Editorial

Abstract

We are pleased to present the second issue of 2021 of Perifèria, Revista de Recerca i Formació en Antropologia. In this new issue we include a special section: Política y Diferencia: Nuevas perspectivas antropológicas en el siglo XXI, where we publish some of the articles presented at the conference that took place last June between the University of São Paulo and the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Specifically, we publish texts by USP students that address topics of high interest in the Brazilian context, such as the debate on Afro-Brazilian art in museums (Ribeiro); feminisms on Instagram (Coelho); contemporary black dances in the context of the city of São Paulo (Araújo, Jaques); an analysis in the key of movement about the river of São Francisco (Ribeiro); and finally, an approach to the cocalero debates in relation to life and territory (Gómez Mateus).

In the usual section of articles, we publish two texts that analyse the repercussions of the Covid-19 pandemic from two very different perspectives. On the one hand, we present an analysis of maker values ​​and their contribution to the post-Covid-19 crisis economic model (Cabrera-Van Cauwlaert), and, on the other hand, a reflection on social control and techno-surveillance in times of pandemic (Sanjaume-Ramirez). Next, women and an analysis of resistance strategies are the protagonists of part of the articles section: the first of them studies the resistance strategies of aging women (Durán) and the second analyses the struggle of indigenous women of the Ecuadorian Amazon for the defence of their bodies-territory (Marotta). And we close this section with a methodological proposal in the form of an essay for the study of urban ethnography (Espinosa).

In the interview section we present a reflection on the past, present and future of the Anthropology by our esteemed colleague Ignasi Terradas (Romero).

We recommend two magnificent works through the reviews of: The Spain of the swimming pools (Fernández de las Heras) and "War does not have a woman's face" (Peralta-Mulet).

Finally, we present DIME, a research group from the University of Oviedo and its work on the teaching of languages, interculturality and multilingualism in education (Fernández-Costales; Rodríguez-Olay).