José Manuel Valenzuela Arce Professor emeritus researcher at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte and emeritus researcher of the National System of Researchers (sni) of Conahcyt. He holds a PhD in Social Sciences with a major in Sociology from El Colegio de México and a Ph. honoris causa by the Autonomous University of Baja California. His works have been pioneering and of great importance for the understanding of the socio-cultural processes that define the U.S.-Mexico border, Latin American cultural studies, popular cultures and youth movements in Latin America and the United States. His most recent books are: The dance of the extinct. Juvenicide, violence and hitman powers in Latin America.. Mexico: udg/colef, 2022; y Cuchumá. The sacred mountain of Tecate. Mexico: Gedisa/colef, 2022. She is currently on a sabbatical research stay at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Instituto de Investigaciones Culturales-Museo.

Reseñas críticas

Horizontality in knowledge production institutions: perspective or paradox?

Sarah Corona Berkin (coord.), 2022 CALAS-Gedisa, Mexico, 328 pp.

In horizontal position there are many things to invent: horizontality in knowledge production institutions: Perspective or paradox?

  • José Manuel Valenzuela Arce

I highly recommend La horizontalidad en las instituciones de producción de conocimiento: ¿perspectiva o paradoja?, as I consider it essential for researchers and teaching staff interested in the construction of research processes that seek to influence social reality to transform it into a better place to live, more inclusive, more democratic and happier.

Reseñas críticas

Ver con los otros. Comunicación intercultural

Jesús Martín Barbero and Sarah Corona Berkin (coord.), 2017 FCE, Mexico City, 151 pp.

See with the others. A dialogic and horizontal proposal in research

  • José Manuel Valenzuela Arce

Ver con los otros. Comunicación intercultural is a powerful work that breaks new ground in academic debates concerned with the role of academia in the (re) production of the colonial order and social inequality. It is also committed to critical research that aims to transform the world together with those who are subalternized in the research process, and made invisible from a supposed condition of objects or mere transmitters of knowledge.