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Susana Herrera Lima

Professor - researcher at the Department of Sociocultural Studies of the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO). PhD in Social Scientific Studies, in the area of Communication, Culture and Society. Master in Science and Culture Communication. Member of the National System of Researchers, Level II. Full Professor at ITESO. Her lines of research are located at the intersection between Public Communication of Science and Communication of socio-environmental problems.

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Francisco Javier Mojica-Mendieta

PhD in the area of Communication, Culture and Social of the Doctorate in Scientific-Social Studies of the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente - Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara, Mexico (2009-2014). Thesis with honorable mention entitled: From/Coloniality of nature, Transnational mining in Crucitas and insurgents of border power-knowledge. M.A. and B.A. in Social Anthropology from the University of Costa Rica (UCR).

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Javier Taks

PhD in Anthropology from the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Degree in Anthropological Sciences from the University of the Republic of Uruguay. Postgraduate Diploma in Urban Environmental Management from IHS Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Post-doctorate in Development Studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico.

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Sofia Mendoza Bohne

Head of Sociourban Studies Department of the University Center of Social Sciences and Humanities (CUCSH) of University of Guadalajara. Doctor in History from University of Bielefeld, Germany. Master in Social Sciences de la Universidad de Guadalajara. Member of the National Research System in Mexico (SNI) since 2016.

 

Recent Publications

 

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A 70 años de la Reforma Agraria en Guatemala: violencia y tierra en América Latina, 1952-2022

Quien piensa que los debates sobre las reformas agrarias en América Latina son un tema del pasado, ignora que la transformación del ámbito rural latinoamericano es un asunto central para enfrentar las crisis económicas, sociales, políticas, ecológicas e identitarias de la región.

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El pensamiento crítico latinoamericano ante las crisis mundiales: genealogías, conceptos y estrategias

El pensamiento crítico latinoamericano ha elaborado propuestas teóricas y metodologías originales para el estudio del proceso de formación del capitalismo, la política y la cultura modernas.  La vanguardia abolicionista y democrática del nuevo mundo ante el imperialismo desde el siglo XIX, los conceptos de clase y raza y de reforma estatal hacia horizontes de lo nacional popular en el siglo XX en México, Centroamérica, los Andes, Brasil, el Caribe y el Cono Sur, los conceptos de dependencia, heterogeneidad estructural, autoritarismo y conceptos de regulación democracia y reconocimiento en l

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Landscapes and Territories in the Anthropocene. Literary and cultural perspectives of representation in the Americas

In recent years, the so-called 'Anthropocene' has not only been focused within earth system studies. It has become a central theme in current discourses in the field of cultural studies, political debates, and the literatures and arts of the Americas. Addressed are global environmental phenomena such as climate change, the decline of biodiversity or the increasing exploitation of non-renewable resources of the earth, which in Latin America are discussed under the title '(neo)-extractivism'.

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Vivir en y contra el Antropoceno: epistemologías, dimensiones y alternativas desde América Latina

 El Antropoceno es un concepto que se podría considerar polisémico. Por un lado, engloba y sintetiza las múltiples dimensiones de la crisis socioambiental que atraviesa el planeta, y que es, además, una crisis civilizatoria aparejada al fracaso del proyecto moderno. Por otro lado, es un concepto puente, tiende a eliminar o matizar las concepciones binarias que históricamente han naturalizado la supuesta separación ontológica entre sociedad y naturaleza.

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(Post-)colonial Archipelagos: Comparing the Legacies of Spanish Colonialism in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines

The Puerto Rican debt crisis, the challenges of social, political, and economic transition in Cuba, and the populist politics of Duterte in the Philippines—these topics are typically seen as disparate experiences of social reality. Though these island territories were colonized by the same two colonial powers—by the Spanish Empire and, after 1898, by the United States—research in the fields of history and the social sciences rarely draws links between these three contexts.

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