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Emancipation in Latin America: On the Pedagogical Turn
Author(s) -
MOTTA SARA C.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
bulletin of latin american research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1470-9856
pISSN - 0261-3050
DOI - 10.1111/blar.12526
Subject(s) - subaltern , praxis , emancipation , politics , sociology , latin americans , agency (philosophy) , social movement , social transformation , gender studies , movement (music) , social change , social science , political science , aesthetics , law , philosophy
Latin A merican social movements are reinventing emancipatory politics, in which those invisibilised and excluded by capitalist‐coloniality are emerging as the emancipatory subjects of our times. Rather than a method of learning, pedagogy is understood as a radical educational project of subaltern transformation and politics. Emancipatory pedagogical praxis occurs in multiple spatialities and embraces multiple knowledges and subaltern subjects. These knowing‐subjects become creators of political agency, movement practices and imaginaries, and collective self‐liberation. I develop my analysis with reference to movement educators who I work with in the B razilian M ovimento sem T erra (MST, L andless W orkers M ovement) and C olombian E scuela P olítica de M ujeres P azífica ( P olitical S chool of P acifist W omen, E scuela).