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FFrom the modern university to the casa museo, Central America and its people have a rich and complex history of autonomous, people-centered knowledge creation – grounded in grassroots organizing, community, and student activism – that looks and beyond the State and its citizens. administration for recognition, inclusion and justice. The state has also been instrumental in establishing national myths, consecrating history, and funding preservation, as it actively manages the nation’s past and future.

From teachers and youth in Panama taking to the streets to protest extractivist corporations and politicians, to working-class Salvadoran migrants in Washington, D.C. organizing to protect their undocumented neighbors and families while chronicling and archiving their presence in the region for decades. , to alarming attacks on historical memory and archival preservation in the isthmus itself, this issue challenges unidirectional approaches to knowledge production by examining how activists, scholars, artists, members Community advocates and advocates have called upon, crafted, and promoted popular histories and forms of knowledge preservation in Central America and its diasporas.

By extending the notion of “popular history” to often forgotten places, this issue asks the following questions: who have or have not been recognized as legitimate producers of knowledge? We want to explore how issues of language, migration, culture and xenophobia have excluded entire groups of people from being a person and from having histories worth preserving. By stimulating forms of historical accounting, collecting, and even oral traditions, Central Americans have innovated strategies for documenting the past both distant and near. For example, we invite articles that explore how Leather/LGBTQ+ and gender-expansive communities have documented community care and justice practices and welcome articles that examine how Black and Indigenous communities challenge narratives of erasure and assimilation, from the isthmus and beyond.

The summer 2025 issue of NACLA Reportco-guest edited by Kaysha Corinealdi, Jorge Cuéllar and Paul Joseph López Oro will explore these and related themes. For this issue, we are looking for pieces that address the connections between community histories and state histories, that engage the documentation of community, family, and personal narratives; who study how “official” knowledge is produced, negotiated, contested and authorized; which explore the tension between formal and informal learning; and who reflect on the practices of maintaining memory within transnational Isthmian communities.

We are interested in articles that cover topics such as:

• Building community, organizational, radical and family archives
• Knowledge practices on the Caribbean and Pacific coasts of Central America (e.g. Black Atlantic and Black Pacific)
• Creative practices as strategies for documenting history
• The role of museums and memorials in popular history
• Student protests and university activism
• Oral history, archival projects and community trust
• Policies of historical memory and preservation in the diaspora
• Garifuna/Creole (Kriol) memory retention and language retention
• Language revitalization and alternative schooling in Central America and its diasporas
• Indigenous and black knowledge, particularly in the defense of ancestral lands and activism

For articles, we are interested in articles that examine specific, narrowly defined topics and are written in a lively and accessible manner. We favor articles based on original research and interviews. We also welcome artistic and creative submissions and are keen to work with artists to present their work in hybrid print and digital formats.

Please send a brief pitch (250 words) describing the focus and tone of your proposed article and why you are well suited to write it by December 13 to Editor-in-Chief Julianne Chandler [email protected]. We will respond to submissions by January 6. Drafts of accepted articles (2,500 to 3,500 words) will be due February 28, 2025.

Convocatory | Central America(s): Knowledge production sites

From the modern university to the house museum, the Central American region and its people have a rich and comprehensive history of autonomous and popular knowledge creation – based on grassroots organizing, community and student activism – which mira hacía the State and officialism but goes further on the road towards recognition, inclusion and justice. The state also created a determining paper for the establishment of national mitos, the consecration of history and the financing of conservation, as well as the active guarding of the past and future of the nation.

From the maestros and youth of Panama who took to the streets to protest extractivist corporations and policies, to the savior emigrants of the professional class in Washington, D.C., who are organizing to protect their parents and friends without papers at the same time. que relatan y archivan su presencia de decades In the region, thanks to the alarming attacks on historical memory and the preservation of archives in the same way, it is the many unidirectional investigations of knowledge production that consider activists, academics, artists, community members and advocates who have been called upon. , idea and promotion of popular stories and forms of knowledge preservation in Central America and their diasporas.

By expanding the notion of “village history” to places in the menu of old people, this number is important ¿Quiénes han sido and quiénes no han sido recognized as legitimate producers of knowledge? We explored issues of language, migration, culture and xenophobia by excluding groups from the category of people, as well as their histories worthy of preservation. Stimulating historical stability, collecting, and oral traditions, Central Americans innovated strategies for documenting Cercano’s powerful past. For example, we’ve invited articles that explore how communities and communities can document community and justice practices, and we’re welcome to articles that explore how Black and Indigenous communities share life stories and of assimilation, from there. l’istmo et más allá.

The 2025 NACLA Season Issue Reportco-edited by Kaysha Corinealdi, Jorge Cuéllar, and Paul Joseph López Oro, explores these and other related themes. For this issue, we’re looking for articles that address the topics between community stories and state stories; that takes care of the documentation of community narratives, familiars and personals; that we study the form in which “official” knowledge is produced, negotiated, contested and authorized; which explores the tension between formal and informal learning; and that we reflect on practices of memory preservation in transnational systemic communities.

We are interested in articles that address topics that include, but are not limited to:

• The creation of community, organizational, radical and family archives
• Knowledge practices on the Caribbean and Pacific coasts of Centroamérica (e.g., Atlántico Negro and Pacífico Negro)
• Creative practices as strategies for documenting history
• The paper of museums and memorials in popular history
• Protests led by students and university activists
• Oral history, archival and community trust projects
• Policies of historical memory and preservation of the diaspora
• Memory preservation and retention of the Garífuna/Criolla (Kriol) language
• Linguistic revitalization and alternative education in Central America and the diasporas
• Indigenous and black sabers, particularly in the defense of ancestral lands and activism.

When it comes to articles, we are interested in examining specific, delineated topics and they are written in a flexible and accessible manner. We prefer articles based on original surveys and interviews. We also accept artistic and creative professionals and are interested in supporting artists to show their work in hybrid print and digital formats.

Send a brief proposal (250 words) to the Editor by December 13 to Julianne Chandler: [email protected] explaining the central idea and tone of the proposed article and why she is well suited to write it . We will respond to proposals before January 6. Sellers of accepted items (2,500 to 3,500 hours) will need to send it by February 28, 2025.