Objective: To deduce and critically examine the moral framework that enables the justification and exercise of violence in Colombia, following the hermeneutic analysis of the network of notions that sustain it: the logic of means and ends, the emphasis on individualism, biopower, state racism, recognition, and disdain. Two questions are addressed: the one posed in the epigraph and its formulation within the Colombian context. Methodology: The study employed the epistemological approaches and methodological resources of Ricoeur’s hermeneutic phenomenology and Honneth’s critical hermeneutic analysis, which are complementary and mutually supportive. Results: The answers unfold the idea proposed in the title: the climate of violence experienced by Colombian society —one in which broad sectors of youth participate— creates precarious conditions for the conduct of life, as it intensifies relations of contempt experienced as moral offense. Conclusions: Ricoeur’s hermeneutics and critical theory constitute appropriate mechanisms for revising the anthropological conception and the ethics of violence that underlie the theoretical frameworks allowing its justification, frameworks that have led a portion of the impoverished youth population into exclusion and into the disdain of society and of themselves. Furthermore, these theories offer guidelines for the transformation of thought and action.
Objetivo: identificar las estrategias desplegadas por mujeres rurales de Hidalgo, México, que trabajan en la informalidad en mercados municipales de Pachuca de Soto para sostener la vida familiar. Metodología: se realizaron entrevistas de tipo etnográfico a 21 mujeres con edades entre 20 y 63 años, casadas o viviendo en unión libre, y con hijas e hijos de diversas edades, entre febrero y abril del 2022. Los datos se organizaron y analizaron a partir de las teorías feministas de la economía y del punto de vista. Los elementos de análisis fueron: a) percepción del trabajo en condiciones de informalidad durante la pandemia por COVID-19; b) impactos personales y sociales de las estrategias utilizadas para enfrentar la pandemia y sostener la vida familiar; y c) tipos de participación de las y los integrantes de los hogares en el trabajo doméstico y decuidados. Resultados: las medidas de confinamiento frente a la pandemia recrudecieron las desigualdades de género e intensificaron el tiempo de pobreza de las participantes. Conclusiones: el trabajo de cuidados y doméstico para la subsistencia familiar actuó como un paliativo para mitigar la pobreza; sin embargo, se precarizaron sus condiciones económicas patrimoniales y de salud, e incrementó su pobreza.
Objective: To evaluate the clinical effectiveness of psychological interventions delivered by students in training at university counseling centers under a teaching–service model. Methodology: A quantitative, descriptive design was used, applying the Outcome Questionnaire (OQ-45.2) before and after the therapeutic process. The initial sample included 167 clients, of whom 98 completed both measurements and were therefore analyzed. The mean age was 37 years (SD = 14.1), and 59.2% were women. Results: A significant decrease was observed in the total OQ-45.2 score, from a mean of 65.23 to 53.77 points (p < 0.001), indicating clinical improvement, although not reaching the threshold required for a reliable change (17 points). Subscales also showed reductions: symptomatic distress (-5.25), interpersonal relations (-1.91), and social role performance (-1.3), all with statistical significance (p < 0.001). The main reasons for consultation were related to family difficulties and psychosocial factors (62.2%), followed by mental disorders (37.7%), with anxiety-and stress-related conditions being the most common. Most users had no psychological (73.5%) or psychiatric (91.8%) history, and 16.3% were receiving pharmacological treatment. The most frequent therapeutic approach was psychodynamic (44.9%). Conclusions: The psychological care processes provided by trainees generated significant improvements in users’ mental health. This highlights the relevance of the teaching-service model as a strategy for clinical training and community impact.
Objective: To understand the aporetic situations generated by the use of digitalplatforms in the intermediation of domestic work performed by women in Bogotá D.C from a socio-legal perspective. This is analyzed in light of the social reconfiguration produced by super-modernity, a phenomenon Marc Augé terms the “non-place” Methodology: Qualitative, based on case studies through a hermeneutic analysis, starting from the legal-normative framework to delve, —based on the concept of the “non-place”— into the sociocultural dimensions of the relationships shaped by the use of digital platforms in domestic work. Results: The legal configuration of digital intermediation, grounded in classical assumptions of time and space in employment contracts, was found to produce aporetic situations sustained by conditions of turnover, dispensability, and segregation, which prevent the weaving of symbolic interactionsamong the concurrent population. Conclusions: Three discussion categories arise that must be considered in the socio-legal debate on domestic work mediated by digital platforms: 1) the diffuse space of legal regulation in labor relations, 2) sociospatial segregation, and 3) exclusion to non-historical spaces generated by the digital intermediation model.
Objective: To analyze scientific production and trends regarding the relationship between cancer, delayed diagnosis, and health systems from a comprehensive perspective. Methodology: Bibliometric techniques were applied using the Scopus database, including productivity indicators and bibliographic coupling network analysis. Temporal trends and distribution by authors, journals, countries, and areas of knowledge were examined. Results: Delayed diagnosis is explained by personal factors (age, education, and beliefs), social factors (economic, cultural, and geographic conditions), and structural factors (institutional fragmentation and weak coordination among actors). Five research clusters were identified: determinants of delayed diagnosis, therapeutic options, socioeconomic factors, the impact of COVID-19, and life expectancy as a conditioning factor in treatment decisions. Conclusions: Reducing delayed diagnoses requires strategies at the macro, meso, and micro levels, prioritizing health promotion, disease prevention, and the guarantee of the right to life and health.
