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Luz Angela Cardona Acuña earned her Ph.D. in Social Science Research from FLACSO Mexico. She is a professor at the Autonomous University of Guerrero. Her most recent research includes the book Sexual Diversities: The Thousand Faces of Recognition in Peru and Ecuador (FLACSO, 2023). In this book, she analyzes legal changes over the last forty years, considering social actors, their interactions, and the procedural elements of social life. As the lead researcher on the frontier science project ""A Processual Interactionist View of Legal Change,"" she spearheaded the publication of an article on this theoretical perspective in Revista Mexicana de Sociología (2024) and its application in the text Legal Change on Cannabis in Mexico: Interactions, Processes, and Moral Disputes (Espiral, 2025). Her research interests include processual interactionism and legal change, the cultural sociology of feminist movements, gender studies and sexual diversity, and digital mobilization and the civil sphere. In her paper ""A Cultural Perspective for the Study of Vulnerable Populations in Urban Contexts"" (Desacatos. Revista de Ciencias Sociales, 2026), she reflects on the analytical potential of incorporating a cultural perspective into the study of the daily lives of vulnerable populations in urban contexts. She is part of the National System of Researchers, Level I (SECIHTI, 2025–2029). Nelson Arteaga Botello is Professor of Sociology at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO-Mexico), Faculty Fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University, and a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences since 2011. He is part of the National System of Researchers, Level III (SECIHTI, 2025–2035). His fields of research are cultural sociology, violence, surveillance, and sociological theory. His most recent books are Civil sphere and semantics of political dispute (FLACSO, 2024) and Semantics of Violence: Revolt and Political Assassination in Mexico (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). His latest articles are: ""Structural hermeneutics, dialectical hermeneutics: Is a synthesis possible?"" (Thesis Eleven, 2025); ""Weaving the pandemic to make the virus less scary: a performative approach to the making of handicrafts"" (American Journal of Cultural Sociology, 2025) with Ambar Varela; ""Attack on the US Capitol: A Translation from the Mexican Civil Sphere"" (Society, 2025) with Evelyn Mejia; ""Cultural Sociology in Mexico: Meaning-Making as Hybridization, Power, and Cultural Structure"" (Cultural Sociology, 2024).

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