Among parasites and absents. A figurative walk through the Latin American (intellectual) field

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Published 01-03-2015
Gabriel Gatti

Abstract

This text develops a somewhat basic figurative sociology regarding a concrete position within the universe of "Latin American researchers and intellectuals": the position that is defined from my shoes. It is not merely an exercise in unrestrained egomania, nor a different stylistic approach with respect to major sociological frameworks. It is not the former because a first person perspective was precisely what was requested for this text. It is not the latter because this work is not meant as an alternative to those frameworks but as complementary. And if it is how it is, it is because I find no other way to analyze the biographical-intellectual positions of Latin American researchers outside Latin America. Although I know that that object exists and I know that I inhabit it, it is too inconsistent to map it too severely; I will tread gently, then, drawing on three concepts born from my own condition as Latin American outside Latin America: parasite, disappeared, and inhabitable landscape.
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Keywords

unhabitable landscape, disappeared, parasite, Latin America

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