Horizontality: critical methodologies in social sciences

• Class 1. Presentation: horizontality, dialogue, situated knowledge
• Class 2. Social Sciences, Collaboration and Geopolitics of Knowledge: Latin American Perspectives
• Class 3. Listening, recording, eroticizing: on certain uncomfortable thoughts and their methods
• Class 4. Questioning racism and epistemic sexism from the colonial body
• Class 5. Nuances of memory and its methodological approaches. Migrants and returnees in Yucatán
• Class 6. The light and shadows of interculturality
• Class 7. Polyphonic texts to account for horizontal processes of knowledge construction
• Class 8. The Dark Side of the Horizon. Critical Views and Closing

• Blázquez, Gustavo (in press). Horizontal Methodologies and Excited Knowledge. On the Pleasures of Fieldwork, in Inés Cornejo and Mario Rufer (eds). Towards a critique of methodologyBuenos Aires. CALAS-CLACSO.
• Briones, Claudia (in press). “Horizontality as a horizon of work: from epistemic violence to co-labor”, ", in Inés Cornejo and Mario Rufer (eds). Towards a critique of methodologyBuenos Aires. CALAS-CLACSO.
• Bruce, Jorge (2008). We had made fun of each other so much. Psychoanalysis and racismSan Martín de Porres University Publishing Fund. Peru. Chapter 4.
• Cornejo Portugal, Inés (2017). “Young Mayan-speaking migrant”, in Inés Cornejo Portugal (ed). Rural youth and Mayan-speaking migration: Stalking, observing, and investigating an emerging theme Mexico: UAM-C.
• Corona Berkin, Sarah (2011). Postcards of difference. The city as seen by Wixaritari photographersMexico. Conaculta
• Corona Berkin, Sarah (2019). Horizontal production of knowledge. Guadalajara: CALAS. (Chapters: “Introduction”, “Naming”, “Transforming”).
• De la Peza Casares, Carmen (in press). “Interpellations of horizontal methodologies to think about the conditions of possibility of a local science”, in Inés Cornejo and Mario Rufer (eds). Towards a critique of methodologyBuenos Aires. CALAS-CLACSO.
• Audio documentary: “Voices that fade away, words that fade away”
• Documentaries: “Returning, Yucatecan Migrants” and “Mayan Migrant Stories.”
• Hernández Castillo Rosalva Aída (2018). “Towards a socially committed anthropology from a dialogical and feminist perspective” in Xochitl Leyva Solano (ed.). Other practices of knowledge(s): Between crises, between wars. Volume II. Buenos Aires: CLACSO. (pp.: 83-106).
• Jorge Luis Borges (1972). “The Ethnographer”, in The praise of the shadow, several editions (short story).
• Mahmood, Sabah (2009): “Feminist theory and the docile social agent”, in Suarez Navaz, Liliana; Hernández, Rosalva Aída (coords). Decolonizing feminism: theories and practices from the marginsChair: Madrid.
• Miner, Horace (1956): “The ritual of the body among the Nacirema”, American Anthropologist, 58, 1956. Translation and notes: Ricardo Esandi(5 pages)
• Nogueira Beltrao, Beatriz (in press). “Body-to-body knowledge as a form of resistance against epistemic racism/sexism”, in Inés Cornejo and Mario Rufer (eds). Towards a critique of methodologyBuenos Aires. CALAS-CLACSO.
• Movie: Peasants to the mafia, Dir. Juan Manuel López-Roberto Sántiz, Chamula Producciones, 53', 2011. 
• Pérez Daniel, Myriam Rebeca and Sartorello, Stefano (Coords.) (2012) Horizontality, dialogue and reciprocity in social and cultural research methodsAguascalientes/San Cristóbal de las Casas/San Luis Potosí: CENEJUS-UNACH-UASLP-COCYTECH. ISBN 978-607-8062-24-9
• Rojas, Hugo (2017) "The subtle everyday violence in the (trans)border mercantile context of Mexico-Guatemala. A retrospective look at an ethnographic investigation into the construction of stereotypes” in Castro, Yerko and Adèle Blazquez (coord.) Micropolitics of Violence: Reflections on Fieldwork in Contexts of War, Conflict, and ViolenceMESO Workbooks. No. 5.
• Rufer, Mario (2012). “Speech, listening, writing. Horizontality and subalternity from postcolonial perspectives”, in Sarah Corona and Olaf Kaltmeier (eds). In dialogue. Horizontal methodologies in social and cultural sciences Mexico: Gedisa.
• Rufer, Mario (in press). “We are not going to translate. Install a secret, deny the gift, redefine the game”, in Inés Cornejo and Mario Rufer (eds). Towards a critique of methodologyBuenos Aires. CALAS-CLACSO.
• Seth, Suman (2009). “Putting knowledge in its place: science, colonialism, and the postcolonial”, Postcolonial Studies, 12, 4, p. 373-388.
• Shoshan, Nitzan (2015). “Beyond Empathy: The Ethnographic Writing of the Unpleasant.” New anthropology, No. 28, vol. 83.
• Yeh, Rihan (in press). “Anacleto”, Virajes Magazine, Vol. 23 (1).

 

 

The seminars are aimed at students from CLACSO Member Centers in Paraguay, Bolivia, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama, Costa Rica and Nicaragua.

The basic requirements for taking an intensive online seminar are:

• Availability of at least 4 hours per day (2 hours in the morning and 2 hours in the afternoon) for synchronous meetings during the first week of the course and 4 hours per week for asynchronous classes in the following 3 weeks
• Internet access.
• Reasonable handling of communication and computer tools.
• Language proficiency in the language in which the course will be taught. The official languages ​​are Spanish and Portuguese.

The seminars last four weeks, plus the completion of a final project. The first week will consist of five consecutive synchronous classes (one class per day) and three asynchronous classes (one per week).

The course consists of eight classes, each accompanied by required and/or supplementary readings, discussion forums, and learning activities proposed by the teaching team, as well as partial submissions and a final project. The course is offered online in a synchronous and asynchronous format. Five of the eight classes will be synchronous. In these cases, the sessions will be four hours long per day (two hours in the morning and two hours in the afternoon) and will take place during the first week of the course. To pass the seminar, participants must attend at least 80% of the activities and forums, complete all scheduled partial submissions, and pass the final project.