TRAMA, REVISTA DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES Y HUMANIDADES is an academic, electronic, international journal produced by the School of Social Sciences of the Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, based in Cartago, Costa Rica. This journal is published biannually: the first issue covers January-June and is published on February 15; the second issue covers July-December and is published on August 15.
Trama is aimed at researchers, extension workers, teachers, students and the general public.
This is a free and open access journal. Thus, interested persons can submit their proposals for articles without any economic cost, both for the processing, revision and reception of the document, as well as for its eventual publication.
The journal's thematic coverage includes the social sciences, humanities, philosophy, law and related disciplines. From an inter and trans-disciplinary approach, the thematic coverage can also include articles that explore or produce knowledge from the link of these disciplines and fields of knowledge with engineering and natural sciences.
The objectives of the journal are:
1. To build a space for theoretical, methodological, epistemological and practical discussion of social sciences, humanities, philosophy, law and related disciplines with engineering and natural sciences.
2. To communicate knowledge produced from teaching-learning processes, research, extension and social action, according to a dialogue of knowledge, in view of the challenges presented by the contemporary world.
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ISSN: 1659-343X
Vol. 14 No. 2 (2025): Devices of difference: Bodily aesthetics, funerary landscape, and school governance
The Volume 14, Number 2 (July–December 2025) issue of TRAMA. Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades gathers three research articles that explore how bodies, landscapes, and institutions shape contemporary social experience. Through interdisciplinary perspectives grounded in sociology of the body, classical studies, critical theory, and educational policy analysis, the contributions examine the symbolic, cultural, and political forces that structure inequality, memory, and governance.
This issue includes a study on tattooed corporeality as a surface where class, gender, and racial hierarchies are inscribed and contested in urban contexts; a hermeneutic reading of the funerary landscape in Book XXIII of the Iliad, analyzing the interplay between ritual, emotion, and territory in the Homeric world; and a critical assessment of school governance in Colombia, highlighting the tensions between formal inclusion, structural exclusion, and processes of hidden privatization. Together, these works reaffirm TRAMA’s commitment to rigorous, situated scholarship and to fostering critical reflection that illuminates—and challenges—the social conditions shaping our shared realities.
Published:
2025-11-21
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