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This article offers a reflection on environmental communication as a discipline of care as an opportunity to imagine and reconstruct, both theoretically and practically, the role of environmental communication in the global south, under an inclusive perspective that represents one of the greatest challenges for environmental communication today. In this essay, I recount several of the experiences I have had in the environmental sciences: First, I share a teaching project, a project of an environmental science degree at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) that involved working with rural communities, an environmental NGO. Secondly, the construction of a teaching material for an endangered indigenous language. Third, a video project involving socio-environmental research as part of the Institute for Research in Ecosystems and Sustainability of the UNAM, which was coordinated across different regions of Mexico. Fourth, I reflect on an investigation with digital native media and its audiovisual communication in social media. In conclusion, I consider how the move to emphasize care in an age of environmental crises might provide space for greater inclusion of global south praxis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How might experimental media art help theorise what falls by the wayside in the digital public sphere? Working in the years immediately following the launch of YouTube in 2005, some media artists centred their creative praxis towards the end of that decade upon rescuing, revalorising, and placing back into digital circulation audiovisual media formats and technologies that appeared aged or obsolete. Although there may be a degree of nostalgia behind such practices, these artworks articulate a cogent critique of the drive towards constant innovation that was responsible for the invention and global expansion of cinema, but in recent decades has been responsible for its decay—or, perhaps more accurately, for its perpetual transformation. The article explores this 'media-archaeology' sensibility as a way of thinking about AI more widely: an approach that sees histories of media not as a linear, chronological search for origins, but as a critical recovery of artefacts lodged discontinuously in multiple layers of the past. Although digital technologies form a central part of the creative process of the artists considered in this article, their works also act as a critical conscience about digital change, asking what the so-called digital revolution is leaving out, and leaving behind. In so doing, it illuminates some potential positive and negative impacts of digital technologies' mediation of new forms of public engagement, whether in art, archives, or on social media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nahua and Totonakú activists in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, Mexico, have challenged the state-sanctioned and corporate-driven imposition of small hydropower projects as sustainable development. They deploy a counter-hegemonic discourse that labels these projects as proyectos de muerte that perpetuate violence and rearticulate coloniality. Simultaneously, they engage in proyectos de vida that build an alternative future premised on Indigenous resurgence and autonomy. The findings illustrate the importance of analysing ontological dimensions of violence and demonstrate the urgency of articulating decolonial alternatives to the sustainable development paradigm and its approach to the renewable energy transition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain: Nahua Sacred Journeys in Mexico's Huasteca Veracruzana" by Alan R. Sandstrom and Pamela Effrein Sandstrom is a comprehensive ethnographic study based on over four decades of fieldwork in the Indigenous community of Amatlán in Veracruz, Mexico. The book explores the ontological, ethical, political, and spiritual dimensions of five sacred pilgrimages undertaken by the Nahua people to restore balance and harmony in the region and the cosmos. The authors document their participation in these pilgrimages and highlight the resilience of Nahua religion and cultural practices in the face of colonialism and modern challenges. The book also discusses the pantheistic nature of Nahua beliefs and the importance of maintaining cosmic order through rituals and reciprocal exchanges with spirit entities. Overall, "Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain" provides valuable insights into the historical, spiritual, and philosophical aspects of Nahua pilgrimages and their significance in the context of ongoing environmental and religious changes. [Extracted from the article]

The article titled "The New Public Art: Collectivity and Activism in Mexico Since the 1980s" analyzes the sphere of public art in Mexico from the late 20th century to the present day. The book, edited by Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra, presents ten chapters written by academics and eight dossiers written by artists and collectives. The objective of the book is to surpass the traditional notion of public art and position theory and praxis as living elements in the construction of meaning. Additionally, the book is situated between the earthquakes of 1985 and 2017, and examines how these events have affected the conception of the public in Mexico. [Extracted from the article]

In this article it is analyzed, from a neokantina perspective, the phenomenon of the rap music in the municipality of Zumpango, where the geographic ubication and the social-cultural characteristics decant in a process transitional of the traditionalism to the modernity. Has been identified two fundamentals categories related to the praxis of rap; on one side, are who use the rap to critic the economic capitalist model and, in another hand, who reproduce said model through of the rap. These categories have been elaborated from do an analysis of content of the songs of the Zumpango rappers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we develop a praxis to interpret violence against migrants and border communities in the U.S.–Mexico Paso del Norte borderlands, that is applicable to other global border regions in crisis. We reframe the violence that occurs daily on both sides of the border as a form of 'radical violence' that cuts across racial, gendered, class, interpersonal, and institutional lines, which is also physical, representational, epistemic, and spiritual. We argue that together, these forms of violence are radical because they strike at the roots of social relationships, families, and communities, as well as the larger collection of rights all human beings deserve. We articulate a notion of 'radical love' in contrast to radical violence as a transformational counterweight to the brutality that blankets people, institutions, and the land itself in border regions. We propose a strategy that anchors and transforms our collective rage to confront this violence by people seeking to build friendships, community, and coalitions. We call this framework a transborder friendship praxis (TFP), which embodies collective rage and radical love as interventions to violence against migrants and border communities and the embodied violence of militarizing and securitizing border regions, and as a model for building solidarity across international boundaries. Our framework is rooted in the tenets of autoethnography, everyday geographies, and geographies of friendship, and draw upon the scholarship of 'witnessing' as a subversive act and relational resistance as a methodology of witnessing in action. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the book "Aprendizajes del Movimiento Zapatista: De la insurgencia armada a la autonomía popular" (Learnings from the Zapatista Movement: From armed insurgency to popular autonomy), which analyzes the Zapatista Movement in Mexico. The book studies the Zapatista political praxis as a strategy for territorial defense and examines the different aspects of autonomy for territorial construction and self-determination. The Zapatista Movement is considered one of the most important examples of indigenous-peasant autonomy in the contemporary world. The text highlights the importance of the indigenous issue in the struggle for the emancipation of oppressed peoples and the need for a radical transformation of the national pact to incorporate indigenous people into the nation with justice and dignity. Additionally, the article mentions the metaphor of snails as a symbol of the Zapatista movement, representing the indigenous conception of cyclical time and resistance to the acceleration of modernity. The Zapatista Movement also recognizes the importance of the presence and participation of women in achieving true emancipation and autonomy. The text discusses the process of decolonizing femininity within the Zapatista Movement, emphasizing the importance of women's participation in political demands. The emancipation of Zapatista women is achieved through a pedagogy of the word, which values the formulation of policies from a feminine perspective. The Zapatista movement seeks to establish a political praxis based on autonomy, inspired by Paulo Freire. The Zapatista praxis is an experience of autonomy that produces a Latin American political theory, aiming for the liberation and emancipation of men and women. The text concludes with the Zapatista principles for a rebellious ethics, which include horizontality, persuasion instead of victory, and service instead of self-service. [Extracted from the article]

The magazine Scientia et PRAXIS highlights the co-edition with the Center for Research in Food and Development (CIAD) of CONAHCYT, with the central theme of food and its relationship with regional development. The articles include analysis on food expenditure in Mexican households, environmental degradation in agricultural areas of Sonora, the evaluation of CPIs, the health conditions of women in manufacturing, knowledge of backyard gardens in vulnerable areas, and long consumption circuits and agroecology in Mexico. It is concluded that more research is needed on long marketing circuits to improve agroecological systems on a commercial scale. The authors and authorities of CIAD-CONAHCYT, AMIDI, and the magazine Scientia et PRAXIS encourage readers to become authors in future editions. [Extracted from the article]

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This essay examines the interventions of Chicana feminist theory in the sci-fi television series Undone (2019). While the mysterious source and nature of the time-bending abilities the protagonist develops remain in doubt, the show makes possible a third interpretation that locates Alma's talents instead in Chicana feminist praxis as theorized in the contributions of Gloria Anzaldúa. We focus on this third way of understanding Alma's abilities. We show how the character resembles the Anzaldúan borderlands subjects of la nueva mestiza and the nepantlera, feminist figures whose inner psychic struggles reveal the historical and structural nature of oppression in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and whose oppositional consciousness visualizes new strategies for challenging it. We locate Alma's Anzaldúan praxis in three critical borderlands maneuvers: the counterstance, tolerance for ambiguity, and hyper empathy. Finally, by acknowledging the limitations of Undone as a mainstream vehicle for Chicana feminist critique, we offer that an Anzaldúan reading models an interpretive counterstance against the dominant scripts and interpretive frameworks of the show itself and the broader racial imaginaries of mainstream science fictions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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What interests me here is to interweave stories that allow us to establish connections between social and cultural movements in order to approach 1970s collective artistic practices in Mexico as political actions, and also as experimental, participative, and conceptual praxis. This article discusses the category of "cultural" and "visual guerrillas" as a micro-political locus of institutional critique and gives visibility to paradigm shifts through certain collective artistic interventions, which are analysed as founding memories that simultaneously activate the political and the affective dimensons in our present in order to resist public policies of forgetting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this article, we document how Twitter is embedded within the U.S.- Mexico border and used to reorganize the oppressive conditions perpetuated by the border’s sociopolitical history. We do so through a mixed-methods case-study of three polarized, yet tangled, activist movements on Twitter, each of which responded to Trump’s border wall plans and zero-tolerance policy that separated asylum-seeking im/migrant children from their families. The hashtag movements included the liberal #FamiliesBelongTogether supporters (FBT), Trump Republican #BuildTheWall supporters (BTW), and liberal Anti-Wall (AW) #NoBorderWall and #TrumpShutDown denouncers. Findings indicate how the liberal activist movements inherited systemic issues of the broader U.S.-Mexico border infrastructure. Overall, we call for TPC to continue developing research agendas that learn from social activist networks so the field can understand its role in shaping the broader media infrastructure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite a robust legacy of scholarship that has critiqued participation in development, the relationship between participation and empowerment remains unclear. Adelanto is a small non governmental organisation in Chiapas, Mexico, engaged in radical participatory community development. Using an ethnographic approach, we examined Adelanto's politicised participatory approach, analysing assumptions that attempt to link radical participation with empowerment. Our findings illustrate Adelanto's commitment to a participatory approach defined by solidarity as critical to their success in advancing participant self-mobilisation. These results represent new insight into linkages between participation, empowerment, and emancipation by demonstrating the centrality of downward accountability within localised development praxis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This is a geopoetic exploration of riverine space through music. In this article, I build upon the nascent field of hydropoetics by approaching the space of rivers through musical ethnographic research. I draw upon post-colonial geopoetic approaches, blue humanities and oceanic studies, and the phenomenology of Gaston Bachelard and Ivan Illich, as well as on the praxis of son Jarocho musicians. I reflect upon three vignettes of music in two rivers of Sotavento in southeast Mexico and in one British river, exploring the ways in which son Jarocho music is used to produce and transform space. These surveys disembogue into a consideration of the possibilities granted by musical hydropoetics in the context of the Anthropocene, thinking of landscapes as feral Anthroposcenes as per Tsing et al. and Matless's works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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It refers here to the field of cultural management in Mexico and Latin America, and the urgency of attracting epistemologies that have a political impact on practices and elaborations in the field. From the documentary analysis of proposals for professionalization discussion around the subject, the possibility of attracting logical frameworks to think and focus the community as the center of practical deployments from the communitas defined from the biopolitical vector in the manner of R. Esposito, together with a call for the production of knowledge that can overcome traditional discussions about culture, to give way to possible epistemologies that result in the praxis of the field of management as a fundamental contribution in the unfolding of the field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Crucial to Dillingham's argument is the assertion that this multiculturalism was not merely an identity-based strategy of the state to incorporate Indigenous Mexicans into an increasingly austere, neoliberal economy. By closely examining agricultural and educational programs led by state agencies from the 1950s through the 1980s, Dillingham demonstrates the contradictory and complicated nature of I indigenismo i in Mexico in the decades after World War II. Indigenous youth, in particular, drive this interdisciplinary analysis, which relies on local, state, and national archives, as well as interviews with key figures, to highlight the contested nature of state-directed modernization efforts. [Extracted from the article]

During the last century, the farming productive strategies implemented by ethnics communities around the world, conjunctively with the way they use their natural resources, has been stigmatized by a western "scientific" vision, as wasteful and harmful to the ecosystems. This is also the case for the tseltal communities of the Northern Sierra of Chiapas. The research reviews and surfaces some aspects of the cosmos, corpus and praxis of the tseltal local ecological knowledge, using as reference the milpa production system and other manifestations of this "local and ethnic knowledge" to dismount this "rational" perspective of western reductionism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to present and discuss the critical teaching praxis of the students-teachers of the ethnographic research and action research project developed with children of primary school in an indigenous community in Oaxaca, México. After presenting a brief summary of the current situation of the Mexican indigenous peoples and their tongues, it is presented the general Project to which the students-teachers' praxis belonged, its theoretical principles and research methodology. Later on, it is developed an ethnographic portrait of Nundichi, the mixtecan community where the students-teachers developed their teaching praxis, and finally, the three topics that emerged from the analysis of that praxis: (1) respect for the community indigenous practices; (2) teaching praxis based on the children's life and context; and (3) creation of identity text authors within the teaching praxis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The magazine Scientia et PRAXIS presents its second issue of the year 2022, focusing on the importance of innovation for sustainable and social development. The first article proposes a conceptual model for the implementation of circular and inclusive businesses in Mexico. The second article explores the relationship between Outsourcing theory and corporate social responsibility. The third article analyzes the scarce information available on Non-Fungible Tokens. Finally, the fourth article examines the global scientific production in CSR and Corporate Communication. [Extracted from the article]

Some authors define indigenism and indianism as ideological movements of wide proportions, a definition shared by indigenists and indigens as well as by other segments of national societies with their own agendas of indigenous protection. This article criticizes strict national perspectives of indigenism and indianism to reinterpret it as a social philosophy of colonialism, characterized generally as Latin American national states' ideology and practice of domination, especially in Mexico and Brazil. Indigenism and indianism, when observed under the lens of Latin American processes of state formation and national construction, share the context of the "coloniality of power"; in that sense they can be interpreted as concomitant variations of a wider historical process of subordination and potential annihilation of the indigenous cultural diversity of the continent. This article proposes an ethnography of indigenism from a comparative perspective to promote a better comprehension of the varied forms of social thinking and political praxis on indigens in the Americas. It seeks to present indigenism and indigenist policies as a point of departure to better understand the regimes of indigeneity constructed during the nation-state-building processes in Latin America and their effects on indigenous ethnicity and forms of self-determination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Taking our experience in the legal profession as a starting point, we have examined four representative problems related to the service of process for Lease litigation proceedings in Mexico City. It is about a legal dogmatic exercise where the necessary feed-back between Law theory and praxis is emphasized. After repeated analyses, the problems expounded have surpassed the narrowness of the concrete but are presented abstractly here-in so that such concepts may be applied in specific cases and contribute to resolve alike issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]