Organization:Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
| Type | International, movement-driven institution focused on stimulating intellectual debate on people's movement. |
|---|---|
| Purpose | Promoting policy and action oriented research, and conducts training programmes. |
| Website | thetricontinental |
The Tricontinental Institute for Social Research is an international research institute, founded in March 2018, with offices in Argentina, Brazil, India, and South Africa, as well as an inter-regional team. It describes itself as anti-imperialist and socialist.[1] They aim to bridge the gap between intellectual activity and socio-political movements on the left and revitalize the progressive politics, primarily in the Global South.
Overview
The founding of the Tricontinental Institute was inspired by the Tricontinental Conference in Havana, Cuba, in 1966.[2] The conference was hosted by the Organization of Solidarity with the People of Asia, Africa and Latin America, which gathered people's organizations from across the world to advocate for peace and socialism and for collaboration across continents to achieve these goals. Marxist intellectual Vijay Prashad is the Executive Director of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research.[3][4] Other notable staff include senior fellow P. Sainath, a leading expert on famine and poverty.
The Tricontinental works in partnership with social movements to produce a variety of research publications, including dossiers and a weekly newsletter. It offers funding and opportunities for researchers across the globe on issues that may help promote the work of social movements.
Programmes
Research
Research publications have covered the crisis in North Korea, the global water crisis, and the conflict in Syria, as well as a longer criticism of the current state of neoliberalism. The institutes research reports are re-published in reputed journals including Monthly Review.[5]
Art
The institute works closely with artists in its publications, curates regular online art exhibitions and is building a network of international leftist artists. Its work has been republished by a number of international outlets and languages, and is also used by social movements and their political education schools and can be found on their websites and blogs, such as the Shack Dwellers Movement (Abahlali baseMjondolo) in South Africa.[6]
References
- ↑ "‘Confronting imperialism means winning back the power to imagine alternatives’. An interview with Vijay Prashad" (in en-US). https://www.redpepper.org.uk/confronting-imperialism-means-winning-back-the-power-to-imagine-alternatives-an-interview-with-vijay-prashad/.
- ↑ "Our History" (in en). https://thetricontinental.org/our-history/.
- ↑ Mostrador, El (2021-07-15). "Roger Waters llama a votar por Daniel Jadue en las primarias presidenciales: "Es un buen hombre de verdad y lo necesitamos"" (in es). https://www.elmostrador.cl/noticias/multimedia/2021/07/15/roger-waters-llama-a-votar-por-daniel-jadue-en-las-primarias-presidenciales-es-un-buen-hombre-de-verdad-y-lo-necesitamos/.
- ↑ "There’s a dirty tricks campaign underway in Peru to deny the left’s presidential victory" (in en-en). América Latina en movimiento. https://www.alainet.org/en/articulo/213004.
- ↑ "The Tricontinental | MR Online" (in en-US). 2021-06-22. https://mronline.org/guest-author/the-tricontinental/.
- ↑ Abahlali. "In the Ruins of the Present | Abahlali baseMjondolo" (in en-ZA). http://abahlali.org/node/16427/.
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