, Charry Joya, Carlos Andrés

This paper approaches the continental images that framed the conflictive relations between the Colombian State and the population of the San Andres islands, as an attempt to assess the socio-cultural impact of the process of the State formation upon this region. The research produces a recount of the process of formation of “Colombianness” among the local people, a continental policy destined to integrate the native population of San Andres to the national social dynamics. The details of this policy are interpreted from the observations made by three continental visitors who were in the Islands during that period; they attest to the deviation and difficult assimilation that affected the making of “Colombianness” at the local level.

, Charry Joya, Carlos Andrés

After reviewing the major studies of Colombian populist leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán (1898-1948) and social movement that formed around him (gaitanismo), this article suggests alternative ways to interpret them in order to highlight other kinds of dimensions and aspects present in the social movement. To do so, we present and discuss the notions of frame, political opportunity structure, and discursive opportunity structure as tools that can contribute to a more detailed understanding of the characteristics and dimensions of this social movement. The article concludes with some general information about the impact exerted by Gaitán and his movement over the formation and exercise of public opinion.

, Charry Joya, Carlos Andrés, Garcia Ramirez, Diego Alonso, Ortíz Leiva, Germán

The objective of this article is to analyze the way in which some of the main Colombian media have addressed the issue of the peace process and the implementation of the agreements reached with the extinct FARC guerrilla. The first section deals with the informative dimension of news, as a general conceptual framework that allows identifying its dimensions and characteristics. In the second section, the climate of opinion that has been created in Colombia after the taking-up of President Iván Duque is addressed. Finally, in the third section, and from a perspective based on mixed methods, we analyze the main information trends reproduced by the Colombian media with respect to the peace process and the implementation of the agreements during the first months of the new government. The article ends with some conclusions, which present some of the possible consequences of bad news in public opinion processes in Colombia today.

, Charry Joya, Carlos Andrés

From a procedural perspective, this article explores and analyzes the forms of social configuration of regional power during the years prior to the assassination of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán and the impact that his murder had on such processes. The author highlights the position achieved by marginal social groups as a consequence of the sociopolitical transformations that occurred during the decades of 1930 and 1940. He also discusses the tensions present among the established sectors and how, after April 9th 1948, a considerable change in the equilibrium of power between social sectors occurred and altered the previous trend.

, Charry Joya, Carlos Andrés

This article presents the main events about the peace process between the Colombian government and the guerrillas of FARC during 2014. This presentation is made giving an especial attention of the different ways of diffusion and interpretation of the process exposed by the media. In this paper we analyze media as an essential actor of the public opinion building process, for that reason, their point of view is a key to understand the peace dialog as well as the development of armed conflict in Colombia.

, Charry Joya, Carlos Andrés

This essay analyzes the non-planned consequences of the postindustrial society model, and his impacts in the social composition of the cities. Starting with the explanatory model constructed by Loic Wacquant, between Chicago and Paris, this paper compare the social exclusion presented in this cities, with the dynamics of exclusion presented in Cali, Colombia. This comparative exercise pretends to illustrate some common elements and differences among these cities, and on his different ways to produce urban space in the last decades

, Charry Joya, Carlos Andrés

Based on the principles of Norbert Elias´s processual sociology concerning the relationships between established and marginal social groups, and on the analytical points of reference put forward by Victor Turner about liminal states, this paper examines the implications of the events occurred on the 9th of April (1948) in Cali and in the Valle del Cauca. The author seeks to identify the forms of social configuration of power at the regional level as well as the impact of the above mentioned historical event on this process, characterized by a widening and a stronger positioning of marginal social groups in the social field as a consequence of the socio-political changes that took place in the 1930´s and particularly in the second half of the 1940´s by influence of the “gaitanism” and the so-called resistencia civil. With the murder of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán a significant change is observed in the balance of power between social sectors, which is in contradiction with the aforementioned trend. The elements constituting the symbolic field are deemed indispensable for understanding the process of change, as well as the social forms of structuring the power.

, Charry Joya, Carlos Andrés

The following article presents a debate on the different approaches social sciences have assumed on regards to social representations. With this in mind an analytical review is done, starting with the classical perspective (Durkheim, Mauss), all through modern discourse (Moscovici), to finally asses contemporary conceptual applications (Chartier, Goody). Such analysis intends to grab elements of discussion referring to the modern development of social sciences, as well as the links existing between Anthropology and Sociology.

, Schuster, Sven Benjamín, Charry Joya, Carlos Andrés, Bosa, Bastien

, Charry Joya, Carlos Andrés, Garcia Ramirez, Diego Alonso, Ortíz Leiva, Germán, Páez Torres, Magda, Dirección de Investigación e Innovación, Editorial de la Universidad del Rosario

A study by the Universidad del Rosario concluded that the journalistic coverage of the peace negotiations with the FARC guerrilla by the communications media was biased, since it focused on two broad trends: One positive and the other negative. Its neutrality timidly surfaced in a fleeting moment of the talks.