Utopías. Segunda época

Interview with Victoria Rangugni

Carmen Ines Lera — 2025-03-28

Editorial

Teresa Beatriz Chelotti — 2025-03-28

Migrants, labour and permits in the Malvinas/Falkland Islands before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2018-2020).

Rafael Alberto Gaspari — 2025-03-28

This article attempts to identify how labour, migration and population problems in the Malvinas Islands were represented by the media before and during Covid-19 pandemic.

In this way, we analyse news articles published by the island press: Penguin News, and Mercopress, between 2018, when the lack of employment on the islands and the aging of the population began to become visible, and some migration procedures began to be modified and the first half of 2020, when the pandemic begins.

Methodologically, a qualitative approach is favoured, with a socio-semiotic perspective that allows us to analyse the discursive and socio-communicational interrelations in the media discourses, identifying the social meanings that run through the notions of work, migrations and labour rights, among others.

Therapeutic Devices based on support figures in mental health approaches in Southern Patagonia, Argentina

Antonella Sandra Rossi — 2025-03-28

This study analyzes therapeutic devices based on support figures in Southern Argentine Patagonia, designed to address severe mental health issues. These include therapeutic designs involving the intervention of therapeutic companions and home caregivers in cities of southern Argentine Patagonia. A significant decrease in emergencies and hospitalizations was observed, correlated with improvements in users' self-perception and social networks.

The final sample reported results from 15 devices, analyzing the presence of goals and work plans, as well as training and communication within the team. Difficulties are highlighted in the delineation of these aspects, where the participation of support figures in designing their intervention is usually limited.

On the other hand, the study examines the particularities of support figures, considering their impact on the development of the daily relationship, their training, and working conditions. Support figures face job insecurity, long working hours, and limited recognition, which affect their quality of life and access to training. Although there are efforts at collective organizing, the situation remains critical.

The importance of creating spaces for interdisciplinary dialogue and individualized approaches in treatment is highlighted, with approaches focused on the social inclusion of individuals with severe mental illnesses. To this end, it emphasizes the need for greater recognition and training for support figures, essential elements to improve the quality of mental health interventions.

And I asked what agroecology was and discovered that it was what I did.

Daiana Perez — 2025-03-28

In this article we propose to address the question: what is agroecology? and contribute to thinking about its significance, from its emergence and conceptual trajectory to the dispute of meanings that arises from its interpretation. In the same way, we seek to account for the representations that it awakens for those who practice it and thus problematize it in order to expand its transformative capacity. To do this, we carried out a theoretical bibliographic review, and we relied on semi-structured and open interviews, as well as participant observation. To conclude, we present the proposal to pluralize the notion and understand that there are diverse agroecologies, which nourish and redefine food production, as a transformative and vital action.

It is more expensive to live inside than outside: uses of money and costs of life in jail

Gretel Schneider — 2025-03-28

A series of ethnographic events will allow us to understand what is needed to live in a context of ambulatory deprivation of liberty. We begin by examining the economic exchanges within a men’s prison in Entre Ríos which are fundamental to daily life. In the labor workshops, inmates exchange their work for what is called "peculio," a form of remuneration that allows the acquisition of basic goods and services. In addition, family visits play a crucial role in accessing resources, as they bring goods from outside, expanding the exchange options within the prison environment. These exchanges not only enable material survival but also define a particular economy, with norms and cultural practices that determine the cost of goods and services exchanged.
During the two years of ethnographic fieldwork conducted at Unidad Penal N.° 1 “Juan José O’Connor” we observed the importance of the circulation of goods as a form of resistance and adaptation to the conditions of life. Production within the prison, though often precarious and sometimes degrading, is also a space where inmates generate some type of economic value and pass the time.
Understanding the meaning of money in this context reveals internal economic dynamics as well as forms of socialization, power, and resistance that emerge in a space of forced cohabitation.

May it be with love, even if it is a single encounter

Cinthia Marina Alaniz — 2025-03-28

In this writing we start from the idea of a system of patriarchal dominance, to later address how this system has shaped people's feelings and emotions, therefore, they are also part of a classification of emotions corresponding to women or men. We propose Comprehensive Sexual Education (hereinafter ESI) as an instance of training young people in values and practices that allow them to live sexuality in a responsible, pleasant and safe way; not only as an unavoidable dimension of human experience, but also as a field of recognition and exercise of rights. In this workshop we use visual technical tools to discuss consent, in an attempt to emphasize the importance of autonomy and communication in it. This tool consists of a video where an analogy with drinking a cup of tea is presented, which indicates that both consent to drink tea and sexual or intimate interactions must be voluntary, based on an informed decision, communicated in advance. clear and continuous manner, which can be withdrawn at any time, and which is not transferable to another activity. Furthermore, we propose the idea of carrying out sexual encounters with feeling, a bodily and emotional feeling. And in that emotional register, self-love and love conceptualized as respect, trust, affection, intimacy, care for the other person and self-care; the latter considered as rights inherent to all people. And that ensures a way of bonding that is respectful and free of violence.

The craft of working with concepts. Tricks of its teaching in university training in social work

María del Pilar Rodríguez — 2025-03-28

The experience of teaching research in the social work career allowed us to identify a common need for tools that facilitate working with concepts. We share a trick of the teaching profession: the construction of two scaffolds that help to order issues and currents of thought that often appear fragmented. The first scaffolding addresses the historicity and transversality of theories and the second focuses on the fundamentally philosophical turns that have influenced scientific and social thought and that are present in university training in social work. It is an introductory text open to the intervention of the readers.

Gender, Economy and Power: The invisible plots of Economic and Patrimonial Violence.

Silvia Nadalich — 2025-03-28

We are in a context in which obstacles arise, since we are not only talking about economic practices but also about the production of new subjectivities. Asymmetries, inequalities and hierarchies are present in the fabric of the lives of women and dissidents under the forms of physical, psychological, sexual, economic, patrimonial and symbolic violence, regulating modes of relationship, in which money and private property participate. as instruments of abuse and violation of rights. The analysis of dimensions such as re-subjectification, care tasks, use of time, gender gap, love, challenges us in the challenge of constructing new perspectives that encompass the multidimensionality of this topic.

A reconstruction of feminist debates on prostitution from present times

Mariela Cornalo — 2025-03-28

The conflict over the registration of sex workers in the ReNaTEP, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina, warns us of the persistence of a polarization in feminist debates on the status of prostitution. In view of this, we ask ourselves: how is prostitution, as a heterogeneous issue, configured in dichotomous terms? Since when in Argentina have disputes about the status of prostitution developed in a polarized scenario where positions that, in principle, are irreconcilable are delineated?

In this paper we seek to answer these questions by historically reconstructing the feminist debates on prostitution, in order to describe the perspectives and meanings under which the issue is configured in each era.