Central America beyond post-conflict: a laboratory of contemporaneity (vol. XVI no. 2)
Coordinators:
Andrea Freddi, Universidad de Los Lagos (andrea.freddi@ulagos.cl)
Paolo Grassi, University of Milan Bicocca (paolo.grassi@unimib.it)
Languages accepted: English, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
Deadline: July 31 2024
In Central America, countries such as El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala, have witnessed in recent years authoritarian turns carried out through the persecution of the press and opposition, co-optation of the justice system, arbitrary detentions, suspension of procedural rights and systematic violations of human rights. All this put an end to the post-conflict era, a parenthesis characterised by governmental systems based on fragile democratic institutions, neo-liberal economic policies and international humanitarian aid. As happened in the 1980s at the time of the civil wars, it is important that the social sciences, in dialogue with artistic and literary expressions, become aware of the epochal nature of these transformations and, thanks to their presence in the field, show us the internal dynamics, highlighting local perceptions and dismantling stereotypical interpretations.
However, beyond the testimonial duty of revealing a dramatic historical circumstance, Central America deserves special attention because the dynamics at work transcend the specific context. In this sense, we believe that the Central American is paradigmatic of the current condition of crisis and succeeds in highlighting the most bitter contradictions, the sharpest contrasts, the most devastating effects of neoliberal policies, conflicts over environmental resources, processes of urbanisation, the financialisation of daily life, the development of repressive devices, and the authoritarian turns undergone by many governments in the global South and North. From this point of view, we believe that the 'Central American margin' urges us to apply, today more than ever, a decolonial approach, thus challenging Western cultural hegemony.
We are therefore proposing an "exploratory" dossier, that allows us to reflect on the reality of Central America today, combining experimentally contributions capable of analyzing the dynamics described or their intersection. We welcome works realized with qualitative and mixed methodologies from the point of view of social and humanistic disciplines. We would like to look at Central America as a laboratory of contemporaneity, rather than hypostatising it in essentialising and therefore partial representations.
We collect contributions on the following topics:
- New Central American authoritarianisms and related forms of local and transnational sovereignty and governance;
- Old and new elites: from latifundo to drug trafficking, to the international development machine;
- Migration policies and dynamics: borders, bonds and subjectivities;
- The continuum of Central American violence, between street groups, gangs and systemic deprivation;
- Reconfiguration of gender roles: intersections, normativity and dissidence;
- Indigenous peoples beyond the multicultural model;
- Socio-environmental conflicts, between extractivism and conservation;
- New forms of urbanity and urbanisation;
- Visual and literary arts expressions on current conflicts.
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