scholarly journals Las implicaciones del imaginario dominante “Barrios del Sur” en la producción del espacio urbano

REVISTARQUIS ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Villalobos Vega
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
San Jose ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
Media Construction ◽  
Territorial Organization ◽  
The Media ◽  
Sociedad Civil ◽  
The City

ResumenLa ciudad y lo que se entiende como su realidad, es una dinámica de producción territorial compleja e infinita que se teje recíprocamente entre su dimensión imaginaria (memoria, ideas, sentidos, emociones, etc.), su dimensión empírica (edificaciones, infraestructura, acontecimientos), y la manera en que sus ciudadanos, tanto la sociedad civil como quienes ostentan el poder, amalgaman las distintas variables que la componen para simbolizarla y construirla constantemente (dimensión social). Ante esta premisa, el presente artículo esboza, como problemática urbana, la construcción mediática del territorio, desde el fenómeno de las representaciones de los “Barrios del Sur”, un imaginario dominante que se designa bajo generalizaciones negativas del territorio sur del casco central de la ciudad de San José, Costa Rica (Distrito Hospital y Catedral); y su profundo impacto en la producción de la ciudad a nivel de organización territorial (ubicación de miedos y culpas en la urbe), planificación, diseño e inversión urbana, y vivencia socio-espacial del entorno designado. AbstractThe city and what is understood as its reality, is a complex and endless dynamic of territorial production between its imaginary dimension (memory, ideas, senses, emotions, etc.), empirical dimension (buildings, infrastructure, events), and how its citizens, civil society and those in power, amalgamate the different variables that compose it to symbolize and constantly build it (social dimension). Given this premise, this article outlines the media construction of the territory from the phenomenon of social representations “Barrios del Sur” as an urban issue, a dominant imaginary that designates the south part of Casco Central (Central Town: mainly Hospital and Catedral districts), in San José, Costa Rica, under negative assumptions and generalizations; and its profound impact on the city production in terms of territorial organization (location of fears and guilts in the city), urban planning, design, investment, and life.

Reflecting the Nation: Costa Rican Cinema in the Twenty-First Century

2019 ◽  
pp. 113-180
Author(s):  
Liz Harvey-Kattou
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Youth Culture ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
First Century ◽  
San Jose ◽  
The Uncanny ◽  
Marginalised Groups ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The City

This chapter argues that cinema has been the primary creative vehicle to reflect on national – tico – identity in Costa Rica in the twenty-first century, and it begins with an overview of the industry. Considering the ways in which film is uniquely positioned to challenge social norms through the creation of affective narratives and through the visibility it can offer to otherwise marginalised groups, this chapter analyses four films by key directors. Beginning with an exploration of Esteban Ramírez’s Gestación, it considers youth culture, gender, and class as non-normative spaces in the city of San José. Similarly, Jurgen Ureña’s Abrázame como antes is then discussed from the point of view of its ground-breaking portrayal of trans women in the capital. Two films shot at the geographic margins of the nation are then discussed, with the uncanny coastline the focus of Paz Fábrega’s Agua fría de mar and the marginalized Afro-Costa Rican province of Limón the focus of Patricia Velásquez’s Dos aguas.

scholarly journals Proyecto de rehabilitación de un edificio subutilizado para generar vivienda en el área central de la ciudad de San José

REVISTARQUIS ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Felipe Pina Castillo
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Central Area ◽  
San Jose ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Graduation Project ◽  
The City ◽  
Point Of Reference

Resumen Reseña del proyecto arquitectónico titulado “Rehabilitación de un edificio subutilizado para generar vivienda en el área central de San José”. El tema del proyecto tiene la voluntad de ser una referencia para el proceso de ejecución del Plan de Regeneración y Repoblamiento de la ciudad de San José. Esta investigación se llevó a cabo como parte del proyecto final de graduación para optar por el grado de Licenciatura en Arquitectura y Urbanismo del Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica.AbstractThis is a review of the architectural project entitled “Rehabilitation of vacant buildings to generate housing in the central area of San José”. The subject of the project described here is intended to be a point of reference for the implementation an area of a Regeneration and Repopulation Plan of the city of San Jose. This research was undertaken as part of final graduation project in Architecture and Urbanism at the Costa Rica Institute of Technology.

scholarly journals Bodies in motion: spaces, emotions and representations that (de)construct realities

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaime Alonso Caravaca-Morera ◽  
Maria Itayra Padilha
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
The Body ◽  
San Jose ◽  
The Social ◽  
Study Population

Abstract OBJECTIVE To analyze the social representations of the body among Brazilian and Costa Rican transsexual people through their life stories. METHOD Qualitative and descriptive multicenter research. The study population consisted of 70 participants. Two organizations cooperated to collect the information, one in Florianópolis, SC-Brazil and one in San José, the capital of Costa Rica. Content Analysis was used to analyze the data. RESULTS Based on the results, a single social representation of corporeality was unveiled: “Modeled bodies: about the elasticity of corporeality”. This representation described two clear elementary context units (discourse matrices). The first associates the body with an inconclusive, transitory, volatile, pliable, moldable and fluid object, while the second relates the body with a separate institution, but regulated and controlled by others. CONCLUSION In conclusion, the transsexual body is a volatile, transient, transformable institution, crossed by the marks of a historicizing and historicizable time, which comes within the scope not only of what can be named by means of linguistic signs, but also of what belongs to the unnamable in terms of sociocultural perceptions and feelings.

scholarly journals Chemical Composition and Sources of PM10 Particulate Matter Collected in San José, Costa Rica

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 124-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Herrera ◽  
Susana Rodriguez ◽  
Armando P. Baez
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Trace Metals ◽  
Trace Metal ◽  
Graphite Furnace ◽  
Inorganic Ions ◽  
High Volume ◽  
Atomic Absorption Spectrometer ◽  
San Jose ◽  
Crustal Origin ◽  
The City

Measurements of trace metals and inorganic ions were carried out on PM10 aerosols sampled at two sites in the city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Samples were collected with a Thermo Andersen high volume PM sampler on glass fiber and quartz filters. The ions SO42-, NO3-, Cl-, F-, PO43-, NH4+, K+, Na+, Ca2+ and Mg2+ were analyzed by ion chromatography and the trace metals V, Cu, Cr, Pb, Ni, Mn, Fe and Al were analyzed using an atomic absorption spectrometer with a graphite furnace attachment. The results indicated that SO42-was the most abundant ion, and Al the trace metal with the highest concentration. Pearson's correlation applied to all data showed a high correlation among SO42-, NO3- and NH4+, indicating a common anthropogenic origin. In addition, the correlation found between Na+ -K+ and Ca2+ -Mg2+ indicated a crustal origin. No correlation was found among the trace metals except Cu-Cr and Fe-Cr. The influence of wind direction on trace metal concentrations is also discussed.

scholarly journals Ateísmo y descreimiento en la ciudad de San José (Costa Rica) a inicios del siglo XX. Una aproximación preliminar

2004 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Iván Molina Jiménez
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
San Jose ◽  
The People ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Catholic Religion ◽  
Popular Literacy ◽  
Siglo Xx ◽  
The City

En este artículo, se analiza en qué medida el ateísmo y el descreimiento se habían extendido en la ciudad de San José (Costa Rica) a inicios del siglo XX entre distintas categorías ocupacionales. Este fenómeno es considerado en el marco de la expansión de la alfabetización popular y de los esfuerzos de intelectuales liberales y radicales por secularizar la enseñanza, proceso fuertemente combatido por la Iglesia católica. Abstract This article analyzes to what extent atheism and disbelief were extended among the people from different occupations in the city of San José (Costa Rica) at the beginning of the twentieth century. This process was part of the expansion of popular literacy and the efforts of the liberal and radical intellectuals to secularize education, which was highly opposed by the Catholic Church. Palabras clave: Ateísmo. Descreimiento. Religión católica. Costa Rica. Keywords: Atheism. Disbelief. Catholic religion. Costa Rica.

scholarly journals Sociopolitical implications regarding the service of potable water in a demarcation of the city of Mexico

Civilizar ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (34) ◽  
pp. 75-84
Author(s):  
Francisco Rubén Sandoval Vázquez ◽  
José Marcos Bustos Aguayo ◽  
Cruz García Lirios
Keyword(s):  
Water Policy ◽  
Relative Deprivation ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Printed Media ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday World ◽  
The Media ◽  
The City

Social representations are visions of the everyday world that historically are constructed together with the diffusion of the media that intensify their audiences. The printed media availability and water policy has not only been reduced to opinions by the press, but also two logics have been grown on the credibility of the information and the truthfulness of it. This study exposes the lines of discussion for the analysis of tandem policies and agenda setting in the availability and supply of water. The results show frames from newspaper audiences are considered promoters of a relative deprivation that is the conformism of the service quality of public water supplies.

Social representations of human rights violations: Further evidence

2001 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alain Clémence ◽  
Thierry Devos ◽  
Willem Doise
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Questionnaire Study ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
High Tolerance ◽  
Individual Actions

Social representations of human rights violations were investigated in a questionnaire study conducted in five countries (Costa Rica, France, Italy, Romania, and Switzerland) (N = 1239 young people). We were able to show that respondents organize their understanding of human rights violations in similar ways across nations. At the same time, systematic variations characterized opinions about human rights violations, and the structure of these variations was similar across national contexts. Differences in definitions of human rights violations were identified by a cluster analysis. A broader definition was related to critical attitudes toward governmental and institutional abuses of power, whereas a more restricted definition was rooted in a fatalistic conception of social reality, approval of social regulations, and greater tolerance for institutional infringements of privacy. An atypical definition was anchored either in a strong rejection of social regulations or in a strong condemnation of immoral individual actions linked with a high tolerance for governmental interference. These findings support the idea that contrasting definitions of human rights coexist and that these definitions are underpinned by a set of beliefs regarding the relationships between individuals and institutions.

MURAL, KEKUATAN MODAL, DAN MASYARAKAT

DeKaVe ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Akbar Annasher
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Communication Media ◽  
Mural Painting ◽  
The People ◽  
The Media ◽  
Mural Art ◽  
The City ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Special Region

Broadly speaking, this paper discusses the phenomenon of murals that are now spread in Yogyakarta Special Region, especially the city of Yogyakarta. Mural painting is an art with a media wall that has the elements of communication, so the mural is also referred to as the art of visual communication. Media is a media wall closest to the community, because the distance between the media with the audience is not limited by anything, direct and open, so the mural is often used as media to convey ideas, the idea of ??community, also called the media the voice of the people. Location of mural art in situations of public spatial proved inviting the owners of capital to use such means, in this case is the mural. Manufacturers of various products began racing the race to put on this wall media, as time goes by without realizing the essence of the actual mural art was forced to turn to the commercial essence, the only benefit some parties only, the power of public spaces gradually occupied by the owners of capital, they hopes that the community can view the contents of messages and can obtain information for the products offered. it brings motivation and cognitive and affective simultaneously in the community.Keywords: Mural, Public Space, and Society.

Academic Quality Compliance of Public Secondary Schools in the City Schools Division of San Jose Del Monte Bulacan: Input to Strengthen Institutional Profiling

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-40
Author(s):  
Thelma Manabat
Keyword(s):  
High Schools ◽  
San Jose ◽  
Academic Quality ◽  
Quality Instruction ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
School Year ◽  
Management Capability ◽  
The City ◽  
City Schools ◽  
Promotion Rate

This study was conducted to determine the level of academic quality compliance of public secondary high schools and its predictors as input to strengthen institutional profiling. The respondents of the study were 167 teachers and school managers in (9) public secondary junior high schools in the City Schools Division of San Jose del Monte Bulacan for the School Year 2017-2018. The descriptive research design was used employing the predictive technique in determining the influence of respondents’ profile, institutions’ profile variables and the management capability factors as the academic quality compliance of the schools. The findings revealed that the schools’ academic quality compliance on leadership and governance is predicted by the NAT (Beta = .431), promotion rate (Beta= 1.170), and enrollment rate (Beta = .747).  The management capability on quality instruction predicts the schools’ academic quality compliance on curriculum and learning (Beta = .971) and the academic quality compliance on accountability and continuous improvement is influenced by the management capability on quality instruction. The promotion rate of the school predicts the academic quality compliance of the school in the area of management of resources (Beta =.671). The hypothesis stating that the respondent's profile, institutional profile, and management capability, singly or combination predict the schools' academic quality compliance is partly sustained. 

El abuso de la libertad de expresión y sus responsabilidades

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-117
Author(s):  
Emma Nogales de Santivañez
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
San Jose ◽  
Derechos Humanos

La libertad de expresión es un derecho humano que está reconoci-do en la Constitución Política del Estado, en su Art. 21 inc. 3, y se halla también en tratados y convenios internacionales, de los cua-les el más importante a juicio de la autora, por ser a nivel inter-americano, es la Convención Americana de Derechos Humanos o Pacto de San José de Costa Rica de 22 de noviembre de 1969. Esta convención ha sido ratificada por Bolivia, por tanto está en la obligación de cumplirla y establecer los mecanismos necesarios para exigir, a su vez, su cumplimiento.

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