About the Journal

Espirales Journal (ISSN 2594-9721), vinculated to the Graduate Program in Contemporary Integration of Latin America (PPG-ICAL) at the Federal University for Latin American Integration (UNILA), located in Foz do Iguaçu, was first published in 2017 with the aim of amplifying and bringing to the forefront critical debates on the integration of Latin America and the Caribbean.

This editorial project arose from the initiative of students from different parts of the continent, gathered in PPG-ICAL. Understanding the importance of their place of enunciation, the possibilities of exchange within a university with the characteristics of UNILA, and the tensions that Latin American and Caribbean integration has experienced in recent decades, they sought to create a space for fruitful and high-quality academic debates that explore the various dimensions of this issue. Integration, within the scope of the journal, is understood in its political, economic, sociocultural, ontological, and epistemic sense—as goals and challenges capable of bringing differences closer, enhancing diversities, and creating coexistences among multiple ways of knowing and living that contribute to a fairer world.

Thus, we evoke the voices of the first Editorial Committee of Revista Espirales, who, in the introduction of the first issue, explain the origin of the journal’s name and highlight the particularities of a publication created in the tri-border region between Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina—a geography that symbolizes Latin American and Caribbean integration:

This geographic constitution also gave rise to a symbolic and imaginary space about identities and forces that push and move distinct spirals that intersect, touch, influence, inspire, and distance themselves from each other, yet maintain the same impulse for transformation. The spiral formation, which inspired the name of the journal, comes from the Indigenous notion of pachakuti. It therefore refers to multiple cycles of renewal, of movement and counterflows in space-time. It understands that from this driving force, the formation of other worlds, other lives, and other communities is radicalized.

In this way, our place goes beyond geographical and historical boundaries. It also advances toward a constitution without demarcations and brings together in the same space different wandering spirals that unfold in far-reaching ways under the ideas of integration and transformation. Revista Espirales creates a symbolic cartography supported by productive connections, and by the movements and counterflows that various authors, leaders, thinkers, sages, workers, shamans, mothers, griôs, children, among others, nourish and represent in the struggle for change and the formation of knowledge networks (COMITÊ EDITORIAL. Apresentação. Espirales, v. 1, n.1, 2017, p. 8., translated by us).

Considering these guiding elements, as well as the principles of UNILA and its institutional mission of regional integration, Espirales adopts bilingualism as its editorial policy, with Spanish and Portuguese as its official languages. For this reason, our institutional documents, official communications, and public content are available in both languages to foster access, inclusion, and dialogue among academic communities in Latin America and the Caribbean. Likewise, the journal’s name and section titles are in Spanish, as a way of claiming the language as a tool to promote the internationalization of knowledge developed at this Brazilian public university with a Latin Americanist vocation.

The spirals that inspire us to think about integration from this geographic, political, and epistemic standpoint also call upon us to honor those who helped build this journal. That is why we find it important to preserve the memory of the Editorial Teams that have contributed to Espirales over the years. Click here to learn about the current team, and see below the previous teams: 

 

FORMER EDITORIAL TEAMS

  • 2016-2017
    Aruanã Emiliano
    Domingos de Almeida
    Fernando Matías Carnebia López
    Guilherme Silva da Cruz
    Hannah Guedes de Souza
    Henrique Neto Santos
    Macarena Mercado Mott
    María Silvina Sosa Vota
    Rafael Teixeira de Lima
    Raquel Stern
    Tania Rodriguez Ravera
    Virginia Santiago dos Santos Góes

  • 2018/1
    Domingos de Almeida
    Guilherme Silva da Cruz
    Hannah Guedes de Souza
    Henrique Neto Santos
    Macarena Mercado Mott
    María Silvina Sosa Vota
    Pedro Silva
    Rafael Teixeira de Lima
    Rodrigo Abi-Ramia
    Tania Rodriguez Ravera
    Virginia Santiago dos Santos Góes

  • 2018/2 - 2020/1
    Armstrong da Silva
    Domingos de Almeida
    Guilherme Silva da Cruz
    Hannah Guedes de Souza
    Henrique Neto Santos
    Macarena Mercado Mott
    María Silvina Sosa Vota
    Pedro Lucas Gil Silva
    Rafael Teixeira de Lima
    Rodrigo Abi-Ramia
    Tania Rodriguez Ravera
    Virginia Santiago dos Santos Góes

  • 2020/2
    Armstrong da Silva
    Domingos de Almeida
    Fernando Rodrigues
    Flavia Foresto Porto da Costa
    Guilherme Silva da Cruz
    Hannah Guedes de Souza
    Henrique Neto Santos
    Macarena Mercado Mott
    María Silvina Sosa Vota
    Pedro Silva
    Rafael Teixeira de Lima
    Rodrigo Abi-Ramia
    Tania Rodriguez Ravera

  • 2021/1
    Armstrong da Silva
    Fernando Rodrigues
    Flavia Foresto Porto da Costa
    Guilherme Silva da Cruz
    Hannah Guedes de Souza
    Henrique Neto Santos
    Macarena Mercado Mott
    María Silvina Sosa Vota
    Pedro Silva
    Rafael Teixeira de Lima
    Rodrigo Abi-Ramia
    Tania Rodriguez Ravera

  • 2021/2
    Armstrong da Silva
    Carolina de Moraes Albuquerque
    Fernando Rodrigues
    Flavia Foresto Porto da Costa
    Hannah Guedes de Souza
    María Silvina Sosa Vota
    Natallia Carolina Blanco Gariazzo
    Pedro Lucas Gil Silva
    Rafael Teixeira de Lima
    Rodrigo Abi-Ramia
    Tania Rodriguez Ravera

  • 2022 - 2023
    EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: João Roberto Barros II
    EXECUTIVE EDITORS:
    Alice Vazarin Perez
    André de Cesaro
    Heloíse Reis Ventura
    Júlia Montezini da Silva
    Maria Eduarda Souza Martins
    Sérgio Pedro da Silva

  • 2024/1
    EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: João Roberto Barros II
    EXECUTIVE EDITORS:
    André de Cesaro
    Alessandra Teixeira
    Besna Gissel Rodriguez Yacovenco
    Heloíse Reis Ventura
    Marina Magalhães Moreira
    Maria Eduarda Souza Martins
    Marcelo Patrocínio Bruzinga

  • 2024/2
    EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: João Roberto Barros II
    EXECUTIVE EDITORS:
    André de Cesaro
    Alessandra Teixeira
    Besna Gissel Rodriguez Yacovenco
    Marina Magalhães Moreira
    Marcelo Patrocínio Bruzinga