Is it possible to steer the concepts of development and transformation to a wide range of different sizes, with the aim and goal of developing and transforming our societies and social groups, our territories and places at local, sub-regional and regional levels? If this row can be built, is it poss...

how would you conceptualise the term ‘Fallido State’? Fernán González: A failed state would be the one that has definitively failed to fully consolidate itself as a legitimate authority to settle conflicts in the population of the most significant territories of a country: regulate and support the e...

Biodiversity has been significantly devastated by extractivist activities in territories inhabited by indigenous peoples. This article originates from the anthropological report that was ‘challenged’ by the Leufu Wueneywue Association, which was carried out in Tralcapulli and Llongahue (Los Ríos Reg...

Refugees leave their country of origin under different circumstances and go to other territories in search of safety, protection, health and even survival. The health of refugees may be weakened due to the trauma faced in the country of origin, as well as the whole process of refuge and arrival in t...

through the reconstruction of the history and memory of the social uses of the San Pedro del Tingo Municipal Balneario, located in the Chillos Valley in the vicinity of the consolidated urban area of Quito, the work analyses the tensions and fluctuating relations between local government, social gro...

Summary This research uses the perspective of school effectiveness considering three factors: socio-demographic characteristics, attitudes towards mathematics and social beliefs around gender in mathematical contexts. The aim is to explore the predictive value of variables that could be associated w...

This article analyses the transformations of the mortzinca senorío between the 15th century and the 16th century. From the time when Mr de Calixtlahuaca was known as Pintabati (before the azteca conquest in 1469) until the formation of the Spaniards of Tollocan (1530s), the Valle de Matlatzinco expe...

This document initially focuses on the lessons learned from the processes of territorial administrative decentralisation throughout Colombia’s contemporary history. The second part interprets recent developments and discusses the issues related to the central government’s increased presence in terri...

Introductory study to the narrative theory that seeks to organise material according to four approaches: poetic, rhetoric, epistemological and ethical, defining the peculiarity of each, the main schools and the authors that have influenced their development. The aim is to show the range of concepts...

In this article, we propose to debate two strong ideas underlying the discourse on the links between research and territory, namely that the research effort should be concentrated on a few territories (a concentration which would be essential for improving the performance of organisations) and that...

the ecology of populations looks at how the number and composition (age, sex) of individuals in a population change. Many of the mechanisms that bring about these changes are associated with behaviour, for example by the way individuals defend their territories, seek partners, or disperse. It is the...

Summary of Mexico’s demographic dynamics requires the regular delimitation of its electoral territories, seeking population balance, but also the representation of indigenous groups, which constitute an important socio-cultural sector. This article outlines the methodology used to bring together the...

The continuous and increasing incorporation of the Ecuadorian Amazon into the extractive dynamics has led to the construction of a series of infrastructure to provide services to these megaprojects. This has involved not only a material transformation of the territory, but also a change in the life...

Traditional Basque histography has been defending the world’s absolute victory and urban model over the elderly, resulting in the complete disappearance of Guipúzcoa’s political and social spheres during Moderna Age. However, through the case of the Zarauz family, we see that these families establis...

Who has brought Doruntine? novel of Albanian writer Isamail Kadaré is a remarkable example, based on a history of displacement between territories, of the relationship between the plurality of dimensions generally involved by the territorial question, from the most individual to the most collective:...

From a historical look, Mapuche’s territorial and autonomy claims have started to emerge in the Ngulu and Puel Mapu at the end of the 1990s. Since then, the Mapuche people have become visible as a homogeneous group to Chilean and international society. In this context, the williche community and its...

‘titrebSummary’/titreb Health services are one of the sectors in which important information infrastructure has been developed for a long time and are formulated with ever more ambitious plans in this area. The rules for writing and authoritative principles for Patient Summaries are very closely spe...

This study is part of the recovery and valorisation of the artisanal intangible cultural heritage, in accordance with the commitment that the Chilean State ratified vis-à-vis UNESCO in 2007. Our research rescues the intangible elements of culture in small territories, where social construction revol...

In the territorial representation drawn up by the author of legionensis history (known as ‘sylensis’), the geopolitical space in which Alfonso VI, Fernando I and several of its predecessors, in particular the closest ones, are moving, is not always that of the reindees and principals of their time....

Pachacútec is an urban margin, peripheral to the Lima/Callao agglomeration, the development of which is historically marked by many uncertainties. Considering emergency management linked to large-scale sieges can be supported by studying the origin of this margin, which is similar to an emergency, a...

[ES] In this end-of-grade work, a historical, formal and technical study is carried out on the wall paintings in the Vieja Ermita del Santuario de la Virgen del Campo en Camarillas, Teruel. The architectural assembly is abandoned and ruined, leading to the conservation study of the wall paints and t...

Colombians live together in a context characterised by ethnic and cultural diversity. However, local, regional and national identities are built in unfavourable conditions, particularly in the neighbourhoods of cities where more and more people and families displaced by violence are home. Most of th...

For decades, governments and companies have forced through extractive and infrastructure megaprojects, undermining the priorities of people living in the affected territories. Currently, legislation exists that protects indigenous people’s right to prior, free, and informed consultation. The objecti...

This research work seeks to understand how migration processes in Canton Cañar are experienced by women who have not migrated. It also describes how this migration experience of “staying”, combined with structural historical phenomena such as the sexual division of labour and the environmental probl...

To understand the contemporary structure of Chinese thinking, we must start from an articulated approach between classical thinking and contemporary thinking. The truth is that we cannot analyse this thinking on the basis of a dicotonic or binary approach, but on the contrary, in the context of hybr...