Focus and Scope

Mission:

Encartes is a multimedia digital journal in social sciences of the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS), El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (El Colef) and Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO) and El Colegio de San Luis (COLSAN) whose purpose is to publish articles and reviews that are the product of research and contribute original results to the field. It will be published every six months, publishing odd number in spring and an even number in autumn. It is expected to disseminate research results in different audiovisual and multimedia formats; to encourage the publication of multi-code scientific essays, and to build a virtual space that generates interdisciplinary debate forums. Its design, although novel, responds to CONAHCYT and international indexing indexes. The publication of this material is subject to rigorous, scientific, and impartial arbitration. Likewise, the journal has a forum for scientific dialogue and discussion with other disciplines and knowledge that seek the broad dissemination of scientific knowledge.

The new electronic platforms must be used to publish incorporating innovative languages, genres, and forms of interaction. Encartes integrates diverse ethnographic records to which anthropologists’ resort in their research processes, including audiovisual material (audio recordings, videos or photographs) which, when inserted, complement the material in the journal.

Vision:

Encartes brings an alternative to existing Spanish-language social science journals by linking word and image in a novel effort to broaden the scope of academic dialogues and debates, which we consider to be sources of stimulus to produce knowledge. We contemplate making use of contemporary technological offers to establish a bridge between academic generations of reading-writing and the production and reading of the image. When we encartamos, we include, because dialogue must bring together all voices if it is to fulfill its purpose of opening and broadening the horizons of creation. It is with these purposes of including and accompanying that the magazine begins its journey.