Over the last 30 years significant efforts have been made to ensure that Public Administration: An International Quarterly lives up to its international title. In this review article, we highlight some of the key research articles that have been published by the journal which illustrate an international approach to the study of public administration. We show how the journal's historical inclusion of a diverse spectrum of philosophies, methodologies, theories and contexts has contributed to this internationalization. In doing so the journal has contributed to our understanding of equity, social justice and inclusion; ethics, public value and corruption; networks, governance and participation; and environmental governance and crisis management. This historical review also reveals how global challenges, particularly as a consequence of the climate emergency, drive the transnationalization of public administration, which in turn requires further international scholarship.

RESUMENEn este artículo se exponen aspectos centrales de la cosmovisión mapuche relacionados con la enfermedad y la sanación. Se abordan los conceptos de equilibrio, desequilibrio, energía negativa y energía positiva, indicando las palabras empleadas en el mapudungun o idioma nativo mapuche. Se describen actividades de los agentes de la sanación mapuche, rol de estas personas y sus acciones frente a la enfermedad. Se presenta la función de la persona que tiene rol de machi. Se aborda el impacto de la cultura occidental sobre las costumbres, la cultura pehuenche, el sistema curativo y la salud de los mapuches. ABSTRACTThis article presents the central aspects of the Mapuche cosmology related with sickness and healing. Words used in Mapudugún, the native language of the Mapuche, the concepts of equilibrium, disequilibrium, negative energy, and positive energy are discussed. The activities and roles of the Mapuche healing agents as well as those of the individual, are described. The function of the person who is "machi" is presented. Finally, the impact of occidental culture over the customs, culture, curative system, and health of the Mapuche and Pehuenche are evaluated.

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This paper evaluates the feasibility of establishing a multiple-use marine protected area. The methodology was applied to evaluate three proposed sites in Chile with diverse conservation needs, social stress and poverty levels, and different economic activities (smallscale fishing, heavy industry, and mining activities). We use two broad categories for the evaluation: socioeconomic and political-institutional. The methodology uses a combination of secondary data with personal interviews, workshops, and focus groups with stakeholders (e.g., fishermen, unions, politicians, social organizations) from different political, social, and economic backgrounds to characterize current and potential natural and social resources and to evaluate in an ordinal scale the feasibility of establishing the protected area. The methodology allows us to correctly identify the challenges faced in each site and can be used to develop appropriate strategies for balancing economic, social, and environmental objectives. This methodology can be replicated to evaluate the feasibility of other marine or terrestrial protected areas.

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Can the private or public sector provide the conditions necessary to mitigate the impoverishment associated with relocation caused by induced development in indigenous communities? This article studies the impacts generated by the construction of a hydroelectric dam on the social development, health, and culture of the Pehuenche Indians in Alto Bío Bío, Chile. Dam construction resulted in the resettlement of 77 indigenous families from their ancestral lands to two new communities. The mitigation program has provided the affected families better material conditions, with a new house, potable water, and a sewage system. Unfortunately, the process does not contemplate the immaterial aspects, creating a situation of greater vulnerability and social exclusion. Among the impacts observed are the community's lack of selfdetermination, community atomization, irregular practice of traditional ceremonies, alcoholism, and a feeling of incapacity with respect to change.

En América Latina, emergen controversias en territorios rurales sobre proyectos de desarrollo que a menudo se transforman en conflictos, debido a sus efectos ecológicos, materiales, económicos, sociales y culturales. Para reconstruir las controversias acerca de la promoción estatal de la acuicultura sustentable, se describen los marcos interpretativos que se ponen en juego entre los actores regionales. Este estudio se basó en un análisis sociológico del discurso de tipo hermenéutico de las respuestas orales a las preguntas abiertas originadas en la aplicación de un cuestionario estructurado, mediante entrevistas individuales cara a cara, a 27 informantes clave de las regiones del Biobío y de Ñuble en el centro-sur de Chile en el año 2018. En estos territorios rurales del centro-sur de Chile, la controversia sobre la acuicultura es más social que ambiental. Se relaciona con dos marcos o modalidades de interpretación de la acuicultura sustentable y que se enraízan y legitiman por los actores territoriales; un marco enfatiza la acuicultura como una promesa de bienestar a través de nuevas actividades; otro significa la acuicultura en cuanto una actividad económico-política que no solo es cuestionable por su falta de generación de valor socioeconómico en el territorio, sino que involucra las decisiones de los modos de vida futuros. Una historia extractivista, combinada con la ambigüedad del Estado, parece limitar las opciones imaginadas al menos en sus marcos de interpretación; en territorios rurales con un pasado reciente de extractivismo, la promoción estatal de acuicultura seguirá siendo controversial si no se logra generar valor local.

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