Thinking Framework Concept: A Decolonial Epistemological Proposal for the Current Latin-American Scenario

The new crisis faced by Latin American governments of counter-hegemonic political projects – which had made important progress towards inclusion – against the (re) strengthening of a bloc of countries with neoliberal projects that have tended to aggravate regional social problems raises the question...

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Main Author: Verónica Soto Pimentel
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Language:Spanish
Published: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede Ecuador 2017-01-01
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Online Access:http://revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec/iconos/article/view/2265
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description The new crisis faced by Latin American governments of counter-hegemonic political projects – which had made important progress towards inclusion – against the (re) strengthening of a bloc of countries with neoliberal projects that have tended to aggravate regional social problems raises the question: how to break this return to the myth of Sisyphus? Based on the presuppositions of decolonial thinking, the proposed hypothesis is that this would be - partly due to- the presence of Eurocentric features in the construction of knowledge on social problems and their solution in the political projects that are discussed in the region. This paper proposes a categorization of the concept of a thinking framework in order to identify the presence of these features in the epistemological foundations of Latin American political projects, which would go unnoticed from categories derived from hegemonic forms of knowledge.
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spelling doaj-art-447cb5a487264a18afddbf6056d2ce1e2025-02-02T22:33:25ZspaFacultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede EcuadorÍconos2224-69831390-12492017-01-012157214010.17141/iconos.57.2017.2265Thinking Framework Concept: A Decolonial Epistemological Proposal for the Current Latin-American ScenarioVerónica Soto Pimentel 0Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, ArgentinaThe new crisis faced by Latin American governments of counter-hegemonic political projects – which had made important progress towards inclusion – against the (re) strengthening of a bloc of countries with neoliberal projects that have tended to aggravate regional social problems raises the question: how to break this return to the myth of Sisyphus? Based on the presuppositions of decolonial thinking, the proposed hypothesis is that this would be - partly due to- the presence of Eurocentric features in the construction of knowledge on social problems and their solution in the political projects that are discussed in the region. This paper proposes a categorization of the concept of a thinking framework in order to identify the presence of these features in the epistemological foundations of Latin American political projects, which would go unnoticed from categories derived from hegemonic forms of knowledge.http://revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec/iconos/article/view/2265Colonial woundcoloniality of powerEurocentrismThinking Frameworkdecolonial thinking
spellingShingle Verónica Soto Pimentel
Thinking Framework Concept: A Decolonial Epistemological Proposal for the Current Latin-American Scenario
Íconos
Colonial wound
coloniality of power
Eurocentrism
Thinking Framework
decolonial thinking
title Thinking Framework Concept: A Decolonial Epistemological Proposal for the Current Latin-American Scenario
title_full Thinking Framework Concept: A Decolonial Epistemological Proposal for the Current Latin-American Scenario
title_fullStr Thinking Framework Concept: A Decolonial Epistemological Proposal for the Current Latin-American Scenario
title_full_unstemmed Thinking Framework Concept: A Decolonial Epistemological Proposal for the Current Latin-American Scenario
title_short Thinking Framework Concept: A Decolonial Epistemological Proposal for the Current Latin-American Scenario
title_sort thinking framework concept a decolonial epistemological proposal for the current latin american scenario
topic Colonial wound
coloniality of power
Eurocentrism
Thinking Framework
decolonial thinking
url http://revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec/iconos/article/view/2265
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