Cultural trauma and violence in contemporary Mexico by Telléz Parra, Andrés

“…The article briefly reviews the way in which the concept of trauma, originally elaborated in psychoanalysis, has been taken up by the social sciences under the term social or cultural trauma, as well as by film studies, in order to use it to analyze the way in which two traumatic events in contemporary Mexican history, namely, the massacre of students in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Mexico City on October 2, 1968, and the forced disappearance of 43 students from the "Raúl Isidro Burgos" Rural Normal School in Ayotzinapa on the night of September 26, 2014, are reworked in Isaac Ezban’s film Los parecidos, in the context of the violence generated by organized crime in contemporary Mexican society.…”
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Czech-mexican couples: the advantages of interculturality? by Erdosova, Zuzana, Juárez Toledo, Rafael

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WE ARE PRIVILEDGED ACADEMICS, AND YET... by Bénard Calva, Silvia Marcela, Padilla, Yolanda, Padilla González, Laura

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Notes about Justa Ezpeleta and Elsie Rockwell’s itineraries in the 60, 70 and 80’s. The uses of Antonio Gramsci in the construction of an educational ethnography by Gomez, Sebastián

“…At the interface between intellectual history and sociology of education, the article addresses the uses of Antonio Gramsci made by the Argentinian Justa Ezpeleta and the Mexican Elsie Rockwell in the 70s and the 80s in the framework of the structuring of a critical educational ethnographic from the Department of Educational Research (DIE, which stands for Departamento de Investigaciones Educativas in Spanish), Federal District (Mexico). …”
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HEGEMONY, DEMOCRACY AND SOCIALISM. THOUGHT AND INTELECTUAL DEBATE IN THE DEMOCRACTIC TRANSITION by Reano, Ariana

“…The analysis will be focused on two literary bodies of knowledge: the articles published in the journal Controversia para el examen de la realidad argentina (México, 1979-1981) and the papers that were presented to the seminar on “Hegemony and political alternatives in Latin America” (UNAM, México, 1980).Our hypothesis states that for these intellectuals the concept of hegemony became an important analytical tool to re-think the relationship between democracy and socialism by means of exercising a conceptual revision of the sense of democracy. …”
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Modernization and hybridization in the life and traditional practices of San Felipe del Progreso. The case of midwives and their ancestral knowledge by López Miranda, Karla Paola

“…At first, the article delves into the concept of modernity and how it is seen in Latin America; in the same way, the way it manifests itself in Mexico is mentioned, understood as the succession of various modernization processes that have arisen in the economic, social, political and cultural spheres. …”
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