Transformation and innovation of knowledge in the construction and sustainable function of housing at the headwaters of San Juan Chamula.

Alejandra Trujillo Miguel Sánchez Álvarez (2022, [Artículo, Artículo])

SUMMARY

 

San Juan Chamula, Chiapas, is one of the most representative cultures of the native peoples of Mexico. The municipal seat is made up of three main neighborhoods: San Juan, San Sebastián and San Pedro. In ancient times, the architectural design of the houses was made of materials such as straw, adobe, bajareque and others of organic origin, which were part of the natural environment of the inhabitants. Thus, houses were built based on the use of natural elements available to the inhabitants as a result of the use of primary sector activity.

 

From the Chamula worldview housing has played functions for rest and shelter, therefore it was considered as a sacred place. When building one, ceremonies and offerings were carried out to appease any disgust of the guardians of Mother Earth, as they considered that nature had life, and to avoid any misfortune among the members of the family. For this, it was necessary to offer music, songs, and special dishes to feed the house and the Earth, so there would be harmony and well-being. Today, that worldview has been disrupted by the presence of multiple religions and other factors.

 

Chamula housing has gone through different stages of transition, from 1990 onwards, it was made of materials such as bricks, blocks and cement. With international migration and the arrival of young Chamula in the United States, changes in the building styles and function of housing are observed, as well as a loss of Chamula-type architectural knowledge, so that traditional architectural knowledge remains only with the elderly. Nowadays, Chamula masons and house builders opt for a foreign architectural design like California, thus changing their cultural identity, their way of life and their relationship with nature.

 

Keywords: traditional architecture, migration, architectural change.

traditional architecture migration architectural change arquitectura tradicional cambio arquitectónico chamula migración vivienda CIENCIAS SOCIALES CIENCIAS SOCIALES

Ciudad Juarez from historical sketch of national migration policies

Luis Fernando Noyola Rojas Luis Manuel Lara Rodríguez (2023, [Artículo, Artículo])

The context of migration in the Mexican case and its migration policies are analyzed here, taking the case of Ciudad Juarez as a node of movement and link of said policies; for this, the work is divided into four sections. A historical review of the way of how migration policies, through programs operated by different institutions and spheres of government, have worked through the manifestations of the domestic and international Mexican migration it is proposed. It also serves to contextualize and to understand how they are created and why the objectives they intend to meet are more orientated to immediate problems rather to recognize the complexity of migratory problems, in need of specific policies.

migración políticas migratorias Ciudad Juárez frontera migración interna CIENCIAS SOCIALES CIENCIAS SOCIALES migration migration policies Ciudad Juarez border internal migration

Editorial: Social and institutional innovations for achieving sustainable agricultural transformation in the global south

Paswel Marenya Jeetendra Aryal Annet Mulema Dil Bahadur Rahut (2023, [Artículo])

Agrifood Systems Transformation Global South Institutional Innovations CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA AGRIFOOD SYSTEMS GREEN REVOLUTION INNOVATION SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Oportunidad de aplicación de la metodología FRONT END LOADING en la expansión de gasoductos en el sureste mexicano: una evaluación

Opportunity to apply the front end loading methodology in the expansion of gas pipelines in the mexican southeast: an evaluation

Raúl Enrique Trejo Alvarado Luis Rolando Méndez Miguel (2023, [Artículo])

Con la finalidad de impulsar el desarrollo de la región sureste de México, la actual administración del gobierno federal se ha propuesto la ampliación de la red nacional de gasoductos hacia esa zona del país, con el fin de suministrar energía a los megaproyectos de la región. No obstante, estas obras presentan actualmente retrasos, evidenciando la necesidad de metodologías de gestión que permitan solucionar este problema de raíz. Una de las metodologías más prometedoras en esta materia es la front-end loading (FEL), ampliamente aplicada en el sector extractivo y energético. El propósito del articulo estriba en evaluar la posibilidad de aplicar la metodología FEL a los proyectos de expansión del Sistema Nacional de Gasoductos en el sureste mexicano.

To boost the development of the southeast region of Mexico, the current federal government administration has proposed the expansion of the national gas pipeline network to this area of the country, to supply energy to the region's mega-projects. However, these projects are currently experiencing delays, demonstrating the need for management methodologies to solve this problem at its root. One of the most promising methodologies in this area is front-end loading (FEL), which has been widely applied in the extractive and energy sector. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the possibility of applying the FEL methodology to the expansion projects of the National Gas Pipeline System in the southeastern México.

Gas natural Sector energético Front end loading (FEL) Evaluación de proyectos Sureste mexicano Natural gas Energy sector Project evaluation Mexican southeast INGENIERÍA Y TECNOLOGÍA CIENCIAS TECNOLÓGICAS OTRAS ESPECIALIDADES TECNOLÓGICAS OTRAS OTRAS

Abduction according to Peirce: reflections from the south on the crisis of representation brought on by COVID-19

Paulina Aroch (2023, [Artículo, Artículo])

In this article, I reflect on the importance of abductive thinking for processes of material and conceptual reinvention in the context of the current public health crisis. Inseparable from the climate change engulfing the planet, this crisis provides the basis for a semiotic revolution. Therefore, I interrogate Peirce’s work without losing sight of my own time and place of interlocution. COVID-19 has brought with it a crisis of representation which, in contrast to that unleashed by the Holocaust and World War II, and to which the Frankfurt School responded, demands responses from the Global South. Beginning from Dussel’s call to defend life as a matter of ethical urgency in the face of its irresponsible objectification within colonial capitalist modernity –which arguably triggered the pandemic–, I trace a “nocturnal map” that registers the present meaning-making crisis, and allows for a reimagining and remaking of the world from elsewhere.

estudios de la comunicación semiótica crítica Sur Global crisis de representación COVID-19 HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS DE LA CONDUCTA HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS DE LA CONDUCTA Critical theory interdisciplinarity Global South crisis of representation

Combination of linkage and association mapping with genomic prediction to infer QTL regions associated with gray leaf spot and northern corn leaf blight resistance in tropical maize

David Berger Yoseph Beyene Collins Juma Suresh L.M. Manje Gowda (2023, [Artículo])

Gray Leaf Spot Northern Corn Leaf Blight CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA MAIZE LEAF SPOTS QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI ASSOCIATION MAPPING GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDIES

The new proletariat of the north at Ciudad Juarez: Current trends.

Nolberto Tlacaelel Acosta Pérez (2022, [Artículo, Artículo])

The arrival of the nowadays renamed Manufacturing, Maquiladora and Export Service Industry brought within the formation of a new labor subject in the region: the new proletariat of the north. The proposal of the present article is to identify and describe the specific traits of this working class sub-fraction, by a reevaluation of its meaning, the most relevant socioeconomic indicators which serve to understand it, the political organization chapters that it has undertaken in the past years, and its most characteristic cultural attributes.

new proletariat of the north maquiladora U.S.-Mexico border social classes Ciudad Juarez nuevo proletariado del norte frontera norte clases sociales Ciudad Juárez CIENCIAS SOCIALES CIENCIAS SOCIALES

Petrología y geoquímica isotópica del complejo alcalino La Vasca, noroeste de Coahuila

Petrology and isotope geochemistry of the La Vasca Alkaline Complex, northwestern Coahuila

Edgar Alan Martínez Salinas (2023, [Tesis de maestría])

En el complejo alcalino La Vasca (CALV), afloran cuerpos ígneos con afinidad peralcalina y mineralizaciones de eudialita, los cuales no se habían considerado previamente en el magmatismo regional, en especial respecto a la Provincia Alcalina Oriental Mexicana (PAOM). La Vasca estaba pobremente documentada y no se conocía su vínculo con esta provincia magmática, además que los minerales del grupo de eudialita son de elevado interés por su contenido de elementos de tierras raras. En este trabajo se realizaron descripciones petrográficas, análisis geoquímicos de elementos mayores, traza, e isótopos de Sr, Nd, y Pb, así como geocronología U-Pb en zircones. En el CALV, se identificaron granitoides ferroanos, alcalinos, clasificados en dos grupos por su saturación de alúmina: metaluminoso y peralcalino. Un grupo de diques, sills y rocas volcánicas vistas en el Ejido San Miguel, localidad cercana al CALV, muestran semejanzas con las rocas metaluminosas, mientras que los diques y sills que afloran en las periferias del CALV son casi exclusivamente peralcalinos. Las rocas metaluminosas muestran firmas geoquímicas de ambiente post-colisional e intraplaca, mientras que las peralcalinas poseen firmas intraplaca. Ambos grupos muestran poca contaminación cortical, afinidad con una fuente de manto tipo OIB, y atravesaron un basamento Fanerozoico a Precámbrico asociado a la zona interior de la sutura Ouachita. Zircones en las rocas metaluminosas arrojan edades de ca. 48 y 45 Ma, y las condiciones de formación de las rocas indican que las rocas peralcalinas son cogenéticas. Las rocas del CALV se ajustan al modelo de formación de magmas en la PAOM, en el que se propone que el retroceso de la subducción plana de la placa Farallón ocurrió debido a la ruptura del conjugado de Hess, causando el ascenso de la astenósfera y la fusión de un manto litosférico modificado por subducción. Concluida la ruptura y el hundimiento del conjugado de Hess, comienza a contribuir un manto astenosférico metasomatizado a la formación de magmas. El CALV marca la extensión de la PAOM en el noroeste de Coahuila.

At the La Vasca Alkaline Complex (LVAC), outcrops of igneous bodies with peralkaline affinity and eudialyte mineralization were reported, which were not previously considered within the regional magmatism regarding the Eastern Mexican Alkaline Province (EMAP). La Vasca was poorly documented and no link with this magmatic province was properly defined, and additionally, the eudialyte group minerals are of great interest due to its content of rare earth elements. In this work, petrographic descriptions, major and trace element, and Sr, Nd, and Pb isotope geochemical analysis, as well as U-Pb zircon geochronology were carried out. At the LVAC, two groups of ferroan, alkaline granitoids were identified and classified according to their alumina saturation: metaluminous and peralkaline. A group of dikes, sills, and volcanic rocks at the neighboring locality of Ejido San Miguel show similarities with the metaluminous rocks, while the dikes and sills outcropping at the LVAC periphery are almost exclusively peralkaline. The metaluminous rocks show geochemical signatures of post-collisional and intraplate settings, while the peralkaline ones have intraplate signatures. Both groups show little crustal contamination, affinity to an OIB-type mantle source, and traversed a Precambrian to Phanerozoic basement related to the interior zone of the Ouachita suture. Zircons from the metaluminous rocks have dates of ca. 48 and 45 Ma, and the conditions of rock formation show that the peralkaline rocks are cogenetic. Rocks from the LVAC fit within the model of magma formation in the EMAP, in which it is proposed that the flat-slab roll-back of the Farallon Plate occurred due to the Hess conjugate tearing, causing asthenospheric upwelling and the melting of the subduction-modified lithospheric mantle. Concluding the tearing and foundering of the Hess conjugate, a metasomatized asthenospheric mantle begins to contribute to magma generation. The LVAC marks the extension of the EMAP in northwestern Coahuila.

noroeste de Coahuila, PAOM, magmatismo peralcalino, magmatismo intraplaca, geoquímica, geocronología northwestern Coahuila, EMAP, peralkaline magmatism, intraplate magmatism, geochemistry, geochronology CIENCIAS FÍSICO MATEMÁTICAS Y CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA Y DEL ESPACIO GEOLOGÍA PETROLOGÍA ÍGNEA Y METAMÓRFICA PETROLOGÍA ÍGNEA Y METAMÓRFICA

Cell carbon content and biomass assessments of dinoflagellates and diatoms in the oceanic ecosystem of the Southern Gulf of Mexico

LORENA PATRICIA LINACRE ROJAS (2021, [Objeto de congreso])

This study assessed the cell carbon content and biomass for genera of dinoflagellates and diatoms in the oceanic ecosystem of the Southern Gulf of Mexico. Carbon content estimates were based on biovolume calculations derived from linear dimension measurements of individual cells and the approximate geometric body shape of each genus. Then, biomass assessments were performed for both groups in two gulf regions (Perdido and Coatzacoalcos) using these carbon content factors and cell abundances. After four seasonal cruises, 11,817 cells of dinoflagellates and 3,412 cells of diatoms were analyzed. Diverse body shapes and cell sizes were observed among 46 dinoflagellate genera and 37 diatom genera. Nano-cells of dinoflagellates (68% <20 μm) and micro-cells of diatoms (77% 20–200 μm, mostly 50–75 μm) were predominant. According to this cell-size structure, on average, diatoms contained 40% more carbon per cell than dinoflagellates. Contrasting carbon content estimates were observed within the genera of both microalgae. Large carbon averages (>10,000 pg C cell-1) were attributed to Gonyaulacal and some occasional genera of dinoflagellates (e.g., Pyrocystis and Noctiluca) and centric diatoms. In contrast, values up to 3 orders of magnitude lower were found for Peridinial and Gymnodinial dinoflagellates and pennate diatoms. Based on these carbon content estimates, which can be considered representative for most of this oceanic ecosystem, seasonal and regional differences were found in the biomass assessments conducted for these functional groups. Overall, dinoflagellates (mostly low-carbon Gymnodinales) had larger depth-integrated biomass than diatoms (mainly rich-carbon centric forms) within the euphotic zone. An exception to it was the late-summer cruise at the Coatzacoalcos region when a surface bloom of centric diatoms was observed in stations influenced by river runoff. This work contributes useful reference information for future ecological studies and models for understanding the biogeochemical functioning of this open-ocean ecosystem. © 2021 Linacre et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Carbon, biomass, Oceanic ecosystem, Southern Gulf of Mexico, Mexico CIENCIAS FÍSICO MATEMÁTICAS Y CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA Y DEL ESPACIO OCEANOGRAFÍA OCEANOGRAFÍA

Impactos del desplazamiento forzado sobre el sector agrícola: el caso colombiano

Wilmer Vladimir Ferrer Vargas (2021, [Tesis de maestría])

La intensificación del conflicto civil colombiano tuvo como una de sus peores consecuencias el desplazamiento forzado. El propósito de este trabajo es estudiar el impacto del desplazamiento forzado en el sector agrícola colombiano. Con este fin, se estudiaron las características de los principales cultivos. Para responder a esta pregunta se estima un modelo panel de efectos fijos de para todos los municipios de Colombia entre 2011-2016. Los resultados muestran que el desplazamiento forzado tiene efectos negativos principalmente en las unidades familiares y estos efectos se amplifican en presencia de mercados ilegales.

Agricultural resources -- Effect of forced migration on -- Colombia -- Econometric models. Agricultural resources -- Effect of coca industry on -- Colombia -- Econometric models. CIENCIAS SOCIALES CIENCIAS SOCIALES