Obesity has become a pandemic in developed countries. In Spain, more than 23 million people are classed as overweight and it is predicted that by 2030 some 3.1 million new cases will be categorised. This research seeks to reveal how the media cover this issue. To this end, the news from six online Spanish newspapers published in 2020 and 2021 has b...
The development model of Latin American countries turns them into suppliers of raw materials for the international market, whose growing requirements promote the expansion of extractive activities on the rural territories in which peasant and indigenous communities settle. This integration into the world market generates socio-environmental conflic...
This article, of a theoretical and exploratory nature, proposes to identify the potential of the contributions of symbolic interactionism, focusing on the work of Erving Goffman, in relation to Anglo-Saxon Disability Studies. The study addresses three questions that seek to understand some aspects of the field of disability from the point of view o...
Este artículo se propone analizar cómo la novela Fruta verde da cuenta de los fenómenos de marginación y de resistencia discursiva de los homosexuales en el contexto intraficcional de la Ciudad de México de finales de los años 70. El dispositivo narrativo polifónico de la novela permite apreciar la variabilidad de la noción de norma sexual y cuesti...
RESUMEN Desde el contexto de la pandemia del virus COVID-19, que surgió a finales de 2019 y se extendió a nivel global con los confinamientos masivos a principios de 2020, el objetivo principal de este texto es analizar cómo las personas incorporaron el confinamiento y las medidas de seguridad sanitaria implementadas por países de todo el mundo en ...
This essay revisits the idea of epistemic injustice, a term coined by Miranda Fricker, and some of the subsequent developments it has enabled, in order to illustrate the epistemic aspects associated with various forms of exclusion and marginalization in which gender inequalities play an important role. It is argued that contemporary feminism can be...
Resumen: El artículo tiene por objetivo analizar los mecanismos institucionales que han operado en un territorio estigmatizado y pauperizado, así como las respuestas de acción comunitaria por parte de organizaciones y colectivos sociales. Mediante la metodología cualitativa, a partir de los relatos de 17 dirigentes sociales y activistas de Alto Hos...
In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, which emerged in late 2019 and spread globally with mass lockdowns in early 2020, the primary objective of this text is to analyze how people incorporated confinement and health security measures implemented by countries around the world into their daily lives, with the purpose of mitigating the spread of th...
Resumen En el presente texto se retoma la noción de injusticia epistémica desarrollada por Miranda Fricker, así como algunos avances posteriores que dicho concepto posibilitó, para mostrar las facetas epistémicas que acompañan a diversas formas de exclusión y marginación, en las cuales las desigualdades de género juegan un papel importante. Se sost...
Prohibition in the field of drugs has installed and perpetuated urban violence that affects women who use illegal psychoactive substances such as cannabis differently. In order to understand the meanings of the right to the city in two women who consume marijuana and are cannabis activists in Medellin, an adaptation of the Narrative Hermeneutic Res...
