Andamios, Revista de Investigación Social
Andamios, Revista de Investigación Social, with ISSN 1870-0063 is a four-monthly academic publication that seeks to contribute to research and teaching in Social Sciences and Humanities, based on the contributions of lecturers and researchers from different national institutions.
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A Post-Marxist Prince. The Influence of Machiavelli on Claude Lefort and Chantal Mouffe
This article discusses Machiavelli’s influence on post-Marxist thought in the second half of the 20th century. Building from a conflict theory interpretation of the Florentine writer’s work, the text traces the Machiavellian imprint on the political theory of Claude Lefort and Chantal Mouffe. Through a critical analysis of the main works of these authors, it is argued that their conceptions of politics, democracy, and agonism were influenced by their reading of The Prince and the Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy. Finally, the text suggests that this link between Machiavelli and post-Marxism, based on the centrality of social conflict, is useful for reflecting on contemporary phenomena such as populism.
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Reseña del libro: Zabludovsky, G. (2024). Sociology in Mexico. An Intellectual and Institutional History. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan
Filosofía y literatura. Apologías y concurrencias
Corrupción estructural: La teoría del doble fraude y las raíces de la impunidad en México
¿De qué hablamos cuando hablamos de discriminación?
#MeToo. La ola de las multitudes conectadas feministas
Unraveling Tokenism: Analysis of the Chilean Parliamentary Discourse in the Discussion of Bill No. 20.422 Establishing Standards on Equal Opportunities and Social Inclusion of People With Disabilities in Chile
The study examines the political discourse of members of parliament during the debate on Bill No. 20.422 in Chile. A corpus of 37 discursive statements was compiled, and the theoretical-methodological model of Giménez (1989) was used for discourse analysis, omplemented with studies that broaden its methodological relevance (Monroy y Mayorga, 2020; Monroy y Reyes, 2023; Monroy, 2023). The objective is to unveil symbolic mechanisms of inclusion that mask practices of exclusion, mediated by logics of visibility, assimilation, and contrast –categories that characterize the phenomenon of tokenism (Kanter, 1977). The Chilean case demonstrates that, without a pertinent problematization of the culturally constructed meanings of disability, laws can become limited mechanisms for inclusion.
Exploration of Corn and Bean Production Systems in Two Municipalities of Morelos
Agri-food policies in Latin America aim for self-sufficiency in staple grains to improve food security and reduce dependence on imports. In Mexico, a policy promoting the production and storage of corn and beans is implemented, which focuses on the use of native crops. This requires analysis, as Mexico is the main center of origin for corn and beans. Therefore, an exploratory study with a territorial approach was conducted to identify the characteristics of corn and bean production in two municipalities of Morelos. The results reveal elements that can complement the current policy to address the sector comprehensively, considering agrobiodiversity, the environment, and the participation of the local community.
Identification and Analysis of Gender Stereotypes Present in the Undergraduate Students of Universidad Santo Tomás, Villavicencio, Colombia
This article analyzes the stereotypes present among undergraduate students at the Universidad Santo Tomás in Villavicencio, Colombia. To this end, it examines their expressions using four mixed-methods data collection strategies. The analysis reveals contradictions in the perception of gender across multiple aspects of life, such as affective relationships, socioeconomic dynamics, and the acceptance of traditional roles. Likewise, it hightlights a lack of visibility in terms of diversity.
The Grotesque and the Fantastic in Postmodernism as Transversal Elements in the Film Work of Joel and Ethan Coen
This research analyzes the fantastic, dreamlike, and parodic elements in the films of the Coen brothers from a postmodern perspective, elements often undervalued by scholars of their filmography. Using a critical and interpretive analysis, it can be concluded that fantastical references are present from the very beginning of their filmmaking, through different forms of representation, and remain a constant in their work. This is achieved through a visual style and mise-en-scène that employs the fantastic and the dreamlike to alter and distort the classical cinematic narrative paradigm and reality itself, against which the protagonist, like the viewer, is often shown to be powerless and bewildered.
Discursive Representations and Discursive Networks in a Socio-Environmental Dispute
This article presents the progress of a study of the discursive aspects of a political dispute surrounding extractivism in Argentina. It proposes the use of a concept of discursive representation consisting of two dimensions: one representational and the other discursive, each of which has components and a structure. The work also justifies the need to analyze such representations, taking into account the discursive networks in which they are produced and circulated. The theoretical approach, inscribed in Critical Discourse Studies, draws on contributions from decolonial political theories, social psychology (particularly the Moscovician school), and sociology that studies the role of emotions in social movements. The corpus analyzed consists of two Facebook posts made in 2021 by one of the most prominent socio-environmental organizations in the country, the No a la Mina collective from the province of Chubut.
The Theory of Gatopardism: Between Passive and Conservative Revolutions
The term “Gatopardism” refers to a type of political action that is presented as “revolutionary”, but which, in reality, does not alter the power structures of the social order, thus producing an illusion of change. Despite its analytical potential, the adoption of this critical perspective is usually restricted to a rhetorical use that limits its theoretical scope. This article seeks to adress this deficiency by providing the notion of “Gatopardism” with social theory content, giving it greater robustness, precision and analytical edge. To this end, the text discusses the idea of gatopardism based on an original comparison between three sociological concepts: Gramsci’s passive revolution, Bourdieu’s conservative revolution, and Wallerstein’s Lampedusa principle.
Deleuze, interpreter of Proust, apprentice of the Recherche
This paper will analyse the performative aspect with which Gilles Deleuze characterizes the philosophical quest based on À la recherche du temps perdu. For Deleuze, Proust’s narrative bears a certain resemblance to the philosophical endeavour (the creation of concepts), that is observable only through an exhaustive and revisited interpretive engagement with the work. This task encompasses the entirety of the Proust’s Proust and Signs, a text that will be of crucial importance for the philosopher’s conceptual development for more than ten years. In sum, the main hypothesis upheld is that Deleuze immerses himself in the Recherche to initiate the exercise of his own thought and learn what the signs must teach him; thus, after each revisit to the literary work, new horizons of his thought open up.
Inspire and Conspire: Iconicity, Technologies, and Religiosity of QAnon
The QAnon conspiracy emerged at the end of the second decade of the 21st century in the USA. This article analyses the relevance of the iconicity in the expansion of its conspiratorial message; the perception of technology among its believers; and the decentralized structure of this extreme right-wing movement, with a religious core. This one is characterized by a catechist pedagogy, the link between praying and causal relationships, and an eschatological framework. This theoretical approach, based as well on primary sources, links QAnon with Western doctrines, and analyzes how the believers reformulate them for the systematic and massive dissemination of the conspiracy theory.
Bibliografía especializada sobre en Cuerpo, afectos y comunicación
Desde el feminismo, nuestro lugar de enunciación no supone un cuerpo descarnado y abstracto, sino una corporalidad situada. Entrevista a Olga Sabido Ramos
Images of the Indigenous Body in Latin America: Archives of Enemization
The purpose of this article is to analyze the images that represent indigenous people in relevant historical works in Argentina, Colombia, Chile and Peru. It is not only about illustrations and the use of visual production techniques, but also about the production of an archive that is part of the visual culture of the society of the time. For this purpose, three interpretative schemes of the indigenous and three socio-cultural elements are considered: visuality, image and gaze. This work is characterized by the breadth and comparative character of the corpus analyzed, being its main findings the use of enemization strategies such as the control of emotions, especially behavior, manners and clothing; as well as the use of shame and the reification of the body of the other, imposing a mode of consciousness of the indigenous being.
Visual Identity: The Body Dressed in Social Identity
This sociological reflection explores the symbolic and aesthetic representation of social identity through a singular dimension: personal image, understood as the configuration of bodily attributes, clothing, and ornamentation. These elements operate as carriers of a broad repertoire of aesthetic-symbolic signs and meanings that enable the recognition and differentiation of social identities. The visual expression of social identity, anchored in corporeality, requires a specific analytical designation: visual identity. This concept refers to the ways in which bodily aesthetic codes communicate and condense social and identity-related meanings. Within the sphere of social interaction, visual identities emerge with hegemonic, dissident, or stigmatized characteristics, shaping the dynamics of inclusion, exclusion, and confrontation.
Corporality, gender, and intercultural communication: situated experiences at Universidad Intercultural de Chiapas
This article, written from a convergence of perspectives, aims to reflect on the perspectives of gender, care, body, and affect as cross-cutting themes in higher education, particularly within the Intercultural Communication program at the Intercultural University of Chiapas (UNICH), from a feminist, socio-spatial, and critical intercultural perspective. For this purpose, two intervention experiences developed with students of the Intercultural Communication program are used as key references: the first during the August-December 2024 semester, and the second in the January-June 2025 semester, with first- and fourth-semester groups, respectively. The methodology implemented is based on social cartography and incorporates autoethnographic observation from ethnography, with exercises in mapping territories and bodies as spaces and mediations in communication.
Putting the Body on Paper and Fabric: Reflections on Communication, Image, and Embroidery
Describing the body from a feminist perspective entails a theoretical, political and epistemological journey that has been central to feminist theory, research and activism. Drawing on communication studies, we resume the expressive and symbolic dimensions of the body to analyze, from a situated, feminist, and autoethnographic approach, how it is configured as a communicative vehicle in visual practices. Based on the textile project “embroidering to heal” and the community photography experience with Mujeres por la Memoria de Cherán (Women for Memory of Cherán), we show that feminist embroidery and photography operate as devices for naming pain, producing embodied memories, weaving networks of care and challenging hegemonic narratives about women’s bodies.
Sensory Ethnography, Body, and Photo-elicitation: Communicating Pain Visually Photographic. Intervention of the family album
This article, the result of research with young women in three regions of Mexico –northwest, west, and central–, shows how the emotional experience of pain linked to events of violence can be approached through sensory ethnography. It develops a proposal for photo-elicitation, a photographic intervention of family albums, taking into account that the body is the vehicle through which we experience and interpret life. The interpretive phenomenological analysis is carried out in three sections: epiphany, contingency, and emotional emergence. Some similarities in the themes presented are both interesting and troubling. This allows us to observe that the intervened and analyzed photographic images become a reflection not only on the people who create them but also on the society that produces them.
“Connecting in tribe”. Emotions, embodied experience, and support networks on sociodigital platforms
This article explores how women who are not mothers, due to diverse circumstances, express their emotions, share experiences, and create support networks through digital devices. To do so, digital ethnography is considered an appropriate method for gathering and analyzing different contemporary narratives. Through thematic analysis, the most significant emotions, such as shame, guilt, and relief, are identified. Thus, digital platforms are configured not only as spaces for dialogic expression but also as sites of symbolic resistance and collective reinterpretation. In this sense, the article proposes interpreting digitally mediated interactions as alternative ways of creating bonds and affections. The originality of this text lies in the articulation between digital culture, emotions, and support networks as a way to understand the political power of the intimate and the value of situated knowledge shared in sociodigital platforms.
The affective turn: an embodied view of the migrant experience
This article aims to discuss how the affective turn allows us to reconfigure our understanding of the migratory phenomenon. Based on the systematization of two research experiences conducted with migrants during their passage through Chiapas, it is argued that emotionality, pain, corporeality, and affect are essential dimensions for understanding human mobility. Using ethnographic and collaborative methodologies, and from a horizontal accompaniment approach, oral and graphic testimonies are made visible as forms of enunciation that denounce structural violence and open possibilities for symbolic and emotional agency. The conclusion is that emotions and bodies, far from being residual or anecdotal, emerge as spaces for knowledge production in contexts of international migration.
Presentación del dossier: Cuerpo, afectos y comunicación
Presentación del número 60 de la Revista Andamios, dedicado al tema: Cuerpo, afectos y comunicación.
Desplazamiento Forzado Interno en México
Reseña del libro: Álvarez, J., Macleod, M. y Salazar, L. (2024). Entre el desamparo y la incertidumbre. Desplazamiento Forzado Interno en México: experiencias recientes en el centro y sur del país. Estado de México: El Colegio Mexiquense.
La crítica social ilustrada y posmoderna en torno a la reflexividad de la violencia y la dominación
Reseña del libro: Ivcovic, M., Zaharijevic, A. y Pudar, G. (Coords.). (2022). Violence and Reflexivity. The Place of Critique in the Reality of Domination. Lexington Books.
Génesis y configuración de una comunidad epistémica: la antropología posmoderna
Reseña del libro: Olivos, N. (2023). De eso llamado antropología posmoderna: entre la crisis, la revolución y la ciencia normal. México: UACM.
la crisis, la revolución y la ciencia normal
El potencial democratizador de la sociedad civil mexicana. La historia de una relación compleja y conflictiva con el Estado
Reseña del libro: González, P. (2025). Las organizaciones de la sociedad civil en México y su reconocimiento legal. Gedisa/UNAM.
Paisajes imaginarios: de lugares mexicanos en la literatura
Reseña del libro: Méndez, E. (Coord.). (2024). Paisajes imaginarios de lugares mexicanos en la literatura. Puebla: Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla.