Emma Torres
Biographic Data
| ID | 313129 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emma Torres |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emma |
| FAMILY NAME | Torres |
| SIGNATURE | TORRES E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Nacional de Córdoba |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6040-562X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Linking capital assets to the understanding and adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals: Evidence from young farmers in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Capital influences young farmers' understanding of the SDGs in the Amazon. • Education and associativity emerge as key drivers of commitment to the SDGs. • Valuing education among women does not raise knowledge about the SDGs. • Age and formal education increase awareness of the SDGs among young men. • The findings support education for multidimensional sustainability. Sustainability education is crucial for empowering young farmers to adopt envi…
Understanding Drivers of Prostate Cancer Screening in Mexican-Origin Men Along the U.S./Mexico Border Region
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends individualized decision making about prostate cancer screening for men between 55 and 69 years of age. Compared to non-Hispanic Whites, Hispanic men are less likely to report having had a prostate-specific antigen test. While these differences have been attributed to individual- and system-level barriers in early detection and screening of prostate cancer (PCa), less is known about Mexican-origin…
Don’t leave it all to science”: How Mexicans living along the US-Mexico border view health and care seeking
The geographic and cultural distribution of the health beliefs that inform how people interpret disease etiologies, engage in the clinical arena, utilize traditional remedies, and respond to health promotion programming is an important and understudied topic. The impacts of place-based factors on health concepts may be especially critical among geographically displaced populations, who tend to face a similar and concerning host of barriers to med…
The association between neighborhood context, allostatic load, and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatosis liver disease in Mexican-origin farmworkers along the Southern Arizona US/Mexico border
The results of this study inform the development of culturally relevant strategies to reduce Mexican-origin farmworkers' risk for MASLD that are highly responsive to the structural and systemic forces that shape their lived experience
Critical Theory in Transition: From Eurocentrism to Postcolonial World Society
Beyond the Manuscript: Fotonovelas for farmworkers and their families: Evitando los riesgos en casa
Methods for Building Community-engaged Partnerships in Ecotoxicology
Background: Ecotoxicology provides powerful tools to characterize the nature and effects of pollution, which can be impactful when used in community-engaged research (CEnR). However, academic researchers are often insufficiently informed about the communities in which they conduct research. Researchers are not usually from or familiar with the cultural nuances of these communities, which is problematic for the strength of community-engaged projec…
Fotonovelas for Farmworkers and Their Families: Evitando los Riesgos en Casa
At the request of the farmworker advocacy group, Campesinos Sin Fronteras (CSF) in Yuma County, Arizona, we created fotonovelas (comic books) to provide information and education to farmworkers and their families on the prevention of exposures to pesticides in the home. Our process included an informal needs assessment, the creation of draft scripts in English and Spanish, the recruitment of student artists to draw candidate fotonovelas , the rev…
Knowledge of the Stress-Health Link as a Source of Resilience Among Mexicans in the Arizona Borderlands
Mexicans who migrate to the United States endure significant stressors related to the migration process and social and environmental conditions of life in the United States. Given that chronic stress exposure has been linked to the onset of health conditions, these ecological factors may expose them to increased risk for poor health. However, Mexicans have many positive health outcomes compared to those monitored nationally, making it crucial to …
Sociedad Mundial Poscolonial: Una aproximación
En el artículo planteo la hipótesis que desde mediados del siglo XX se viene conformando una sociedad mundial poscolonial. En primer lugar, describo cómo esta nueva sociedad se edifica a partir de la evolución de tres procesos históricos: la descolonización, la proliferación de los movimientos de liberación nacional del Sur Global y el ascenso del bloque del Asia-Pacífico. En segundo lugar, desarrollo el concepto de sociedad mundial poscolonial a…
How Promotoras Put Community at the Heart of Research: Reflections from a Community-Based Participatory Research Study Along the US-Mexico Border
La oposición entre la Red y el Yo (1989-2009): Análisis de una hipótesis sociológica de Manuel Castells
La oposición entre la Red y el Yo es la fórmula principal que proponeManuel Castells a partir de 1989 para sintetizar su visión sobre ladinámica estructural de las sociedades contemporáneas. En el presenteartículo analizamos los aspectos centrales de tal postulado, atendiendoen particular a la relación que establece con la cuestión del poder. Lainvestigación nos permitirá descubrir que dicho vínculo, zigzagueante ydesorientador en el plano explíc…
The Use of Qualitative Methods to Guide the Development of the Border Resilience Scale in a Participatory Research Study
U.S.-Mexico border residents experience pervasive social and ecological stressors that contribute to a high burden of chronic disease. However, the border region is primarily composed of high-density Mexican-origin neighborhoods, a characteristic that is most commonly health-promoting. Understanding factors that contribute to border stress and resilience is essential to informing the effective design of community-level health promotion strategies…
The World Paradigm: A New Proposal for Sociology
In this article, I advance the formulation of a paradigm whose components have arisen inorganically in the sociological field in the Western Hemisphere since the beginning of the 21st century. This intellectual corpus, which I call the “World Paradigm” (WP), contains a scientific device structured on the basis of the dialectic between three principles: globalization, localization and historicization. The WP also has a critical and a political dev…
The Lancet Commission on lessons for the future from the Covid-19 pandemic
Es Muy Tranquilo Aquí”: Perceptions of Safety and Calm among Binationally Mobile Mexican Immigrants in a Rural Border Community
Perceptions of community can play an important role in determining health and well-being. We know little, however, about residents' perceptions of community safety in the Southwestern borderlands, an area frequently portrayed as plagued by disorder. The qualitative aim of this community-based participatory research study was to explore the perceptions of Mexican-origin border residents about their communities in southern Yuma County, Arizona. Our…
La vida en la frontera: Protocol for a prospective study exploring stress and health resiliencies among Mexican-origin individuals living in a US-Mexico border community
This study examines objective and subjective mechanisms of the relationship between stress and health in an ecologically diverse rural community over an extended timeframe and illuminates health disparities affecting residents of this medically underserved community. Findings from this investigation directly impact the participants and community through deepening our understanding of the linkages between individual and community level stress and …
Estados protetores e agressores na sociedade mundial: Os efeitos sociais da Covid19
A crise sociossanitária gerada pela proliferação da Covid19 está produzindo uma transformação do estado na sociedade mundial, recriando duas formas inovadoras: a do estado protetor e a do estado agressor. Neste trabalho, sustentarei que essa transformação é principalmente o produto de um fluxo massivo de delegação do poder social provocado por um movimento mundial de autopreservação social. A expansão da função protetora do estado, por sua vez, e…
A Community-Engaged Approach to Environmental Health Research: Process and Lessons Learned
Leveraging community-engaged principles for studies of environmental contamination can expedite recruitment efforts and stimulate action to improve health outcomes
El nuevo estado protector y la legitimidad de excepción: Una aproximación mundial
La crisis socio-sanitaria generada por la proliferación acelerada del Covid-19 está produciendo una recentralización del estado en la sociedad mundial. El mismo movimiento está recreando dos formas estatales novedosas: la del estado protector y la del estado agresor. La expansión de la función protectora, a su vez, está co-produciendo en tiempo récord una nueva legitimidad política de excepción. Esta última tiende a alterar en algún grado las din…
Voices of Community Partners: Perspectives Gained from Conversations of Community-Based Participatory Research Experiences
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) has been documented as an effective approach to research with underserved communities, particularly with racial and ethnic minority groups. However, much of the literature promoting the use of CBPR with underserved communities is written from the perspective of the researchers and not from the perspective of the community partner. The purpose of this article is to capture lessons learned from the comm…
Operaciones y estructuras de la práctica teórica. Una exploración a partir del caso de la teoría de los sistemas sociales de Niklas Luhmann
En la actualidad, la construcción teórica aparece como una práctica cada vez más alejada del horizonte de trabajo de las ciencias sociales en América Latina. Esta se muestra como un esfuerzo prescindible en las dinámicas de investigación social. En el presente artículo se ponen en evidencia ciertas dificultades que tienen las ciencias sociales para dar respuestas adecuadas a los problemas que presenta la realidad social en nuestra región. En el m…
Social Acceleration. A New Theory of Modernity
El universo de la teoría social crítica cuenta actualmente con un núcleo de producción relevante en la República Federal de Alemania, referenciado en un grupo de autores de mediana edad entre los cuales destaca el sociólogo Hartmut Rosa (1965-). El presente libro de Rosa recoge, revisa y profundiza un conjunto de ideas que el autor viene desarrollando sin interrupciones desde fines de la década de 1990 (Rosa, 1998, 2005, 2010; Rosa y Scheuerman, …
Communication and Culture in Manuel Castells: Explorations of the Period 1996-2009
In this article we will get involved in the analysis of the main articulation formulas Manuel Castells proposes between the notions of communication and culture, during a period of his theoretical work spannning 1996-2009. The central purpose of this piece of work is the decoding of the main theoretical operations the Spanish sociologist carries out within this framework, as well as the general views insinuated through them. For this we will pay …
Soluções para o desenvolvimento sustentável da Amazônia
Desenvolver novas solues e compartilhar solues j existentes entre diferentes segmentos das sociedades amaznicas algo que precisa ser estimulado. Esta a misso da
The World Paradigm: A New Proposal for Sociology
In this article, I advance the formulation of a paradigm whose components have arisen inorganically in the sociological field in the Western Hemisphere since the beginning of the 21st century. This intellectual corpus, which I call the “World Paradigm” (WP), contains a scientific device structured on the basis of the dialectic between three principles: globalization, localization and historicization. The WP also has a critical and a political dev…
La oposición entre la Red y el Yo (1989-2009): Análisis de una hipótesis sociológica de Manuel Castells
La oposición entre la Red y el Yo es la fórmula principal que proponeManuel Castells a partir de 1989 para sintetizar su visión sobre ladinámica estructural de las sociedades contemporáneas. En el presenteartículo analizamos los aspectos centrales de tal postulado, atendiendoen particular a la relación que establece con la cuestión del poder. Lainvestigación nos permitirá descubrir que dicho vínculo, zigzagueante ydesorientador en el plano explíc…
Cambio Social y Totalidad
En el siguiente artículo proponemos recuperar en términos generales una serie de problemas de método relacionados con el clásico tema del cambio social, relativamente apartado de la discusión teórica de las ciencias sociales desde mediados de la década del 80 del siglo pasado. Luego de establecer un marco introductorio, se explora la relación entre cambio social y teoría, y se profundiza en el vínculo con una categoría central y polémica de la ep…
Social Work and Politics
Social Work and Politics Get access Esteban E. Torres Esteban E. Torres Member of Congress 34th District, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 29, Issue 4, July-August 1984, Page 413, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/29.4.413 Published: 01 July 1984
The Proposed North American Free Trade Agreement and the Implications for U.S.-Mexico Relations
Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the Latino Leaders Conference on the Implications of the North American Free Trade Agreement. I want to thank the Southwest Voter Research Institute and the other organizations for this opportunity to appear before you
Nuevas pantallas: Cultura o negocio, creación o alienación
Se reflexiona en este artíulo sobre las relaciones entre los aspectos comerciales de la cultura de masas audiovisual y sus potencialidades educativas o empobrecedoras. Esta reflexión se realiza desde la psicología del desarrollo infantil y juvenil, donde puede ya considerarse el contexto audiovisual como una fuente importante en la construcció n del conocimiento individual y social de niños y jóvenes. Se analizan también los fenómenos emocionales…
Evolución en el conocimiento sobre las estrategias y fines de la publicidad televisiva en niños y adolescentes
El conocimiento sobre la publicidad televisiva es evaluado en una muestra de 227 niños tinerfeños, divididos en tres grupos de edad: 8, 11 y 14 años. Los resultados, comparando siempre los tres grupos, muestran una escasa comprensión de las peculiaridades y fines publicitarios, especialmente en los niños más pequeños, que se compensa parcialmente con la edad. Estos datos se analizan a la luz de la necesidad de una educación en el consumo y en el …
Taking a Broad Approach to Public Health Program Adaptation: Adapting a Family-Based Diabetes Education Program
Cambio Social y Totalidad
En el siguiente artículo proponemos recuperar en términos generales una serie de problemas de método relacionados con el clásico tema del cambio social, relativamente apartado de la discusión teórica de las ciencias sociales desde mediados de la década del 80 del siglo pasado. Luego de establecer un marco introductorio, se explora la relación entre cambio social y teoría, y se profundiza en el vínculo con una categoría central y polémica de la ep…
The Border Community and Immigration Stress Scale: A Preliminary Examination of a Community Responsive Measure in Two Southwest Samples
Stress and Sociocultural Factors Related to Health Status Among US–Mexico Border Farmworkers
El enmarcado de la mente: Análisis de una clave central de la visión del poder de Manuel Castells
En el presente artículo analizamos de modo sistemático y pormenorizado un aspecto central de la perspectiva sociológica contemporánea del poder de Manuel Castells: la cuestión del enmarcado o modelado de la mente. El estudio nos permitirá descubrir, principalmente, la proliferación de un discurso edificado a partir de dos operaciones teóricas ocultadas por el autor: la postulación de una lógica de imposición como lógica excluyente del poder y del…
La ley general del poder de Manuel Castells, 1976-2009
Para Manuel Castells la primera ley de la sociedad es una ley del poder: donde hay dominación hay resistencia a la dominación. En el presente artículo analizamos dicho postulado, que despliega entre 1976 y 2009, atendiendo a tres aspectos: sus aplicaciones concretas en la investigación social de nuestro autor, aquellos argumentos del propio Castells que tienden a refutarlo, y finalmente un diálogo acotado con la quinta proposición sobre el poder …
Poder, sociedad y economía en Manuel Castells, 1983-2003: Estudio sistemático de una relación
La visin sociolgica del poder de Manuel Castells adquiere popularidad planetaria a fines de la dcada de los 90 pero comienza a edificarse a principios de los 80, a partir de su abandono del marxismo. En el presente trabajo nos ocupamos de analizar al detalle el modo en que nuestro autor conceptualiza el poder en el periodo 1983-2003 en relacin con su nocin abstracta y multidimensional de sociedad, as como la forma en que tal categora se vincula c…
Communication and Culture in Manuel Castells: Explorations of the Period 1996-2009
In this article we will get involved in the analysis of the main articulation formulas Manuel Castells proposes between the notions of communication and culture, during a period of his theoretical work spannning 1996-2009. The central purpose of this piece of work is the decoding of the main theoretical operations the Spanish sociologist carries out within this framework, as well as the general views insinuated through them. For this we will pay …
Soluções para o desenvolvimento sustentável da Amazônia
Desenvolver novas solues e compartilhar solues j existentes entre diferentes segmentos das sociedades amaznicas algo que precisa ser estimulado. Esta a misso da
Social Acceleration. A New Theory of Modernity
El universo de la teoría social crítica cuenta actualmente con un núcleo de producción relevante en la República Federal de Alemania, referenciado en un grupo de autores de mediana edad entre los cuales destaca el sociólogo Hartmut Rosa (1965-). El presente libro de Rosa recoge, revisa y profundiza un conjunto de ideas que el autor viene desarrollando sin interrupciones desde fines de la década de 1990 (Rosa, 1998, 2005, 2010; Rosa y Scheuerman, …
Operaciones y estructuras de la práctica teórica. Una exploración a partir del caso de la teoría de los sistemas sociales de Niklas Luhmann
En la actualidad, la construcción teórica aparece como una práctica cada vez más alejada del horizonte de trabajo de las ciencias sociales en América Latina. Esta se muestra como un esfuerzo prescindible en las dinámicas de investigación social. En el presente artículo se ponen en evidencia ciertas dificultades que tienen las ciencias sociales para dar respuestas adecuadas a los problemas que presenta la realidad social en nuestra región. En el m…
El nuevo estado protector y la legitimidad de excepción: Una aproximación mundial
La crisis socio-sanitaria generada por la proliferación acelerada del Covid-19 está produciendo una recentralización del estado en la sociedad mundial. El mismo movimiento está recreando dos formas estatales novedosas: la del estado protector y la del estado agresor. La expansión de la función protectora, a su vez, está co-produciendo en tiempo récord una nueva legitimidad política de excepción. Esta última tiende a alterar en algún grado las din…
Voices of Community Partners: Perspectives Gained from Conversations of Community-Based Participatory Research Experiences
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) has been documented as an effective approach to research with underserved communities, particularly with racial and ethnic minority groups. However, much of the literature promoting the use of CBPR with underserved communities is written from the perspective of the researchers and not from the perspective of the community partner. The purpose of this article is to capture lessons learned from the comm…
Estados protetores e agressores na sociedade mundial: Os efeitos sociais da Covid19
A crise sociossanitária gerada pela proliferação da Covid19 está produzindo uma transformação do estado na sociedade mundial, recriando duas formas inovadoras: a do estado protetor e a do estado agressor. Neste trabalho, sustentarei que essa transformação é principalmente o produto de um fluxo massivo de delegação do poder social provocado por um movimento mundial de autopreservação social. A expansão da função protetora do estado, por sua vez, e…
A Community-Engaged Approach to Environmental Health Research: Process and Lessons Learned
Leveraging community-engaged principles for studies of environmental contamination can expedite recruitment efforts and stimulate action to improve health outcomes
The Lancet Commission on lessons for the future from the Covid-19 pandemic
Es Muy Tranquilo Aquí”: Perceptions of Safety and Calm among Binationally Mobile Mexican Immigrants in a Rural Border Community
Perceptions of community can play an important role in determining health and well-being. We know little, however, about residents' perceptions of community safety in the Southwestern borderlands, an area frequently portrayed as plagued by disorder. The qualitative aim of this community-based participatory research study was to explore the perceptions of Mexican-origin border residents about their communities in southern Yuma County, Arizona. Our…
La vida en la frontera: Protocol for a prospective study exploring stress and health resiliencies among Mexican-origin individuals living in a US-Mexico border community
This study examines objective and subjective mechanisms of the relationship between stress and health in an ecologically diverse rural community over an extended timeframe and illuminates health disparities affecting residents of this medically underserved community. Findings from this investigation directly impact the participants and community through deepening our understanding of the linkages between individual and community level stress and …
The Use of Qualitative Methods to Guide the Development of the Border Resilience Scale in a Participatory Research Study
U.S.-Mexico border residents experience pervasive social and ecological stressors that contribute to a high burden of chronic disease. However, the border region is primarily composed of high-density Mexican-origin neighborhoods, a characteristic that is most commonly health-promoting. Understanding factors that contribute to border stress and resilience is essential to informing the effective design of community-level health promotion strategies…
The World Paradigm: A New Proposal for Sociology
In this article, I advance the formulation of a paradigm whose components have arisen inorganically in the sociological field in the Western Hemisphere since the beginning of the 21st century. This intellectual corpus, which I call the “World Paradigm” (WP), contains a scientific device structured on the basis of the dialectic between three principles: globalization, localization and historicization. The WP also has a critical and a political dev…
Sociedad Mundial Poscolonial: Una aproximación
En el artículo planteo la hipótesis que desde mediados del siglo XX se viene conformando una sociedad mundial poscolonial. En primer lugar, describo cómo esta nueva sociedad se edifica a partir de la evolución de tres procesos históricos: la descolonización, la proliferación de los movimientos de liberación nacional del Sur Global y el ascenso del bloque del Asia-Pacífico. En segundo lugar, desarrollo el concepto de sociedad mundial poscolonial a…
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