FOUNDING STATEMENT-LATIN AMERICAN SUBALTERN STUDIES

ROBERT CARR; ILEANA RODRÍGUEZ; PATRICIA SEED; JAVIER SANJINÉS; JOSÉ RABASA; JOHN BEVERLEY; MÓNICA SZURMUK

Boundary 2

Duke University Press

Lugar: Durham, North Carolina; Año: 1993 vol. 20 p. 110 - 122

0190-3659

x The work of the Subaltern Studies Group, an interdisciplinary organization of South Asian scholars led by Ranajit Guha, has inspired us to found a similar project dedicated to studying the subaltern in Latin America. The present dismantling of authoritarian regimes in Latin America, the end of Communism, and the consequent displacement of revolutionary projects, the processes of redemocratization, and the new dynamics created by the effects of the mass media and transnational economic arrangements, these are all developments that call for new ways of thinking and acting politically. The redefinition of Latin American political and cultural space in recent years, has in turn, impelled scholars of the region to revise established and previously functional epistemologies in the social sciences and humanities.