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- Esta colección contiene documentos patrimoniales que ha producido y resguarda la Universidad Católica Boliviana "San Pablo"
- CReA VLIR-UOS es un programa de Cooperación Interuniversitaria que busca fortalecer las capacidades académicas y administrativas para mejorar la investigación y formación en la Universidad Católica Boliviana (UCB) en todas sus regionales. Además de fortalecer los centros e institutos de investigación por igual, al tiempo que mejora el trabajo transdisciplinario de los investigadores en cada regional
- Sobre FuGAR Chiquitania de la UCB: FuGAR Chiquitania es una iniciativa de investigación que surge del equipo de investigadores del Centro de Investigación en Ciencias Exactas e Ingenierías (CICEI) de la Universidad Católica Boliviana “San Pablo”, regional Cochabamba, apoyado por fondos PISCCA 2020 de la Embajada de Francia en Bolivia.
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Infancias y entornos digitales seguros: evidencia de Kids Online para fortalecer la regulación y la protección en línea
(Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), 2026-06) Martínez, Ana Laura
Presenta evidencia regional sobre el acceso y uso de Internet por niños, niñas y adolescentes (NNA) en América Latina, destacando su universalización a edades cada vez más tempranas en entornos digitales no diseñados para protegerlos, en condiciones de desigualdad socioeconómica y de habilidades digitales. Incluye datos comparativos sobre perfiles en redes sociales (Bolivia, Brasil, Argentina, Uruguay), apuestas en línea entre adolescentes, y uso de IA generativa. Analiza el marco regulatorio del ECA Digital de Brasil (Ley N° 15.211/2025) como referencia de protección infantil en ambientes digitales: supervisión parental, privacidad por defecto, restricciones a publicidad dirigida y perfilamiento, prohibición de "cajas de recompensa" y verificación de edad.
Generating political priority to address sexual violence against children and adolescents in Bolivia
(Universidad Catolica Boliviana "San Pablo" - Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias del Comportamiento (IICC), 2024) Cawayu, Atamhi; Losantos Velasco, Marcela; Rivera Terán, Manuela Narayani; Shawar, Yusra Ribhi; Shiffman, Jeremy
Sexual Violence Against Children and Adolescents (SVACA) is a pervasive problem in Bolivia, with profound physical, psychological, and emotional consequences for the victims. Despite legal reforms and international commitments, efforts to combat SVACA are undermined by sociocultural attitudes, political resistance, and institutional weaknesses, resulting in a significant gap between the legal framework and its implementation. This study examines how historical, sociocultural, and political factors perpetuate the culture of silence on SVACA in Bolivia by using a multi-layered analytical approach. The findings underscore the importance of considering both visible and underlying factors to set sustainable policy priorities. The analysis emphasizes the need for holistic, evidence-based strategies that challenge harmful norms, strengthen institutions, and align policies with children’s rights, involving children and families in program design to create a more protective environment.
Zoeken naar je kind als een vorm van verzet. Zoekstrategieën van families van oorsprong in transnationale adoptie uit Bolivia
(Larcier-Intersentia, 2024) Cawayu, Atamhi; Sacré, Hari Prasad
De perspectieven van de families van oorsprong zijn lang genegeerd in adoptieonderzoek en -beleid terwijl de perspectieven van actoren in de aankomstlanden, zoals die van adoptieouders en adoptieprofessionals, lange tijd werden bevoorrecht. Om deze lacune op te vullen, bespreken we in deze
bijdrage de verschillende zoekstrategieën van Boliviaanse families van oorsprong naar hun kinderen in transnationale adoptie. Met behulp van de feministische en postkoloniale theorie van Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak analyseren we etnografisch veldwerk met veertien eerste families in Bolivia.
Deze bijdrage belicht hoe deze families enerzijds agency trachten uit te oefenen door actief naar hun kinderen te zoeken, en anderzijds ernstig beperkt worden in hun zoektocht door het juridisch verlies van de ouderlijke macht. Centraal in dit stuk staat een herziening van het concept ‘instemming.’ Waar ze binnen het dominant discours vaak worden gezien als stemloze slachtoffers, stellen we vast dat deze families actieve actoren zijn die zichtbaarheid en een stem opeisen binnen het adoptiesysteem. Vanuit deze etnografische studie argumenteren we dat de zoekacties van de families van oorsprong
als verzet tegen de gesloten aard van het adoptiesysteem in Bolivia gelezen kunnen worden
Complicating the search imperative in transnational adoption: an anthropological analysis of non-searching transnational adoptees in Belgium and Spain
(MPDI, 2025) Cawayu, Atamhi; Clemente-Martínez, Chandra Kala
In critical adoption scholarship, significant attention has been devoted to the searching and returning transnational adoptee, while those who opt not to search altogether remain largely overlooked. This article addresses this gap by examining the experiences of transnational adoptees who, despite being raised in the 1990s and 2000s amid increasing openness about origins and adoption, choose not to search. Drawing on two anthropological studies with Bolivian adoptees in Belgium and Nepali adoptees in Spain, the article explores how agency and choice are shaped in relation to the decision not to search. It further examines how socio-political, cultural, and historical legacies—such as the enduring secrecy surrounding adoption and the privileging of closed familial models—have shaped adoptees’ convictions toward their origins, including the decision not to search. Foregrounding the perspectives of non-searching adoptees reveals that their position is not merely oppositional to that of the searching adoptee but rather emerges from the very same structural conditions within the adoption system—namely, a system built on silence, erasure, and restrictive notions of belonging.
Can first parents speak? A Spivakean reading of first parents’ agency and resistance in transnational adoption
(MDPI, 2024) Cawayu, Atamhi; Sacré, Hari Prasad
This article analyses the search strategies of first families in Bolivia contesting the separation of their children through transnational adoption. These first parents’ claims to visibility and acknowledgement have remained largely ignored by adoption policy and scholarship, historically privileging the perspectives of actors in adoptive countries, such as adoptive parents and adoption professionals. Filling in this gap, we discuss the search strategies employed by first families in Bolivia who desire a reunion with their child. Drawing on Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s feminist postcolonial theory, we analyse ethnographic fieldwork with fourteen first families in Bolivia. We read how the agency of first parents, severely limited by the loss of legal rights through the adoption system, is caught in a double bind of dependency and possibility. While hegemonic adoption discourse portrays first parents as passive and consenting to the adoption system, the results of our study complicate this picture. Moreover, we argue that the search activity of the first parents can be read as a claim and request to revise and negotiate their consent to transnational adoption. Ultimately, we read first parents’ search efforts as resistance to the closed nature of the adoption system, which restricts them in their search for their children.