WORKING GROUPS 2026-2028
CLACSO announces the results of the evaluation and selection process for the new Work groups who will carry out their activities during the next three years, between April 1, 2026 and December 31, 2028.
Within the framework of this Call, 165 proposals were received, comprised of 8.809 members from 45 countries: Germany, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, South Korea, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Spain, United States, France, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Norway, Netherlands, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, United Kingdom, Dominican Republic, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela, among others.
After the technical and formal review, 161 of the applications passed to the qualitative and content evaluation process and to the final selection stage.
Most of the proposals were of high quality and consistency and were aligned with the terms of reference of the Call for Proposals, which is why the selection process was arduous.
The Executive Director of CLACSO, Pablo Vommaro, and the Academic Director, Gloria AmézquitaThey celebrated the quality and diversity of the proposals received and highlighted the role of the new Working Groups' proposals in consolidating critical and transformative agendas. They also noted that:
“The CLACSO Working Groups, which will be active until December 2028, are key to CLACSO’s work, as they strengthen the production of critical and transformative knowledge in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Global South by connecting academic networks, social movements, territorial dynamics, and public actors around strategic issues in the region. Their importance lies in the fact that they not only conduct collaborative and comparative research, but also promote the public application of knowledge, contributing to debates on democracy, inequalities, social justice, and alternatives that guarantee a better life for our societies. The Working Groups are spaces for collective thought from the Global South that integrate diverse perspectives, foster horizontal dialogues and the formation of networks, and link theoretical reflection with transformative practices, consolidating CLACSO as a key actor in building critical and transformative agendas.”
The evaluation process for the submitted proposals was carried out in four consecutive stages:
1. First, compliance with the technical requirements established in the Call for Proposals was considered.
2. Secondly, a International Evaluation Committee The quality, relevance, and soundness of the proposals were evaluated through a peer review process. Each proposal underwent a double evaluation, ensuring that the evaluators were not from the same institution as the coordinators of the applications being evaluated. Commission It was made up of 121 specialists (56 women and 65 men) from 23 countries.
3. The evaluation carried out constituted the input for the work of International Selection Committee who developed a proposal for the selection of the new Working Groups based on the evaluations and the institutional guidelines and priorities.
El International Selection Committee It took into account the incorporation of new Working Groups while also maintaining the continuity of existing proposals that had a good evaluation and good performance.
4. Finally, the CLACSO Executive Secretariat systematized the final selection based on the recommendation prepared by the International Selection Committee and the CLACSO Steering Committee took note of it.
Therefore,
First, the composition of the CLACSO Working Groups for the period 2026-2028 is announced:
| No. | Workgroup | Coordinators | Country |
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1
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Sexual activism and citizenship: interdisciplinary dialogues
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Amaral Arévalo | Brazil |
| Raul Anthony Olmedo Neri | Mexico | ||
| Yamirka Robert Brady | Cuba | ||
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2
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Activism, collective memory, appropriation of identities
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Cristina Ines Bettanin | Argentina |
| María Jimena Alonso Moreira | Uruguay | ||
| 3 | Afro-descendants and counter-hegemonic proposals | Rosa Campoalegre Septien | Mexico |
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4
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Political agroecology
|
Astrid Ximena Cortés Lozano | Colombia |
| Maria Inés Gazzano Santos | Uruguay | ||
| Narciso Barrera Bassols | Mexico | ||
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5
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Anti-capitalisms and emerging sociability
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Adriana Victoria Rodríguez Caguana | Ecuador |
| Dmitri Pietro Samsonov | Cuba | ||
| Gustavo Moura de Oliveira | Mexico | ||
| 6 | Anti-racism and Afro-descendants in the Global South | Federico Fernando Pita | Argentina |
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7
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Appropriation of digital technologies and intersectionalities
|
Karolaim Gutiérrez Valencia | Colombia |
| Kemly Camacho Jiménez | Costa Rica | ||
| Marta Pilar Bianchi | Argentina | ||
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8
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Arts, education and decoloniality
|
Hugo Damian Del Valle | Argentina |
| Pedro Pablo Gómez Moreno | Colombia | ||
| Sandra Daniela Torlucci | Argentina | ||
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9
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Open science as a common good
|
Arianna Becerril García | Mexico |
| Fernando Ariel López | Argentina | ||
| Saray Córdoba González | Costa Rica | ||
|
10
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Mobile and politicized social science
|
Guido Riccono | Argentina |
| Ricardo Pérez Mora | Mexico | ||
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11
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Communication, cultures and politics
|
Amparo Marroquín Parducci | El Salvador |
| Daiana Bruzzone | Argentina | ||
| Omar Rincón | Colombia | ||
| 12 | Communication, power and territory | Ana María Vásquez Duplat | Colombia |
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13
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Crisis and the global economy
|
Adriana Gabriela Roffinelli Maya | Argentina |
| Alejandro César López Bolaños | Mexico | ||
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14
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Crisis, responses and alternatives in the Greater Caribbean
|
Beatriz Adriana Canseco Gómez | Mexico |
| Claudia Marín Suárez | Cuba | ||
| 15 | Bodies, territories, resistances | Xochitl Leyva Solano | Mexico |
| 16 | Care, affectivity and posthuman lives (AI) | Claudia Luz Piedrahita Echandía | Colombia |
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17
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Care and gender
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Magela Romero Almodovar | Cuba |
| Valentina Perrotta | Uruguay | ||
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18
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Contemporary Right-Wing Movements: Dictatorships and Democracies
|
Gabriela Gomes | Argentina |
| Mario Virgilio Santiago Jiménez | Mexico | ||
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19
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Development and territorial inequalities: critical perspectives
|
Jorge Leal | Uruguay |
| Juan Agulló | Brazil | ||
| Roxana María Viruez Valverde | Bolivia | ||
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20
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Inequalities and social change
|
Iliana Yaschine | Mexico |
| Jesica Lorena Pla | Argentina | ||
| Sofia Vanoli | Uruguay | ||
|
21
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Political ecologies from the South/Abya Yala
|
Felipe Milanez | Brazil |
| Martin Medina | Argentina | ||
| Raquel Neyra Soupplet | Ecuador | ||
|
22
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Political economy of information, communication and culture
|
Cesar Bolaño | Brazil |
| Daniela Inés Monje | Argentina | ||
| Elizabeth Ramos | Ecuador | ||
|
23
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Popular economies. Theoretical and practical mapping
|
Alioscia Castronovo | Argentina |
| Maria Cristina Cielo | Ecuador | ||
| Veronica Gago | Argentina | ||
|
24
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Education and Interculturality
|
Ana Carolina Hecht | Argentina |
| Gabriela Czarny | Mexico | ||
| Patricia Ames | Peru | ||
|
25
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Popular education and critical pedagogies
|
Estela Beatriz Quintar | Mexico |
| Geronimo Fernando Santana | Argentina | ||
| Piedad Cecilia Ortega Valencia | Colombia | ||
|
26
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The State as a contradiction
|
Hernán Ouviña | Argentina |
| Josefina Torres Jiménez | Ecuador | ||
| Paulina Barrera Rosales | Mexico | ||
|
27
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The Central American isthmus: peripheral epistemological perspectives
|
Aleksander Aguilar Antunes | Brazil |
| Nelise Wielewski Narloch | Costa Rica | ||
|
28
|
Work in contemporary capitalism
|
María Lorena Capogrossi | Argentina |
| Patricia Torres Mejía | Mexico | ||
|
29
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Elites, inequality and democracy
|
Anahí Macaroff Lencina | Ecuador |
| Florence Luci | Argentina | ||
|
30
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Energy and sustainable development
|
Eliana Celeste Canafoglia | Argentina |
| Esteban Serrani | Argentina | ||
| Nora Estela Fernandez Mora | Ecuador | ||
| 31 | Teaching Social Sciences and History: Teacher Training and Work | Sandra Patricia Rodríguez Ávila | Colombia |
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32
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Critical studies of rural development
|
María Marcela Crovetto | Argentina |
| Mercedes Solá Pérez | Brazil | ||
|
33
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Critical studies in disability
|
Diana Vite Hernández | Mexico |
| Victor Romero Rojas | Mexico | ||
|
34
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Latin American studies: national, regional and transnational perspectives
|
Alexander Betancourt Mendieta | Mexico |
| Mario Hugo Ayala | Argentina | ||
| Sandra Jaramillo Restrepo | Argentina | ||
|
35
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Studies on time and temporalities
|
Guadalupe Valencia García | Mexico |
| Raúl Hernán Contreras Román | Mexico | ||
| René Ramirez Gallegos | Ecuador | ||
|
36
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Studies on the United States
|
Mariana Aparicio Ramírez | Mexico |
| Sonia V. Winer | Argentina | ||
| Yazmín Bárbara Vázquez Ortiz | Cuba | ||
|
37
|
Social studies for health
|
Ana Maria Costa | Brazil |
| Diana Manrique García | Chile | ||
|
38
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Exiles, violence and memories of the past and present
|
Silvina Jensen | Argentina |
| Soledad Lastra | Mexico | ||
|
39
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Feminisms, Resistance and Emancipation
|
Ana Silvia Monzón | Guatemala |
| Mitzy Magaly Flores Sequera | Venezuela | ||
| Patricia Rodríguez López | Mexico | ||
|
40
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Political Philosophy. The principle of the common
|
Alejandra Castillo | Chile |
| Carlos Bracho | Venezuela | ||
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41
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Borders, regionalization and globalization
|
Eimer Alexis Barajas Roman | Colombia |
| Juan Manuel Sandoval Palacios | Mexico | ||
| Luis Manuel Martinez Estrada | Honduras | ||
|
42
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Geopolitics, regional integration and the world system
|
Monica Esmeralda Bruckmann Maynetto | Brazil |
| Rebeca Peralta Mariñelarena | Mexico | ||
| Tamara Lajtman Bereicoa | Argentina | ||
|
43
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Geopolitics: Palestine and Our America
|
Berenice Alves de Melo Bento | Brazil |
| Jorge Ramos Tolosa | Spain | ||
| Moisés Garduño García | Mexico | ||
|
44
|
China and the Map of World Power
|
Gabriel Esteban Merino | Argentina |
| Lourdes María Regueiro Bello | Cuba | ||
| Wagner Tadeu Iglesias | Brazil | ||
|
45
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History and current situation: Marxist perspectives
|
Jaime Ortega | Mexico |
| Marcelo Starcenbaum | Argentina | ||
| Paula Vidal Molina | Chile | ||
|
46
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Agrarian Histories: Present and Future Challenges for Land and Labor Disputes
|
Agustín Juncal | Uruguay |
| Deborah Lerrer | Brazil | ||
| Pablo Volkind | Argentina | ||
|
47
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Imperialism, neocolonialism and interventionist policies
|
Georgette Ramírez Kuri | Mexico |
| Lautaro Rivara | Haiti | ||
| Matias Bosch Carcuro | Dominican Republic | ||
|
48
|
Childhoods and youth
|
Diego Beretta | Argentina |
| Rose Rocha | Brazil | ||
| Sara Victoria Alvarado Salgado | Colombia | ||
|
49
|
Intersections, Politics and Democracy
|
Anny Ocoró Loango | Argentina |
| Geydis Elena Fundora Nevot | Cuba | ||
| Rita Gomes do Nascimento | Brazil | ||
|
50
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Leftist movements and Latin American and Caribbean sociopolitical realities
|
María Isabel Rauber | Argentina |
| María Patricia Pensado Leglise | Mexico | ||
| Mauricio Archila Neira | Colombia | ||
|
51
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Lex Mercatoria, corporate power and human rights
|
Ana Saggioro García | Brazil |
| Luciana Ghiotto | Argentina | ||
| Rodrigo Federico Pascual | Argentina | ||
|
52
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Anti-patriarchal struggles, families, genders and diversities
|
Germán Darío Herrera Saray | Colombia |
| Gisela Elizabeth Spasiuk | Argentina | ||
| Marlene Rosario Choque Aldana | Bolivia | ||
|
53
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Collective Memories and Practices of Resistance
|
Ana María Cacopardo | Argentina |
| Isabel Piper Shafir | Chile | ||
| Pilar Calveiro | Mexico | ||
|
54
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Migration and South-South borders
|
Daisy Margarit | Chile |
| Denise Zenklusen | Argentina | ||
| Handerson Joseph | Brazil | ||
|
55
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Social Movements, Territorial Technologies and Popular Management
|
Joshua Medeiros | Brazil |
| Luz Angela Rojas Barragan | Colombia | ||
|
56
|
Student movements and activism
|
Natalia Agudelo Castañeda | Colombia |
| Nicolás Alberto Dip | Mexico | ||
|
57
|
Critical legal thinking and anti-systemic struggles
|
Carlos Rivera-Lugo | Puerto Rico |
| Freddy Ordóñez Gómez | Colombia | ||
| Mylai Burgos Matamoros | Mexico | ||
| 58 | Latin American thought and social theory and university internationalization | Eduardo Rinesi | Argentina |
|
59
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South-South critical decolonial thought, praxis and aesthetics
|
Karina Andrea Bidaseca | Argentina |
| Katsí Yari Rodríguez Velázquez | Puerto Rico | ||
| María Haydeé García Bravo | Mexico | ||
|
60
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Critical Geographical Thoughts from Latin America and the Caribbean
|
Juan Manuel Delgado Estrada | Peru |
| Maria de Estrada | Argentina | ||
|
61
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Poverty and Social Policies
|
Flavio Gaitán | Brazil |
| Maria Mercedes Di Virgilio | Argentina | ||
| Máximo Ernesto Jaramillo Molina | Mexico | ||
|
62
|
Educational policies and the right to education
|
Fernanda Saforcada | Argentina |
| María Guadalupe Olivier Téllez | Mexico | ||
| Ricardo Cuenca | Peru | ||
|
63
|
Emancipatory practices and decolonial alter-global methodologies
|
Alicia Itatí Palermo | Argentina |
| Jorge Rojas Hernández | Chile | ||
| Martha Nélida Ruíz Uribe | Mexico | ||
|
64
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Emerging processes and territorial innovations on the margins
|
Jimena Ramos Berrondo | Mexico |
| Jorge Wilson Gómez Agudelo | Colombia | ||
| Raúl Gustavo Paz | Argentina | ||
|
65
|
Latin American urban processes: (in)justices and (in)equalities
|
Loreto Rojas Symmes | Chile |
| Ramiro Segura | Argentina | ||
| Vicente Moctezuma Mendoza | Mexico | ||
|
66
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Participatory Processes and Methodologies
|
Mariano Suárez Elías | Uruguay |
| Romina Rébola | Argentina | ||
| Victor Fernandez Gonzalez | Chile | ||
|
67
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Political Psychology: Power, Territorialities and Democracies
|
Isabel Menezes | Portugal |
| Marilene Proença Rebello de Souza | Brazil | ||
| Pablo Hoyos Gonzalez | Mexico | ||
| 68 | Indigenous Peoples: Epistemic-Territorial Dialogues and Disputes | Taira Edilma Stanley Icaza | Panama |
|
69
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Indigenous peoples, autonomies and collective rights
|
Fatima Teresa Monastery Market | Bolivia |
| Luciana García Guerreiro | Argentina | ||
| Waldo Lao Fuentes Sánchez | Brazil | ||
|
70
|
What development? Multi-stakeholder and multi-level dialogues
|
Azael Carrera Hernández | Panama |
| María del Carmen Zabala Argüelles | Cuba | ||
| Silvia Irene Palma Calderón | Guatemala | ||
|
71
|
What job for what future?
|
Adoration Guaman Hernandez | Spain |
| Juan Manuel Ottaviano | Argentina | ||
| Nora Goren | Argentina | ||
|
72
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Gender, Feminisms and Memories Network
|
Florence Falabella | Paraguay |
| Mariela Peller | Argentina | ||
|
73
|
Political regimes and democratization
|
Jorge Luis Duárez Mendoza | Peru |
| Mariana Cané Pastorutti | Argentina | ||
|
74
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Regionalism, integration and autonomy in the face of the global hegemonic dispute
|
Alberto Rocha Valencia | Mexico |
| Julian Kan | Argentina | ||
| Katiuska King | Ecuador | ||
|
75
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Religions and Society: Tensions and Diversities
|
Erick Adrián Paz González | Mexico |
| Monica Ulloa Gomez | Costa Rica | ||
| Valentina Pereira Arena | Uruguay | ||
|
76
|
International Health and Health Sovereignty
|
Gonzalo Basile | Cuba |
| Luanda de Oliveira Lima | Brazil | ||
| Odeth Santos Madrigal | Mexico | ||
|
77
|
Social security and pension systems
|
Gabriel Badillo González | Mexico |
| Rosa Maria Marques | Brazil | ||
| Sergio Carpenter | Argentina | ||
|
78
|
Food sovereignty from the Global South
|
Luis Ernesto Blacha | Argentina |
| Yuribia Velázquez Galindo | Mexico | ||
|
79
|
Digital territories and AI: political and subjective challenges
|
Andrés Tello | Chile |
| Flavia Costa | Argentina | ||
| Gustavo Chirolla | Colombia | ||
|
80
|
Agricultural work, inequalities and rural life
|
Felipe Contreras Molotla | Mexico |
| German Quaranta | Argentina | ||
| Paola Mascheroni | Uruguay | ||
|
81
|
Digital work, platforms and artificial intelligence
|
Cora Cecilia Arias | Argentina |
| Guillermo Rivera | Chile | ||
| Matheus Viana Braz | Brazil | ||
|
82
|
Work, production configurations, services and labor actors
|
Francisco Pucci | Uruguay |
| Marcela Hernández | Mexico | ||
| Maria Aparecida da Cruz Bridi | Brazil | ||
|
83
|
Economic and Political Transformations in the Face of the New International Division of Labor
|
Francisco Tavarez | Dominican Republic |
| Gabriel Oyhantçabal Benelli | Uruguay | ||
| Tamara Seiffer | Argentina | ||
|
84
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Just transitions and care for our common home
|
Diego Alvarez Newman | Colombia |
| María Isabel Gil Espinosa | Colombia | ||
| 85 | Universities and Depatriarchalization | Margarita Millán | Mexico |
|
86
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Vigilantism, punitive violence, and the production of security
|
Antonio Fuentes Díaz | Mexico |
| Fabio Magalhães Candotti | Brazil | ||
| Loreto Francisca Quiroz Rojas | Chile | ||
|
87
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Violence in Central America
|
Jeannette Aguilar Villamariona | El Salvador |
| Leonardo Herrera Mejía | Mexico | ||
| Mario Zúñiga Núñez | Costa Rica | ||
|
88
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Violence, authoritarianism, and democratic security policies
|
Julio Solís Moreira | Costa Rica |
| Luciana Noelia Ginga | Argentina | ||
| Rochele Fellini Fachinetto | Brazil |
The 88 selected Working Groups comprise 5.492 members from 44 countries. Of these, 19 are new proposals and 69 are existing Working Groups reapplying.
Secondly, the following integrations and convergences between GTs are recommended, with the intention of producing synergies that recover the contributions and potential expressed in these proposals:
- That the proposal “Comparative social inequalities: social classes, gender and ethnicity”, coordinated by Mirlena Rojas Piedrahita and Paula Boniolo, be integrated with the approved Working Group “Inequalities and social change” coordinated by Iliana Yaschine, Jesica Plá and Sofía Vanoli.
- That the proposal “Exodus of cultural matrices”, coordinated by Amaurys Giordano Pérez, Margarita Mercedes Moll Marte and Susana Betsabeth Diaz Aponte be integrated with the approved Working Group “Antiracism and Afro-descendants in the Global South” coordinated by Federico Fernando Pita.
- That the proposal “MovE- Movements and Economies”, coordinated by María Inés Fernández Álvarez, Nashieli Cecilia Rangel Loera and Soraya Maite Yie Garzón be integrated with the approved Working Group “Popular Economies. Theoretical and Practical Mapping” coordinated by Alioscia Castronovo, María Cristina Cielo and Verónica Gago.
- That the proposal “Transdisciplinary Studies in Decoloniality-Feminisms and Interculturality in the Caribbean, Améfrica and Africa”, coordinated by Agustín Lao-Montes, Lilia Ana Márquez Ugueto and Maydi Estrada Bayona be integrated with the approved Working Group “Critical South-South Decolonial Thought, Praxis and Aesthetics” coordinated by Karina Andrea Bidaseca, Katsí Yarí Rodríguez Velázquez and María Haydeé García Bravo.
- That the proposal “Energy Transition, Conflicts, Autonomies and Hopes”, coordinated by Adriana Gómez Bonilla, Carlos Escudero-Nuñez and Marhylda Victoria Rivero Corona be integrated with the approved Working Group “Energy and Sustainable Development” coordinated by Eliana Celeste Canafoglia, Esteban Serrani and Nora Estela Fernandez Mora.
- That the proposal “Transforming the State: development models, territories and planning” coordinated by Giselle Armas Pedraza and Ulises Bosia be integrated with the approved Working Group “Social Movements, Territorial Technologies and Popular Management” coordinated by Josué Medeiros and Luz Angela Rojas Barragan.
- That the proposal “Art and Politics”, coordinated by María Fernanda Peña Sarmiento, María del Carmen Valdez and Natalia Aguerre, be integrated with the approved Working Group “Arts, education and decoloniality” coordinated by Hugo Damián Del Valle, Pedro Pablo Gómez Moreno and Sandra Daniela Torlucci.
- That the proposal “Military, defense and security”, coordinated by Andrea Yazmin Manrique Camacho, Christian Arias Barona and Luis Ezequiel, be integrated with the approved Working Group “Vigilance, punitive violence and security production”, coordinated by Antonio Fuentes Díaz, Fabio Magalhães Candotti and Loreto Francisca Quiroz Rojas.
- That the proposal “Critical Extension: contemporary theory and practices”, coordinated by Fabio Erreguerena, Humberto Tommasino and Merlin Ivania Padilla Contreras be integrated with the approved Working Group “Participatory Methodologies Processes” coordinated by Mariano Suárez Elías, Romina Rébola and Víctor Fernández González.
- That the proposal “Global South in Dialogue: BRICS and Latin America”, coordinated by Clarisa Giaccaglia and Maria Elena Rodriguez, be integrated with the approved Working Group “Geopolitics, regional integration and world system” coordinated by Mónica Esmeralda Bruckmann Maynetto, Rebeca Peralta Mariñelarena and Tamara Lajtman Bereicoa.
Third, it is recommended that the following proposal submitted in this call continue working as a Special Group:
- “Peace, Gender and Territory” coordinated by Lady Andrea Suárez Carvajal
According to the provisions of the Call for Proposals, this ruling is final and cannot be appealed.
Buenos Aires, March 31, 2026
