Roberto Melville

is a professor-researcher at ciesas in Mexico City. He is a teacher in Social Anthropology (1975) and a doctorate in Social Sciences with a specialty in Social Anthropology (1990) from the Universidad Iberoamericana. He is the Coordinator of the Editorial Project (ciesas, uam–i, uia) "Classics and Contemporaries in Anthropology". Among his recent publications are "The Influence of The People of Puerto Rico Project on Mexican Anthropology", Identities, vol. 18: 3 (2011) and "Power and technology based on environmental and social change in the Tennessee Valley", in Knowledge of environment and power (colsan, 2019); https://bibliotecadigitalantropologica.alterum.info/.

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.