Estudios

The Revista Estudios is pleased in presenting the número especial 2025. This publication completes a series of seven articles which connects the commemoration of two key moments in the existence of the University of Costa Rica. First, the 50 dossier Anniversary of the Participatory Seminars that celebrates the existence of this methodological option as part of the 1974-1975 Escuela de Estudios’s proposal which is inclined to the humanistic formation of freshman students. Second, the 85 Anniversary of the University of Costa Rica as a rewarded superior education institution. The articles make us consider topics as the critical thinking, the participatory and co-manage methodology in the construction of knowledge, the view of the ecological crisis with a cosmological point of view and the multidisciplinary as a space for superior humanistic education dialog in the digital era.

In this same publication, we present five articles where the authors drive us in a time travel. We begin by two literary texts. The first one analyses important battles for the reconquest of the Iberic Peninsula in the XII and XIII centuries: Alarcos, who presents the defeat of Cristian tropes, the cease to the process of reconquest, and the battle in Navas de Tolosa, which was an important victory in the process of reconquest. The second article takes us to Costa Rica in the XX century with an critical analysis of the discourse in the tell “La Bruja” (The witch) by Fabian Dobles (1955).  In this analysis,  aspects as power and misogyny will be consider to understand the sociocultural representations that are repositories of discourses that justify female violence, whom in this social context challenges the predestinated order.

As well in the XX century, two articles drive us to the religious mentality seen from different points of views. One of the articles will analyze the Semana Santa (Easter) in Costa Rica in the second half of the XX century; a time where the day to day life was taken apart to give room to a series of religious practices focused not only in faith, but also in the social factor of the holyday, which appears due to the interaction among the people involved in the organization of the activities and the non-organizers.  The other article address the history and the truth as fundamental categories of the philosophy of Ignacio Ellacuría’s, who is a leading figure in the theology of the liberation in Central America in historical period that is characterized by the presence of armed conflicts. According to the author, the article is about the ideological construction that the US have done of the regional situation.

Finally, we passed from the art world and the ideas present in literature, religious practices and philosophical categories to considerations a lot earthlier and concrete in an article that talks about the Center of Geophysical Investigation (CIGEFI by its acronym in Spanish) among 1979-2022. The authors prove how the relevance of atmospherically Physics was reduced in the first two decades of its existence giving space in the 1990 to a vacuolation of the Social Sciences by means of a multi, trans, and interdisciplinary in the analysis of the geophysical phenomena.

With all of this said, we invite you to read our 2025 special edition.

M.Sc. Verónica Jerez Brenes

Director