Official Jury Minutes of the International Competition “Thinking Against the Mainstream”, 2004

The Jury of the International Essay Competition “Thinking Against the Mainstream”, presided by the Brazilian sociologist Emit Sader, in its first edition, communicated today the decision to award first prize equally to four of the submissions. The recipients were:

Revolution of the future, by Jesus Arboleya (Cuba).
Hegemony and spaces for resistance. Neo-Gramsci, Neo-Poulantzas and an outline of a critical theory of international politics, by Ulrich Brand (Germany).
Time of Wars and Emancipations in Petroleum Lands. Analysis of the experience of the Union of Unemployed Workers (UTD) of General Mosconi, by Claudia Korol (Argentina).
The Socio-genesis of Media Capital through Music, by Marcos Schneider (Brazil)

The four winners receive the same classification since the Jury did not see the need to establish a hierarchy among them, given their respective importance and their qualities.

249 works, coming from authors of 25 countries were submitted to the International Essay Competition “Thinking Against the Mainstream”. In the next few days the Jury will announce a selection of works that will be published by the Cuban Social Sciences Press in a first volume bearing the same title as the competition: Thinking Against the Mainstream. It will successively publish an anthology of the best of the competition in later volumes.

The event was held last November by the Cuban Book Institute with the aim of “recognizing and disseminating critical thought about the problems and challenges in the contemporary world, from a broad anti-imperialist and fraternal view-point”.

Havana, July 1, 2004.

Members of the Jury:
President: Emir Sader (Brazil)
Members: Elmar Altvater (Germany)
Samir Amin (Egypt)
Fredric Jameson (U.S.A)
Fernando Martinez Heredia (Cuba)
Ana Esther Cecena (Mexico)
Emmanuel Wallerstein (U.S.A.)

Representing the members, signed by Fernando Martinez Heredia.

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