Doing Marginalized Motherhood: Identities and Practices among Incarcerated Women in Mexico

This study examines the mothering practices and identities of incarcerated women in Mexico. Data gathered from repeated life-story interviews with 12 women, were analyzed to describe mothering practices in the different phases of incarcerated women’s’ lives. We argue that knowledge of the Latin American context is crucial to understand their experiences of motherhood. In a society based on familism and marianismo identities that suffers from a lack of welfare institutions, motherhood provided a way for socially and economically excluded women to escape destructive family environments and gain autonomy. Motherhood also provided a way to cope with the stigma of delinquency. Using the framework of Southern Criminology, we explore the importance of marginalized motherhood in this tradition. The results reveal the tragic paradox of motherhood for incarcerated women and the importance of studying marginalized mothering beyond the Global North

Stories of the "good father" : the role of fatherhood among incarcerated men in Mexico

This study examines the role of fatherhood for incarcerated men in Mexico, based on repeated life-story interviews with twelve men. We distinguish between their descriptions of fatherhood in the past and present and how they imagine the future, and explore how fathers describe their relationship with their children. The incarcerated men idealize the past with their children or tell stories of how they have changed from being "bad" to "good" fathers. They emphasize how they are still able to protect and educate their children from prison, reflecting widespread values of fatherhood. They admit that fathering while incarcerated is difficult and hope that things will be better in the future. In line with previous research on fathers in prison, we argue that storytelling of being "good fathers" is a way of projecting "normalcy", using one of the few gendered resources available, and is an escape from the harsh realities of prison life. Following insights from narrative criminology and desistance studies, we further argue that their stories of fatherhood can be a resource for reintegration into society. Finally, we suggest that inmates' emphasis on involved fatherhood might reflect diffusing narratives, ideals, and norms of parenting

Cartesian love: a metaphysical grounding to altruistic behavior

Descartes is commonly framed as the great defender of the individual- i.e., the lone meditator: reaching clarity and distinctness in solitude, by the light of his own nature, perpetually flirting with solipsism. Here, I contrast such a framing of Descartes to an alternative reading -vis., one in which Descartes is heavily concerned with unity to other things in such a way as to motivate altruistic behavior. There is an existing interpretation that purports that, when Descartes speaks of such a unity to other things, he is, in fact, describing an imaginative union between things that does not exist independently of the perceiver's mind. I argue that such an interpretation misses key elements of Descartes theory oflove, and consequently, misses out on a proper Cartesian grounding of altruism. Instead, I demonstrate that Descartes holds that all union is grounded in God's mind, and upon recognizing and affirming such unions, altruistic behavior necessarily follows. I further show three interpretational payoffs such a reading has

Breve historia de un muro invisible: berlineses orientales y occidentales en el contexto de la reunificación alemana

En este artículo se analizan algunos aspectos de la actual relación entre berlinesesorientales y occidentales. Desde la caída del muro y la posterior reunificaciónen 1990, los habitantes de Berlín deben no sólo compartir el espacio, sino convivir.Por medio del uso de los pronombres personales “nosotros” y “ellos”, los alemanesorientales que fueron entrevistados construyen diferencias grupales y revelanmecanismos de exclusión por parte de sus conciudadanos occidentales. Es posibleobservar una dinámica de estigmatización en esta relación que conduce al surgimiento de una nueva autoconciencia en los alemanes orientales

La abierta competencia entre el reconocimiento jurídico y la valoración social: el caso de la violencia de pareja = The open competition between legal recognition and social assessment: the case of partner violence

Using evidence from Mexico, this article analyzes the problem of women’s subjective appropriation of rights within the framework of new laws about gender equality and legislation against gender-based violence. Although we found evidence that supports an incipient social transformation, from a culture of traditional feminine virtues to a culture of rights, there are still many obstacles that prevent women’s full embracement of a culture of rights. At the individual level, women experience a contradiction between claiming their individual rights (having a life free of violence) or keeping their social value and recognition (based on prescribed gender roles

Evolución del Mercado de Turismo hacia las Nuevas Tendencias

La industria turística en el mundo y en particular en la Argentina es un mercado en constante cambio. En los últimos años el surgimiento de las conocidas OTA’s (Online Travel Agencies) ha generado grandes modificaciones en la cadena de venta turística. Al disponer de mayor cantidad de recursos y experiencia, estas han podido aplicar herramientas del modelo de Transformación Digital como Business Inteligence y Data Analytics/Science en un mercado con muy bajo uso de herramientas tecnológicas. De esta forma las OTA’s han modificado la forma de vender Turismo y el modelo tradicional de comercialización se ve amenazado. En este contexto, se deben tomar decisiones adecuadas si este quiere seguir subsistiendo. En el presente trabajo analizamos cuáles son las mejores alternativas para ello

Crime as a job : risk assessment and desistance within professional narratives roles

Altres ajuts: Research Council of Norway 324299Studies have shown that people who commit criminalized acts draw upon different narrative roles. This study highlights the narra¬tive role of the professional and explores how such identities and self-understandings influence risk assessment and desistance. The study is based on qualitative interviews with 54 prisoners from Argentina, Chile, Honduras, and Mexico-all convicted of theft and robbery. The language of formal work and references to detailed risk assessments are essential features of this narrative role. Participants give examples of successful robberies and situational evaluations of danger and consider themselves different from "less professional" accomplices. They describe desistance as motivated by the desire to have some form of "life insurance" and the increase in risk and consequences for family. This cross-country qualitative study details, nuances and contextualizes the narrative role of the professional and argues that this offender identity is important to understand desistance processes in Latin America