Religación. Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades

Resilience as a recovery strategy in an international tourist destination. Case Los Cabos, México

Claudia Carolina Lacruhy Enríquez — 2021-03-20

In this research, the case study of the municipality of Los Cabos Baja California Sur, Mexico is presented, with the objective of analyzing recovery strategies, to increase the resilience of tourist destinations, when they face attacks from external factors that threaten their stability and development; The methodology is qualitative, with an exploratory, descriptive and explanatory scope, interviews were carried out with key stakeholders of the tourist destination, with an exploratory script validated by experts at 97%, including profile dimensions, impact scenarios, resilience strategies, and recovery phases, the statistics of the destination and a virtual ethnography were compared, which allowed a broader vision of the problems and the evaluation of the response in two aspects: the COVID-19 pandemic (SARS-CoV-2); and the response analysis on the impact of Hurricane Odile in 2014. The main results showed that the participation of public and private actors related to public policy regarding tourism is central. Although Los Cabos has come out of various crises and currently has a walking strategy that has allowed a small recovery, there is no way to determine a realistic approach to the economic recovery of the destination. The impact on the poorly diversified economy of the region makes it difficult to sustain the operation of companies and the jobs of the population. Biosafety indicators for tourists and residents should be incorporated into good practices in the sector and the resilience strategies of the tourist destination.

Control of the Covid-19 pandemic from post-disciplinary power mechanics

José Luis Arriaga Ornelas — 2021-03-20

The concept of “relationship-based control” is proposed to understand the post-disciplinary power mechanics present in practices to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. It shows how this concept helps to think in a symmetrical way about the containment of contagions and the structuring of the field of action of people, referring to a general mechanism of power characteristic of the 21st century. The analysis is epistemic-discursive on a corpus made up of technical documents from the WHO, government bulletins, and journalistic pieces. Particularly detailing the case of China (origin of the pandemic and the first country to declare it ended), it achieves the objective of highlighting the digital surveillance present in the fight against Covid-19. As a result, the implications of the State compiling millions of data on people and, based on it, making decisions are evident because this practice is consistent with the centrality achieved by a type of knowledge that is based on an epistemological domain: the of relationship systems, which provides operational information of individuals. It is also offered as a finding that the big data generated, managed, and used by the State emerges as a form of contagion control, but also as a general formula of government.

Effects of stress and wellbeing with telecommuting on the COVID-19 environment: México, Perú and Chile

Sergio Madero Gómez — 2021-03-20

At present, carrying out remote work activities has been considered a process that implies radical changes in the ways of working both for the employee and the organization. This has generated a series of reflections and learnings, that must be considered because there are some implications that were not contemplated before COVID-19, such as the effects on the physical and emotional health of people and the impact on the achievement of objectives, causing the human resources areas, to develop actions focused on improving conditions for remote work in order to reduce stress levels through comprehensive wellness schemes. Since the moment that the World Health Organization declared the pandemic due to COVID-19 on March 2020, the design of strategies from the enterprise perspective began, and to protect the health of employees, the opportunity to carry out work from home was given. The aim of this research is to know the effects of work stress and work-life balance from doing remote work due to the COVID-19 isolation situation, as well as to measure the validity and reliability of the measuring instrument. For the development of the quantitative, descriptive, and relational research, an online questionnaire with 21 items was designed and applied to adults who performed remote work activities, in the cities of Monterrey Mexico, Lima Peru during the months of April and May 2020 and in the Ñuble region in Chile during September and October 2020, obtaining a total of 425 useful responses to carry out the corresponding analysis, highlighting that there are statistically significant differences in the variables used in the research according to the country, showing indicators of validity, reliability, and consistency in the various samples obtained as well as the existence of negative relationships between stress and remote work and positive relationships with work-life balance. In the future, it is intended to continue this research in the Latin American context.

Strategies and motivations in the educational experiences of students of the Universidad Pedagógica Veracruzana: an analysis during social confinement.

Érick Hernández Ferrer — 2021-03-20

The purpose of this paper is to show the strategies and motivations that students of the Universidad Pedagógica Veracruzana have used to continue their studies in the context of the social confinement derived from the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced students to continue their studies by electronic means. Hence the need to investigate the students within this pandemic context; what and how they are doing their studies is fundamental in terms of prospective since it will allow improving their processes in the future since a mixed modality scenario has even been proposed for higher education once the confinement ends. Thus, an exploratory study was carried out, using a multi-method perspective, under an ethnographic approach; for this purpose, quantitative and qualitative techniques were used, such as surveys, observation records, and semi-structured interviews directed to a sample of a total of 82 students of the above-mentioned institution at the undergraduate, masters and doctorate levels. In this sense, elements of importance were found for the management of school activities in this rupture of normality, since the main strategy identified was the diversification of activities and fundamental motivations, the support of the family to continue studies in confinement, which has given us a prospective vision in which the institutional support should be oriented to know and take into account the socio-cultural contexts of their students in order to establish an efficiently mixed modality.

Vigilance, research and evaluation in COVID-19 risk management. The cases of Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.

Diego Arancibia — 2021-03-20

The purpose of this article is to analyze the response capacity to SARS-COV-2 of the governments of Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, according to the guidelines provided by PAHO. For this, a qualitative methodology was used, with an exploratory, descriptive and analytical approach with the analysis of PAHO variables, among which are surveillance, laboratory, research, and evaluation. From this perspective, it is possible to appreciate the different measures taken by the countries of the Pacific basin with different results. Finally, it can be deduced that social problems prior to the pandemic, whether of an economic nature, supplies, and human resources, affect the health management of the countries analyzed in a pandemic situation.