Horizontes Insurgentes - Essays

This section seeks to go beyond the limits of the traditional academic space of westernized universities, expanding an epistemic territory of dialogue and exchanges of South-South experiences, welcoming contributions from social and alter-globalizationt movements, popular leaders, organized collectives, socially engaged public or private entities, activists, artists and cultural agents, organic intellectuals, students, researchers, masters of traditional knowledge, indigenous communities, quilombolas, traditional peoples and other reexistent and insurgent groups. In this section, experiences, knowledge, forms of resistance, denunciations and perspectives for the future that have Latin American and Caribbean integration as a reflective axis are shared and rehearsed.

The objectives of the Horizontes Insurgentes section are:

1. Building a critical view of Latin American and Caribbean integration: Debating Latin American and Caribbean integration beyond state institutions, questioning exclusionary models and proposing alternatives based on solidarity, Good LivingLiving Well (Buen Vivir), popular sovereignty, protagonism and the autonomy of peoples.
2. Providing academic space and echo the voices of political-epistemic subjects of integration: Expanding the space of expression for social movements, popular leaders, organized collectives (feminist groups, LGBTQIAPN+, representations of black movements and other forms of collectives), organic intellectuals, indigenous communities, quilombolas, traditional and other forms of popular organizations that build, on a daily basis, processes of resistance and counter-hegemonic integration.
3. Articulating thought and practice: Publishing and disseminating essays that dialogue with concrete experiences of struggle and resistance, seeking to connect theory and practice in the challenges of Latin American and Caribbean integration.
4. Enhancing memories and hope for futures: Recovering stories of resistance and processes of struggle that marked the continent to imagine and building new futures for Latin America and the Caribbean.
5. Building spaces to denounce and confront violence: Making visible the multiple forms of violence that cross Latin America and the Caribbean – whether colonial, racial, patriarchal, epistemic, environmental, territorial or economic. Creating spaces for movements and communities to denounce rights violations and discuss resistance and justice strategies.
6. Valuing the ontological and epistemic diversity of Latin America and the Caribbean: Encouraging texts that come from different forms of knowledge, including indigenous, Afro-diasporic, feminist, community, LGBTQIAPN+ orals, ontologies and epistemologies and other counter-hegemonic perspectives.
7. Promoting the decolonization of knowledge and rethink the colonial structures of the university: Questioning the centrality of Western epistemologies and the role of universities. 
8. Contributing to the indexing and academic visibility of the essay genre: Publishing essays with title, abstract and keywords in Portuguese, Spanish, English and French, ensuring DOI for essays and expanding the reach of these manuscripts on academic platforms and knowledge circulation networks.

Essays of up to 10 pages in various forms are accepted: textual (argumentative, narrative, descriptive, explanatory, comparative, poetic-reflective and manifests), visual (photos, drawings, paintings, collages, urban art, scenic montages and other forms of artistic and/or cultural manifestation) or mixed. We seek essays that break with hegemonic visions and that value the voices that build, on a daily basis, processes of resistance, solidarity and transformation. It is understood as:

1. Textual essays: a form of writing that explores a topic in a critical and fluid way. It may have different objectives, such as explaining, narrating or describing, but it always seeks to provoke critical thoughts and reflections in readers.
1. Argumentative essay: presents a point of view and supports it with argumentation, concepts and/or data, qualitative or quantitative, aiming to instigate the reader on the problem presented.
2. Narrative essay: reports a sequence of events or stories from concise and specific perspectives, and may use a subjective and/or personal approach, offering new ideas and perspectives on a topic.
3. Descriptive essay: contains an expressive and organized synthesis of facts, concepts or events, which lead the reader to know objectively about what is described. 
4. Explanatory essay: exposes and explains facts or concepts, bringing new approaches and conclusions on the subject.
5. Comparative essay: examines the similarities and differences between two or more elements, offering a critical analysis of compared themes, concepts, or facts.
6. Poetic-reflective essay: may or may not combine elements of poetry with personal reflection, exploring issues from an intimate and subjective view of a theme.
7. Manifest essay: defends the idea or cause of a collective in an emphatic way, with the objective of provoking action or reflection.
2. Visual essays: use images, photographs, illustrations, or other visual arts to express ideas, feelings, perspectives, or reflections on a topic, often supplementing or replacing verbal text.
3. Mixed essays: combine textual and visual elements in an integrated way, using words and images to enrich and deepen the discussion on a topic. Text and images complement each other, creating a more dynamic and multifaceted narrative or reflection.

The texts must comply with the Guidelines for Authors, the essay template and the cover page.