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During 2019, we embarked on a fieldwork based on 18 semi-structured interviews with international scholars in the humanities and social sciences in Chilean universities to explore their experiences with knowledge. Drawing on theories of critique and neoliberalism, we analyzed their ambivalent and unsettling conjunction of attachments to neoliberal and critical knowledge formations. By developing the notion of regime of epistemic subjectification, we emphasized the affective intensities these experiences brought to bear amid the differential weight and interplay of neoliberalism and critique as ethico-epistemic modes of engagement. We argued that the dominant focus on neoliberal knowledge and entrepreneurial subjectivity, albeit intense, expansive, and seemingly omnipresent, must be complicated by exposing its ambivalent affective and somatic force, and recognizing the difference between critical academic products and the lived experience of critique. The latter was constituted in the outsides of the inside of the neoliberal knowledge regime. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article exposes the need to decolonize and transdiciplinar ethnography, the main objective of the research is to propose a strong transdiscipline and decolonization from the intercultural paradigm as ethical components to redesign new ethnographic approaches, and to promote epistemic and cognitive justice in the social sciences. The methodological process included an exhaustive documentary review, through a database in web pages and academic and scientific search engines. A proposal for participation in the construction of knowledge with the other through encounter, understanding epistemic diversity, and embracing complexity is proposed. Being aware of the thought processes, promoting a new type of collective consciousness; allowing the development of heterodox and critical epistemes. Recognizing at the same level of validity the information and knowledge of western social sciences and indigenous cognition and episteme, and in general all human epistemology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on outlining key priorities for the journal Analyses for the next four years, emphasizing its unique identity within the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI). Topics discussed include expanding epistemologies/methods, diversifying experiences/perspectives, and reaching broader audiences through effective communication and advocacy strategies.

The purpose of this paper is to explore the potential of dialectical pluralism (DP) for nursing knowledge development. Nursing scholars have discussed ways of developing nursing knowledge, exploring the fit and relevance of various worldviews for knowledge development and examining the dynamic and perpetual processes of knowledge development. Scholars have argued that knowledge development occurs under a certain worldview to which the researcher adheres. Many nurses employ various worldviews, which can give rise to ontological and epistemological conflicts. DP can help nurses appreciate the diversity of worldviews and recognize the importance of implicit worldviews to generate more practical nursing knowledge. DP as a philosophical approach can enable nurses to communicate between diverse worldviews, become tolerant of conflicting differences, and develop an array of nursing knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While there is ample recognition that intellectual work is - to some degree - relational and cooperative, most narratives of production focus on how intellectual supporters aid the author and the crafting of a work. In this contribution, I adopt a perspective centered on intellectual work as "dialogue and draft" among triads - the author, the work in progress, and the supporter - with a particular attention to the relationship that intellectual supporters develop with the work and the author. Through an archival analysis of personal correspondence that covers the years 2005–2021, drafts, and interventions, I tell a story of A Joyfully Serious Man as an ongoing project that shifted shape at critical junctures and in which not only the object and the author, but also the supporter were transformed. In the concluding remarks, I offer some potential questions for advancing the historical and sociological study of how intellectual self-concepts change in the context of asymmetric, yet very intimate, relations with work carried out by others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims at exploring feminist social science literature and the issues revolving around the standpoint theory, and situated knowledge. Standpoint theory holds significant importance in feminist scholarship as it challenges traditional mainly men’s perspectives, by emphasizing the influence of social position and identity on one's understanding of the world. Developed within feminist scholarship, standpoint theory argues that individuals situated in marginalized or oppressed positions (this being often women across cultures) possess unique insights into societal structures and power dynamics. While addressing some of the major debates in the area, the focus of this paper is to look critically at the plausibility of the feminist epistemology and the problem of objectivity, brought from the debates in standpoint theory. Objective knowledge also presupposed a unified concept of a woman or some kind of female experience, which has been questioned by the more constructivist scholars like Haraway (1991). The aim of the paper is to tackle some of the implications arising out of science, realism, objectivism, and relativism filtered through the prism of feminist social science literary production. While it appears that the endeavour for objectivity in knowledge is a necessary basis for rendering a feminist political undertaking meaningful, a careful analysis of some of the scholarly works on objectivity may prove somewhat dangerous to feminism in general as it might deconstruct the concept of a woman and female experience all together. Agreeing that the efforts and contributions of feminists in the area of epistemology are crucial in challenging traditional epistemological frameworks that have often marginalized or ignored the perspectives and experiences of women, this paper aims to critically reassess the attempts for preserving or building new doctrines of objectivity, and the potential consequences of such attempts for feminism itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this conceptual piece, I use a framework of embodiment to argue for approaches to inquiry that are better suited to engage and amplify Black womxn's knowledges in social work than are more popular social sciences methods. I also relate embodiment to several epistemic frames, and warn against disembodiment through more popular methods. Finally, I present three embodied research approaches that align with feminist social work principles. Throughout the piece, I reference works that explore feminist and embodied practices while centering Black womxn. I also frame discussion through my own embodiment as a Black femme scholar and practitioner, and embodiment and its potential in inquiries through a Black feminist tradition. Embodiment has been a framework of feminist scholarship for decades, broadly defined as living out knowledge through the body and/or in its environments through a process of becoming. Scholars in this school of thought account for their and participants' emotions and dispositions as part of how knowledge is lived, while treating the body as a text to be read. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research can be conceived as a process aimed at the production and dissemination of knowledge, in the context of an ethical commitment that guarantees its credibility and application. The objective of this article is to reflect on the nature of the relationship between ethics, research and social sciences. This work is reflective, with a philosophical-hermeneutical method and a documentary design. Since knowledge is not neutral, the research from which it arises is not neutral either. The subjects who give rise to the activity and the investigative process are not neutral either. The thesis of value neutrality has remained in the past due to its self-interested ideological function. Totally objective knowledge, where the influence of the subject on the object is null, precarious or non-existent, is completely surpassed. Human behavior is what gives meaning to the construction of knowledge of reality. This action is what allows the ethical assessment of the purposes of the actions and their intentional behavior. The researcher needs to ask himself about the hierarchy of values that will guide his research practice. From this point of view, if social justice would be what guides this hierarchy, the most relevant issues would be: dignity, solidarity, equity, human rights, human needs and capabilities. Thinking about ethics as a reflection on morality generates a broader framework for understanding research ethics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this essay is to review the origins of qualitative research from the dawn of humanity to its consolidation as a way of doing scientific research in the social sciences. To this end, a historical route was undertaken that reveals from an incipient manifestation what over the years came to be called naturalistic or qualitative research. In the different texts reviewed in the Gadamerian style, complementing with other approaches as long as it has the characteristics of being holistic, multi-methodical, flexible and evolutionary, it accepts complementarity from narrative, understanding, comparison, interpretation to contextualization par excellence and is unequivocally admitted in the task and contribution of knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The subject of (de)colonization in the academy has witnessed an upsurge in attention over the past two decades across the social sciences and the Global North-South divide. This article critically examines central themes that have guided the conceptualization of decolonization thus far and foregrounds the convergences that decolonization shares with the epistemology of qualitative research methodology and pedagogy. In so doing, this article articulates the objective of reconciliation and demonstrates the ways in which reconciliation has been and can be enacted in the academy, limning the themes of (a) attention to physical context; (b) inclusion of Indigenous voices; (c) and decolonization of Indigenous and non-Indigenous minds. This article argues for better aligning the epistemology and conduct of qualitative research with Indigenous values—and concludes by calling for attention to Indigenous intersectionality and calling against a growing trend of decontextualizing decolonization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of this paper is to study some questions that we consider fundamental about the methodological position of Jerome Bruner in relation to research, production and communication of knowledge in the field of Psychology and its interrelations with other social sciences, based on the consideration of human phenomena as inherently psychological, social, cultural and historical. For this purpose, we resorted to an analytical-comparative hermeneutic method taking as a documentary basis articles and books written by the author in the period between 1960 - 2015. In these texts we believe we find his most important critical elaborations on positivism and his methodological proposal of overcoming it, which here, we only attempt a first approximation. It is an interpretation, a recapitulation and a rewriting of some of the knowledge bequeathed by Bruner on how to approach "the proper study of man" (Bruner, 1991) in order to continue along the path taken under the challenge that he himself proposed to us: to go beyond the information received. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Epistemological vigilance in research formalizes the reflexive critical analysis of the theoretical, methodological and ontological relationships that guarantees the coherent practice of the significance of the object and social context of study. The present article is of a documentary nature, whose purpose is to unveil the transcendence of epistemological vigilance in social science research in graduate schools. For this purpose, the systematization and analysis of referential documentary sources was carried out, under a theoretical perspective that provides an approach to the reality of graduate schools, making use of the reflexivity conferred by the researcher's paradigmatic line of thought and the social facts that arise to be investigated. Therefore, the theoretical and methodological perspective assumed in the research responds to the epistemological significance that the researcher consecrates to the object of study constructed, providing an explanatory and resolving sense to the problems posed, being the graduate schools academic scenarios where research is developed for the purpose of dissemination and disclosure of knowledge, which accounts for the quality of its results and the contribution to the scientific community, making them the main means of contribution to the social demands and needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this work was to carry out a first approach to the diagnosis of the labor fluctuation of young researchers in five social science research centers in Havana. For it, a brief tour of the concepts Human Resource Management, Human Capital and Intellectual Capital was made, to achieve integration in a definition that relates the activity carried out by young researchers, with the consolidation of knowledge, opportunities, intellectual production and organizational development. As part of the diagnosis, a AWOT Matrix developed. Some examples related to practices for the retention of intellectual capital in organizations were analyzed. These assessments are the starting point for the development of a management model that contributes to the job retention of these professionals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, the authors explore and contribute to producing a performative research paradigm where post-qualitative as well as artistic research might dwell and breathe. Entering a thread of discussion that started with Haseman's A manifesto for performative research in 2006, and building on their own friction-led research processes at the edges of qualitative research, the authors plug in with performativity, non-representational theories and methodologies, post-qualitative inquiry and post approaches. A performative paradigm for post-qualitative inquiry is proposed, where knowledge is viewed as knowledge-in-becoming as the constant creation of difference through researcher entanglement with the research phenomenon and wider world. A performative paradigm produces a space for movement, (artistic) freedom, (post-qualitative) experimentation and inclusion. A performative research paradigm also offers provocations that shake long-established notions about what research is and should be. Within a performative research paradigm, learning/be(com)ing/knowing is always in-becoming – as is the performative paradigm itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on the VI International Congress of Epistemology and Methodology, focusing on research in humanities and arts, addressing new epistemologies. Topics include keynotes from distinguished researchers in bioethics and philosophy, thematic discussions spanning areas such as audiovisual research, philosophy, and social sciences, and historical studies, emphasizing interdisciplinary exploration and the need for diverse methodological approaches.

Our thesis is that Villoro's philosophy is still valid to think about the problem of scientism. This conclusion is drawn as a result of putting into play the ideas of the Mexican philosopher based on the reflection that Markus Gabriel has made in this regard from the new realism. As a result of our research, we have found that both philosophers coincide in their criticism of scientism and in the alternative they propose against it. For both, scientism is an ideology that dehumanizes the knowledge of humanity, in which the perspective of the natural sciences prevails methodologically over the social sciences. Faced with this problem, both authors propose the autonomy and liberation of the sciences of the spirit; likewise, that science, although it is distinguished from wisdom, is not disassociated from the meaning and value of human existence and reality (field of the spirit). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In theory, sources of knowledge might also originate from the outcomes of reflection or contemplation rather than just from experimental or study results. A philosopher engages in reflection or contemplation when attempting to understand or identify the core of something having to do with legal principles. What is meant by justice is the most important philosophical topic when discussing the nature of justice. That is a question that pertains to the field of science philosophy. According to its core, the philosophy of science is a branch of general philosophy that provides responses to a number of inquiries regarding the nature of science. Science philosophy examines the philosophical underpinnings, presumptions, and implications of science, including the social and natural sciences. Philosophy of science studies the philosophical foundations, assumptions and implications of science, including the natural sciences and social sciences. Philosophy of science is closely related to epistemology and ontology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to think and propose, epistemically and methodologically, a sociology of capturing attention in the light of current sociotechnical phenomena, taking some examples from the Covid-19 pandemic in the West. Considering attention as a resource of the economy triggered by informational and vigilance capitalism, it is suggested to study the capture of visual attention in general, and the capture of manipulable attention in particular, as an area of extreme relevance in contemporary sociology. Captology, this new science that operationalizes digital knowledge and techniques on socio-digital platforms with a view to capturing attention, produces sufficient financial, behavioral and cultural impacts to merit a new sociological discipline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article ethnographically traces the performance of data collection and analysis for a cancer cost-of-illness study in an East Indian Cancer hospital. By reflecting on my experience in this project, I show how the hospital's obligations for philanthropic and business self-sustainability spatially and temporally structured data in a way that produced the conditions of possibility for what was able to be made knowable of patients' experiences in cancer health economics. While collecting and analysing data within the spatial and temporal structuring of this self-sustainable hospital, I argue that our research team attempted to craft an ethical epistemology by incorporating the unique realities of Indian cancer patients based upon assumptions made from our tacit knowledge. Specifically, we called upon this knowledge to exercise a form of tacit epistemological ethics for patients existing in an in-between space of classification within Euro-North America cancer health economics frameworks. Finally, I suggest that in light of an attempt to produce a more ethical economic logic, the results of the cost-of-illness analysis are ultimately returned to larger conditions of possibility within austere health systems and Euro-North America health economics frameworks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper questions the adequacy of Georg Simmel's answer to the question, how is society possible? Treating his essay on the question as a contribution to his overall sociology, it argues that the "a prioris" he identifies add little to the general understanding of social forms, are neither necessary nor sufficient to make society possible as a coherent mental construct, and play at best a modest role in Simmel's own analysis of forms. Taking a step beyond Simmel's essay, the paper briefly suggests that, if a Simmelian "epistemological" grounding is to remain relevant to the broader interactionist tradition, conditions for the possibility of society as interaction order should include schemas pertaining to social Wechselwirkung. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At this moment, humanity is confronting several global metacrises that demand a new image of science to deal with the complex problems associated with these crises. In addition to natural sciences and humanities, social sciences can become an equally efficient resource for use in this transformation if they succeed in constructing new frameworks congruent with the new reality. The purpose of this theoretical paper in the discourse of philosophy of science is to discern the features of the social sciences within a new paradigm of metamodernism. For the first time, the authors elaborate on the new principles of metamodernist philosophy and apply them to the ontology, epistemology, axiology, and methodology of the social sciences. The set of six transversal principles comprises the ontological principle of paradoxical simultaneity, caused by oscillation, epistemological principles of paradoxical understanding of truth and grand narratives, as well as metaxis-based thinking and dia/polylogue, axiological negotiation between rhizomatic and hierarchical social relations and values, and methodological pluralism. The last principle showcases the coexistence and interlinkage of previous stages of metamodernism. The application of these principles to the social sciences was designed from the perspectives of a specific discipline, inter/transdisciplinarity, and instrumental level of social practice. The paper concludes with a discussion of additional avenues for the development of metamodernism in the social sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The use of knowledge and evidence in policymaking is a recurrent topic of research due to its scientific and policy relevance. The existing and expansive body of literature has been scrutinised in various ways to grasp the dimensions of knowledge utilisation in policymaking, although most of this research has a monosectoral focus and is based on very general criteria of analysis that do not completely account for the complexity of policy making. This paper overcomes this limitation by enlightening the epistemological divide in the field between an objectivist and a subjectivist perspective and by distinguishing two different focuses in this literature: a focus on knowledge for policy making and a focus on knowledge in policy making. Based on this analytical distinction, the paper presents an original and unprecedented systematic, intersectoral metareview by considering the thirty-year period between 1990 and 2020 (approximately 1,400 were selected for fine-grained analysis). This metareview offers a broader and more detailed map with a clear idea of the distribution of interest in the topic among the different policy fields, a better classification of the theoretical/empirical content and research goals that scholars adopt and a novel and, above all, more fine-grained perspective on the types of conditions that favour or disfavour a significant role of knowledge in policymaking. Ultimately, and above all, this metareview identifies three highly relevant components of policy making that can facilitate or constrain the use of knowledge in policymaking more than others: values/ideology/beliefs, actors' relationships, and policy capacities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to synthesize the criticisms made by Mario Bunge to the Social Sciences contained in the second edition of the work "Epistemologia: curso de atualização". The results represent a synthesis of the author's philosophical examination of the sociological vocabulary, which results in a "sanitation of the sociological vocabulary". We believe that the synthesis of these criticisms can help young researchers in the great area of Social Sciences to understand them, and to consider them in their research efforts. The results are useful for future studies, which can use them to offer updated answers to such criticisms, revealing, mainly, how the area reacted to them, changing or even ignoring them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The design of information tools and services is an integral component of librarianship, yet American librarianship has self-identified as a social science for more than 100 years. This article suggests an alternative epistemological perspective to the scientific tradition in librarianship: design epistemology. The article discusses key elements that compose design epistemology and presents examples of manifestations of these elements in librarianship. Analysis reveals that librarianship has much in common with design epistemology, yet the field lacks explicit acknowledgment of design as a fundamental epistemological framework. The article concludes with a call to reconceptualize librarianship as a design discipline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article I will auto-ethnographically approach my experience of more than 40 years of reciprocity with the social sciences by finding in critical thinking ideas that have allowed me to gradually and constantly guide and reorient my gaze on the colonization of the real and the imaginary, and generate ideas articulated by practice by bringing a critical gaze closer to different areas of intervention and collaboration, sharing with various actors that articulation that strengthens the praxis of resistance. [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]

Today we know that the social and human sciences are exhausted and the solutions to civilizational problems and the collapse of the environment cannot come from modern-postmodern reason. Overcoming the link between the social and human sciences with the colonial power-knowledge-devices and the ecological crisis is now urgent if we still want to overcome its own ontological and epistemic bases to help propose solutions to the planet's crisis. Therefore, what we propose here is 1) contribute to the possibility of decolonizing the social and human sciences from a world horizon inter-civilizational transmodern post-capitalist anti-patriarchal. This in order to 2) strengthen the debate on the urgency of founding a global inter-transdisciplinary research program to build the new critical and ecological social and human sciences in favor of the reproduction, increase, and conservation of life for all on the planet. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is urgent to configure new knowledge based on the knowledge of the Other, considered inferior, and not only in the episteme of the modern/colonial Logo, considered superior. I suggest decolonizing the social sciences through Alterphysy and Decolonial Doing. I take Alterphysy as an "other" way of knowing, for the detachment of modern/colonial epistemology. I analyze for what one "other" methodology. I characterize decolonial doing as a decolonizing process, to disobey the USA-Eurocentric research methodology, through actions and traces: communal contemplation, alterative conversation and configurational reflection, which characterize the decolonial vocation. [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]

Since the mid-twentieth century, the scientific field of social sciences has been transforming the trajectory of its institutionalization. This is because the trend towards reducing the number of disciplinary categories that had been identified since 1850 was reversed after the Second World War through a steady increase in names. However, such multiplication does not seem to have been developed proportionally to the necessary communication that should exist between them; suggesting a propensity of modern social sciences to hyper-specialize its subjects and therefore, to increase and extend the gaps between their related fields (also called here “No man’s land” spaces). This circumstance seems to be constituting a blockage in the field’s explanatory capacity, and studying it can contribute to unblocking it. Thus, the present research has focused on providing a micro and macro view of the discipline, on the one hand describing different phases through which it is developed and, on the other hand, by identifying the sociocultural conditioning to which it is exposed. From the analysis of these questions, two aspects have been obtained that seem to characterize the production of knowledge in modern social sciences, which are: a.) the existence of a higher risk of obstruction in the disciplinary construction after the specialization phase- because it is when research activity tends to be more likely to be trapped in hyperspecialization-, and b.) the tendency towards a greater appreciation due to its applicability to social interests of nomothetic attributes as opposed to idiographic ones-whose reproduction in knowledge is produced through mechanisms of legitimization. From these results, we can extract what seems to be a causal relationship between the nomothetic tendency of the current hyperspecialization, the increase of idiographic gaps between related fields, and the need for the legitimization of the theories in the contemporary symbolic universe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper brings reflexivity into conversation with debates about positionality and live sociology to argue for reflexivity to be reimagined as an enduring practice that is collaborative, responsible, iterative, engaged, agile and creative. We elaborate our argument with reference to examples and contemplations drawn from our experiences researching what Brexit means for Britons living in the EU-27 for the BrExpats research project, which was informed from the outset by reflexive practice. We outline three (of a number of) potential strategies for engaging in reflexive practice: reflexive positioning, reflexive navigating and reflexive interpreting or sense-making. We acknowledge that these are not separate actions in practice but are conceptually distinguishable aspects of an ongoing reflexive practice, informed by our understanding of the cognitive relationship between reflexivity and practice theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Systematic reviews and other forms of knowledge synthesis are increasingly common in the social sciences, including in business and management research. We surveyed academic business librarians to determine the extent of their involvement, in any capacity, in knowledge syntheses. Of 71 eligible responses, 30 percent were involved in supporting knowledge synthesis, while others expressed an awareness of and interest in knowledge synthesis methods and have participated in training opportunities to support these types of projects in the future. While still nascent, knowledge synthesis support by business librarians presents potential as a new service area providing opportunities for deep engagement with faculty research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the challenges and potentialities of establishing a shared paradigm of transformative knowledge based on the dialogue between East Asian experiences and the rest of the global South, particularly Latin America. It gathers and organizes a general overview of significant attempts of framing East Asian struggles within resistances against Western hegemonic epistemological impositions. It makes the case for seeking shared links and critical differences that can help to incorporate East Asian experiences within the paradigm of epistemologies of the South. This study also problematizes the articulation of a propositional methodology of comparison that could nurture the production of local, decolonial approaches and foster the exchange of practices and knowledges from and to East Asia.

This article presents a series of situated reflections on the production of knowledge in social research and the relationships that emerge with communities and participants in the field, in dialog with the contributions of Trans* Epistemologies, decolonial feminisms, and epistemologies of the South that urge to break with the coloniality of knowledge and epistemic violence. Grounded on the process of an affective research experience and developed with a community of transgender women in the city of San José, Costa Rica, I address questions on the role of affectivity in knowledge production and present our collective reflections on a possible alternative path through which we can develop dissident epistemologies that aim to be more respectful and dialogical. [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]

This article examines historicism as the expansion of historiography beyond its bounds, analogous to Physicalism, Naturalism, Psychologism, and Scientism. Five senses of historicism are distinguished: Ontological Historicism claims ultimate reality is, and only is, historical. Idiographic historicism considers historiography an empirical science that results in observational descriptions of unique singular events. Introspective historicism considers the epistemology of historiography to be founded on self-knowledge. Scientistic historicism considers historiography an applied psychology or social science that can expand to overtake the social sciences. Methodological historicism extends the use of historiographic methodologies to unreliable or dependent evidence. The first four historicisms are inconsistent with historiography within bounds and implode. Methodological historicism describes proper historiographic methodologies that are applied out of their proper bounds, but are used in historiography based on the epistemology of testimony and the tracing of the transmission of information from historical event to historiographic evidence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This Editorial is a review of the perspectives that attempt to describe the concepts produced in scientific and technological research in relation to "post-normal science". These studies have had a great impact in recent years and their approach, in their most notable contributions, presuppose rethinking the discipline as a producer of knowledge. These transformations are associated with a closer approach of science towards the interests and preferences of its main social actors. Information science, challenged by post-normal science, in the sense that Silvio Funtowicz and Jerome Ravetz attributed to the latter term, faces situations in which the encounter with information, knowledge and wisdom are provided in complex contexts, where the conceptual frameworks that structure the librarian's perspective must coevolve in order not to remain unchanged. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]