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LASA 2021 : Crisis global, desigualdades y centralidad de la vida

Vancouver :

May 26 – 29, 2021 :

The global crisis highlighted by the expansion of COVID-19 over the entire planet has had dramatic consequences in Latin America, testing states’ capacity to protect their citizens. The effects of the disease have laid bare the structural shortcomings of the countries in the region and the persistence of inequality, exclusion, and authoritarianism.

The consequences for the economy have been devastating too, in a region that was already experiencing problems with growth and the concentration of wealth. The pandemic has also included profound effects on the social reproduction of many people in the continent. At the same time, this crisis has also ignited deep reflections about the centrality of life and of care in economic and social development, the urgency of confronting social inequalities, the imperative to act against environmental devastation, and the powerful need to guarantee democratic process.

Additionally, COVID-19 is developing at the historical moment of greatest global connectivity. In this context, paradoxically, all countries have implemented measures restricting movement and confining the national space; the latter have led to policies of control over people and their bodies. Undoubtedly, these processes will have long-term effects in public and private life.

The purpose of the 2021 LASA congress in Vancouver is to convene people who study the societies and cultures of Latin American and the Caribbean to reflect on globalization and its impacts on the lives of its inhabitants, the institutional architecture of its states, and the cultural dynamics on the continent. […]

More informations :

https://lasaweb.org/en/lasa2021/


OpenEdition le sugiere que cite este post de la siguiente manera:
REGARDS CNRS (10 de agosto de 2020). LASA 2021 : Crisis global, desigualdades y centralidad de la vida. Redial & Ceisal. Recuperado 14 de octubre de 2024 de https://doi.org/10.58079/tfqa


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