Join the body, time and space from the Global South: philosophizing from Nuestra América

Abstract

This text is a heartfelt and enjoyed review of a book with local and regional power, organized into chapters that open different windows to the Social Sciences, under the title "Critical interpellations to the social sciences and humanities from America Latina”, coordinated by Dr. Paola Gramaglia. From the tour of the different texts of this compilation, I highlight and analyze debates that the authors propose on different aspects of the coloniality of power, being, knowledge and gender. Coloniality that is identified even in those agents and social movements that are counter-hegemonic, such as feminisms. Throughout the book, we measure how complex it is to question university knowledge from the university itself and the authors know it, which is why they strive to disarm and demonstrate what happens to counter-hegemonic discourses when they are captured by the academic and neoliberal discourse. Also, the way in which people work all the time against ourselves, in favor of our own domination, especially visible in structures such as universities. Mainly, the particularity of this book is that the commitment to social change is not located especially in the radical transformation of the structures, but rather it attends to the micropolitical agency of the subjects. Problematic situation, because we already know at this point in social theory that oppressions are not always material, but rather live within us and that they constitute us as subjects from birth itself. However, there are groups that still resist and create in the face of this adverse context and this book is an example of this, of the encounter between rebellious wills that investigate, debate and write to help reveal oppressions and dream up new ways of building decolonial communities.