In recent years, the escalation of violence in Colombia by armed groups and drug cartels has affected Afro-Colombian girls and boys, modifying their knowledge and routine. In this article I analyze the representations of girls and boys in times of war. I stress and the importance of drawing in ethnographic work to broaden the understanding of the ...
The aim of this article is to address the construction of the Pampean cultural landscape in the border area of the central western part of the Province of Santa Fe (Argentina) during the second half of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century. The methodology used is the analysis of the historical cadastre in relation to the specia...
In this work, I am interested in the exceptional case of the defenses of the village of Puigcerdà, which were delivered twice demolished by the French troops, in 1659 and 1678. After the peace of the Pyrenees of 1659, I analyze the Hispanic politics about the need to reorganize the defense of the new Catalan military frontier, especially in the Cer...
The paper presents a comparative analysis of colonization activities in Siberia and America; nonetheless, alongside the traditional aspects and approaches (frontier theory, civilizational approach, etc.), the communication pattern of territorial expansion on the part of scholars, entrepreneurs and states represents an independent research objective...
The COVID-19 pandemic generated transformations in different areas of human life and socio-digital communication is central to its understanding. Users who post comments in the media and networks contribute elements to the social construction of reality. The objective was to interpret, through content analysis, representations of 1303 users of four...
The article describes the Pedagogía de Frontera movement, which provides continuing education for teachers and the school community in the municipal network of Foz de Iguaçu, as some schools have a large number of children of other nationalities, mainly Hispanic-Americans. Teachers from Unila, Unioeste and Ifpr provide training with the aim of disc...
Sobre la cuestión de las fronteras, el año 2020 se ha presentado como un año excepcional. Si bien el proceso de mundialización desarrollado desde la dé-cada de 1990 ha favorecido en general su apertura, nunca el mundo había cono-cido tantas fronteras cerradas por razones sanitarias. Ante esta situación sin precedentes, ¿cuales son las perspectivas ...
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«Border» and «wall» are sometimes used as interchangeable terms, although in fact their meanings diverge. The former is intended to regulate transits and all kinds of exchanges, so, unlike the wall, it is not in itself an obstructive device. In the context of current restrictive migration politics, it is crucial to denaturalize the hegemonic rhetor...
The research question followed by this paper: Have public policies for fighting dengue been fully implemented in border municipalities given their territorial complexity? From this, we seek to analyze the influence of the contextual characteristics of two border municipalities in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul: Corumbá (Brazil/Bolivia border) and ...
