The Cuban Ministry of Culture, the Cuban Book Institute and the Network for the Defense of Humankind, along with Nuevo Milenio Publishing House ANNOUNCE the 16th edition of the “Thinking against the Mainstream” Prize, and the 7th edition of the “Endangered Species”Special Prize . The prizes aim at recognizing and to promoting critical thinking on the most crucial difficulties and challenges to contemporary world from a wide anticolonial and antimperialistic perspective; and to contribute to articulate a legal, economic, and political emancipating theory engaged to crucial issues on environment; as well as engagement against capitalistic hegemonic model devastating effects on material and spiritual life.
Heartening thinking against core countries hegemonic reproduction of social and intellectual domination aimed at silencing-marginalizing emancipating thinking as alternative answer to vast challenges faced by environmental devastation imposed on humankind, “Thinking against the Mainstream” and “Endangered Species” kindles analysis and active proposals in Social Sciences, Culture, and Science and Technology. The contest encourages multiple points of views and diverse approaches confronting hegemonic thought systems in the new geopolitical international arena.
In this occasion, we commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, and historical event that constitutes a universal paradigm of struggle and resistance against the imperialism, and an example of compromise with the more just ideas of the left in all the continents.
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