Central American Bicentennial Collection – Common Histories, Struggles and Transformations
CALL FOR ESSAYS
The member centers of Central America and the Executive Secretariat of CLACSO call for reflection from critical perspectives on the Bicentennial of the Independence of five of the seven countries that make up the region.
This initiative launches a publishing project that aims to highlight the
originality and relevance of the knowledge produced by researchers and social scientists from the region to strengthen Latin American integration.
For this purpose, a call for essay submissions is opened, focusing on the following thematic areas:
- Globalization and accumulation models.
- Political systems and public policies.
- Extractivism and resistance in the region: defense of life and land.
- Inequalities, processes of invisibility and exclusion.
- Knowledge, struggles, conquests and historical transformations of the peoples.
Consultations and registration: [email protected]
Deadline for submitting proposals: 20th August 2021.
There are many and varied events sponsored by the governments of the region, as well as by public and private universities, local and regional research centers and institutes, social groups and ad hoc committees.
The commemoration of this political event has been marked, in many cases, by the reminiscence and gallantry of those figures who, with the signing of the Act of Independence, sought to grant the nascent states of Central America the possibility of conducting themselves and governing themselves without any ties to the Spanish metropolis.
Historically, it has been shown that the interests and alliances established between some representatives of the conservative and Creole sectors were based on the acquisition and full access to the riches of the region, demonstrating that the independence process was born without the intention of reforming or refounding the States, and much less of transforming the existing structures of domination, exclusion, and exploitation of the majority of the population.
Over the course of two hundred years, it has been sufficiently demonstrated, both by academia and by other voices within the popular sphere, that the aspirations for independence, despite their political consolidation, have not fostered changes in social and economic structures. The complex and abundant analyses that have emerged both within and beyond the region have been serious and compelling expressions that point to the inertia and the recurring lack of vision and will to redirect the course and leadership of Central American countries.
The question then remains: where is the region? What perspectives can be envisioned based on the conditions of daily life? Are there alternatives that can remedy the excesses of the current system and redirect or transform it?
These and other questions motivate and encourage the Member Centers of Central America and the Executive Secretariat of CLACSO to convene all those interested in contributing, from a critical perspective, to the understanding of the factors that determine the current conditions of the region, and the potential paths of its development.
The contributions received will be compiled into thematic books that, without intending to exhaust the discussion and analysis, will become references for understanding regional dynamics and induce and provoke the construction of new approaches or strengthen existing ones.
Those interested should register by emailing [email protected].
- The length of the documents should range between 8,000 and 10,000 words (including tables, graphs and bibliography).
- They must include an abstract with a maximum length of 200 words and a selection of five (5) keywords, as well as add a brief summarized CV of no more than 150 words for each author indicating institutional affiliation, main lines of research and latest publications.
- The documents must include: introduction, and/or presentation, development of the topic, conclusions, and bibliographic references.
- The graphics (statistical tables, maps, diagrams, photographs) must be sent in a separate file in .tiff or .jpg format with a resolution of 300 dpi at actual size, indicating in each case their location in the text and their corresponding heading.
- Please use APA style (7th Edition) for citations and references. However, we ask that you 1) maintain gender markers. That is, include the full first and last names of the authors in the final bibliography, and 2) reference the place of publication.
- The articles included in the selected editorial proposals must be original and must not have been published in other media.
The evaluation of the documents will be carried out by the selected Editorial Committee, which will be made up of one representative from each Central American country and the editorial production department of CLACSO. They will assess the quality and relevance of the proposals. The committee's decision will be final.
The acceptance of the documents will be notified to the authors on September 30, 2021.
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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
- Ana Silvia Monzón M. and Dina Elías. “Women facing the bicentennial: between invisibility and exclusion”
- Laura Carlsen. “Defenders of land and territory, resistance against extractivism and visions towards an egalitarian post-extractivist future”
- Leslie Noemí Lemus Barahona. “Labyrinth of exploitation: historical imprints on the configuration of labor relations in Guatemala”
- Emmanuel Pontones Roldán. “Migration and spectrality”
- Luis Diego Arias Campos. “The militarization of nature in Costa Rica”
- Miguel Gomis-Balestreri. “The Bicentennial States in Northern Central America: From Simulation and Self-Sabotage to Their Own Model”
- Orlando Castillo. “Political Bicentennial of Central America or Common Humanism: (Social Mirror Trapped Between Tlazoltéotl, Guilt and the Desiring Machine)”
- Nestor Veliz Catalan. “Exclusion and inclusion in Guatemala 1821-1944: reviewing the oligarchic roots of the social pact”
- 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”
- Juliana Gil. “Violence in times of peace: public security in El Salvador”
- Rodolfo Calderón Umaña. “Expressions of a denied subjectivity: The case of Salvadoran gangs and illicit drug dealers in Costa Rica”
- Edgar Baltazar Landeros. “Nayib Bukele’s populism”
- Agustin Haroldo Locón Solórzano. “Patrimonialism, social inequality amidst political and economic underdevelopment in the Central American bicentennial”
- Cristina Sánchez Parra. “Nation and nationalism in motion. Polyphonies around the experience of Salvadoran exile in Mexico”
- Katherine Pose. “'They want to change course!' The denouncing voice: analysis of Cristina Fernández Kirchner's speech regarding the coup in Honduras”
- 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”
- 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”
- Ezel Obed Hernández Gamero. “Conceptual history of 'homeland' in the independence of Honduras and Guatemala”
