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

2023; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 34; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/s11266-023-00607-6

1573-7888

Susan Appe,

Religion, Society, and Development

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.