“The women who board the buses not only carry soap, clothes or food; they shoulder the weight of a public system that is failing.” Costa Rica’s prisons fail to provide basic care. Researcher @txus999.bsky.social meets the women and prisoners who are trying to fill the gaps. buff.ly/YYlXoOk

In the latest issue of The Sociological Review magazine, you can find this text I wrote. Here I reflect about how when the state doesn’t provide the essentials, the punishment experience relies on women care, and prisoners strategies based on violence, organised rebellion and control. goo.su/f24LV

OUT NOW: the December issue of The Sociological Review magazine, which turns a sociological eye on injustices in the adoption, debt, education and prison systems – and visions of a better future. Plus: interviews, book reviews, sociological fiction & more. thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/dec...

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Sociólogo que estudia homicidios en dinámicas criminales habla de los números, pero también de los mitos en torno al tema.

RIP Hermeto Pascoal.

“No entiendo a los que no les gusta ver aves”, cuenta el naturalista Stephen Moss sin apartar los ojos de sus binoculares. “Es como una ceguera, no ver los pájaros es estar ciego a la belleza del mundo. Quien no los ve se pierde algo, una gran alegría”

Finished "Hope in the Dark" by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social tonight, and there is so much in this book (first published over two decades ago and last updated in 2016) that is deeply valuable in the current moment we find ourselves in. Looking forward to reading "No Straight Road Takes You There," too!

‘Nothing justifies or explains the war; it is the spasm of a maddened species. You do not feel good to be American. Or victorious.’ David Thomson watches the films of Terrence Malick: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Al debatir con el "populismo punitivo" debemos de tener cautela para no crear falsas distinciones entre "buenos" y "malos". O entre dolores que son más legítimos que otros. De esto hablo en este texto: delfino.cr/2025/05/el-d...

«...quienes hoy están en prisión eventualmente regresarán a nuestras comunidades. La disyuntiva está en si lo harán con herramientas que faciliten la convivencia social o más bien con una experiencia de desconexión que continúe agravando el conflicto social.» delfino.cr/2025/04/el-c...

El Seminario Interinstitucional Etnografía Pragmática convoca a la sesión: ✨"Retos y estrategias metodológicas para el registro de lo sensible"✨ 🟣A cargo de la Dra. Olga Sabido Ramos (UAM-A) 📌9 de mayo, 18:00 hrs., presencial y en línea. #quenosetepase Checa 👇

"All those hard cases doing hard time melt like butter on a summer sidewalk when they visit the felines, feed them, watch them chase the birds and bees, and when they make toys to entice the cats to play with them."

About 30,000 fewer Americans die each year from street drugs. Survivors in one of the most drug-scarred cities say their community is trying to help, but the safety net feels dangerously thin.

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Sin piratería no podría estar doctorándome. O, por lo menos, la investigación sería de peor calidad.

Before any plants were taller than three feet, and before any animal with a backbone had made it out of the water, the earth was dotted with two-story-tall, silo-like fungi.