LASA Sections
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Africa and the Americas
https://sections.lasaweb.org/sections/africa-americas
Africa and the Americas Section...
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Amazonia
https://amazonialasa.weebly.com/
Amazonia Section...
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Archives, Libraries and Digital Scholarship Section
https://sections.lasaweb.org/sections/scholarly-research-resources
The Archives, Libraries and Digital Scholarship Section gathers LASA members who are dedicated to promoting physical and digital access to primary sources and academic research focused on the Latin American and Caribbean context. This group encourages interdisciplinary dialogue around the Digital Humanities/Digital Scholarship, cultural heritage preservation, collection development, archival theory and research, and open access publishing....
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Asia and the Americas
https://sections.lasaweb.org/sections/asia-americas
The LASA Section for Asia and the Americas promotes the study of interactions and comparisons between these two regions. The long history of exchange between Asia and the Americas dates back to the sixteenth-century Manila Galleon and the nineteenth-century large-scale migrations of Asian laborers and traders to Latin America and the Caribbean. Today, China is among the top three trading partners of most countries in the region, and increasing its...
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Bolivia
The Bolivia Section, in close collaboration with other associations and centers dedicated to Bolivian studies, aims to deepen and expand knowledge and communication among professionals, students, leaders, and communicators in different disciplines and public venues with regard to political, economic, social and cultural processes pertinent to Bolivia and its peoples, and their relations with other countries and people around the world. The Section will implement 1) a website to serve...
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Brazil
https://sections.lasaweb.org/sections/brazil
The mission of the Brazil Section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) is to promote Brazilian studies in an interdisciplinary manner and from a multinational perspective and to provide a space within LASA for scholars and others interested in Brazil to share knowledge and expertise. To these ends we sponsor a number of activities: a moderated listserv, the awarding of book and essay prizes. the holding of a business...
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Central America
https://sections.lasaweb.org/sections/central-america
The Section seeks to promote interchange among scholars of the region through conferences and via an Internet home page; offer at least one session at each LASA Congress; offer an award for outstanding scholarly work published in the period between congresses; raise travel funds for Central Americans to attend LASA Congresses; and continue study trips to the region. ...
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Colombia
https://sections.lasaweb.org/sections/colombia
The LASA Colombia Section aims to increase communication and interaction among those who study Colombian topics; to facilitate the organization of panels on Colombia at LASA Congresses; to promote the representation of Colombianist interests within LASA; and to allow the organization of specific Colombia-related task forces, e.g. human rights. ...
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Colonial
https://sections.lasaweb.org/sections/colonial
The Colonial Section of LASA seeks to be a forum where scholars of the colonial period in Latin American can come together across disciplinary boundaries to share information, exchange ideas and build relationships. The section publishes a quarterly newsletter, organizes sessions at the annual LASA congress and awards prizes for outstanding scholarship related to the colonial world....
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Cuba
https://sections.lasaweb.org/sections/cuba
The activities of this Section are oriented by three broad goals: strengthening scholarly relations between the U.S. and Cuba; providing a structure for the association of scholars whose research focuses on Cuba and U.S.-Cuban relations; and facilitating the integration of Cuban scholars and scholarship on Cuba in LASA Congress programming....
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Culture, Power and Politics
https://sections.lasaweb.org/sections/culture-power-politics
The Culture, Power and Politics Section promotes the study of cultural politics and – in a broad way – in/of relations of power as well as the politics and power of/in culture. It is a space for the exchange and debate among different positions, as well as for the development of collaborative relations among its members....
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Defense, Public Security and Democracy
https://sections.lasaweb.org/sections/defense-publicsecurity-democracy
This Section was created at LASA2000 in Miami. Its goals are to coordinate and facilitate contact among members of LASA who are interested in all aspects of defense policy, civil-military relations and security issues in general....
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Economics and Politics
https://sections.lasaweb.org/sections/economics-politics
The section is dedicated to the promotion of policy relevant dialogue as well as pure scholarship at the intersection of politics and economics, i.e. political economy. It seeks to attract members interested in any or all aspects related to theoretical and empirical debates around the role of states and markets in the development of Latin American and Caribbean nations. The section normally organizes a couple of panels during LASA Congresses...
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Ecuadorian Studies
http://www.ecuatorianistas.org/
The LASA Section on Ecuador aims to facilitate a broad interdisciplinary discussion among national and foreign scholars, social movements, NGOS, and research institutes with an interest in Ecuador through the organization of panels at LASA Congresses, the establishment of electronic fora for communication, the active engagement of current social and political issues, coordination with other LASA sections, and the promotion of Ecuadorian interests within LASA....
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Educación y Políticas Educativas en América Latina
https://sections.lasaweb.org/sections/educacion-politicaseducativas
Teniendo en cuenta, primero, la situación de exclusión social imperante en América Latina, donde uno de cada cinco niños abandona la escuela primaria antes de llegar a quinto grado; y segundo, que la calidad y cobertura de la educación están vinculados no sólo a la formación de recursos humanos para el desarrollo sino también con la equidad social y la ética, se ha creado esta sección cuyo objetivo es facilitar...
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Environment
https://sections.lasaweb.org/sections/environment
The Environment Section brings together scholars and practitioners to exchange ideas, information, and to promote fuller understanding of the dynamics of the environment and its interaction with human society. It seeks to promote an awareness of environmental issues among the LASA membership and to introduce those concerns into the policy-making processes in the Hemisphere....
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Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Peoples
The Section on Ethnicity, Race and Indigenous Peoples promotes research, teaching and collaboration with respect to ethnicity, race, and the concerns of subaltern ethnic groups, particularly indigenous peoples, while offering a broader disciplinary terrain for exploring social, economic, political, and cultural issues. The section promotes greater participation in LASA of indigenous and Afro-descendent scholars....
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Europe and Latin America
https://sections.lasaweb.org/sections/europe-latinamerica
LASA’s Europe and Latin America Section (ELAS) serves to promote, on a multi-disciplinary basis, scholarly relations between Latin Americanists from Europe and the Americas, and it fosters research on the relation and comparison of Europe and Latin America. Traditionally it sponsors two panels at each LASA congress. To become a member of ELAS, in addition to being affiliated with LASA, you should subscribe to the Section when you fill in...
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Film Studies
https://sections.lasaweb.org/sections/film-studies
The Film Studies Section promotes the study of Latin American, Latino, and diasporic cinema, as well as cinema on topics related to Latin America. It also fosters cinema studies (including New Media and other audiovisual modalities) within LASA through specialized approaches as well as those that allow for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary dialogue. Its goal is to attract members that include cinema lovers, academics (faculty and students), critics, and cinema professionals...
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Food, Agriculture, and Rural Studies
https://sections.lasaweb.org/sections/rural-studies
The general goals of the Food, Agriculture and Rural Studies Section are to facilitate interdisciplinary and international communication and cooperation among scholars and practitioners whose work relates to policies, politics, practices and cultural aspects of food, agrarian issues (i.e.: land grabbing, reform, and tenure; labor; markets) and any dimension of rural studies, past or present, theoretical or applied. Issues addressed include, but are not be limited to, social structure, politics, economics, geography, the environment, culture, religion,...
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Gender and Feminist Studies
https://sections.lasaweb.org/sections/gender-feministstudies
The LASA Gender and Feminist Studies Section is dedicated to promoting networking and dialogue on issues related to women and gender in Latin America and the Caribbean, incorporating different aspects of feminist studies in the social sciences and the humanities. The Section assists researchers, students, practitioners and others interested in the exchange of ideas and academic work. The LASA Gender Section makes a special invitation to new people to integrate...
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Haiti/Dominican Republic
https://sections.lasaweb.org/sections/haiti-dominicanrepublic
The goals of this newly-expanded section include the sponsorship of research at LASA Congresses; the promotion of networking on comparative analyses of themes or problems common to the two countries; and the promotion of discussions around sensitive issues, including refugees and immigration, economic integration, trafficking and smuggling, and racism. Section leaders hope to promote projects of mutual benefit to scholars from, or concerned with, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, and...
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Health, Science, and Technology
https://sections.lasaweb.org/sections/health-science-society
Health, Science, and Technology promotes the humanistic and social scientific study of disease, health, healing practices, and medical and scientific knowledge production, examining these topics in relation to broader social, political, and cultural contexts in Latin America. We are an interdisciplinary organization including historians, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, and specialists in languages, literature, science studies, public health, and the natural sciences....
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Historia Reciente y Memoria
https://sections.lasaweb.org/sections/historia-reciente-memoria
The central goals of the Historia Reciente y Memoria Section are to promote interdisciplinary and international dialogue and collaboration among scholars interested in analyzing the recent past of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean and the use and/or the abuse of memory of that past in the present. The Section sponsors panels and roundtables at LASA congresses, and uses the internet (including an electronic newsletter and list-serve) to...
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Labor Studies
https://sections.lasaweb.org/sections/labor-studies
The Labor Studies Section provides an interdisciplinary forum for members interested in labor issues throughout Latin America, the Caribbean, and the North American NAFTA countries. The Section maintains an active electronic discussion list, sponsors "special topics" panels at LASA, promotes the Latin American Labor News, and fosters communication among members on research projects, conferences, publications, and labor events throughout the Americas....
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Latinx Studies
https://sections.lasaweb.org/sections/latino-studies
The Latinx Studies Section is open to all LASA members and anyone interested in promoting research, teaching and advocacy on U.S. Latinx communities and their trans-national connections to their countries of origin. Established in 1997, The Latinx Studies Section of LASA formalized the academic study of the interactions of various Latin American populations in the United States. Rather than focusing on the experience of a single Latinx national constituency, the...
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Media, Communication & Culture
https://sections.lasaweb.org/sections/mass-media-popular-culture
This section brings together researchers interested in the cross cultural, interdisciplinary study of both emerging social practices and cultural objects produced for popular consumption, including posters, videos, comics, science fiction, ciberculture, music, etc. Researchers will have the opportunity to debate and theorize about new perspectives and insights into the social sphere from the perspective of the materiality of culture through collaborative projects and research....
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Mexico
https://sections.lasaweb.org/sections/mexico
The fundamental goal of this section is to facilitate communication and interaction among members of LASA (academic researchers, students, non-academics) who study any aspect of Mexico, including the Mexican diaspora and Mexico’s relations within and beyond the Americas. The section seeks to promote activities (including the organization of panels, roundtables, and other events at LASA congresses and awarding prizes for noteworthy books, journal articles, and papers) that highlight these and...
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Migraciones, Desplazamientos y Movilidades
https://sections.lasaweb.org/sections/international-migrations
The LASA Section on Migraciones, Desplazamientos y Movilidades will promote networking and dialogue related to academic work and debates on immigration from, to and within Latin America and the Caribbean among researchers, professors, students, and activists. The Section’s initial activities include a pre-conference, and will also organize awards for scholarly work among its members....
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Nineteenth Century
https://sections.lasaweb.org/sections/nineteenthcentury
The Nineteenth-Century section came into existence in 2015. We aim to bring together a cross-disciplinary group of scholars to promote new methods for understanding peoples, politics, passions, powers, and cultural production during the nineteenth century, and to share in the discovery and debate of new sources to better understand this moment in Latin American history....
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Otros Saberes
https://sections.lasaweb.org/sections/otrossaberes
This section promotes collaborative, transformative research and exchange between academics and civil society knowledge producers to further social justice. This section welcomes members with commitments to: 1) research practice and dissemination that is collaborative between academy- and civil society-based knowledge producers; 2) knowledge production that is both theoretically generative and substantively oriented to advance action on pressing social problems of our times; 3) scholarship that is social justice oriented, in...
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Perú
https://sections.lasaweb.org/sections/peru
The mission of the Peru Section is to increase awareness and understanding of past and present political, economic and social realities of Peru. This mission is undertaken through an interchange of data, ideas and opinions via: 1) occasional e-mail "discussions" of specific topics; 2) the periodic publication of a Section newsletter containing announcements of upcoming conferences, brief articles by Section members, book and film reviews, information on grants, etc.; 3)...
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Political Institutions
https://sections.lasaweb.org/sections/political-institutions
The Political Institutions Section is dedicated to the study of political institutions understood in the broad sense. Its members are interested in a wide range of domestic, international, and transnational institutions. They seek to understand how political actors both shape and are constrained by these institutions, using a broad array of theoretical and empirical approaches. The Section welcomes scholars interested in comparative politics, international relations and other disciplines interested in...
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Puerto Rico
https://sections.lasaweb.org/sections/puerto-rico
This LASA section aspires to foster scholarly dialogue and collaboration related to Puerto Rico and Puerto Rican studies, broadly defined. It will do so by strengthening cross- and transdisciplinary exchange and cooperation on themes associated to Puerto Rico and its diaspora; it will provide a structure to foster and promote research, teaching, and advocacy within the broader LASA organization; and it will promote research and artistic activities that highlight related...
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Sexualities Studies
https://sections.lasaweb.org/sections/sexualities-studies
The Section exists to promote scholarship on lesbian and gay issues in the various disciplines comprising LASA, to sponsor meetings during LASA congresses, to connect LASA membership with scholars and activists in Latin America working on lesbian and gay issues, and to bring together those interested in ending discrimination against lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender people in Latin America....
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Southern Cone Studies
https://sections.lasaweb.org/sections/southern-cone-studies
Bienvenida / Welcome La Sección de Estudios del Cono Sur de la Asociación de Estudios Latinoamericanos (LASA) busca promover la discusión interdisciplinaria, transnacional y global en torno a la investigación contemporánea y la producción intelectual relativa a la región. Por un lado, una veta importante de nuestro quehacer se enfoca en los estudios y debates regionales sobre Argentina, Chile y Uruguay, considerando sus múltiples intersecciones, más allá de las fronteras...
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Student Section of LASA
https://sections.lasaweb.org/sections/student
Recognizing that students are an essential part of LASA and have specific needs and interests, the Student Section of LASA (SSLASA) provides a space for students to exchange experiences with one another and to contribute to the organization as a whole. At the same time, the SSLASA facilitates student’s integration into the scholarly community through activities that are aimed at professional and intellectual development. These activities include, but are not...
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Subnational Politics and Society
https://sections.lasaweb.org/sections/decentralization-subnational-governance
The Subnational Politics and Society section promotes scholarship, collaboration, and conversation on topics relating to politics at the subnational levels and between levels of government in Latin America. This includes topics such as: state (or provincial) and local politics, intergovernmental relations, federalism, decentralization, and subnational service provision and social policy. Members wishing to have news items or upcoming events listed on the website can send their news to Tomas Dosek...
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Venezuelan Studies
https://sections.lasaweb.org/sections/venezuelan-studies
The Section on Venezuelan Studies (SVS) is an official section of the Latin American Studies association. (LASA) The Section on Venezuelan Studies has two objectives: 1) to foster interdisciplinary communication and collaboration among scholars, students, and non academics whose work considers Venezuelan culture, politics, economy, ecology, social issues and other aspects of Venezuela 2) to facilitate dissemination of information on Venezuelan studies among members and non members through public events,...
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Visual Culture Studies
https://sections.lasaweb.org/sections/visual-culture
The Visual Culture Studies Section seeks to foster interdisciplinary exchange by creating a platform for visual culture studies that can connect scholars from diverse fields. Recognizing the centrality of visual culture, ways of seeing and mapping, and the social-spatial relationships of visuality, this section aims to attract members that ask questions raised by the creation, circulation, recycling, consumption, and reception of visual practices, literacies, and objects....