Disidentification, anxiety and narration as epistemological windows. Questioning the process of knowledge construction in a research in Chiapas, Mexico

Authors

  • Raúl Cabrera Psicología Social de Grupos e Instituciones –Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco, Mexico City, Mexico
  • Anika Meckesheimer Psicología Social de Grupos e Instituciones –Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco, Mexico City, Mexico

Keywords:

social knowledge/conhecimento social, social research/investigação social, institutional conditions/condições institucionais

Abstract

One possible question to open the debate on the specific modes of intervention in the field of social research is: How to build a narrative that accounts for the actors’ ability to generate knowledge? Based on this question, the paper proposes a set of tools to analyze the institutional conditions of social research practice, which facilitates the recognition of hierarchies that pervade the relationship between actors and researchers. This awareness creates the possibility for an encounter whose purpose is the joint production of social knowledge which transcends the academic institutional logic.

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Uma possível questão para iniciar o debate sobre os modos específicos de intervenção no campo da pesquisa social é: como construir uma narrativa que explana a capacidade dos atores para gerar conhecimento? Com base nesta questão, o artigo propõe um conjunto de ferramentas para analisar as condições institucionais da pesquisa social que facilita o reconhecimento das hierarquias que permeiam a relação entre atores e investigadores. Esta consciencialização cria a possibilidade de um encontro cujo objetivo é a produção conjunta de conhecimento social que transcende a lógica institucional académica.

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Published

2015-11-19

Issue

No. 13 (2015)

Section

Miscellaneous

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