Revista Estudios

Geopolitics and Central America: Ideas for an Analysis of some Intersections between History and Territories

2024-12-06T13:32:25+00:00

This paper analyzes from a critical geopolitic perspective, three historical milestones in Central America, namely: The independence and continuity of the colony; exports of coffee and banana; and political-identity Tensions. A qualitative and inductive approach is used, following the hermeneutical method for the treatment and interpretation of the data. As results, it is obtained that the debates on the region have focused on 4 aspects, namely: 1. The fragmentation of the isthmus for geographical reasons and the colonial order established by the Spanish crown; 2. The paradox of being a continental bridge and barrier for new trade routes urged by the European monarchies; 3. The problem of otherness reproduced by the Creole logic of power-accumulation and the agro-export model based on the cultivation of coffee and banana; 4. The history of interventions carried out by the United States in the region on those countries considered as a risk for their "manifest and doctrinal destiny".

Community-based Civil Society Organizations in the Social Security Dispute: MSSP and FRENASS

2024-12-06T16:48:07+00:00

This text reviews the experiences of two civil society organizations in their interaction with the Costa Rican state in the context of the dispute over social security, public health and the CCSS. These are the MSSP and FRENASS, which in recent years have carried out a series of actions to defend the free, solidarity-based and universal nature of public health care provided by the State. An interpretative qualitative methodology was used, which included secondary analysis of qualitative data and semi-structured interviews with 15 key participants. Among the main findings is the centrality of this type of organization in the political arena, where their organizational and mobilization strategies are highlighted; it also highlights the importance of citizen political participation for the control of public policies, but at the same time for the positioning of a common solidarity project.

Advanced marginality in the Metropolitan Area of San José, case studies of: Alajuelita, Los Guido and Pavas (1986-2011)

2024-12-19T07:56:08+00:00

This article investigates the historical development of a phase of advanced marginality in the Metropolitan Area of San José. To examine this process, emphasis is placed on the socio-historical construction of territorial stigmatization in the canton of Alajuelita, the district of Los Guido, in Desamparados and in the district of Pavas. To achieve this, the proposals of urban sociology developed by Loïc Wacquant are used and are approached from a historical perspective. In methodological terms, the research proposes a qualitative approach through descriptive and content analysis of primary sources and the conduct of an unstructured interview. For the quantitative part, population censuses from the study period are analyzed. The text concludes thatadvanced marginality was constituted through the incidence of interwoven hegemonic policies: neoliberalism and actions to address territorial inequalities in relation to housing.

‘Invention’ of the unexplained drama: Italian press at the beginning of Mexican Revolution. The murder of Francisco I. Madero (1913)

2024-12-06T16:58:04+00:00

The news published about the events in Mexico in February 1913 came basically from telegrams, usually brief or limited to numbers or names since they were charged per word. In this way, notices reached the editorial offices of the newspapers and from there, the director or editor turned them into news. In this process, the invention became present and necessary and the tragedy of the assassination of President Francisco I. Madero was reported with horror, but without explanations; when there were explanations, the brevity and clear intervention of the editor to make sense of them is noted. By comparing three newspapers printed in Italy that reported this event, it will be possible to know how it was transformed into a story that, without a doubt, sought to shock its readers.

Feminism, Citizenship, and Reception of the 1973 Chilean Coup in the Alianza de Mujeres Costarricenses (AMC)

2024-12-18T20:03:53+00:00

This article examines a reflection on the concept of female citizenship and materialist feminism in the first section. Subsequently, this article is also divided into two sections: the political participation of women in the second half of the twentieth century in Latin America and the study of the reception of the coup in Chile by the Alianza de Mujeres Costarricenses (AMC) from the theoretical approach of maternal feminism. The aim of this study is to analyze the reception of the political event by AMC that shook the Latin American people in general in 1973 within the context of the Cold War and the second wave of feminism in Latin America, being key for the development of women's social movements. To achieve this, we analyzed the discourse presented in publications made by the women's newspaper Nuestra Voz about this coup.

Nana Gutiérrez - Poetic Butterfly: An Unjustly Marginalized Subversive Writer

2024-12-18T21:50:21+00:00

This article seeks to contribute to a fair representation of Nana Gutiérrez as an author. The main objective of this article is to provide an update of her texts through a reading that pays attention to the textual procedures of antipoetry and dialogism with the corresponding use of taxonomies, vocatives, and forms of colloquial language along with the appropriation of communication resources of the mass media. This article also prioritizes the study of the symbolism that Nana gives to the butterfly as a representative element of her voice in poetry.

Body-text in the poetry of Camila Sosa Villada

2024-12-18T22:40:00+00:00

This paper presents a critical analysis of the poetry collection La novia de Sandro (2015) by Argentine writer Camila Sosa Villada, a debut work that, despite its aesthetic and thematic contributions, has received scant attention from Latin American critics. The main objective of this study is to explore the relationship between the notions of body and text in this poetic production. To achieve this, a theoretical framework is employed, drawing on the contributions of scholars such as Meri Torras, Monique Wittig, and Judith Butler, whose gender perspectives are discussed in the second section of the article. Through this lens, the concept of body-text in Sosa Villada’s work is analyzed, highlighting its capacity to articulate a discourse of resistance against a social system characterized as heteronormative, repressive, and violent. Ultimately, the paper provides a detailed interpretation of the interplay between identity, body, and word in the poetry of an author who challenges literary and social conventions.

Learning to Learn in a University Classroom: The Implementation of an Instructional Design in a Physics Course

2024-12-18T22:20:26+00:00

Details and results of the implementation of an instructional design, accompanied by a flipped classroom, into a General Physics class, program for Engineering and some Sciences majors of the Universidad de Costa Rica, which is fed by learning theories such as connectivism and activity theory. The mediation conducted was aimed at developing in students the ability to integrate the construction of disciplinary concepts with the development of transversal competencies. The development of the contents and thematic units was hybridized with activities mediated through a virtual learning environment and face-to-face activities that promoted authentic and collaborative learning. Advantages were identified regarding the flipped classroom and the implementation of an instructional design as a pedagogical approach to learning science, the construction of disciplinary concepts, the development of study habits and transversal competences.

An aesthetic reflection on the end of Art

2024-12-18T23:06:50+00:00

When analyzing Western artistic manifestations of the past sixty years, is possible to comprehends why the theoretical discussion about the death of art was so well received during the twentieth century, and to show the reasons that have generated such diverse reinterpretations of Hegelian propositions regarding the death of art. To carry out this theoretical-conceptual analysis, both canonical perspectives and lesser-known ones were considered, to provide a broad vision of the topic, while attempting to establish conceptual relationships between the theories about the end of art in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and some manifestations of postmodern artistic phenomena, that encourage these reflections. In the end is proposed the replacement of the concept of work of art, associated with more traditional art, with other concepts that are considered more appropriate to describe the postmodern plastic phenomenon.

The The Exile and Death of María Isabel Carvajal. The Revolutionary and Her Word: 75 Years After Her Passing

2024-12-19T08:29:14+00:00

Ronald Campos López. (2023). Cantos a Dylan (versos homoparentales). Costa Rica Editorial . (114 pp.)

2024-12-19T08:40:14+00:00

Jáirol Núñez Moya. (2023). Del dicho al hecho. Las políticas culturales y el discurso sobre la cultura del Estado costarricense (1998-2018). EUNA. (283 pp.)

2024-12-19T08:55:24+00:00

Jorge Barrientos. (2023). Los historiadores marxistas británicos y su legado en la historiografía contemporánea. Arlekín Editorial. (150 pp.)

2024-12-19T09:14:52+00:00