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Luhmann in da contact zone: towards a postcolonial critique of sociological systems theory
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Cultural Consumption Through the Epistemologies of the South: 'Humanization' in Transnational Football Fan Solidarities
In 2014, Boaventura de Sousa Santos awoke the global sociological community to the need to privilege âhumanizationâ in the exploration of transnational solidarities. This article presents the cultural consumption of a football club â Liverpool FC â to understand the common âloveâ, âsufferingâ, âcareâ and âknowledgeâ that fans who are part of the âBrazil Redsâ or âSwitzerland Redsâ (although not all fans engaged in such communities are âfromâ Brazil or Switzerland) experience. The argument is that the global North lexicon of social class, ethnicity, gender and, especially, nationality is less significant as starting points for analysis than humanization through shared love, which consolidates Liverpool FC fansâ transnational solidarities. Accordingly, the article calls for the epistemologies of the global South to be used to understand the practices of cultural consumption that constitute activities in the sphere of everyday life, such as those involved in âloveâ for a football club
Beside-the-mind: an unsettling, reparative reading of paranoia
Having undertaken a critical analysis of a transnational program of research to identify and intervene on the prodrome, a pre-psychotic state, here I experiment with an unsettling, reparative reading of its affective coilsâparanoia. Etymologically joining para (beside) with nous (mind), âparanoiaâ denotes an experience beside-the-mind. I attempt to follow these roots, meeting a non-human figureâCoatlicueâas introduced through Chicana philosopher and poet, Gloria AnzaldĂșa. In the arms of this goddess, the prodrome points to the vitality and the milieu of paranoia, re-turning it as a capacity, calling for modes of attunement and apprenticeship, and perhaps protecting our psychological and political practices against yet another operation of colonialist capture. Challenging the subject, interlocutors, and form typically adopted by not just Psychology but Affect Studies too, I hope in this performative essay to also lift up the problems and possibilities of Walter Mignoloâs âborder thinkingâ as a means to open the potential decoloniality, and thus response-ability, of these fields within the present political moment
Introduction: Exploring the Role of Education and the Pedagogical in Pathways to Twenty-First-Century Socialism in Latin America
The horizons of political imagination and practice in Latin America are expanding as witnessed by the election to power of governments to the Left such as ChĂĄvez in Venezuela, Morales in Bolivia, Correa in Ecuador and Ortega in Nicaragua and the emergence of a plethora of popular social movements that are contesting and creating alternatives to neoliberal capitalism. In the praxis of this reinvention of emancipatory popular politics the role of education and the pedagogical are central (see also Motta, 2014 a, b, c). We are using âpedagogicalâ in its wide sense here to refer not just to teaching methods but also to an articulation of educational aims and processes in social, ethical and affective as well as cognitive terms
Naming the World: Situating Freirean Pedagogics in the Philosophical Problematic of Nuestra América
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