to labour exploitation, the paper develops the concept of "onward precarity" to capture how migrants negotiate intersecting vulnerabilities in holistic spatio‐temporal ways as they move through different structural contexts across the world from origin, through transition to their final destination country over time. These negotiations are underpinned by multiple agentic tactics that revolve around resilience and reworking strategies as onward migrants traverse wider structures of disadvantage in situ and through mobility in different places. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A survey based on PsycINFO from 2011 to 2015 identified 809 publications resulting from scientific cooperation between at least two countries in Latin American Behavioral Sciences, including 770 journal articles, 36 chapters and 3 books. In relation to the articles a total of 3,926 authorial participations were registered. The countries with the highest participation were Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, and Chile. The 770 articles included 318 exclusively Latin American productions and 452 publications with the participation of one or more countries from other continents. The three areas that showed the largest number of publications were Psychological and Physical Disorders (283), Health and Mental Health: Treatment and Prevention (137), and Physiological Psychology and Neuroscience (94). The 770 articles identified were published in 354 journals, but only 26 journals published five or more articles resulting from Latin American cooperation in the period. Only three Latin American journals on Psychology are listed among the top 26. The data are analyzed and discussed in view of possible ways to expand cooperation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objectives. To describe patterns of multimorbidity in six diverse Latin American and Caribbean countries, examine its effects on primary care experiences, and assess its influence on reported overall health care assessments. Methods. Cross-sectional data are from the Inter-American Development Bank's international primary care survey, conducted in 2013/2014, and represent the adult populations of Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, Jamaica, Mexico and Panama. Robust Poisson regression models were used to estimate the extent to which those with multimorbidity receive adequate and appropriate primary care, have confidence in managing their health condition, and are able to afford needed medical care. Results. The prevalence of multimorbidity ranged from 17.5% in Colombia to 37.3% in Jamaica. Most of the examined conditions occur along with others, with diabetes and heart disease being the two problems most associated with other conditions. The proportions of adults with high out-of-pocket payments, problems paying their medical bills, seeing multiple doctors, and being in only fair/poor health were higher among those with greater levels of multimorbidity and poorer primary care experiences. Multimorbidity and difficulties with primary care were positively associated with trouble paying for medical care and managing one's conditions. Nonetheless, adults with multimorbidity were more likely to have received lifestyle advice and to be up to date with preventive exams. Conclusions. Multimorbidity is reported frequently. Providing adequate care for the growing number of such patients is a major challenge facing most health systems, which will require considerable strengthening of primary care along with financial protection for those most in need. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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