ALAS

The critical social thought that has sustained ALAS as an intellectual movement linked to its time since 1950 is endorsed in our congresses. The Congress in the Dominican Republic is the culmination of two years of preparation that give continuity to this effort to give a historical and civilizational sense to sociology, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Our Afro-Abya Yala America is Caribbean and Latin American; our intercultural links nourish the...

In the context of the current global chaos, Latin America and the Caribbean are experiencing tension between the advancement of the dominant sectors’ project for society and its internal allies on the one hand and, on the other, the demands of broad strata of the population whose lives are hanging by a thread. Capitalism is entering a new phase of accumulation based on renewed forms of incorporation of peripheral societies into the global market. The...

Meeting in Santiago, the capital city of Chile, from September 29 to October 4 (2013), 4,168 sociologists from 30 countries in Latin America, the Caribbean and elsewhere participated in 33 working groups, 79 panels, 86 book launches, and 5 plenary conferences. Twelve preparatory (pre-ALAS) events helped enormously to disseminate the objectives of the Congress, encouraging active participation in our Association. In particular, the inclusion of hundreds of...