2014, Serrano Riobó, Yeshica

This article discusses four school trajectories of indigenous women who entered from different scenarios into multiple political and organizational processes. Eventually, they were recognized as leaders of political processes involving indigenous women in Colombia. As part of their personal experiences, symbolic cases of violence, racial andGender discrimination, but also the search for alternatives in order to change their socio –political conditions are highlighted, as well as, to their access to certain types of schools.

2013, Agudelo-González, Andrés-Felipe, Cárdenas Díaz, Javier Alonso

This article explores the connections between two literature pieces written by Niccolò Machiavelli: The Prince and The Mandrake. Despite a noticeable distance between the contents of a political treaty and a theater play, we will argue that the Machiavellian concept of virtue and its link with goddess Fortuna is a recurrent concept in both pieces. The battle between personal will and fate is always recurrent in Machiavelli’s work without having to take into account his writing style. This battle is one of the most remarkable issues in the occidental world. Machiavelli (re) created a new conscience of European politics in the 16th century: the individual’s Prevalence over the community; of the calculated rationality over destiny; of science over tradition. In both The Prince and The Mandrake a political and cultural model can be found. This model convered over the Old World, and it obtained the well known victories in the name of freedom, equality, and democracy. 

2015, Fdez-Llebrez, Fernando

The purpose of this paper is to study the relationship that exists between training and the definition of identities (individual and collective) and the development of a democratic citizenship, which is taken as an example of the analysis of sexual and gender identities. The article aims to demonstrate that for a democratization of these identities one must leave behind the dichotomous conception that characterizes them and instead deploy a consideration of them as accessible, fluid realities for all democratic citizenship in which the theoretical contributions provided by transgenderism may be useful to think more inclusively about our lives.

2015, Forero, Fabio

This article delves into the analysis that the theoretical literature has given to the goal of foreign policy diversification. In order to do so, three key questions are asked: 1. what is foreign policy diversification?; 2. what is it used for?; and 3. what factors produce it? The answers offered by authors who address this issue are diverse and ambiguous. However, the main purpose of the article is to highlight the often-assumed link between diversification and autonomy, and elaborate on how this relationship works

2015, Ardila, Martha

Colombia and Mexico have had differences and similarities in their foreign policy over the past ten years. They share a close relationship with the United States, common security issues and the elaboration of an economic diplomacy. The two countries have been considered stable democracies. Circumstances related to the states´ characteristics and the narrowness of the political regime make them similar in terms of the low intensity of democratic diplomacy. However, Mexico, unlike Colombia, tends to involve non-governmental actors in the decision-making process

2014, Barraza García, Rodrigo

This article analyzes the work, achievements and challenges identified by the framework of the The Intercultural School of Indigenous Diplomacy, a pedagogical project developed by the University of Rosario (Bogotá), in partnership with various indigenous organizations in Colombia. Despite its few years of existence and multiple challenges for the future, this initiative highlights two elements that allow us to imagine different worlds and the knowledge of others. First, an epistemic decolonization of the academy, which ceases to be an elitist and closed space, in order to dialogue on equal terms with subaltern epistemological frameworks. Second, the Intercultural School of Indigenous Diplomacy advances in the collective construction of “post-development”: a project sustained in critical pedagogy, intercultural dialogue and the recognition of human pluriversality, all basic requirements for any attempt at social transformation on a decolonial basis.

2014, Peña Lora, Marianela Rosa

The author discusses the existing relationship between the traditions and the expressions in the area of intangible cultural heritage, and popular storytelling as one of its forms. In particular, the article analyzes the arguments in terms of the affiliation of popular storytelling to literature and oral traditions, determining the general characteristics and differences of the two genres. In doing so, it establishes the fundaments of the genesis and background of popular storytelling with regard to those genres. The analysis of the situation of impoverishment and decline of oral literature in Latin America, in view of the process of diffusion of cultural forms and models stemming from national and international centers of economic power as the fundamental cause, has also affected popular storytelling. In addition, the article - based on the importance of this situation for the process of cultural identity – shows the need for the preservation of popular storytelling as a major cultural challenge in the current age. This leads to the claim that the links between these processes are cultural and social. Cultural because of the intrinsic nature and belonging of both processes to the sphere of culture; social because of the fact that there is a direct relationship between one and the other in terms of the existing socio-economic structures.

2006, Mogollón Bernal, Angie, Centro de Estudios Políticos e Internacionales (CEPI)

2015, Barón, Josué

The literature on the ‘new age’ of political clientelism discusses how political parties established their clientilist networks. This article explains the inner dynamics of clientelism, specifically the role played by the state, its institutions, the government, and social policies. I compare the social policies, presidential roles, and constructed networks of the governments of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela and Álvaro Uribe in Colombia. In addition, the article provides evidence of the “new age” of political clientelism, which is based on the utilization of public policies or state institutions to form a clientelistic network in order to elect its favored candidate. The article demonstrates that such practices are highly structured in Venezuela due to the strong centralization of power in the government. By contrast, in Colombia, clientelism is less structured. However, political clientelism still focuses on obtaining the highest possible number of votes. Finally, I examine how these processes shed light on new state-citizen interactions, a re-centralization of power, and the dependency of the citizens on the state

, Hoyos Gómez, Diana