Latin America as political science's other

Title: Latin America as political science's other
Creator: Motta, Sara C.
Relation: Social Identities Vol. 23, Issue 6, p. 701-717
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2017.1291093
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2017
Description: This article develops a decolonising critique of contemporary Latin American focused Political Science (LAPS) demonstrating the complicity of its politics of knowledge in the reproduction of the logic and rationalities of coloniality. These logics and rationalities are premised upon the dehumanisation of the raced and gendered other who is denied rationality, agency and political subjectivity. I demonstrate the monological and dehumanising epistemological consequences of this through deconstruction of the foundational myths and disciplinary boundaries of the discipline; the legitimate subject of the political; and the knowing-subject of political analysis that foreground contemporary LAPS. I end with a question and a challenge: how might we learn to create a political science otherwise?
Subject: decolonial critique; politics of knowledge; Latin America; political science; popular classes
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1353155
Identifier: uon:31052
Identifier: ISSN:1350-4630
Language: eng
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