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In this brief essay, we will seek to approximate ways of implementing qualitative methodologies, heuristically articulating what we call root thought. We will counterpoint with some theoretical aspects to support collaborative work aligned with the IAP and carried out together with the Barrios Populares of Salta capital and the National University of Salta. Likewise, we will give a panoramic account of the struggle of the communities for fundamental rights, highlighting organization tactics and centralization of collective actions from the provincial table of popular neighborhoods. Some data and reflections arising from the time of research that is carried out to date at the table that articulates the neighborhoods, as well as passages of experiences carried out with students of the degree in Philosophy (UNSa), are amalgamated here as gestures pictorial and conjunctive crosses between readings and experiences, as a dialogue between practice and theory. It is the qualitative methodologies, together with the IAP perspective, that support our position. The analytical work is nourished by diverse disciplines of the Social Sciences, Latin American Thought and Philosophy. The field diary and the camera are the logs from which we draw as inputs for the analysis of our practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article seeks to investigate the possible dialogues between political economy and liberation theories, understood in a broad sense that includes contributions from liberation psychology, liberation philosophy, Freirian pedagogy, southern epistemologies and the decolonial turn in social sciences. Based on the reflection around three triggers: university, human rights and the new constitutions of Ecuador and Bolivia, an attempt is made to carry out a theoretical review using key categories such as: liberation, epistemicide, and coloniality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although the study of religious phenomena from the perspective of lived religion was born in the North Atlantic countries, several researchers have adopted this approach in the Latin American context to account for the religious fact and its evolution. This orientation responds to the dissatisfaction with the conclusions reached by classical sociological theories when they try to explain the place and meaning of religion in the context of Latin American modernity, as in the case of the theories on secularization. This approach has proved promising, insofar as it offers evidence of the presence of the religious phenomenon in contemporary society that has not been sufficiently taken into account before. But, at the same time, it presents aspects that need to be clarified and/or developed. One of them is the relationship between lived religion and the theoretical frameworks that, from the different social sciences, are intended to explain the religious phenomenon. This article offers some considerations on the fruitful relationship that can be established between lived religion and the phenomenology of religion. It identifies aspects in which both disciplines complement and enrich each other, as well as critical issues to be taken into account. Specifically, it proposes a phenomenological approach to two distinct and, at the same time, intertwined fields of analysis: lived religion and lived spirituality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Why de-colonize us from another thought and other ways of producing other knowledge? Do we require a different thought from the alternatives of the social sciences and in the field of pedagogy and education? This work arises from these questions and reflects on the epidemic, pedagogical and political challenges to decolonize our educations, pedagogies formations and research. It enables a critical walk towards genealogies and trajectories, both from the decolonizing perspective and from the historicality of Latin American pedagogical thinking, recognizing convergences with epistemic decolonization based on resonances, contributions and productions made from Latin America over the past two decades. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Philosophy of liberation has aimed to build critical knowledge from the situation in Latin America. However, there have been considerably fewer efforts to epistemologically and methodologically ground a critical social science from this perspective. This article seeks to contribute to this question. Based on a study of Enrique Dussel's contributions, it proposes to distinguish the method as a theoretical rupture and as a methodological proposal. The treatment of these issues raises a set of crucial problems for the foundation of a critical social science program. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Five years ago, Maristella Svampa summoned four Latin American colleagues to reflect on the “coloniality of knowledge” in Latin America, starting from a premise and two subsequent questions. The premise: “Many authors have insisted that one of the fundamental features of Latin American social theory is its intellectual or epistemic dependence on the concepts and theoretical frameworks developed in central countries. Some have given theoretical status to this dependence through the concept of "coloniality of knowledge." The questions: “What does it mean to think about social sciences from Latin America in the 21st century in the framework of advanced modernity and in the current system of domination? Is there a Latin American perspective to think about current problems from the framework of social theory? " Part of the answers to these questions will try to be addressed in this article. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Franz Hinkelammert is one of the classic authors who in the line of stories that pronounced the resignation and fall of utopias, did not give up nor has he given up on continuing to reflect on it and, even more, contributing to show what these regulative ideas of practical reason are and what are its limits. One of these limits is precisely that of feasibility. For this reason, in Hinkelammertian literature utopia and feasibility go hand in hand. From this relationship between utopia and feasibility, a wide space for debate and discussion is opened that begins to be fruitful to think about the action of the practical subject, of social movements and struggles for liberation. And it is precisely in this space in which the present essay is placed, whose interest is to approach the category of feasibility specifically and contribute to place it in the contemporary debate of the theories of action and of social and popular movements, a space in which nowadays it has a marginal space if not forgotten or completely unknown. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents an exercise of reflection, whose purpose is to question, in political, ethical and epistemic terms, the place of geographical/territorial enunciation framed in the Global South, raised from the cultural studies to the social and human sciences, in the last decade, as a conceptual axis to advance in the understanding of social phenomena. A journey is made through the notion of territory, configured as a space not limited geographically, but as a field of disputes around scientific knowledge and the symbolic configuration of the world. In particular, it explores the ways of naming what we know today as Latin America: Indoamerica, Abya-Yala, Africa and Ñamerica, with the intention of exploring how these modes of enunciation make visible new forms or other forms of knowledge that have been made invisible. It also shows the reason why sciences such as librarianship and information science are distanced from Ibero-America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El articulo discute la formación e inserción de personas doctorados en ciencias sociales y humanas en América Latina. El articulo también se centra en el escenario social y educativo reconfigurado a partir de la pandemia de la covid-19. e programas doctorales la diversificación de formatos de las ofertas formativas y o espacios pedagógicos de formación en investigación .

El articulo discute la formación e inserción de personas doctorados en ciencias sociales y humanas en América Latina. El articulo también se centra en el escenario social y educativo reconfigurado a partir de la pandemia de la covid-19. e programas doctorales la diversificación de formatos de las ofertas formativas y o espacios pedagógicos de formación en investigación .

Culture is a broad concept that crosses different social sciences, especially after the cultural turn of the mid-twentieth century, before that was mainly the subject of anthropology. This paper focuses on various current theoretical principals that deal with culture and sets special emphasis on the debate on information/communication. The idea is to escape from different binary oppositions and look for complex and dialectical concepts that help us establish truly interdisciplinary debates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Transdisciplinarity is a dialogical movement of thought feedback not only from the modern gnoseological evidences but also including the relevance of different disciplinary areas, in new ways to access reality, understand it and build it, from its particularities. In this dissertation from the systematic, bibliographic and critical review, some trends (S.XXI) of the categories involved will be analyzed; will discuss some trends (21st century) of the categories involved; State, citizen participation, co-responsibility and social happiness, from the look of the Social Sciences in Latin America. It is concluded; citizen participation occurs from the dialectic of interests in common situations, which determine the ontological possibilities for social happiness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The reification as naturalization of the dominant forms of sociopolitical organization has occupied a prominent place in modern political philosophy. Consequently, the objective of the work lies in critically interpreting the state, based on the rereading of certain Marxist thinkers, theorists of the social sciences and of the most widely accepted legal doctrine that regulates the subject. Methodologically, the documentary observation of hermeneutics-dialectics was implemented. By way of conclusion, the essay highlights the fact that it is precisely the reification of the state that prevents thinking of other viable forms of political organization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The purpose of the work is to analyze the State as the object of the political sciences to understand the theoretical-- epistemological complexity involved in its conceptualization from utilitarian, functionalist, neo-institutional to the (re) discovery of the Weberian view of the phenomenon. The bibliographic review, analytically, concluded that the conceptions of the State as an autonomous actor of exclusive legal-institutional conception and instrument for the role of processor of exogenous claims, and/or as the exclusive object of the theory and philosophy, has been overwhelmed by the explanatory urgencies that the social, political and legal sciences today have the product of dynamic realities, positioning the State in a promoting action, in compensation with the unrealizable meta-narratives of the economic, social, autonomous development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article contributes with a conceptual definition that supports the empirical investigation of neoliberalism, understood as a global phenomenon, dynamic, unfinished and multicentric, through a critical analysis of neoliberal theory. It begins by addressing the main conceptual difficulties, arguing in favor of the use of term neoliberalization. Then, it addresses the recent neoliberalization process in Latin America and the transnational relations established by his economists, as arguments to quit the notion of "neoliberal laboratory". Finally, the conceptual proposal is exposed according to the path traveled, relating theoretical and historical aspects, and highlighting the role of the peripheries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This is a reflection from the external vertex, which could be understood as the people category, in an ideological, political, social, cultural and historic sense. It is more than an intellectual, elite, class or left or right wing messianic vanguard-ism, it is each one of us who at some moment or in some manner call ourselves the people, and find ourselves confronted in the present or future with the destiny of social reality. In a very different manner from colonial times, we can interpret now, from the transdisciplinary science of social sciences, or from the post-modern vision, the de-construction of peoples, and the liberation of repressive contents through liberating actions. We must become aware of the new dimension that protagonism is creating in what is Latin American politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Methodological individualism as an explanatory current within the social sciences has had little development in Latin America. However, it has acquired certain weight over the past few years, and has done so, paradoxically, through the writings of a self-proclaimed marxist, J. Elster. Without doubt his contributions have helped us to reflect on how the social explanation is not reducible to the influence of structural factors and has pointed out the importance of individual decision based on de- sires and beliefs. But it is also evident that the elsterian teleology is far from explaining all the related factors, many of which are causal-structural. Furthermore, the prestige achieved by methodological individualism over the last few years could also be partially attributed to the ideological advancement of neoliberal individualism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the central role of cultural distances in social sciences, literature is surprisingly scarce in quantitatively measuring and graphically representing this concept in Latin America. This study addresses this issue calculating a cultural distance index using the nine cultural dimensions measured by House et al. (2004) for ten Latin American countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and Venezuela. Also, this study graphically presents the cultural distances calculated. The relevance of this study is the ability to incorporate cultural indicators that allow comparing the current situation and prospects in Latin America. In order to illustrate the implications of this study, the case of cultural distances of Mexico with other nine Latin American countries is analyzed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the objects and dominant perspectives in the field of communication for the development and social change in Latin America according to the preliminary results of a bibliometric study of the articles published on the subject in ten Latin American journals on communication noted in the h-index of Google Scholar. From these results and the literature review of the bibliography for reference in the field -anthologies, special issues and founding texts-, a map of the main problems and approaches in the study of communication, development and social change is presented. With this material it is intended to discern the epistemological boundaries of the field and establish dialogues with other disciplines in the social sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article shows that, despite the importance of the Soviet model in the Latin American imaginary, the latter's relations with Moscow during the Cold War have not been a topic of frequent research. The sixties saw the rise of the first studies on the subject, which expanded in the early seventies, and again in the late eighties after a phase of "silence," but which were strongly impregnated by the typical prejudices of their context. Other than punctual interpretations, however, the end of the conflict has not stimulated the academic renovation that was expected, and an evaluation of the "state of the art" shows that, In the area of Soviet-Latin American ties, the social sciences are still In debt. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An editorial is presented which argues on Click an alternative of communication in Latin America, which includes the trajectory of a scientific, Latin American and Caribbean publication, that has been in charge of collecting the main discussions in the world of social sciences, with special attention to reflection on communication, makes Chasqui a very important source when researching and studying the Latin American critical thinking.

Se presenta una introducción de la revista que presenta varios artículos sobre el conocimiento de las experiencias humanas en las ciencias sociales y humanas. El artículo también se centra en las simetrías de las relaciones económicas, políticas y culturales en América Latina.

El artículo discute sobre la revista La revista Antropologías del Sur, que es una publicación semestral de investigación empírica sobre temas relacionados con problemas socioculturales en las áreas de antropología, humanidades y ciencias sociales en América Latina. El artículo también analiza la fecha límite para el envío de artículos originales a la revista antes del 14 de mayo de 2021.