Emancipatory practices, common goods, and decolonial alter-global methodologies

Our proposal for this CLACSO Working Group on emancipatory praxis, common goods and decolonial alterglobal methodologies is a continuation of the previous Working Group on critical thinking and emancipatory praxis.

and it is oriented towards the formation of cognitive strategies that have the effect of de-individualizing the sciences and placing them at the service of emancipatory bio-political processes of human communities: overcoming the tendencies towards the fragmentation of knowledge, originating in the separation between the recognized dichotomous pairs that modernity hierarchized:

• reason/emotion;
• instrumental rationality/value-oriented rationality;
• mind/body;
• objective/subjective;
• male/female;
• black/white;
• universal/particular;
• neutral/partial;
• global/local;
• local knowledge/scientific knowledge.

This implies democratizing and humanizing knowledge at its different levels of production and application.

To fulfill the emancipatory objectives of the Working Group, methodological processes will continue to be developed that aim to deconstruct hegemonic social representations anchored in inequitable systems that serve the perverse interests of the neoliberal economy. This involves reconstructing and adopting emancipatory practices that restore to the individual a sense of freedom and social well-being within their context and territory, not only objectively but also subjectively. In the new contexts we face, this task entails resisting the authoritarian manifestations of conservatism and the emerging neofascism in the world and in Latin America.

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Work Plan 2023-2025