Violence in Central America

El CLACSO Working Group on Violence in Central America The general objective is to analyze the network of violence that structures social and political life in the Central American region, through a dialogue between disciplines and researchers, allowing the phenomenon to be approached from diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives.

We seek to study the various manifestations of violence based on their characterization, historicization and problematization and their effects on subjectivities and on the social, cultural, political and economic processes of the region. 

The group's overall objective is to analyze the complex web of violence that structures social and political life in Central America through a dialogue among disciplines and researchers, allowing for a diverse theoretical and methodological approach to the phenomenon. We seek to study the various manifestations of violence by characterizing, historicizing, and problematizing them, and by examining their effects on subjectivities and on the social, cultural, political, and economic processes of the region. 

The categorization of violence (gender-based, revolutionary, urban, symbolic, structural, etc.) highlights the difficulty of arriving at a common definition of the phenomenon and the need for multidisciplinary approaches. Furthermore, it underscores that there is no single essence of violence. Violence exists outside of history. The study of violent manifestations or “subjective violence” should teach us about the ways in which societies and their members are produced and reproduced in a given time and place. 

This is the general perspective on which this group is based. We propose a rigorous analysis of the processes, mechanisms, actors, and spaces involved in violence. We encourage a multidisciplinary and intersectional approach that integrates class, ethnicity, and gender to account for the intersection and imbrication of power relations underlying past and present violence, and to compare it from both diachronic and synchronic perspectives.

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Work Plan 2023-2025