Cuadernos de Extensión Universitaria de la UNLPam
Cuadernos de Extensión Universitaria de la UNLPam ISSN: 2451-5930 E-ISSN: 2718-7500 Publicación semestral de la Secretaría de Cultura y Extensión Universitaria de la UNLPam, cuyo objetivo es contribuir en la difusión y circulación de la producción de conocimiento en el campo de la Extensión universitaria. Esta revista está destinada al público interesado en las formas de vinculación entre la universidad y la comunidad en que se inserta. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.19137/cuadex
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Imágenes sin orillas. Notas sobre las memorias del pasado reciente pampeano
Building citizen capacity for sustainable local development
The project “Strengthening Civic Capacity for Sustainable Local Development in the Department of Choluteca” contributes to the training of citizens in the municipalities of Concepción de María, El Corpus, Choluteca, El Triunfo, Namasigüe, and San Marcos de Colón. The initiative addresses the need to promote and propose local development models through strategies and actions aimed at the sustainable and inclusive management of natural resources. It describes the design and implementation of a Political School aimed at community leaders, organizations, and officials, based on Participatory Action Research. The processes of management, participation, and capacity assessment are examined. Among the results, the formation of a local network, the creation of spaces for dialogue and advocacy, and the promotion of social oversight initiatives for sustainable territorial development stand out.
"La extensión universitaria: un puente hacia la comunidad. La experiencia de seis voluntariados en el Departamento de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad Nacional de La Matanza", de Cecilia Laclau y Carlos Roba (comp.)
Systematization of the training experience for community radio communicators in Afro-Honduran areas
En esta sistematización se analiza el Proyecto de Formación de Comunicadoras/es Comunitarios (UNAH–ODECO), desarrollado en 2023 en La Ceiba. La iniciativa capacitó a veintinueve participantes de tres radios comunitarias mediante modalidad bimodal y cinco módulos. Iniciado en 2016, promueve inclusión y empoderamiento en comunidades afectadas por pobreza y despojo, fortaleciendo la producción de contenidos y la democratización de la información en territorios poco visibilizados.
University extension in rural towns: enhancing community heritage in General Paz y Pila (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
This article provides an initial systematization of the experiences of dialogue of knowledge promoted by the Entramados rurales bonaerenses: patrimonio, territorios y comunidades Project of the National University of Quilmes and the Museums of Pila and General Paz (Buenos Aires). The text focuses on the description and analysis of the workshops held during 2023 with the aim of activating heritage processes and thus promoting socio-territorial transformations in these rural areas. We understand cultural heritage as an (inter)subjective and dynamic concept, which does not depend so much on the assets themselves as on the values attributed to them in each context and on the ability of different agents to determine what is and what is not part of the heritage collection. Thus, based on the premises of critical extension and participatory action research, stages, themes, and activities were defined with a focus on promoting well-being in the territories and reflections on their past, present, and future. Preliminary results show the uniqueness of the experiences located in rural Buenos Aires, the relevance of university outreach in these spaces, the adaptability of the dynamics, and the commitment of each community to the co-creation of its own heritage.
La voluntad política institucional como eje de la Extensión. Entrevista a Nicolasa Terreros Barrios
Linguistic activism in digital media: the experience of the You Tube channel “Voces Tobas” for education and dissemination
This article analyses the “Voces Tobas” project, which focuses on documenting, disseminating and promoting the Toba/Qom language in contemporary contexts where signs of linguistic displacement are evident. In an scenery where the intergenerational transmission of Toba/Qom is declining, this initiative conceives of the production of podcasts and animated videos as a linguistic activism strategy, aimed at creating new species for the circulation of oral tradition, based on a participatory methodology and in collaboration with leaders of a Toba/Qom people. The podcast format, in particular, allows the Toba/Qom language to reach a broad audience, both within and outside the community, and promotes its linguistic and cultural dissemination thanks to the use of open-access digital platforms. Furthermore, the materials designed and disseminated on the YouTube channel ‘Voces Tobas’ constitute fundamental input for their transformation into pedagogical resources for schools and teacher training programs.
Foro Pampeano por el Derecho al Aborto Legal Seguro y Gratuito
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Challenging narratives, capturing memories: the Photographic Walk for Gender Diversity on Wikimedia Commons as a practice of public history in university outreach
This article presents the experience of planning and carrying out the Photographic Walk for Gender Diversity on Wikimedia Commons, a public history and university extension initiative aimed at expanding LGBT+ representation in Wikimedia projects. The event, held in downtown Florianópolis, sought to document and upload images of the LGBT+ community’s memory sites, promoting visibility and digital heritage preservation. Based on this experience, we discuss the challenges and lessons learned in organizing Wikimedia-related events, reflect on the relationship between extension and research, and analyze the photo walk as a practice that connects memory, urban space, and community engagement.
How the passage of laws highlights barriers to access to healthcare and the possibility of breaking them down with an outreach project
The purpose of this article is to disseminate the outreach activities of the Dentistry program at the Universidad Nacional de Rio Negro (UNRN) within the framework of the "Inclusive Dental Clinic" (hereinafter IDC) from 2019 to the present. The two central axes of the IDC are: -To improve the oral health status of people belonging to the LGBTIQ+ community en the Alto Valle, region of the Province of Río Negro. - To promote teaching and learning among IDC participants on issues of gender, rights and health. The aim is to raise awareness about the dental practices implemented by users and the training workshops for participating healthcare providers, as well as the impact on the local population, each participant´s environment, and the academic community at the Dental School in the city of Allen, Provincia de Rio Negro, where the activities are carried out.
Extensión, Universidad y Feminismos: compromiso con nuestro tiempo. Entrevista a Diana Granados Soler
The pendulum between the State and the cooperative sector. Current challenges from an approach situated in San Martín (Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
This article systematizes a survey of the cooperative sector in the District of San Martín, Buenos Aires Province, conducted jointly by the municipality, the Union of Workers of the Popular Economy (UTEP), the Idear Ciudad Public Policy Laboratory, and the National University of San Martín. The survey encompasses a diverse set of cooperative experiences in the production of goods and services. The work begins with a theoretical and conceptual analyzis of workers cooperatives. It then explores the characteristics of cooperative experiences and social enterprises in the district, their emergin problems, and current challenges. This situated analysis provides concrete elements for examining the relationship between the State, public policies, and this sector of the economy. Finally, we will analize the current state of cooperativism in light of the government led by Javier Milei (2023-2027) and the conditions that enable the sector.
Feminist and anti-fascist extension: an experience of lesbian activism in the face of reactionary backlash
This article is a reflective work theoretically positioned within contributions from poststructuralist feminism and queer studies, whose purpose is to analyze what feminist outreach can offer in problematic situations. It explores an outreach experience of lesbian activism situated a University Outreach Action (AEU) at the National University of La Pampa (UNLPam), carried out during 2023 and 2024, in response to the warning of a political and social context reconfigured by the anti-gender backlash in Argentina. It highlights some keys to elucidating which rights and freedoms are contested and leveraged by outreach practices situated in necro-neoliberal contexts, and why the international mobilization of Antifascist and Antiracist Pride –known as 1F– proved to be a constellation of technopolitical performance that traces historical memory with the struggles for human rights of the LGBTIQNB+ community.
Digital bridges: new forms of communication, teaching and care in nursing
In this article we analyze how, since the COVID-19 pandemic, digital tools transformed nursing in Argentina. During the health emergency, online platforms became an essential means for continuing education, disseminating knowledge about care and connecting professionals. Along these lines, we examine the strategic use of social media, particularly the presence of female university graduates on Instagram, to promote health, counter misinformation, challenge stereotypes about the profession, and even monetize their services. We highlight that digital bridges of communication have expanded the territorial reach of nursing. By generating new dynamics of connection and outreach between universities and virtual communities, they have reconfigured the professional role beyond education and care settings.
Gender inequalities in agriculture: The role of university extension in building opportunities for girls, adolescent, and women
Between 2019 and 2024, the Center for Institutional Innovation Studies at the National University of Cuyo (CEII – UNCUYO – CONICET) developed a project on child and adolescent labor in the agricultural sector of Mendoza, within the framework of the ILO’s Offside Project. The project emphasized equal opportunities for women in the world of work, and specifically addressed the situation of girls, adolescents, and women. To this end, an intervention strategy was designed with broad territorial coverage in rural departments of the province, with actions targeting different groups. This article presents the main findings of this work process. It also examines lessons learned from the experience of dialogue between the university, the community, and territorial institutions with the aim of denaturalizing conditions of inequalities and generating tools to improve the situation of children and adolescents in rural areas.
Gender training the Union: Tensions between demands and resistances regarding extension intervention
This paper seeks to analyze the strategies, challenges, and resistances to incorporating a gender perspective in union spaces, based on the experience of the "Unionism, Gender, and Health" extension project from the Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. In this project, we conducted workshops on occupational health, care, and gender in various union spaces. This initiative was designed and carried out in collaboration with different union organizations. Although it was the unions who requested training on the topic, resistance was not long in coming. Despite this, a bond of trust was established with the unions, which allowed for various workshops where gender inequalities were discussed. Creating these types of meetings is crucial for university extension to become a space for transformative knowledge construction and an effective way to generate a real impact within union structures.
University extension practices for the integration of environmental knowledge of park-ranger students and rural school students in the province of Córdoba, Argentina
University extension has been developed for many years by academic institutions as a core function, alongside teaching and research activities, related to social needs, and recently, to ecological and environmental aspects. In this article, we present the systematization of the exchange of ecological and environmental knowledge from the university extension project “Helping to the Native Forest” of the University Technical Program in Park-Ranger Studies, Faculty of Tourism an Environment, Provincial University of Córdoba, Argentina, between 2018 and 2023. The activities of this project were carried out within the university academic sphere and also with other external institutions, in pre and post-pandemic periods. We achieved the exchange of ecological and environmental knowledge among university students from different faculties and rural schools, with results such as the development of interactive learning materials, a logo and workshops related to the topic. This process can be enriched and improved by taking into account the experiences gained to date.
University extension and community gardens in Santiago del Estero: networks for strengthening agroecological urban agriculture.
This article presents an extension experience in Santiago del Estero, aimed at strengthening community urban gardens through the social and solidarity economy and agroecology. Based on participatory action research (PAR) and popular education, the project articulated diagnostic assessment, training, and collective knowledge building with gardeners, technicians, and academics. Workshops on agroecological production, marketing, and food sovereignty were held in collaboration with INTA (National Institute of Statistics and Census), the Municipality, and the University. The results highlight the building of networks of trust and cooperation as a key pillar for strengthening agroecological production and solidarity-based exchange. Likewise, the need for tools to systematize experiences by promoters and municipal agents was evident. These demands open up new lines of collaborative work aimed at food sovereignty and the visibility of territorial experiences that are alternatives to the hegemonic model of food production and consumption.
Pedagogy of love (Trans)feminist notes from an immersion into the murga performer universe of/with “Bien de Barrio”
This article develops the initial process of immersion and connection- building between the authors, a teacher and student from the Faculty of Human Sciences, of the Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, and the murga group “Bien de Barrio”. The experience articulated organized programmatic community practices, in this case, from the outreach project “Memorias Maricas Pampeanas” in 2024. The text explores different moments of the experience, considering the theoretical foundations of both critical outreach and our own transfeminist political praxis. As a whole, we understand that it highlights the distinct value of experiencing, teaching and learning from/with love.
Gender and Sexual Diversity Observatory. Incorporating a gender perspective at the Universidad Nacional del Sur (Bahía Blanca, Argentina)
The Gender and Sexual Diversity Observatory (OGDS) is an Outreach Project that began in 2017 in the Department of Health Sciences of the Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina. It is comprised of an interdisciplinary team from different departments at the university. The aim of this article is to systematize the experience of the OGDS as an outreach project and reflect on the role of the gender perspective in university education and practices, as well as to present research with a gender perspective conducted by the OGDS. To this end, it is necessary to consider the fluctuations in the political context and their impact on the incorporation of the gender perspective at the UNS. A pending challenge is to achieve greater institutionalization of the OGDS to consolidate it as a formal space within the University. It is urgent to strengthen these spaces for struggle to counter the hate speech that deeply shapes the subjectivities of children, adolescents and young people.
Women in front of the mirror. An approach to the problems of feminine beauty from the territory
This article describes a university extension experience intended to problematize the relationship between women and beauty in a gender perspective. Such experience was conducted in the northern district of the city of Rosario (province of Santa Fe), in 2023. It consisted of the design and realization of a workshop in which 28 women participated in order to discuss conceptions, violence, and practices linked to beauty in our culture. In this presentation, we present descriptive notes on the experience, along with theoretical reflections we studied, to organize both the approach and the discussion during work on the territory.
Love the plot. A reflection on the processes of building connections in research and extension in community spaces for child and adolescent care
In this paper we reflect on the way in which connections are built in research-extension experiences that engage us in dialogues with women workers in community care spaces serving children and adolescents from working-class areas in Córdoba. From the theoretical-practical contributions of critical extension, feminist perspective and “popular education”, we carry out this analysis of an extension experience that took place within the framework of a research initiative. Listening to the voices and knowledge of the protagonists of the community plot and paying close to the ways in which time is constructed in the interludes of extension provide nuances of interest for rethinking university activities methodologies and the forms of connections that are promoted.
Menstruation and university. Contributions of the ecofeminist approach for the promotion of a fair, healthy and sustainable menstrual management in the Faculty of Social Sciences (UBA)
This article systematizes the experience of the university outreach project “Ecofeminist menstrual management”, which promotes access to healthy menstrual management with an environmental perspective in the Faculty of Social Sciences (UBA). First, we review pioneering experiences around the promotion of menstrual management in universities and public institutions. Second, we present the perspectives of ecofeminism and critical outreach to address the theory and practice of menstrual management from a multidimensional standpoint. Third, we systematize the experiences of knowledge-sharing dialogues in the intervention devices developed: the workshop, the fair of sustainable products from popular economy cooperatives, the recreational activities and the discussion panel. As a result, the ecofeminist menstrual management project generated great interest beyond the orders of the educational community. From a comprehensive sexual health perspective, the work carried out allows the articulation of the demands of feminist, socio-environmental, popular economy and human rights movements.
Los modelos de desarrollo tienen un componente territorial y humano. Entrevista a Martín Parada Gómez
Heterogeneus bodies, a university outreach experience to promote the acceptance of body diversity
The article discusses the main characteristics of a university outreach project aimed at raising awareness about body discrimination and its psychosocial implications. Whith the aim of promoting acceptance of body diversity, activities such as film debates, workshops in primary schools, a day event at a secondary school, and audiovisual productions with nursing students were carried out. These actions sought to challenge weight-centric discourses on health, make visible the impacts of stigmatization, and promote inclusive attitudes. The project integrated teaching, research, and outreach, strengthening the connection between the university and the community. Through interdisciplinary activities, it emphasized the importance of addressing body discrimination from an empathetic perspective, recognizing the effects of social standards on self esteem and mental health. This approach promoted experiential learning by involving students in the creation of educational materials and community actions. Despite economic and logistical limitations, the project reached approximately 550 primary school students, 50 secondary school students, and 300 university students, fostering debates and reflections on body diversity. The initiative underscores the significance of university outreach as a tool to create social impact and advance toward a more equitable and inclusive society.
Women victims and survivors of the prostitution system. Outreach as a path to autonomy
This article narrates the experience of the University Extension Project of the National University of La Pampa developed between 2022 and 2023, which focuses on participant observation as a methodological strategy for the research-extension approach to the territory. For this purpose, the experiential learning of the team is recovered in conjunction with the Association ‘Together To Be Free’, made up of women victims and survivors of the prostitution system. Although this was the first extension intervention with the organization, the link allowed us to think about different axes of work, including integrality, and thus take the first steps towards participatory research in the territory. The process of co-construction of the organization's problems and demands is explained, as well as the proposals for solutions with the Association that collaborate with it's process of transformation towards autonomy and empowerment. In addition, the theoretical concepts that have been used in our project and actions are discussed.
Feminismos y resistencias en el Sur. Debates comunitarios e indígenas en América Latina, de Victoria Martínez y Mariana Alvarado