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Cited by 78Latin American Cultural PoliticsScience, Technology, and Education in Latin AmericaDecolonial Thought and Epistemologies

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The "Lettered City" and the Insurrection of Subjugated Knowledges in Latin America

Aparicio, Juan Ricardo, Blaser, Mario·2008·Anthropological Quarterly
DOI 10.1353/anq.2008.0000
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Abstract

This article explores how the knowledge practices of some academic-intellectuals are shifting in such a way as to signal a radical departure from the "traditional" role that academic-intellectuals have had in Latin America. This re-direction is part of a much larger process, namely, the gradual rejection of the modern project by increasingly larger sectors of the Latin American population, and their ongoing efforts to bring about "worlds and knowledges otherwise." In effect, some of the social movements and patterns of mobilization that have become highly visible in Latin America at the turn of the 21st century are probing the modern project-including established knowledge practices of academic-intellectuals-according to expectations, logics and standards other than the ones that have dominated for the last two centuries or more. In particular, the article suggests how these avenues, once opened by social movements, local intellectuals and other sites of knowledge production regarding the intellectual-political project in Latin America, have productively contaminated the dominant regime of power/knowledge (the "lettered city") that has been in place since colonial times. A focus on three cases where this contamination is currently taking place points to possible directions in which a reconfiguration of the dominant regime of power/knowledge might proceed. These developments include the relative equalization of diverse knowledge practices through the proliferation of sites of encounter between them, but also a disposition to allow for the contamination of academic-intellectuals' knowledge practices by the insurrectional movements' non-modern knowledge practices.

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Authors
Aparicio, J. R., & Blaser, M.
ORCID
Venue
Anthropological Quarterly
Publisher
Project MUSE
Published
2008-12
Volume
81
Issue
1
Pages
59-94
ISSN
  • 0003-5491 (ISSN-L)
  • 1534-1518
DOI
10.1353/anq.2008.0000
OpenAlex
W2021969313
Cited by
77
References
64
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 6
FWCI
10.83
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Anthropological Quarterly (publishedVersion)
  • Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Latin American Cultural Politics
  • Social Sciences › Demography › Science, Technology, and Education in Latin America
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies
Keywords
lettered city, academic intellectuals, social movements, power and knowledge, knowledge practices, Latin America

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