The Tricontinental
Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research is an international institute guided by popular movements and organisations. We seek to build a bridge between academic production and political and social movements in order to promote critical thinking and stimulate debates and research with an emancipatory perspective that serves the people’s aspirations.
Our Work
At Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, our work is about building knowledge from the experience of social and cultural transformations wrought by popular struggles. The main epistemological basis for such an approach to knowledge is derived from Karl Marx’s ‘11th Thesis on Feuerbach’: ‘philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it’. Our understanding of this axiom is that those who are trying to change the world have a sharp assessment of its contradictions, vulnerabilities, and possibilities. The movements and struggles for social transformation teach immense lessons about the character of power, privilege, and property and about the possibility of building a different kind of world.
Publications
Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research produces a weekly newsletter, monthly dossier, and various studies and other periodic publications, each with a different scope, purpose, and periodicity.
Our work is rooted in the principle of hope: we do not believe that we have the right to be pessimistic. Our work is rooted in both a theory of exploitation and the reality of class struggle, in the experience of suffering but also in the insistence of struggle. To that end, our research is rooted in the dialectics of the human experience.
Contributors
Vijay Prashad
Executive Director
Ghassane Koumiya
Arab region
Atul Chandra
Asia
Tings Chak
Asia
Carlos Ron
Nuestra América
Laura Capote
Nuestra América
Mikaela Nhondo Erskog
Pan Africa
Tariro Takuva
Pan Africa
Franziska Kleiner
Zetkin Forum