Artículos de investigación: Recent submissions
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La construcción de espacios libres para la participación en las decisiones de política. El caso del acueducto Independencia en Sonora
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2012-01-01)This article discusses how a social movement builds the identities, discourses and social relations through which it expresses its discontent with a government action. Analysis is based on Francesca Polleta's concept of ... -
Water management socio-environmental impacts on the Protected Natural Area of Cuatro Cienegas, Coahuila
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2016-04-08)The Protected Natural Area of Cuatro Cienegas, Coahuila, includes a desert ecosystem with various water bodies, endemisms and Ramsar wetlands. Within this area, economic activities like agriculture and tourism have impacted ... -
Deluges of Grandeur: Water, Territory, and Power on Northwest Mexico's Río Mayo, 1880-1910
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2012-01-01)Northwest Mexico's irrigation area, part of which is known today as Irrigation District 038, or El Valle del Mayo, arises from historical struggles to build an official order within a diverse realm of signs, symbols, ... -
Socio-environmental contextualization of agave in Tonaya, Jalisco, Mexico
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2017-09-01)In Tonaya, the Agave angustifolia Haw has been cultivated since 1845, but today has been replaced almost entirely by the Agave tequilana Weber. This replacement and the increase in the demand for agave liquor caused ... -
Tortilla as a culinary identity and global consumer product
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2016-04-08)The tortilla is part of the culinary identity of Mexicans, whether they live in the country or abroad. The tortilla is the basic ingredient of Mexican snacks, it is served along with the festive dishes, and it is a customary ... -
Pueblos indígenas de Sonora: el agua, ¿es de todos?
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2012-01-01)Cultural diversity and the environmental problem of water availability in the state of Sonora are concurrent themes in the present study. These are addressed from a political ecology and biocultural diversity perspective, ... -
La construcción social de la escasez de agua. Una perspectiva teórica anclada en la construcción territorial
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2012-01-01)From the perspective of this work, the main concept necessary to understand water scarcity and regional construction processes is a specific type of social relationship: confrontation. According to Max Weber, confrontation ... -
Decent work, an alternative to reduce inequality in the context of globalization: the case of Mexico
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2016-04-08)Economic globalization in modern times has led to an increase in economic inequality, not only between countries but also inwardly thereof, and job insecurity, among other things. The International Labour Organization (ilo) ... -
Oportunidades Program and the economic welfare of beneficiary households in San Bartolome Quialana, Oaxaca
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2016-04-08)The objective of this study is to determine the importance of the government cash transfers, through the social program known as Oportunidades, in the income level and the effect in the welfare of the beneficiary families, ... -
Nuevo Leon’s citrus sector: characterization of the agri-food system as a platform for integration of the producer with agro-industry
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2018-01-01)The aim of the study is to identify the producers and marketers in Nuevo Leon’s citrus system in order to integrate them into the agro-industrial sector on the basis of the processes of the methodological approach to the ... -
Public safety crisis, electoral results, and the PRI's return in Nuevo Leon. A retrospective analysis
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2016-01-01)This article reviews the recent public security problem on Nuevo Leon’s public agenda. It highlights how this problem has potentially affected the governing party’s political capital by examining midterm and gubernatorial ... -
Discrimination, poverty and vulnerability: the intricacies of social inequality in Mexico
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2018-01-01)This article presents an approach to the study of the relationship between discrimination and poverty in Mexico. By using the databases of the 2010 National Survey on Discrimination, the importance of poverty is quantified ... -
Arizona against illegal immigration (SB 1070 law); the bivalence of the “Final Solution” concept
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2018-01-01)The purpose of this paper is to expose the undocumented immigration situation in 2010 in view of the enactment of the SB 1070 law in Arizona. The issue is addressed on the basis of how legislation was dealt with by the ... -
Growth, institutions and power groups. The forgotten effects in Sinaloa, 1994-2014
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2018-01-01)Through a non-numerical model, this research identifies the relations of causality revealed by omissions of the power groups that are in charge of political and economic institutions in Sinaloa, and which account for the ... -
Implementing relational marketing in a coffee selling company in Baja California
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2018-01-01)The aim of this investigation is to propose a relationship marketing process in a coffee selling company in Baja California as a case study. First, relationship marketing is conceptualized and its contribution to the ... -
Typology and differentiation of guava (Psidium guajava l.) producers in Calvillo, Aguascalientes, Mexico
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2018-01-01)This study presents the typology of guava producers in Calvillo, Aguascalientes, Mexico, which was developed from information obtained from the 91 surveys applied to them. Through the cluster and discriminant analyses, ... -
Everyday mobility and infrastructure in the configuration of non peri-urban rural space
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2018-01-01)The purpose of this article is to determine how the non peri-urban rural space in the Mexico’s central region, which is a highly urbanized context, is organized. Changes taking place within the framework of globalization ... -
From the dichotomous to the relative. An study of the implicit theories of intimate partner violence
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2016-04-08)The present study was aimed at exploring the implicit theories of intimate partner violence between men and women of a municipality located in northern Sinaloa. In order to retrieve such theories, an Intimate Partner ... -
Restricted freedoms: abortion and the decline of freedom of choice in the United States
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2016-04-08)In this article I examine recent events in the contemporary conflict over abortion in the United States. I frame today’s cultural dispute over abortion within the confines of a particular historical and structural context ... -
Quantifying the economic performance of local governments in Mexico
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2016-04-08)There are various approaches and perspectives on the performance of local governments in Mexico, and different ways to quantify this performance have been developed; however, there is little research showing an assessment ...