Borders, regionalization and globalization

El CLACSO Working Group on Borders, Regionalization and Globalizationn analyzes how Global Spaces for the expansion of transnational capital in the American continent are produced from the capitalist restructuring that took place during the 1970s and 1980s, subordinating the borders and territorial sovereignties of the States to transnational instances.

These areas are: United States-Mexico Border; Mesoamerica Development and Integration Project -Mesoamerica Project-; Caribbean Basin; Amazon; La Plata Basin and Southern Andean-Patagonian.

We also analyze how social protest and the mobilization of peoples and communities emerge, which as forms of struggle antagonize and resist large-scale projects that impact their lands and territories in various ways, incorporating strategies of territorial escalation and insertion into global networks of resistance and alternative movements.

The specific objectives are sought:

• Studying how these spaces are reconfigured under the perspective of global capitalism, through mechanisms of the hegemony-subordination / domination-coercion binomial, as occurs with free trade agreements, cross-border cooperation, as well as the “securitization” and militarization that they require for their development and protection;
• Analyze how, in strategic areas within Global Spaces, including border areas, regional integration processes, geostrategic plans and megaprojects are carried out for the benefit of transnational capital, and to the detriment of populations, thus constituting Specific Zones of Intense Accumulation, where escalations of capital promote and guarantee conditions for the advancement of the commodification of nature;
• Analyzing the forced displacements and migrations carried out in the areas considered most important for the development of megaprojects, or as a consequence of them, as well as the mechanisms of dispossession and capitalization of natural resources impact the deterioration of local ecosystems and environments, also causing forced migrations.

As an organizational/methodological objective, the strengthening of developed experiences is promoted, based on what we call action research, promoting thematic networks and cross-cutting initiatives to the axes and teams that make up the GT, always seeking to incorporate the gender perspective.

The GT has 178 members (80 women and 98 men) from 13 countries in the Americas (United States and Latin America) and 5 from the European Union.

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