Description
Sieges of Totality
Book Summary
This work proposes a refreshing interpretation of the contemporary political, economic, and cultural landscape from the perspective of the decolonial turn. The reader will find a critical analysis that challenges the traditional conceptual frameworks of the social sciences, offering tools to understand the dynamics of power and knowledge in the Latin American context. A fundamental text for those seeking to rethink social totality from emerging epistemological approaches.
What is it about?
The book develops a novel reading of current events, employing a theoretical and categorical framework that is unusual yet increasingly expanding in both the Global South and North. It focuses on the decolonial turn in the social sciences, an epistemological current that questions hegemonic narratives and proposes new ways of understanding social, political, and economic reality. Through its pages, the author examines how this approach allows for the reinterpretation of historical and contemporary processes, offering keys to thinking about totality from a critical perspective situated in the Latin American context.
Main Topics
- The decolonial turn in the social sciences: epistemological and methodological foundations.
- Reinterpretation of political, economic, and cultural events from a critical perspective.
- Questioning traditional conceptual frameworks in social analysis.
- Emergence of new analytical categories in Latin American thought.
- Relationship between power, knowledge, and social totality in the global context.
Who is it recommended for?
This book is aimed at researchers, academics, and students of social sciences, political philosophy, and cultural studies interested in decolonial and critical approaches. It will also be of great value to readers seeking to understand contemporary transformations from non-hegemonic perspectives, as well as those involved in social movements and debates on epistemic justice and social transformation.
What this book contributes
- A solid introduction to the theoretical framework of the decolonial turn applied to social analysis.
- Conceptual tools to critically rethink current political and economic reality.
- A situated perspective that recovers Latin American thought in the global debate.
- Keys to understanding the limitations of traditional approaches in social sciences.
- An original approach that integrates theory and analysis of contemporary processes.
Technical Data
- Author: GANDARILLA SALGADO, JOSE GUADALUPE
- Publisher: ANTHROPOS EDITORIAL
- Language: Spanish
- Subject: Literary essays, Historiography, Society and culture: general, Social and statistical research, Social services and welfare, Criminology, Politics and government
- Collection: CRITICAL / UTOPIAN THOUGHT
- Publication date: February 2012
- Number of pages: 354
- Weight: 422 g
Editorial Review
Sieges of Totality represents a relevant contribution to contemporary critical thought by articulating the decolonial turn with the analysis of current political and cultural processes. Its value lies in offering a rigorous and accessible theoretical framework for those wishing to explore alternative epistemological perspectives in the social sciences. It is a work that invites debate and reflection, especially recommended for readers seeking conceptual tools to understand the complexities of the global world from a Latin American perspective.