Juan Bosch Award for Critical Thinking in the Dominican Republic and the Caribbean
Call for essay proposals for young or trainee researchers
NEW CLOSING DATEMay 15th
Juan Bosch is a leading figure in literature and critical thought in his country, the Dominican Republic, and throughout Latin America. He belongs to a generation of Latin Americans who marked an epistemological, ethical, and political break with the domination and domestication of thought in our region.
His short stories brought the oppressed and exploited peasantry to the forefront of Dominican literature. His essays have been fundamental to understanding Dominican society, the Caribbean, and key issues of our time. Bosch's well-known work, "From Christopher Columbus to Fidel Castro: The Caribbean, Imperial Frontier," was a watershed moment in the study of the Caribbean and in the self-perception of its historical role as a frontier for the empires of modernity—Spain, France, the Netherlands, the United States, and the United Kingdom—to mention just one of his many works that shaped the debate in the Dominican Republic, Latin America, and beyond, on dictatorships and democracy, neocolonialism, imperialism and the Pentagon, the analysis of social classes and indigenous Marxisms, among other contributions that always aimed at the discussion of emancipatory political projects.
Bosch was a fighter in exile against the tyranny of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, who was assassinated 60 years ago. He was the first democratically elected president after that regime, but was overthrown in a coup that led to a civic-military revolution and subsequently the 1965 US invasion. Bosch remained active in the struggle for a government of democratic, popular, and emancipatory reforms for his country, in solidarity with the same causes in the Caribbean, Latin America, and the world.
His intellectual, ethical, and political legacy is linked to a recognized need to promote analysis and critical thinking in the Dominican Republic and the Caribbean, especially among new generations, as an essential task to guide political practice, social and popular movements, as well as academia, in the pursuit of the common good and social justice.
That is why CLACSO, through the Working Group Crisis, responses and alternatives in the Greater CaribbeanTogether with the Juan Bosch Foundation, they created the Juan Bosch Award for Critical Thinking in the Dominican Republic and the Caribbean.
The Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) and the Juan Bosch Foundation of the Dominican Republic invite researchers in training, that is, those who are pursuing master's or doctoral studies or researchers with a degree, although in the latter case with an age limit of up to 39 years.
Essay proposals addressing critical perspectives on issues of thought and society in the Dominican Republic and other Caribbean countries will be accepted. Essays may be authored individually or co-authored by up to two people. Each person may only submit one proposal to this call for papers, whether as sole author or co-author.
The prize will be awarded every two years. The primary language will be Spanish, and each edition will rotate the language to include other languages from the Caribbean region.
Three (3) winners will be recognized, each receiving a prize of one thousand (1000) US dollars, along with the publication of their final essays and a full scholarship to attend one of CLACSO's virtual seminars. In addition to the three winning proposals, three honorable mentions will be awarded, with their final essays included in the publication and each recipient receiving a scholarship to attend one of CLACSO's virtual seminars.
The jury's decision will be final. Furthermore, the jury may select up to five (5) additional proposals from among the submitted essays, depending on their quality, for inclusion in the compilation, subject to the authors' willingness to prepare the final essays.
The International Jury for the competition will be made up of international leaders in critical thinking in the Dominican Republic and countries of the Greater Caribbean.
The prize will be awarded in accordance with the quality, rigor, originality and depth in the approach to problems of thought and Caribbean societies, as well as the relevance of the subject matter, and the contribution to critical thinking on the same.
The text structure is flexible, respecting the conventions for presenting an academic text and the CLACSO editorial guidelines, as well as APA style and gender considerations. It must be accompanied by a curriculum vitae that verifies the applicant's age, academic, teaching, and/or research experience, institutional affiliation, postal address, telephone number, and current email address.
The proposal must be an original and unpublished work by the author and must not have been previously submitted to any publisher. Provisional versions or previously published works, or works that have received any local, national, or international award, will not be accepted.
Once the winning proposals have been selected, their authors will have up to 90 days to prepare the final papers that will be published in the planned book.
The final essays will be published in a book in both print and digital formats, available as open access, co-published by CLACSO and the Juan Bosch Foundation. Authors will transfer the original publication rights to CLACSO, as CLACSO adheres to and defends the principles of open science and open access to knowledge, ensuring that the resulting work is easily found, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. Subsequently, the essays may be published in any other medium, always citing the original call for submissions. Applicants must inform CLACSO of any subsequent publication of the works resulting from their participation in this call.
It is an essential requirement that the submission be made through the online registration system provided by CLACSO.
Printed or emailed submissions will not be accepted. Applications that do not comply with the established guidelines will be technically rejected.
It is recommended to access the online system to learn about the registration format.
1. Access the CLACSO website www.clacso.org to enter the registration system. Register in the CLACSO Single Registration System (SUIC). Each time the applicant wishes to access the system to consult, modify, add, or submit information for this or any other CLACSO activity, they must log in with their personal username and password. Applicants submitting essays authored collectively must designate one of the authors as responsible for the registration.
2. Identify the essay proposal by indicating its title and the pseudonym of the applicant(s). Submissions with pseudonyms that correspond to the applicant's name and/or surname will not be accepted.
3. Complete the personal and academic data form and attach the curriculum vitae in free format; the digital copy of the passport, the digital copy of the highest academic degree obtained (or proof of degree in process), and a color photograph of each applicant.
4. Attach the essay proposal respecting the characteristics established in this call.
5. To finalize your application, click the CLOSE REGISTRATION button. The system will generate an electronic certificate that will serve as proof of successful submission. The system will only consider applications that have been successfully submitted.
6. The deadline for applications is March 15, 2022.
7. The results of the Competition will be announced by the organizing entities after their evaluation by the international jury during 2022 and will be published on the websites of both institutions. The winners will be contacted by email.
8. Participation in the Contest implies acceptance of its Rules.
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OPINION – Juan Bosch Award for critical thinking in the Dominican Republic and the Caribbean
The Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) announces the results of the Call for essay proposals “Juan Bosch Prize for critical thinking in the Dominican Republic and the Caribbean”, organized through the Working Group “Crisis, responses and alternatives in the Greater Caribbean” in conjunction with the Juan Bosch Foundation.
Juan Bosch is a leading figure in literature and critical thought in the Dominican Republic, the Caribbean, and Latin America in general. This call for papers aligns with CLACSO's mission to promote reflection and critical analysis of Caribbean thought, recognizing Bosch's intellectual, ethical, and political legacy. It also addresses the need to foster critical thinking and analysis in the Dominican Republic and the Caribbean, especially among younger generations, as essential for strengthening the political practice of social and grassroots movements, as well as academia, in the pursuit of the common good and social justice.
We congratulate the young researchers who responded to this Call and submitted their essay proposals.
Of the applications received, 36 were deemed eligible for evaluation by the International Committee. The Committee considered the quality, relevance, coherence, and timeliness of the proposals, in accordance with the Call for Proposals guidelines.
The evaluation assessed the quality of the submitted essay proposals, as well as their rigor and intellectual contribution to the issues addressed in the Call for Papers. As stipulated, awards were granted. 3 (three) prizes for the winning proposals, which consist of one thousand (1.000) US dollars for each one, along with the publication of the final essays and a 100% scholarship to attend one of the CLACSO virtual seminars between 2022 and 2023.
Furthermore, given the quality and excellence of most of the work, it was decided award 7 (seven) honorable mentionsThese seven final essays will also be included in the publication and they will also be awarded a scholarship to attend one of CLACSO's virtual seminars between 2022 and 2023.
The publication will be a co-edition between CLACSO and the Juan Bosch Foundation and will be available in open access, free of charge. Authors will have up to 90 days from the publication of this decision to prepare the final papers to be published in the planned book.
The evaluation process was carried out by an International Committee made up of the following intellectuals: Georgina Alfonso (Cuba), Jacqueline Laguardia (Cuba-Trinidad and Tobago), Pablo Mella (Dominican Republic), Amaury Pérez (Dominican Republic), Angel Villarini (Puerto Rico) and Yolanda Wood (Cuba-Mexico).
According to the evaluation carried out, the list of the 3 (three) essay proposals Award-winning essays. The final essays will be included in the publication, and the winners will receive the aforementioned financial support and training grants.
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Researchers |
Country |
Essay title |
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Ana Hurtado Pliego |
Mexico |
Blackness, soundscape and body in contemporary Dominican narrative: an approach from Cultural Studies |
|
Ada Lescay Gonzalez |
Cuba |
Cuba: Race and Representation; Exegesis of Raciality from Visual Culture |
|
Victor Miguel Castillo de Macedo |
Brazil |
Juan Bosch from late capitalism to contemporary Dominican capitalism: social theories and political projects in perspective |
The following is a list of the 7 (seven) essay proposals With honorable mention, the final essays will be recognized with publication in the collective book and will receive training grants:
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Researchers |
Country |
Essay title |
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Laura Luz Cárdenas Tavera |
Colombia |
After the No |
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Adaivis Marrón Pérez |
Cuba |
The role of women in the folk-popular stage. Obini Bata's performance at the Casa de África museum |
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Jorge Luis González González |
Chile |
The contribution of critical thinking in the work of Juan Bosch to popular movements in Latin America in the struggle against neocolonialism and imperialism |
|
Juan W Ruiz Goyco |
Colombia |
Aesthetic-pedagogical resonances in the anti-imperialist thought of Juan Bosch, Roberto Fernández Retamar and Jose Luis González. An approach from the epistemologies of the South. |
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Duvan Fernando Ramírez Zamora Nhorelsy Camila Thowinson De León |
Colombia |
Juan Bosch's thinking for understanding decolonial critique and politics |
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Aaron Bracho |
Panama |
The Panamanian Caribbean: extraction, periphery and marginality |
|
Erick Leonardo Gutierrez Garcia |
Venezuela |
Decolonial critique of the hegemonic legal episteme |
This ruling is irrevocable and cannot be appealed.
Buenos Aires and Dominican Republic, October 5, 2022.
