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COMMISSION OF LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

(CEL)

The demand for geography training in Latin America is increasing, this is reflected

when is viewed as the place where the great civilizing native societies of our continent

as the Aztec, Maya and Inca ordered his territory and also, archaic societies from RioGrande to Patagonia that territorialized in space time their wild and e!treme physical

geography"

The #ommission for Latin American $tudies, aims to study Latin America in space and

time, sociospatial transformations that have %een ta&ing place in our continent, from a

critical perspective with endogenous relationships 'intra continental( and e!ogenous to

the other continents or su%continents ')orth America, Asia, Africa, *ceania and

+urope("

#risis management of socio territorial pro%lems generated %y sociohistorical

environmental that e!ist in our space and time called Latin America are the events thathave given our interest in power relations %etween the political organization of society

and geographical space at different scales in Latin America"

The Latin American Geography is no stranger to all world events %ecause in the past,

our new states nation to independence %egan to inventory their natural resources, to

organize their territories according to their changing needs, for that Geography of the

time with profile a cartographic was the main weapon of domination as it was in the

centuries of the colony on indigenous peoples and minorities as well as racial and

religious transformations through which culture is produced and everyday cultural

practices of individuals and communities, as e!pressed in institutions, su%-ectivities and

social movements"

OBJECTIVES COMMISSION OF LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES:

GENERAL:

+sta%lish a Latin American organization of geography for wor& and discussions on the

su%-ect of study .Latin America., which achieves articulate students, professionals and

geography teachers for their coe!istence and integration through pra!is of topics of

interest to the Latin American people, encourage commitment to society %y promoting

geographical research from epistemic vision criticized %ut adapting it to the LatinAmerican reality achieving fertilization stimulating critical thin&ing and reflective with

a commitment to %rea& with hegemonic myths and preconceptions of Latin American

social &nowledge of the su%-ect"

SPECIFIC:

a( To promote interdisciplinary relationships %etween American geographers with the

formation of virtual &nowledge networ&s, such as %uilding a we%site"

%( To pu%lish a -ournal of Latin American geography with a special dossier on the

pro%lem or situation in Latin America, and a monthly online newsletter"c( Promote the +GAL /I0 april 1234 'Meeting of Latin American Geographers( in

Lima, from now on and organize IG5 Regional #onference in Lima 1236"

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d( #reate lines or lines of research with responsi%ility and autonomy to wor& with other

networ&s such as IPG7, G+*RA89AL, 7um%oldt, Geo :razil and +GAL"

e( $ee& for agreements with the American Institute of Geography and 7istory 'IPG7(,

;LA#$* 'Latin American ;aculty of $ocial $ciences(, #LA#$* 'Latin American

#ouncil of $cience(, PostAssociauisa em Gradua