social representations

Social representations on territory among a group of rural women in the municipality of Viotá, Cundinamarca, based on the Havana agreements

Yuri Alicia Chávez Plazas y María Lucero Ramírez Mahecha, Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca, Colombia

A Cannibal Paradise. A Symbolic Cosmography of Mundus Novus

Fernando Rivera fariverab@unal.edu.co Universidad Nacional de Colombia Abstract. Departing from the social representations theory, symbolic axes of Western European imaginaries are identified, which determined the interpretation and categorization of New Worlds during quest and conquest during the first half of the century from its ‘discovery’. During that period theological cosmogonies and symbolic and folkloric cosmographies […]

Between spoil and banishment: social representations of territory among a displaced population settled in the county of Soacha, Cundinamarca

Yuri Chávez Plazas yachavez@unicolmayor.edu.co Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca, Colombia Yuri Romero Picón yuri.romero@uan.edu.co Universidad Antonio Nariño, Colombia Abstract: This paper follows the theoretical-methodological guidelines for the study of social representations of territory. It aims to report findings from an ongoing research whose goal is understanding which social representations are guiding practices and interactions among […]