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Simultaneity and Reception: Concepts to Analyze the Production of Knowledge between "South" and "North"
Abstract Submissions Closed
RC35 Conceptual and Terminological Analysis (host committee)
Language: English and Spanish
Session Type: Oral
Sociologies have always been elaborated in a field of tensions between local traditions and their interactions with wider contexts, regional or global. For reasons known, the circulation of knowledges has been unequal in terms of the volume of their flow. Thus, it has been asserted that the “South” has often been a “passive recipient” of problematizations, theories and analyses produced in other cultural contexts, namely the “North”. However, has that been the case? Have there not been rather “creative receptions” between one context and another as much as complex convergences and differences between the simultaneous problems that cross the “South” and the “North”?
At the intersection between diverse studies of social and sociological theory, of sociology of culture and intellectuals, and of intellectual and conceptual history, this session invites to reflect on the concepts of “simultaneity” and “reception” (and others related), with the aim of deepening on the relations between the “South” and the “North” in terms of the production and circulation of theories and analyses. Contributions are expected to address these notions and, from there, maybe even discuss the definitions of the “South” and the “North” themselves. These exercises would also allow comparing contributions of different authors based on confluences and divergences in the complex and heterogeneous simultaneity of capitalist modernity, and/or studying cases, in which the various intellectual operations can be observed (adaptations, revisions, appropriations, conceptual creations) that are put into play when a perspective or a specific intellectual tradition “reads”, “recodes” and “reconverts” other perspectives and traditions.