The category communal-lifeworlds as a heuristic potential for Latin American social theory
This paper problematises and re-signifies - in Latin American and decolonial terms - the lifeworld category, coined by Edmund Husserl and worked on in the social sciences by Alfred Schütz, Thomas Luckmann, Peter Berger and Jürgen Habermas, among others. In a second moment, it problematises and re-si...
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Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Escuela de Letras
2023
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/heterotopias/article/view/43564 |
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| Sumario: | This paper problematises and re-signifies - in Latin American and decolonial terms - the lifeworld category, coined by Edmund Husserl and worked on in the social sciences by Alfred Schütz, Thomas Luckmann, Peter Berger and Jürgen Habermas, among others. In a second moment, it problematises and re-signifies the category of community, emblematic in the thought of Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim and Max Weber, based on the contributions of decolonial thought and community feminisms. Finally, in the third moment, the category communal lifeworlds is approached and discussing its foundations and dimensions. This category includes trajectories, life experiences, memories, dreams, projects, struggles, resistance, forms of social organisation, knowledge, practices, rituals and collective celebrations located and rooted in shared spaces, temporalities and territorialities. It constructs and recovers ancestral and popular knowledge in which life in its broadest sense has priority over development; where there is no separation between time-space-body-nature-territory-culture-subjectivity, but where they are mutually imbricated and where to be-being is before being. It implies a decolonial turn that necessarily entails a process of decoloniality of power, knowledge, being, gender and nature. This work is the result of a theoretical-documentary enquiry that was carried out using a qualitative research strategy, from a situated, feminist and decolonial way of thinking. This strategy corresponds to the type of enquiry carried out, centred on the categories of lifeworld, everyday life, community, communality, among others.
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Life-world; Community; Life-worlds-communal; Latin American social theory; Heuristics; |
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