This article focuses on the use of sport by the Spanish Government to perform its non-recognition of Kosovo’s statehood. Our main goal is to analyse the practices and narratives through which Spain’s public authorities have carried out this policy in the sporting arena. Likewise, we set two specific objectives: to examine the administrative measures adopted by the Spanish government when a Kosovan team has participated in an event hosted in Spain; and to describe the policies and discourses regarding the display of Kosovo’s national symbols in these competitions. The study is based on a qualitative approach of five major tournaments that have taken place (or due to) in Spain between 2018 and 2019. The documentation has been mainly gathered through desk-research. The three major data sources have been media press releases, Spanish Government’s communiqués and sporting federation’s statements. We underline that the policies adopted by the Spanish authorities respond to a systematic strategy to give no room for a potential understanding of Kosovo as a sovereign state. Likewise, we highlight that Madrid’s attitude towards the Balkan country must be understood keeping in mind its own internal politics, specifically the nationalist claims from Catalonia and the Basque Country.
IDENTITY AND COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT OF LAND IN A RURAL AREA OF GUANAJUATO, MEXICOEste trabajo describe y analiza los procesos de construcción social del lugar en un ejido mexicano localizado en el Bajío Guanajuatense, en donde los procesos de apropiación del territorio en consonancia con los ajustes de la identidad social han favorecido la autogestión del territorio y la defensa y conservación de los recursos: agua, tierra y biodiversidad. This paper describes and analyzes the processes of social construction of place in a Mexican ejido located in the Bajio Guanajuatense, where the processes of appropriation of the territory in line with the settings of social identity have favored self-management of the territory and the protection and conservation of resources: water, land and biodiversity.Apropiación del espacio. Identidad social. Resistencia comunitaria. Sustentabilidad Appropriation of space. Social identity. Community resistance. Sustainability
El objetivo principal de este artículo es describir e interpretar algunos de los procesos a través de los cuales las personas incorporan de forma naturalizada y legíti-ma disposiciones laborales favorecedoras del proyecto neoliberal. Los autores consideran que un marco privilegiado para estudiar tales procesos es la etapa biográ-fica de transición de la vida escolar al mercado laboral. La investigación se desarrolla en el municipio cántabro de Colindres entre 2013 y 2015 bajo una metodología propia de la antropología. Se seleccionan estudiantes de la Educación Secundaria Obligatoria que tienen unas características contextuales y formativas similares. Se concluye con una reflexión acerca de la manera en que los jóvenes aceptan mecanismos laborales precarios y flexibles. En este caso, se trata de procesos planeados y/o improvisados en los que la familia y las redes comunitarias acaban dando lugar al adulto requerido por el sistema: un trabajador precarizado y consumidor de baja intensidad. Palabras clave Juventud Trayectorias laborales Precariedad España Abstract Keywords Youth Labor Paths Precariousness SpainThe purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze some of the processes through which people acquire labor dispositions working for the neoliberal project promotion in a natural and legitimate way. The authors consider that school-to-work transitions are a preferred framework in order to study such processes. The research takes place in a village of Cantabria (Spain) from 2013 to 2015. We develop the investigation through an anthropological methodology. The authors conclude by discussing how the young people impose upon themselves precarious and flexible labor mechanics. We have found that family and close community establish a framework in which young people learn how to face up to their precarious labor experiences without conflict both in a planned way and in an improvised way. Finally, the labor marketplace obtains what it needs: an adult who makes his own free decisions as a precarioused worker and a low-level consumer. González-Fuente; Iñigo & Pérez-Ortega, Isabel (2017). Entre la planeación y la improvisación: trayectorias formativo-laborales precarizadas de la juventud en Cantabria, España. Athenea Digital, 17(3), https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/athenea.1823 IntroducciónEl neoliberal es sin duda el proyecto económico, político e ideológico que, proveniente de algunos grupos de las clases dominantes de diversos países, mayor impacto ha tenido y sigue teniendo en la vida cotidiana de millones de personas. Es más, destacando el hecho de que se trata de un proyecto contradictorio en su formulación -rechaza el intervencionismo del estado en los mercados al mismo tiempo que su existencia en forma de práctica política depende de la intervención de los gobiernos nacionales-, su 199
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