Relationalities have marked the Mecila Centre’s research program since its beginning. The very name of the Centre, Conviviality-Inequality, refers to two relational concepts which, additionally, are in a relationship of co-constitution. Moreover, relationalities shape the process of knowledge production at the Centre, understood not as the isolated action of an abstract cognizing subject but as a dialogical and relational practice involving researchers from different generations, disciplines and regions as well as non-academic experts such as activists and artists.
Relationalities is the annual theme guiding part of Mecila’s research in 2025. We expect that the theme, both open in terms of the specific issues and constellations that can be addressed and well defined in terms of the epistemological stance it evokes, will encourage innovative empirical and theoretical investigations allowing Mecila to advance and expand its research program.