scholarly journals Climate and Health in Buenos Aires: A Review on Climate Impact on Human Health Studies Between 1995 and 2015

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Fontan ◽  
Matilde Rusticucci
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Early Warning Systems ◽  
Climate Impact ◽  
Warning Systems ◽  
Health Studies ◽  
Climate And Health ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

In this review, seven pieces of research on climate variability and its impact on human health in Buenos Aires City between 1995 and 2015 were evaluated. The review highlighted continuities and ruptures in the methodology, variables, and statistics data of the research, considering their similarities and differences in the period of study and the methodology applied. Contributions, pending issues, and public policies on climate change challenges in the city aimed at improving living conditions were considered. Six studies contributed evidence on the relationship between climate and health and its impacts on the population; two studies suggested the development of early warning systems and one study is a preliminary approach.

Overcoming the Gender Gap: The Possibilities of Alignment between the Responsibility to Protect and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Hewitt
Keyword(s):  
Gender Gap ◽  
Early Warning Systems ◽  
Responsibility To Protect ◽  
Warning Systems ◽  
Peace Processes ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines the relationship between the Women, Peace and Security (wps) agenda and the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). R2P remains ‘gender-blind’, inadequately addressing gender issues encompassed within the wps agenda. Currently, women are limited by gendered structural inequalities and marginalisation in conflict, where the wps agenda has failed to be incorporated in R2P and broader conflict mechanisms. I argue that the wps agenda and R2P are mutually beneficial and complementary in their protection mandates to enable lasting peace. I identify three common intersecting commitments of these two normative frameworks to provide a more holistic, gender-sensitive approach to conflict. These are prevention and early warning systems, protection and gender-sensitive peacekeeping, and women’s participation in peace processes. I conclude that identifying common areas of engagement could potentially effect positive changes for women and men on the ground in conflict prevention and protection, and post-conflict reconstruction.

scholarly journals "They tell you that in school you'll be better off, but it's the same old thing”. The educational system between necropolitics and transformative pedagogies

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
María Belén Arribalzaga ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Middle Schools ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This work is grounded in my professional practice as a teacher in middle schools in vulnerable neighborhoods in the southern part of the city of Buenos Aires. In this article I will focus on the relationship between middleschool education for teenagers from vulnerable contexts and specific processes of violence and exclusion such as "slow death" and "necropolitics". The hypothesis I will present is that in certain contexts, the educational system encourages and (re)produces a politics of death that exposes these male identities to greater risk. I will also contend that this has its correlation in the construction of identities. Finally, I will suggest that critical and queer pedagogies can provide tools for resistance and transformation.

scholarly journals Public works: Building a Monument to Modern Buenos Aires

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 58-84
Author(s):  
Anayvelyse Allen-Mossman
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Cultural Discourse ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

Understanding the relationship between the project of modernity and urbanism has been key to understanding the city of Buenos Aires’ material transformations throughout the 20th century. This paper considers how thinking about the issues of modernity and urbanism from the perspective of monuments--namely, the Obelisk of Buenos Aires--sheds new light on how elements of this modernizing project were undertaken and how its material markers have been used and manipulated, and modified through their representation in cultural discourse on the city. Rethinking Buenos Aires from the Obelisk implies literally thinking from underground, from the subway lines that form its base and transform it into a popular symbol of mobility.

scholarly journals Data-Enhancement Strategies in Weather-Related Health Studies

2022 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 906
Author(s):  
Pierre Masselot ◽  
Fateh Chebana ◽  
Taha B. M. J. Ouarda ◽  
Diane Bélanger ◽  
Pierre Gosselin
Keyword(s):  
Cross Validation ◽  
Functional Regression ◽  
Model Decomposition ◽  
Single Function ◽  
Health Studies ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Related Mortality

Although the relationship between weather and health is widely studied, there are still gaps in this knowledge. The present paper proposes data transformation as a way to address these gaps and discusses four different strategies designed to study particular aspects of a weather–health relationship, including (i) temporally aggregating the series, (ii) decomposing the different time scales of the data by empirical model decomposition, (iii) disaggregating the exposure series by considering the whole daily temperature curve as a single function, and (iv) considering the whole year of data as a single, continuous function. These four strategies allow studying non-conventional aspects of the mortality-temperature relationship by retrieving non-dominant time scale from data and allow to study the impact of the time of occurrence of particular event. A real-world case study of temperature-related cardiovascular mortality in the city of Montreal, Canada illustrates that these strategies can shed new lights on the relationship and outlines their strengths and weaknesses. A cross-validation comparison shows that the flexibility of functional regression used in strategies (iii) and (iv) allows a good fit of temperature-related mortality. These strategies can help understanding more accurately climate-related health.

scholarly journals Creencias sobre la relación familia-escuela en maestras de niños en situación de vulnerabilidad socio-económica de Buenos Aires / Beliefs about the relationship family-school teachers children at socio-economic vulnerability of Buenos Aires

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Mariana Tezón
Keyword(s):  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Cultural Distance ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Sociocultural Context ◽  
Economic Vulnerability ◽  
Qualitative Nature ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

El presente artículo fue realizado en el marco de una investigación, referida a la relación que establecen  las familias y las escuelas de niños en situación de vulnerabilidad económico y social de la ciudad de Buenos Aires durante el 2014. El propósito del trabajo es el de analizar las creencias sobre educación y relación familia-escuela de las docentes que trabajan en estos contextos. Para ello, se utilizó una metodología de índole cualitativa en la cual se buscó describir la percepción docente en cuanto a la incidencia del contexto sociocultural en las creencias sobre educación, y cómo éstas podrían propiciar un distanciamiento entre las familias y la escuela de estos niños.  Los resultados dan cuenta de categorías que implican falta  de participación, desinterés de las familias, como también una marcada distancia sociocultural entre ambas instituciones sociales, lo cual repercute en las prácticas de los docentes. La relevancia de este artículo reside en una evaluación educativa  para detectar problemas socio-culturales a fin de establecer un diagnóstico para la creación de intervención en el vínculo de las familias y las escuelas.Abstract.This article was made as part of an investigation regarding the relationship with families and schools of children situations of economic and social vulnerability of the city of Buenos Aires in 2014. The purpose of this paper was to analyze beliefs about education and family-school relationship of the teachers working in these contexts. To this end, proper a methodology of qualitative nature in which we sought to describe the teaching perception regarding the impact of sociocultural context in beliefs about education, and how they could lead to a rift between families and the school of these children was used. The results show categories that involve lack of participation, lack of families, as well as a marked cultural distance between the two social institutions, which affects the practices of teachers. The relevance of this article lies in an educational assessment to identify socio-cultural to establish a diagnosis and creation of interventions in the problems of family and school.

A Genealogy of Sexual Harassment of Female Passengers in Buenos Aires Public Transport

Transfers ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dhan Zunino Singh
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Over Time

This article traces a genealogy of sexual harassment in Buenos Aires public transport, analyzing the intersection between gender and mobility through cultural history. It focuses on the first decades of the twentieth century in which the city became a modern metropolis and women became more visible commuters using public transport. It deals with the tensions, interactions, expectations, and representations that emerged from the increasing presence of female passengers within the male imaginary and how women became a sexualized object in order to contextualize sexual harassment and explain how it became a “natural” practice over time. Finally, this article argues that the case study triggers the need to analyze gendered mobilities paying more attention to the relationship between sexuality and transport to understand passengers as sexualized bodies.

scholarly journals Organizaciones sociales en el barrio de La Boca: cambios y permanencias en un contexto de crisis / Social Organizations in the La Boca Neighborhood: Changes and Permanence in a Context of Crisis

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilda Herzer ◽  
Carla Rodríguez ◽  
Adriana Redondo ◽  
María Mercedes Di Virgilio ◽  
Fernando Ostuni
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
City Government ◽  
Social Organizations ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Food Programs ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

En este trabajo se analizan las transformaciones que los comedores populares –un tipo de organización social que crece exponencialmente en el barrio de La Boca, área sur de la ciudad de Buenos Aires–, han experimentado en su lógica y en sus acciones como producto de la profundización de la crisis argentina entre 1999 y 2002. En este contexto el barrio aparece como un espacio natural de acción y organización; se convierte en el lugar de interacción de distintos actores y organizaciones de base donde la militancia social territorial se reviste de nuevas características. Allí los comedores se unen a un haz, por demás heterogéneo, que reúne a otras organizaciones provenientes de diferentes horizontes políticos.Más allá de los efectos más evidentes de empobrecimiento ligados a las crisis, ¿por qué y para qué se multiplican los comedores populares? En este artículo se intenta establecer su incidencia como complemento de los recursos obtenidos por las familias de bajos ingresos y determinar otras implicaciones sociopolíticas propias de su participación en el entramado barrial. Para ello se desarrolla un análisis comparativo a partir de un sondeo en organizaciones sociales barriales y entrevistas en profundidad realizadas en los años 1999 y 2002. La caracterización de ambos momentos permite analizar algunas tendencias: los cambios en los procesos de institucionalización, las actividades que desarrollan tales organizaciones y los criterios de autoorganización o prestación de servicios.Se delimita de este modo un lugar particular que permite caracterizar la emergencia de nuevas mediaciones sociopolíticas en el contexto de la crisis. La relación con el Estado –mediante el análisis de algunos programas alimentarios que el Gobierno de la Ciudad echa a andar o que intensifica a partir de la crisis, y que tienen a estos comedores como uno de sus ejecutores privilegiados– constituye una variable clave para comprender este lugar. AbstractThis paper examines the transformations that popular kitchens –a type of social organization that has increased exponentially in the La Boca neighborhood, an area in the south of Buenos Aires–, has experienced in its logic and actions as a result of the exacerbation of the Argentinean crisis between 1999 and 2000. Within this context, the neighborhood emerges as natural sphere of action and organization, becoming a forum of interaction between various actors and grass-roots organizations where social-territorial militancy assumes a variety of characteristics. There, popular kitchens are linked to a single, heterogeneous group comprising other organizations from different political horizons.Beyond the most obvious effects of impoverishment linked to the crisis, why have popular kitchens proliferated? This article seeks to establish their incidence as a complement to the resources obtained by low-income families and to determine other socio-political implications characteristic of their participation in the neighborhood network. To this end, it undertakes a comparative analysis on the basis of a survey of neighborhood social organizations and in-depth interviews carried out in 1999 and 2002. The description of both moments enables certain trends to be analyzed: the changes in the processes of institutionalization, the activities undertaken by these organizations and the characteristics of self-organization or service provision.In this way, the authors delimit a particular place which enables the emergence of new socio-political mediations to be characterized in the context of the crisis. The relationship with the state, through the analysis of certain food programs implemented by the City Government or intensified as a result of the crisis, of which popular kitchens are a vital element, constitute a key variable for understanding this place.

scholarly journals Discapacidad y pobreza en las villas de la ciudad de Buenos Aires. Reflexiones a partir de algunos datos cuantitativos

2015 ◽  
Vol 63 (3Sup) ◽  
pp. 51-60
Author(s):  
Liliana Pantano
Keyword(s):  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Unit Of Analysis ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Derechos Humanos ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
America Latina ◽  
The Relationship

<p><strong>Resumen</strong></p><p>Este artículo se encuadra en una investigación sobre las villas de la ciudad de Buenos Aires llevada a cabo en la Universidad Católica Argentina y orientada a indagaciones epistemológicas y empíricas referidas a la relación entre la pobreza y la existencia de discapacidad en los sectores más pobres entre 2011-2012, y como reflejo de los efectos de la creciente urbanización que caracteriza a América Latina.</p><p>El objetivo central de esta artículo ha sido conocer cómo afectan estos entornos urbanos fragmentados, altamente carenciados y con restringidas oportunidades de participación, la vida de las personas con discapacidad y de sus hogares. Para lograr este objetivo se trabajó con datos cuantitativos de fuentes primarias y secundarias, siendo la principal unidad de análisis los hogares con al menos un miembro con discapacidad; se compararon hogares con y sin presencia de discapacidad, estableciéndose semejanzas y diferencias y se obtuvieron resultados en relación al clima educativo y a la educación, a la atención de la salud, a la vivienda, al saneamiento, a factores referidos al hambre, la violencia y las adicciones, el rechazo y la discriminación, así como a la ayuda prestada por distintas organizaciones.</p><p>Finalmente, se concluyó en el señalamiento de tendencias diferenciales por edad en la manifestación de la discapacidad asociada a la pobreza y algunas consideraciones referidas a la investigación social en este campo.</p><p><strong>Palabras clave: </strong>Discapacidad; Pobreza; Urbanización; Diversidad cultural; Derechos humanos (DeCS).</p><br /><p><strong>Summary</strong></p><p>This article is part of an investigation about the slums in Buenos Aires City held by Universidad Católica Argentina. Its aim is the epistemological and empirical research related to the relationship between poverty and disabilities in poor areas, in 2011 and 2012, as a consequence of the increase in urbanization that characterizes Latin America.</p><p>The main objective of this research was to determine how the restricted and poor environments affect the lives of people with disabilities and their homes. With this purpose, quantitative data from primary and secondary sources were used; with the main unit of analysis being households with at least one member with a disability. Homes with and without presence of disabled people were compared to establish similarities and differences.</p><p>Results were obtained with respect to the educational environment and education, health care, housing, sanitation, factors relating to hunger, violence and addiction, rejection and discrimination, as well as the assistance given by different organizations.</p><p>Finally, as conclusions were pointed out differential trends in terms of age in the manifestation of the disability associated with poverty and considerations related to social research in this field.</p><p><strong>Keywords: </strong>Disability; Poverty; Urbanization; Slums; Cultural Diversity; Human Rights (MeSH)<strong>.</strong></p>

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