LASA2027: Navegar el colapso: reinventar la política, cuidar lo común

Call for Papers

LASA2027: Navegar el colapso: reinventar la política, cuidar lo común

June 16 – 20, 2027 • Mexico City, Mexico

Over the past decade, phenomena have emerged with unprecedented speed representing setbacks that until recently were unthinkable, with harmful effects on citizens’ rights, democratic standards, and the rule of law. In this context, numerous armed conflicts and reconfigurations of world order have added layers of collapse and civilizational crisis. However, if we look more closely, beyond the stupor, we can see that new progressive experiences are taking place simultaneously. These emerging phenomena are observed in a variety of contexts at the macro, meso, and micro levels of analysis. In this Congress, we seek to engage with the multiple dimensions of collapse without focusing solely on it, but also to learn and discuss innovative actions, strategies and initiatives that help us navigate this collapse and move beyond it.

On one hand, we are witnessing the emergence of new alliances among countries that are reshaping the global geopolitical balance in the military, technological, and financial spheres. These transformations range from collective mandates to polling mechanisms, including new forms of digital consultation and deliberation. Additionally, democratic innovation has consistently sought, in successive waves, to address the decline of traditional political representation, yielding results that range from resounding failure to outstanding contributions. Paradoxically, their impact depends on the strength of traditional political movements and civil societies with which these initiatives are associated.

Furthermore, additional proposals have emerged from social and organizational mobilization itself, ranging from innovative activism in support of fiscal justice to transnational coalitions operating both within and beyond digital networks. Specifically in the digital domain, we are witnessing a true revolution based on advances in artificial intelligence that impacts not only public policies and social activism, but also the configuration of growing post-human or biodigital societies and cultures. Finally, in the same context, in contrast to the ultraconservative and dehumanizing dystopias, new future society programs are emerging based on the care paradigm (CEPAL 2025). This roadmap to a caring society draws on both institutional efforts by governments and international cooperation, as well as community initiative.

This Congress proposes opening a space to question, discuss and analyze these nascent fields of experience that today enable us —or suggest the possibility — to reinvent politics and care for the common good. We believe this discussion should encourage people to seek out emerging spaces for resistance and social and political innovation, while weighing the growing obstacles and setbacks. In other words, we maintain that structural transformations denote collapses that must be “navigated, without erasing future horizons, provided that the current storms are not dismissed. This is the only way we can discuss and learn about the real potential of what we must do. Navigating the collapse invites us to understand both the force of the waves that may sink us and the paths that lead to new ports.

Thus, we propose focusing on two main points. We start with the conviction that without political mediation there can be no civilized conflict resolution, and that without caring for the collective good, the tragedy of the common man is no longer a theoretical prediction but rather becomes an empirical reality. Therefore, using this forum to find a mutual space to reflect and discuss the future is not only relevant, but also a necessary and promising endeavor.

The deadline to submit proposals is September 9, 2026 at 05:00 p.m. ET.

Más información aquí: https://lasaweb.org/en/lasa2027/proposals/