In this article, we will analyze the massive purchases of basic products such as toilet paper, as well as the repercussions of these behaviors in society in the current COVID-19 situation, in Lima, Perú. For this purpose, we rely on concepts such as liquid fear, consumer anthropology and crowd psychology, to help us support the following thesis: behind an apparently irrational behavior, there is a cultural apparatus determined by the neoliberal model that promotes the obtaining of material goods as a process of satisfaction and search for unconscious stability on individuals. Likewise, we will use the autoethnographic method to achieve greater involvement with the conclusions derived from the study, mainly those related to the self-perception that these excessive consumption practices generate in others. Following these findings, they confirm the need to address this issue in future res...

En este artículo se analizarán las compras masivas de un producto básico como el papel higiénico y la repercusión de este comportamiento en la sociedad dentro la coyuntura actual de la COVID-19 en Lima, Perú. Para ello, nos basamos en conceptos como el miedo líquido, la antropología de consumo y la psicología de masas para que nos ayuden a sustentar lo siguiente: detrás de un comportamiento aparentemente irracional, existe un aparato cultural determinado por el modelo neoliberal que promueve la obtención de bienes materiales como un proceso de satisfacción y búsqueda de estabilidad inconsciente. Asimismo, nos valdremos del método autoetnográfico para lograr un mayor involucramiento con el fenómeno. De esa manera, las conclusiones estarán ligadas a nuestra percepción respecto a lo que estas prácticas generan. Al seguir estos hallazgos, se puede observar la necesidad de ...

In this article, we will analyze the massive purchases of basic products such as toilet paper, as well as the repercussions of these behaviors in society in the current COVID-19 situation, in Lima, Perú. For this purpose, we rely on concepts such as liquid fear, consumer anthropology and crowd psychology, to help us support the following thesis: behind an apparently irrational behavior, there is a cultural apparatus determined by the neoliberal model that promotes the obtaining of material goods as a process of satisfaction and search for unconscious stability on individuals. Likewise, we will use the autoethnographic method to achieve greater involvement with the conclusions derived from the study, mainly those related to the self-perception that these excessive consumption practices generate in others. Following these findings, they confirm the need to address this issue in future res...

Research on business elites and economic power has notable findings in the social sciences of Peru. However, the theoretical application of this political power has not been used, especially in contexts of agrarian conflicts. The aim proposed in this theoretical essay, focused on the power resources approach, is to improve the theoretical description and explain in detail the theory of business power, its instrumental and structural mechanisms, and the strategic application of power resources. Thereby, fundamental questions about the power of business organized in unions in state institutions and conflicts that develop against other groups are addressed. To achieve this objective, two Peruvian cases are compared: the approval of the Transgenic Moratorium Law (2011) and the conflict of the agrarian strike of 2020, through the findings of previous investigations and journalistic notes rega...

La Red de Política de Seguridad está conformada por especialistas y profesores de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, como también por académicos de la Universidad de Brasilia, la Universidad de Chile, la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá y el Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales del Ecuador. Esta iniciativa del Instituto de Estudios Internacionales (IDEI) de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú y de la Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) tiene como objetivo investigar con carácter multidisciplinario los temas de seguridad y defensa, ampliar el conocimiento de estas temáticas, establecer los problemas o amenazas a la seguridad que son comunes a la región, plantear propuestas de políticas públicas y soluciones a los problemas identificados, y aunar esfuerzos para buscar una mayor cooperación entre los países participantes, con el fin de construir prog...