Social dialogue in Fortaleza, Brazil

 Social dialogue in Fortaleza, Brazil

On Thursday, June 29, the Forum “Social Movements and Territories for Life” began at the State University of Ceará (UECE) in Fortaleza, Brazil. Its purpose is to bring together members of Latin American and Caribbean academia, social movements, organizations, and collectives that are already decision-makers in public policy, to reflect on and understand the proposals, capacities, potential, pending agendas, and conflicts of social movements and activism in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The words of welcome were in charge of Karina Batthyány, Executive Director of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences, Lia Pinheiro Barbosa, representative of the CLACSO Steering Committee in Brazil, and Magdalena Rauch, one of the CLACSO Training Coordinators, in front of a packed auditorium.


Images by Eden Barbosa (Memorial/UFC) and CLACSO


Thursday June 29


Workshop 1: From movement to social change

Coordination: Julian Rebon from the Gino Germani Institute, UBA-CONICET (Argentina).


Workshop 2: Echoes of violence in urban territories and their forms of (re)existence

Coordination: Geovanni Jacó, Universidade Estadual do Ceará (Brazil) and Luíz Fábio Paz, Universidade Federal do Ceará (Brazil).


Workshop 3: Conflicts, resistance and confrontations: environmental movements in systemic struggle

Coordination: Gilca Garcia de OliveiraCLACSO Working Group on Political Ecologies from the South/Abya-Yala


Workshop 4: Migration movements, borders and rights

Coordination: Verónica Jaramillo FonnegraCLACSO Working Group on Migration and South-South Borders


Dialogue 1: Indigenous peoples, territories and defense of life

Cacika Irê. Jenipapo-Kanindé People, Secretariat of the Indigenous Peoples of Ceará (Brazil)

Cassimiro TapebaArticulation of the Indigenous Peoples of the Northeast, Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo (Brazil)

Marciane TapebaIndigenous Women's Network of Ceará (Brazil)

Taira Edilma Stanley IcazaNational Studies Institute, University of Panama. Coordinator of the CLACSO Working Group on Indigenous Peoples and Epistemic-Territorial Conflicts (Panama).

Manuel Domingos NetoReading Room (Brazil)

Moderated by: Rita Gomes do Nascimento. FLACSO (Brazil).


Book presentation

Book collection Moving. Present: Bernardo Mançano. Paulista State University (Brazil). Julian Rebon. Gino Germani Research Institute, UBA/CONICET (Argentina). Karina BatthyányExecutive Director, CLACSO (Uruguay). CLACSO Research Grants Collection

Presentation of the book State, democracy and social movements in Latin America and the Caribbean"Continuities and Emergencies in the 21st Century." Presents: Lia Pinheiro Barbosa. State University of Ceará (Brazil). Moderator: Pablo VommaroDirector of Research at CLACSO (Argentina)


Dialogue 2: Urban territories and the challenges of defending life

Rogério CostaLocal, Integrated and Sustainable Development Network of Greater Bom Jardim (Brazil)

Hilário Ferreira. Black Consciousness Movement (Brazil)

Luisa Cela. Secretary of Culture of the State of Ceará (Brazil)

Claudia mirandaCarioca Network of Black Ethno-educators/Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro. Member of the CLACSO Working Group on Afro-descendants and counter-hegemonic proposals. (Brazil).

Lucio OliverCollege of Latin American Studies, National Autonomous University of Mexico

Moderated by: Eduardo Gomes MachadoUniversity of International Integration of Afro-Brazilian Lusophony (Brazil)


The first day concludes with the Opening Officer in charge of:

Karina BatthyányExecutive Director of CLACSO (Uruguay)

Hidelbrando dos Santos SoaresRector of the State University of Ceará (Brazil)

Lia Pinheiro BarbosaCLACSO Steering Committee (Brazil)

Ana Paula Ribeiro Rodrigues. Vice-Rector of Postgraduate Studies and Research (Brazil)

Kadma Marques RodriguesCoordinator of the International Cooperation Office (Brazil)

Missias Gomes. Deputy of the State of Ceará, PT-MST (Brazil)

Zelma MadeiraSecretary of Ethnic and Racial Equality of Ceará (Brazil)

Mateo AdarveASDI (Colombia)

Ceiça PitaguarySecretariat of Environmental Management and Indigenous Territory (Brazil)


Friday June 30


Workshop 5: Agrarian issues, socio-territorial movements and defense of the territory

Coordination: Camila Dutra and Lia Pinheiro Barbosa State University of Ceará (Brazil)


Workshop 6: Black Feminisms

Coordination: Claudia miranda. Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)


Workshop 7: A feminist, anti-racist, decolonial internet

Coordination: Graciela Natansohn, Universidade Federal da Bahia (Brazil) and Mirta Susana Morales, Universidade Federal da Bahia (Brazil) / National University of Córdoba (Argentina)


Workshop 8: Latin American youth, public policies and the struggle for rights

Coordination: Olivia Perez, Universidade Federal do Piauí (Brazil) and Pablo Vommaro, CLACSO


Workshop 9: Indigenous Territorial Rights: threats and forms of resistance

Coordination: Luciana Nóbrega and Roberta Castro. State University of Ceará (Brazil)


Workshop 10: Autonomies in the plural and in the feminine in times of death

Coordination: Xochitl Leyva, CIESAS (Mexico), CLACSO Working Group on Bodies, Territories and Resistances and Waldo Lao Fuentes Sánchez, University of São Paulo (Brazil), CLACSO Working Group on Indigenous Peoples, Autonomies and Collective Rights


Dialogue 3: Agrarian and environmental conflicts and the challenges of defending territories for a good life

Erivan SilvaMovement for Popular Mining Sovereignty (Brazil)

Kelha LimaNational Directorate of the MST (Brazil)

Bernardo Mançano. Paulista State University (Brazil)

John Alfredo Telles Melo. Agrarian Development Institute of Ceará (Brazil)

Fany Lobos CastroMember of the CLACSO Working Group on Critical Studies of Rural Development (Chile)

Moderated by: Mônica Dias Martins. Paulista State University/Ceará State University (Brazil)


Book presentation

Theoretical problems of the integral state in Latin America. Forces in tension and crisis
Presents Lúcio OliverCenter for Latin American Studies, National Autonomous University of Mexico

  Agroecology, science and policy
Present Peter RossetECOSUR, Mexico, and Miguel AltieriUniversity of Chile

Territorialities, Ancestralities, Trajectory and Resistance
Present Kelanny Oliveira de MoraisCenter for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights of the Archdiocese of Fortaleza, and Antônia da Silva SantoKanindé ethnic group


Dialogue 4: Migration and the right to territory and life

Idalina PellegriniPastoral Service for Migrants (Brazil)Silvana QueirozCeará State Migration Observatory/ Regional University of Cariri (Brazil)


InfoCLACSO 28-6-23: Social movements and activism in Brazil


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Mural of the Forum “Social Movements and Territories for Life”

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