2021-22 Event Series

¡No son 30 pesos, son 30 años! Social movements in Latin America

This series of conversations will map out the cycle of protests that have occurred in Latin America and the Caribbean in the past two decades. We seek to reflect on social explosions and mobilizations - in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Haiti, Brazil, and Paraguay - without limiting ourselves by looking only at the present nor invisibilizing the patience and daily commitment of those who fight for dignified lives free from racism and sexism. We also want to make visible local histories of struggle, as well as solidarity networks that have articulated and sustained these mobilizations. The conversations will revolve around the following questions: 1) What pillars of liberal democracies and/or autocratic governments are being criticized and destroyed, and what forms of government and sovereignty have been proposed and created? 2) Does the current economic crisis in the region, which has deepened during the pandemic, put neoliberal legitimacy in crisis? 3) Beyond the body of the constitution, what constitutional ideas or actions are being proposed and carried out? 4) How can we think about geopolitics in other ways, traversing the history of empires and new empires, and draw other geographies for the future?