The Working Groups will be presented [2026-2028]
South-South critical decolonial thought, praxis and aesthetics
To analyze the interrelationship between modernity, colonization, capitalism, slavery, racialization and engineering, and the historical specificities that it has expressed in various stages.
[+] InformationActivism, collective memory, appropriation of identities
Defending human rights and generating specific and situated knowledge on the issue of identity appropriation in children, while also incorporating the impact of these crimes on different generations.
[+] InformationSocial security and pension systems
To promote the development of sustainable and scientifically sound policies that strengthen knowledge of social security, in order to move towards universal, equitable and sustainable social protection systems.
[+] InformationLatin American urban processes: (in)justices and (in)equalities
To promote the development of sustainable and scientifically sound policies that strengthen knowledge of social security, in order to move towards universal, equitable and sustainable social protection systems.
[+] InformationFood sovereignty from the Global South
The GT analyzes food systems in Latin America and the Caribbean from a critical and situated perspective, understanding them as configurations traversed by structural inequalities, geopolitical disputes and territorial asymmetries.
[+] InformationNetwork of gender, feminisms and memories
We propose to reflect on the current challenges of feminism in the face of the advance of anti-rights and anti-feminist discourses and policies of the contemporary right.
[+] InformationLatin American studies: national, regional and transnational perspectives
A space of convergence to rethink the intellectual, political and methodological coordinates of our region.
[+] InformationThe Central American isthmus: peripheral epistemological perspectives
Production, dissemination and connection of interdisciplinary knowledge on diasporas, democracy, authoritarianism, territorialities, extractivism, spiritualities, pedagogies, culture, art, peoples and social movements in the isthmus of Central America
[+] InformationCrisis, responses and alternatives in the Greater Caribbean
The organizational structures of popular economies constitute new horizons for the social, political, and economic construction of popular and feminist organizations.
[+] InformationPopular economies: theoretical and practical mapping
The organizational structures of popular economies constitute new horizons for the social, political, and economic construction of popular and feminist organizations.
[+] InformationEnergy and sustainable development
The GT seeks to analyze the energy transition not only as a technological process, but as a political, economic and social dispute that redefines the development possibilities of the region.
[+] InformationPolitical Agroecology
The GT seeks to generate situated, interdisciplinary and committed knowledge that contributes to understanding and transforming the dynamics of the corporate agri-food regime, its socio-environmental impacts and the structural inequalities it reproduces in the region.
[+] InformationAgrarian histories: present and future challenges for land and labor disputes
The GT aims to reconstruct and systematize the land tenure structure, the heterogeneous agrarian social formation, the regulatory frameworks, as well as the conflict that unfolded around the uses, customs and rights of rural worlds
[+] InformationEmerging processes and territorial innovations on the margins
The GT seeks to identify emerging processes in territorial innovations that are developing in marginalized regions of the Global South, especially in semi-arid, mountainous areas and even on the edges of cities.
[+] InformationPolitical Ecologies from the South/Abya Yala
From a decolonial perspective, the group analyzes the persistence of the coloniality of power in Latin America, demonstrating how extractive dynamics and forms of capitalist accumulation reproduce historical inequalities and affect communities and territories differently.
[+] InformationImperialism, neocolonialism and interventionist policies
To analyze, document and disseminate the historical and contemporary forms of colonial and imperial intervention
[+] InformationParticipatory processes and methodologies
To deepen the study, reflection and action on the processes of social and citizen participation
[+] InformationVigilantism, punitive violence, and the production of security
Rethinking the relationship between democracy and violence
[+] InformationInternational health and health sovereignty
To produce a new framework between decolonization, autonomy and health sovereignty strategy towards a new epistemic and practical conception of Latin American and Caribbean critical thinking on health from the South situated in the 21st Century.
[+] InformationInequalities and social change
To challenge the meanings of development and to strengthen agendas oriented towards distributive justice and the deepening of democracy
[+] InformationCare, affectivity and posthuman lives (AI)
To investigate the deep tensions existing in Latin America and the Caribbean between the centrality of life and the logic of advanced capitalism
[+] InformationCollective memories and resistance practices
To investigate the articulation between collective memory processes and the various practices of resistance, in the context of current neoliberalism.
[+] InformationAnti-capitalisms and emerging sociability
To analyze the practices, repertoires of collective action, and forms of social democratization of diverse emerging socialities in Latin America and the Caribbean
[+] InformationEducational policies and the right to education
To analyze the cross-cutting problems that arise from the right to education, unfolding towards its theoretical and methodological problems and the possibilities of interdisciplinary interpretation in the face of the pedagogical potential.
[+] InformationViolence in Central America
To analyze the violence of social and political life in the Central American region, in a multidisciplinary dialogue with diverse theoretical and methodological approaches.
[+] InformationAnti-racism and Afro-descendants in the Global South
To strengthen a situated anti-racist research field, capable of influencing both academic debate and the design of public policies and the dispute of meanings in the public sphere
[+] InformationMigration and South-South borders
To make migrant struggles visible and contribute to building more inclusive societies
[+] InformationSexual activism and citizenship: interdisciplinary dialogues
Politicizing knowledge production to confront neoconservative actors, projects, and discourses that seek to halt progress and deny LGBTIQA+ rights
[+] InformationCritical legal thinking and anti-systemic struggles
To consolidate critical legal thinking in the Latin American and Caribbean region, placing law within the framework of the critique of political economy
[+] InformationChildhoods and youth
To generate a transformative understanding that recognizes children and youth as political subjects with agency
[+] InformationOpen science as a common good
Consolidating open science as a public good, in the face of the commodification of knowledge.
[+] InformationIndigenous peoples: dialogues and epistemic-territorial disputes
An interdisciplinary, intercultural, interepistemic, and interscientific space that recognizes the territory as the primary learning space
[+] InformationPopular education and critical pedagogies
To investigate the symptoms and challenges of contemporary Latin American reality, analyzing the subjectivities and motivations of the common people. It seeks to construct historical projects and new collective utopias based on critical pedagogies.
[+] InformationEducation and interculturality
Investigating the trajectories of indigenous and migrant children, linking community knowledge with the school system to analyze inequalities and otherness.
[+] InformationAppropriation of digital technologies and intersectionalities
Analyze activity in, about, with, and against technology to understand its appropriation
[+] InformationViolence, authoritarianism, and democratic security policies
To deepen the discussion on the challenges facing Latin American and Caribbean democracies in their relationship with the phenomena of violence that permeate our region
[+] InformationMobile and politicized social science
To promote a science that is built together with and for the needs of the people
[+] InformationExiles, violence and memories of the past and present
To address the history of Latin American violence and exiles from the 20th century to the present, paying attention to the repertoires of action and resistance deployed by expatriate communities.
[+] InformationStudent movements and activism
A space for critical, interdisciplinary and intergenerational reflection for the analysis of student movements and activism in the 20th and 21st centuries.
[+] InformationLatin American thought and social theory and university internationalization
To recover and renew the great critical and emancipatory traditions of Latin American thought in order to actively intervene in the public debate
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