On the Threshold of "Other Epistemology" for Latin American Social Sciences

Abstract

The complex problems that gripped Latin American societies demand analytical constructs from the broader social sciences; in such a way, that they allow to extend the margins of intellection and, as far as possible, to foresee the respective solutions. In Latin America this crisis is evident, among other problems, in ecological disasters, the lack of economic and political autonomy, the widespread poverty of large sections of the population, the decomposition of the social fabric, the assumption of educational and cultural models imposed by globalized policies.

Problems whose studies, from the particularity of the disciplinary fields are no longer sufficient, to the extent that, given the overlap and synergy of the problems, they require more complex approaches. Approaches whose eventual exit can be found in the interaction of the social sciences and from more critical, less foreign and more own epistemic perspectives.