Theme 1
Scope and Challenges of the Changes in the Hemisphere: post-neoliberalism, integration, socialisms, Good Living and civilizational changes
- Advancements and limitations in the building of changes: alternative models, new kinds of revolutions, neodevelopmentalism, neoextractivism and other critical nodes.
- Alternative integration processes and from the peoples: geopolitical, economic and social challenges. South-South relations. New modalities of cooperation, solidarity and exchange. New financial architecture.
- Sovereignties (food, energy, financial and other forms) and their multiple dimensions as the main hub for national, international and geopolitical transformation.
- Recovering and transformations of the State: strengthening of the public sphere and of redistributive principles, plurinationality, gender equality and diversities.
- Constituent Processes as a way to refund the State and society
- Towards another democracy:social protagonism and participation; new ways of exercising political power. Relations between movements, political parties and States. Agenda and internal dynamics of the movement; exhaustion and limits of formal democracy.
- Towards an economy that is diverse, equal and in solidarity. New patterns of production, energy, technology and consumption, oriented to care and the enlarged reproduction of life.
- Latin America facing the economic crisis: implications and responses.
- Resistance to change. Right wing strategies: coup d’état, media offensive, security-culture of life.
Theme 2
Militarization and imperial domination strategies, resistance alternatives from the peoples
- Military bases, occupations and new control and military intervention tools, multiple war scenarios. The use of colonies in America as war platforms.
- Anti-terrorist legislation, international security plans and treaties (Plan Colombia, ASPAN, Mérida Initiative…). Latin American Armed Forces participation in international bodies and missions.
- Paramilitary, mercenary, security and war privatization.
- Communication as a strategic dispute area.
- Terror, terrorism and a culture of fear. Criminalization of social struggles, of poverty and migrations. Feminicide. Different forms of organized crime.
- Imperial strategies in Obama’s era.
- Disputes and displacements in the unipolar order. ¿Subimperialisms in the continent?
- Financial crisis and speculative attacks: economic, ethical and geopolitical implications.
- Regional and continental scenarios of resistance: proposals, initiatives, ways of mobilization, coordinations, campaigns. The Empire questioned from the inside: resistances and alternatives in the North.
Theme 3
Defending and transforming the conditions and ways of life in the face of predatory capitalism
- Climate change and environmental justice. Defense and restoring of Mother Earth and the Rights of Nature. New production and consumption patterns.
- Catastrophes: new dimension of socio-environmental damage. Interventionist answers vs. sovereign responses in solidarity.
- Struggle against commercialization of life and its legal-institutional instruments: free trade; external, ecological, social and historical debt; International Financial Institutions, WTO, FTA, IFI, corporations, multinationals.
- Food crisis: character, causes and perspectives. Food sovereignty, agrarian reform, peasant and family agriculture. Agroecological alternatives, fair trade, sustainable consumption.
- Impacts of the extractive industry; struggle and alternatives against the mining industry, the megaprojects and others alike.
- Human rights: advances and tensions. Privatization and commodification of public services and social security.
- Reaffirming sexual and reproductive rights against the conservative offensive.
- Work, exploitation and reproduction of life: struggles, rights and alternatives. The impacts of crisis and new agendas.
- Redefinition of key elements of life: land, territories, biodiversity, water, seeds and energy; their protection and redistribution.
- Alternatives to urban-centralism, urban segregation, social exclusion and relegation of the peasant world. Democratization of rural and urban habitat and the rights to the city.
- Resistance and struggle against the patriarchy and the commercialization of women’s lives: programmatic and organizational innovations.
Theme 4
The ideological dispute: communication, culture, knowledge and education.
- Mechanisms and modalities of cultural hegemony to control the processes of knowledge and education.
- Counter-hegemonic communication, democratization and resistance to dominant communication. Networks and communication links of movements and peoples.
- Proposals on alternative technologies: challenges and practices. Political and cultural uses of new communication technologies.
- Democratization and access to radio-frequency spectrum and the whole set of technologies and media.
- Communication businesses and entrepreneurs as political actors.
- Defense of public space and goods within communication, culture and education.
- Counter-hegemonic knowledge and dialogue of know-how.
- Resistance to ultra-conservative religious trends.
- Cultural movements: new proposals of cultural plurality and expression of diversities.
- The right to education and student struggles. Counter-hegemonic education models and experiences of popular education.
- Youth cultures and identities
- Latin American and regional identities; migrant identities.
- Gender identities and sexual diversity.
- Space and rights for the disabled.
Theme 5
Original, Indigenous and Afro-descendant Peoples and Nationalities: the challenge of plurinationality
- Struggles and political projects of peoples and nationalities.
- Territories, autonomy and self-determination. Defense of Mother Earth.
- Peoples rights and collective rights.
- Conceptions and practices of indigenous and afro-economies; economy of “good living”
- The legacy of “good living” for the construction of pluricultural, diverse and egalitarian societies.
- Culture, knowledge and spirituality of the indigenous and afro-descendant people.
- Participation and leadership of indigenous women.
- Continental articulation of the indigenous movement and its interrelations with other social movements.
Theme 6
Memory y historical justice
- Colonization / decolonization: yesterday and today. Racism and the reproduction of colonial order.
- XXI century colonies: more than a lag
- Bicentennials: ¿what do we celebrate? unfinished independence 200 years later.
- Paraguay’s historical memory and its projection to Latin America
- Repression, truth and justice: an open agenda
- History of resistances.
Transversal Themes: Gender and Diversity
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