Intellectual Turns and Latin American Social Lucidity

This article aims to analyze an intellectual movement that problematizes the process, "efficiency" and externalities of research results in social sciences in Latin America. A bibliographical survey was carried out of texts by prominent Latin American intellectuals from this movement. The...

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Autor: Albernaz, Renata Ovenhausen
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade do Estado da Bahia (UNEB)
Repositorio:Plurais (Salvador. Online)
Idioma:portugués
inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.revistas.uneb.br:article/17764
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.uneb.br/index.php/plurais/article/view/17764
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Intelectuais
Viragens Epistêmicas
América Latina
Pesquisa Decolonial
Justiça Social
Intellectuals
Epistemic Turns
Latin America
Decolonial Research
Social Justice
Intelectuales
Giros epistémicos
Investigación decolonial
Justicia Social
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Sumario:This article aims to analyze an intellectual movement that problematizes the process, "efficiency" and externalities of research results in social sciences in Latin America. A bibliographical survey was carried out of texts by prominent Latin American intellectuals from this movement. The main proposals and criticisms of this movement are: 1) to deconstruct the trap of hegemonic knowledge that unbalances what makes visible and invisible, notably in facts of redistribution, maneuvering social consensus; 2) to invert the usual logic of the efficiency of investigations, minimizing their character of being at the service of the capitalist modernizing bet; 3) to change the aesthetic standards in Brazilian science, abandoning the privileged taste for exotic (Euro-North American-centric) methods and standards; 4) to immunize intellectuals against the defeatism of frustrated programming on the continent; 5) to insist on the deeper causes of social problems, not content with the closest and most obvious ones.