maria sibylla merian centre
conviviality-inequality in latin america
maria sibylla merian centre
conviviality-inequality in latin america
Mecila has been studying the multiple interrelations of conviviality and inequality from an interdisciplinary perspective since 2017. Research at Mecila is structured along three Research Areas (RA) that have been developed since 2020: [Hi]Stories of Conviviality, Medialities of Conviviality, and Politics of Conviviality.
For developing its research programme, Mecila addresses multiple research topics. In the period 2026-2029, the Centre will devote particular but not exclusive attention to two subjects:
Digital Inequalities
Mecila is interested in discussing how the changes in patterns of sociability brought about by digitalisation generate new forms of inequality and concentration of power and wealth.
Articulating the Global and the Planetary
Given that Mecila’s interdisciplinary research programme simultaneously covers the global and the planetary spheres, the Centre plans to combine the debates on climate change developed with the social sciences and the humanities more systematically.
Speakers: Carlos Alba (Colmex), Samuel Barbosa (USP), Barbara Potthast (UzK)
The RA [Hi]Stories of Conviviality analyses how the nexus between conviviality and inequality takes shape in different historical contexts and is presented and represented in discourses and cultural, socioeconomic, and legal manifestations.
Speakers: Gloria Chicote (IdIHCS), Barbara Göbel (IAI), Susanne Klengel (FU Berlin)
Medialities of Conviviality focuses on processes of co-production and circulation of knowledge and representations in convivial and unequal contexts, including structures, networks, and flows of ideas, values, imaginaries, and objects.
Speakers: Sérgio Costa (FU Berlin), Juan Piovani (UNLP), Marta Machado (Cebrap)
The RA Politics of Conviviality studies the articulation and negotiation of differences and inequalities in everyday life and within institutions.