L'educació multicultural a la realitat catalana: un debat ajornat

A partir de l'analisi del que representen les relacions interculturals, l'autora planteja que no s'hauria d'ajornar el debat sobre els continguts, els objectius i els compromisos de i'educació multicultural a Catalunya, tot preguntant-se, per exemple, qui pot afirmar que esta realment integrat a la societat.Starting from the analysis of intercultural relations, the author urges that there be no delay in opening a debate on the content, the objectives, and the commitment to multicultural education in Catalonia, asking, for example, who is entitled to affirm that he or she is genuinely integrated in society

The Sexualization of the Historical Heroine in Spanish Cinema: from Locura de amor to Juana la Loca

El presente artículo se adentra en la representación fílmica de la heroína histórica en Juana la loca (Vicente Aranda, 2001), estableciendo un análisis comparativo con su antecedente cinematográfico, Locura de amor (Juan de Orduña, 1948). A lo largo del artículo se destacan las diferentes formas que reviste la figura política de Juana I de Castilla y la representación de su locura como síntoma de su feminidad. Paralelamente, el análisis plantea la problemática actualización de la noción de una identidad nacional unificada en la que la figura de Juana juega un papel controvertido, al representar una feminidad hispánica y conservadora que acaba situándose como un discurso que histeriza la sexualidad femenina y la maternidad.From the perspective of gender studies, this article provides a comparative film analysis of the representation of the historical heroine in Juana la Loca (Vicente Aranda, 2001) and Locura de amor (Juan de Orduña, 1948). The article highlights the diverse representations of Juana as a political figure and the way in which her madness is understood as a symptom of her femininity in both movies. In parallel, the analysis raises the problematic updating of on e specific notion of national identity where the figure of Juana as a feminine stereotype plays a controversial role, representing a Hispanic and conservative femininity which supports a discourse that hysterizes female sexuality and motherhood

Film discourses of female directors in Spain

This article analyses the filmic narrative of Spanish women directors from the transition to the democracy, considering its connection with the feminist movement. We shall argue that the discourses of women filmmakers such as Pilar Miró, Cecilia Bartolomé, Josefina Molina, Icíar Bollaín or Isabel Coixet involve significant changes and variations in the representation of femininity that denote a questioning of the patriarchal society. In fact, their narratives include concerns about the representation of the female body (and its place in the patriarchal society), the reformulation of gender relations or the issue of female spectatorship. These are all matters which involve not only a different approach to the feminine characters, but also an alternative to the hegemonic filmic identification.El presente artículo aborda las narrativas fílmicas de las directoras españolas desde la transición hasta la democracia estudiando su relación con los discursos emanados del movimiento feminista. A partir del análisis de los elementos narrativos y formales que tienen en común las obras de directoras como Pilar Miró, Cecilia Bartolomé, Josefina Molina, Icíar Bollaín o Isabel Coixet, se observan una serie de cambios en la representación de lo femenino que suponen una crítica a la sociedad patriarcal. Desde la puesta en escena del cuerpo femenino (centrada en una reflexión sobre el lugar que ocupa en la sociedad patriarcal), hasta la reformulación de las relaciones de género o el lugar de la espectadora, entre otras cuestiones, las directoras plantean nuevos sujetos femeninos, nuevas formas de identificación que suponen una alternativa a las representaciones tradicionales de género

Tensiones del melodrama doméstico en el cine bajo el franquismo

[Resumen] En un texto ya clásico en el ámbito de la semiótica ‘The Textual Space: On the Notion of Text’ (1984), Jenaro Talens y Juan Miguel Company teorizaban acerca de las consecuencias de la irrupción de la figura del lector en la teoría de la comunicación de las últimas décadas. Ese personaje, proscrito del discurso teórico, era entendido por los autores como una estrategia desde la que abordar el dispositivo textual para desmontar el artefacto cientificista que había hegemonizado la noción de ‘texto’ en semiótica clásica. Desde esta perspectiva, que entiende el signo en tanto acto de discurso, se considerará el análisis del melodrama en el cine bajo el franquismo, señalando la diversidad y complejidad de los actos de lectura así como las contradicciones y fisuras del género. De este modo, se analizará un texto sintomático de la época a que nos referimos, De mujer a mujer (Luis Lucia, 1950), como ejemplo de las tensiones y luchas que, desde nuestro punto de vista, surgen como consecuencia del intento de adecuación de la ideología hegemónica a una retórica melodramática que, no obstante, fuerza el texto fílmico y lo excede hasta el extremo de cuestionar su efectividad en términos de satisfacción espectatorial. Esta tensión entre la función melodramática y la ideológica, que el texto de Luis Lucia se propone resolver en términos estrictamente narrativos, sugiere la dificultad de hablar de la existencia de un ‘cine franquista’ (que implicaría una visión del poder como efecto totalizador), en favor de la concepción de un ‘cine bajo el franquismo’, considerándolo no como un mero reflejo de la ideología hegemónica sino como un cine que se encontraba bajo unas determinadas circunstancias histórico-política

The Lower Cambrian Carbonate beds of Alcolea, Córdoba (Spain)

[ES] El estudio y análisis paleontológico y sedimentológico de los mate¡iales carbona- Lados del Cámbrico Inferior de la Sierra de Córdoba, en las proximidades de Alcolea (Córdoba). ha permitido reconocer la presencia de montículos de calcimicrobios y un buen número de taxones de arqueot=iatosformando parte de estas bioconstrucciones U otro tipo de facies. En este trabajo se incluyen los datos obtenidos del estudio taxonómico, bioestratigráfico y paleobiogeográfico relaciotíado con los arqueociatos encontrados, así como el análisis estratigráfico y sedimentológico de los depósitos estudewed&w[EN] A palaeontological and sedimentologic study and analysis of the carbonate beds lroni the Lower Cambrian of Siena de Córdoba, near Alcolea (Córdoba). have allowed us to recognize the presence of calciniicrobial mounds witb several taxa of archaeocyaths. In ibis work we include the resulis obtained trom taxonomic, biostratigrapbic and palaeobiogeographic siudies related to these archaeocyaths, as well as the infonnation gasbered from dic stratigrapbic and sedimentologic analysis of dic rocks.Este trabajo se encuentra dentro del marco del proyecto PB96-0842.Peer reviewe

Disciplining news practices in the age of metric power: a networked ethnographic study of everyday newswork in a Spanish media group

This thesis investigates the encounter of journalists with metrics in the quantified newsroom. Drawing on scholarship on news production, the critical political economy of media, the sociology of quantification and the Foucauldian approach to power and resistance, the thesis asks who decides which metrics matter in news production and what is the role of metrics in the newsroom. Drawing on a networked ethnography, the study examines the production and circulation of metrics within the Spanish media group Atresmedia and in particular in the news department of the television station La Sexta. In so doing, the thesis follows the flow of metrics into the newsroom and identifies the nodes that determine the repackaging of metrics. Finally, the thesis interrogates the journalists' consumption, interpretation and use of metrics. Empirically, the thesis is based on a 17-week networked ethnography, including 44 semi-structured interviews with journalists, data analysts and executives. The empirical data are presented in four levels: (1) The data ecosystem, (2) the institutional stage of metrics production, (3) the news team practices in the lights of metrics, and (4) the individual professional consumption of metrics. Drawing on the empirical analysis, the thesis argues that the metrics that arrive at the newsroom are crafted, re-packaged and re-signified to subtly convey disciplinary techniques that permeate the process of news production whilst also engendering resistance, with consequences for news products, news programming, audiences, and journalistic autonomy. Ultimately, the research contributes to understanding of the relationship between journalism and metrics. It also provides insights into the debates about the future of journalism in a challenging economic, social and political climate

Haptic Visuality and Film Narration. Mapping New Women’s Cinema in Spain

There is a trend in female film production in the 21st century in the context of Spain towards a type of cinema that we could classify as haptic. It is a mode of representation concerned with multisensory expression in film images. In this article, we shall study this haptic visuality in the works of four filmmakers: Isabel Coixet, Paula Ortiz, Mar Coll and Carla Simón, whose films in this century exemplify the trend. The method chosen is textual analysis, which will provide us with the necessary tools to study matters concerning representation (framing), narration (nuclei and catalysis) and communication (spectatorial subject). These three analytical categories together will enable us to set out the representational parameters of haptic cinema in filmic texts. The results obtained reveal that the elements related to framing (handheld camera usage, grainy images, and the recurrent presence of close-ups) help to express the characters’ subjective, sensory world. As for the narrative model, a prevalence of catalysis and descriptive function can be seen, which helps the characters’ affections and emotions to be widely expressed. Likewise, inferences and ellipsis help weave filmic discourses that involve the audience cognitively, constructing a communicative model that fosters interpretational openness and a kind of interpellation that seeks affective and intellectual communion with the spectatorial subject

CERVICAL CANCER INEQUITIES IN COLOMBIA

Cervical cancer (CC) is the second most common cancer and third in cancer-related deaths among women. Developing countries account for most CC-related deaths and are highly impacted by CC mortality in young women. In South America, CC is the second most incident cause of cancer and first cause of cancer deaths among women 15-44 years. In Colombia, CC is the second most common cause of cancer mortality among women. Previous studies conducted in Colombia have shown inequities in CC prevention and mortality by different socio- demographic factors; however, there is a lack of nationwide studies evaluating these factors specifically in young Colombian women. The goal of this thesis was to identify socio-demographic characteristics associated with awareness of CC primary prevention, access to secondary prevention for CC, and CC mortality among young women in Colombia. The educational level, type of health insurance, having a rural or urban residence, and region of residence of women were common factors related to inequities in CC prevention and mortality in Colombia. Women with limited or no education had a reduced probability of having heard of HPV vaccination, with differing effects of education by age and region of residence. In the case of Pap testing, having a rural residence decreased the odds of Pap testing compared to having an urban residence, with wider differences in the odds among women with limited-to-no education compared to those with higher education. Additionally, a higher prevalence of no education in the neighbourhood where women lived resulted in lower odds of Pap testing in both rural and urban areas, especially when comparing women with limited-to-no education to women with a secondary or higher education. Measured at the administrative divisions or department level, a high prevalence of no education was associated with a low prevalence of Pap testing, specifically for departments being at or above the national prevalence of women living in rural areas. Similarly, mortality rates were higher among women with limited or no education compared to women with higher education, observing wider differences in younger age groups. Having subsidised insurance and not having insurance were associated with a decreased awareness of HPV vaccination. The effect of type of health insurance on Pap testing varied by whether women had a rural or urban residence. Departments with higher prevalences of women with subsidised insurance were associated with not having heard of HPV vaccination and not having had a Pap test. No significant differences in CC mortality were observed between women with subsidised insurance and those with no insurance. Also, mortality rates for different types of health insurance varied for some age groups. Women living in rural areas had a reduced awareness of HPV vaccination with variations by regions. Having a rural residence also decreased the probability of having Pap testing, particularly in some regions of Colombia and among women with no insurance or subsidised health insurance. Furthermore, increments in the department percentage of women living in rural areas increased the risk ratio of having women who had not had a Pap test in departments classified as at or above the national prevalence of no education. In contrast, living in rural areas was associated with lower CC mortality rates. Women from the Amazon-Orinoquía region had high rates of CC mortality and were less likely to have heard of HPV vaccination and have had a Pap test. Several departments located in the Amazon-Orinoquía region and a few departments from the Pacific, and Atlantic regions (e.g. Chocó, Sucre, and La Guajira) had a high risk of women not having access to primary and secondary CC prevention, after accounting for other risk factors