I've merely spent several interesting days at the 2d scientific discipline together with humanities conference of the Mexican Acade...
I've merely spent several interesting days at the 2d scientific discipline together with humanities conference of the Mexican Academy of Sciences inwards United Mexican US City (link). My thanks to Dra. Rosario Esteinou, Chair of the Social Sciences Section of the Mexican Academy of Science, for inviting me to participate.
This forum is a rattling interesting assay to convey together researchers across the spectrum of the sciences together with humanities inwards useful dialog with each other. Biologists, physicists, biologists, astronomers, sociologists, together with humanists from Mexican universities together with institutes (along with a handful of international visitors) interacted intensively through a serial of panels together with plenary talks, with animated conversations taking house inwards the mutual areas throughout the days of the conference. Speaking for the Academy inwards the opening session, organizers ready high together with convincing expectations most the value of interdisciplinary together with international collaboration. I attended sessions on nano-materials, flora evolutionary history, together with economical evolution goals, together with I found all the presentations to last of high lineament together with interest. And to a greater extent than significantly, I witnessed a existent intellectual appointment past times physicists, biologists, together with social scientists or hence each of these topics.
Particularly interesting for me was a session on well-being together with evolution for piteous together with disadvantaged populations inwards Mexico. This flavour was chaired by René Millán together with included presentations by Gonzalo Hernández Licona (Director of the National Council for the Assessment of Social Development Policies – CONEVAL), Rodolfo de la Torre (Director del Programa de Desarrollo Social con Equidad, CEEY), together with Gerardo Leyva (Deputy Director General for Research of INEGI). Key themes included human development, the status of indigenous people, the province of affairs of rural women, together with the challenge of extending opportunities for all Mexicans.
Speakers showed a existent together with committed involvement inwards the importance of poverty reform that actually plant inwards Mexico, with an emphasis on creating greater equity together with chance for all Mexicans. Each speaker took Amartya Sen's theory of capabilities together with performance every bit given; disagreements turned on how this basic theory mightiness last supplemented to contain empirical studies of perceived well-being together with how to do policies that worked to broaden social inclusiveness.
Gerardo Leyva framed his presentation or hence novel involvement inwards "happiness" every bit a destination of development, referring to the United Nations World Happiness Index Report 2016. The view of his presentation was a study of a study conducted past times INEGI on life satisfaction inwards Mexico, the BIARE survey (link). It turns out that Mexican citizens select an average degree of satisfaction of most 8 on a ten-point scale. Of course of teaching the absolute degree of the average reply to the question, how satisfied are yous with your life currently?, is non rattling meaningful. More interesting than the aggregate were the disaggregated results Leyva reported for specific segments of Mexican society, together with an analysis of the divide factors that seem to convey downward life satisfaction. Here is a snapshot of satisfaction reports past times historic menstruation for United Mexican US every bit a whole:
There are non large differences across historic menstruation groups, but it is interesting to reckon that 18-29 year-olds study the highest degree of satisfaction. In particular, it seems to advise that immature people select a favorable stance of their futures inwards Mexico.
Outside the agenda of the conference I also had a rattling interesting give-and-take with David Barkin, professor of economic science at the Xochimilco Campus of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana inwards México City, together with 2 of his PhD students, most an choice approach to merely economical development, ecological economics. The Center for Ecodevelopment is 1 node inwards a global network of researchers, activists, together with communities who are actively working to flora novel economical practices embodying sustainability together with community cohesion. Emphasis is placed on the autonomy together with noesis of the indigenous communities who brand their livings inwards diverse parts of the world. Here is a newspaper inwards which Barkin explains the perspective of this acre of evolution thinking (link). Here is a brusque snippet from the paper:
Rural communities inwards full general together with indigenous groups inwards item proceed nether increasing pressure. Their living weather condition deteriorated every bit their production systems demanded to a greater extent than from the land; they produced crops for human consumption on their rainfed lands, developed handicrafts together with other artisan products, together with raised animals together with horticultural products, including hogs, chickens, fruits together with herbs, inwards their backyards. The most fortunate alongside them were able to protect their access to other natural resources, such every bit a lake or river for angling together with to encounter their H2O needs together with a wood for wood or hunting. Over the decades, they accumulated a rich sense inwards managing these resources, developing sophisticated management systems that were integrated gradually into their customary practices. They continued trading activities, alongside themselves together with with others, maintaining together with modifying their traditions, adapting them to changing conditions, strengthening their communities together with their identity, choosing to protect their most cherished values together with practices inwards each historical moment.Organizations similar the New Rural Reconstruction Movement inwards PRC (link) together with Via Campesina inwards many countries (link) came upwards inwards the conversation, together with the 2 recent PhD students inwards this computer programme described their economical ethnographic piece of job inwards several Mexican indigenous agricultural communities. This piece of job is interesting inwards part because it is aimed at crafting an choice to both neo-liberal together with classical leftist ideas of an economical time to come for the developing world.
My overall impression is that the sciences are robust inwards United Mexican US today, together with that at that spot are energetic efforts underway to solve Mexico's most pressing social problems.
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