Missing the political
A southern critique of political ontology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2402033 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mónica L Espinosa Arango (0000-0002-7157-8825, Universidad de los Andes, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 411-436 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropological Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1463-4996 • E-ISSN: 1741-2641 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1463499620974797 |
| OpenAlex | W3113226733 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 35 |
Against the backdrop of a world in crisis that plays as the stage of the ontological turn and political ontology, and based on long-term research on Colombia's Andean southwest indigenous politics, this article critically assesses political ontologýs claims to the powers of difference. Following Wolin, Mouffe, and Laval and Dardot, it presents a notion of the political that takes into account the passionate, educational and transformative aspects of indigenous political praxis and engagements with commonality. The analysis of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro's ontological multinaturalism, Mario Blaser's critique of modernity and Reason, and Arturo Escobar's ontological political practice points at three interconnected problems: the persistent appeal to binary thinking; the making of relativism anew; and the problem regarding the dialogue and knowledge exchange between the ethnographer and the ethnographic subject. Recapturing the political is a way to engage complex and entangled political histories and experiences of democratization in which indigenous peoples emerge as bearers of the political. The feminist concept of situated knowledges is presented as an alternative to deal with knowledge partiality, self-reflexivity, political solidarity, and collaboration
Epistemology · Indigenous · Ontology · Political philosophy · Political science · Political subjectivity · Politics · Praxis · Reflexivity · Relativism · Situated · Social science · Sociology · Solidarity · Indigenous Cultures and History · Latin American Cultural Politics · Law · Philosophy · Politics and Society in Latin America
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The Making of Social Movements in Latin America
Fugitive Democracy
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How Forests Think
The Politics of Memory
Political Ontology
Who is Afraid of the Ontological Wolf? Some Comments on an Ongoing Anthropological Debate
Una historia colaborativa
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Democracy, Difference, and Re-cognition
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El indio lobo. Manuel Quintín Lame en la Colombia moderna
La vocación crítica de la antropología en Latinoamérica
Pensamiento indígena, tensiones y academia
Cauca's Indigenous Movement in Southwestern Colombia
Managing Multiculturalism
From the Enemy's Point of View
Metafísicas caníbales
Situated Knowledges
Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism
The Politics of Difference
Another way to compose the common world
The Politics of Perspectivism
Ontological anthropology and the deferral of critique
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |