Agreement signed between GLOBALMUN and the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO)
Published: 12 July 2021
On July 12, the Latin American Council of Social Sciences and the GLOBALMUN research team at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, signed an inter-institutional cooperation agreement with the aim to promote social research on defending and reclaiming ‘the public’, or public ownership, in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Agreement signed between GLOBALMUN and the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO)
On July 12, the Latin American Council of Social Sciences and the GLOBALMUN (Global Remunicipalisation project) research team at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, signed an inter-institutional cooperation agreement with the aim to promote social research on defending and reclaiming ‘the public’, or public ownership, in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The agreement was signed by CLACSO’s Executive Secretary Karina Batthyány, Research Director Pablo Vommaro, and members of the GLOBALMUN research team: Andrew Cumbers, Mo Hume, Bethia Pearson, and Emilia Arpini.
A precedent of this agreement was CLACSO’s call for research proposals on "Disputes over ‘the public’ in Latin America and the Caribbean" in 2017 (organised jointly with IEALC and TNI), and "Social welfare and disputes over ‘the public’ and ‘the commons’ in Latin America and the Caribbean”, which was launched recently, with the aim to make these experiences more visible.
Similarly, the GLOBALMUN project, based at the University of Glasgow and funded by the European Research Council (ERC), promotes research on public initiatives that have emerged as alternatives to the privatisation of services and infrastructures across the world.
Results of a co-conducted survey will serve as a basis for scientific publications that will be published on CLACSO’s and GLOBALMUN’s websites.
The Spanish-language version of the website can be visited via: www.iniciativaspublicas.com
The call for proposals can be accessed via:
For more information, an open access book published by CLACSO as a result of the 2017 call:
First published: 12 July 2021