Maria Sibylla Merian Centre Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America The Mecila – Maria Sibylla Merian International Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America examines past and present forms of social, political, and cultural conviviality in Latin America and the Caribbean. It employs conviviality as an analytical concept to describe ways of …
Public security is a persistent topic of debate in Latin America, often used as political currency by actors who ignore the most advanced discussions in the field and rely on failed and outdated management models. To formulate public security policies, we must look beyond easy solutions that depend on authoritarianism and repression as magic formulas. …
Brasilien durchläuft aktuell mehrere, simultane Krisen: Politisch setzt der Zuwachs des Rechtsextremismus die demokratischen Institutionen sowie das demokratische Miteinander immer mehr unter Druck. Wirtschaftlich verfestigt sich die seit 2015 anhaltende Stagnation durch die politische Verharmlosung der Pandemie und die daraus folgende unkontrollierte Verbreitung des Coronavirus. Ökologisch führen bewusste Lockerungen von Umweltauflagen und eine gezielte Schwächung …
Due to the launch of the book “Indigenous Land Rights in the Inter-American System” by Mariana Monteiro Matos, Mecila organized together with Max-Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and the Research Group in Ethnic-Rights Moitará a roundtable about indigenous land rights in Brazil and Latin America. With: Mariana Monteiro de Matos – Instituto Max-Planck de Antropologia Social …
In der gegenwärtigen gesellschaftlichen und ökologischen Krisensituation ist dringend eine Vorstellung davon gefragt, wie eine Zeit nach dem Neoliberalismus aussehen kann. Das zweite konvivialistische Manifest stellt eine politische Philosophie vor, die konsequent relational und pluriversal angelegt ist, die das Zusammenleben der Menschen untereinander und das Verhältnis zur Natur auf neue, glaubwürdige und überzeugende Grundlagen stellen …
Ciclo de Diálogos MECILA/ CLACSO Desafíos de la conviavilidad: medialidades y desigualdades en tiempos de pandemia El Consejo Latino Americano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO) y el Mecila invitan para el ciclo de encuentros virtuales “Desafíos de la conviavilidad: medialidades y desigualdades en tiempos de pandemia”. Los tres encuentros son actividades abiertas y gratuitas con transmisión …
Until December 6 Mecila will receive applications for its 2021 Junior and Senior Fellowships. Candidates from all fields are invited to apply. Due to unforeseeable developments related to the COVID-19 pandemic, recipients may be awarded a digital, hybrid, or in-person Fellowship depending on individual circumstances. The duration of each Fellowship is 9 months (from 1 …
“Marginal Conviviality: on inequalities and the reproduction of violence”, by Gabriel Feltran In this ethnography of marginal conviviality in São Paulo, Brazil, the author addresses the theoretical framework of conviviality-inequality in social contexts marked by state and interpersonal violence. A life story, followed empirically from 2005-2018 in a district of São Paulo, guides the argumentation. …
Our new video series “Mecila Glossary” addresses the need to make concepts and ideas from the humanities and social sciences more accessible in plain language and friendly formats. We are inviting academics from our network to explain keywords related to our research interests. In the first episode, Maya Manzi, a former postdoctoral researcher at Mecila, …
We invite candidates to apply for a ten-week grant for a Thematic Research Group on conservatisms. The group should include two Senior Fellows (Experienced Scholars) and two Junior Fellows (scholars who have obtained their doctoral degrees in the last five years). At least one group member must be affiliated to one of Mecila’s seven partner …
