Mexico possess a system of Intercultural Universities built “from the top” (of the government) that after ten years of implementation presents important limitations derived from the hegemonic state indigenism. As an alternative, education experiences have emerged  “ from below” ( from the indigenism people) to build a counterhegemonic and autonomous  higher education , closer to the local necessities, however financing and legality of these process put them in a juncture that mark their relations (conflict- business) with the government. This dispute scenario becomes even more complex when the territories where this projects take place are conflict scenarios between the government, political parties, local guerrillas, drug trafficking and different forms of the own local community justice, as it is in the Guerrero area in Mexico.  In this context, this documen...

Mexico possess a system of Intercultural Universities built “from the top” (of the government) that after ten years of implementation presents important limitations derived from the hegemonic state indigenism. As an alternative, education experiences have emerged  “ from below” ( from the indigenism people) to build a counterhegemonic and autonomous  higher education , closer to the local necessities, however financing and legality of these process put them in a juncture that mark their relations (conflict- business) with the government. This dispute scenario becomes even more complex when the territories where this projects take place are conflict scenarios between the government, political parties, local guerrillas, drug trafficking and different forms of the own local community justice, as it is in the Guerrero area in Mexico.  In this context, this documen...

This article shows how the global sexual labor market is consolidated through of the mobilization of people (migration and tourism) and the indiscriminate trade of the merchandise-body and the service-sex. To this end, the author articulates some of the main theories of the sociology of globalization, maintaining as an axis the proposals of transnationalism, with other elements of feminist economics, and its own deliberations made from the observation and analysis of empirical information: conversations with sex workers in Quito and data collected through web pages of two spaces where sex work is carried out in Quito and Bogotá.

Maintaining as a central interest the investigation of pedagogical tools and the forms of relationships that are implemented in educational experiences from the margins, recognizing these scenarios as places where transformative potentials in education emerge, this article presents the main characteristics of three higher education initiatives to provide examples of pedagogical alternatives made possible in Ecuador and Mexico: the Intercultural University of the Nationalities and Indigenous Peoples of Ecuador Amawtay Wasi, the University of the Peoples of the South (Guerrero, Mexico) and the Universidad Campesina Indígena en Red (Puebla, Mexico). Theoretically, we distance ourselves from positivist pedagogy to trace processes that have paved the way towards other pedagogies and other possible worlds. Methodologically, our reflections are the result of an ethnographic and autoethnographi...

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