scholarly journals Epistemologias marginalizadas: a questão racial no debate sociológico latino-americano

Afro-Ásia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franciane Da Silva Santos Oliveira ◽  
Lia Pinheiro Barbosa
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Social Thought ◽  
Scientific Racism ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
American Sociology

<p>Este artigo analisa o não lugar da questão racial e das epistemologias afrodiaspóricas no pensamento social e na sociologia latino-americana. Argumentamos que ainda é incipiente uma produção do conhecimento no campo sociológico que atente para o caráter marginal conferido às epistemologias africanas e afrodiaspóricas, resultado do racismo científico e da invisibilização dessas epistemologias. Problematizamos este debate enfatizando a necessidade histórica de uma produção sociológica que leve em consideração as epistemologias diaspóricas no processo de teorização sociológica e de seu papel na interpelação do suposto caráter universal de uma ciência eurocentrada e branca em detrimento de outros referentes epistêmicos do fazer sociológico.</p><p><strong>Palavras-chave: </strong>questão racial | epistemologias afrodiaspóricas | sociologia Latino-Americana | racismo epistêmico | descolonização científica.<strong></strong></p><p><strong><em> </em></strong></p><p><strong><em>Abstract:</em></strong></p><p><em>This article analyzes the </em><em>absence </em><em> of the racial question and African diasporic epistemologies in Latin American sociology and social thought. We argue that the production of knowledge that addresses the marginalization of African and African diasporic epistemologies in Latin American sociology is still incipient, as </em><em>the</em><em> result of scientific racism and the lack of visibility of these epistemologies. We further this debate by emphasizing the historical need for a sociological production that takes into account diasporic epistemologies in the process of sociological theoriz</em><em>ing</em><em>, and their role in questioning the supposedly universal character of an Eurocentric and white science, to the detriment of other epistemic referents of sociology.</em></p><p><strong><em>Keywords: </em></strong><em>racial question | afro-diasporic epistemologies | Latin American sociology | epistemic racism | scientific decolonization.</em></p>

Capitalism and the State in Latin America

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esteban Torres ◽  
Carina Borrastero
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Latin American ◽  
The State ◽  
American Sociology ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Relationship

This article analyzes how the research on the relation between capitalism and the state in Latin America has developed from the 1950s up to the present. It starts from the premise that knowledge of this relation in sociology and other social sciences in Latin America has been taking shape through the disputes that have opposed three intellectual standpoints: autonomist, denialist, and North-centric. It analyzes how these standpoints envision the relationship between economy and politics and how they conceptualize three regionally and globally growing trends: the concentration of power, social inequality, and environmental depletion. It concludes with a series of challenges aimed at restoring the theoretical and political potency of the autonomist program in Latin American sociology.

Social Movements in Latin America: Mapping the Literature

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolás M. Somma
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Transnational Activism ◽  
Organizational Fields ◽  
Family Labor ◽  
American Sociology ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Vast Literature ◽  
Active Research

The study of social movements is currently one of the most active research fields in Latin American sociology. This article maps the vast literature on Latin American social movements (LASMs) from the late 1980s to the present. After briefly discussing how scholars have conceptualized LASMs, it presents seven influential approaches: structuralism, political economy, political context, organizational fields, “new social movements,” frames and emotions, and transnational activism. Then it discusses some works that zero in on the specificity of LASMs. It closes with a brief summary of the five coming chapters, each of which is devoted to a specific social movement “family”: labor, women’s, student, indigenous, and anti-globalization.

scholarly journals Can the Subaltern Speak in Criminology? Analysing the Production of Knowledge on Crimes of the Powerful in the 21st Century through Latin American Postcolonial Lenses

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amalia Valdés-Riesco
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Search Strategy ◽  
Latin American Studies ◽  
Exclusion Criteria ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Global North ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
High Level ◽  
Latin American Countries

Through postcolonial criminological lens, this article attempts to evidence the domination of knowledge in criminology of Crimes of the powerful in the Global North and Anglo-language countries, and whether this domination translates into an influence of knowledge in Latin America and the Caribbean in the 21st century. To address this, a scoping review search was developed to find research articles focused on Crimes of the powerful both globally and in Latin American countries, and a citation analysis performed on specific studies. Inclusion and exclusion criteria were applied as a search strategy. The results demonstrate that a high level of concentration exists in the production of knowledge of Crimes of the powerful studies in the Global North and Anglo-language countries compared to the Global South and non-Anglo-language countries, and also evidence the high level of influence of knowledge that Global North countries have on Latin American studies.

Walking as Political Utterance: The Walking Subjects and the Production of Space

2021 ◽  
pp. 107780042110423
Author(s):  
César Augusto Ferrari Martinez ◽  
Gabriela Rodrigues Gois
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Local Condition ◽  
Production Of Space ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
Race And Place ◽  
Global Parameters

In this work, we challenge supposedly neutral imaginaries of what walking methodologies consist of, unveiling social and political dimensions and addressing the production of embodied spaces involved in the act of walking. We adopt the concept of intersectionality to construct an analysis that considers the effects of the colonial, racist, and sexist historical scheme on the production of knowledge. We understand that the current globalization project produces a global subject that is not racialized, and therefore White. And it is marked by gender norms, and therefore, masculine and heterosexual. These characteristics give the person the privilege of moving “naturally,” without the need to justify physical, social, and political corporealities. In the walking research carried out by subjects who deviate from such global parameters, we identified the interruption of walking as an epistemological event that displaces them from the space they are producing. We also analyzed the idea of risk produced to the researchers when they are identified as someone who “does not belong” to that space. We argue that the interaction among gender, race, and place imposes a local condition to the knowledge produced by Afro-Latin American walking researchers. Finally, we defend the walking methodologies as a political statute in the occupation of simultaneously physical and epistemological spaces because the subject’s position and the power relations that are addressed in the act of walking require consideration.

Latin American Social Thought

1965 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 609-610
Author(s):  
James R. Scobie
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Social Thought
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