Javier Reyes-Martínez

Bio: Javier Reyes-Martínez is an academic researcher from Boston College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Subjective well-being & Attendance. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 7 publications receiving 20 citations. Previous affiliations of Javier Reyes-Martínez include Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México.

The Role of Cultural Participation on Subjective Well-Being in Mexico

Abstract: This paper aims to examine whether the relationships between cultural participation and subjective well-being, informed by social capital theory, are significant in the Mexican population. With data from the 2012 Self-reported Well-Being Survey (BIARE in Spanish), a dataset that evaluate how people experience their quality of life, we performed several ordered logit regression analyses. Results reveals that reading books, reading articles, participating in art classes, and attending movies and theater (cultural participation categories) are associated, at different odds and probabilities, with life satisfaction, positive emotions, and affective balance, but not with negative emotions (subjective well-being components). Besides, social support networks, social integration, and trust (social capital dimensions) present positive statistically significant effects on life satisfaction, positive emotions, and affective balance; and negative significant effects on negative emotion. These outcomes emphasize, first, that the relationship between cultural participation and subjective well-being in Mexico should be studied in their separate categories and components. Second, the social capital approach potentially provides critical insights in the understanding of the phenomenon.

Self-Reported Victimization and Cultural Participation in Mexico

Abstract: Despite a decade of rising violence in Mexico, it is unclear how victimization is associated with participation in cultural and artistic activities. This study contributes to fulfilling this gap. T...

Cultural Participation and Subjective Well-Being of Indigenous in Latin America

Abstract: In general populations, to several scholars, cultural participation (ie, participation in cultural and artistic activities) contributes to subjective well-being Nevertheless, although the mentioned association in Indigenous has been suggested to be related to health, general well-being, and cultural identity, it has been usually left aside in research Therefore, this manuscript aims to explore the connection between cultural participation and subjective well-being of Indigenous individuals in the context of Latin America Using the 2013 Latinobarometer dataset (n = 3337), an ordinal regression analysis was run Results suggest that, reading books, reading news, attending theater, and visiting heritage places show a positive association with life satisfaction (a dimension of subjective well-being); while attending concerts and participating in community celebrations do not report one These outcomes suggest that participation in cultural and artistic activities can be related to individual and community well-being of Indigenous, and, in consequence, to subjective well-being Besides, they indicate the need for adequate cultural policies to fulfill the achievement of participation and engagement in cultural life, as well as the review of the activities that potentially bring access to the cultural rights of Indigenous populations

Los derechos económicos, sociales y culturales de los artistas en contextos de violencia y pobreza. El caso de Acapulco, México

Abstract: espanolPoverty and victimization caused by crime and violence are considered violations of economic, social and cultural rights, and human dignity. The most excluded populations are often recurrent victims of these rights violations. Artists are one of these populations, as they are usually in a situation of structural socio-economic vulnerability.Taking as a case study the city of Acapulco, Mexico, one of the most violent and impoverished areas in the country, we try to answer, how is art practiced in Acapulco, a city with a high rate of the population living in poverty and in a high level of violence? What implications have this in artistic practice? Besides, how do those dedicated to art in Acapulco practice their rights? For this, an instrumental qualitative case study was designed focused on the experiences of the artists. Through a thematic analysis, we identify that in Acapulco, artists practice their economic, social and cultural rights mainly through the market, and in cases of more constant exercise, this is associated with a formal employment contract, rather than from the public offer guaranteed by the state MultipleLa pobreza y la victimizacion ocasionadas por el crimen y la violencia son consideradas violaciones a los derechos economicos, sociales y culturales, y a la dignidad humana. Las poblaciones mas excluidas suelen ser victimas recurrentes de estas violaciones de derechos. Los artistas son una de estas poblaciones, pues usualmente se encuentran en situacion de vulnerabilidad socio-economica estructural. Tomando como caso de estudio a la ciudad de Acapulco, Mexico, una de las localidades mas violentas y empobrecidas del pais, intentamos responder, ?como es ejercido el arte en Acapulco, una ciudad con un alto indice de poblacion en situacion de pobreza y con un alto nivel de violencia? ?Que implicaciones tiene esto en la practica artistica? A su vez, ?como ejercen sus derechos quienes se dedican al arte en Acapulco? Para ello, se diseno un estudio de caso cualitativo instrumental centrado en las experiencias de los artistas. Mediante un analisis tematico identificamos que en Acapulco los artistas ejercen sus derechos economicos, sociales y culturales principalmente a traves del mercado, y en los casos de un ejercicio mas constante, este se encuentra asociado con un contrato laboral formal, mas que desde la oferta publica garantizada por el Estado.

The Politics of Criminal Victimization: Pursuing and Resisting Power

Abstract: Within the growing research on the politics of crime victims are seen as resigned to their fates at the hands of powerful criminal actors. But the conventional approach to criminal victimization as a traumatic but one-time act obscures from view a layer of contentious and dynamic politics between victims and criminal actors that we have yet to analyze. I develop a new theoretical framework to analyze the strategic behaviors that victims and criminals undertake as part of the political process of criminal victimization. The framework enables us to better observe, conceptualize and theorize how victims exercise agency vis-a-vis their criminal perpetrators, and the behaviors and practices that criminal victimizers undertake but which are overlooked by the traditional focus on their use and threat of coercive force. I illustrate the framework’s analytic utility with an empirical analysis of the victimization of informal street vendors in a major Latin American city under a criminal protection racket. The argument and empirical findings suggest ways to expand and deepen the research agenda on the politics of criminal victimization.

The impact of participation in performing arts on adolescent health and behaviour: A systematic review

Abstract: This article reports a systematic review of literature published between 1994 and 2004 on the effects of performing arts for health in young people aged 11—18. The review includes research on music, performance, drama and dance in community settings and non-curricular mainstream education. A total of 17 electronic databases were searched and 3670 papers identified, 104 of which met relevance criteria. Full text scrutiny of 85 papers was undertaken and 14 of these were identified for review. The research was heterogeneous, making overall synthesis of results inappropriate. The review demonstrates that research on the impact of the performing arts on young people is at a relatively early stage.

Self-Reported Victimization and Cultural Participation in Mexico

Abstract: Despite a decade of rising violence in Mexico, it is unclear how victimization is associated with participation in cultural and artistic activities. This study contributes to fulfilling this gap. T...