Intellectual Turns and Latin American Social Lucidity

• Autor(a) principal: Albernaz, Renata Ovenhausen
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Plurais (Salvador. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.uneb.br/index.php/plurais/article/view/17764
• topic: Intelectuais; Viragens Epistêmicas; América Latina; Pesquisa Decolonial; Justiça Social; Intellectuals; Epistemic Turns; Latin America; Decolonial Research; Social Justice; Intelectuales; Giros epistémicos; América Latina; Investigación decolonial; Justicia Social

This article aims to analyze an intellectual movement that problematizes the process, "efficiency" and externalities of research results in social sciences in Latin America. A bibliographical survey was carried out of texts by prominent Latin American intellectuals from this movement. The main proposals and criticisms of this movement are: 1) to deconstruct the trap of hegemonic knowledge that unbalances what makes visible and invisible, notably in facts of redistribution, maneuvering social consensus; 2) to invert the usual logic of the efficiency of investigations, minimizing their character of being at the service of the capitalist modernizing bet; 3) to change the aesthetic standards in Brazilian science, abandoning the privileged taste for exotic (Euro-North American-centric) methods and standards; 4) to immunize intellectuals against the defeatism of frustrated programming on the continent; 5) to insist on the deeper causes of social problems, not content with the closest and most obvious ones.