vol. 11 núm. 2 (2023)

This document shares the experience of working with men in male health self-care workshops carried out in contexts of marginalization, specifically, in two neighborhoods in the city of Villahermosa, Tabasco, in southeastern Mexico. He was part of a qualitative research on men, emotions and interpersonal relationships, which had the objective of exploring the experience of men during the Covid-19 pandemic, in addition to the vulnerability they present when living in flood-prone areas. The workshop was used as a data construction technique, since it allows reflection based on the constant interaction of the participants; for this purpose, a face-to-face invitation was made during tours in the neighborhoods, as well as by handing out flyers on public roads and on the WhatsApp social network. Resistance to male participation was identified both due to the social and work dynamics of which they are part and due to the sociocultural significance assigned to the male body and vulnerability; this indicates the need to establish meeting spaces between men to reflect on the social construction of masculinity, their emotions and reconstruct themselves as subjects with the right to affection.

This article is part of the results of research that analyzed the conformation and construction of networks based on the processes of social organization of rural communities in the area of Valle del Dorado in the municipality of Yotoco, Colombia, taking as a starting point the collective memory of its inhabitants. In this sense, we propose to understand the relationship between collective memory, traditional social organization and the emerging processes that derive from it in the context of modernity. As part of the research design, an exploratory-descriptive study was proposed that involved participatory action (PAR) as a methodological strategy and the application of different information gathering techniques, such as workshops with the community, interviews and the review of different documents that contributed to the understanding of community processes. As one of the main results, it was found that the networks formed by state and corporate agents in which the communities of Valle del Dorado participate influence the traditional structures of social organization of the latter, a fact that occurs as a negotiation between the traditional and modern aspects that are at stake.

The emergency of the Ni Una Menos movement in 2015 was a milestone in the history of the feminist movement in Argentina, in a context marked by a growing participation and protagonism of feminized groups in environmental mobilizations. The purpose of this article is to analyze and characterize the incorporation of environmental demands in the agenda of contemporary feminist mobilizations. Particularly, we focus on the analysis of the demands of Ni Una Menos movement and the International Women's strikes, between the years 2015 and 2023 inclusive. For this purpose, we adopted a qualitative methodology that let us analyze official and organizational documents. As a result, we have observed, in general terms, a progressive incorporation of environmental demands. However, although the advent of the pandemic has been identified as a turning point that allowed a more pronounced incorporation of the environmental question in the feminist agenda, from 2023 onwards, a certain retraction in the diversified manifestation of environmental demands can be observed.

The article focuses on a discussion whose backdrop is the social conflict that occurred in Costa Rica, during a cycle of protests that lasted the last months of 2018. As the main thesis, it is distinguished: local space-time and domestic space-time. The domestic space-time is considered the space-time of women and is configured by patriarchal power. Both forms of space-time are specific forms of collective subjectivation, around the demands of social movements. This work examines the results of a qualitative research (case study). It organizes and interprets the data from the coordinates of grounded theory. It uses analytical tools to categorize and code the forms of subaltern subjectivation and the structural aspects that make up the context of the struggle against the neoliberal reform of the State. In the conclusive process, it analyzes the possibilities of the emergence of a historical subject anchored in the field of the popular, in the coordinates of local space-time, in which multiple forms of inequality converge. Moreover, as an emerging thesis, it analyzes the constitutive field of demand as expression of the antagonism of a possible disruptive popular subject.