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Latin America and the Caribbean: A Tradition of Strong Civil Society and Third Sector Scholarship

Year: 2023

Type: article

Abstract: Grande ´(Universidad Ana ´huac Me ´xico, Huixquilucan, Me ´xico), the collection ''Civil Society in Latin America: Experiments, Resilience, New Utopias'' continues the journal's commitment to geographic diversity and interest in the region.As Voluntas Co-Editor, this Special Issue is especially important to me given so much I have learned from our Latin American colleagues since I was a doctoral student studying civil society-state relations in the region.As demonstrated by the journal's now third Special Issue on Latin America and the Caribbean since its inception, the region has a tremendous tradition of scholarship.It has and will continue to bring knowledge, tools and methods that include ''popular education, participatory research, theater of the oppressed, participatory video, feminist research, [and] indigenous-centered research'' (Gutberlet et al., 2014, p. 179; see also Tessler, 2013).I am taking the opportunity to introduce the Special Issue, to highlight a commitment to the knowledge production out of, about and in partnership with Latin America and the Caribbean in Voluntas. Latin America and the Caribbean in VoluntasSince 1990, Voluntas has organized three regional Special Issues:

Source: VOLUNTAS International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations

DOI: 10.1007/s11266-023-00607-6

Author: Susan Appe

Institution: University at Albany, State University of New York

Language: English

Topic: Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Peace, justice, and strong institutions, Partnerships for the goals

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: Johns Hopkins University