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My main interest is to do a comprehensive analysis, not precisely of data and statistics, but of the way in which regios, Monterrey residents, live and perceive the current wave of violence. This is the perception of violence, crime and fear in Mexico’s so-called post-neoliberal era, focusing on Monterrey’s situation. How do people talk about the increasing perception of violence? Has this perception of violence changed the way in which they live? Are there different perceptions of violence across classes? What does this discourse tell us about how they live/assimilate/reproduce the violence and fear in greater society? How can we make sense of it? I argue that fear of crime and violence are playing a crucial role in disciplining citizens’ lives across classes and that their subjectivities and self-governing techniques, fostered by the neoliberal structure of government, have evolved in a very particular way. / text

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La croissance accélérée de la zone métropolitaine de Monterrey a soulevé diverses problématiques économiques, sociales et environnementales. Une de ces inquiétudes est l'approvisionnement en aliments frais des citadins, surtout en contexte de perturbation des chaînes d'approvisionnement mondiales avec la pandémie de la COVID-19. Ainsi, cette recherche avait pour but d'analyser les opportunités offertes par l'agriculture urbaine communautaire dans cette région, à la fois comme une stratégie d'accès aux aliments frais locaux et comme lieu où se tissent les solidarités entre les femmes jardinières. Les zones d'étude sont les municipalités de San Pedro Garza Garcia et San Nicolas de los Garza, situées à l'intérieur de la zone métropolitaine de Monterrey. D'abord, l'analyse a été faite à travers le cadre conceptuel des moyens de vie d'existence durables. Puis, les résultats obtenus nous ont permis de relever que les jardiniers urbains, étant presqu'exclusivement des femmes, avaient un grand intérêt à participer à cette activité principalement pour les bienfaits sociaux qu'ils y trouvent. Pour les jardiniers, les liens de partage, l'aspect communautaire et l'identification à un groupe provoquent un sentiment de bien-être et d'appartenance, surtout en contexte pandémique. Cela se répercute dans leur estime de soi et également dans leur qualité de vie. Par rapport à l'impact de l'agriculture urbaine dans la sécurité alimentaire des jardinières, on a constaté que cette activité contribue à leur alimentation, mais ne comble pas tous leurs besoins alimentaires. Ainsi, cette recherche apporte une perspective de la situation durant la pandémie (2020-2021) de l'agriculture urbaine à San Pedro Garza García et à San Nicolas de los Garza de façon générale ; il faudrait davantage de recherches pour mesurer la contribution de cette activité dans les divers aspects qui touchent le cadre conceptuel des moyens de vie durables tels que l'aspect social, naturel, financier, humain et physique. / The accelerated growth of the Monterrey metropolitan area has raised various economic, social and environmental concerns. One of these concerns is also the supply of fresh food to city dwellers, especially in the context of the disruption of global supply chains with the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, the purpose of this research was to analyze the opportunities offered by community-based urban agriculture in this region, both as a strategy for accessing fresh local food and as a place where solidarity among women gardeners is forged. The study areas are the municipalities of San Pedro Garza García and San Nicolas de los Garza, located within the Monterrey metropolitan area. First, the analysis was made through the conceptual framework of sustainable livelihoods. Then, the results obtained allowed us to note that the urban gardeners, being almost exclusively women, had a great interest in participating in this activity mainly for the social benefits they find in it. For them, the sharing links, the community aspect and the identification with a group provoke a feeling of well-being and belonging, especially in a pandemic context. This has an impact on their self-esteem and their quality of life. In relation to the impact of urban agriculture in the food security of the gardeners, it was found that this activity contributes to their nutrition but does not meet all their food needs. Thus, this research provides a perspective of the situation during the pandemic (2020-2021) of urban agriculture in San Pedro Garza García and San Nicolas de los Garza in general; more research is needed to measure the contribution of this activity in the various aspects that affect the conceptual framework of sustainable livelihoods such as the social, natural, financial, human and physical aspect.

The purpose of this study was to conduct an in-depth examination of factors associated with instructional cost variations among the academic units of a private, Mexican university, the Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM). The study also sought to understand the differences between this university's income and expenditure patterns and those of most comparable institutions in the United States. The analysis enabled the University to identify where it may be more efficient and, in what may turn out to be of most significance, provided it with a higher level of institutional self-awareness. The framework for this study utilized the concepts of the production function and cost theory, both borrowed from microeconomics. Three measures of instructional costs (cost per student-credit-hour, cost per full-time-student-equivalent, and cost per course) were regressed on a series of independent variables that were hypothesized to influence instructional costs. The study utilized the data classification and coding procedures developed by the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) and the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS). Differences in unit instructional costs among UDEM's academic units were largely due to differences in student-faculty ratios, average class sizes, and total number of courses taught (direct costs), and average salaries for clerical and administrative staff (indirect costs). These findings imply that UDEM may increase efficiency through curricular retrenchment and by increasing faculty productivity levels. The University's enrollment (2,300 at the university level) is very small for its broad liberal arts, professional and graduate curriculum. In comparing UDEM's income and expenditure patterns to those of most comparable U.S. institutions, it was found that UDEM depended more heavily on tuition and fees for income and, as such, either had not pursued or not been successful in obtaining other revenue. Yet, the University was able to devote a larger share of its revenue to instruction than were comparable U.S. institutions. In addition, UDEM provided relatively more support to its academic support function while rendering few resources for scholarships and fellowships. These results suggest that UDEM might benefit greatly from a well-designed fund-raising effort and that a student aid program targeted on low income students could yield additional income while expanding student opportunity and building public relations.

[pt] Essa dissertação analisa diversos dilemas enfrentados por ativistas feministas no processo de escolha entre engajar-se ou não em agendas institucionais do sistema ONU. Esses dilemas gravitam entre arriscar-se a ser cooptado pelos processos aos quais se opõem, possivelmente legitimá-los e/ou contestar e oferecer resistência a esses processos. O caso sobre o qual se centra a análise é o processo Financiamento do Desenvolvimento (FfD) que culminou no Consenso de Monterrey em março de 2002. Apesar das perspectivas (anunciadas) de frustração, muitos Movimentos Feministas Transnacionais (MFTs) decidiram permanecer engajados no processo até o fim, articulando uma política de engajamento e resistência (chamada por eles de estratégia inside/outside). Essa estratégia visa a participar das discussões oficiais criticamente e, ao mesmo tempo, contestar a invisibilidade de como as questões de gênero estruturam o projeto intelectual e prático do desenvolvimento atual. Para concluir, duas hipóteses de trabalho são levantadas a respeito da decisão de engajamento desses MFTs. Segundo a primeira hipótese, contida nos discursos dos MFTs, essa decisão de engajamento - a priori contra-intuitiva - é decorrência de dois fatores: a percepção da ONU como espaço de engajamento imprescindível; e a importância das bandeiras de luta dentro de um processo de longo prazo e não como busca imediatista de resultados. A segunda hipótese entende essa decisão como permeada de lógicas de poder internas aos MFTs que buscam a manutenção dos espaços institucionais duramente conquistados desde a Década da ONU para as Mulheres. A conclusão aponta para a própria natureza dilemática dessa estratégia. / [en] This thesis analyses the multiple dilemmas faced by feminist activists in the process of choosing between engaging or not in UN institutional agendas. These dilemmas include risking cooptation by the very processes they seek to oppose, possibly legitimating them; or contesting and offering resistance to these processes. The case upon which the analysis is carried is the Financing for Development (FfD) process, which culminated in the Monterrey Consensus in 2002. Despite the (foretold) perspectives of frustration, many Transnational Feminist Movements (TFMs) decided to stay in the process until the end, by articulating a politics of engagement and resistance (which they call an inside/outside strategy). The strategy calls for critically participating in official discussions and, at the same time, contesting the invisibility of how gender structures the current intellectual and practical development project. To conclude, two hypotheses are raised regarding this decision to engage. According to the first, this counter-intuitive decision is a result of two factors: the perception of the UN as a vital space of engagement; and the importance of carrying out contentious politics as part of a larger process. The second hypothesis understands this decision as pervaded by logics of power internal to the TFMs, who seek to maintain the institutional spaces they have struggled to acquire since the UN Decade for Women. The conclusion points to the dilemmatic nature of this strategy.

This study examines online news production through a cross-national comparative ethnography of two newsrooms: The Chicago Tribune in Chicago, Illinois and El Norte in Monterrey, Mexico. The researcher looks specifically at the extent of collaborative group work in the online newsroom. First, the researcher investigates the degree to which online newsrooms operate organizationally as collaborative groups when producing content for the website, as opposed to functioning individualistically when producing content for the website. The second facet examined is the cultural variability (Hofstede, 1980) of collaboration in the two online newsrooms, particularly whether the United States and Mexican online newsrooms support a collectivistic or individualistic and a high-context or low-context culture schema (Hofstede, 1980; Hall 1976). The last facet explored is how the collaborative behavior of the journalists in the two newsrooms supports or interferes with the practice of journalistic principles of verification and comprehensiveness and if this helps to make journalism better. This study found the El Norte newsroom has a collectivistic and high-context communication culture whereas The Chicago Tribune newsroom has an individualistic and low-context communication culture. Both newsrooms support the principles of verification and context in the news that is produced for the Website that helps to make the news accurate and comprehensive. It can be inferred, however, that the collectivistic, high-context communication culture is more supportive of a collaborative work environment that is conducive to making the journalists work together to help make the news accurate and comprehensive for the public. When the news is accurate and comprehensive, the public has better-informed citizens to make decisions in their daily lives as part of a democratic society. This study also has implications for the journalism and business industry as to the benefits of collaborative groupwork on the service or product outcome in an organization. / text

Esta tesis doctoral denominada “Motivaciones y etapas de preparación para el cambio de comportamiento ante la actividad físico-deportiva en Monterrey (N. L., México)”, pretende aportar resultados que ayuden a diseñar estrategias y desarrollar programas eficaces que fomenten la reanudación, adherencia, persistencia y mantenimiento de la práctica de las actividades físicas y deportivas durante el tiempo libre. El objetivo principal fue analizar a través de la teoría de la autodeterminación, la motivación de los diferentes comportamientos para la actividad física, su relación con el nivel y las etapas de cambio de la práctica física durante el tiempo libre y conocer las diferencias por sexo, edad y nivel de estudios en una muestra de 1,118 sujetos mayores de 15 años de la población del municipio de Monterrey, Nuevo León, México. Además, se presentan las propiedades psicométricas, la fiabilidad y los análisis factoriales exploratorios y confirmatorios de las diferentes escalas utilizadas. / This doctoral thesis named “Motivations and preparation stages for the change of behavior toward the physical-sport activity in Monterrey (N.L. Mexico),” seeks to provide results helping to design effective strategies and to develop programs to promote the reanimation, adherence, persistence and maintenance of the physical and sport practices in the leisure time. The principal aim was to analyze through the self-determination theory, the motivation of the different behaviors for the physical activity, its relation with the level and the stages of change of the physical practice during leisure time and to know the differences between gender, age and educational level in a sample of 1,118 subjects older than 15 years from the population of Monterrey city, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Also, are presented the psychometric properties, the reliability, and the exploratory and confirmatory factorials analysis from the different scales used.

La présente recherche porte sur une analyse de la morphogenèse de Monterrey, ville industrielle frontalière du nord-est du Mexique. À travers trois échelles de lecture, soit l'échelle du territoire, de la ville et du quartier, on fait une analyse des caractéristiques d'émergence et de transformation des secteurs industrialo-résidentiels. La recherche met en valeur les quartiers ouvriers créés de manière directe par les entrepreneurs de Monterrey entre 1890 et 1970. Formes urbaines sans précédents locaux, ces quartiers constituent des mutations morphologiques qui expriment une pensée moderniste dans le milieu urbain. Ils deviennent des objets identitaires modestes qui morphologiquement inspirent le développement postérieur de la ville L'analyse se réalise dans un contexte de libéralisme économique qui reprend force au Mexique à la fin du 19e siècle, mais qui est modéré par la Constitution de 1917. Dans le milieu local, ce courant économique qui comporte une restructuration productive et foncière, entre autres, est aussi associé à l'émergence de formes urbaines anarchiques. La recherche prend sa pertinence en raison de la réémergence du libéralisme économique qui, sous le nom de mondialisation, comporte de nouvelles restructurations spatiales qui interpellent la ville et ses identités.