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Psychology and Politics Readings

02
June

This book is the republication of a fundamental publication that circulated in a restricted and clandestine manner in the eighties. It brings together the papers presented at a seminar convened in Punta de Tralca in April 1980 by the Foundation for the Social Aid of the Christian Churches (FASIC) with the collaboration of the Vicariate of Solidarity. The purpose of that five-day meeting was to share the experiences of assistance, medical, psychological, and social work being carried out in Chile and abroad to assist victims of human rights violations.
The design of the program sought to understand the political and economic context in which victim assistance work was taking place. The institutionalization of the military regime did not suggest that the dictatorship would last for another ten years, but whatever its duration, every day there were new and growing demands for care from individuals and families suffering painful and complex situations that often exceeded the knowledge and experience of the professional teams in human rights organizations.
The first edition of this book was produced in 1982, without a publishing imprint, in Santiago, Chile, and was declared as published in Mexico by a Chilean psychosocial work collective in order to avoid censorship and reprisals.

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Manual for assistantships

02
June

When talking about enhancing learning in university and higher education spaces, the professor is often thought of as the key agent in students' learning construction. It is less often considered that interactions among students themselves—during a class—as well as teaching assistantships—where a student from higher semesters demonstrates expertise in a disciplinary field—can be spaces where mutual learning is constructed. It is known that we learn together with others and that an adequate teaching process facilitates student learning.

This manual highlights that the teaching assistant role opens learning opportunities for students, whom they accompany in their development, to learn meaningfully. It illustrates how teaching assistants plan and develop their roles, and the actions and strategies proposed reflect a profound and insightful approach to learning. Designing assistantships with this purpose also impacts how the teaching assistant approaches their own learning.

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Early bonds

02
June

The initial interpersonal experiences between a child and their primary caregivers offer a unique opportunity for promoting good development throughout the lifespan. It is the quality of the interaction that provides the context within which a child grows up healthily. Both the mother and father have conscious and unconscious representations even before birth, which are reactivated during this stage, impacting the behavior, thinking, and affect of parents and children. This is why therapeutic interventions that address the mother, father, and baby relationship are a fundamental tool for amending derailed attachment patterns and the treatment of choice for preventing childhood psychopathology.

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The best Chilean journalism 2016

02
June

 

Since 2003, the School of Journalism at Universidad Alberto Hurtado, through the Premio Periodismo de Excelencia (Excellence in Journalism Award), has recognized the best texts published in national print media during a given year. With the input and debate of an independent and diverse jury, composed of journalists and academics with distinguished careers, the aim is to acknowledge and encourage professional practice that upholds the highest ethical, investigative, and writing standards. The works included in this book reflect the events that impacted 2016, such as the cases of Érika Olivera, María Kodama, the detained woman who gave birth in shackles, Piñera's businesses in Peru, Manuel Contreras's son, the AFP (Pension Fund Administrators), the Panama Papers, among many other events that highlight a year tumultuous with news stories.

 

 

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Social unrest and inequalities in Chile

02
June

Why have there been such a large number of demonstrations and protests in recent years in Chile? How is it that such diverse issues as transportation, education, health, the pension system, sexual and reproductive rights, housing, the constituent assembly, the environment, etc., have garnered so much support from the citizenry? What are the focal points and causes of this discontent? In what way have inequalities eroded social bonds and called into question the legitimacy of the country's institutions?
Since the 1990s, the first publications began to appear that not only accounted for social unrest in contemporary Chile, but also clearly portrayed the crisis of an ideology of progress whose linear, ascending, and evolutionary view of time revealed—powerfully—the magnitude and depth of social inequalities that have persisted while simultaneously mutating.

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Argentine Popular Theology

02
June

This edition aims to shed light on the “Argentine theology of the people,” its origins, and its fundamental contributions, particularly during the period between the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council and the Puebla Conference. As Gera is the most prominent theologian of this movement, this book compiles and introduces a handful of “witness writings.” Due to their explanatory nature regarding the local context of the Southern Cone of Latin America, these writings help us understand the genesis and proposal of the theology of the people.

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The social fabric of cultural practices

02
June

‘Cultural goods’ have gained increasing importance with the rise of mass consumption, the growing weight of markets in social life, the expansion of rights to cultural participation, and the increasing importance of symbol exchanges in global networks. Driven by these trends, they have become a new engine of social change, personal identities, and, of course, economic dynamics. In short, cultural goods—enhanced by the so-called ‘creative industries’—have for some time now become a relevant sociological phenomenon that demands analysis and discussion.

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José Victorino Lastarria

02
June

In the words of Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna, “Mr. Lastarria is without dispute one of the most outstanding talents of our time. He has been a professor, journalist, orator, publicist, lawyer, and diplomat, and has excelled in all of them. And when one considers that all he is and has been, he owes to himself (...) one cannot help but recognize that he is one of the most deserving citizens of our Republic.”.

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The Questions of Jesus

02
June

This book invites a reflection on the gospel of Jesus based on the questions that appear within it, the answers to which must be meditated upon from within, from the depths, from the truth of each person. The Gospel possesses the capacity to awaken in everyone the desire to better understand not only this world but one's personal place within it; it formulates the essential questions needed to pause in the dizzying pace of the times and reflect on the transcendent meaning of human existence.

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The historian's words

02
June

Nowadays, the historian's vocabulary is confronted with other related disciplines, with which it maintains more or less close and competitive relationships, such as sociology, anthropology, philosophy, or political science. This volume attempts to account not only for the words of the historian but also for the words of the social and human sciences, which the historian is confronted with. It is now unthinkable to continue the isolation of history from other nearby disciplines.

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