From fragmented democracy to African Ubuntu: contribution of afro-descendant movements to relational democracy in Latin America

• Autor(a) principal: Ramirez, Jorge Rafael
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Guevara, Lourdes Pacheco Ladron de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: spa
• Título da fonte: Acta Scientiarum. Human and Social Sciences (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://www.periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciHumanSocSci/article/view/54150
• topic: democracy; Ubuntu; race; afro-descendant movements; ethics.; democracia; Ubuntu; raza; movimientos afrodescendientes; ética.

This paper is the product of doctoral research and aims to introduce the discussion and analysis of Ubuntu and traditional African philosophy as a contribution to thinking about the fragmentation of democracy in Latin America, giving way to the role that African movements and organizations have in assuming a political and ethical struggle to build a relational democracy as a necessary proposal to the crisis of liberal democracy. The methodology consists of a bibliographic review of literature and intellectuals from the social sciences and African thought to highlight a trend that is not only framed in the questioning of the democratic model in force in Latin America, but also provides some clues for the construction of a community society project in the region, based on relational ontology. It concludes that, in the crisis of the Western political model, the struggles of Afro-descendant movements must transcend the logic of strengthening liberal democracy, to propose the ethical path of Ubuntu as a route to deconstruct the political and societal structures in place, promoting a message of humanity.