Workshops > Decentralized American StudiesDECENTRALIZED AMERICANIST STUDIES Thursday, October 2nd from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM Centre des Colloques, room 3.01
Organization : Sofia Guevara Viquez (Université Paris-Est Créteil), Lucile Medina (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3) and Thierry Maire (CEMCA). Speakers :Delphine Prunier (Instituto de investigaciones sociales UNAM), Garance Robert (Université de Montréal), Rene Ricardo Rodriguez-Fabilena (Université d'Anvers), Fabian Plazas Diaz (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Laura Henry (CREDA, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) Abstract : The overall aim of this workshop is to offer an overview of the continent from a Central American perspective. It will follow on from a round table1 and a seminar2 devoted to work on Central America. Research on this region is a niche, poorly networked and not very visible in studies on the "Americas" in France. And yet, the study of this region is particularly relevant for thinking about the continent in its articulations between North and South, between American and Mexican influences and links to the rest of Latin America, its territories and their reconfigurations in the face of current global political, social and environmental instabilities. Indeed, Central American societies are plagued by major, quasi-structural social problems [1-3], while at the same time being disrupted by recurring extreme events, which are exacerbated by climate change [4]. It is tempting to think of this region exclusively in terms of "crisis" and the gradual drifting away of institutions and social security in the broadest sense. Yet, despite the difficult conditions, Central American societies are not limited to their crises. The aim of this workshop is to highlight the many facets of these crises, following two lines of thought. On the one hand, the aim is to focus on the actions taken by social players to deal with crises and unstable futures; on the other hand, to make the Central American region visible and to shed light on the rest of the American continent, the aim is to mobilize a cross-disciplinary perspective. We therefore invite colleagues to send in individual or collective proposals crossing fields in Central America and other parts of the Americas: focusing on synergies, circulations, connections and/or their discordances. Without being exhaustive, submissions could focus on mobilizations (in the broadest sense: political, environmental, religious, legal...), everyday spaces (in different social milieus and territories), indigenous communities, rural dynamics and possible tensions with urban spaces, migrations and circulations, local or trans-regional social networks, the use of technologies (high tech, low tech)...The workshop will be an important milestone for then working on a joint publication project. --- 1 The aim of this round table, to be held on May 29, 2024 at the Condorcet Campus, is to take stock of research on Central America, a region that has a low profile in Latin American research, and to open up perspectives for the seminar. [1] Hermesse J. De l’ouragan à la catastrophe au Guatemala: nourrir les montagnes. Paris: Éditions Karthala; 2016. |
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