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Entrevistas
Vol 8 Núm 15 (2025)

Entrevista a Alejandro Grimson: Desafíos intelectuales para la imaginación política
Interview with - Alexander Grimson
- Alina Peña Iguarán
La entrevista "Desafíos intelectuales para la imaginación política" presenta el diálogo con Alejandro Grimson, destacado antropólogo argentino conocido por sus análisis sobre identidades y fronteras en América Latina. Alina Peña Iguarán destaca sus aportes sobre configuraciones culturales y el concepto de frontera como espacio dinámico de interacción y conflicto. La conversación aborda tres momentos: los debates latinoamericanos de los años 90, la génesis de su libro "Los límites de la cultura", y el análisis del ascenso de las extremas derechas. Grimson reflexiona sobre nacionalismos, crisis de representación, y la urgencia de construir alternativas frente al "desquicio" político actual que debilita la democracia.
Coloquios interdisciplinarios
Vol 6 No 12 (2023)
Comment on the colloquium "Beyond decoloniality: discussion of some key concepts" by - David Lehmann
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Toward the Creation of New Paradigms for Research into Diversity by Latin American Universities
- Regina Martínez Casas
This text addresses the discussion on decoloniality in social studies on Latin America from different research experiences that seek to problematize the concept and show that not all research carried out in the so-called Global South is decolonial. It also presents scenarios in which academic works have justified the reproduction of inequalities in Latin America, as well as the discrimination that affects the region and prevents access to models of social justice.
Entrevistas
Vol 5 No 9 (2022)

The Rootless Migrant: A Historical Depredation
Interview with - Jorge Durand
- Manuela Camus
Jorge Durand is the guest in this interview section of Encartes magazine. Anthropologist and researcher at the University of Guadalajara, where he holds the Chair of Migration, Jorge Durand is a specialist in the United States-Mexico migration dynamics. On this occasion, he describes his incursion into the northern countries of Central America and the new protagonist figure in the region: the uprooted.
Discrepancias
Vol 4 No. 7 (2021)
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.
Coloquios interdisciplinarios
Vol 2 Num 4 (2019)
Comment to the colloquium "Inequalities and the re-politicization of the social in Latin America" by - Juan Pablo Pérez Sáinz
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Pentecostalism and social inequalities in Latin America
- Pablo Federico Seman
Keywords: Latin America, inequalities, Pentecostalism, religion, popular sectors.
WThe author develops three specific observations on the religious practices introduced by Pentecostalism in the global balance of inequalities in Latin America with the attempt to point out the complexity and ambiguity of their social performances according to dimensions and contexts of analysis. These are: the ups and downs of Catholicism in the region; the growth of Pentecostalism in Latin America; and the characteristics of the implantation of Pentecostalism in the popular sectors and the discussion of its value regarding the reproduction of all kinds of inequalities in contemporary Latin American societies.
Coloquios interdisciplinarios
Vol 2 Num 4 (2019)
Comment to the colloquium "Inequalities and the re-politicization of the social in Latin America" by - Juan Pablo Pérez Sáinz
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Social inequality in Latin America. Structural explanations and everyday experiences
- Gonzalo A. Saraví
Keywords: Latin America, social class, inequality, experience of inequality, social fragmentation.
CAs part of the interdisciplinary Colloquium proposed by the magazine Encartes, and based on the text by Juan Pablo Pérez Sáinz, this text seeks to complement and broaden the debate on social inequality in Latin America. In order to overcome a strictly economic view on the subject, the author proposes, on the one hand, to incorporate social and cultural dimensions into the analysis, and on the other, to assume inequality as a class experience. Hence his concept of social fragmentation. Initially, the article reviews the most current data on the primary and secondary distribution of income in Latin America over the last 15 years. It is clear that these indicators do not necessarily correspond to the experience of the different social classes that live a growing fragmentation and distancing from their life experiences that imposes the need for an ethnographic approach to inequality. This fragmentation can hardly be understood without an analysis of the social mechanisms and processes of social classification, which legitimize hierarchies and gaps between social classes. The disparity in the distribution of income and wealth is key for the author in the genesis of social fragmentation, hence the centrality that he attributes to the role that the State can play.
Discrepancias
Vol 2 Num 4 (2019)

Traditionalisms, fundamentalisms, fascisms? The advance of conservatism in Latin America
- Catalina Romero
- Fabio Lozano
- Joanildo Burity
- Miguel Angel Mansilla
- Renée de la Torre
- Rodrigo Toniol
- moderator Veronica Giménez Béliveau
The consolidation of conservative projects supported by political and religious actors in Latin America is not a novelty: the continent has seen advances and crises of popular governments, bloody dictatorships, violent speeches and rights expansion processes that are carried out with different intensity and decoupled temporalities in different countries. The ways of naming this trend are the subject of discussion in this section, since the naming itself is a problem: they are expressions made up of diverse sectors socially and even politically, claiming transformations of varying thickness as the context allows them. Based on these ideas, we organized our discussion around three questions, which the authors answered based on the experience of each country.