Bicentennial of Central America: Shared Histories, Struggles, and Transformations – RESULTS

The member centers of Central America and the Executive Secretariat of CLACSO are promoting a new publishing project that seeks to reflect from critical perspectives on the Bicentennial of the Independence of five of the seven countries that make up the region and aspires to highlight the originality and relevance of the knowledge produced by researchers and social scientists from Central America to strengthen Latin American integration.

The call for proposals received more than 50 projects, of which 26 were deemed admissible after an initial technical evaluation. A jury composed of CLACSO members and external peer evaluators representing the countries involved in the call selected 18 exceptionally high-quality proposals, which will be compiled into a collective volume.   

The criteria that justified this pre-selection were based on gender balance, the focus on the axes suggested by the call, the unprecedented and original nature of the proposals, as well as the contribution to the field of knowledge through an interdisciplinary perspective.

Selected essays

1. Ana Silvia Monzón M. and Dina Elías. “Women facing the bicentennial: between invisibility and exclusion”
2. Laura Carlsen. “Defenders of land and territory, resistance against extractivism and visions towards an egalitarian post-extractivist future”
3. Leslie Noemí Lemus Barahona. “Labyrinth of exploitation: historical imprints on the configuration of labor relations in Guatemala”
4. Emmanuel Pontones Roldán. “Migration and spectrality”
5. Luis Diego Arias Campos. “The militarization of nature in Costa Rica” 
6. Miguel Gomis-Balestreri. “The Bicentennial States in Northern Central America: From Simulation and Self-Sabotage to Their Own Model”
7. Orlando Castillo. “Political Bicentennial of Central America or Common Humanism: (Social Mirror Trapped Between Tlazoltéotl, Guilt and the Desiring Machine)”
8. Nestor Veliz Catalan. “Exclusion and inclusion in Guatemala 1821-1944: reviewing the oligarchic roots of the social pact”
9. Cristian David Osorio Figueroa and Ernestina Tecú. “Social and health policy in the bicentennial. The state's deconstruction of the right to health and citizenship in Guatemala”
10. Juliana Gil. “Violence in times of peace: public security in El Salvador”
11. Rodolfo Calderón Umaña. “Expressions of a denied subjectivity: The case of Salvadoran gangs and illicit drug dealers in Costa Rica”
12. Edgar Baltazar Landeros. “Nayib Bukele’s populism”
13. Agustin Haroldo Locón Solórzano. “Patrimonialism, social inequality amidst political and economic underdevelopment in the Central American bicentennial”
14. Cristina Sánchez Parra. “Nation and nationalism in motion. Polyphonies around the experience of Salvadoran exile in Mexico”
15. Katherine Pose. “'They want to change course!' The denouncing voice: analysis of Cristina Fernández Kirchner's speech regarding the coup in Honduras”
16. Karen Dueñas Corzo. “Coloniality and multiculturalism in the construction of national identity narratives. An overview of the exclusions and permanent processes of invisibility in the construction of nation-states materialized in national museums after Independence”
17. Ever Rubén Canales Castro. “The periphery of the periphery: a case study on the presences and absences of Central America in the articles of the ECLAC Magazine between 1976 and 2019”
18. Ezel Obed Hernández Gamero. “Conceptual history of 'homeland' in the independence of Honduras and Guatemala”