About the Journal

Reflexiones is a multidisciplinary Journal of the Faculty of Social Sciences edited by the University of Costa Rica, with a semiannual periodicity (january-june and july-december), and strives for academic reflection on the world social reality, in particular, the one of Latin America. It constitutes a space for knowledge production that contributes in the Social Sciences field. The articles it publishes are theoretically and methodologically grounded and are the product of research and academic work. The target audience includes teachers, researchers and student community on a national and international level.

Reflexiones Journal areas of interest:

Areas of interest

Subtopics

 

 

Social inequalities

 

- Disabilities

- Violence     

- Economic inequality and poverty

- Economic power groups and elites    

- Racism

- Xenophobia

- Social exclusion

Society and Environment

 

- Land use and urban planning

- Cities and urbanization processes

- Rural spaces and rurality

- Socio-environmental and territorial conflicts

- Risk and disasters

- Tourism

- Nature conservation

- Global warming and climate change

- Natural commons and extractivism    

Power and political processes

 

- Public policy and the state

- Civil society

- Political economy

- Political regimes and systems

- Electoral processes

- Human Rights

- Social control

- Public space

- Citizen security

Social Communication

- Political communication and public opinion

- Organizational communication and public relations

- Digital communication and society

- Communicative citizenship, media and democracy

- Narratives and communication

- Communication for development

Indigenous peoples

 

- Indigenous peoples

- Indigenous peoples

- Ethnicity and power

Social movements and political participation

 

- Repertoires of political action

- Social protest

- Political art

- Organizational processes

Genders, feminisms and diversities

 

- Feminist epistemologies

- Sexual and gender identities

- Gender-based discrimination

- Sexism and gender gaps

Migrations, human mobility and border populations

 

- Migration policy

- Trajectories and displacement

- Forced displacement

- Refuge and political asylum

- Cross-border dynamics

- Migration and internal displacement

Social Science Methodology

 

- Action research processes

- Participatory methodologies

- Reflections on methodology in social research

Contemporary subjectivities

 

- Construction of subjectivities

- Culture and subjectivation processes

- Identities

- Affectivities    

- Corporealities

Heritage

 

- Heritage policies

- Heritage management

- Tangible heritage

- Intangible heritage

History, historiography and historical memory

- Collective memories

Science, Technology and Society              

 

Theory in Social Sciences

 

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About the publishing process and its publications, the Reflexiones Journal uses the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED License (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International)

 

Current Issue

Vol. 106 No. 1 (2027): Continuous publication [open number]-January-June
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