The Working Groups will be presented [2023-2025]
Political economy of information, communication and culture
Articulation, grouping and promotion of economic-political studies and critical theory of mediation
[+] InformationAnti-capitalisms and emerging sociability
To produce knowledge with and from the places where struggles are generated and carried out, and especially in collaborative projects with social activists
[+] InformationProposal for regional integration
Linkage, cooperation and complementarity of Latin America
[+] InformationHistory and current situation: Marxist perspectives
To crystallize as a productive and rigorous space for reflection, avoiding both academicism and pragmatism
[+] InformationLatin American studies: national, regional and transnational perspectives
New national and regional research agendas with specialized knowledge for the construction of public policies
[+] InformationBodies, territories, resistances
We look back at the rebellions, resistances and re-existences that rise up on their own terms in every corner of the known world
[+] InformationWork, production and service configurations, new labor subjects
Focusing on the new and emerging realities of situated work
[+] InformationSocio-territorial movements in critical and comparative perspective
Conceptual and methodological tools that lead to the production of new knowledge on this subject
[+] InformationEmancipatory practices, common goods, and decolonial alter-global methodologies
Science at the service of emancipatory biopolitical processes
[+] InformationAgricultural work, inequalities and rural life
To provide a critical perspective, from diverse angles and territories, on the inequalities that condition the lives of people who work in agriculture and/or live in rural areas
[+] InformationIntellectuals, ideas and politics
To articulate theory and practice, past and present
[+] InformationCivilizational crisis, reconfigurations of racism, Afro-Latin American social movements
The relationship between civilizational crisis, reconfiguration of racism, and Afro-Latin American social movements
[+] InformationAfro-descendants and counter-hegemonic proposals
A pioneer in the production of studies on the agenda of anti-racist movements and in the dissemination of knowledge in the field of African studies
[+] InformationIndigenous Peoples and Epistemic-Territorial Disputes
A space for the co-production of knowledge between critical academia, committed to indigenous struggles for their rights, and indigenous peoples
[+] InformationLatin American and Caribbean critical geographical thought
Renewing hegemonic and conservative thinking, and critically reviewing analytical and methodological categories
[+] InformationCulture and cultural policies
Creation of a Latin American Network of Studies and Research in Cultural Policies
[+] InformationGeopolitics, regional integration and the world system
To promote an interdisciplinary debate on the geopolitical challenges of regional integration processes
[+] InformationLeftist movements and social struggles in Latin America
The relationship between left-wing movements and social movements on the continent
[+] InformationThe State as a contradiction
Our continent continues to be an emblematic territory of important struggles and disputes surrounding the State
[+] InformationCrisis and the global economy
We address the analysis of the global capitalist economy and its current crisis
[+] InformationUniversities and depatriarchalization
Transforming the meaning of the University, questioning its authoritarian, patriarchal, androcentric and racist character
[+] InformationSocial security and pension systems
Promote channels of dialogue and collaboration with state institutions, social organizations, and the world of work
[+] InformationEconomic elites, the state, and inequality
To critically analyze the different theoretical and methodological perspectives for the study of Latin American elites
[+] InformationCommunication, cultures and policies
To emphasize the multidimensional and intercultural nature of communication
[+] InformationAppropriation of digital technologies and intersectionalities
Working with the academic and non-academic community, co-creating knowledge and national and international networks
[+] InformationInequalities, social structure and policies
Studies on structural heterogeneity and social inequality in Latin America
[+] InformationEnergy and sustainable development
A research agenda linked to decarbonization and a just transition, and to technological and productive development
[+] InformationCritical studies in disability
Disabled, sick, and crazy people of Latin America, let's unite!
[+] InformationStreet-level bureaucracy and inequalities
Analyze the expressions, conditions and implications of contextual elements of the Latin American region in the configuration of street-level bureaucracies
[+] InformationIndigenous peoples, autonomies and collective rights
To support the autonomy processes of indigenous peoples
[+] InformationPoverty and social policies
To confront old and new situations of poverty and inequality
[+] InformationDevelopment and territorial inequalities: critical perspectives
Understanding the dynamics of production and reproduction of territorial inequalities
[+] InformationMobile and politicized social science
Collectively finding keys that allow us to overcome restrictive logics and policies and to advocate for a social science for the people
[+] InformationContemporary Right-Wing Movements, Dictatorships and Democracies
Study of right-wing organizations from the second half of the 20th century to the present
[+] InformationInternational health and health sovereignty
To produce a new narrative between decolonization and health sovereignty strategy
[+] InformationThe Central American isthmus: peripheral epistemological perspectives
Contact between epistemic thoughts with and about Central American social struggles and their agents
[+] InformationSecurity forces, control agencies and illicit markets
The securitization of social and political life comes into tension with the rule of law and democratic regimes.
[+] InformationPopular education and critical pedagogies
Latin America today faces vast challenges and crossroads
[+] InformationEducation and interculturality
To build a large body of information and knowledge on the subject
[+] InformationStudies on the United States
To contrast the complex dynamics and correlation of forces, in their contemporary geopolitical dimensions
[+] InformationJust transitions and care for our common home
Activate just transition processes together
[+] InformationEmancipatory feminist economics
Co-constructing a vision of feminist economics that recognizes the transformations taking place in the region
[+] InformationNetwork of gender, feminisms and memories
Living archive of feminist intellectual production
[+] InformationBorders, regionalization and globalization
Analysis of problems that impact territories, common goods, life and community organization
[+] InformationVigilantism, collective violence, and security governance
Collaborate with other actors in developing appropriate responses to new forms of violence
[+] InformationCritical studies on motherhood and fatherhood
Exploring possibilities for transforming the practice of these motherhoods and fatherhoods
[+] InformationReligions and society: Tensions, diversities, and mobilizations under debate
To investigate the revitalization of the religious phenomenon that Latin America is going through.
[+] InformationExodus of cultural matrices
The rural and urban territorial anchoring seeks to recreate public spaces with a postcolonial approach.
[+] InformationComparative social inequalities: social class, gender and ethnicity
To critically examine public policies aimed at reducing inequalities
[+] InformationCrisis, responses and alternatives in the Greater Caribbean
To influence the formulation of public policies as one of the ways to respond to problems and overcome obstacles to Caribbean development
[+] InformationWhat development? Multi-stakeholder and multi-level dialogues
To promote sustainable public policies by linking social research with public policy.
[+] InformationRuralities and political transitions in Central America and Colombia
To explore the various processes that have occurred in post-armed conflict contexts, especially in rural areas
[+] InformationCritical studies of rural development
Of particular note are the Peasant Schools of action research, which constitute exchanges of experiences, building bridges between academia, communities and rural movements
[+] InformationPolitical agroecology
A transdisciplinary field of knowledge and action for the design and production of actions and institutions for the sustainability of the food system
[+] InformationChildhoods and youth
To contribute to the improvement and understanding of the realities experienced by children and young people in Latin America and the Caribbean
[+] InformationMigration and South-South borders
To advance the understanding of recent transformations in migration in the region
[+] InformationParticipatory processes and methodologies
Cogeneration of situated knowledge based on critical reflection
[+] InformationEpistemologies of the South
Understanding from and with the South requires a political, pedagogical, and epistemic orientation.
[+] InformationPolitical Philosophy. Undisciplined Humanities: Cosmos, Body, and Utopia
Expanding our feeling-thinking-acting in/of the humanities
[+] InformationAnti-patriarchal struggles, families, gender diversities and citizenship
Understanding the anti-patriarchal struggles in the region and their link to the construction of citizenship and rights.
[+] InformationGender, (in)equalities and rights in tension
Tensions in the state sphere, in the political sphere, and within the internal field of feminisms
[+] InformationLatin American urban processes: (in)justices and (in)equalities
Exploring contemporary urban transformations
[+] InformationViolence, governments and democracies
To emphasize the multi-sectoral design of policies and interventions in the field of citizen security
[+] InformationBodies, territories and feminisms
Critical Views of the Territory Collective from a Feminist Perspective
[+] InformationSport, culture and society
I study public policies that promote the right to access and practice sport
[+] InformationWhat job for what future?
Contributing to the achievement of decent work in the world
[+] InformationViolence in Central America
To account for the power relations that underlie past and present violence
[+] InformationCritical legal thinking and sociopolitical conflicts
To generate legal common sense to materialize processes of social emancipation
[+] InformationWork in contemporary capitalism
To build a political, theoretical and methodological proposal from the South
[+] InformationSocial metabolism / Environmental justice
The political, social, and economic transformation based on the conservation of ecosystem functions
[+] InformationPopular economies. Theoretical and practical mapping
Popular economies as modes of reproducing life
[+] InformationPolitical ecologies from the South/Abya-Yala
Build a field of theoretical-practical knowledge based on the dialogue of knowledges
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