The Birth of a New Political Class in Ecuador por Verdesoto, Luis

“…This article attempts to integrate an analysis of the current political conjuncture with an analysis of current Ecuadorian political process, in light of recent political changes in the country .The basic thesis is that we are witnessing the birth of a new political class that is, or will be, replacing the old political elite.…”
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Wedding mirages: Salesian representations of the Shuar marriage¸1893-1925 por Posligua, Rosana

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Lévi-Strauss, el individualismo jíbaro y el Musée du quai Branly. Un diálogo con Anne- Christine Taylor por Bacchiddu, Giovanna, González Gálvez, Marcelo

“…Lévi-Strauss, Jíbaro Individualism and the Musée du Quai Branly. A Dialogue with Anne- Christine Taylor…”
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Los usos de la cultura política: diálogo con María Luz Morán por Burbano, Felipe, Hurtado, Edison, Ramírez, Franklin

“…Este artículo es una entrevista realizada a la Doctora María Luz Morán, profesora de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. …”
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Salidas del laberinto capitalista. Decrecimiento y postextractivismo by Alberto Acosta y Ulrich Brand por López Terán, Héctor Rubén

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Statistical expertise in the Ecuadorian public administration: Emergence and legitimation mechanisms por Villacís, Byron

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Growth, Segregation and Displacement Mechanisms in the Peri-urban of Quito por Durán, Gustavo, Martí, Marc, Mérida, Juan

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Introduction to Dossier. Twenty-First century cities: Urban public policy, displacement and contestation por Cócola Gant, Agustín, Durán, Gustavo, Janoschka, Michael

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Intersectionalities of the Left and Right in Latin America and Europe. An exploration of contemporary political processes por Barria-Asenjo, Nicol A., Žižek, Slavoj, Willems, Brian, Balotol , Ruben, Salas, Gonzalo, Ayala-Colqui, Jesús

“…It argues how intersectionality is not a privilege of the Left, but is also used by the extreme populist Right to channel discontent and propagate its particular brand of oppression. It is concluded, based on examples of struggles in Latin America and Europe, that an intersectional and transversal politics must be developed in the face of the hegemony of the new populist and nationalist Right; the political tactic must not be local, but must pursue a new international strategy.…”
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Family’s Health-Strategy in Brazil: An Analysis of its Applicability por Antonucci, Luiz, de Loreto, Maria das Dores, Bifano, Amelia, Miranda, Edna, Procópio, Diego

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La mediatización de la política. Comentarios al dossier de Íconos 16 por Tutivén Román, Carlos

“…El ensayo es un trabajo de comentario sobre los artículos reunidos en el dossier del número 16 de la revista Íconos titulado “La mediatización de la política”. Las observaciones giran en torno al debate de cómo la política, en tanto discurso y praxis de transformación, administración y control social ha devenido -lívida, fugaz, poco seria, y a ratos entretenida e irresponsable- en una suerte de dramatúrgicas telenovelas.…”
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Introduction to the Dossier. New approaches to the social organization of care. Latin American debates por Vega, Cristina, Gutíerrez, Encarnación

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Medicine, State and Reproduction in Brazil at the beginnings of the twentieth century por Rohden, Fabiola

“…This material both shows how ideas concerning the need to increase the birthrate, expressed most tellingly in the valorization of motherhood, are constructed, and also how the birth of individuals who are considered undesirable was restricted through sterilization and other contraceptive practices.…”
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Academic Emergency in the South Cone: The Social Scientists Relocalization Program (1973-1975) por Bayle, Paola

“…This article tries to reconstruct the strategies carried out by the Latin-American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO), in joint with a set of institutions of the region, to re-locate to social scientists after the military coups that began with Chile, in the year 1973. In this work we hold that CLACSO could realize this task thanks to the relations of resources that it began, from its creation, with academic and philanthropic institutions of different countries of the world. …”
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Women Caregivers from Community-Based Organizations: Between the Expectations for Professionalization and ‘Altruism’ por Zibecchi, Carla

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Agrarian Mercosur: Integration for Whom? por Cantamutto, Francisco

“…In the countryside, on the other hand, family farms began to be displaced and the large landholding model to be reinforced, characterized by monocultures oriented to export, a model organized according to capitalist production relations.…”
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The structural crisis of capitalism and its repercussions por Luiz Corsi, Francisco

“…This article analyzes the structural crisis of capitalism that began when the speculative home mortgage bubble burst in the United States in 2007, and the repercussions of that phenomenon. …”
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Ritmos electrónicos y raves en la mitad del mundo Etnografía del fenómeno tecno en Ecuador por Voirol, Jérémie

“…The Ecuadorian techno phenomenon began in Montañita around 1992-1993 and developed principally in Quito and Guayaquil. …”
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‘Locas’ and ‘Fuertes’: Precarious Bodies in 21st Century Guayaquil por Sancho Ordóñez, Fernando

“…By means of concepts such as the performative, precariousness, and abjection proposed by Judith Butler, an attempt is made to explain the ways in which the bodies of those who subvert the dominant sex and gender systems have been excluded from the public space of a city that, at the beginning of the 21st century, began a process of ‘urban regeneration.’ In addition, the article demonstrates the way class and race differences have repercussions in the displacement of these identities by middle class men who identify themselves as gay.…”
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Connecting ‘Souths’. The Construction of Academic Networks between Latin America and Africa por Bayle, Paola Adriana

“…The analysis focuses on the history behind the emergence of the Program for South-South Academic Cooperation in which CLACSO actively participates together with other institutions in the South. This policy –which began from the beginnigs of CLACSO (at the end of the 1960s and beginning of the 1970 s)– was oriented initially to establish linkages with academic institutions in Africa. …”
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