Ernesto Laclau and educational research in Latin America

Implications and appropriations of political discourse analysis

“Ernesto Laclau and educational research in Latin America. Implications and appropriations of the political analysis of discourse” is a meticulous investigation by the Mexican Rosa Nidia Buenfil Burgos on the legacy of one of the most important Latin American intellectuals of recent decades: Ernesto Laclau.

Buenfil Burgos, who holds a doctorate in Political Philosophy and a degree in Pedagogy, reconstructs how Laclau's concepts and theoretical perspectives were appropriated and used to develop educational research in the region. It is a complex and nuanced reading of one of the most important theories of critical thinking in education in recent decades.

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In the presentation, Rosa Nidia Buenfil Burgos understands that “the context of debates in the social sciences and humanities, as well as political and cultural movements, for example, post-structuralism, post-Marxism, post-analytic philosophy, post-colonialism, the end of the Cold War symbolized by the fall of the Berlin Wall, social movements, Tiananmen Square, and many others that occurred during the second half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st, both in Europe and in Africa, Asia and America, were a favorable scenario to shake up epistemological sedimentations and reactivate forms of thought, whose traces are found in this book.”

The book's prologue is written by Inés Dussel, Professor in the Department of Educational Research at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies, and Mercedes Ruiz Muñoz, Academic at the Ibero-American University.