Results of the second call for Latin American Perspectives. A state of the debate
The Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) and Siglo XXI Editores (Mexico) announce the results of the second edition of the call for submissions, Miradas Latinoamericanas. Un estado del debate (Latin American Perspectives: A State of the Debate) , a joint publishing project that has already published eight volumes and seeks to highlight the theoretical and methodological contributions made by academics from Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as to capture the current state of the debate in multiple fields of the social sciences and humanities.
Latin American Perspectives: A State of the Debate aims to bring together works that present the latest developments in relation to the themes, approaches, theoretical perspectives, questions and objects of research in the fields of social sciences and humanities, from a perspective that seeks to highlight the originality and relevance of the knowledge produced in the region.
In this second edition, the proposed themes were:
- Violence, rights and gender equality.
- Economics and development dilemmas.
- Perspectives on the world of work.
- Inequalities and poverty.
Thirty-six applications were received , of which, after technical and formal review, 18 were in a position to be qualitatively evaluated by an International Editorial Committee to consider the quality, relevance and coherence of the proposals according to the call.
Following the evaluation, four proposals were selected , categorized into each of the priority areas outlined in the call for proposals. The list of selected proposals is as follows:
| Coordinators | Member Center or Institution | Countries of the coordinators | Title of the proposal | Axis |
| Alma Guadalupe Melgarito Rocha | Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez | Mexico | Indigenous and Afro-descendant women facing the discourse of modern law: Assessments and challenges | Violence, rights and gender equality |
| Berenice Patricia Ramírez López and Sergio Igor Carpenter Vallejos | National Autonomous University of Mexico/University of Buenos Aires | Mexico Argentina | The dilemmas in building a welfare state | Economics and development dilemmas |
| Fidel Rodríguez Velázquez, Julimar Mora Silva and María Elena Meneses Muro | Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro/Southern Anthropologies Network, Brazil/Institute of History of Cuba/University of Havana | Venezuela Cuba | The worlds of work in the Americas: social relationships, histories of resistance and lives in motion (16th-21st centuries) | Perspectives on the world of work |
| Gabriela Benza and Gonzalo Assusa | National University of San Martín/National Council for Scientific and Technical Research/National University of Córdoba | Argentina | Production and social reproduction of inequalities in contemporary Latin America: New trends, disputes, and identities | Inequality and poverty |
