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FIGURAS REVISTA ACADÉMICA DE INVESTIGACIÓN sets and builds up –through an act of writing- the act of transforming, tracing or representing in each publication the findings that authors lay on each of the three sections covered in this publication.

In this issue, the Perspectives section includes four articles, two of which are based on the analysis of the phenomenon of racism. One focuses on the racist processes of the Spanish colonial system in the territories of America, and the second takes this reflection towards the questioning of current public policies on public education in the indigenous Ralámuli communities of Sierra Tarahumara, located in northern Mexico. From another field of knowledge, the other two articles -situated in a context prior to modernity- focus on the semiotic content that allows us to approach the Judeo-Spanish mortuary practices, and the other invites us to rethink the riddles of Hispanic medieval popular poetry, beyond the traditional didactic and ludic approaches with which the subject has been treated.

 In the section Scenarios, four essays are grouped together which, on this ocassion, have as their axis of reflection the conceptualization of the essay itself. Four looks at the meaning and the sense of the essay as a way of fixing ideas as a manifestation of free thought, as a means to express criticism, as a genre of writing that adapts to a unique writer, or essay writing as a process of self-knowledge.

 The Resonances section includes two critiques of recently published books: one addresses the urban development in the city of Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, highlighting the role of prostitution as a trigger for the urbanization of a border city, and the second -in a compilation of 35 articles-, emphazises the multidisciplinary view of Covid-19 in the context of global governance in the 21st century. Two reviews that encompasses Innovation Projects: one devotes its efforts to the critical decolonial analysis of the practices of the digital Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) and proposes a change based on the decolonization of the digital media with which this Library works. In the second, the creation of elaboraHD is reviewed within the framework of the implementation of Digital Humanities that incorporate current technological innovation in the wide field of knowledge that, at the beginning, was not identified with these processes. Finally, within the field of plastic arts, an inspiring review of the pictorial work of an artist whose work is nourished by the political history and the art history of the 20th century.

FIGURAS REVISTA ACADÉMICA DE INVESTIGACIÓN provides free and immediate access to its contents so that research articles, essays and reviews are available, free of charge in order to join the promotion that the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México is giving to the exchange of research content carried out in the country, through Open Access (OA) template, understood as a way of sharing scientific information at no cost or restriction for the user and in which each article, essay or review appears in a unique way.