Browsing by Author "Arjona Cardona, Joan Antoni"

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El acceso a los espacios públicos para las prácticas musicales en la ciudad de Cuenca
(2017-05-11) Roldán Aráuz, Paola Gabriela; Arjona Cardona, Joan Antoni
Urban public spaces are the scenario in which urban diversity converges. Among the cultural aspects, music plays an important role for this convergence of the citizens. However, musicians reckon that these spaces are not easily accessible because the Municipality of Cuenca has set an excessive amount of procedures for the acquisition of permits, since the GAD (local government) must look after the conservation of these public actives, citizen’s security and wellbeing. To research this conflict, local musicians are interviewed with the purpose of studying the needs they have over these spaces, the activities that take place within and the perceptions that musicians have about legislation and the entity responsible for their administration. In contrast, institutional requirements and regulations are also analysed to understand if musicians’ lack of interest for citizen participation can be justified. We conclude that, when it comes to public spaces, the local administration has substantive failures on the managing and distribution of public information, it also doesn’t fulfil a favourable role in citizen participation in Cuenca. On the other hand, flaws have been found in musicians as well, in whom the desire to receive economic and cultural benefits without the minimum intervention of their individual civil actions come to light. Finally, the level of involvement and individual necessity could be a determinant in their intentionality to access information from another source by themselves, which doesn’t happen in the local context.
Los procesos políticos de las organizaciones campesinas de Santa Isabel (Azuay). ¿Actores políticos en la actualidad?
(2018) Martínez Andrade, Camila; Arjona Cardona, Joan Antoni
This investigation seeks to define the political-organizational processes of the peasants from Santa Isabel (Azuay) and understand its defining characteristics from an historical approach that takes into account the varying economic models that shaped rural areas in Ecuador since 1964, thus shaping the first Agricultural reform. Due to a series of economic reforms and structural changes that have affected rural agriculture areas, there has been a strong tendency towards the modernization based on advances towards a modernization in favor of large food industries, causing changes in the lives of the peasants and their forms of social and political organization. By applying a sociological perspective with specific terminology that identifies the forms of organization, analyzes the political strategies, and understands the political ideologies, one can better understand the perspective of the peasant community. This qualitative investigation utilizes an ethnographic approach of combining structural data with observation and interviews of the entities that influence and conform the political organizational process of the peasants. In conclusion, there exists a strong presence of the state, both federally and locally (municipal) that limits the peasants political action, creating a dependent-cliental relationship of the peasants with the state. There levels of organization are based upon solving daily necessities because of their complex subaltern class conditions, generating a political potential that allows them to resist in front of determined conflicts like the presents of mining activity in their terroir’s. All though, as a limit, it does not allow them to question de political model they live in or the forms of capital exploitation present in the rural areas.
Sexualidades periféricas. Una mirada sociológica hacia la transgresión sexo-genérica de la población LGBTIQ de la ciudad de Cuenca
(2016) Guamán González, Stephany Daniela; Arjona Cardona, Joan Antoni
The present investigation has as its center of analysis the LGBTIQ population of Cuenca and as its objective, a look into its historic context in the last two decades, aside from its actual reality, its limitations, successes and challenges within society. Simultaneously, mainly through the queer theory, building the categories that configure sexuality, revealing the heteronormative logic, the same denying the legitimacy of sexual diversity, generates stigmatism and exclusion. In Cuenca’s case, starting from 1997, where homosexuality was decriminalized, until recently, you could say that a positive evolution has existed in regards to the social and political aspects, reflected in the social changes and the conquest of determined political struggles.Nevertheless, still these sexualities are vulnerable, above all the transsexual population, whom are less visible, taking into consideration visibility as the capacity of being visible and exteriorizing a reality or specific situation, that which at a simple glance is not easily observable. It is important to mention that being outside heterosexuality brings the individual to take on a personal, family oriented, social and even political process, since transgressing the normal sexual dominant mind frame, implies suffering in the majority of cases discrimination in some space of social life, even today.