Latin American and Caribbean Pre-Conference #CLACSO2022

At the Center for Higher Studies of Mexico and Central America, University of Arts and Sciences of Chiapas, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico, the “Latin American and Caribbean Pre-Conference of Social Sciences and Humanities: Networks of inequalities, knowledge, struggles and transformations” will take place from March 30 to April 1.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 2022
OPENING OF THE PRE-CONFERENCE
https://www.facebook.com/Cesmeca/videos/3731256086998914
9:00 (Chiapas time – UTC-6) at the CESMECA Auditorium
Opening Remarks:
Juan José Solórzano Marcial, Rector of the University of Sciences and Arts of Chiapas (UNICACH)
Karina Batthyány, Executive Secretary of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO)
Amín Andrés Miceli Ruíz, Director of the Center for Higher Studies of Mexico and Central America (CESMECA-UNICACH)
Patricia Zapata, Project Coordinator, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
Darío Salinas Figueredo, CLACSO Steering Committee
Magnolia Solís López, General Secretary, UNICACH
Pablo Vommaro, Director of Research, CLACSO
Guadalupe Valencia García, Humanities Coordination, UNAM
Rafael de Jesús Araujo González, Academic Secretary, UNICACH
Carolina Orantes García, Director of Research and Postgraduate Studies, UNICACH
Nicolás Arata, Director of Training and Knowledge Mobilization, CLACSO
Ana Magdalena Solís Calvo, Academic Secretary, CESMECA-UNICACH

Musical performance: Kimberlyn Jazmín Maradiaga Aguilar
9:30 a.m. CESMECA Auditorium
KEYNOTE CONFERENCE
10:00 to 11:00 (Chiapas time – UTC-6) at the CESMECA Auditorium
“Inequalities and care: the need for others for survival,” by Karina BatthyányPresented by: Ana Magdalena Solís Calvo, Academic Secretary, CESMECA-UNICACH.

THEMATIC TABLES
11:00 PM to 13:00 PM – CESMECA Auditorium
I. Struggles for Life: resistances/re-existences from Abya Yala/Ladino America (Part I)
Moderator: Axel Köhler, CESMECA-UNICACH, CLACSO Working Group (GT) Bodies, Territories and Resistances (CUTER)
Alter, anti, pluri, trans resistances/re-existences in times of war and civilizational collapse – Xochitl Leyva Solano, GT CUTER / CIESAS Sureste
Geopolitics of dispossession and struggles of the Maya of Yucatán Union of Residents of Chablekal, Yucatán – Alberto C. Velázquez, GT CUTER / INDIGNATION AC
Defense of the Arhuaco territory and the safeguarding of the heart of the world – Leonor Zalavata, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia – Edgar R. Naranjo, GT CUTER / Autonomous University of Barcelona
Women, mining and Mayan resistance in Guatemala – Maudilia López Cardona, San Miguel Ixtahuacán, Guatemala – Axel Köhler, GT CUTER / CESMECA-UNICACH
Liberation of Mother Earth in Northern Cauca, Colombia – Mother Earth Liberation Process, Colombia – Andrea Fajardo, GT CUTER / FCPS-UNAM
THEMATIC TABLES
13:00 PM to 15:00 PM – CESMECA Auditorium
II. Border, biocultural heritage and interethnic relations on the Southern Border of Mexico
Moderator: José Luis Sulvarán López, Intercultural University of Chiapas (UNICH) / CLACSO Working Group (GT) Borders, Regionalization and Globalization (FRG)
Border and War – Miguel Ángel Zebadúa Carbonell, Faculty of Humanities-UNICACH / GT FGR
Interethnic relations and porosity on the southern Mexico-Guatemala border – Miguel Sánchez Álvarez, UNICH / GT FGR
The formation of the Selva-fronteriza subregion in Chiapas (1950-2000) – Juan Pohlenz Córdova, Independent Researcher / GT FGR
Migration, Structural Change and Territory: Sierra Mariscal de Chiapas Border – Rodolfo Plinio Escobar Sandoval, UNICH / GT FGR.
An approach to the problematization of biocultural heritage in the era of extractivism in the Sierra Mariscal of Chiapas – León Enrique Ávila Romero, UNICH / GT FGR
CONVERSATORY
16:00 PM to 17:00 PM – CESMECA Auditorium
The challenges of scientific journals
Moderator: Isabel Rodríguez Ramos, CESMECA-UNICACH
Miguel Lisbona Guillén, CIMSUR-Director of Pueblos y Fronteras Magazine
Esperanza Tuñón Pablos, ECOSUR-Director of Society and Environment
Alain Basail Rodríguez, CESMECA-Director of LiminaR. Social and Humanistic Studies

CONVERSATORY
17:00 PM to 18:30 PM – CESMECA Auditorium
Local responses to the new challenges of postgraduate studies
Moderator: Rigoberto Solano Salinas, CLACSO-CONACYT Fellow, PhD in Social Sciences and Humanities, CESMECA-UNICACH
Dora Elia Ramos Muñoz, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR) General Coordinator of Postgraduate Studies Héctor B. Fletes Ocón, Autonomous University of Chiapas (UNACH). Coordinator of the Master's Program in Local Development.
María Elena Martínez Torres, CIESAS-Southeast
Tim Trench, Autonomous University of Chapingo (UAChapingo)-San Cristóbal de Las Casas
María Luisa de la Garza Chávez, CESMECA-UNICACH
Minerva Yoimy Castañeda Seijas, UNICH
Marisa G. Ruiz Trejo, Institute of Indigenous Studies (IEI-UNACH)
CONVERSATORY
18:30 PM to 20:00 PM – CESMECA Auditorium
Regarding The Avatars of Chiapas. Projects, Conflicts, Hopes (Juan Pablos Editor, UNICACH-CESMECA, 2021).
Daniel Villafuerte Solís, CESMECA-UNICACH
María del Carmen García Aguilar, CESMECA-UNICACH
Moderator: Rodrigo Megchún Rivera, Autonomous University of Chapingo
Thursday, March 31, 2022
KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
9:00 PM to 10:30 PM – CESMECA Auditorium
The United States of America and Latin American Geopolitics – Darío Salinas Figueredo – Department of Social and Political Sciences, Ibero-American University (DCSyP/UIA). CLACSO Steering Committee
Presented by: Ana Lourdes Álvarez Romero, CESMECA-UNICACH

THEMATIC TABLES
10:30 PM to 12:30 PM – CESMECA Auditorium
III. Feminist economics for the defense of life and territory
Moderator: Araceli Calderón Cisneros, Center for Higher Studies of Mexico and Central America (CESMECA) – CONACYT. CLACSO Working Group (GT) Emancipatory Feminist Economics (EFE)
Presentation of the Working Group on Emancipatory Feminist Economics – Patricio Dobrée, Center for Documentation and Studies (CDE), Paraguay / GT EFE
Depatriarchalization of struggles for land and territory in Guatemala – Ana Patricia Castillo Huertas, GT EFE, Guatemala
Amazonian women in the forests fighting for the wholeness of life. Reflections from feminist economics (Ecuador) – Anne-Gaël Bilhaut, French Research Institute for Development (IRD) – Alba Aguinaga, Ikiam Amazonian Regional University – Diana Astudillo, Ikiam Amazonian Regional University
Indigenous and peasant women in Costa Rica, in defense of the land, seeds and agroecology – Alejandra Bonilla Leyva, National University of Costa Rica
Tseltal women of Chiapas and their struggle to care for/repair the wholeness of life – Mauricio Arellano Nucamendi, GT EFE / CESMECA – Araceli Calderón Cisneros, GT EFE / CESMECA-CONACYT
Women Without Land: Sowing resistance in the defense of the land, agroecology and Peasant and Popular Feminism – Lia Pinheiro Barbosa, GT EFE / Pós-Graduação em Sociologia Program, Center of Humanities, Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Brazil
THEMATIC TABLES
12:30 PM to 14:30 PM – CESMECA Auditorium
IV. Struggles for Life: Resistances/Re-existences from Abya Yala/Latin America (Part II)
Moderator: Xochitl Leyva Solano, GT CUTER / CIESAS Southeast
Geopoetics of Abya Yala – Pablo Uc, GT CUTER / CIESAS Southeast / CESMECA-UNICACH
Ladina Améfrica: quilombos and anti-racist struggles – La Comunidade Quilombola Morada da Paz, Território de Mãe Preta, Brazil – Aline de Moura, GT CUTER / Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Struggles for the restoration of Mapuche territoriality – Mapuche community of Temulemu – Patricia Viera-Bravo, GT CUTER / CIESAS Southeast
Dispossession and resistance in the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazon – The Governing Council of the Shuar Arutam People, CGPSHA, Ecuador – Leandro Bonecini de Almeida, GT CUTER / Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
CLACSO-CESMECA Editions Authors and Editors
16:00 PM to 17:00 PM – CESMECA Auditorium
Presenters:
Isabel Rodríguez Ramos, Secretary of Extension and Outreach, CESMECA-UNICACH
Nicolás Arata, Director of Training and Knowledge Mobilization, CLACSO

Common Roots and Shared Histories. Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean – Alain Basail Rodríguez, Inés Castro Apreza, María Luisa de la Garza Chávez, Teresa Ramos Maza and Mario Valdez Gordillo (coordinators) – CESMECA-UNICACH/CLACSO, January 2018
https://repositorio.cesmeca.mx/handle/11595/883
Academies under siege. Convictions and conveniences in the face of precarity – Alain Basail Rodríguez (coordinator) – CESMECA-UNICACH/CLACSO, 2019
https://repositorio.cesmeca.mx/handle/11595/993
Tinku and Pachakuti. Native indigenous geopolitics and the plurinational State in Bolivia – Pablo Uc – CESMECA-UNICACH/CLACSO, 2019
https://repositorio.cesmeca.mx/handle/11595/960
Human mobility in transit: challenges of the fourth transformation in migration policy – Daniel Villafuerte Solís and María Eugenia Anguiano Téllez Year of publication (coordinators) – CESMECA-UNICACH/CLACSO, 2020
https://repositorio.cesmeca.mx/handle/11595/995
The situation of the right to communication with an emphasis on Indigenous and Afro-descendant communicators in Latin America – Research, writing, editing and coordination: Indigenous Videographers of the Southern Border Project (PVIFS) – Axel Köhler and Xochitl Leyva (coordinators/editors) – Clacpi, PVIFS, alterNativa, CESMECA-UNICACH, Cooperativa Editorial Retos, CLACSO, 2020. https://repositorio.cesmeca.mx/handle/11595/1001
Discourses and practices of intercultural higher education. The experience of Chiapas – Sergio Iván Navarro Martínez CESMECA-UNICACH/CLACSO, 2020
https://repositorio.cesmeca.mx/handle/11595/1022
Youth, actions and movements. Approaches from southern Mexico – Carlos de Jesús Gómez Abarca CESMECA-UNICACH/CLACSO, 2021
https://repositorio.cesmeca.mx/handle/11595/1058
Tribute Collection: Initiative to the Zapatista Lighthouse
17 to 00 pm
CLACSO, Cooperativa Editorial Retos, Cátedra Jorge Alonso and Universidad de Guadalajara, Grupo de Trabajo CUTER/CLACSO
(http://alfarozapatista.jkopkutik.org/)
Latin American and Caribbean Library of Social Sciences, CLACSO: free download
Presenters:
Xochitl Leyva Solano, CIESAS-Southeast
Jorge Alonso, CIESAS-West
Lola Cubells, Jaume I University of Castelló
John Holloway, Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla
Inés Durán Matute, Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla
War, Zapatismo, networks
Xochitl Leyva Solano
CLACSO. Retos Publishing Cooperative. Jorge Alonso Chair. University of Guadalajara. Chiapas – Mexico, 2021
https://www.clacso.org.ar/libreria-latinoamericana-cm/libro_detalle_resultado.php?id_ libro=2708&campo=cm&texto=180
A brief introduction to Zapatismo
Carlos Alonso Reynoso and Jorge Alonso
CLACSO. Retos Publishing Cooperative. Jorge Alonso Chair. University of Guadalajara. Chiapas – Mexico, 2021
https://www.clacso.org.ar/libreria-latinoamericana-cm/libro_detalle_resultado.php?id_ libro=2711&campo=cm&texto=180
Zapatismo: A Civilizational Compass for Slumil k'ajxemk'op
Lola Cubells Aguilar
CLACSO. Retos Publishing Cooperative. Jorge Alonso Chair. University of Guadalajara. Chiapas – Mexico, 2021
https://www.clacso.org.ar/libreria-latinoamericana-cm/libro_detalle_resultado.php?id_ libro=2707&campo=cm&texto=180
Towards a new era
Gustavo Esteva
CLACSO. Retos Publishing Cooperative. Jorge Alonso Chair. University of Guadalajara. Chiapas – Mexico, 2021
https://www.clacso.org.ar/libreria-latinoamericana-cm/libro_detalle_resultado.php?id_ libro=2709&campo=cm&texto=180
Making other worlds possible: why the Zapatistas matter to us
Laurence Cox
CLACSO. Retos Publishing Cooperative. Jorge Alonso Chair. University of Guadalajara. Chiapas – Mexico, 2021
https://www.clacso.org.ar/libreria-latinoamericana-cm/libro_detalle_resultado.php?id_ libro=2710&campo=cm&texto=180
Zapatista autonomy, a beacon in the struggle for life
Jérôme Baschet
CLACSO. Retos Publishing Cooperative. Jorge Alonso Chair. University of Guadalajara. Chiapas – Mexico, 2022
http://www.clacso.org.ar/libreria-latinoamericana-cm/libro_detalle.php?orden=&id_ libro=2723&pageNum_rs_libros=0&totalRows_rs_libros=2054
Walking with Zapatismo, building community and hope
Inés Durán Matute and Rocío Moreno
CLACSO. Retos Publishing Cooperative. Jorge Alonso Chair. University of Guadalajara. Chiapas – Mexico, 2022
http://www.clacso.org.ar/libreria-latinoamericana-cm/libro_detalle.php?orden=&id_ libro=2719&pageNum_rs_libros=0&totalRows_rs_libros=2054
Nothing can withstand the joy of living. Free discourse on sovereign freedom
Raoul Vaneigem
CLACSO. Retos Publishing Cooperative. Jorge Alonso Chair. University of Guadalajara. Chiapas – Mexico, 2022
http://www.clacso.org.ar/libreria-latinoamericana-cm/libro_detalle.php?id_libro=2720&pageNum_rs_ libros=0&totalRows_rs_libros=2054
Emancipatory agroecology(ies) for a world where many autonomies flourish
Valentín Val and Peter M. Rosset
CLACSO. Retos Publishing Cooperative. Jorge Alonso Chair. University of Guadalajara. Chiapas – Mexico, 2022
http://www.clacso.org.ar/libreria-latinoamericana-cm/libro_detalle.php?orden=&id_ libro=2721&pageNum_rs_libros=0&totalRows_rs_libros=2054
Zapatista delusions
Jorge Regalado Santillán
CLACSO. Retos Publishing Cooperative. Jorge Alonso Chair. University of Guadalajara. Chiapas – Mexico, 2022
http://www.clacso.org.ar/libreria-latinoamericana-cm/libro_detalle.php?id_libro=2722&pageNum_rs_ libros=0&totalRows_rs_libros=2054
PRESENTATION OF THE ESSENTIAL ANTHOLOGY
18:00 PM to 20:00 PM – CESMECA Auditorium
Mercedes Olivera. Popular Feminism and Revolution. Between Militancy and Anthropology. Essential Anthology, Buenos Aires: CLACSO, 2019.
Moderator: Nicolás Arata, Director of Training and Knowledge Mobilization, CLACSO
Mercedes Olivera Bustamante, CESMECA-UNICACH
Karina Batthyány, Executive Secretary of CLACSO
Patricia Zapata, Project Coordinator for Cuba and Guatemala, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
Clara Meyra, Project Coordinator for Mexico, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
Ana Patricia Castillo Huertas, Emancipatory Feminist Economics Working Group, CLACSO
Alain Basail Rodríguez, CESMECA-UNICACH

Latin American and Caribbean Social Sciences Bookstore, CLACSO
https://www.clacso.org.ar/librerialatinoamericana/libro_detalle.php?id_libro=1806
1 APRIL 2022
KEYNOTE CONFERENCE
9:00 PM to 10:30 PM – CESMECA Auditorium
Archives, Memories and Images in the History of Latin American Education NICOLAS ARATA
Director of Training and Knowledge Mobilization, CLACSO
Presented by: Roberto Rico Chong, CESMECA-UNICACH
THEMATIC TABLE
10:30 PM to 12:30 PM – CESMECA Auditorium
V. Political-democratic crises and conflicts in southern Mexico, from achronicity to synchronicity in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
Moderator: Jesús Solís Cruz, ODEMCA-CESMECA-UNICACH / AMECIP Chiapas
Cultural Worlds and Political Rituals in the Times of COVID-19: Housing Policies in Santiago el Pinar, Chiapas (2020-2021) – Emmanuel Nájera, FCS-UNACH / AMECIP Chiapas
An approach to democratic political reality and development in the context of Covid-19, 2020-2021: the case of the State of Oaxaca – Joselito Fernández, AMECIP Oaxaca
Some historical inequalities in women's participation in local elections. The case of Tabasco – Maday Merino Damian, AMECIP Tabasco
Accelerated urbanization process in the Riviera Maya and its impact on public services during the COVID-19 pandemic: Land speculation in the Riviera Maya (2021-2022) – Gabriel Aceves, AMECIP Quintana Roo
THEMATIC TABLE
10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. – Dog-Jaguar Rooms, Postgraduate Building
VI. Borders, regionalization and globalization
Moderator: Jorge Montaño, GT Borders, Regionalization and Globalization (FRG)
Indigenous Chiapas Facing Despair and Emotional Exaltation: The Political Economy of Mental Health – Jorge Magaña Ochoa, Faculty of Social Sciences-UNACH / GT FRG
The Lacandon Jungle Life Plan – Alberto Vallejo, GT FRG
Border subcontracting; migratory detention in the Mexico-Guatemala border region – Alberto Hidalgo, UNAM / GT FRG
South-Southeast Mexico as part of the Global Space for the Expansion of Transnational Capital of the Mesoamerica Project – Juan Manuel Sandoval, Permanent Seminar of Chicano and Border Studies (SPECHF), Directorate of Ethnology and Social Anthropology (DEAS), National Institute of Anthropology (INAH) / GT FRG
THEMATIC TABLE
12:30 PM to 14:30 PM – CESMECA Auditorium
VII. Childhoods and Youth in Southern Mexico and Central America
Moderators: Iván Francisco Porraz Gómez, ECOSUR-Tapachula
Juan Romero, University of the Republic, Uruguay, Working Group on Childhood and Youth
Cándida Irene Chévez Reinoza, Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, Central American University
Carlos de Jesús Gómez Abarca, CESMECA-UNICACH
Jeanie Herrera, University of San Carlos of Guatemala / Center for Sociological Research and Studies (CIES), Argentina
Kathia Núñez Patiño, Faculty of Social Sciences-UNACH
Nora González, Youth Agenda Center for Rights and Citizenship / UNED Costa Rica GT / Childhoods and Youth
SCREENING AND DISCUSSION
16:00 PM to 18:00 PM – CESMECA Auditorium
Moderator: Verónica Haydee Paredes Marín, ODEMCA CESMECA-UNICACH – General Presentation: Violence, Classism, and Youth Racism in Guatemala City. Commentary on the film 1991. María Gabriela Escobar Urrutia, Institute for Research in Socio-Humanistic Sciences, Rafael Landívar University, Guatemala.
1991, Sergio Ramírez (Director). Guatemala/Mexico2021, 70 minutes
Screenplay: Jayro Bustamante, César Díaz, Sergio Ramírez
Production Companies: La Casa de Producción, Cine Concepción (Jayro Bustamante and Joaquín Ruano) Film Producer: Pablo Valladares
Edited by: César Díaz
Production Design: Myriam Ugarte
Assistant Director: Julieta Blázquez
Assistant to the editorial management department: Antonio Orozco Garcin – Colorists: Antonio Garcin, Franz A. Novotny
Cast: Daniela Castillo, Alejandro Díaz, Brandon López, Juan José Muralles, Tony Asturias, Gregorio Orellana, Mariano Vaides.
Synopsis: In 1991, during the Guatemalan civil war, Daniel and his friends just want to have some fun. They travel with baseball bats, but their objective isn't a game; it's a hunt. They roam the city in search of lower-class indigenous people known as breaks. They don't know why they're doing it; they only know they're anti-breaks.
SPECIAL ACTIVITIES
16: 00 TO 18: 00 hours
Meeting of Directors and Representatives of CLACSO Centers in Mexico – Coordinators: Darío Salinas and Alain Basail, CLACSO-Mexico – Venue: Perro and Jaguar Rooms, CESMECA
Meeting of Working Group Coordinators – Coordinator: Pablo Vommaro, CLACSO. Location: Mariposa Classroom

KEYNOTE CONFERENCE
18:00 PM to 19:30 PM – CESMECA Auditorium
Studies and experiences on youth and inequalities – Pablo Vommaro, Director of Research, CLACSO – Presentation: Carlos de Jesús Gómez Abarca, CESMECA-UNICACH
ENCLOSURE
19:30 p.m. – CESMECA Auditorium – Closing Remarks
FOCUSED MUSICAL
20:00 PM – La Ouicca, a versatile musical performance
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