Heteronomies in the Social Sciences

The pages of “ Heteronomies in the Social Sciences. Research Processes and Symbolic Violence ” unleash a critical and incisive reflection against a way of doing social sciences exercised from exclusionary and monological positions.

Contrary to a social science that challenged the knowledge of the other as barbaric and savage, José Manuel Valenzuela Arce opens a reflective space from which to think about other social sciences committed to the construction of inclusive worlds.

This new book from CLACSO, in the Temas Collection, reflects on the work of interpretation as a dialogical act and not as the monologic, linear and exclusionary condition where a subject or group arrogates to itself the power to interpret, excluding or silencing other voices.

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José Manuel Valenzuela Arce holds a PhD in Social Sciences, specializing in Cultural Studies. His work has been pioneering and relevant to understanding the sociocultural processes of the Mexico-United States border and youth movements in Latin America and the United States. In 2019, he received the Heberto Castillo Prize from Mexico City and holds the Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán Chair. In 2017, he was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Latin American Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CALAS) in recognition of his distinguished academic work and contributions to Latin American studies. In 2005, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2001, he received the Casa de las Américas International Prize for his book, Jefe de jefes: Corridos y narcocultura en México (Boss of Bosses: Corridos and Narcoculture in Mexico). His most recent books are Caminos del éxodo humano: Las caravanas migrantes centroamericanos (Paths of Human Exodus: Central American Migrant Caravans), edited by Valenzuela Arce (2019), and Trazos de sangre y fuego (Traces of Blood and Fire). Bionecropolitics and juvenicide in Latin America (2018).