Can’t Help Lovin’:David Chidester’s Pop Culture Colonialism by Kathryn Lofton

“…West and Smith offer an opportunity to argue the connection between these two strands of scholarly observance, showing the fractal effects of colonialism in Africa on the preferences of pop culture consumption in America.The attraction to West’s unlikability is the other side of the easy adorationfor Jordan Smith: like those colonists who gave religion to those colonized subjects they dominated, pop consumers refuse to admit their intimate and needful connection to those idols who resist theircontrol. …”
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Mentoring women in STEM: empowering through social technologies for enhanced inclusivity and professional growth. A case study by Coral J. Pacheco Figueroa, Mayra A. Alvarez Lemus

“…Throughout the sessions, the participants’ advances in soft skills (assertiveness, networking, leadership, active listening, self-confidence, ability to set SMART objectives, among others) were analyzed, showing how the use of social technologies promoted the professional development of women through empowerment as a strategy for reducing the gender gap in scientific and technological careers in Latin America.…”
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Gendering Justice in the Chilean Courts: Institutional Developments and Legal Actors’ Perspectives by Karime Parodi

“…By illuminating the limitations Chilean judges face in this evolving area of the law, the study contributes insights of relevance for our understanding of the factors that affect gender and judging in Latin America and beyond.…”
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El espacio público como potencia. Controversias sociológicas desde la experiencia participativa de Medellín by Franklin Ramírez Gallegos

“…Este artículo discute la categoría habermasiana de espacio público en el marco de la expansión de las prácticas participativas en América Latina. A través de un contrapunto entre los lineamientos normativos de la democracia deliberativa y ciertos abordajes sociológicos de los dispositivos de participación, el trabajo describe el proceso de planeación participativa en la ciudad de Medellín desde mediados de los 90. …”
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Mexican Fruit Fly, Anastrepha ludens (Loew) (Insecta: Diptera: Tephritidae) by Howard V. Weems, John B. Heppner, Gary J. Steck, Thomas R. Fasulo, James L. Nation

“…The Mexican fruit fly is a very serious pest of various fruits, particularly citrus and mango, in Mexico and Central America. Its natural distribution includes the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, where populations routinely attain pest status if control measures are not practiced. …”
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A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Sequential with Triple Therapy for Helicobacter pylori in an Aboriginal Community in the Canadian North by Amy L Morse, Karen J Goodman, Rachel Munday, Hsiu-Ju Chang, John Morse, Monika Keelan, Janis Geary, Sander Veldhuyzen van Zanten, CAN Help Working Group

“…BACKGROUND: Helicobacter pylori infection occurs more frequently in Arctic Aboriginal settings than elsewhere in North America and Europe. Research aimed at reducing health risks from H pylori infection has been conducted in the Aboriginal community of Aklavik, Northwest Territories.…”
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Dynamic behavior of two models of adobe masonry dwelling with and without the confinement of concrete elements by Jesús Alonso Velarde Gil Lamadrid, María Teresa Sánchez Medrano, Alma Maria Cataño Barrera

“…The impact of seismic events on populations living in unreinforced adobe masonry buildings, mostly located in rural areas in Mexico and the rest of Latin America, has given rise to research aimed at studying construction and structural aspects in order to guarantee the stability of dwelling and the safety of the people who live there. …”
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Migración latinoamericana en México: cambios y continuidades en la incorporación laboral by Johana Navarrete-Suárez

“…El proceso de incorporación laboral de las poblaciones inmigrantes provenientes de América Latina y el Caribe en México ha sido poco profundizado, sobre todo en su dimensión procesual, su relación con las trayectorias laborales en los lugares de origen y características como la identidad étnico-racial. …”
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The Determinants of Brazilian Football Clubs’ Debt Ratios by Marke Geisy da Silva Dantas, Raimundo Marciano de Freitas Neto, Maria Alice Alves da Costa, Alexandro Barbosa

“…Our explanatory variables are Current Ratio, Return on Assets, Score Percentage, Size, 12 Biggest Clubs, Access (to specific championships, e.g. Libertadores da América ), Division, Title (won at time t ) and Relegated (at time t ). …”
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La Alianza del Pacífico y Colombia ante la escalada china by Pío García Parra

“…Aquí, desde una perspectiva geopolítica se valoran las opciones de política conjunta para Asia, bajo la hipótesis de autolimitación china de su presencia en América Latina, lo cual abre oportunidades de intercambio económico, social y cultural más intenso con ese país.…”
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Flexible Crops and Rural Working Youth: From Sugar Cane in Brazil to Palm Oil in Colombia by Robinzon Piñeros Lizarazo

“…Young people are the focus of capital interests because their physical and social conditions make them prone to be exploited in the current territorial expansion of the agro-hydro-business of flexible crops in Latin America (such as sugar cane, palm oil, and soy). This situation is exacerbated by the commodity ex-port cycle and the production of agrofuels. …”
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Everything for the Nation: The Re-founding and Return of the State in the Bolivarian Revolutions by Felipe Burbano de Lara

“…The idea of a return of the state suggests clearly that if the state was seen as the problem in the 1980s and 1990s, in the processes of the new left in Latin America it has been presented as the solution. However, beyond certain general issues, there have been few analyses that explain how the state has returned in the Bolivarian Revolutions y how this return has redefined the political context and analyze the implications of this return. …”
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Veterans in Ruins: The Soldier’s Impossible Homecoming in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried by Lucie Jammes

“…The way in which the protagonist looks at his hometown while driving around the lake that constitutes its center point allows the gradual (re)appearance of Vietnam landscapes and events in the descriptions, until memories from the past and visions of the present superimpose completely—thereby blurring the boundaries between war and peace, between suburban America and Vietnam battlegrounds. The bedimming of differences between the structural polarities of the “here” and the “elsewhere” enables the emergence of paradoxical esthetics based on the notions of conflation and reversal, which thwart the prospect of ever returning home by rendering the very notion of return nonsensical and unachievable. …”
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Correspondencias sumergidas: latinoamericanismo, performance y archivo en Manuel Ugarte by Fernando Degiovanni

“…En particular, estudia el rol que Ugarte otorga al telegrama, producto de las tecnologías de comunicación por cable submarino, en la organización de colectivos estudiantiles y obreros, destinados a reconstituir desde el activismo la idea misma de América Latina. El destino de un continente (1923), libro en el que Ugarte narra la gira, es leído como un archivo performático que permite pensar otra genealogía del latinoamericanismo, anclada en nociones de cuerpo, tecnología y afecto. …”
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Snow and Dickens: The Victorian ‘Inconvenient Truth’ by Wayne Melville et Philip V. Allingham

“…The science of global warming has been developing since the 1820s and is now well accepted, but serious political debates continue in North America over scientific uncertainty and the economic costs of tackling the problem.…”
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Un corps à soi : la réécriture du blason dans Odes de Sharon Olds by Juliette Bouanani

“…Sharon Olds’ body of work has always been tied to physicality: in a 2017 article, John Freeman calls her “America’s Brave Poet of the Body.” In 2016, she published Odes, a collection of poems inspired by Pablo Neruda’s Odes to Common Things, in which the poet sings of artichokes and wine, praising the beauty of daily life and of abstract notions such as love and friendship. …”
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Citrus Diseases Exotic to Florida: Sweet Orange Scab (SOS) by Kuang-Ren Chung, Lavern W. Timmer

“…SOS is common in humid citrus growing areas of South America (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Uruguay), but its presence has not been confirmed elsewhere. …”
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The Lychee Erinose Mite Aceria litchii (Keifer) (Acari: Eriophyidae) by Alexandra M. Revynthi, Jonathan H. Crane, Jeff Wasielewski, Paul E. Kendra, Daniel Carrillo

“… The lychee erinose mite is an important pest of lychee and is found in lychee-producing countries in Asia and South America and in Australia, Hawaii, and Brazil, where it has has caused an estimated 70–80% yield reduction and a 20% increase in production costs. …”
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Measuring the Effectiveness of Control Mechanisms in Regional Human Rights Systems – from Conception to Execution by Jarosław Kowalski

“…The effectiveness of control mechanisms in four regional systems was assessed in order to examine the existing level of human rights protection in Europe, America, Africa and the Arab countries. Based on the analysis of the selected criteria, it seems that the most effective system of regional protection of human rights remains the European system operating within the framework of the Council of Europe. …”
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Apuntes para pensar el territorio desde una dimensión social by Luciano Martínez Valle

“…En este artículo se discute sobre la importancia de visibilizar la dimensión social en la noción de territorio actualmente en boga en las ciencias sociales en América Latina. El consenso actual sobre la dinámica territorial como un proceso de construcción social requiere de un análisis de las estrategias desplegadas por los actores y grupos sociales, en un específico campo social. …”
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