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Agustín Lao Montes

Agustín Laó-Montes holds a PhD in historical sociology from Binghamton University in New York (20003) and is an Afro-descendant intellectual-activist of Puerto Rican origin. He is a professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts where he is also a research fellow at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and coordinator of the graduate program in African Diasporas in the PhD in Afro-American Studies.

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La Amazonía andina en el siglo XXI. Neoextractivismos, fronteras y resistencias

El presente libro es resultado de un esfuerzo colectivo por abordar algunas de las paradojas que traviesan el territorio amazónico en la región andina. Estas paradojas se configuran alrededor de la contradicción entre la preponderancia de este territorio como fuente de riqueza y la visión histórica estatal que lo ha considerado como espacio marginal. El cambio del milenio ha incorporado nuevos fenómenos económicos, políticos y ambientales que repercuten en condiciones sociales que mantienen y, quizá, agudizan dicha condición.

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Paisajes de las crisis ambientales y la naturaleza. Centroamérica desde el cine y la literatura

Néfer Muñoz Solano es profesor asociado de español en la Universidad de Dallas y actual fellow del CALAS en la sede Regional de Centroamérica y el Caribe. A través de esta entrevista nos acerca a los paisajes literarios y cinematográficos para reflexionar sobre la representación de las crisis ambientales y la naturaleza, dando a conocer la importancia que tiene la Centroamérica contemporánea dentro de su investigación.

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Emergent Agencies in Central America Migrant Route: Exploring the Nexus Between Peace and Migration

On January 14, 2020, a new Central American Caravan left San Pedro Sula: the first of that year. Although the COVID-19 pandemic was only starting, these caravans would continue. By March 2021, an unprecedented number of Central American migrants were located on the border with the United States. In complex humanitarian emergencies such as this, not only the causes and effects are multiple, but so are the ways in which States and societies respond to them. By observing these responses, we established the link between peace, violence, and migration in three ways.

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Magdalena Perkowska

Magdalena Perkowska holds a PhD in Spanish and Hispanic Literatures from Rutgers, The State University of New Jeresey, USA, and a Full Professor of Latin American Literature at Hunter College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her areas of specialization include Latin American narrative of the 20th twentieth and 21st twenty-first centuries, with emphasis on Central America, literary and cultural theory, visual and memory studies, and affect theories.

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Rosa Cañete Alonso

Rosa Cañente Alonso is an economist with 22 years of experience; specialized in the measurement, analysis and design of public policies to address inequality and poverty. She has developed research on power, democracy, inequality and poverty, elites, gender, taxation, tax systems, and social policies, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Carmen Guadalupe Fernández Casanueva

Carmen Guadalupe Fernández Casanueva received her master’s degree and PhD in Sociology from the University of Essex, Great Britain. She had previously completed a degree in Communication Sciences from ITESM CEM. She currently works as a professor-researcher at the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) Southeast campus, where she has also been regional director until 2020. It belongs to the National System of Researchers of Mexico, level III.

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Yulexis Almeida Junco

Yulexis Almeida Junco holds a PhD in Sociological Sciences, a Master’s Degree in Gender Studies and is a Full Professor in the Department of Sociology of the University of Havana, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, History and Sociology, Vice-president of the gender section of the Cuban Society of Psychology. She is one of the coordinators of the CLACSO Working Group (GT): Civilizing Crisis, Reconfigurations of Racism and Afro-Latin American Movements and the Cuban Afro-feminist Articulation (AAFC).

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