Latin American Student Activism: Participation in Formal Volunteer Organizations by University Students in Six Latin Cultures

feminist activism in Latin America

Feminism has a variety of meanings. According to Nikki Craske, despite the often-heated debates about the meaning of feminism, most would likely concur with Rosalind Delmar’s assessment that feminism attempts to transform women from object to subject, specifically with respect to knowledge. In other words, feminism and by extension feminist activism is about centering the lives of women. Sonia ...

First ISCB Latin American Student Council Symposium

Legitimacy and Political Participation in Eight Latin American Nations

Much research on political legitimacy has reported a widespread decline in support for institutions in industrial democracies. Despite falling legitimacy there have been no failures of such regimes, contrary to the expectation that participation by disgruntled citizens might destabilize regimes with low popular support. The literature’s conventional hypotheses are linear: declining legitimacy s...

An Improvement Strategy for Small Latin-American Software Organizations

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Chronobiology in Latin America: XIII Latin American Symposium on Chronobiology

I am glad to announce this special issue of Sleep Science that is dedicated to presented papers at XIII Latin American Symposium on Chronobiology (XIII Simpósio Latino Americano de Cronobiologia). The Latin American Symposium on Chronobiology (LASC) is a biennial international scientific meeting in which projects are presented and discussed, involving students and researchers from Latin America...