Analysis of different (inter-)national dimensions of inequality in labor, social and environmental regimes, wealth research, and democracy in an international perspective.
Consideration of political, social, ecological and economic processes in countries of the Global South; UN Sustainable Development Goals today and tomorrow.
Analysis of political, economic, and social processes in societies dependent on raw material exports as well as their behavior within the international system.
Studies on the consequences of socio-ecological crises and on the conditions, opportunities and risks of addressing them in a North-South context.
As a Center for Advanced Latin American Studies, CALAS seeks to foment research of interest in the social sciences and humanities in Latin America, applying historical, scientific and systematic approaches and employing transdisciplinary and transregional dialogue.
As an interdisciplinary research center, the Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos pools research on Latin America at the University of Kassel and organizes as well as supports international cooperations, collaborations and various research projects.
The Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) is an international non-governmental institution with associative status at UNESCO, created in 1967. It currently brings together 736 research and postgraduate centers in the field of social sciences and humanities in 51 countries in Latin America and other continents.
In this book, Hans-Jürgen Burchardt and Irene Lungo-Rodríguez lead a transdisciplinary team of experts to advance our understanding of wealth in Latin America. Combining conceptual discussions with empirical research, they analyze characteristics of wealth, and ...
Edited By Philip Fehling, Hans-Jürgen Burchardt May 12, 2023 Taxation and Inequality in Latin America takes a heterodox political economy approach, focusing on Latin America, where current problems of taxation have existed for a century ...
Edited By Hannes Warnecke-Berger, Jan Ickler July 21, 2023 For many countries, primarily in the Global South, extractivism – the exploiting and exporting of natural resources – is big business. For those exporting countries, natural ...
Located at the intersection of Postcolonial Studies, Latin American Studies, Caribbean Studies, and History, this interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from the US, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Philippines to examine the colonial ...
The department informs about the following news:
