OPINION – Hugo Zemelman Prize, epistemology and politics, ten years after his death
The Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) announces the results of the
Call for essay proposals “Hugo Zemelman Prize, epistemology and politics, ten years after his death”.
Hugo Zemelman was born in Concepción, Chile in 1931. He earned degrees in rural sociology and law, and completed postgraduate studies in sociology. Throughout his long career, he held the positions of Director of the Department of Sociology at the University of Chile, Professor-Researcher at the Center for Higher Studies of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at UNAM, Professor-Researcher at the Center for Sociological Studies at El Colegio de México, collaborator with CLACSO on the rural studies commission, and professor at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO). He was also the Founder and Director General of the Institute for Thought and Culture in Latin America AC (IPECAL) until his death on October 3, 2013.
The event, held in his honor ten years after his death, is an initiative of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) to honor the legacy of epistemic and methodological work that the Chilean sociologist built throughout his itinerant career across the Latin American and Caribbean region; to stimulate the production of historical and historicizing thought committed to the best causes of the Latin American and Caribbean peoples; and to trace, in the subterranean gestures, in the reminiscences of historical feats, and in the deployments of instituting political practices, the political processes of reconstitution of the subject or the emergence of processes of political subjectivation that could be steering the present towards a future under construction; as well as to promote the use or appropriation of the approaches suggested by Zemelman to foster reflective knowledge.
The 42 proposals received were found to be in a condition to be evaluated by the Committee
International. The Committee considered the quality, relevance, coherence and timeliness of the proposals, in accordance with the terms of the Call for Proposals.
The evaluation process was carried out by an International Committee made up of the following experts: Alejandra Bazúa, Ana Ceceña, José Gandarilla, Marcela Gómez Sollano, Araceli Mondragón, Adriana Murguía, Lía Pinheiro Barbosa, Ricardo Romo and Alfonso Torres.
The evaluation, based on anonymized work, assessed the quality of the essay proposals submitted, as well as their soundness and intellectual contribution to the issues addressed in the Call for Papers.
Furthermore, given the quality and relevance of most of the works, CLACSO decided to expand the number of winning proposals to 15, 5 more than the 10 established in the Call for Proposals.
Within 90 days of this notification of results, authors must submit their final essay according to the guidelines defined in the Call for Papers. Once submitted, a further evaluation will be conducted for inclusion in the digital publication, which will be a CLACSO edition produced by the CLACSO Publications Department and will be available in open access, free of charge.
According to the evaluation carried out, the list of the 15 (fifteen) selected essay proposalsThe final essays will form part (once approved) of the collective digital publication.
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Researchers |
Member center of guarantee |
Central country |
Essay title |
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Daniela Erazo – Diego Cagueñas |
Institute of Intercultural Studies – IEI/PUJ – Pontifical Javeriana University, Cali Campus |
Colombia |
“Making utopia into history”: the Ayacucho Library and the critical thinking of the present |
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Silvana Martínez – Juan Omar Agüero |
Social Theory, Decolonial Studies and Critical Thinking Research Group – G-TEP – Faculty of Health Sciences and Social Work – National University of Mar del Plata |
Argentina |
Zemelman's epistemic thinking as a necessary condition for a rooted-undisciplined epistemology in Latin American social sciences |
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José Alfredo Zavaleta Betancourt |
Institute of Historical-Social Research – IIH-S/UV – Veracruzana University |
Mexico |
Zemelman Laboratory |
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Nencer Losada Salgado |
Center for Advanced Studies in Childhood and Youth of CINDE and the University of Manizales – CEANJ – Research and Development Field – International Center for Education and Human Development Foundation CINDE |
Colombia |
"Social research: between the subject and the approach to 'reality'. Another epistemic perspective, from Hugo Zemelman." |
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Claudia María Montagut Mejía |
Institute of Thought and Culture in Latin America, Civil Association – IPECAL AC |
Mexico |
The episteme recovered for life |
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Cristian Jesús Palma Florián |
Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, Argentina – FLACSO – Argentina Program |
Argentina |
The Truth Commission as a device for subjective configurations and the generation of epistemic thought on the memory of the war in Colombia |
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Hernán Darío Ouviña |
Institute of Latin American and Caribbean Studies – IEALC/UBA – Faculty of Social Sciences – University of Buenos Aires |
Argentina |
State, power and politics in the work of Hugo Zemelman: approaches from the experience of Latin America |
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Patricia Elizabeth Scarponetti – Elena Leticia Castañeda Jimenez |
Academic Pedagogical Institute of Social Sciences – IAPCS/UNVM – National University of Villa María |
Argentina |
It is a circumstance, but also a will for the future with Hugo Zemelman |
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Marilín López Fittipaldi |
Adolfo Prieto Research Institute – IIAP-FHyA, UNR – Faculty of Humanities and Arts – National University of Rosario |
Argentina |
Educational experiences, politics, and subjectivity: Dialogues with the work of Hugo Zemelman from a socio-anthropological perspective |
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Javier Zuniga |
Institute of Advanced Studies – IDEA – University of Santiago, Chile |
Chile |
Hugo Zemelman, 50 years after the coup d'état: problems of political leadership of the Popular Unity, disputes within popular power, and ideology as a tactic |
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Angela Sofia Garcia Estrada |
The College of the Southern Border – ECOSUR |
Mexico |
Utopia in knowledge: thoughts, positions and contributions of Mayan researchers in the social sciences |
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Antonio Pérez Alonso |
Center for Studies on Security and Integral Development – CESDI |
Venezuela |
The necessary decolonization, in the view of Hugo Zemelman |
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Mónica Fernanda Salazar Castilla – Andres Felipe Castaño Aristizabal |
Center for Advanced Studies in Childhood and Youth of CINDE and the University of Manizales – CEANJ – Research and Development Field – International Center for Education and Human Development Foundation CINDE |
Colombia |
Agreeing with Zemelman: reading the present from the heart of Colombia |
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Jiovanny Edward Samanamud Avila |
Plurinational School of Public Management – EGPP |
Bolivia |
Epistemology of Moving Reality in the Work of Hugo Zemelman |
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Andrea Castillo placeholder image |
Institute of Thought and Culture in Latin America, Civil Association – IPECAL AC |
Mexico |
Categorical thinking: Its methodological function for the construction of historical knowledge. |
This ruling is irrevocable and cannot be appealed.
Buenos Aires, November 22, 2023.
