This article aims to evaluate, from an economic law perspective, the contrast between the integrated planning model proposed by the Three-Year Plan (1963-1965), instituted in Brazil based on Latin American structuralism inspired by eclac, and the model established by the Brazilian Constitution of 1988, which is linked to short- and medium-term budget plans suitable for the countercyclical proposal of the neoliberal model, specifically in terms of its impact on Brazilian educational policy. This research is qualitative and exploratory, relying primarily on a literature review. The study examines how the shift from the eclac planning format to the neoliberal one reverberated in the legal-economic discipline of educational planning. The hypothesis is that this change limited state investment in education, reducing educational planning to the dynamics of short- and medium-term budgeting. The article concludes that replacing a Latin American model of educational planning with a neoliberal framework—in terms of integrated planning—has subordinated long-term educational plans to short term budgetary instruments and fiscal constraints, despite significant resistance from funding policies.
Este artículo examina los alcances y los límites de las resistencias sociojurídicas frente a megaproyectos en México, a partir del caso del Proyecto Integral Morelos (pim). La pregunta central radica en cómo comprender estas resistencias como una praxis jurídica y política situada, que combina usos estratégicos del derecho estatal con repertorios comunitarios de defensa territorial. El análisis articula tres enfoques: juridificación del conflicto, territorialización y pluralismo jurídico, con énfasis en las juridicidades comunitarias y subalternas. La metodología corresponde a un estudio de caso cualitativo, sustentado en revisión documental de prensa, comunicados, literatura académica y un primer acercamiento de campo. A partir de un estudio de caso, se muestra que la resistencia al pim produjo visibilización internacional, contraexperticias y soberanías comunitarias; sin embargo, enfrenta desgaste judicial, violencia política y un pluralismo estatal subordinante.
This article examines the scope and limits of socio-legal resistance to extractive megaprojects in Mexico through the case of the Proyecto Integral Morelos (piM). The central question is how to understand such resistance in a country whose constitutionalism is integrative rather than transformative, incorporating social demands without altering power structures. The analysis combines three approaches: the juridification of conflict, the territorialization of space, and decolonial law/legal pluralism. Based on a qualitative case study, findings show that resistance to the piM has achieved international visibility, generated counter-expertise and community sovereignties, but faces judicial attrition, political violence, and subordinating state pluralism.
The objective of this article is to investigate the effects of a structural environmental sanitation lawsuit in the most polluted and populated basin of Buenos Aires, within the Judicial Branch. Thus, it aims to highlight the tension between approaches to the judicialization of social conflict and those that analyze judicial bureaucracies. At the same time, the evolution of this case reflects the political transformations that took place in this field during the period 2004-2024 in Argentina. A qualitative methodology was used, consisting of a survey of judicial decisions and documents, as well as in-depth interviews with legal practitioners involved in the case.
This article analyzes the implementation of symbolic reparation in Colombia, examining both State-led measures and civil society initiatives. Adopting a critical socio-legal approach, the study conceptualizes symbolic reparation not merely as a commemorative act, but as a political technology of memory governance. The methodology employs a qualitative documentary review and meta-narrative analysis to identify regimes of representation and narrative authorization. Findings reveal that while victims are rec-ognized, the current model faces structural tensions between ritualization and genuine social appropriation, and between institutional control and victim participation. It is concluded that strengthening the symbolic dimension is essential for preventing the trivialization of harm and ensuring the non-repetition of violence within the framework of transitional justice.
