Fernando Garcia Serrano

is a professor and researcher at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (flaccid), Ecuador headquarters, since 2000, and teacher and researcher at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (puce), from 1979 to 1992. He obtained a degree in Social Anthropology at the puce in 1977; with a master's degree in Social Anthropology at the Ibero-American University of Mexico between 1977-1979 and a doctorate in Social Sciences at the General Sarmiento National University and the Social Economic Development Institute, Buenos Aires, in 2018. He has conducted research in Mexico and Ecuador and taught at universities in Peru, Bolivia, Mexico and Spain. His latest post is From dream to nightmare: the indigenous movement in Ecuador (2021).

Discrepancias

Impact of open science on the development of social sciences in Latin America

  • Annel Mejías Guiza
  • Fernando Garcia Serrano
  • Norma Raquel Gauna

  • moderator Roberto Melville

Keywords: Latin America.

The social sciences in Latin America have received numerous impulses for their development from the hegemonic countries. Research expeditions, teacher training, the dissemination of books and magazines provide feedback on the relationship between the center and the periphery. In our region, the social sciences have developed confined within the borders of each country. This can be confirmed by looking at the topics and titles of theses, articles and books produced in Latin American countries. However, lasting links at the horizontal level have been built through the exchange of professors and students and the activities of the congresses, and lately on the pages of electronic journals. In this section of Discrepancies we will explore what role fostering open science has to play in the social science locale.