In Latin America, urban anthropology has helped to make the tensions and paradoxes of urban regeneration and revitalisation processes used in the region’s historical centres visible. As a corner of the narrative of monumentality, urban beauty and cultural/heritage citizenship, strongly linked to dis...

Objetivo: analisar as interações sociais dos internos do Asilo Santo Antônio (Barranquilla) desde a perspectiva dramática, com a finalidade de entender os mecanismos através dos quais assumem seus estigmas para adequar-se ao sistema. Metodologia: Etnografía Interacionista de corte analítico. Apanhou...

This article reflects on the festivity of the Quema de Judas that takes place every Sunday of Easter in the city of Iquique in northern Chile. It analyses the changes in the central celebration icon, in the context of a city with profound socio-cultural, demographic and political transformations. Fi...

On the basis of the investigation carried out at the Bogotá notaries’ offices into the implementation of Judgment C-075 of 2007 of the Constitutional Court, which allows the declaration of de facto marital union between homosexual couples, it is argued that, despite the wide margin of application of...

THE ARTICLE TO AN ANALYSIS OF ritual speeches and PRACTICATIONS which make up the phenomenon of popular santification of certain deaths in urban cemeteries in Colombia. The fieldwork, which began in 1996, was carried out in various cemeteries, although this presentation revolves around the central B...

This article is an approach to the phenomenon of torture, particularly sexual torture, and it aims to inquire into the common interpretative frameworks that are constructed in the sexual torture exerted over the individual bodies, as metaphorical representations of the social body, within the contex...

This article is based on qualitative research using the in-depth interview technique in the context of case studies of four women, with the aim of studying family violence (VF) from a Psychoanalytical viewpoint. A critical position on the VF forces us to call it ‘violent love relations’ and to speci...

Death and logic Death and logic Death and logic Death and logic Death and logic Death and logic becomes a key hub for youth groups linked to violence. The image of Colombian sicario, a young boy willing to kill or be killed by a payment, is the final embodiment of this universe where life is no long...

The article presents the results of qualitative research in which the biographical stories of young Afro-Colombians and Afro-Colombian young people on their educational paths are taken up. The analysis focuses on their experiences of racism, in the school context, in the city of Bogotá. Dynamics exp...

This test analyses the fictionalisation of the trauma in three fanciful cinematographic works, two Argentinian: Appeared (2007) and Moebius (1996), and a Colombian: The asparagus (2011). Psychoanalytical theory is applied to the paternal figure and symbolic castration, to show elements common to the...

Realización y traducción de la entrevista: José Luis San Fabián Maroto Profesor de la Facultad de Educación de la Universidad de Oviedo   LA "EVALUOCRACIA": EL PAPEL DE LA EVALUACIÓN EN LA LEGITIMACIÓN Y RECONSTRUCCIÓN INSTITUCIONAL DE LA EDUCACIÓN La evaluación, como conjunto de práctica...

Social representations can be seen as a collective tool used to give sense to the behaviour of members of other groups, are often replicated with negative stereotypes that tend to generalise and influence opinion. The factors affecting the origin and configuration are multiple and complex; this work...

Social violence has been a recurring theme in Mexican art from the 1920s to the present. Interpreting historical periods marked by social conflict, artists have described social victimisation as a result of confrontation between hegemonic and sub-alternating political forces. From a historical persp...

En este artículo se relaciona una etapa que se supone superada -por los diferentes gobiernos de la transición- después de más de 20 añoss de democracia, con formas de autoritarismo que en el presente la rememoran. Se propone que estas formas están presentes en símbolos y diferentes rituales y que se...

The violation of women’s human rights will be analysed in the massacre in Pando, Bolivia, which took place on 11 September 2008, to which end it will be arrested in a witness case, Lucía Fátima da Silva. Symbolic construction will be observed by technical teams who had and are involved in the affect...

This research analyses whether future teachers are able to identify exemplary situations of inequality and symbolic gender-based violence in educational settings. To this end, we have put forward a qualitative investigation, based on a questionnaire and discussion groups, which will help us achieve...

The article presents a critical analysis of recent literature on armed conflict and peace building in the Colombian context from a territorial perspective. Databases of scientific journals were consulted based on the combination of the words territory, armed conflict and peace, including material si...

The types of violence are analysed: domestic, institutional and feminicide, using the concept of “gender-based violence against women”, in combination with the dimensions of violence proposed by Johan Galtung: interpersonal, structural and cultural/symbolic, to demonstrate that gender-based violence...

Legal implications of regulatory models that impose forms of symbolic violence for the sexual worker women are exhibited from a gender perspective, naturalizing a male_centered vision  that defines its practices and speeches. From this conceptual frame the legal context of the sexual work is exhibit...

This article explores the mechanisms by which the period of violence in the country continues to impact universities, this time through symbolic violence expressed in forms of stigmatisation from an internal actor (the family) and from an external actor (the media). In this context, young people fro...

summarise: There is no debate on Educação e Politica, addressing the relação between Educação, school curriculum and symbolic violência na prospect of teenagers between 12 and 17 years who meet non-creative socio-educational measures (Centro de Referência Specializado da Assistência Social) in Vitór...

It is often argued that the origin of modern Western sociology took place in the middle of the 19th century in Europe, recognising the role of three European male thinkers as their founding fathers. This androcentric and Eurocentric story on the birth of sociology is currently taught and taught in a...

This work addresses the ways in which Dominican people collaborate with their own domination, and do so on the basis of the ethnographical material of an investigation that addressed the discursivity and practice of corrective pedagogy in an educational centre for Spanish youth justice. Establishing...

This article challenges the relationship between violence and democracy in order to demonstrate that they are not exclusive but rather co-dependent categories. This is done by studying the different forms of violence in Argentina’s recent history through secondary sources, taking into account both q...

This article presents a sociological analysis of professional speech in the dance field and a TV taxiing team carried out between 2006 and 2012 in San Diego, London and Barcelona. Artistic work takes place within a certain distribution of symbolic, predominantly linguistic, capital. This communicati...