Cholonautas - Peru

Cholonautas seeks to build a Social Sciences community by providing academic updates and information on current debates, events, and publications in that intellectual field. The site also seeks to help balance the North-South dialogue with Andeans in the northern hemisphere, making that debate more horizontal. In its efforts to take into account the fluidity of disciplinary boundaries and the advantages of an interdisciplinary approach, this project broaches Social Sciences from academic traditions including anthropology, history, sociology, literary critique, and cultural critique.

The virtual library offers a broad selection of contemporary texts and articles related to the Social Sciences.

Technology, International Cooperation.

Citing various analyses, programme organisers note that the web is a quick, effective, and inexpensive way to disseminate updated information, thus avoiding bureaucratic obstacles and social gaps. Along the same lines, the web may help reunite fragmented academic networks. In Peru, there is no Social Sciences web page that covers the growing need that students, teachers, professionals and, especially, young people throughout the country have for academic updates. However, the few pages on the topic are mainly in English and their main purpose is not to offer this type of service.