Cultural Studies in the Americas. Intellectual collaboration, imperative for the future of the Field

Estudios Culturales en las Américas. La colaboración intelectual, imperativa para el futuro del Campo

Although in the 1990s, debates about cultural studies in the Latin American context gravitated around how they involved the articulation of a series of interdisciplinary research practices in the social sciences and humanities (product of a reorganization of the left in the era after the collapse of communism), recent years have seen a panorama marked by the rapid conquest of institutional spaces in this field. The Symposium on Cultural Studies in the Americas: Commitment, Collaboration, Transformation, whose memories are presented in the following pages, was the product of an inter-institutional and interpersonal collaboration that, despite its failures (technical, logistic, strategic, etc.), can be contemplated as a model of cooperation for the field of cultural studies in the region.